by Tim McGrath
reputation of, 110, 225, 230, 232, 310–12, 335–37, 343, 352, 374, 381
in Russia, 417
Selkirk, Lord and Lady and, 224–26, 229, 230, 232, 265
Serapis, battle with, 292–308, 311, 337, 365
Solebay, encounter with, 91–92, 97
style of command, 97
tomb of, 423
turns Ranger over to Simpson, 265
uniform and, 98, 176, 286
Washington and, 265
Whitehaven raid and, 221–24, 226, 230, 252, 265, 288
yearns for promotion, 352, 361
Jones, Mary, 86
Jones, Whitehead, 396
Jones, William, 89, 105
Jordan, John, 285, 297, 308, 415
Jordan, Thomas, 249
Joseph, 136
Josiah, James, 32, 33, 77, 78, 99, 106, 109, 124
Joyner, John, 401
Jump, Elizabeth, 139, 140
Katencamp, Herman, 162, 198
Katy, 16, 27
Keen, Christiana, 188
Kelly, Nicholas, 197–98
Kelly, Robert, 136
Kempthorne, Captain, 234
Kendall, Joseph, 360, 366–68, 371, 383
Keppel, Augustus, 265
Kessler, John, 269, 270, 349, 361, 365, 366, 368, 370, 371, 384, 403, 406, 410, 421
Kilby, John, 294–95, 298, 300, 303, 310, 333
King, Lieutenant, 365, 368, 370
King George, 87, 319
Kingfisher, 80–82
Kirkudbright, 219
Kitty, 113, 190, 192
Knies, Michael, 391, 397, 403
Knyphausen, Wilhelm von, 190, 191
Lafayette, Marquis de, 256, 257, 283, 284, 381, 383, 384, 392, 395
Lake Champlain, 84, 95
Landais, Pierre, 256, 257, 285, 286, 289–90, 294, 301–2, 309, 311–13, 315, 335–37, 340–42, 346, 348, 352, 355, 398, 400, 420
Langdon, John, 14, 19, 22, 152, 176, 178, 274, 341, 381, 382, 400
Languedoc, 233
Laurens, Henry, 245, 256, 344, 345, 350
Laurens, John, 233, 350–51, 353–55, 383
Lawrence, Henry, 155, 156
Layona, 373
Leak, Lieutenant, 59
Lee, 34, 235, 265
Lee, Arthur, 123, 162, 186, 187, 199, 230, 247, 248, 256, 266, 267, 285, 335–37, 342, 346, 349, 351, 352, 374, 415, 422–23
Lee, Charles, 103
Lee, Ezra, 94
Lee, Richard Henry, 1, 25, 247, 248, 256, 258
Leeds, William, 234
Leeward Islands, 119
Leith, Scotland, 291
Lewes, Delaware, 39, 47, 105, 126
Lewis, Francis, 320, 344, 345, 361
Lewis, John, 351, 358
Lexington (see also Wild Duck), 58, 64, 66, 70–71, 74, 79–81, 85, 91, 95, 99, 105, 108–9, 123, 153–55, 162, 179–80, 189, 221, 238, 258, 287, 398, 405, 410
Lexington, Battle of, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 18, 36, 68, 89, 215
Liberty Island, 33, 37, 71, 105
Liberty Tree, 141
Lincoln, Abraham, 34
Lincoln, Benjamin, 320, 322–29, 351
Linn, Joseph, 147
Linzee, John, 9–10
Liverpool, 71–75, 79–82
“Lobsterbacks,” 4, 84
Loire River, 123, 186, 187
Lord Chatham, 220
Louis XVI, King of France, 96, 101, 122, 137, 158, 184, 187, 193, 197, 217, 257, 267, 284, 317, 336, 337, 352, 371, 381
Lovell, Solomon, 274–81, 323
Lowendahl, Charlotte-Marguerite de Bourbon, Madame La Comtesse de, 336, 341
Lowndes, Rawlins, 214
Loyalist, 246
Lucy, 174
Lukey, 246
Lunt, Henry, 292, 295, 308
Luzerne, Chevalier de la, 352, 400
Lyon, 178
Macgrath, James, 162
Machias Liberty, 11, 19
Machias settlers, 10–12, 14
Maddock, John, 262
Magnifique, 400, 401
Manley, John, 34, 98, 99, 109, 116, 118, 142–47, 164, 171, 173–74, 234–36, 250, 256, 372, 375, 392, 402, 419
Marchand, Henry, 319
Marcus Hook, 72–73, 101
Margaretta, 10–11
Maria, 161, 423
Markham, George, 408
Marlborough, Duke of, 32
Marquis de Lafayette, 355, 356, 359, 360, 370
Mars, 359, 370, 377–78
Martha, 196–97
Martha’s Vineyard, 244, 261
