[438] Connecticut Gazette, October 13, 1775. [439] See Chapter I, Naval Committee, page 35; Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 176. [440] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 176. [441] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 200-02. [442] Ibid., 223-24. [443] Ibid., 229, 232. [444] Connecticut Gazette, August 23, 1776. [445] Records of the State of Connecticut, I, 11. [446] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 492. [447] Records of State of Connecticut, I, 212, 214, 418, 452. This is either Samuel Elliot, a Boston merchant, or Samuel Eliot, a most distinguished Boston merchant, a benefactor of Harvard college, and grandfather of the present President Eliot.—See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXIII (1869), 338-39. I find the agent’s name spelled Elliot, Eliott, and Eliot. [448] Better evidence of the social standing of the Shaw family in New London may not be needed than that afforded by the statistics contained in the following newspaper clipping: “A great wedding dance took place at New London at the house of Nathaniel Shaw, Esq., June 12, 1769, the day after the marriage of his son Daniel Shaw and Grace Coit; 92 gentlemen and ladies attended, and danced 92 jigs, 52 contra-dances, 45 minuets, and 17 horn-pipes, and retired 45 minutes past midnight.”—F. M. Caulkins, History of Norwich, Connecticut, 332. [449] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 474. [450] Records of State of Connecticut, II, 136. [451] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 233-36. I have followed the familiar accounts of this invention. Washington gave Jefferson an account of Bushnell’s invention in September, 1785.-Ford, Writings of Washington, X, 504-06. [452] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 318-19. [453] Records and Papers of New London County Historical Society, I, pt. 4, p. 32. [454] State Archives, Acts of Connecticut, May, 1780. The laying of embargoes on privateers for short periods in order to obtain men for different purposes was common during the Revolution. [455] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 280-81. [456] See Chapter IV, page 129; Records of State of Connecticut, I, 246-49. [457] Connecticut Revolutionary Archives, VIII, 1777-1778. [458] Records of State of Connecticut, II, 230-33.