II., No. 666, New-London, Friday, .August 16, 177U; [Ilall'sJ Uvitonj of the Civil War in America^ i., 186, who said " most of till; galleys were ran on shore, and taken ; " Memoirs of General H' uth, .M ; Ramsay's 7/i/</or// of the Americm lievohttion. Edit. London, 17iU, i., '2'J8, a mere mention ; Allen's Ui&torij of the American Revolution, Edit. Baltimore, 1S22, i., 429 ; Wilson's Hiulvry of llu- American HevoUition, lOd. Baltimore, lS4:i, 157; Force's American Archives, V., i., 751 ; Irving's Life of WuMnglon, Edit. New Y'ork, 1856, ii., 299.
No others of the many writers on the American Revolution and General Wiushington, as far a.s we have seen them, including Stednian, Murray, Andrews, Lamb, Marshall, Ilildi'cth, Pitkin, Lendruin, Hinman, Losaing, liaiK'roft, Carrington, liidpath, etc., nor the local historian, Bolton, have; paid the slightest attention to it.
We learn from the records of the " Governor and Council, or Commit- "tee of War," of Connecticut, thai the Whiting and the ^ Vowe were owned by the State of Connecticut, and were, probably, those which were loaneil to General Washington ; that the Whiting wasa new vessel, cummanded by Captain .lohu McCleave, was manned with fifty men, including her officers, and armed with four cannon, taken from the Jlfi- /(ertv(, eight swivels, and five luusketj* ; and that the Crane was also a new vessel, (Commanded byt/apt;rin .lehial Tinker, was manned with fifty men, including her officers, and armed with two Continental nine-poundel's, two three-poundei-s, eight swivels, and ten muskets.