[645] Publications of Rhode Island Historical Society, VIII, papers of William Vernon and Navy Board, 249, 250. [646] Journals of Rhode Island Council of War, July 17, August 24, November 11, 1781; Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, February, 1779. [647] Providence Gazette, August 14, September 25, 1779; Connecticut Gazette, June 24, 1779; Pennsylvania Packet, September 9, 1779. [648] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, May and October, 1781. [649] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, December 20, 1775, March 9, 1776. [650] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, March 11, 1776. [651] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 25, 1776. [652] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 19, 1776; Fernow, New York in Revolution, 530-33. [653] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, January 22, 1776. [654] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 24, May 10, 1776. [655] Ibid., September 21, September 24, October 7, 1776. [656] Ibid., April 19, 1776. [657] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, February 13, 1777; Journals of New York Provincial Congress, April 1, 1777. [658] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, August 16, 1776. [659] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, January 15, 1777. [660] New York Constitution of 1777. See Carson, Supreme Court of United States, p. 45, for further references to the admiralty legislation of New York. [661] New Hampshire Archives, VIII, 106, 186, 195. In March, 1776, the New Hampshire House of Representatives appointed a committee of three to look out for an armed vessel to guard the coast. It is believed that no vessel was procured. [662] Force, American Archives, 5th, I, 90-96. [663] Minutes of Provincial Congress and Council of Safety of New Jersey, 1775-1776, 510, 520, 525, 528. [664] Minutes of Provincial Congress and Council of Safety of New Jersey, 1775-1776, 370-71, 396, 479. APPENDICES APPENDIX A A BIBLIOGRAPHY THE CONTINENTAL NAVY MANUSCRIPT SOURCES Adams, John. Letters for 1775 and 1776, deposited for the present by Charles Francis Adams with the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. A few letters are valuable for the early history of the Continental Navy. Continental Congress. Manuscript Journals. Supplements and corrects the printed journals. Continental Congress. Records and Papers, formerly found in the Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State, Washington; but now in most part in the Library of Congress, Division of Manuscripts. There are many volumes of these documents. Most of the material relating to the navy is found in the following volumes: No. 28, 1 vol., Reports of committees of Congress on naval affairs, 1776-1786. No. 37, 1 vol., Reports of Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty, 1776-1780. No. 50, 1 vol., Letters of Oliver Pollock, Commercial Agent at New Orleans, to President and to committees of Congress, 1776-1782.