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118 Ibid.

119 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, March 20, 1783; King with Hattendorf and Estes, A Sea of Words, 405.

120 PRO, 51/875, March 10, 1783.

121 Fowler, Rebels under Sail, 253.

122 Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17.

123 Clark, Gallant John Barry, 301.

124 Ralfe, Naval Biography of Great Britain, Vol. 2; PRO, 51/875, Log Sybil, March 10, 1783.

125 Ralfe, Naval Biography of Great Britain, vol. 2; PRO, 51/875, Log Sybil, March 10, 1783; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 300.

126 PRO, 51/875, Log Sybil, March 10, 1783; Van Powell, The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, 124-127; ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon"; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17.

127 PRO, 51/875, Sybil Journal, March 10, 1783; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17; ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon"; Wilbur, Pirates and Patriots of the Revolution, 50.

128 PRO, Sybil Journal, March 10, 1783.

129 Van Powell, The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, 124-127; PRO, Sybil Journal, March 10, 1783; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17.

130 Brown and Kessler, "The Life of Commodore Barry," 10; PRO, Sybil Journal, March 10, 1783.

131 Ibid.; ISM, Log, Alliance, March 11, 1783.

132 HSP, Society Collection, James Seagrove to John Brown, April 24, 1783.

133 Clark, Gallant John Barry, 301.

134 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, March 20, 1783; Howard, Seth Harding, Mariner, 160.

135 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, March 20, 1783; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17-18.

136 Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 18.

137 Brown and Kessler, "The Life of Commodore Barry," 10; ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon"; LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Morris, March 20, 1783.

138 ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon"; Kessler, "Rough Sketch," 17.

139 ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon."

140 PRO, 51/875, Sibyl Journal, March 10, 1783.

141 HSP, Seagrove to Brown, April 24, 1783.

142 Brown and Kessler, "The Life of Commodore Barry," 10.

143 Ibid.; ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon."

144 ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon."

145 ISM, "An Account of the Alliance and Duc de Lauzon"; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 302.

146 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, March 20, 1783.

147 Ibid.

148 Ibid.

149 Ibid.

150 RMP, vol. 7, Diary: March 21, 1783, 618.

151 Barry to Brown, April 19, 1783, Quoted in Griffin, The History of Commodore John Barry, 247-248; ISM, Barry-Hayes Papers, Brown to Barry, April 5, 1783.

152 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to George Olney, Esq., March 20, 1783.

153 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Morris, March 20, 22, 26, 1783; RMP, vol. 7, 646-647, March 30, 1783.

154 Pennsylvania Gazette, February 26, 1783.

155 Ibid., March 26, 1783; JCC, LBC, Boudinot to Pritchard, March 23, 1783.

156 EHC, Boston Newspapers/Continental Journal, March 27, 1783.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: IN IRONS.

1 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Morris, March 22, 1783; Barry to John Coffin Jones, March 26, 1783.

2 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, William French to Barry, 4, 1783; RMP, vol. 7, 437-438, Robert Morris to Thomas Russell, February 17, 1783; Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Morris, March 31, 1781.

3 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Joseph Henderson to Barry, March 27, 1783; ISM, John Brown to Barry, May 28, 1783.

4 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Henderson, March 28, 1783; and Barry to John Lowell, Esq., April 5, 1783.

5 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Howland, April 8, 1783.

6 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Howland to Barry, March 31, 1783; Barry to Howland, April 8, 1783; Barry to Ellery, April 4, 1783.

7 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Morris, March 30, 1783; RMP, vol. 8, Morris to Barry, March 27, 1783.

8 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Brown to Barry, April 5, 1783.

9 Keen, "Descendants of Joran Kyn, 493.

10 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Barry to Brown, July 8, 1783; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 306.

11 LOC, Letterbook, Alliance, Brown to Barry, April 5, 1783; Kessler, "Rough Sketch"; RMP, vol. 8, 182, Morris to Welch, June 10, 1783; RMP, vol. 8, 136, Morris Diary, May 31, 1783.

