Hamilton Doodle, 1794.

Hamilton Doodle, 1794.

Papers include originals and typed transcripts of letters to Benjamin Franklin and others in Paris, to Joseph Hewes, and to A. Livingston. Also includes a 1776 list of U.S. Navy captains, his "A Plan for Regulation & Equipment of the Navy" (1777), and notes (1794) on the expense of building, fitting, and maintaining a frigate. Also a U.S. Continental Congress list showing rank of captions in the Navy, dated October 10, 1776.

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Ms. 92, John Paul Jones Papers, 1776-1794.

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First cost of a frigate off 44 guns of 1300 tons and
Provisions for six months 150,000
350 men 51,000
Provisions for six months 11,000
212,000
Annual cost of such vessel 60,000
Arrival force to be employed

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[Doodle]

Origin of the Navy
At a caucus in 1794 consisting of Izard, Morrison and Elsworth, of the Senate, of Ames, Sedgwick, Smith, Dayton +c of the Repretes, + of Secrets. Hamilton + Knox, to form a plan for a national Navy, Smith began the within figurings as Secret. Of the meeting – Hamilton then took the pen + instead of minuting the proceedings he made all the flourishes here described trying the [unreadable].

In [unreadable] of the plan adopd. at this meeting a Bill was reported for building the 6 Frigates, which formed the Foundational origin of the Amer. Navy.