Welfare fraud, those kinds of of gs, Staggering Amount money that traces back to data hat was stolen, stored in the government. Monday night, 8 00s tern on the communicators. 2. Span tim mcgrath explains how the Congress Explains the navy role in the rev nugs nair war. Including enslaved sailors and he scottishborn John Paul Jones. This event was hosted by the museum. S tavern its about an hour. Thank you, jennifer. As always, im happy to be at Fraunces Tavern and to get a chance to talk about something heart, the r to my Continental Navy. Here in june we nowhered with the Commodore Barry award, it occurred to me that a book on award could win the Commodore Barry award. Mewere in the throws of give a fair ship. Might giveitles that me something for the book. He turned count were he correspondents of joseph pulitzer, boom, the naval noble. Ce of alfred and my personal favorite, being fan. Eball cy young sailor. In the summer of 1959, my father mother abandoned and wildwood new jersey all of my in laws to spent two weeks. There was no board walk, no Amusement Rides to speak of. O playing with lifelong friend lifelong meaning about three years, and no latenight roller coasters and jukeboxes echoing over the buy to he perfect lull put an 8yearold to sleep. There was the Atlantic Ocean and the beach. And its rulers, green head flie flies. Flies. Inside, a book shelf crammed ith history including Samuel Elliott morrisons biography of John Paul Jones. The first ever grownup book i ever read. Paul jones starring robert stack as jones going to the movies with my dad was always fun. He got a particular kick when i me to see a take ovie called the devils disciple me believing it was a but ur versus dracula film it was George Bernard shaws satire on the american revolution. My mother learned her bette davis wass laying katherine the great opposite stack, that meant company. It was a friday night. Theater was crammed with loud teenagers. O once stack i mean jones, won his great victory at flamboro head, my dad stood up and said lets get out of here. Due to the unruly crowd or his lack of enthusiasm never learneds, i but my mother didnt talk to him for days. And i dont want to think about of breakfast we had had if the film had been, whatever happened to baby jane. Years later, i bought my mom a John Paul Jones but it time ed miss davis of the of need. Stories l in love with of the navy. Which is why you and i are here on the. Sailors . Are motor boaters, fishermen, or surfers, you know how easy it is to fall in love with being on water. The navy story is not just about dates and battles, its a story about politicians. Sailors, ers, officers, some very brave, many tragic ends, and a few buffoons. Its about wives and lovers and like all narratives from the of our collective slaves and while we cant tell ll of this remarkable but rarely told saga tonight, id like to share with you what i learned about these men and women. Of the1770s, the economy British American colonies was so dependent on the maritime that mans business, be he a ur trader, furniture maker, baron, factory owner, plantation indentured loyee, servant, or slave, the food that ne put on the table was in a large part due to the sea. The Atlantic Ocean. The caribbean sea. Water that cloak western europe were the major of business. There were taxes on goods, on shipping, and stamps on everything. 1773, while the indians of Boston Tea Party included silver smiths, physicians, awyer, merchants, and shopkeepers, there were quite a few sailors among them. Although it was the black apprentice, joshua wyeth with three generations of artists had the best line of the affair talking about making a large cup of tea for the fishes. 21, 1775. Ard to april john barry the top captain for successful firm in to adelphia was coming up the black prince, returning from her Maiden Voyage to england. City tavern, he the st. Georges society for the ssistance of englishmen in distress, we dont have clubs with such catchy names anymore. Were having the annual st. Georges day feast upstairs. Was proposing the toast of help to king george iii in withourse your burst knews of lexington and concord. Others spilled their glasses and upended chairs in the rush to spread the news, morris alone glass, toasted the cause, then stepped out to the uncertain future. Day under what barry noted in his log was fine, clear unshine weather, the black prince nestled against the stock total pandemonium. Described the words covered with inhabitants. With wagons full of goods, ships that had space the hulls for their goods, 50e67 other stled into the water going up and down gangplanks. Learning the fellow columnist in massachusetts has that, they hoped for one more killing in the english arketplace before the real killing came up to delaware. Returned to was sea without properly being refitted. American navy is down the street in congress outside for officer royal navy whose gang was adding their names to the kings muster oles, adams had no maritime experience at all. He had been out to sea once in his life, 15mile fishing trip cahasset off of maa. He left his wife and children in a brain tree farm outside of could see the ey bombardment and attack and he was receiving regular reports of around boston. Not from the boston papers but the mother of his children. Town asoccurred in this Abigail Adams put it and we were all night. From may to october of 1775, he argued for such a force. The first battle was fought in the room of what is now hall. Ndence feet wide, one friggot. Length of a the most imposing marylander, case, a lawyer with a vicious tongue and relished it. G the American Navy for him was the maddest idea in the world. Listed allies among their colleagues, the enemy by ed out the cause just being the enemy. Shelling h navy began used the e the ousted exile and declared freedom of all