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Reference Notes
ABBREVIATIONS
AHA American Historical Association
AHR American Historical Review
DAB Dictionary of American Biography
DNB Dictionary of National Biography (English)
GB Parl The History, Debates and Proceedings of the Houses of Parliament
Morison, AP Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of the American People
PRO Public Record Office [London]
CHAPTER I “HERE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WAS FIRST ACKNOWLEDGED”
The most complete history of the Andrew Doria episode and the record of the supply of arms from St. Eustatius to the American rebels is by J. Franklin Jameson in “St. Eustatius in the American Revolution,” in AHR, July, 1903. See also Nordholt Schulte, The Dutch Republic and American Independence, 36-46; Melville; Edler; de Bruin; and Clark’s Naval Documents, which has a clear statement of all contents.
1 “DOUBTS AROSE”: Malmesbury introduction, 18.
2 “MOST EVENTFUL EPOCH”: ibid.
3 ROOSEVELT PLAQUE, “HERE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE UNITED STATES”: The New York Times, December 9, 1939, p. 6, col. 7. The words can still be read on the monument.
4 “NINE CARTRIDGES TO A MAN”: Sparks, I, 146.
5 WASHINGTON, “WE ARE OBLIGED TO SUBMIT”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, IV, 27.
6 AT BUNKER HILL, BUTT ENDS: Jesse, II, 107.
7 CADWALLADER COLDEN, “CONTRABAND BETWEEN THIS PLACE AND HOLLAND”: q. Schulte, 35.
8 YORKE, “ALL OUR BOASTED EMPIRE”: ibid., 36.
9 PEPYS: full transcript, ed. Latham, Robert, entry of June 12, 1667, VIII, 261-2.
10 DUTCH RULERS ANNOUNCE SIX MONTHS’ EMBARGO OF CONTRABAND TO COLONIES: Edler, 26.
11 ENGLISH SHIPS TO SHOW “MORE VIGILANCE”: q. Schulte, 39.
12 PROPOSAL TO BLOCKADE YORKE’S RESIDENCE: Edler, 84.
13 KING GEORGE, “EVERY INTELLIGENCE CONFIRMS”: Sandwich Papers, I, 103.
14 HEYLIGER PROTESTS “IRREGULARITIES SO FLAGRANT”: q. Schulte, 38.
15 WIFE AS “STINGY AS SIN”: q. ibid., 38.
16 THE PORT IS “OPENED,” PROTESTED CAPTAIN COLPOYS: Clark’s Naval Documents, VII, 500.
17 “I AM ON THE BEST OF TERMS”: letter of November 19, 1776, in Maryland Archives, XII; Jameson, 690-91.
18 “NETHERLANDS ANTILLES WINDWARD ISLANDS”: Hartog, 168 and passim.
19 TWENTY-TWO CHANGES OF SOVEREIGNTY: ibid., 23.
20 ABRAHAM RAVENÉ, THE GOVERNOR ORDERED: Melville, 61.
21 CAPTAIN “MOST GRACIOUSLY RECEIVED”: Jameson, 691.
22 PARTY GIVEN FOR CAPTAIN ROBINSON: Clark, 616.
23 REPORTED IN PURDIE’S VIRGINIA GAZETTE: December 27, 1776, ibid.
24 ADMIRAL YOUNG’S PAINED “SURPRISE”: Clark, 485-8.
CHAPTER II THE GOLDEN ROCK