CHAPTER VIII

. PRIVATEERS OF THE REVOLUTION 196

A Tale of the American Patriots who Went Afloat outside of the Regular Navy--Their Part in Driving the British from Boston--Remarkable Work of the _Lee_--Truxton as a Privateer--Daring Capt. John Foster Williams--When Capt. Daniel Waters, with the _Thorn_ of Sixteen Guns, Whipped Two Ships that Carried Thirty-four Guns between them--Great was Joshua Barney--The Story of the most Famous State Cruisers of the Revolution--Won against Greater Odds than were Encountered by any Successful Sea Captain of the War--British Account of the Work of American Privateers--The Horrors of the _Jersey_ Prison Ship.

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