Prologue: Endeavours of the Mind
1. Anon, Pen and Ink Sketches of Eminent English Literary Personages (London: J. S. Pratt, 1850) p. ix
2. Anon, Transatlantic Tracings and Popular Pictures from American Subjects (London: W. Tweedie, 1853) p. 56
3. Ibid., p. 88
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 27
6. Ibid., p. 90
7. Ibid., p. 91
8. Ibid., p. 98
9. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1870) p. 113
10. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn, Vol. 6 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 226
11. Theresa May, The government’s negotiating objectives for exiting the EU: PM speech, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-governments-negotiating-objectives-for-exiting-the-eu-pm-speech
12. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil (London: Andrew Crooks, 1651) p. 1
13. Andrea Wulf, Chasing Venus: The race to measure the heavens (New York: Vintage Books, 2012) p. 41
14. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Vol. 1 (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791) p. 101
15. David McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005) p. 93
16. Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century (London: Penguin, 1991) p. 206
17. N. A. M. Roger, The Insatiable Earl: A life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994) p. 77
18. Newcastle Chronicle, Saturday 13 June 1761. Also, Robert Black, The Jockey Club and its Founders (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891) p. 133
19. Arthur Cash, John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006) p. 16
20. Ibid., p. 4
21. Neil Murray, ‘Signs of Habitation’, in East Coast Encounter (Collingwood: One Day Hill, 2014) p. 22
22. Greg Dening, Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) p. 27
Chapter 1: Acorns
1. Roger Fisher, Heart of Oak: the British Bulwark (London: J. Johnson, 1763) p. 38
2. Ibid., p. 46
3. Ibid., p. 37
4. Rev. Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1829) p. 9
5. Rev. Sir John Cullum, The History and Antiquities of Hawstead in the County of Suffolk (London: J. Nichols, 1784) p. 2
6. The History of Ancient Greece; from the earliest times, till it became a Roman Province (Edinburgh: J. Bruce, 1768) p. 76
7. Oliver Rackham, Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape (London: Phoenix Press, 2001) p. 15
8. Fisher, p. 93
9. Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Forests and Sea Power: the timber problem of the Royal Navy 1652–1862 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926) p. 99
10. John Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn (London: Everyman, 2006) p. 376
11. John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, 2nd edn (London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, 1670) p. 14
12. Ibid., p. 18
13. Ibid., dedication
14. Ibid., p. 24
15. William Mountaine, The Seaman’s Vade-Mecum and Defensive War by Sea (London: W. & J. Mount, 1756) p. 144
16. Albion, p. 17
17. Mr Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, Vol. 1 (London: T. Cadell, 1788) p. 1
18. Ibid., p. 4
19. William Camden, Britannia (1607), with an English translation by Philemon Holland, a hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton (The University of California, Irvine: posted 14 June 2004)
20. Lionel Charlton, The History of Whitby, and of Whitby-Abbey (London: A. Ward, 1779) p. 308
21. Marshall, p. 9
22. Rev. George Young, A History of Whitby and Streoneshalh Abbey, Vol. 2 (Whitby: Clark & Medd, 1817) p. 554
23. Charlton, p. 74
24. Marshall, p. 124
25. Ibid., p. 18
26. Charlton, p. 338
27. Newcastle Courant, Saturday 10 April 1762
28. Mr Tuke Jr, General View of the Agriculture of the North-Riding of Yorkshire (London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1794) p. 16
29. Marshall, p. 287
30. Caledonian Mercury, Thursday 20 November 1740
31. Evelyn, Sylva, p. 15
32. Tuke Jr, p. 90
33. Evelyn, Sylva, p. 23
Chapter 2: Enigmas
1. Rev. J. Ray, A Complete Collection of English Proverbs (London: T & J Allman, 1818) p. 177
2. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 17 (Leeds: John Whitehead & Son, 1903) p. 42
3. Lionel Charlton, The History of Whitby, and of Whitby-Abbey (London: A. Ward, 1779) p. 335
4. ‘An Account of the fossile Bones of an Alligator, found at the Sea-shore, near Whitby in Yorkshire. In a Letter to John Fothergill, M. D. from Capt. William Chapman’, Philosophical Transactions Vol. L. Part II. For the Year 1758 (London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1759) p. 691
5. Ibid., p. 354
6. Ibid., p. 356
7. William Watson, The Poetical Remains with other Detached Pieces of the Late F. Gibson (London: R. Rogers, 1807) p. vii
8. Rev. George Young, A History of Whitby and Streoneshalh Abbey, Vol. 2 (Whitby: Clark & Medd, 1817) p. 869
9. William Watson, The Poetical Remains with other Detached Pieces of the Late F. Gibson (London: R. Rogers, 1807) p. vii
10. Ibid., p. 71
11. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Vol. 1 (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791) p. 14
