Volume I gives the best account of the Penobscot

expedition, and prints the original Journal of General Solomon Lovell kept on the expedition.

Winsor, Justin. Narrative and Critical History of the United States. 8 vols. Boston and New York, 1884-89.

Article on the Revolutionary navy by E. E. Hale, in Volume VI, contains information on the Massachusetts navy. Valuable bibliography.

Works of John Adams. 10 vols. Boston, 1856.

Gives John Adams’s opinion of the Massachusetts statute establishing privateering.

THE NAVY OF CONNECTICUT

Caulkins, Frances M. History of Norwich. Norwich, 1845.

Contains information relative to the naval part which Norwich and Norwich men played in the Revolution.

Connecticut Revolutionary Archives. MSS.

Contains much miscellaneous information relating to the Connecticut navy. Volumes VIII and IX contain valuable material concerning the prizes captured by Connecticut vessels.

Connecticut Colonial Records for 1775-1776. Hartford, 1890.

Valuable for the beginnings of the Connecticut navy.

Connecticut Gazette for 1775-1779. New London.

The best newspaper for naval news in the state. Captured prizes are advertised in its columns.

Connecticut Historical Society Collections. 8 vols. Hartford, 1860-1901.