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Alphabetical List of 74 Officers and Men of the Brig Resistance (August 1777)
…New London County Historical Society. The list has been edited to offer a complete spelling of the abbreviated Christian name in order to assist internet browsing. The list has also been edited to include the descriptive rate or quality as abbreviated in the muster record to assist those not familiar with shipboard titles. For example, Ordry is edited to read Ordry Seaman, an abbreviated form of ordinary seaman or OS. Ab is edited to read Ab Seam… Continue reading
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Mordecai Matlack, Midshipman
…e, proudly boasting, stiled “her own.”- Alas! too boldly dared the unequal Combat: There the brave neglected Biddle, impelled by too much Virtue, nobly fell.- And, oh! forgive the falling Tear, which a fond Father’s swelling Heart rolls reluctant down his Cheek at the Remembrance. I mourn a darling Son, once the fond Hope and Comfort of my Heart- That dreadful fatal Blast, which rent the Randolph to Splinters, scattered his mangled Limbs in the Ai… Continue reading
Samuel Chace, Purser
…hace, Jr. is again in command of an unnamed sloop “belonging to Messrs. Welcome Arnold and Company, of Providence” by September 1780 when his father petitioned the Rhode Island Assembly to authorize the exchange of British Captain Aaron Martin who was taken by the ship General Washington for his son, then a prisoner in New York. The junior Chace apparently was captured by the ship Earl of Dunmore. A review of the muster rolls of prisoners held on… Continue reading
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Samuel Laboyteaux, Midshipman
…aps best illustrated in Captain John and Hannah’s naming of their seventh son George Washington Laboyteaux born on 17 September 1775. A note on his baptismal record of 1 October 1775 reads, “So called after his Excellency George Washington, Esqr., General & Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.” It is wishfully suggested that they are the first known parents in America to name a child after the man who had just four months earlier in June be… Continue reading
Benjamin Rickard, Marine Private
…outh, Sampson entered service on the Independence on 17 April 1776 and was commissioned as her Captain in the Massachusetts Navy on 26 July 1776. While in command of the Independence, Captain Sampson was asked by his daughter Deborah if she could serve as cabin boy. It is reported that “he roared with laughter, said …(she) was too young for a cabin boy, and told her that no matter how old she became he would not bring her into his Navy because she… Continue reading
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