12. NYCRO, Mic 2003/213
13. Young, p. 869
14. Ibid.
15. These details come in a private communication from Mike Yates of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society
16. William Sutherland, The Ship-builder’s Assistant, or some Essays Towards Compleating the Art of Marine Architecture (London: Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1726) p. 38
17. Newcastle Courant, 9 November 1734
18. Public Advertiser, 15 December 1758
19. Charlton, p. 358
20. Young, p. 550
21. Watson, p. ix
22. Alison Adburgham, Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria First Edition (London: Allen & Unwin, 1972)
23. Alexi Baker, ‘Jane Squire (bap. 1686, d. 1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://doi-org.ezproxy2.londonlibrary.co.uk/10.1093/ref:odnb/45826
24. The Ladies Diary: or Woman’s Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1761 (London: A Wilde) p. 33
25. Ibid., p. 36
26. The Gentleman’s Diary or Mathematical Repository, 1761 (London: Company of Stationers, 1761) p. 19
27. Ibid., p. 21
28. Shelley Costa, The ‘Ladies Diary’: Gender, Mathematics, and Civil Society in Early-Eighteenth-Century England in Science and Civil Society, Vol. 17 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) p. 58
29. Ray Parkin, HM Bark Endeavour: her place in Australian history (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997) p. 43
30. Charlton, p. 358
31. Mechanics Magazine, 21 March 1862
32. J. A. Leo Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) p. 198
33. The best overview of the bark vs cat discussion is to be found in Karl Heinz Marquardt, HM Bark Endeavour: What do we really know about the Ship (available at: http://karl-heinz-marquardt.com)
34. John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, 2nd edn (London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, 1670) p. 20
35. Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random (London: Penguin, 1995) p. 426
36. Bram Stoker, Dracula (London: Penguin, 1994) p. 99
37. Scots Magazine, 5 December 1763
38. Derby Mercury, 16 December 1763
39. Caledonian Mercury, 21 December 1763
40. Scots Magazine, 5 December 1763
41. Charlton, p. xvii
42. Ibid., p. xii
43. Ibid., p. 314
44. Daniel Defoe, An Essay Upon Projects (London: Thom. Cockerill, 1697) p. 1
45. Ibid., p. 29
46. Ibid., p. 16
47. Ibid., p. 15
48. Charlton, p. 362
49. Mr Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, Vol. 1 (London: T. Cadell, 1788) p. 287
50. Stephen Baines, Captain Cook’s Merchant Ships (Stroud: The History Press) p. 170
51. Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser, 21 April 1764
52. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 49
Chapter 3: Cross Currents
1. Erich Pontoppidan, The Natural History of Norway (London: A. Linde, 1755) p. 211
2. Ibid., p. 211
3. Ray Parkin, HM Bark Endeavour: her place in Australian history (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997) p. 74
4. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763– 1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) p. 138
5. N. A. M. Roger, The Wooden World: anatomy of the Georgian Navy (London: Fontana Press, 1988) p. 50
6. Caledonian Mercury, 8 July 1756
7. Ipswich Journal, 15 August 1761
8. Aberdeen Journal, 8 December 1760
9. J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1974) p. 45
10. Henry Taylor, Memoirs of the Principal Events in the Life of Henry Taylor of North Shields (North Shields: T. Appleby) p. 157
11. Stephen Baines, Captain Cook’s Merchant Ships (Stroud: The History Press, 2015)
12. Roger, p. 116
13. NYCRO. Thomas Milner – Receipt from Thomas Milner [bearing his mark] to John Richardson for £1 15s for his last voyage in the ship Brotherly Love. ZW VI 20/1
14. Roy Porter, Enlightenment (London: Penguin, 2001) p. 76
15. Rosalin Barker, The Rise of An Early Modern Shipping Industry: Whitby’s Golden Fleet, 1600–1750 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011) p. 56
16. Richard England, Schoonerman (London: Hollis & Carter, 1981) p. 113
17. Taylor, p. iv
