Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . s ap-pointed post-captain in the navy on 11 May, 1798,at the beginning of hostilities with France, and inthe Delaware, twenty guns, cruised on the Ameri-can coast and in the West Indies, and capturedthe French privateers Le Croyable andMar-suin. il commanded a squadron of thirteen - s on the Guadeloupe station in 1800, andhis discharge from the service, under the stablishment of 1801. engaged in businessin Philadelphia.—His son, Stephen, naval officer, b. in Sinnepux-ent, Md., 5Jan., 1779; Bladens-burg, Md., 22March, made a voy-age w
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . s ap-pointed post-captain in the navy on 11 May, 1798,at the beginning of hostilities with France, and inthe Delaware, twenty guns, cruised on the Ameri-can coast and in the West Indies, and capturedthe French privateers Le Croyable andMar-suin. il commanded a squadron of thirteen - s on the Guadeloupe station in 1800, andhis discharge from the service, under the stablishment of 1801. engaged in businessin Philadelphia.—His son, Stephen, naval officer, b. in Sinnepux-ent, Md., 5Jan., 1779; Bladens-burg, Md., 22March, made a voy-age with hisfather in the age ofseventeen hewas employedby Messrs. (xur-ney and Smith,of Philadel-phia (who wereagents for thenavy), and wentto New Jerseyto superintendthe getting out - Of the keel-pieces for thefrigate UnitedState-,* m which ship he was launched,and whichiccessfully commanded in the war of the aid of Com. Barry, he obtained a??varrant a- midshipman, dated 30 April, 1798, andthe frigate United <^Ct/uA. ^ZTci^Zl was placed on board He was at that time nineteen age, well in-formed for his ago. chivalrous in temper, courteousin his deportment, and adding grace of manner toan attractive person. While attached to the frig-ate United States under Com. Barry, Decaturcruised in the West indies, capturing severalFrench privateers that were preying upon Amer-ican commerce. He labored hard to make him-self master of his profession. On one occasionthe United States chased the French privateer LAmour de la Patrie, of six guns, which vessel,in attempting to escape, received a twenty-four-pound shot at her water-line from the UnitedStates. She at once shortened sail and surren-dered, and Decatur was sent in a boat to take pos-session. When he got alongside, LAmour de laPatrie was sinking fast,and the crew, stripped oftheir clothing, were assembled at the side, beggingto be taken into the boat. As it was impossibleto take on board sixt
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