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Report of the Secretary of the Navy [1839]
REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Navy Department,
November 30, 1839.
Sir:
In the performance of a duty annually devolving on this department, I have the honor to submit the following report:
The squadron now employed in the Mediterranean comprises the Ohio ship of the line, the frigate Brandywine, and the sloop of war Cyane—the whole commanded by Commodore Isaac Hull. No interruption to our commerce has occurred in that sea since my last report; and by the answers of the respective consuls of the United States, resident at the principal ports, to the queries of our commanders, copies of which have been received at the department, it appears that no obstacle is thrown in its way by the authorities of any nation on its borders.
At the date of my last annual report, the force in the Pacific, under Commodore Ballard, consisted of a ship of the line, two sloops of war, and two schooners. The ship of the line and one of the schooners have returned to the United States; the other schooner is now on her way; the two sloops of war have been ordered home, the period of their cruise having expired, and may be expected early in the spring.
To supply the place of the force thus withdrawn, a frigate of the first class, under Commodore Claxton, who succeeds Commodore Ballard, sailed from New York in May last, with instructions to land our Minister, Mr. Ellis, at Vera Cruz, and thence proceed with all diligence to her destination. She has been followed by a sloop of war and a schooner, and the squadron now consists of a frigate, a sloop of war, and a schooner, all of which, it is presumed, are now on the [stat]ion. By the latest accounts, affairs in that quarter continued in a state of great confusion and uncertainty. Revolutions of rulers rather than principles still agitate these regions so favored by nature, and the commerce of neutrals continues to require the protection of a competent naval force.
Commodore Claxton has been directed to employ one of his vessels in cruising within the gulf of California, and along the northwest coast of America; and, if circumstances will permit, to despatch another to visit the Sandwich and Friendly islands, with a view to afford countenance and protection to vessels of the United States employed in the whale fisheries.
The squadron on the Brazilian station, under Commodore Nicolson, composes a razee and a sloop of war; the brig Dolphin having been ordered home for repairs, and to convey to the United States the seamen whose term of service had expired, or was about to expire. The frigate United States, under Commodore Ridgely, appointed to succeed Com-
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modore Nicolson, is fitting out for the purpose of relieving that officer, and is now on the eve of sailing.
The sloop Marion has preceded, the United States, and the brig Enterprise is also destined for that station. The squadron will consist of a frigate, a sloop of war, and a brig, and will be increased as occasion requires.
Internal dissensions still agitate the states bordering on the river La Plata apparently with increasing violence; the novel system of a war of blockade, so vexatious to neutral commerce, continues to be prosecuted by France, and the necessity for a naval force in that quarter is increased rather than diminished.
The squadron operating in the gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, was reinforced by two sloops of war, and the whole placed under Commodore Wm. B. Shubrick, appointed to succeed Commodore Dallas, who retired from the command. The misunderstanding at that time, existing between Mexico and France having since been adjusted, and the latter having relinquished the blockade of the ports of the former, two sloops of war and a schooner, which were ordered to the north for repairs, have not been replaced by others.
The schooner, after undergoing the necessary repairs, was employed on special service. She has since returned, and is now destined for a cruise on the coast of Africa.
Subsequently to the withdrawal of these vessels from the West India station, a third sloop of war, requiring extensive repairs, was ordered to the north, and has arrived at Norfolk. The squadron now comprises a frigate and four sloops of war, which may be increased should circumstances indicate the propriety of such a measure.
The force employed in the Indian and China seas consists of the frigate Columbia, and corvette John Adams, under Commodore Read, who arrived at Macao the 28th of April last, and continued there, by the last accounts, at the earnest solicitations of the American consul and citizens resident at Canton, who considered themselves in a somewhat critical position, in consequence of the decisive measures taken by the Chinese government for the suppression of the illicit trade in opium carried on by English residents at that place. These apprehensions were, however, subsiding, and it is presumed that Commodore Read has long since proceeded in fulfilling his general instructions.