virginia slaves owners while they oined the emancipation proclamation for four score and eight years. Y october, even chase saw the navy as a necessity. And on the 13th, the Continental Navy was born. Adams drafted the articles of war for the new navys officers sailors, Steven Hawkins of the first four five captaincies for his family nd new england contacts including his brother who became the first and only commander in chief of an American Navy. Adams called his serving new naval to the orce the pleasantness part of my neighbors. But a colleague of his took full new force once he arrived in paris. Seasick throughout the entire crossing, franklin was ordered by congress once he arrive in france, he was to, as they put it, let old england see how they ike to have an active enemy at their own door. Franklin f the war, did just that, handing out commissions and giving orders to crews the british coastline aptured and destroyed british shipping, and spread a level of ear on the coast that have not been seen since the spanish armada. Arthur lee, better born and educated than franklin. And a lawyer. Or he treated people beneath him to him meant just about and the with disdain Navy Captains who took the orders and private suggestions. Lees machinations against the officers during and after the petty at best or worst. Ght ugly at Congress Soon appropriated to build 13 friggots with construction from port smith to baltimore. Funding was short. Of inflation ic set in, Congress Found itself to opriating 1 million refit and repate one friggot. Drafted by the ship wrights like 2 brothers. Designs e one handsome and intuitive methods of construction. But to judge the ships progress, one need not look at receipts for delivery of timber, iron, rope, and kansas. Waste book entries for rum. One punch delivered on a monday not reordered for a week meant the work was slow. Delivered on a monday followed by four more on wednesday, now theres progress. At sea, they were beautiful to behold. Of this he sailors first fleet were from philadelphia. Offered a en were whopping 8 a month to sign the muster roles. Received much less. Each even today, few jobs are more dangerous than being a sailor. Firemen, e modern day hours of boredom punctuated by of courage g acts necessary to survive. Living before the mast and the foxell, a sailor was exposed to the elements before his watch crowded area wreaking of water, livestock, smoke, and shipmates. Now introduced to a new hazard, combat. Against ort to stand the expertly trained gunners of greatest h navy, the war machine yet built by man continental officers drilled their sailors excessively at their guns. A goal was to match that of british gun crew and complete 11step process in two minutes. Because they lacked gun powder americans had the shadow box, pant mining their oves inle the last round when they might actually fire a cannon ball. Tom cavern in philadelphia gave to the marine corps, the second in command for the the es being recruited for new navy was robert malign whose tavern. Y ran a the family of the captain of the conistoga ned the tavern in washington. Coincidence . These men ge, but distinguished themselves battle after battle. Marine, William Hamilton that passed the foot turned the tide of battle for John Paul Jones. Conle flikt of interest must not have been invented yet. N one letter to a colleague, Robert Morris bewailed private only toin one paragraph mention he was investing in a the next. Flak sailors comprised 10 of the navys muster roles war. Ughout the quite a few were slaves. One bought by john barry before first cruise. He was no sooner ashore when he resold the man whose pay in shares went to the master, appealed to the Pennsylvania Committee of safety for the earned in lieved he combat, he was not looking to uy new slots or spend it in caverns or brothels, what he his d to purchase was freedom. Intervene onmittee his behalf . They would or could not. Saw action at s sea on continental ships, all of them including this man, saw shares go and price to their masters. Many of them jumped ship once vessel reached port. Their captains called their act desertion. Called running off; it freedom. Alled ne africanamerican who personified duty and resilience was james horton, a free black provided an income for his widowed mother. Captured by a british friggot. Sons. Utored the when the ship reached no new york, he was offered the choice the royal navy, eturning to england, or transferred by other prisoners a few miles from here to the east andersonville of the revolution. Became an abolitionist. John kessler was a german maker son, apprentice to a broom meister. Once the boy got his sea legs, a liking to him and he rose from landsman to stewart marines. He was captured near jamaica and a ship mself aboard bound for new england. In rags and starving, he made boston where he found the continental friggot alliance need of hands. E climbing up the gang mrapg, he was greeted by the captain, john barry who was happy to see to see as kessler was him. They joined each other after the war. The shortage of manpower grew so pressing that captain signed on rmy castoffs, invalids, jail birds, and british prisoners, often using them as marines. Continental captain ordered the officers to keep a weathered eye out for treachery frequently found it. The navys muster roles often as well, oreigners frenchmen, scandinavian, and the closest foreigners as far as the government was concerned, native americans. American indian sailor learned of a plot on british hands to avoid a crew, the captain, and all officers save them one. Telling of his captain of the plans saved many lives and leaders beingring flogged mercilessly. Hey were hung by their thumbs until they named their accomplices. Shipmates. Uded two boy from old cabin naples who named the officers joseph brussels, an active americanizing the foreign ame 100 years before ellis island made that a habit. Borrow battle of flame head that recorded more a higher percentage of casualties than other fight or war on land or sea, both of the sailors lost brussels,rdan a limb, an arm. Despite the risks of battle and rarelyments, and theyre being paid by congress, continental sailors showed endurance, and humor. 