“wind being easterly”: Richard Devens to John Adams, May 17, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 133.
“Don’t give up the vessel”: Tagney, p. 209.
“ferocity rather than bravery”: Hearn, p. 221.
THREE
“brilliant marriages”: Kalman Goldstein. “Silas Deane: Preparation for Rascality,” pp. 75–97.
“a peculiar fatality”: Silas Deane to Elizabeth Deane, March 1, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 119.
“How tedious”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, March 10, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 284.
“circumstances by no means favorable”: Ferguson, p. 25.
“a leading young merchant”: East, p. 126.
“vast designs”: Boatner, p. 742.
“some deep design”: East, p. 197.
“If my services had been more conspicuous”: Alberts, p. 463.
“I have known very honest men”: Goldstein, p. 77.
“connive at certain things”: Augur, p. 130.
“we have been so unfortunate”: Brian N. Morton and Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais and the American Revolution, p. 58.
“beneficial commercial intercourse”: Memoir of the Commerce of America and Its Importance to Europe, Aug. 15, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 184.
“Look upon my house”: Morton and Spinelli, p. 64.
“The want of instructions”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, SDP, vol. 1, p. 342.
“extremely uneasy”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Oct. 1, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 287.
“considerable quantities of stuff”: Secret Committee to Silas Dean, Oct. 1, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 294.
“Politics and my business”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Nov. 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 343.
“especially soldiers of fortune”: Beaumarchais to Silas Deane, July 26, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 166.
“unable to say nay”: Morton and Spinelli, p. 80.
“give character and credit”: Augur, p. 144.
“Harassed to death”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Nov. 28, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 371.
“I hope the terms”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Nov. 6, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 340.
“of the first property”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Oct. 1, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 291.
“skirmish rather than battle”: Silas Deane to Vergennes, Oct. 17, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 322.
“what is certain”: Giambattista Pizzoni to her government in Venice, July 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 474.
“fond of parade”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Nov. 28, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 371.
“any number of recruits”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Nov. 2, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 339.
“United Independent States”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Oct. 17, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 324.
“If the reverse”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Oct 17, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 327.
“the order issued by Congress”: Vergennes to Garnier, June 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 431.
“striking proof”: Silas Deane to the Secret Committee, Dec. 1, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 389.
“capital stroke”: Silas Deane to John Jay, Dec. 3, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 396.
“unless some powerful aid”: Augur, p. 152.
“I rise at six”: Silas Deane to Elizabeth Deane, July 9, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 71.
“very charitable”: Silas Deane to Jonathan Williams, Jan. 13, 1778, SDP, vol. 2, p. 327.
“they belong to Willing & Morris”: Maryland Council of Safety to the Maryland Delegates in the Continental Congress, June 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 341.
“extensive connections”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Sept. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 793.
“linens”: Willing & Morris to William Bingham, June 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 361.
“solicit in your behalf”: Silas Deane to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Nov. 6, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 728. “2/3 ds on account”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Aug. 11, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 147.
“be ever mindful”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Oct. 2, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 305.
“at least twenty-two hours”: Frederick Wagner, Robert Morris, p. 44.
“the lowest reptiles”: Augur, p. 229.
“entirely an American”: Ibid., p. 259.
“an indissoluble partnership”: Julian P. Boyd, “Silas Deane: Death by a Kindly Teacher of Treason?” I, p. 187.
“it costs something”: Silas Deane to John Jay, Dec. 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 1, p. 396.
“If I was sure”: Evan Thomas, John Paul Jones, p. 101.
“soon boarded her” through “know not how to replace”: Captain Lambert Wickes to Samuel Wickes, July 2, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 883.
“a stop be put”: Margaret Brown, “William Bingham,” p. 76.
“with as much respect”: London Chronicle, April 29, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 478.
“the risk may be divided”: Brown, p. 59.
“fast sailing”: Ibid., p. 57.
