“the exigency of the army”: John Bradford to the Continental Marine Committee, April 9, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 302.
“great bickering and uneasiness”: John Bradford to the Secret Committee, Jan. 17, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 980.
“could not be trusted”: Hearn, p. 204.
“We find complaints are made”: Ibid., p. 235.
“this growing evil” through “like pirates”: John Bradford to George Washington, Aug. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 153.
“That such despicable characters”: John Paul Jones to Joseph Hewes, Jan. 12, 1777, NDAR, vol 7, p. 937.
“blunt, honest”: Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, Fired By Manley Zeal, p. 43.
“with a cutlass”: Joshua Davis, A Narrative of Joshua Davis, p. 5.
“a ship and a wheelbarrow”: James Warren to John Adams, Feb. 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1257.
“therefore exerted himself”: Smith, p. 41.
“such creatures as himself”: Ibid., p. 43.
“as the jackal does the lion”: Ibid., p. 47.
“impudent”: Ibid., p. 41.
“drones”: Ibid., p. 51.
“like the Jews and Samaritans”: Ibid., p. 47.
“not less than 10,000”: Benjamin Rush to Richard Henry Lee, Dec. 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 76, p. 543.
“The government has been forward”: Petition of the Agents for the Privateer Ship American Tartar to the Massachusetts General Court, March 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 179.
“if the terms suit me”: Elias Hasket Derby to the Massachusetts Board of War, March 3, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 17.
“execrate the policy”: James Warren to John Adams, April 23, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 405.
“I am sorry the embargo”: John Adams to James Warren, April 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 282.
“foremast men”: Williamson’s Liverpool Advertiser and Mercantile Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 808.
“a rope in the night”: Captain Thomas Thompson to John Langdon, Sept. 8, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 895.
“16 killed”: Acting Lieutenant Charles Jordan to Vice Admiral Clark Gayton, Oct. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 217.
“We are endeavoring”: James Warren to John Adams, April 23, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 282.
“This has roused the indignation” through “life or limbs”: James Warren to John Adams, April 27, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 452.
“take off the restrictions”: Owners of Massachusetts Privateers to the Massachusetts General Court, April 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 375.
“stinking New England rum”: Officers of the Continental Navy Frigate Boston to Captain Hector McNeill, April 24, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 419.
“The owners are willing”: Report to the Massachusetts General Court of the Committee appointed to confer with Captain John Manley, April 21, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 390.
“The profit to you”: John Adams to James Warren, May 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 920.
“If we should fall in”: Smith, p. 52.
“swinging a great cutlass”: Ibid., p. 59.
“irresolute and undecided”: Ibid., p. 87.
“with many oaths”: Ibid., p. 85.
“poured a number of shot”: Captain Sir George Collier to Philip Stephens, July 12, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 272.
“sad reverse”: James Warren to John Adams, Aug. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 730.
“redeem poor Manley”: John Bradford to Robert Morris, Sept. 17, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 934.
“overbearing haughtiness”: James Warren to John Adams, Oct. 12, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 124.
“good fortune seems to stick”: Stephen Moylan to William Watson, Dec. 13, 1775, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 81.
“wish to God it had been my head”: Smith, p. 87.
“the only man of real courage”: Ibid., p. 87.
1779 PENOBSCOT, MAINE
“no general sense of urgency”: Tagney, p. 369.
“a reinforcement of heavy ships”: Ibid., p. 367. claimed the lives of hundreds: Ibid., p. 378.
“Our irregular troops”: George E. Buker, The Penobscot Expedition, p. 109.
“brave experienced good officers”: Tagney, p. 380.
“since deceased”: Buker, p. 123.
“that you may regain the character”: Ibid., p. 163.
SEVEN
“utmost bad consequence”: Smith, p. 87.
“very successful against the Americans”: “Extract of a letter from Antigua, April 2,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 260.
“dying apace”: Ambrose Serle to Lord Dartmouth, April 3, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 266.