While at Columbo having received information that a daring act of piracy, accompanied by the murder of two American citizens, had been recently committed by the inhabitants of Muckie, in the island of Sumatra, Commodore Read, acting under his general instructions, promptly proceeded to the scene of outrage. Here having vainly sought redress by the restoration of the plundered property and the surrender of the murderers, he inflicted a severe and merited chastisement on the barbarians.
The South sea exploring expedition left the island of Madeira the 28th of September, 1838, and arrived at Rio Janeiro the 23d of November following. After replenishing his stores, and refreshing his crews, Lieutenant Wilkes then proceeded, in the execution of his instructions, to survey the mouth of Rio Negro and its neighboring coasts. Thence he proceeds to Terra del Fuego, where, leaving a portion of the squadron and scientific corps to prosecute their researches, he stretched into the Southern ocean, between the 105th degree of west longitude and the western coast of
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Palmer's land; returning, he joined the vessels left at Terra del Fuego, and arrived at Valparaiso on the 15th of May, 1839. During the passage, the squadron separated in a severe gale, and did not join company till the 25th of March.
A portion of the squadron penetrated to the 70th degree of south latitude, where it encountered vast masses of ice, and narrowly escaped being frozen up. Lieutenant Wilkes became satisfied that, owing to the lateness of the season, it was impossible to make any further progress, and the undertaking was relinquished with the intention of resuming it at a more favorable time of the year.
The expedition, with the exception of the Sea Gull, which separated in a gale, arrived at Valparaiso the 15th of May last; left that port for Callao the 6th of June, and sailed thence for the Sandwich islands, since which time no despatches have been received from the commanding officer.
Thus far the expedition has not been without benefit to commerce, having ascertained beyond all reasonable doubt, that various shoals and obstructions laid down in charts have no existence.
The officers, whether employed in professional duties or scientific pursuits, are stated by Lieutenant Wilkes to be ardent and indefatigable in their exertions; and there is reason to believe, that if no new discoveries are made of unknown lands or islands, it will be because none exist in that region of the globe.
The steam-frigate Fulton has been employed during the past season under Captain Perry, who is charged with their superintendence, in prosecuting various experiments with Paixhan guns, a circumstantial report of which is daily expected. There is little reason to doubt that the results will be highly interesting and important.
The surveys directed by acts of Congress have been prosecuted to the extent of the means placed at the disposal of the department. Under the act of the 3d of March, 1837, the United States schooner Experiment, and steamer Engineer, loaned by the War Department, have been employed under the direction of Lieutenant Glynn in surveying the harbors of Beaufort and Wilmington, North Carolina. These surveys have been completed, and will be laid before Congress at the present session.
The United States brig Consort is now fitting out under Lieutenant Glynn for the purpose of completing other surveys, directed by the same act, which were relinquished in consequence of the sickness of his officers. It is confidently anticipated that the whole will be completed and a report made to Congress previous to its adjournment.
In compliance with the provisions of the second section of the act making appropriations for the naval service of the year 1839, two steam-frigates have been commenced, one at New York, the other at Philadelphia. The engines and boilers have been contracted for, and are now in progress. These two vessels will be built on the same model, one to be propelled by vertical, the other by engines on an inclined plane of the same power, with a view to test their respective advantages and disadvantages, there being a great diversity of opinion on this question among practical engineers. The third steam-frigate authorized by the act aforesaid, has not yet been put on the stocks, it being in contemplation to adopt a model presented by a distinguished officer of the navy to be propelled by a different description of machinery.
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By your direction, the schooner Grampus, under Lieut. Paine, sailed from Norfolk in September last, for the coast of Newfoundland, with instructions to inquire into the nature and causes of the seizure and condemnation of certain American vessels engaged in the fisheries. Lieut. Paine has returned, after performing this duty in a satisfactory manner, and reported the result of his cruise.
The frequent and increasing violations of the laws for suppressing the slave trade on the coast of Africa, by vessels owned by foreigners, but prostituting the flag of the United States to their nefarious purposes, induced you to direct that two fast sailing vessels, of the smaller class, should be fitted out, for the purpose of arresting these violations of our laws and of the rights of the people of Africa. One will probably have sailed before this report is received, and the other is only waiting the completion of some necessary repairs to follow with all practicable despatch.