18. Lionel Charlton, The History of Whitby, and of Whitby-Abbey (London: A. Ward, 1779) p. 361
19. Taylor, p. 1
20. Ibid., p. 158
21. Ibid., pp. 4–5
22. A. F. Humble, ‘An Old Whitby Collier’, The Mariner’s Mirror (1975) 61:1, 51–60, DOI: 10.1080/00253359.1975.10658005
23. Taylor, p. 57
24. Public Advertiser, 7 August 1764
25. Porter, Enlightenment, p. 40
26. Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century (London: Penguin, 1991) p.186
27. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 11 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967) p. 517
28. Ibid., p. 521
29. R. B. Mowat, Americans in England (Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935) p. 31
30. Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: an American life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003) p. 50
31. Porter, Enlightenment, p. 11
32. George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016) p. 97
33. The London Chronicle for 1763, Vol. 14 (London: J. Wilkie, 1763) p. 435
34. Catharine Macaulay, Loose Remarks on certain positions to be found in Mr. Hobbes’s Philosophical Rudiments (London: T. Davies, 1767) p. 38
35. The Adventurer, 16 October 1753
36. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763– 1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) p. 61
37. Arthur Cash, John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006) p. 55
38. The North Briton (London: W. Bingley, 1769) p. 4
39. Ibid., pp. 17–18
40. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1764 (London: J. Dodsley, 1764) p. 25
41. Goodwin, p. 155
42. Edmund Sears Morgan and Helen Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953) p. 27
43. Sarah Vickery, ‘Handwritten History, 1765–1867: Correspondence of Great Americans from the Collections of the Newport Historical Society’, Newport History, Vol. 80, Iss. 264, p. 35
44. Howard Tyrrell Fry, Alexander Dalrymple, 1737–1808, and the expansion of British trade (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1970) p. xviii
45. Ibid., pp. 114–15
Chapter 4: Mr Birds Ways
1. RS. Royal Society Club account slips. RSC/2/2
2. Alexander Dalrymple, An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacifick Ocean, Previous to 1764 (London: privately printed) p. 6
3. Ibid., p. 23
4. Alexander Dalrymple, A Plan for Extending the Commerce of this Kingdom, and of the East-India-Company (London: J. Nourse, 1769) p. 1
5. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1768 (London: J. Dodsley, 1768) p. 58
6. Ibid.
7. Dalrymple, An Account, pp. iii-iv
8. The Naval Chronicle for 1816, Vol. 35 (London: Joyce Gold, 1816) p. 180
9. Ibid., p. 182
10. Ibid.
11. The Politicians Dictionary; or a summary of political knowledge, Vol. 2 (London: Geo. Allen, 1775) p. 233
12. Ibid., p. 228
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., p. 251
15. Dalrymple, An Account, p. iv
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 94
18. The Works of Samuel Johnson L.L.D, Vol. 4 (Philadelphia: William Brown, 1825) p. 299
19. Dom Pernety, The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, Made in 1763 and 1764 (London: T. Jefferies, 1771) p. vi
20. Anon, A Voyage Around the World, in his Majesty’s Ship the Dolphin (London: J. Newberry, 1767) p. 76
21. The Works of Samuel Johnson, p. 295
22. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 511
23. RS. Letter from Alexander Dalrymple, London, to Dr Charles Morton, Secretary, Royal Society. 7 December, 1767. MM/3/14
24. Ibid., 23 January 1766
25. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763– 1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) p. 137
26. The North Briton (London: W. Bingley, 1769) p. xliii
27. Ibid., p. xlv
28. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 15. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972) p. 82
29. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 604
30. Howard Tyrrell Fry, Alexander Dalrymple, 1737–1808, and the expansion of British trade (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1970) p. 119
31. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 605
32. Ibid.
33. ‘Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple’, The European Magazine and London Review for November 1802 (London: J. Sewell, 1802) p. 325
34. Alexander Dalrymple, Mr Dalrymple’s Observations on Dr Hawkesworth’s Preface to the Second Edition (London, 1773) p. 19
35. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 606
36. The North Briton, p. xlvi
37. Ibid., p. xlvii
38. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, p. 99
39. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1768 (London: J. Dodsley, 1768) p. 92
40. Fry, p. 135
41. Mr Dalrymple’s Observations on Dr. Hawkesworth’s Preface to the Second Edition, p. 19
42. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 513
43. ‘Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple’, p. 325
Chapter 5: Land of Liberty
1. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 606
2. The North Briton (London: W. Bingley, 1769) p. xlvii
3. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 15 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972) p. 99
4. The Whitehall Evening Post Or London Intelligencer, 18. Jan.–1. Feb. 1755
5. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 608
6. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1768 (London: J. Dodsley, 1768) p. 202
7. Ibid., p. 203
8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (London: Penguin, 2004) p. 2
9. Annual Register, p. 190
10. Bridget Hill, The Republican Virago: Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) p. 56
11. The North Briton (London: W. Bingley, 1769) p. xlviii
12. Ibid., p. lii
13. Ibid., p. l
14. Arthur Cash, John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006) p. 217
15. Newcastle Courant, 7 May 1768
16. Cash, p. 217
17. Annual Register, p. 105
18. Cash, p. 221
19. The North Briton, p. lxxviii
20. Annual Register, p. 109
21. The North Briton, p. lxxviii
22. The North Briton, p. lxviii
23. Annual Register, p. 106
24. Andrew C. F. David and Colin Jones, Documents, The Mariner’s Mirror, 85:3, 335–7, 1999, DOI: 10.1080/00253359.1999.10656754
25. J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1974) p. 16
26. Stephen Baines, Captain Cook’s Merchant Ships (Stroud: The History Press) pp. 107–8
27. Beaglehole (ed.), p. xxii
28. Nicholas Thomas, Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (London: Penguin, 2004) p. 8
29. Beaglehole (ed.), p. 607
30. Ibid., p. 513
31. Ibid., p. 608
32. Ibid., p. 613
33. Ibid., p. 612
34. Caledonian Mercury, 30 May 1768
35. Hugh Carrington (ed.), The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of HMS Dolphin Round the World by George Robertson 1766–68 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1948) pp. 210–11
36. Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763– 1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) p. 153
37. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 15. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972) p. 13
38. Karl Heinz Marquardt, Captain Cook’s Endeavour (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995) p. 17
39. Cash, p. 232
40. Kentish Gazette, 8 November 1769
41. Rev. George Young, The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook (London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1836) pp. 111–12
Chapter 6: ‘Take a Trip in disguise’
1. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 11
2. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 1 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 167
3. Ibid., p. 171
4. Ibid.
5. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 13
6. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 31
7. Averil M. Lysaght, Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766: His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections (London: Faber & Faber, 1971) p. 44
8. Ibid., p. 234
9. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 5
10. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 8 (Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1816) p. 31
11. James Lee, An Introduction to Botany, 2nd edn (London: J. & R. Tonson, 1765) p. v
12. Andrea Wulf, The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (London: Windmill Books, 2011) p. 61
13. Lee, pp. iii–iv
14. Ibid., p. 232
15. Wulf, p. 117
16. Lee, p. iii
17. Carolyn Fry, The Plant Hunters (London: Andre Deutsch, 2009) p. 19
18. Lee, p. 243
19. Harold Carter, Sir Joseph Banks (London: British Museum, 1988) p. 62
20. Neil Chambers, The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 2007) p. 2
21. John Brewer, Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Perennial, 2005) p. 9
22. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, The Private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 1771–1782, Volume 1, August 1770–March 1778 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, v. LXIX. 1932) p. xiii
23. Andrew Duncan, A Short Account of the Life of Sir Joseph Banks (London: 1821) p. 9
24. Averil M. Lysaght, Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766: His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections (London: Faber & Faber, 1971) p. 46
25. The Atheneum; or Spirit of the English Magazine, Vol. 8 (Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1821) p. 64
26. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 158
27. Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: the disease of discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016) p. 82
28. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 2 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 311
29. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 153
30. Ibid., p. 30
31. Carter, p. 55
32. D. J. Carr, Sydney Parkinson: Artist of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Voyage (London: Croom Helm Ltd, 1984) p. x
33. Neil Chambers, The Letters Of Sir Joseph Banks, A Selection, 1768–1820 (London: Imperial College Press, 2000) p. 1
34. John Gascoigne, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 61
35. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 156
36. Greg Dening, Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) p. 77
37. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, pp. 176–7
38. Anon, A Voyage Around the World, in his Majesty’s Ship the Dolphin (London: J. Newberry, 1767) p. 19
39. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 311
40. William Mountaine, The Seaman’s Vade-Mecum and Defensive War by Sea (London: W. & J. Mount, 1756) p. 42
41. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 23
42. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 312
43. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 487
44. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 315
45. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 28
46. Ibid., p. 495
47. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 194
48. Ibid., p. 195
49. Ibid., p. 212
50. The Works of Samuel Johnson L.L.D, Vol. 4 (Philadelphia: William Brown, 1825) p. 301
51. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 213
Chapter 7: Airy Dreams
1. Richard Walter, A Voyage Around the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by George Anson (London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748) pp. 74–5
2. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 1 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 216
3. Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour (London: printed for Stansfield Parkinson, 1773) pp. 10–11
4. Walter, pp. 79–80
5. Parkinson, pp. 10–11
6. Ibid., p. 5
7. Walter, p. 75
8. Parkinson, p. 11
9. Mechanics Magazine, 21 March 1862
10. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 235
11. Parkinson, p. vi
12. Ibid., Advertisement
13. Ibid., p. xi
14. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 176
15. Parkinson, p. 4
16. D. J. Carr, ‘The Books that sailed with the Endeavour’, Endeavour, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1983
17. Anne Salmond, Aphrodite’s Island: The European discovery of Tahiti (Auckland: Viking, 2009) p. 66
18. Hugh Carrington (ed.), The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of HMS Dolphin Round the World by George Robertson 1766–68 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1948) p. 167
19. Anthony Addington, An Essay on the Sea-Scurvy (Reading: C. Micklewright, 1753) p.1
20. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 74
21. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 242
22. Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: the disease of discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016) p. 59
23. Carrington (ed.), pp. 139–40
24. Parkinson, p. 13
25. The Works of Samuel Johnson L.L.D, Vol. 4 (Philadelphia: William Brown, 1825) p. 15
26. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 79
27. Carrington (ed.), p. 154
28. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 80
29. Parkinson, p. 28
30. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 284
31. Oxford Journal, 10 June 1769
32. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 98
33. James Cook, Observations made, by appointment of the Royal Society, at King George’s Island in the South Sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 61 (1771), pp. 397–421
34. Parkinson, p. 55
35. Joseph Farrell, Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa (London: MacLehose, 2017)
36. Parkinson, p. 14
37. D. J. Carr, Sydney Parkinson: Artist of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Voyage (London: Croom Helm Ltd, 1984) p. xi
38. Parkinson, p. xi
39. Bernard Smith, ‘The first European depictions’, in Ian Donaldson and Tamsin Donaldson, Seeing the First Australians (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985) pp. 28–9
40. Parkinson, p. 26
41. Ibid., p. 16
42. Ibid., p. 33
43. Scots Magazine, January 1766
44. Maurice Cranston, Jean-Jacques: the early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1754 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991) p. 293
45. John James Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764) p. 20
46. Ibid., p. 97
47. Cranston, p. 300
48. Parkinson, p. 24
49. Ibid., p. 23
50. Ibid., p. 26
51. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 258
52. Parkinson, p. 27
53. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 312
54. Ibid., pp. 313–14
Chapter 8: Perfect Strangers
1. Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London: Allen Lane, 2003) p. 37
2. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 Vol. 1 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 379
3. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1777 (London: J. Dodsley, 1778) p. 64
4. Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour (London: printed for Stansfield Parkinson, 1773) p. 73
5. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 376
6. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 563
7. Anne Salmond, Aphrodite’s Island: the European discovery of Tahiti (Auckland: Viking, 2009) p. 20
8. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 307
9. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 564
10. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, pp. 312–13
11. Nicholas Thomas, Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (London: Penguin, 2004) p. 81
12. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 318
13. Ibid., p. 323
14. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 117
15. Anon, Monsters of the Deep and curiosities of ocean life (London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1875) p. 283
16. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 514
17. Averil M. Lysaght, The journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour / with a commentary by A. M. Lysaght (Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1980)
18. Parkinson, p. 67
19. Lincoln Paine, Sea and Civilisation (New York: Vintage Books, 2013) p. 14
20. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 154
21. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 368
22. A Letter from Mr Dalrymple to Dr Hawkesworth (London: 1773) p. 27
23. Hugh Carrington (ed.), The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of HMS Dolphin Round the World by George Robertson 1766–68 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1948) pp. 234–5
24. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. cclxxxii
25. John Marra, Journal of the Resolution’s Voyage in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 (London: F. Newberry, 1776) p. 219
26. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, p. 396
27. Ibid., p. 399
28. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 565
29. Ibid., p. 566
30. Rongowhakaata (R. W.) Halbert, Horouta: the history of the Horouta Canoe, Gisborne and the East Coast (Auckland: Reed Books, 1999) p. 26
31. Joseph Angus Mackay, Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast (Gisborne: Joseph Angus Mackay, 1949) p. 21
32. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 169
33. Ibid., pp. 565–6
34. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 402
35. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 568
36. Ibid., p. 171
37. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 403
38. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 171
39. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 403
40. Ibid., p. 404
41. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 172
42. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 424
43. A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth (London: 1773) p. 27
44. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 472
45. Ibid.
46. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. cxlix
47. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 435
48. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 2 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 34
49. George Forster, A Voyage Around the World, Vol. 2 (London: B. White, 1778) p. 477
50. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 456
Chapter 9: ‘That rainbow serpent place’
1. Thomas Pierson, Roseberry Topping: a poem (Stockton: Jennett & Co., 1847) p. 9
2. John Gascoigne, Captain Cook: voyager between worlds (London: Hambledon, 2007) p. 16
3. J. C. Beaglehole, The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772–1775 (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1961) p. 323
4. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) p. 300
5. Anne Salmond, The Trail of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London: Allen Lane, 2003) p. 131
6. Maria Nugent, Captain Cook was Here (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) p. 110
7. Eric Deeral, ‘Ngarrbal-ngay wanhu? Nguba ngaadal wuwu-thirr: Visitors who may need help’, in East Coast Encounter (Collingwood: One Day Hill, 2014) p. 28
8. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1759) p. 19
9. Nugent, p. 111
10. Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour (London: printed for Stansfield Parkinson, 1773) p. 56
11. Nugent, p. 114
12. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 2 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 54
13. Glyndwr Williams, ‘Far more happier than we Europeans: Reactions to the Australian aborigines on Cook’s Voyage’, Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. 19, Iss. 77 (1981)
14. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 50
15. Parkinson, p. 135
16. John James Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764) p. 21
17. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 58
18. ‘Badtjala Song’, translated by Gemma Cronin, in East Coast Encounter (Collingwood: One Day Hill, 2014) p. 10
19. Parkinson, p. 136
20. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 62
21. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 1 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 447
22. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 344
23. Parkinson, p. 142
24. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 77
25. Ibid., p. 78
26. Parkinson, p. 142
27. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 346
28. Ibid., pp. 350–1
29. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 81
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., p. 82
32. Parkinson, p. 141
33. Ibid.
34. Deeral, p. 28
35. Ibid., p. 31
36. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 399
37. Gascoigne, p. 17
38. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 145
39. Ibid., p. 84
40. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, pp. 351–2
41. Parkinson, p. 146
42. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 87
43. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 370
44. Ibid., p. 375
45. Ibid., p. 377
46. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 105
47. Ibid.
48. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 378
49. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 107
50. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 379
51. Ibid.
Chapter 10: 360°
1. The Works of Samuel Johnson L.L.D, Vol. 4 (Philadelphia: William Brown, 1825) p. 304
2. Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, Vol. 23, pp. 239–40
3. General Evening Post, 25 September, 1770
4. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 1 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 51
5. The Works of Samuel Johnson L.L.D, Vol. 4, p. 318
6. John Brewer, Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Perennial, 2005) p. 106
7. Middlesex Journal, 5 January 1771
8. Oxford Journal, 11 May 1771
9. London Evening Post, 14 May 1771
10. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771, Vol. 2 (London: Angus & Robertson, 1962) p. 323
11. Ibid., p. 184
12. J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955) pp. 437–8
13. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 187
14. Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour (London: printed for Stansfield Parkinson, 1773) p. 182
15. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 242
16. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, p. 466
17. Ibid., p. 471
18. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 274
19. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Vol. 1 (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791) p. 351
20. Beaglehole (ed.), The Journals of Captain James Cook, pp. 649–51
21. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 53
22. Neil Chambers, The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 2007) pp. 42–3
23. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 1, p. 54
24. Ibid., pp. 55–6
25. Public Advertiser, 3 September 1771
26. Kentish Gazette, 28 September 1771
27. Boswell, p. 414
28. Neil Chambers (ed.), Endeavouring Banks: Exploring collections from the Endeavour Voyage (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016) p. 208
29. Harold B. Carter, ‘Sir Joseph Banks and the Royal Society’, Sir Joseph Banks a global perspective (London: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1994) p. 5
30. John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (London: W. Strahan, 1773) p. xxi
31. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 18 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974) p. 210
32. A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth (London: 1773) p. 2
33. Ibid., p. 23
34. Ibid., p. 32
35. Hawkesworth, p. xix
36. John Barrow, A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793 (London: T. Cadell, 1806) pp. 64–5
37. Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 26 August 1771
38. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks Vol. 2, p. 329
39. J. C. Beaglehole, The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772–1775 (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1961) p. 930
40. Ibid., p. 931
41. Ibid., p. 718
42. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, Vol. 2, p. 347
43. Ibid., p. 355
44. Chambers (ed.), p. 279
45. Glyndwr Williams, ‘Seamen and Philosophers in the South Seas in the Age of Captain Cook’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 65:1, 3–22 p. 14
46. J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1974) p. 310
Chapter 11: The Frozen Serpent of the South
1. John Brewer, Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 2004) p. 104
2. Ibid., pp. 103–4
3. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, The Private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 1771–1782. Volume 1, August 1770–March 1778 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, v. LXIX. 1932) p. xiii