12 Miller, "The Federal City, 1783-1800," 156; Watson, Annals, vol. II, 299, 361.

13 Wagner, Robert Morris, 93, 95.

14 RMP, vol. 8, 22-106, 136-250 (diary entries), quotation 758, diary entry, April 29, 1783; HSP, Dreer Collection, Accounts of Prize Money due Officers and Crew of Alliance, April 15, 178; JCC, December 26, 1783.

15 JBP, Barry to Brown and Morris, May 21, 1783; 5/155, Barry to Brown, May 21, 1783, Barry to Barclay and Moylan, May 21, 1783.

16 Morison, John Paul Jones, 396, 377; RMP, vol. 8, 266.

17 JBP, Barnes, Jones to Deauville, June 4, 1783.

18 Morison, John Paul Jones, 396; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 310.

19 RMP, vol. 8, 49.

20 ISM, Barry-Hayes Papers, Barry to Brown, July 8, 1783.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid.; JBP, Barnes Collection, Barry to Morris, August 20, 1783.

26 JBP, Barnes Collection, Barry to Morris, August 26, 1783; JCC, September 3, 1783.

27 Ibid.

28 JBP, Barry to Morris, August 26, 1783; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 312.

29 JCC, No. 28, 229; September 5, 1783.

30 RMP, vol. 8, 480-481, Morris to Elias Boudinot, September 1, 1783.

31 Washington Navy Yard, Early History Center, DC7, L584, Morris to Barry et al., October 6, 1783.

32 PA Archives, Tax Rolls 1782; Philadelphia City Archives, City Directory 1783.

33 LOC, Barry Collection, Barclay to Barry, August 12, 1783.

34 HSP Society Collection, Seagrove to Brown, August 25, 1783.

35 ISM, Barry Memorial to Pennsylvania a.s.sembly, September 18, 1783.

36 Quoted in Griffin, The History of Commodore John Barry, 252-253.

37 From Alexander Garden, Anecdotes of the American Revolution (Charleston, 1828), quoted in Gurn, Commodore John Barry, 190-191.

38 Parker, "A Biographical Sketch of John Brown," 3.

39 JBP, Barry to Barclay, November 28, 1783; RMP, vol. 8, 835, December 23, 1783, Diary Entry.

40 JBP, Barnes Collection, Barry to Anthony Wayne, March 10, 1784; Griffin, The History of Commodore John Barry, 256, "An Account of Monies paid to the Officers and Crew of the Frigate Alliance, and also of the net profits on sundry shares purchased for the account of Captain John Barry and John Brown," January 12, 1785; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 317.

41 JBP, Barry to Barclay, November 28, 1783.

42 Miller, "The Federal City, 1783-1800," 155-156; RMP, vol. 8, 699, Barry et al. to Morris, November 1, 1783; JCC, December 18, 1783.

43 Watson, Annals, vol. II, 358; LOC, Barry Collection, Barclay to Barry, December 25, 1783.

44 JBP, Barnes, NY5/178, Barry to Mifflin, March 10, 1784; Barry to Wayne, March 10, 1784.

45 JBP, Barnes Collection, Wayne to Barry, no date.

46 JCC, April 8, 1784.

47 Nuxall, The Early Republic and the Sea, 3.

48 Ibid.

49 Fowler, Jack Tars and Commodores, 2.

50 Miller, Sea of Glory, epilogue.

51 HSP, Society Collection, Seagrove to Brown, March 27, 1784.

52 Griffin, The History of Commodore John Barry, 256, "An Account of Monies, etc.," January 12, 1785; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 317.

53 LOC, Barry Collection, Itemized Bill to Congress, July 1, 1784.

54 Ibid.; HSP, Roberts Collection, Murray to Barry, November 16, 1784; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 318; Matthewman, "Narrative of Lieutenant Luke Matthewman"; Statement of Luke Matthewman from the New York Packet, 1787.

55 JCC, December 16, 1784; Clark, Gallant John Barry, 318; Wagner, Robert Morris, 106.

56 Hayes, To the Farthest Gulf, 25, 16; Morris to Jay quoted in Gallagher, "Charting a New Course for the China Trade," 61.

57 Hayes, To the Farthest Gulf, 61.