Give Me a Fast Ship

by Tim McGrath

  12 FDR, “Jones’s Appointment as Commissioner by Washington,” 6/1/92; quoted from Thomas, 300, 301, 305; Adam Goodheart, “Home Is the Sailor,” Smithsonian Magazine, April 2006, 32–38. For more details on Jones’s experiences in Russia, see the previously recommended books by Evan Thomas, Admiral Joseph Callo (Ret.), and Samuel Eliot Morison.

  13 Pennsylvania Gazette, 2/4 and 2/5/84; 10/10 and 11/19/87; Philadelphia City Archives, Settlement Papers, Strawberry Hill, 1785; LOC, JBC, Asia Letter Book; Biddle, Autobiography, 219;

  14 ISM, BHP, Henry Knox to Barry, 6/5/94; Naval Documents of the Quasi-War, 3:176–77, Benjamin Stoddert to John Adams, 5/15/99; 13–32, Stoddert to Alexander Hamilton, 5/3/99; Griffin, 412.

  15 Samuel Nicholson to Barry, 6/14/93, from Griffin, 293; HSP, Barry to Nicholson, 9/4/97; NYHS, JBP, Nicholson to Barry, 1/24/99; London, 50–51.

  16 RMP, 4:234, Diary, 2/14/82; 296, Morris to Jonathan Trumbull, 2/23/82; 5:10–11, Morris to Nicholson, 4/16/82; 131, Morris to Nicholson, 5/8/82; 6:3–4, Diary, 7/22/82; 388, Morris to Nicholson, 9/17/82.

  17 Allen, 625; Philip C. F. Smith, 78–82, 88–90.

  18 Mazet, 353–354.

  19 RMP, 8:265–266, Morris to John Manley and notes, 7/10/83.

  20 Fowler, Jack Tars and Commodores, 22; and Silas Talbot: Captain of “Old Ironsides,” 100–1, 219–21—recommended for those interested in Talbot’s heroics.

  21 Barney, 182–86; HSP, Gratz, Truxton to Stoddert, 2/9/99.

  22 Ibid., 250–74, 296.

  23 RMP, 5:47–48, Morris to John Hanson, 4/24/82; 7:350–357, Morris to Landais, 1/21/83; 680, 4/7/83; Thomas, 265.

  24 Fowler, “Esek Hopkins,” from Bradford, Command under Sail, 3.

  25 Ibid., 15; Miller, 215–17.

  26 Fanning’s Narrative, 134–229 (quote from 194); Dictionary of American Fighting Naval Ships (USS Fanning).

  27 PA Archives, “Papers of John Kessler,” Mount Laurel Cemetery Records.

  28 Winch, 51; Swain, ed., Recollections, etc., xxxiv–xxxv.

  29 Provincial Freeman, 8/15/1857; Winch, 3, 51; Bolster, 160.

  30 Joseph LaRoche Rivers: Some South Carolina Families (Charleston, Published by the Author, 2005–2006), 3, 77.

  31 HSP, Society Collection, Mrs. Sarah Rodney to Mrs. Sarah B. Garrette, 8/4/1825.

  32 RMP, 8:554 (and footnote), Diary, 9/26/83; Rappleye, 301, 347–348; Chernow, 434.

  33 Ibid., JCC, 10/11/83 and 10/13/83;

  34 Neeser, 212, “Account Presented by Gustavus Conyngham,” 11/1/91; 213, Alexander Hamilton to Conyngham, 7/5/93; 213–214, Conyngham’s Petition to Congress, 12/8/94; 214–215, Petition of Gustavus Conyngham to Congress, 12/96/97; 216–223, “Observations on the Report of Benjamin Walker . . . on the Subject of Capt. Gustavus Conyngham’s claim against the United States,” no date; HSP, Gratz Collection, Letter from Conyngham to Unknown, 10/5/16; Poulson’s Advertiser, 11/29/19.

  35 Goodheart, 34–38.

  36 Ibid.; Thomas, 4–5.

  37 Neeser, xxii–xxiii.

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