by Tim McGrath
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––––––. “Letters of Captain Nicholas Biddle.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 74 (1950).
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Conyngham, D. H. “Reminiscence.” Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical Society 8 (1904).
Cooper, James Fenimore. “Sketches of Naval Men: John Barry.” Graham’s Magazine, 1839.
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“Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia 1768–1798.�
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“John Paul Jones at Bethlehem, Penna., 1783.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 39 (1915).
Keen, Gregory. “The Descendants of Jöran Kyn: The Founder of Upland.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 4 (1879).
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“Captain Hector McNeill.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 55 (November 1921). Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Mazet, Lieutenant Horace S. “The Navy’s Forgotten Hero.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, March 1937.
McCusker, John J. “The American Invasion of Nassau in the Bahamas.” American Neptune, July 1965.
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McGrath, Tim. “His Brother’s Keeper.” Irish America Magazine, April–May 2011.
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––––––.“Two Captains at Breakfast.” Naval History, August 2013.
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Morgan, William James. “American Privateering in America’s War for Independence, 1775–1783.” American Neptune, July 1976.
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Niderost, Eric. “Capital in Crisis.” American History Magazine 39, no. 3 (August 2004).
Norton, Louis Arthur. “Alliance: The Last Continental Navy Frigate. Naval History, August 2008.
––––––.“The Continental Brig Andrew (Andrea) Doria.” American Neptune, Winter 2001.
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Pennypacker, Hon. Samuel. “Anthony Wayne.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32 (1908).
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Poirier, Noel B. “Raids Target Western England.” Naval History, August 2003.
Porter, General Horace. “The Recovery of the Body of John Paul Jones.” Century, September 1905.
Quilley, Geoff. “The Image of the Ordinary Seaman in the 18th Century,” National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, website.
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––––––. “Taxables in the City of Philadelphia, 1756.” Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 22 (1961–62).
Rogers, George C., Jr. “The Charleston Tea Party: the Significance of December 3, 1773.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 75, no. 3 (July 1974).
Salvucci, Linda. “Merchants and Diplomats: Philadelphia’s Early Trade with Cuba.” Historical Society of Pennsylvania website.
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Scott, Kenneth. “New Hampshire’s Part in the Penobscot Expedition.” American Neptune 8 (July 1947).
“Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia 1726–1775.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 28 (1904).
Smelser, Marshall, and Steven T. Preiss. “The Fleetless Nation.” American Secretaries of the Navy. Vol. 1. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980.
Taylor, George Rogers. “Nantucket Oil Merchants of the American Revolution.” Massachusetts Review 18, no.3 (Autumn 1977).
Thayer, Theodore, “Town into City, 1746–1765.” In Russell Weigley, ed., Philadelphia: A 300-Year History. New York: Norton, 1982.
Tinkcom, Harry M. “The Revolutionary City, 1765–1800.” In Russell Weigley, ed., Philadelphia: A 300-Year History. New York: Norton, 1982.
Urwin, George J. “When Freedom Wore a Redcoat.” American History, Summer 2008.
Warner, Oliver. “The Action Off Flamborough Head.” American Heritage,
August 1963.
Newspapers
American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia)
Boston Evening Post
Boston Independent Chronicle 1778–1783
Boston Newspapers
Boston Packet
Connecticut Courant (Hartford)
Continental Journal (Boston)
Dudley’s Maryland Gazette (Annapolis)
Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser
Liverpool Journal
London Chronicle
London Daily Intelligencer
London General Evening Post
London Morning Chronicle
London Public Advertiser 1775–1782
Maryland Gazette
Massachusetts Spy (Worcester)
National Gazette (Philadelphia)
New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth)
New Jersey Gazette (Bridgeton)
New London Courant-Gazette
New York Journal (New York)
Pennsylvania Chronicle (Philadelphia) 1775
Pennsylvania Evening Packet (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia) 1765–1803
Pennsylvania Journal (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Ledger (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) 1765–1785
Philadelphia Advertiser
Philadelphia Aurora
Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia Gazette
Philadelphia Independent Gazette
Pittsburgh Sunday Dispatch
Porcupine’s Gazette (Philadelphia)
South Carolina Gazette and Daily Advertiser
Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia)
Worcester Gazette
Maps, Charts, and Atlases
The American Revolution, 1175–1783: An Atlas of Eighteenth-Century Maps and Charts. Washington, DC: Naval History Division Department of the Navy, 1972.
Symonds, Craig L. The Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean (G 3792.D44): J. Luffman, 1814.
Delaware River Estuary (Rare G 3824.P5; 2F6 S3 1777a.F58, .F583, .F585): Francois de Fleury.