4. Ibid.
5. Scots Magazine, 1 March 1775
6. Kentish Gazette, 8 August 1772
7. Ibid.
8. NA. ADM 106/1209/304
9. Bernard Penrose, An Account of the Last Expedition to Port Egmont, in Falkland’s Islands in the Year 1772 (London: J. Johnson, 1775) p. 9
10. NA. ADM 106/1208/235
11. Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1775
12. Penrose, p. 11
13. Ibid., p. 42
14. Ibid., p. 13
15. Anon, A Voyage Around the World, in his Majesty’s Ship the Dolphin (London: J. Newberry, 1767) p. 73
16. Penrose, p. 44
17. Ibid., p. 49
18. Ibid., p. 27
19. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1759) p. 59
20. Penrose, pp. 54–5
21. Ibid., p. 58
22. Ibid., pp. 62–3
23. Ibid., p. 64
24. Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny: An Answer to the Resolutions and Addresses of the American Congress (London: T. Cadell, 1775) p. 17
25. Ambrose Serle, The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe 1776–1778 (San Marino: Huntington Library Publications, 1940) p. 58
26. Johnson, p. 39
27. Burke: Select Works, Vol. 1 (Clark, NJ: The Lawbrook Exchange, 2005) p. 173
28. Benjamin Franklin, ‘Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One’, Public Advertiser, 11 September 1773
29. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1775 (London: J. Dodsley, 1776) p. 54
30. Sarah Vickery, ‘Handwritten History, 1765–1867: Correspondence of Great Americans from the Collections of the Newport Historical Society’, Newport History, Vol. 80, Iss. 264, p. 39
31. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America (London: Oneworld, 2013) p. 54
32. Carla Hay, ‘Catharine Macaulay and the American Revolution’, Historian, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Winter 1994) p. 308
33. Penrose, p. 72
34. Ibid., p. 76
35. Ibid., p. 79
36. Derby Mercury, 15 April 1774
37. Derby Mercury, 26 August 1774
38. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 21 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978) p. 306
39. Kentish Gazette, 4 January 1775
40. Franklin Papers, Vol. 21, p. 546
41. Ibid., p. 326
42. Ibid., p. 569
43. Ibid., p. 579
44. Ibid., p. 581
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid., p. 583
47. Scots Magazine, 1 March 1775
48. The Parliamentary History of England from the earliest period to the year 1803, Vol. 18 (London: Hansard, 1813) p. 446
49. Franklin Papers, Vol. 21, p. 598
50. Ibid., p. 545
Chapter 12: The Collier Fleet
1. Lionel Charlton, The History of Whitby, and of Whitby-Abbey (London: A. Ward, 1779) p. 358
2. NA. ADM 106/1226/154. George Brodrick, 17 March 1775
3. CL. ADM 354/189/330 – Woolwich Officers to Philip Stephens
4. Mike Connell and Des Liddy, ‘Cook’s Endeavour Bark: did this vessel end its days in Newport?’, The Great Circle, Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 40
5. New Lloyd’s List, No. 639, Tuesday 9 May 1775
6. New Lloyd’s List, No. 689, Tuesday 31 October 1775
7. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, The Private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 1771–1782, Vol. 1, August 1770–March 1778 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, v. LXIX, 1932) p. 63
8. Burke: Select Works, Vol. 1 (Clark, NJ: The Lawbrook Exchange, 2005) p. 183
9. Barnes and Owen, pp. 66–7
10. Ibid., p. 67
11. Ibid., p. 64
12. David Syrett, Shipping and the American War 1775–83 (London: The Athlone Press, 1970) p. 182
13. Ibid., p. 197
14. William Bell Clark, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 3 (Washington: US Navy Department, 1968) p. 463
15. Ibid., p. 504
16. NA. ADM 106/3402, op. cit., p. 377
17. Ibid., p. 388
18. Ray Parkin, HM Bark Endeavour: her place in Australian history (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 1999) p. 4
19. D. K. Abbass, ‘Endeavour and Resolution Revisited: Newport and Captain James Cook’s Vessels’, Newport History, Vol. 70 (1999)
20. NA. ADM 106/3402, op. cit., pp. 424–6
21. Thomas Paine, Common Sense (London: Penguin, 2005) p. 35
22. Ibid., p. 73
23. Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: the city at the heart of the American Revolution (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003) p. 76
24. Ibid., p. 93
25. Barnes and Owen, p. 44
26. William Bell Clark, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 4 (Washington: US Navy Department, 1969) p. 885
27. Ibid., p. 1014
28. Ibid., p. 1098
29. William James Morgan, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 5 (Washington: US Navy Department, 1970) p. 107
30. Ernest Campbell Mossner, The Life of David Hume (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 595
31. Clark, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 4, p. 1137
32. Rodney Atwood, The Hessians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) p. 7
33. Ibid., pp. 19–20
34. Ibid., pp. 25–6
35. Albert Pfister, The Voyage of the First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York 1776 (New York: Chas. Fred. Heartman, 1915) p.10
