The Navy of the American Revolution : $b Its administration, its policy, and its achievementsPaullin, Charles Oscar
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The Navy of the American Revolution : $b Its administration, its policy, and its achievements
Paullin, Charles Oscar
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations; United States. Navy -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Volume I gives the best account of the Penobscot
expedition, and prints the original Journal of General
Solomon Lovell kept on the expedition.
Winsor, Justin. Narrative and Critical History of the United
States. 8 vols. Boston and New York, 1884-89.
Article on the Revolutionary navy by E. E. Hale, in Volume
VI, contains information on the Massachusetts navy.
Valuable bibliography.
Works of John Adams. 10 vols. Boston, 1856.
Gives John Adams’s opinion of the Massachusetts statute
establishing privateering.
THE NAVY OF CONNECTICUT
Caulkins, Frances M. History of Norwich. Norwich, 1845.
Contains information relative to the naval part which
Norwich and Norwich men played in the Revolution.
Connecticut Revolutionary Archives. MSS.
Contains much miscellaneous information relating to the
Connecticut navy. Volumes VIII and IX contain valuable
material concerning the prizes captured by Connecticut
vessels.
Connecticut Colonial Records for 1775-1776. Hartford, 1890.
Valuable for the beginnings of the Connecticut navy.
Connecticut Gazette for 1775-1779. New London.
The best newspaper for naval news in the state. Captured
prizes are advertised in its columns.
Connecticut Historical Society Collections. 8 vols. Hartford,
1860-1901.
Volume II contains a description of Bushnell’s submarine
boat.
Connecticut in the Revolution. Hartford, 1889.
Of slight naval value.
Connecticut Journal for 1775-1779. New Haven.
Supplements the Connecticut Gazette in a few particulars,
but contains much less news.
Connecticut State Records, 1776-1779. 2 vols. Hartford,
1894-95.
Of great value for the years covered.
Force, Peter. American Archives. 9 vols. Folio. Washington,
1837-53.
Contains miscellaneous information relating to the
Connecticut navy.
Ford, W. C. Writings of George Washington. 14 vols. New York
and London, 1889-93.
Volume X contains Washington’s account of Bushnell’s
submarine boat.
Hartford Courant for 1775-1779. Hartford.
For naval news, the newspaper in the state next in
importance to the Connecticut Gazette.
New London County Historical Society. Records and Papers.
Volume I. New London, 1890-94.
Valuable. Contains a fair account of the Connecticut navy,
and a list of Connecticut privateers.
Wharton, Francis. Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence. 6
vols. Washington, 1889.
Volume II has a reference to the voyage of the “Spy” to
France in 1778.
THE NAVY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Almon’s Remembrancer for 1778. London.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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