Navy pension fund.—The number of invalid pensioners is 456, and the sum annually required to pay them is $38,844 74. The number of widow pensioners is 330, and the annual amount of their pensions is $62,064. The number of minor children pensioners is 115, and the amount of their pensions is $14,314; making an aggregate of 901 pensioners, and $110,122 74.
The amount of stocks to the credit of the Navy pension fund, 1st of October, 1838, was | $390,832 25 |
On the 1st of October, 1839 | 253,139 00 |
Difference | 137,693 25 |
Which sum was applied to the payment of pensions granted by acts of Congress, and accounts reported by the Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller.
About $55,000 will be required to pay pensions, which will become due the 1st of January, 1840, and to meet arrearages as they may be reported.
The whole amount of the fund having heretofore been invested in bank, State, and corporation stocks, which are now greatly depreciated, the sum above stated cannot probably be realized by the sale of less than $80,000 or $90,000 of stocks. In the hope that they may in some degree recover from this state of depression, and unwilling to make so great a sacrifice, I would suggest that the subject be brought to the early attention of Congress,
On the 3d of March, 1837, the capital of the navy pension fund was $1,115,329 53; and previously to the act of Congress of that date "for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund," the annual interest and dividends were sufficient to defray all the expenditures. Under this act the navy pension fund has decreased with increasing celerity, a large portion of the pensions granted in conformity with its provisions involving arrearages commencing many years anterior to its passage.
The pensions to invalids now on the list are for life, and not during the continuance of disability, as was the case before the passage of the act of the 14th of July, 1832; those to widows until they shall marry or die; and those to children until they attain the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore certain that at the end of two years, at farthest, the navy pension fund will be exhausted. Under the existing laws there is not
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the least prospect of any decrease in the number of pensioners or the amount of their pensions; and, consequently, Congress will be called upon to redeem the pledge contained in the ninth section of the act of 23d April, 1800, to make good an, deficiency in the navy pension fund arising out of its own legislation.
The first section of the act of 3d March, 1837, provides that pensions to widows or children shall be paid from the date of the demise of the husbands or fathers. The only condition is, that the demise shall have happened in the naval service. No distinction whatever is made in regard to the cause or manner of death, or the period of service of the deceased; all are placed on the same footing, and all alike partake of the national bounty.
Arrearages of pensions for more than thirty-seven years, in one instance involving the payment of more than $20,000, have been paid under this section, which has mainly caused the rapid diminution of a fund originally constituted for the sole purpose of providing for officers and seamen only, disabled in the naval service.
A claim has been presented on account of an individual who died in 1800, about a month after his entry into the service, and if allowed, a large sum will be required to pay it. But not being certain that this first section was intended to authorize such profuse expenditure of the navy pension fund, I have suspended the payment, and now refer the claim for the decision of Congress. Copies of the proof in the case are herewith submitted, marked N, No. 8,
The second section of the same act provides, that "pensions which may have been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted to officers, seamen, and marines, in the naval service, disabled by wounds or injuries received in the line of their duty, shall commence from the time when they were disabled." It has been found impossible to discriminate, with any degree of accuracy, in cases occurring at such remote periods, as to the precise time at which the disability commenced, and the date of the wound or injury has necessarily been assumed, as that of the commencement of the pension, although, in many cases, there were strong circumstances indicating that the disability did not occur until long afterward. It may also be remarked, that under this section of the act of 3d of March, 1837, in connexion with the 8th section of the act of 23d April, 1800, persons wounded or otherwise injured thirty or thirty-five years ago, may receive pensions, commencing from the time when the injuries were sustained, although they have remained in the service ever since, in the enjoyment of full pay, and must continue to do so until Congress shall otherwise direct.