“persons on the spot”: Willing & Morris to William Bingham, Dec. 6, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 387.
“If Congress means”: Wagner, p. 35.
“we want to throw funds”: Ferguson, p. 80.
“an officer in Morris’s position”: Ferguson, p. 77.
“If the American cruisers”: Alberts, p. 30.
“hitherto only attempted”: Brown, p. 67.
“harmony and exchange”: Alberts, p. 58.
“Whoever can pay the most”: Vergennes to M. Garnier, June 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 430.
“unholy spectacle”: Allen, p. 18.
“all the French pirates”: “News from St. Christopher,” April 12, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 333.
“rather too young”: Committee of Secret Correspondence to the Commissioners in France, Dec. 30, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 631.
“having had several vessels taken”: Robert Morris to William Bingham, Dec. 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 368.
“to increase the number”: Robert Morris to William Bingham, April 25, 1777, vol. 8, p. 429.
“It is not necessary”: Alberts, p. 55.
“experience could cure him”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Sept. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 793.
“the real state of affairs”: Count D’Argout to Gabriel de Sartine, December 23, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 588.
“those who were foremost in noise”: Wagner, p. 35.
“I shall remain here”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Dec. 20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 528.
“Stocks are beginning to sink”: Edward Bancroft to Silas Deane, February 1777, SDP, vol. 2, p. 5.
“three sets of the papers”: The American Commissioners in France to the Secret Committee of the Continental Congress, Feb. 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 570.
“a new and extensive world”: Memoir of Silas Deane, Dec. 31, 1776, SDP, vol. 1, p. 442.
1776 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
“The common class of mankind”: John Paul Jones to Robert Morris, Oct. 17, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1302.
“divine service”: “Rules for the Regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies,” Nov. 28, 1775, NDAR, vol. 2, p. 1174.
“Indian”: Assignment of Prize Money by Daniel Cocarry, Oct. 24, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1399.
“Division, confusion”: Owners of Privateer Eagle to William Ellery. Dec. 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 357.
FOUR
“unheard-of”: Editor’s note, NGP, vol. 1, p. 6.
“merchants in general”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward, Sr., Oct. 10, 1775, NGP, vol. 1, p. 138.
more religious diversity: “A Memorial to the Trustees and Fellows of Rhode Island College,” NGP, vol. 1, p. 11.
“very early”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward, Jr., Oct. 9, 1772, NGP, vol. 1, p. 46.
“I am at variance”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward, Jr., Aug. 29, 1772, NGP, vol. 1, p. 38.
“tumult and uproars”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward, Jr., Sept. 24, 1770, NGP, vol. 1, p. 14.
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“She confesses”: John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse, p. 10.
“Venus’s War”: Nathanael Greene to Elihue Greene, Sept. 6, 1776, NGP, vol. 1, p. 296.
“Nothing but the affection”: John F. Stegeman and Janet A. Stegeman, Caty, p. 46.
“perpetually falling out”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward, Jr., Aug. 29, 1772, NGP, vol. 1, p. 44.
“a place in Connecticut”: Buchanan, p. 262.
“the subject of ridicule”: Ibid., p. 264.
“spent lavishly”: Stegeman, p. 47.
“black pages”: Ibid., p. 65.
“great defects”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, June 28, 1775, NGP, vol. 1, p. 92.
“too dear a rate”: Nathanael Greene to Nicholas Cooke, June 22, 1775, NGP, vol. 1, p. 89.
“the cause of our bleeding country”: Nicholas Brown to Nathanael Greene, Feb. 2, 1776, NGP, vol. 1, p. 191.
“Were I at liberty”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, Oct. 3, 1775, NGP, vol. 1, p. 305.
“a few zealous officers”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, March 17, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 317.
“necessary additional works”: Hedges, p. 270.
Washington advised Congress to scuttle them: William M. Fowler, Jr., Rebels Under Sail, p. 215.