“Put no confidence”: “Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman on board the Roebuck,” The General Advertiser, Liverpool, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 61.
“we shall all die with hunger”: “Extract of a Letter from Grenada,” April 18, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 372. that number increased fivefold: M. Garnier to Vergennes, Sept. 10, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 597.
“all the advantages of war”: “Extract of a letter from an English gentleman at Martinico, dated March 21,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 176.
“No step the Ministry could take”: “Extract of a letter from St. Vincent’s to a merchant in Liverpool, dated May 5,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 917.
“An open enemy”: “News from St. Christopher,” April 16, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 355.
“these Dutch browse”: M. Garnier to Vergennes, Aug. 16, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 549.
“so far debased”: Admiral James Young to Governor Johannes de Graaf, Dec. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 86.
“guarding a coast 1500 miles long”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, April 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 741.
“petitioning for an accommodation”: Boston Gazette, Dec. 30, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 625.
“much is risked and nothing gained”: The Committee of Secret Correspondence to Silas Deane, Aug. 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 102.
“All reports to the contrary”: Public Advertiser, Jan. 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 554.
“They have no idea”: “Extract of a letter from an officer on board the Eagle, off New York, June 9,” NDAR, vol. 9, p. 78.
“manifesting their real weakness”: Estienne Cathalan to Willing, Morris, & Company, June 6, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 406.
“unmanly way of fighting”: Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen, May 3–20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 175.
“against the laws of God”: Commodore Sir Peter Parker to Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe, Dec. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 457.
“all the horrors of rebellion”: Captain John Macartney, R.N., to Commodore Sir Peter Parker, Dec. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 456.
“piratical”: Captain Andrew Snape Hamond to Hans Stanley, Sept. 24, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 973. so few American captives opted to switch sides: Narrative of Captain Andrew Snape Hamond, Sept. 2–30, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1065.
“coming in for them by hundreds”: Ambrose Serle to the Earl of Dartmouth, Jan. 1, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 832.
“to prosecute this diabolical war”: Major Charles Stuart to his father, the Earl of Bute, Jan. 1, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 827.
“the great superiority of the English navy”: M. Garnier to Vergennes, June 24, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 444.
“defensive kind of war” through “favorable moment”: Narrative of Captain Andrew Snape Hamond, Nov.–Dec., 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 665.
“of very little consequence”: Narrative of Captain Andrew Snape Hamond, Jan.–March, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 149.
“Upon casting up accounts”: William Bingham to Silas Deane, Sept. 29, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1046.
“insufficient resources”: M. Garnier to Vergennes, June 24, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 444.
“disturbances in several places”: Mercure de France, December 1766, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 722.
“public opinion and the law”: N.A.M. Rodger, The Wooden World, p. 164.
“about thirty men drowned or wounded”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, Nov. 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 722.
“the pr
esent barbarous war”: “Extracts from Parliamentary Debates,” NDAR, vol. 7, p. 719.
“It is unnecessary to say” through “disagreeable appearance”: “Extracts from Parliamentary Debates,” NDAR, vol. 7, p. 720.
“It is beginning to snatch away”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, Nov. 22, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 754.
“most of the men withdrew”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, Nov. 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 723.
“the first example of resistance”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, Dec. 17, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 794.
“cruel, persecuting” through “every part of the realm”: Cohen, p. 28.
“the precarious tenure”: Journal of Samuel Curwen, Feb. 20, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 599.
“ineffectually petitioned against it”: Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the Secret Committee, March 11, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 665.
“A shocking place” through “into paradise”: Cohen, p. 55.
“negligence or connivance”: Ibid., p. 68.
“than Turkish enemies”: John Porter to Benjamin Franklin, June 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 381.
“gallows will be our destiny”: Cohen, p. 92.
“little short of civil war”: Ibid., p. 94.
“cruising for northward vessels”: Connecticut Gazette, Nov. 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 7.
“the needs of merchant shipping”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, Dec. 27, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 809.
