[63] See Chapter I, The Naval Committee, page 48. It would seem that Congress, by its resolutions of November 25, intended to give colonial courts original jurisdiction in Continental prize cases. Washington did not so understand these resolutions. See his letter of December 14, 1775, to the President of Congress, and his letter of December 26, 1775, to R. H. Lee. [64] Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 404; IV, 44, 45. [65] Marine Committee Letter Book, Robert Morris, Vice-President of the Marine Committee, to John Bradford, Continental agent at Boston, February 7, 1777. The “Lee,” Captain Skimmer, was still in the Continental service in November, 1777, when the Navy Board was ordered to discharge Skimmer, and to take the “Lee” into the regular Continental navy, if she was adapted for it.—Marine Committee Letter Book, Committee to Navy Board at Boston, November 22, 1777. [66] Marine Committee Letter Book, Committee to the three Commissioners, March 21, 1777. [67] Journals of Continental Congress, April 9, 1778. [68] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 24, May 10, 1776. [69] The movements of these vessels may be followed in Force’s American Archives, Ford’s Writings of Washington, and the Journals of the New York Provincial Congress and Committee of Safety. [70] Journals of Continental Congress, May 30, 1776; Force, American Archives, 5th, I, 1263; Journals of New York Provincial Congress, June 7, 1777. [71] Journals of Continental Congress, May 31, 1775. [72] Force, American Archives, 4th, III, 738. [73] Ibid., 11, 14. [74] Journals of Continental Congress, March 26, 1776; Journals of New York Committee of Safety, March 18, 1776. [75] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 24, 1776. [76] Force, American Archives, 5th, I, 1186, 1277; Journals of New York Provincial Congress, March 16, 1776; Journals of Continental Congress, May 2, 1776. [77] Journals of Continental Congress, May 22, May 25, June 17, 1776; Ford, Writings of Washington, IV, 101. [78] Force, American Archives, 4th, VI, 1107-08. [79] Ibid., 5th, I, 1186-87. [80] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 500, 503. The rolls of these three Connecticut companies, containing eighty-five names, will be found in the Connecticut Historical Society Collections, VIII, 235-37. [81] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, 186. [82] Ibid., I, 563. [83] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, 1039. One galley which was fitting at Ticonderoga is not included in the above list. The exact number of men in Arnold’s fleet is uncertain. [84] Ibid., 481, 834. [85] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, 1178-79; Clowes, Royal Navy, III, 353-370, Chapter XXXI, written by Captain A. T. Mahan. [86] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, 1079-80; Almon’s Remembrancer, 1777, 356.