Patriot Pirates (30 page)

“make out abstracts”:
Beattie and Collins, p. 39.
“having received no instruction”:
Hearn, p. 154.
“They will have cash”
through
“it will be impossible”:
Beattie and Collins, p. 38.

“nothing but enmity”:
Hearn, p. 100.
“we must have them”:
Beattie and Collins, p. 17.
“any goods, wares, or merchandize”:
Ibid., p. 18.
“libeled in the courts”:
Ibid., p. 38.

“the uncertainty”:
Will of John Earnest Kessler, Aug. 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 28.

“I am informed”:
Jonathan Glover to Samuel Tucker, Feb. 3, 1776, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 1108.
“Providence militates”: Morning Post and Daily Advertiser,
Jan. 8, 1776, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 488.
“tamely and supinely”:
Hearn, p. 108.
“laid upon the admiral”:
Ibid., p. 107.
“good for nothing”:
Ibid., p. 106.

“during the continuance”: London Gazette
, Tuesday, Dec. 19, to Saturday, Dec. 23, 1775, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 440.
“not one in ten”:
A Loyalist Captain to Abraham Van Alstyne, Feb. 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 1129.
“expect many more losses”:
Robert Morris to John Langdon, April 4, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 664.
“for the good of the country”:
Andrew Brown to the Massachusetts General Court, Mar. 28, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 546.

“old prejudices”:
Joseph Reed to George Washington, March 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 219.
“however numerous our cruisers”:
Vice Admiral Molyneux Shuldham to Philip Stevens, Feb. 26, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 83.
“I cannot suppose”:
Vice Admiral James Young to Count de Nozieres, March 9, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 279.

“astonished”:
Count de Nozieres to Vice Admiral James Young, March 14, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 346.
“my heart was much engaged”:
John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 28, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 1296.
“intelligence from America”:
James Young to Philip Stephens, April 7, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 703.
“reinforce your squadron”:
Philip Stephens to James Young, May 20, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 1130.

“precarious and defenseless”:
John Brown to Vice Admiral Clark Gayton, March 22, 1776, NDAR, vol. 4, p. 461.
“surveys and attestations”:
“Intelligence from a London Newspaper,” Jan. 10, 1776, NDAR, vol. 3, p. 498.
“Time is drawing fast”:
Captain Charles Pope to Thomas Rodney, Aug. 1, 1776, NDAR, vol. 6, p. 8.

1776 B
OSTON,
M
ASSACHUSETTS

“many towns contend”:
Ronald N. Tagney,
The World Turned Upside Down,
p. 201.
“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.

T
HREE

“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 P
ROVIDENCE,
R
HODE
I
SLAND

“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.

F
OUR

“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.
“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.