“our very heavy losses”: Owners instructions to Captain William Bell, Jan. 31, 1777, NDAR, vol 7, p. 1074.
“all manner of assistance”: James Young to Governor Johannes de Graaf, Dec. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 486.
not only tolerated privateers, but invested in them: Vice Admiral James Young to Governor Johannes de Graaf, Dec. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 486.
“these seas now swarm”: Vice Admiral James Young to Philip Stephens, March 9, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 70.
“upward of fifty sail”: “Extract of a letter from Philadelphia,” Jan. 26, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1046.
“the acts of violence”: Count d’Argout to Vice Admiral James Young, Feb. 2, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1088.
“not only illegal”: Vice Admiral James Young to Governor Craister Greathead, Jan. 16, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 976.
“seizing and sending into port”: Vice Admiral James Young to Philip Stephens, March 8, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 62.
“support and protection”: Vice Admiral James Young to Philip Stephens, March 8, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 64.
“Three years in this climate”: Vice Admiral James Young to the Earl of Sandwich, Oct. 28, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 335.
“They have many pirates out”: Pennsylvania Journal, April 23, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 411.
“hostility toward neutral flags”: Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, April 4, 1777, vol. 8, p. 741.
“One son of a bitch”: Captain Cornelius White to T.J. & W. Cochran, Halifax, May 15, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 971.
“349 slaves”: “Extract of a letter from a Mate of the Derby, to his brother in Liverpool, dated Dominica, Oct. 28, 1777,” London Packet, Jan. 19–21, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 337.
“dissatisfied at their taking”: “Extract of a Letter from Capt. Cook, Commander of the Black Prince, from Senegal, to Dominica with 215 Slaves, lately taken by an American Privateer, to his owners,” Daily Advertiser, Jan. 2, 1778, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 173.
“At present we are in some danger”: Marquis de Lafayette to Adrienne de Noailles de Lafayette, May 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1046.
“Shall we say they are pirates”: M. Garnier to Vergennes, July 26, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 505.
“We may venture to assure you”: Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Lord Weymouth., Sept. 27, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 663.
“put things aright”: Vergennes to the Marquis de Noailles, Sept. 27, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 666.
1779 NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT
“with drawn swords” through “exchange of prisoners”: Christopher Vail, Christopher Vail’s Journal (1775-1782).
“ship to ship slogging match”: Robert Gardiner, ed., Navies and the American Revolution 1775-1783. p. 109.
“an accident” through “two years, four months”: Vail, Journal.
EIGHT
“not to live”: Silas Deane to Beaumarchais, March 24, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 705.
“covetous”: Augur, p. 196.
“all the committees”: Committee of Secret Correspondence Memorandum, Oct. 11, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1086.
“faithless principles” through “witch brew”: Augur, p. 217.
“I have been a servant”: Ibid., p. 291.
“haughty”: Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation, p. 217.
“His tricks”: Augur, p. 294.
“little, hissing”: Schiff, p. 204.
“quicken the resentments”: William Bingham to Continental Congress Secret Committee, Dec. 28, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 821.
“with a little encouragement”: Augur, p. 234.
“insidious subtlety”: Lord Stormont to Lord Weymouth, Oct. 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 629.
“gratitude and affection”: American Commissioners in France to Vergennes, July 17, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 510.
“pushed with vigor”: Augur, p. 168.
“The latter appears”: “Statement concerning the employment of Lieut. Col. Edward Smith with regard to Captain Hynson and a Sketch of the Information Obtained,” March 31, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 725.
“of infinite prejudice”: Silas Deane to Robert Morris, August 23, 1777, SDP, vol. 2, p. 106.
“He daily proves himself”: Benjamin Franklin to the President of Congress, March 31, 1778, SDP, vol. 2, p. 445.
“he has enemies”: Augur, p. 269.
“over the sea captains”: Ibid., p. 236.
