27 Morison, John Paul Jones, 69.
28 PRO, Admiralty 30/733, No. 10, April 4, 1776.
29 NYHS, Deane Papers, Robert Morris to Silas Deane, April 8, 1776.
30 Gurn, Commodore John Barry, 27.
31 NDAR, vol. 4, 665, Silas Deane to Robert Morris, April 4, 1776.
32 NYHS, Morris to Deane, April 8, 1776.
33 HSP, Wayne Papers, I, 44, April 10, 1776.
34 HSP, Christopher Marshall Diaries; LDC, vol. 3, Joseph Hewes to Samuel Johnston, April 11, 1776; New York Journal, April 18, 1776.
35 JBP, Congressional Marine Committee to Barry, April 11, 1776.
36 Naval Historical Center, Numb. 14626, London Public Advertiser.
37 JBP, April 8, 1776.
38 Ibid.
39 FDR Library, Barry to Captain Timothy Shalor, April 15, 1776.
40 PRO High Court of Admiralty, 3/733 no. 10, April 17, April 13, 1776.
41 NDAR, vol. 4, 1268-70, Hamond to Dunmore, April 26, 1776.
42 Connecticut Courant, May 20, 1776.
43 PRO, Admiralty 51/909, April 27, 1776.
44 Ibid.
45 Connecticut Courant, May 20, 1772.
46 HSP, Christopher Marshall Diaries, May 5, 1776; Pennsylvania Journal, May 8, 1776.
47 NDAR, vol. 4, 1268-1270.
48 Ibid.; PA Archives, vol. 4, 737.
49 HSP, Christopher Marshall Diaries, May 5, 1776.
50 Pennsylvania Journal, May 8, 1776.
51 NDAR, vol. 5, 493; NDAR, vol. 4, 669: Captures of the schooner Hawk and brig Bolton.
52 "Extract of a Letter from Esek Hopkins," Pennsylvania Gazette, April 17, 1776.
53 Beck, ed., The Letter Book of Esek Hopkins, 50.
54 Morison, John Paul Jones, 69-74.
55 Fowler, "Esek Hopkins,"12-13.
56 Morison, John Paul Jones, 91.
57 Docket of the Court of the Admiralty U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia, April 30, 1776; LOC, Barry Collection, Edward libel proceedings.
58 Ibid.
59 Pennsylvania Gazette, May 1, 1776.
60 JCC, April 3, 1776.
61 Morison, John Paul Jones, 92.
62 PA Archives, Colonial Records, X, 545-546.
63 PA Archives, 2nd series, I, Haywood et al., eds., 444.
64 JCC, IV, 415-416, June 4, 1776.
65 PA Archives; the date is approximate.
66 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Howland to Barry, March 31, 1783; Barry to Howland, April 8, 1783; Barry to Ellery, April 4, 1783.
67 UVL, Hamond Papers No. 4, May 5, 1776.
68 NDAR, vol. 4, Bache to Franklin, May 7, 1776, 1442-1443.
69 Haverford College Library, Charles Roberts Collection, Letters of Delegates to Congress (LDC), Vol. 3, Marine Committee to Barry, May 8, 1776.
70 Jackson, The Bay and the River Delaware, 24, 9.
71 UVL, Hamond Papers, No. 4, 5: Narrative, May 5-9, 1776.
72 PA Archives, 1st Series, IV, 750, Barry to Morris, May 9, 1776.
73 Biddle, Autobiography; NDAR, vol. 4, 1463.
74 b.u.t.terfield, ed., The Adams Papers, Series II, 406-407.
75 PRO, Admiralty, 51/548, Liverpool Journal, May 9, 1776.
76 NDAR, vol. 8, "Monthly Returns for the Continental Navy Brig Lexington," March [31] 1777, 238-240.
77 HSP, Woodhouse Collection, Account with the Brigantine Lexington, May 21, 1776.
78 NDAR, vol. 5, p. 276, "Protest of Richard James, Master of the Snow Champion," May 27, 1776; King with Hattendorf and Estes, A Sea of Words, 341.
79 Ibid.; PRO Admiralty, 51/548, Liverpool Journal, May 27, 1776.
80 PRO Admiralty, 51/548, Liverpool Journal, May 27, 1776.
81 Wilbur, Pirates and Patriots of the Revolution, 62.
82 U.S Coast Guard Geodetic Survey, Coast Chart No. 124, Delaware Entrance, W.W. Duffield, Sup., 1895.
83 PRO, Admiralty, 51/548 Liverpool Journal, May 27, 1776.
84 PA Archives, 1st Series, IV, 769-70, Henry Fisher to Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, June 7, 1776.
85 NDAR, vol. 5, Captain Lambert Wickes to the Committee of Secret Correspondence of the Continental Congress, July 11, 1776.
86 PRO, Admiralty, 1/484, Bellew to Shuldham, June 10, 1776.
87 JCC, June 14, 1776.
88 PRO, Admiralty, 1/484, Bellew to Shuldham, June 10, 1776.
89 Ibid., Bellew to Shuldham, April 24, 1776.
90 NDAR, vol. 5, 486, Fisher to Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, June 11, 1776.
91 Ibid.
92 JCC, V, pps. 420, 422-423, June 6, 1776.
93 PA Archives, 1st Series, V, 378, Davidson to Morris, June 19, 1776.
94 HSP, Emelin Knox Parker, "A Biographical Sketch of John Brown," 1-2; Catanzariti and Ferguson, editors, The Papers of Robert Morris (RMP), vol. 2, 2089, 332.
95 LDC, Marine Committee to Lambert Wickes, June 10, 1776.
96 Pennsylvania Evening Post, July 11, 1776; Pennsylvania Ledger, July 6, 1776; Connecticut Courant, July 15, 1776.
97 PRO, Admiralty, 1/484, April 24, 1776.
98 LOC, William Bell Clark Collection, Kingfisher Journal, June 27, 28, 29, 1776.
99 PRO Admiralty, 51/479, Orpheus Journal, June 28, 1776.
100 LOC, Clark Collection, Kingfisher Journal, June 29, 1776.
101 Maryland Historical Society, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
102 Ibid.
103 Montgomery, Reminiscences of Wilmington Delaware, 176-81.
104 LOC, Clark Collection, Orpheus journal, June 29, 1776.
105 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
106 Ibid.
107 Ibid.
108 Ibid.
109 Ibid.; LOC, Clark Papers, Kingfisher Journal, June 29, 1776.
110 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
111 LOC, Clark Collection, Orpheus Journal, June 29, 1776.
112 Montgomery, Reminiscences of Wilmington Delaware, 176-81.
113 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
114 LOC, Clark Collection, Orpheus Journal, June 29, 1776.
115 Montgomery, Reminiscences of Wilmington Delaware.
116 Pennsylvania Ledger, July 6, 1776.
117 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
118 Montgomery, Reminiscences of Wilmington Delaware.
119 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
120 Connecticut Courant, July 15, 1776.
121 Ibid.
122 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
123 Ibid.
124 LOC, Clark Collection, Orpheus Journal, June 29, 1776.
125 MHS, Scharf Collection, Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776.
126 Ibid.