[224] Johnston, Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, I, 209, Jay to Washington, April 26, 1779. [225] Marine Committee Letter Book, Committee to Navy Board at Boston, April 27, 1779. [226] Journals of Continental Congress, June 9, 1779. [227] Ibid., October 1, 1779. [228] Ibid., October 17, November 24, 1777. [229] Journals of Continental Congress, October 28, 1779. [230] Ibid., September 13, 1780. [231] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, p. 207, Report Board of Admiralty, April 12, 1781. [232] Journals of Continental Congress, July 7, 1781. [233] Journals of Continental Congress, November 26, December 3, 7, 8, 1779. [234] Marine Committee Letter Book, Board of Admiralty to Navy Board at Boston, December 10, 1779. [235] Journals of Continental Congress, January 22, 1780. [236] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 78, XIV, 309, Lewis to President of Congress, March 21, 1780. [237] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 78, XIV, 337-43, 349, Lewis to President of Congress, June 6, June 12, 1780. [238] Journals of Continental Congress, June 23, 1780. [239] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, pp. 291, 294, Lewis to President of Congress, November 4, 6, 1780. [240] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, p. 125, Board of Admiralty to President of Congress, August 14, 1780; Journals of Continental Congress, August 18, 1780. [241] Journals of Continental Congress, December 5, 1780; January 11, 1781. [242] Ibid., May 7, 1781. [243] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 175-77, Report of Board of Admiralty, January 24, 1780; Journals of Continental Congress, January 22, January 25, 1780. [244] Journals of Continental Congress, July 11, 1780; Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 261-63, Report of Board of Admiralty, July 10, 1780. [245] Journals of Continental Congress, August 7, 1780. [246] Ibid., February 8, 1780. [247] See Chapter X, pages 298-300. [248] Journals of Continental Congress, May 4, 1780. [249] Ibid., April 20, 1780. [250] Journals of Continental Congress, May 2, November 27, 1780, April 7, 1781; Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 225-41. [251] Journals of Continental Congress, October 5, 1780; Wharton’s Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 860, 867. [252] Journals of Continental Congress, March 27, 1781. [253] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, pp. 241-44. The Board of Admiralty probably had in mind the sixth as well as the ninth article of the Articles of Confederation. [254] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 277, 281, Reports of Board of Admiralty, July 24, July 26, 1780. [255] Journals of Continental Congress, January 30, 1777; January 15, January 22, 1780; Jameson, Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States, Chapter I, Predecessor of the Supreme Court; Carson, Supreme Court of the United States, Part I, 50-57.