“wrong or unjust things”: John Langdon to Josiah Bartlett, July 28, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 1259.
“extortioners”: John Langdon to Josiah Bartlett, Sept. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 815.
“against the public good”: Continental Marine Committee to Rhode Island Frigate Committee, Oct. 9, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1187.
“to the prejudice”: Hedges, p. 271.
“bear hard on the characters”: Journal of the Rhode Island Frigate Committee, Oct. 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1348.
“the two worst”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Dec. 20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 528.
“My blood now boils”: John Langdon to William Whipple, Jan. 15, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 957.
“a considerable number”: John Langdon to Josiah Bartlett, Sept. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 815.
“jealousy of one state”: Continental Marine Committee to Rhode Island Frigate Committee, Oct. 9, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1187.
“very fine ship”: Robert Morris to Silas Deane, Dec. 20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 528 “they want to be out after prize money”: John Langdon to Josiah Bartlett, Aug. 19, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 229.
“worthy friends at Providence”: John Langdon to John Hancock, Jan. 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1011 “come all you young fellows”: Application for Letter of Marque and Reprisal for sloop Montgomery, Aug. 8, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 117.
“six soldiers killed”: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell to Major General William Howe, June 19, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 619.
“cannot be well avoided”: Owners of the Rhode Island privateer sloop Diamond to Captain Thomas Stacy, Aug. 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 252.
“appurtenances and cargo”: Providence Gazette, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1232.
“the price affixed by law”: Hedges, p. 262.
“double the property”: East, p. 78.
“division of the plunder”: Commodore Esek Hopkins to Stephen Hopkins, June 8, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 424.
“not greatly superior”: Richard Buel, Jr., In Irons, p. 84.
“after a dreadful slaughter”: London Chronicle, July 29, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 428.
his reputation slid: Thomas, p. 52.
“owing to a number of members”: Commodore Esek Hopkins to John Hancock, Nov. 2, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 17.
“favored their operation”: Esek Hopkins to the Continental Marine Committee, Dec. 10, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 435.
“aid of our sister states”: Proclamation of Governor Nicholas Cooke, Dec. 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 395.
“he does not improve”: John Bradford to Leonard Jarvis, June 18, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 135.
“who was bred in a shop”: Thomas, p. 90.
“not that I’ve the least doubt”: John Langdon to Robert Morris, Nov. 6, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 59.
“to the greatest advantage”: William Bingham to John Langdon, July 14, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 288.
“to make their fortunes”: Thomas, p. 88.
“Under the guise”: John Bradford to Leonard Jarvis, June 18, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 135.
“I must rely on you”: Captain John Paul Jones to Robert Morris, July 28, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 345.
1776 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
“crowded promiscuously together”: Timothy Parker to Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Dec. 9, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 421.
“the greatest humanity”: South Carolina Navy Board to Captain Edward Allen, Jan. 16, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 977.
“they must starve”: Observations by the Late Master of the British Ship Spiers, Sept. 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 300.
“a man had better”: Deposition of William Barry, June 11, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 481.
“starving and dying each meal”: Deposition of Thomas Warner, Aug. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 771.
“The prisoners to exchange”: William Bell Clark, Ben Franklin’s Privateers, p. v. “panting, sweating, and fainting”: “Humanitas” to the Lord Mayor of London, Aug. 5, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 529.
FIVE
“’Tis our business to study”: David McCullough, 1776, p. 206.
“our troops are naked”: Nathanael Greene to General Alexander McDougall, Jan. 28, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 259.
“His Excellency presses it”: Nathanael Greene to General Henry Knox, Feb. 26, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 294.
“consistent with your honor”: Griffin Greene to Nathanael Greene, May 24, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 401.
“You must not let people see”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, May 24, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 404.
“I have given extensive orders”: Nathanael Greene to George Washington, May 3, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 372.
“partiality that His Excellency”: Nathanael Greene to Griffin Greene, May 25, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 405.
