I'm interested in knowing more about the Virginia Navy. My ancestor,
Michael Rooney, appeared in Fairfax in 1784 , moving on to Berkeley in
1806. Local biographies say he was rumored to have been in the navy or
a sea rover, pirate or corsair. Any info or hints would be appreciated.
Judy Erskine
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra's chapter on the Virginia navy in his *Guide to
> Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution* (LVA, 1978)
> lists vessels and officers.
>
> Mike occasionally mentioned numbers of sailors (depending on what kind of
> information he found in the huge range of LVA archival collections cited at
> p 207 n 6),
> though he seems to have had more consistent figures for the crews on about
> 65 cruisers and privateers (pp 163-172) of about 100 that were issued
> letters of marque.
>
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> Jon Kukla www.jonkukla.com
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> > A recent contributor of a compiled list of the crew of the /Tempest/ to
> > the /Magazine of Virginia Genealogy/ posed a question I could not answer,
> > but one I thought someone on this list might know the answer to or a
> source
> > for additional research.
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> > One of the questions in my mind, which you might be able to offer some
> > insight into, is just _"how many" men served with the Virginia Navy_ from
> > 1775-1783?
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