Under the liberal construction given to the navy pension laws of the United States, it has been heretofore assumed that full pensions and full pay may be allowed at one and the same time, to the same persons. And sometimes it has not been considered necessary, or even discretionary, in executing these laws, to exclude persons afflicted with diseases and infirmities, to which mankind are subjected in every situation, and under all circumstances of life. It is at all times difficult to discriminate between disabilities occasioned by hereditary or constitutional predisposition to disease, and those that are the direct and immediate consequence of the peculiar exposures incidental to the naval service.
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A similar difficulty occurs in cases of disabilities, occasioned or aggravated by habits of intemperance and dissipation. Yet all these seem equally comprehended in the various provisions of the pension laws; and no matter what may have been the term of service, whether years, months, or days, all claim a share of the navy pension fund during life, under a liberal construction of the statutes. It is true that these laws declare that the proof must be satisfactory to the head of the department. Yet, what may satisfy one man, may not operate in like manner on another differently constituted; and hence has arisen much diversity of practice under the administration of different persons.
Accompanying this report is a document marked No. 7, exhibiting a statement and analysis of the various public acts of Congress, in relation to navy pensions and the navy pension fund. The multiplication of these laws, and the various constructions placed upon them at different times, seem to indicate the propriety of adopting a less complicated system. I would also take the occasion to state, that whatever disposition may be made of the subject, it has become necessary to relieve the head of the department from the labor and responsibility of this portion of his duties.
Almost every application for a pension involves the necessity of a close and critical examination of testimony, together with a reference to various laws, and the time required to do this as it ought to be done, materially interferes with other and indispensable avocations.
The act of 3d of March, 1837, on which I have thought it my duty to offer these remarks, has been the principal source of the decline of the navy pension fund. Under its operation, that fund has sunk, in little more than two years, from $1,115,329 53 to $253,139; and, as I have before stated, about $55,000 will be required to meet demands, which will become due on the 1st of January, 1840.
I again take occasion to invite your attention to the appropriation for a dry dock at New York.
The sum of $100,000, assigned in the year 1835 to that object, having, with the exception of a small amount for surveys, been no part of it expended, in consequence of difficulties in the selection of a site, has reverted to the Treasury. I earnestly recommend its reappropriation.
The discovery of a new and more capacious entrance into the harbor, by Lieutenant Gedney, which, if ever known, had been long since forgotten, has removed the only plausible objection hitherto urged against the expediency of a measure which appears to be recommended by so many considerations.
The central position of this port, the facilities resulting from its two entrances and outlets, at a great distance from each other, and the ample means the city affords for repairing, manning, and supplying vessels of war, all point it out as a station deserving peculiar attention. As an additional reason, it is proper to state, that two ships of the line are now lying at the navy yard in a state of rapid decay, which cannot be repaired without going into dock, and cannot be removed without almost a certainty of total loss. A very few years will place them beyond the reach of recovery, and they must be either broken up, or sink where they now are.
I deem it proper, also, to bring to your notice an abuse of great importance to the interests of the service. Numerous instances occur of the enlistment of minors, and it is obviously impossible to discriminate between those who are, and those who are not, of legal age.
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After receiving the advance of pay, and becoming, perhaps, indebted to the purser in addition, they apply to a lawyer or magistrate, procure a habeas corpus, and obtain their release without any legal obligation to pay the debt thus contracted. The instructions to recruiting officers authorize them to cause an oath to be administered in cases of doubt; but it has been decided that its violation does not subject the offender to legal punishment. Cases analogous to these frequently occur in the enlistment of apprentices authorized by act of Congress. They are occasionally presented by persons claiming to be their parents or guardians, and received accordingly. After remaining until they are sufficiently educated, and capable of being useful to their real parents, the hitter come forward, prove the whole case a fraud, procure a habeas corpus, and release the apprentice after he has been maintained and educated at the public expense.
I would, therefore, respectfully recommend the passage of a law authorizing recruiting officers to cause an oath to be administered to persons offering for enlistment in cases where their majority is doubted, and, in every case, to parents or guardians presenting boys as apprentices to the navy, the violation of which should be declared a perjury, and subject the offender to legal prosecution and punishment.