1777. E late days of barely out of the throats of south carolinians surprisingly ere paid their shares. The subsequent celebration stuff of legend. Newspapers escorting. Females covered in jewelry for renders, we can only imagine. Tack n bought a horse and only to prove he was an equestri questrian, he was a hell of a sailor. Authorities found him dead drunk carrying his saddle and bridle. Slurring his words he explained he had lost his ship but saved his rigging. The Continental Navy i want to go for Foster Brooks there. The Continental Navy list of captains includes few well known names but each one possessed his approach to management and personality quirks. Mariners all skilled and brave. New englanders disliked each story o much that their reads like a seagoing odd couple. They were incredibly brave but crossed leaders like ambert weekes that took franklin to france and cruised the waters of Great Britain with reprisal. Escaping through the ship is a line, sawing through the support allowing the reprisal faster. Pursuer. E the there was Young Nicholas bitle who served in the royal navy the war and went on an expedition to the north pole a h Horacio Nelson as shipmate. The courage was as Second Nature to him as breathing. I oughtothing, but what to fear, he matter of factually brother, a dashing handsome ladys man with an of whom and when to fight. He would have eclipsed jones and for one tragic unforeseen split second. The official top captain was the overbearing James Nicholson, an experienced mariner with two rothers also serving in the navy and giving command of the friggot virginia being bought and built in baltimore. The wrath of the towns folk and the governor of to land and he refused venture to sea and succeeded in giving him the nickname, the snug in the harbor. Hen he finally put to sea the day before april fools day in a series ofountered Marx Brothers e couldnt pull off. But he would later fight one of battles against the british. A re was the frenchman, deadly duellist whose command and inept. Sulting the deadly marquis in the novel cloned with inspector clue as firing to the head. In flamboro if there was a sailors captain among the lot, it was john bar face down ill had to one mutiny by british prisoners, americans, and then the unofficial one by the unpaid officers. Whole, his men liked and respected him. One officer wrote how the the seaman wasof a delight and good humor would to be the subject of joke and mirth. When anyone had neglected or and when ing wrong asked by cap pain barry how he came to neglect it, the person state. Begin a he thought soandso. He would hastily say, who gave think which to occasionally the crew to address he comrades, who gave you the right to think . Dont you uh know captain barry thinks for us all. Instance, he overheard he line and let a long silence send the speaker to fear before laughing himself. One captain with the skills, pekrathmun of rhode island. He had been a lieutenant. Years later in several squadron l ships, the found himself close to the jamaica fleet. Merchantmen being led across the atlantic. Eeing the 100 ships, rathburn sailed amongst them getting close enough to one to hail them, discuss conditions in the of day, and invite the men across the water for tea or something stronger. Arrived and was made a prisoner, rathburn sent a cut crew to the ship and her out of the fleet, discretely sending the prize back to boston. Other captains saw how easy it was and join in the fun. To exchange for american prisoners only to find the crew kidnappers cowed by the absent lairds very pregnant wife. Nevertheless, both unsuccessful acts created panic up and down and went a coast long way towards increasing ntiwar sentiment in britain parliament. More captain that burned british ships than jones and barry combined. Favored by smugglers and half the sites of a friggot british rizing the isles. Of all of the american rebels and ding washington franklin, there was cunninghamm who king george wanted to see hanged the most. He almost got his wish. Out activities while france was still neutral forcing rail against a man dunnkirk alled the pirate on their ancient enemy. Cunningham did more in the war than franklin. He truly was the real errol flynn. Then the women who loved these men. Nicholas bitle flirted the plantationil owner won his heart. Bitle redrafted the will. Elizabeth did get married 19 tragic end. His John Paul Jones was a ladies man having one girl in every port. He was once schmitten with Phyllis Wheatley of boston and poem to her. John barrys second wife sara her husbands th absences but the consequences of a family ripped in two. Sara was a stitch sister of betsy ross. Flags flew atop jones ship ranger. While her brother samuel marched others to fight with washington in trenton and brother n, her older was such a staunch loyalist he responsibility by william howe to see that the patriots didnt burn the city down. Left he british philadelphia, william went with not into exile but to one ship and d on command a privateer near the raid down the chesapeake. Captured at yorktown and never saw philadelphia again. T fell to young sara, now caring for the young sisters eight children after the woman died in childbirth to have to return of the austin estate seized by the for ylvania assembly williams treason. Gustavus cunninghamm was captured, he feels sent to england to hang weighted down 55 pounds of chains. Letters but e spared the news after washington promised the brit