2. There are three lists of the officers commissioned to the first Continental fleet. The earliest, dated December 22, 1775, is in the Journal of the Continental Congress, and shows no assignment to vessels, except for captains. It does not list John Hazard as captain, and it includes Richard Stansbury, who did not accept the appointment as a lieutenant. The next in sequence is the list in the Hayes Manuscripts. Apparently it was sent to Samuel Johnston by Joseph Hewes, a member of the Naval Committee, and the date must have been approximately at the end of the year. The third list, in the Hopkins Papers, RIHS, must have been compiled after May 12, 1776, when Jones left the Alfred to take command of the Providence, and June 14, 1776, when James Josiah was captured in a prize. The Hopkins list omits both names.