“how the public views me”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, May 24, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 404.
“Neither must you lend”: Nathanael Greene to James Calhoun, Sept. 30, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 528.
“a thousand opportunities”: Editor’s note, NGP, vol. 2, p. 309–312.
“Let it be valued”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, June 4, 1777, NGP, vol. 2, p. 104.
“while it rains upon us”: Nathanael Greene to Jacob Greene, Aug. 11, 1777, NGP, vol. 2, p. 137.
“with so many losses”: Jacob Greene to Nathanael Greene, May 7, 1777, NGP, vol. 2, p. 73.
“Great things may yet be done”: Nathanael Greene to Griffin Greene, May 25, 1778, NGP, vol. 2, p. 405.
“the finest circle of ladies”: Stegeman, p. 61.
“However just and upright”: East, p. 87.
“the valuable prizes”: George Washington to Major General William Heath, Sept. 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 982.
“The case is very different”: Isaac Smith, Sr., to John Adams, Aug. 13, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 739.
“no objection to sporting”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel A. Otis, July 4, 1779, NGP, vol. 4, p. 203.
“I don’t wish to become an adventurer”: Nathanael Greene to Samuel A. Otis, Sept. 17, 1779, NGP, vol. 4, p. 394.
“ruined the place”: Hedges, p. 282.
“play them like a trick”: John B. Livingston to Robert R. Livingston, Oct. 11, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 1213.
“This harbor”: James Warren to Samuel Adams, Nov. 18, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 195.
“money crazy”: East, p. 73.
“exorbitant sum”: Ibid., p. 74.
1778 BARBADOS, WEST INDIES
“I fear nothing”: Captain Nicholas Biddle to Charles Biddle, June 16, 1775, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 564.
“avoid two-deckers”: Robert Morris to Captain Nicholas Biddle, Jan. 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1064.
“strike a stroke”: Marine Committee to Captain Nicholas Biddle, April 26, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 441.
“missing at sea” through “long absent”: Tagney, p. 396.
SIX
“their chief maritime strength”: Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe to Commodore Sir Peter Parker, Dec. 22, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 552.
“Our people may as well fight”: John Adams to Major Joseph Ward, July 17, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 1118.
“At Providence, I fear”: John Adams to James Warren, April 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 281.
“low ebb”: East, p. 51. suppressed the county’s fishing and sea trade: Tagney, p. 238.
“what they dig up on wharfs”: David Cobb to Robert Treat Paine, Sept. 9, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 754.
“assimilate with the brains”: New York Journal, July 11, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 1028.
“privateering mad”: James Warren to Samuel Adams, Aug. 15, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 191.
“Dutch cap, check shirt”: Tagney, p. 235.
“certain men”: Boatner, p. 99.
“all the Continental prizes”: Marine Committee to John Bradford, Aug. 6, 1776, Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Library of Congress. “now are an ornament”: John Bradford to John Hancock, June 20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 635.
“superintend over the whole”: Hearn, p. 170.
“all at variance” through “not the least probability”: John Bradford to John Hancock, July 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 849.
“so important a station”: John Bradford to Robert Morris, May 30, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 304.
“The powder ship was taken”: John Bradford to Robert Morris, July 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 1071.
“men too little impressed”: John Bradford to George Washington, July 29, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 1269.
“great complaints are made”: John Bradford to George Washington, Aug. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 153.
“the smallest inclination”: George Washington to John Hancock, Aug. 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 98.
“the pivot”: Introduction, NDAR, vol. 3, p. xiii. “our first great admiral:” Dudley W. Knox, The Naval Genius of George Washington, p. 1.
“for my account”: John Bradford to John Daniel Schweighauser, Nantes Merchant, Nov. 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 4.
“a notorious fact”: John Bradford to Robert Morris, Sept. 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 690.
“there are schemes on foot”: John Langdon to William Whipple, Aug. 5, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 55.
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