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Oliver Bollock at nev Orleans 1778
"A Naval History of the American Revolution" - 2 volumes by Gardner W. Allen -	1913 & 1970
p. 20
Putlic Vessels cruising under Continental authority comprised not only the Continental navy, strictly speaking, including vessels fitted out in France, but also the fleets organized by
Washington in Massachusetts Bay in 1775 and lster in Nev York; by Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776; and by Pollock in 1778 on the Mississippi River.
P. 37-38
Robert Morris as Superintendent of Finance directed naval affairs as Agent of Marine through the Revolutionary War.
France provided help from July, 1776, vith Silas Deane as first American agent aided by Benjamine Franklin and Arthur Lee in December, and John Adams until 1778 spring. Benjamin Franklin becoming Minister to France in February, 1779* had sole charge of naval affairs abroad until the end of the var.
Besides this office in France the naval interests of the United States in the West Indies vere entrusted to agents William Bingham at Martinique, and Oliver Pollock at Nev Orleans.
They performed many functions, such as buying, building, manning, and fitting out vessels and providing naval stores, commissioning officers, directing cruises, disposing of prizes, exchanging prisoners, and commissioning privateers.
see:	Paullin's "Navy of the American Revolution" Chapter IX
Wharton's "Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution" Hale's "Franklin in France"