Rank of Captains in the Navy [Copy 2], October 10, 1776.

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Title

Rank of Captains in the Navy [Copy 2], October 10, 1776.

Date

1776-10-10

Description

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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Source

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

Language

English

Identifier

Ms92Let4

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Transcription

Rank of Captains in the Navy established by Congress the 10th day of Oct 1776

No. 1 James Nicholson
2 John Manley
3 Hector McNutt
+ 4 Dudley Saltonstall
+ 5 Nicholas Biddle
6 Thomas Thompson
7 John Barry
8 Thomas Read
9 Thomas Grinnell
10 Charles Alexander
11 Lambert Wickes
+ 12 Abraham Whipple
+ 13 John Hopkins
14 John Hodge
15 William Hallock
16 Hoysted Hacker
17 Josiah Robinson
18 John Paul Jones

Whereby N. 18 is superseded by the 13 where Names and not marked with a Cross + – altho’ their superior merits and accomplishments and abilities are at best presumption– and not one of them was in the Service the 7th day of December 1775 when N. 10 was appointed Senior Lieutenant of the Navy, as appears by the Journal of Congress and by his Commissions
1776

Citation

Jones, John Paul, “Rank of Captains in the Navy [Copy 2], October 10, 1776.,” Charleston Library Society Digital Collections, accessed November 5, 2024, https://charlestonlibrarysociety.omeka.net/items/show/1373.