Patriot Pirates (31 page)

“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 B
ROOKLYN,
N
EW
Y
ORK

“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.

F
IVE

“’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 B
ARBADOS,
W
EST
I
NDIES

“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.

S
IX

“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.
“the exigency of the army”:
John Bradford to the Continental Marine Committee, April 9, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 302.

“great bickering and uneasiness”:
John Bradford to the Secret Committee, Jan. 17, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 980.
“could not be trusted”:
Hearn, p. 204.
“We find complaints are made”:
Ibid., p. 235.
“this growing evil”
through
“like pirates”:
John Bradford to George Washington, Aug. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 153.

“That such despicable characters”:
John Paul Jones to Joseph Hewes, Jan. 12, 1777, NDAR, vol 7, p. 937.
“blunt, honest”:
Philip Chadwick Foster Smith,
Fired By Manley Zeal,
p. 43.
“with a cutlass”:
Joshua Davis,
A Narrative of Joshua Davis,
p. 5.

“a ship and a wheelbarrow”:
James Warren to John Adams, Feb. 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 1257.
“therefore exerted himself”:
Smith, p. 41.
“such creatures as himself”:
Ibid., p. 43.
“as the jackal does the lion”:
Ibid., p. 47.
“impudent”:
Ibid., p. 41.
“drones”:
Ibid., p. 51.

“like the Jews and Samaritans”:
Ibid., p. 47.
“not less than
10,000”: Benjamin Rush to Richard Henry Lee, Dec. 21, 1776, NDAR, vol. 76, p. 543.
“The government has been forward”:
Petition of the Agents for the Privateer Ship
American Tartar
to the Massachusetts General Court, March 22, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 179.
“if the terms suit me”:
Elias Hasket Derby to the Massachusetts Board of War, March 3, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 17.
“execrate the policy”:
James Warren to John Adams, April 23, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 405.
“I am sorry the embargo”:
John Adams to James Warren, April 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 282.
“foremast men”: Williamson’s Liverpool Advertiser and Mercantile Chronicle
, Dec. 27, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 808.

“a rope in the night”:
Captain Thomas Thompson to John Langdon, Sept. 8, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 895.
“16 killed”:
Acting Lieutenant Charles Jordan to Vice Admiral Clark Gayton, Oct. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 217.

“We are endeavoring”:
James Warren to John Adams, April 23, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 282.
“This has roused the indignation”
through
“life or limbs”:
James Warren to John Adams, April 27, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 452.

“take off the restrictions”:
Owners of Massachusetts Privateers to the Massachusetts General Court, April 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 375.

“stinking New England rum”:
Officers of the Continental Navy Frigate
Boston
to Captain Hector McNeill, April 24, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 419.
“The owners are willing”:
Report to the Massachusetts General Court of the Committee appointed to confer with Captain John Manley, April 21, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 390.
“The profit to you”:
John Adams to James Warren, May 6, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 920.
“If we should fall in”:
Smith, p. 52.
“swinging a great cutlass”:
Ibid., p. 59.

“irresolute and undecided”:
Ibid., p. 87.
“with many oaths”:
Ibid., p. 85.
“poured a number of shot”:
Captain Sir George Collier to Philip Stephens, July 12, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 272.
“sad reverse”:
James Warren to John Adams, Aug. 19, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 730.
“redeem poor Manley”:
John Bradford to Robert Morris, Sept. 17, 1777, NDAR, vol. 9, p. 934.
“overbearing haughtiness”:
James Warren to John Adams, Oct. 12, 1777, NDAR, vol. 10, p. 124.

“good fortune seems to stick”:
Stephen Moylan to William Watson, Dec. 13, 1775, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 81.

“wish to God it had been my head”:
Smith, p. 87.
“the only man of real courage”:
Ibid., p. 87.

1779 P
ENOBSCOT,
M
AINE

“no general sense of urgency”:
Tagney, p. 369.

“a reinforcement of heavy ships”:
Ibid., p. 367.
claimed the lives of hundreds:
Ibid., p. 378.
“Our irregular troops”:
George E. Buker,
The Penobscot Expedition,
p. 109.
“brave experienced good officers”:
Tagney, p. 380.

“since deceased”:
Buker, p. 123.
“that you may regain the character”:
Ibid., p. 163.

S
EVEN

“utmost bad consequence”:
Smith, p. 87.
“very successful against the Americans”:
“Extract of a letter from Antigua, April 2,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 260.

“dying apace”:
Ambrose Serle to Lord Dartmouth, April 3, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 266.
“Put no confidence”:
“Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman on board the
Roebuck
,”
The General Advertiser, Liverpool,
NDAR, vol. 8, p. 61.
“we shall all die with hunger”:
“Extract of a Letter from Grenada,” April 18, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 372.
that number increased fivefold:
M. Garnier to Vergennes, Sept. 10, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 597.
“all the advantages of war”:
“Extract of a letter from an English gentleman at Martinico, dated March 21,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 176.
“No step the Ministry could take”:
“Extract of a letter from St. Vincent’s to a merchant in Liverpool, dated May 5,” NDAR, vol. 8, p. 917.
“An open enemy”:
“News from St. Christopher,” April 16, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 355.

“these Dutch browse”:
M. Garnier to Vergennes, Aug. 16, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 549.
“so far debased”:
Admiral James Young to Governor Johannes de Graaf, Dec. 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 86.
“guarding a coast
1500
miles long”:
Marquis de Noailles to Vergennes, April 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 741.
“petitioning for an accommodation”: Boston Gazette
, Dec. 30, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 625.
“much is risked and nothing gained”:
The Committee of Secret Correspondence to Silas Deane, Aug. 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 102.

“All reports to the contrary”: Public Advertiser
, Jan. 30, 1777, NDAR, vol. 8, p. 554.
“They have no idea”:
“Extract of a letter from an officer on board the
Eagle
, off New York, June 9,” NDAR, vol. 9, p. 78.
“manifesting their real weakness”:
Estienne Cathalan to Willing, Morris, & Company, June 6, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 406.
“unmanly way of fighting”:
Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen, May 3–20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 5, p. 175.
“against the laws of God”:
Commodore Sir Peter Parker to Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe, Dec. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 457.
“all the horrors of rebellion”:
Captain John Macartney, R.N., to Commodore Sir Peter Parker, Dec. 12, 1776, NDAR, vol. 7, p. 456.