Maryland Archives, 21 vols. Baltimore, 1883-1901. Contains information about Commodore Boucher of the Virginia navy. North Carolina Records. 18 vols. Raleigh, 1886-1900. Contains information upon the raid of Matthews and Collier. Rowland, K. M. George Mason. 2 vols. New York, 1892. Volume I is valuable for Virginia’s “Potomac river fleet.” Southern Literary Messenger for 1857. Richmond. Contains a series of valuable articles entitled the “Virginia Navy of the Revolution.” A good account of the Virginia navy. Somewhat extravagant in tone. Popular rather than scientific. Virginia Archives, Richmond. Letter Book of Governor Thomas Jefferson; Letter Book of Governor Benjamin Harrison. MSS. Contain bits of naval information. Virginia Archives, Richmond. Journals of the Virginia Navy Board. MSS. A valuable source for both the civil and military history of the navy. Virginia Archives, Richmond. Virginia State Navy Papers. 2 vols. MSS. An important original source. Contains much information relative to the different vessels of the navy. Virginia Gazette for 1775-1779. Williamsburg. Not complete files. Those in the Library of the Virginia Historical Society may be supplemented by those in the Virginia State Library. Of some value for the cruises of the Virginia fleet. Virginia Historical Register. 6 vols. Richmond, 1848-53. Contains some important bits of naval information. THE NAVY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Almon’s Remembrancer for 1780. London. Valuable for the naval defence of Charleston, 1779-1780. Clowes, W. L. Royal Navy. 7 vols. Boston and London, 1897-1903. Gives good accounts of the cruise of the “Randolph” in 1778, and the capture of the “South Carolina” in 1782. Connecticut Gazette for 1782, New London. Reports the capture of the Bahamas by the Spaniards and Commodore Gillon. Cooper’s Statutes of South Carolina. 10 vols. Columbia, 1836-41. Valuable for naval legislation. Deane Papers. Collections of the New York Historical Society. 5 vols. New York, 1886-90. Serviceable for Gillon’s movements in Europe. Drayton, W. H. Memoirs of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Charleston, 1821. Throws light on the naval history of 1775. Force, Peter. American Archives. 9 vols. Folio. Washington, 1837-53. Prints important South Carolina official records, notably the early journals of the South Carolina Navy Board. The manuscript journals of the South Carolina Navy-Board are in the New York State Library at Albany.