Martin, John, 398
Martin, Joseph Plumb, 169
Martinique, 96, 125, 127, 133, 153, 199, 202, 245, 246, 318, 339–40, 406
Mary, 174–75, 205–7
Massachusetts, 134
Mather, Cotton, 151
Mather, Samuel, 151
Matthewman, Luke, 58, 189, 372, 396
Maxwell, Mungo, 87–88, 219
Mayflower, 289
Mayrant, John, 306
McDougall, John, 77
McEllany, William, 357–59, 382
McKenzie, James, 415
McLean, Francis, 272–76, 278
McNeill, Hector, 98, 99, 109, 116, 118, 142–48, 150, 152, 153, 164, 173–74, 194, 235, 236, 256, 381
McPherson, John, 172
Mease, Matthew, 294, 300
Meijer, Jean, 219, 222, 223
Mellish, 113
Mercer, Hugh, 108
Mercury, 144
Mercury Packet, 344, 345
Meredith, Reese, 102
Merlin, 77
Mermaid, 190, 192
Mermaid (British frigate), 232
Mifflin, Thomas, 103, 320
Milford, 97, 115, 127, 134
Mill Prison, England, 180, 183, 219, 248, 252, 255, 270–72, 287, 315, 319, 338, 339, 371–72, 378, 385, 407
Miller, Nathan, 11
Minerva, 359, 385
Minutemen, 6, 10
Mitchell, David, 398
Mitchell, Henry, 377–78
Molly, 68
Monarch, 200
Monck’s Corner, 327
Monmouth, Battle of, 232
Monsieur, 288, 289
Montagu, George, 18
Montagu, James, 4
Montague, 235–36
Montauk Point, 57
Montgomery, 72, 74, 99, 132, 166, 167, 173
Montgomery, Hugh, 80–82
Montresor, John, 33, 105, 165–67, 190–91
Moore, James, 10–11
Moore, John, 277–78, 279
Morgan, William, 403
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 284
Morris, Captain, 246
Morris, Gouverneur, 139, 254, 389, 400, 401, 417
Morris, Robert, 18, 26, 28, 33, 49, 71, 74, 90, 92, 95, 100, 102, 104–10, 116, 117, 124, 127, 133, 141, 149, 171, 173, 181, 188, 218, 237, 245, 254, 314, 320, 335, 341, 344, 347, 348, 374–77, 381–86, 388–95, 399–402, 406–8, 414–16, 419, 422
Morristown, New Jersey, 321, 350
Moultrie, William, 130
Mowat, Henry, 14, 23–24, 98, 273, 275–79, 319
Moylan, James, 267, 335, 342, 355, 385
Mud Island, 33, 71
Mull of Kintyre, 154
Mull of Solway, 219
Mullan, Peggy, 30
Mullan, Robert, 25, 28, 30–31
Mumford, Thomas, 392–95
Murray, Alexander, 375, 376
Mutinies, 128–29, 219–20, 223, 227, 287, 334–35, 340, 346, 350, 354, 356–59, 382, 393, 395, 405–6
&n
bsp; Nancy (British vessel), 34, 402
Nancy (brigantine), 80–82, 243
Nanny, 177
Nantasket Road, 142, 143, 173, 237, 259, 262, 347, 370, 402
Nantes, 106, 157, 171, 182, 184, 185, 187, 215, 268, 373
Nantucket, Massachusetts, 380, 408
Narragansett Bay, 16, 98, 111, 174, 233, 367
Nassau-Siegen, Prince of, 266
Nautilus, 60, 275
Nautilus Island, 275–76, 281
Naval Committee, 33, 35, 38
Nelson, Horatio, 40, 50, 51, 265
Nepotism, 26
Nesbitt, James, 119
Nesbitt, John Maxwell, 389
Nesbitt, Jonathan, 338, 339, 373
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 244, 257, 261
New Breton, 100, 112
New London, Connecticut, 64, 66–68, 215, 318, 392–95, 398
New Providence, 52–56, 205, 222, 234, 259
New York campaign, 94–95, 102, 103
Newcastle, England, 291
Newfoundland, 144, 145, 180, 263, 338, 353
Newport, Rhode Island, 17, 21, 64, 68, 79, 96, 171, 243, 273, 412
Nicholas, Samuel, 28, 31, 54, 55, 62–64
Nicholson, James, 118, 123, 133, 138, 142, 278, 344, 345–46, 348–49, 390–91, 401
Barry and, 374
on Captains List, 98, 99, 134
command of Trumbull, 319–20, 329–32, 373, 375–76
command of Virginia, 164, 202–4
death of, 419
Jones and, 361, 375–76