36. Ibid., p. 11
37. Ibid., p. 9
38. Ibid., p. 10
39. Ibid., p. 23
40. NA. ADM 1/487, Part I, p. 51
41. Pfister, p. 30
42. Ibid., p. 12
43. Ibid., p. 13
44. Ibid.
45. Serle, p. 28
46. Ibid., p. 9
47. Ibid., p. 12
48. Ibid., p. 14
49. Ibid., p. 20
50. Ibid., p. 24
51. Ibid., p. 25
52. Ibid., p. 28
53. Ibid., p. 30
54. Schecter, p. 102
55. Ibid., p. 99
56. Morgan, pp. 918–19
57. Serle, p. 31
58. Pfister, p. 23
59. Ibid., p. 25
60. Ibid., p. 29
61. David McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005) p. 149
62. Serle, p. 63
63. Ibid., p. 64
64. William James Morgan, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 6 (Washington: US Navy Department, 1972) p. 217
65. Serle, p. 77
66. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America (London: Oneworld, 2013) p. 95
67. Serle, p. 145
68. Ibid., p. 147
69. Barnes and Owen, p. 169
Chapter 13: Ghosts
1. Charles Blaskowitz, A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narragansett in the Province of New England (London: Wm Faden, 1777)
2. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, The Private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 1771–1782, Vol. 1, August 1770–March 1778 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, v. LXIX. 1932) p. 72
3. Ibid., pp. 172–3
4. Blaskowitz
5. Marian Mathison Desrosiers, ‘Daily Fare and Exotic Cuisine in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Newport’, Newport History, Vol. 85, Iss. 274, p. 2
6. Ibid., p. 13
7. Sarah Vickery, ‘Handwritten History, 1765–1867: Correspondence of Great Americans from the Collections of the Newport Historical Society’, Newport History, Vol. 85, Iss. 264, p. 35
8. Ambrose Serle, The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe 1776–1778 (San Marino: Huntington Library Publications, 1940) p. 279
9. Ezra Stiles, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, Vol. 1 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons) p. 610
10. Charles P. Neimeyer, ‘Rhode Island Goes to War: The Battle of Rhode Island, 1776–1778’, Newport History, Vol. 72, Iss. 249, p. 123
11. Shrewsbury Chronicle, 25 January 1777
12. Deirdre C. Phelps, ‘Solomon Southwick, Patriotic Printer of Revolutionary Rhode Island’, Newport History, Vol. 77, Iss. 259, p. 24
13. Barnes and Owen, p. 172
14. Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: the city at the heart of the American Revolution (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003) p. 186
15. Drewry’s Derby Mercury, 24 January–31 January, 1777
16. Burke: Select Works, Vol. 1 (Clark, NJ: The Lawbrook Exchange, 2005) p. 177
17. Vickery, p. 35
18. Mary Almy, ‘Mrs. Almy’s Journal’, Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 1 (Newport: Newport Historical Publishing, 1880) p. 21
19. Christian M. McBurney, Kidnapping the Enemy: special operations to capture generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott (Yardley: Westholme Publishing, 2013) p. 115
20. Ibid., p. 114
21. Christian M. McBurney, ‘British Treatment of Prisoners During the Occupation of Newport, 1776–1779: Disease, Starvation and Death Stalk the Prison Ships’, Newport History, Vol. 79, Iss. 263, p. 5
22. Ibid., p.7
23. Karl Heinz Marquardt, Captain Cook’s Endeavour (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995) p. 13
24. McBurney, Kidnapping the Enemy, p. 128
25. Ibid., p. 139
26. Ibid., p. 140
27. Donald F. Johnson, ‘Occupied Newport: A Revolutionary City under British Rule’, Newport History, Vol. 84, p. 12
28. Serle, p. 271
29. McBurney, ‘British Treatment’, p. 14
30. Serle, p. 272
31. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America (London: Oneworld, 2013) p. 13
32. Ibid., p. 32
33. Barnes and Owen, p. 343
34. Ibid., p. 23
35. Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1778 (London: J. Dodsley, 1779) p. 227
36. Ibid., p. 228
37. Paul F. Dearden, The Rhode Island Campaign of 1778: inauspicious dawn of alliance (Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1987) p. 38
38. Almy, p. 22
39. Ibid., p. 23
40. Ibid., p. 20
41. NA. ADM 1/488, Correspondence of Admiral Howe, 1777 to 1779
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9. Ibid., p. 42
10. Ibid., p. 41
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28. John Barrow, A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793 (London: T. Cadell, 1806) p. 64
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