II., No. 666, New-London, Friday, August 16, 1776 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 186, who said " most of the galleys were ran on shore, and taken ; " Memoirs of General Heath, 51 ; Ramsay's History of the American Revolution, Edit. London, 1791, i., 298, a mero montion ; Allen's History of live American Revolution, Edit. Baltimore, 1822, i., 429 ; Wilson's History of the American Revolution, Ed. Baltimore, 1843, 157; Force's American Archives, V., i., 751 ; Irving's Life of Washington, Edit. New York, 1856, ii., 299.
No others of the many writers on the American Revolution and General Washington, as far as we have seen them, including Stedman, Murray, Andrews, Lamb, Marshall, Hildroth, Pitkin, Lendrum, Hlnman, Lossing, Bancroft, Carrington, Ridpath, etc., nor the local historian, Bolton, have paid the slightest attention to it.
We learn from the records of the " Governor and Council, or Conimit- " teo of War," of Connecticut, tha; the Whiting and the Crane were owned by the State of Connecticut, and were, probably, those which were loaned to General Washington ; that the Whiting was a new vessel, commanded by Captain John McCleave, was manned with fifty men, including her officers, and armed with four cannon, taken from theafiiimia, eight swivels, and five muskets; and that the Crane was also a new vessel, commanded by Captain Jehial Tinker, was manned with fifty men, including her officers, and armed with two Continental nine-pounders, two three-pounders, eight swivels, and ten muskets.