“done with advantage”: “Statement concerning the employment of Lieut. Col. Edward Smith with regard to Captain Hynson and a Sketch of the Information Obtained,” March 31, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 729.
“much addicted to lying”: James Breck Perkins, France in the American Revolution, p. 55.
“The great object”: “Statement concerning the employment of Lieut. Col. Edward Smith with regard to Captain Hynson and a Sketch of the Information Obtained,” March 31, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 728.
“from some quarter or other”: Augur, p. 176.
“When all are ready”: Ibid., p. 177.
“distress caused by weather”: E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell, Sea Raiders of the American Revolution, p. 10.
“some convenient place”: Augur, p. 221.
“Is this not acknowledging”: Public Advertiser, Jan. 20, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 538.
“Carmichael and myself”: Augur, p. 224.
“as to the illegality”: Bowen-Hassell, p. 7.
“intelligence that may arrive”: Ruth Y. Johnstone, “American Privateers in French Ports,” p. 357.
“the registers must not”: Vergennes to M. de Clugny, Sept. 22, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 609.
“if there had been fraud”: Johnstone, p. 361.
“humane treatment”: The General Advertiser, Liverpool, Friday, July 4, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 455.
“They pay very little regard”: Captain Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, June 28, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 441.
“The prizes are sold”: Silas Deane to Robert Morris, Aug. 23, 1777, SDP, vol. 2, p. 107.
“sequestered and detained”: Vergennes to Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, July 16, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 501.
“Vergennes insisted”: Lord Stormont to Lord Weymouth, July 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 540.
“usual frivolous answer”: Lord Stormont to Lord Weymouth, Nov. 5, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 973.
“This sort of war”: Vergennes to the Marquis de Noailles, July 26, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 536.
“if you are taken”: Captain Lambert Wickes to Captain Henry Johnson, Sept. 14, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 640.
“5 a.m. saw
a sail”: Journal of H.M. Cutter Alert, Lieutenant John Bazely, Sept. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 651.
“would not stand”: Johnstone, p. 365.
“a very worthy man”: Bowen-Hassell, p. 14.
“the distressed situation”: Captains Lambert Wickes and Samuel Nicholson to the American Commissioners in France, Sept. 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 631.
“We received the enclosed”: Augur, p. 244.
1780 NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
“Ships were building” through “very unwell”: Andrew Sherburne, Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne.
NINE
“I always acted under orders”: Robert Wilden Neeser, ed., Letters and Papers Relating to the Cruises of Gustavus Conyngham, a Captain of the Continental Navy 1777-1779, p. 218.
“this piratical enterprise”: Perkins, p. 162.
“The capture of the Orange” through “prize money”: Public Advertiser, Thursday, May 15, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 847.
“strong proof”: George III to Lord North, May 14, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 844.
“It matters little”: Vergennes to Marquis de Noailles, May 31, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 880.
“Whatever may be the strength”: Vergennes to Marquis de Noailles, May 31, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 881.
“to stumble on a war”: Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners in France, Feb. 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 604.
“an act so notorious”: Augur, p. 163.
“part owner”: John Ross to Arthur Lee, Dec. 3, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 1064. Deane bought his stake: East, p. 134.
“painted blue and yellow”: Neeser, p. 46.
“desperadoes”: “Extract of a letter from Havre de Grace, dated June 19,” London Packet, June 25 to June 27, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 411.
“reprisal for damages sustained”: Neeser, p. 64.
“verbal explanations”: Ibid., p. 2.
“no interest in diplomacy”: Bowen-Hassell, p. 32.
“his bold expeditions”: Neeser, p. 96.
“things too glaring”: Ibid., p. 26.
“changing the ownership”: Augur, p. 192.
“a very serious fault”: Ibid., p. 193.
“done by Mr. Deane”: Neeser, p. 111.
“declaring them and their countrymen”: Augur, p. 231.
“Hodge is set at liberty”: Neeser, p. 110.
“Now it was Britain’s enemies”: Donald A. Petrie, The Prize Game, p. 21.
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