Watt, encounter with, 329–33, 375
Nicholson, John, 103
Nicholson, Samuel, 123, 138–40, 142, 153–55, 157, 158, 171, 178, 236, 257, 262, 264, 349, 356, 362, 390–92, 397, 418, 419
Nicola, Louis, 17
Nicolas, Sam, 46
No Mans Land, 76
Noailles, Viscount de, 350, 353, 354, 383
Nöel, Nicholas, 194, 195, 197
Norfolk, Virginia, 34, 35
North, 275
North, Lord Frederick, 5, 22, 36, 95, 109, 137, 140, 218, 232, 268, 321, 328
North Channel, 224
North Sea, 154, 160, 161
Northampton, 160
Notre Dame, 207, 210, 212
Nova Scotia, 76, 92, 97–98, 100, 112, 134, 144, 146, 273, 338, 360, 370
O’Brien, Jeremiah, 11–12
Olive Branch Petition, 8
Olney, James, 99
Olney, Joseph, 134, 258–62
O’Neille, Don Felix, 162
Orpheus, 80–82, 363
Orvilliers, Louis Guillouet d’, 65, 212, 266, 272, 288
Osborne, George, 237, 241
Overfalls, 80
Oxford, 76–78
Paine, Robert Treat, 118
Paine, Thomas, 350, 353–55
Pallas, 284, 290–92, 301, 308, 313
Paoli Massacre, 189, 244
Paris, Treaty of, 120
Parke, Mathew, 32, 176, 187, 346, 355, 357, 358, 365–67, 393, 405–6
Parker, Sir Peter, 84, 128
Patience Island, 111
Patty (London brig), 144
Patty (merchantman), 161
Patuxent River, 202, 420
Paul, John, Senior, 86
Peacock, 123–24, 135
Pearl, 105, 108, 127
Pearson, Richard, 292–307, 309, 311
Pegasus, 159, 160
Peggy Stewart, 4
Pelham, Captain, 246
Pendennis Castle, 252, 255
Penfield, Nathaniel, 363
Penmark Rocks, 342, 343
Penn, William, 5
Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 31, 32, 38, 58, 71, 74, 103
Pennsylvania Navy, 31, 39, 78, 189
Penobscot, Maine, 265, 273–83, 312, 317, 320–22, 329, 367
Perseus, 208
Petitgrat, 97
Philadelphia, 2, 3, 5–7, 15, 20, 21, 70–75, 89, 95–97, 99, 101–5, 107, 109, 124–26, 149, 164–67, 169, 170, 174, 181, 183, 187, 189, 193, 202, 208, 258, 328, 382, 394
Philadelphia Brigade, 103
Phipps, David, 237, 238, 241, 242
Pickering, Timothy, 216
Picquet, La Motte, 340
Pierce, Benjamin, 365
Pigot, 244–45, 318
Pigot, Sir Robert, 233, 243, 244
Pinder, John, 347
Piscataqua River, 131, 177, 182, 400
Pitcher, Jonathan, 174
Pole, 262
Polly (tea ship), 2
Polly (timber ship), 10, 11
Polly (South Carolina ship), 207, 212
Polly (schooner), 235
Pony Express, 38
Pool, Fitch, 365, 371
Poor Richard’s Almanac (Franklin), 268
Port Judith, 215
Port Penn, 58, 190, 191, 192
Porter, David, 237
Porter, Horace, 423–24
Portigibaud, Chevalier de, 335
Portland, 50
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 24, 131, 152, 153, 176, 238, 259, 270, 317, 381–82
Potts, Richard, 371
Powell, William, 367
Powers, Pierce, 228
Prévost, Augustine, 321
Prince of Orange, 135, 137
Princeton, Battle of, 107–8, 133, 141
Prisoners, 78, 97, 109–10, 113, 114, 117, 118, 125, 145, 155, 161, 229, 230, 245, 266, 290, 300, 302, 304, 308, 311, 313, 323, 338, 350–52, 359, 360, 370, 375, 377, 404–5
Pritchard, Samuel, 365
Providence (sloop), 27, 28, 48, 53, 60, 63, 65, 70, 75, 79, 90, 91, 97–100, 111–14, 117, 174–75, 204–7, 257–58, 260–261, 274, 280, 367
Providence (frigate), 99, 111, 125, 128, 133, 171, 174, 256, 260, 263–64, 266, 322, 323, 328
Proving of guns, 132
Pulaski, Casimir, 321
Purcell, Sarah, 176
Putnam, Israel, 94, 104
Quasi-War, 418, 420, 423
Quebec, 386
Queen Charlotte, 329
Queen of France, 236, 256, 258–60, 263, 322, 324, 325
