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There are numerous men who played prominent roles in founding the USN, including [[George Washington]], Continental Navy officers [[Esek Hopkins]], [[John Barry]], and [[John Paul Jones]] as well as civilian representatives at the Continental Congress who argued for the establishing of a Navy, such as [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert Morris]], [[Joseph Hewes]], and [[Silias Deane]]. Since so many men colluded in the establishing of a Navy, the USN doesn't recognize one person, at the exclusion of others, to be the "Father of the Navy."
There are numerous men who played prominent roles in founding the USN, including [[George Washington]], Continental Navy officers [[Esek Hopkins]], [[John Barry]], and [[John Paul Jones]] as well as civilian representatives at the Continental Congress who argued for the establishing of a Navy, such as [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert Morris]], [[Joseph Hewes]], and [[Silias Deane]]. Since so many men colluded in the establishing of a Navy, the USN doesn't recognize one person, at the exclusion of others, to be the "Father of the Navy."
About half a dozen places make claims to being the "birthplace of the Navy," such as Machais, ME for the seizure of the Royal Navy schooner Margaretta by a small sloop armed with woodsmen on 12 June 1775. Whitehall, NY makes the claim that the army's fleet on Lake Champlain under [[Benedict Arnold]] was the United States' first Navy. George Washington employed a small fleet of schooners out of Beverly and Marblehead, MA. The first call for the establishment of a Navy was in Providence RI. However, if the Continental Congress had not passed the first national naval legislation in Philidelphia, there would be small argument about where the USN was born, anyway.