Should this system of apprenticeship be carried to the extent of which it is susceptible, I look forward to it as a source of great and lasting benefit to the navy. There is every reasonable prospect of its becoming a nursery for the supply of petty officers, one of the most important constituents in the service, nor can I doubt but that it may be made the means of supplying a large number of capable, intelligent seamen, more strongly attached to their country by the benefits she has conferred on them.
The result, thus far, has been highly encouraging. A spirit of excitement and emulation prevails among these boys: their conduct, with rare exceptions, is correct and exemplary; examples of profligacy and cases of desertion seldom occur; commanders of vessels of war are, without exception, anxious to have at least one-tenth of their crews composed of them; and the reports from receiving ships give uniform testimony to their general deportment, their habits of order and industry, and their capacity for the acquisition of those branches of learning, and that practical knowledge of their profession, which fit them for future usefulness.
I have endeavored to call the attention of magistrates, parents, and guardians, to the means afforded by this system, of providing for that large class of unfortunate children which has become so numerous, most especially in our large cities, and which is without the means or the prospect of a comfortable maintenance, or of acquiring even the rudiments of education. If, instead of permitting them to live in idleness, exposed to every temptation, and plunging prematurely into every vice, they were apprenticed to their country, they would receive such an education as befits their station, and acquire these habits of sobriety, honesty, order, and industry, which would go far to render those who are so apt to become the bane of society, efficient supporters of the honor and interests of their country.
Under the act of Congress which directed a revision and extension of the rules and regulations of the service, approved 19th May, 1832, a board of naval officers was convened by the department, and their proceedings communicated to Congress. No action, however, was taken by that body,
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in consequence, and as by the provisions of the law, those regulations were not to be carried into effect until they had received its sanction, they have remained ever since a dead letter, never having been promulgated.
Believing, however, that a revision of the old regulations, with a view to their adaptation to laws subsequently passed, and for the purpose of taking advantage of the results of experience, would conduce to the good of the service, the department has directed the Board of Navy Commissioners, under the authority of the act by which it was constituted, to attend to that duty. The board is now engaged in its performance, at such intervals of leisure as the multiplicity of its other labors will permit This revised system will probably be laid before Congress before the expiration of their present session, and it is believed, that, with some modification of the law "for the better government of the navy," passed in the year 1800, the whole will form a system, which, if administered, with a firm, steady, temperate perseverance, will, so far as its influence extends, sustain the navy of the United States on that eminence which it has attained in the estimation of all nations.
I feel confident, however, that the only sure and effectual means of maintaining the character and discipline of the service, is to keep in commission as many vessels, and employ as many officers in active duties, as is compatible with the resources of the country. This, after all, is the vital principle of professional excellence, and it is on this I rely as the only solid basis for a naval establishment, not formidable from the number of ships in ordinary or on the stocks, but for its experience, its discipline, and habits of hardy endurance. For this reason no diminution of the force in commission has been contemplated in the estimates herewith presented. All the retrenchments will be found in other branches of expenditure, and the current service of the ensuing year, has been left untouched and undiminished.
The estimates of the Board of Navy Commissioners, for the naval service of 1840, have been made with every regard to economy deemed compatible with the great interests of the country. Whenever variations occur between the present estimates and the preceding ones, short explanatory notes are appended, giving the reasons for the change.
I take this occasion respectfully to recommend the passage of a law, for bringing under one general head, all the special acts which authorize the building or rebuilding of particular vessels, as well as those relating to their repairs. A bill for this purpose was reported during the last session of Congress, and is presumed to have failed to become a law in consequence of inability to reach it in time. I conceive it will be highly advantageous to the service by placing materials for building, repairing, and equipping vessels generally, at the disposal of the department for all such purposes, at the precise period they are wanted, and before they deteriorate by time and exposure.
Another advantage would be, greatly simplifying accounts at all the naval stations by disbursing officers, and at the Treasury.
These, and other minor results of convenience and economy, in my opinion, all unite in recommending the measure.