Quémy, Louis-Alexandre de, 393–95
Quiberon Bay, 106, 123, 187
Quincy Bay, 194
Racehorse, 50, 51, 105
Rainbow, 146–47, 174
Raisonable, 278
Raleigh, 98, 131–32, 147–48, 164, 176–78, 214–15, 235–37, 256, 323, 349
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 237
Ramillies, 404
Ramsdell, John, 380, 408
Randolph, 98, 99, 102–4, 106, 109, 118, 124–30, 145, 150, 171–73, 184, 204, 207–13, 215, 249, 308, 332
Ranger, 148, 152, 176, 184, 186, 199, 215, 258–59, 263–65, 287, 310, 322, 323, 328, 381, 421
Rathbun, John Peck, 113–16, 174–76, 204–5, 207, 208, 215, 234, 257–58, 260–63, 322, 324, 328, 378–79
Rathbun, Mary, 379
Read, Captain, 73, 74
Read, Joseph, 89
Read, Mrs. Thomas, 193, 374
Read, Thomas, 98, 100, 103, 109, 164–66, 169, 170, 193, 254, 374, 375
Rebellion Road, 171, 209, 322, 323
Recovery, 378
Reedy Island, 46, 58, 126, 190–92, 284, 362
Regulator, 397
Reprisal, 68, 71, 72, 79–81, 83, 96, 99, 100–2, 106, 123, 153–57, 162, 179–81, 221
Resistance, 234, 236, 237
Revenge, 160–63, 198–201, 221, 245–47, 245–49, 253, 339, 373, 399
Revere, Paul, 1, 3, 6, 274, 277, 278, 280
Rhode Island Resolution, 20
Richmo
nd, 202, 203
Ricot, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, 284, 291, 309
Rittenhouse, David, 103
Robinson, Alexander, 213
Robinson, Isaiah, 95, 99, 105
Robinson, James, 99
Robinson, John, 234
Robinson, Robert, 286, 287
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste, 344, 345, 376
Rochefort, 140
Rodney, George Brydges, 340, 389
Rodney, Sarah, 422
Roebuck, 59, 64, 70–75, 79, 80, 103–5, 107, 125, 146, 167, 168, 189, 190, 232, 292, 325, 327, 363
Rogers, Josiah, 387, 388
Romney, 290
Roosevelt, Theodore, 424
Rose, 16, 20, 95, 191, 421
Rose Island, 54
Ross, Betsy, 150
Ross, John, 219
Rotch, Francis, 3
Royal Louis, 398
Rules of the Regulations of the Navy of the United Colonies (Adams), 26
Rush, Benjamin, 32, 255
Rutledge, Edward, 15, 19, 95
Rutledge, John, 150, 171, 207, 322, 323, 327
Sachem, 68, 95, 99
St. Augustine, 55, 362
St. Eustatius, 105, 246, 270, 389
St. George’s Channel, 219
St. John, 55
St. Lawrence River, 84
St. Lucia, 246
St. Mary’s Isle, 224, 225
Saintes, Battle of the, 389, 405, 408
Sakonnet River, 244
Sally (see also Columbus), 26, 120
Salter, Titus, 279
Saltonstall, Dudley, 26, 32, 45, 47–48, 62, 68, 70, 75, 79, 83–85, 98, 133, 142, 260, 274–82, 319, 323, 329, 341
Saltonstall, Gilbert, 329–33
Sandwich, 251–52
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 36–37, 50, 127, 157, 218, 230, 233, 244, 310, 314, 321
Sandy Hook, 84, 85, 102, 174, 205, 246, 261, 322
Santo Domingo, 51, 197, 344
Saratoga, 319, 328, 329, 344, 345, 361–64, 376, 416
Saratoga, Battle of, 170, 181–84, 237
Sartine, Antoine de, 265, 267, 283, 284, 286, 287, 312, 313, 337, 341, 343
Saunders, Robert, 115, 117
Savannah, Georgia, 37, 320–21
Scarborough, England, 292, 293, 297
Schuyler, 78
Scottish Highlanders, 21, 76–77
Scurvy, 148, 288, 321
Sea-Captains Club, 120
Sea Nymph, 92
Seaford, 49
Seagrove, James, 407
Second Anglo-Dutch War, 219
Second Continental Congress, 7–9, 14–27
Selkirk, Earl of, 219, 224–26, 230, 232, 265
Selkirk, Lady, 226, 229, 230
Serapis, 292–313, 332, 342
Sewall, Samuel, 2
Seymour, Charles, 62
Shark, 96
Shaw, Samuel, 172
Sheepscott River, 147
Shelden, Patrick, 357–59, 382