Should the further sum of $340,000 be transferred from the appropriation for the gradual improvement of the navy, towards completing the two steamers as proposed in the estimates, the remainder of that appropriation, amounting to $410,000, which would become available in 1840, by the
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existing laws, will not in all probability bo necessary, as the balance on hand will be sufficient to meet all expenditures under that head for the ensuing year. That portion of the appropriation may, therefore, it is believed, be postponed until 1841, without injury to the service, should it be thought expedient, provided the whole amount of transfers is eventually returned.
It will be perceived that the Board of Navy Commissioners has again submitted an estimate for additional clerks, which arc daily becoming more indispensable to the prompt discharge of the public business, committed to its superintendence. The multiplication of records, the labor of investigating past transactions, so often necessary to refer to, and which increases with the lapse of time, combined with the progressive expansion of the country, and the growth of the navy, all call for additional labor and additional means for its performance. The plan for a reorganization of the department, prepared in pursuance of a resolution adopted at the last session of Congress, contemplates such addition to the number of clerks, as is deemed essential to carry it into operation should it be adopted, and will render any further action on this point unnecessary.
Believing that the creation of a higher grade of rank, than is now recognised in the navy, will be advantageous to the service, for reasons which have been too often presented to require repetition, 1 again offer the subject to your consideration.
Enclosed is a schedule of the documents accompanying this report.
Respectfully submitted,
J. K. PAULDING.
To the President of the United States.
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SCHEDULE OF PAPERS
Accompanying the Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the President of the United States, of November 30th, 1839.
No. 1. Letter from the Navy Commissioners, transmitting estimates for the year 1840.
A. Estimate for the office of the Secretary of the Navy.
B. Estimate for the office of the Commissioners of the Navy.
C. Estimate of expenses of southwest executive building.
D. General estimate for the navy.
Special estimates.
Notes to the general estimate contained in paper D.
Detailed estimate D 1, for vessels in commission.
D 2, for receiving vessels.
D 3, for recruiting stations.
D 4, for yards and stations—pay of officers and others at.
D 5, pay of officers waiting orders and on furlough.
D 6, for provisions.
D 7, for improvements and repairs of navy yards.
E. Explanation of special estimates.
F. Estimates tor the marine corps, with letters of explanation.
G. List of vessels in commission, their commanders and stations.
H. List of vessels in ordinary.
I. List of vessels on the stocks.
K. Report of proceedings under laws for gradual increase of the navy.
L. Report of proceedings under laws for gradual improvement of the navy.
M. Statements of progress made in carrying into effect the appropriation which authorized the construction of six small vessels of not exceeding 18 guns each.
N. Statement, of the measures taken to carry into effect the appropriation of 3d March, 1839, which authorized the construction of certain steam vessels.
N No. 1 to N No. 8. Lists of navy pensioners—receipts and disbursements on account of navy pension fund—stocks owned by the fund and statement of navy hospital fund—with abstract of navy pension laws, with a statement of their effects, and the claim of the children of Mrs. Harrison.
O. List of deaths in the navy.
P. List of dismissions in the navy.
Q. List of resignations in the navy.
R. Balance in the Treasury, under the law for the suppression of the slave trade.
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No. 1.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
Sir:
The Board of Navy Commissioners have the honor to transmit, herewith, the estimates for the support of the naval service during the year 1840.
The force proposed for employment at sea is arranged in conformity with your instructions, and the estimates for the other objects of expenditure have, in compliance with your directions, been kept as low as, in the opinion of the Board of Navy Commissioners, could be done without serious injury to the public interests.
The special estimates which are submitted embrace the amount supposed to be necessary to meet the expense of completing the two armed steamers which have been commenced, and for completing the number of small vessels of war which was authorized by the appropriation for the navy for 1837.
The sums asked for the hospitals are to meet the expense of such of the objects proposed by the respective commandants as appeared to be indispensable or very desirable.
Short explanatory notes are appended to the detailed estimates, to show the causes which may have varied their amounts from the appropriations for 1839, which it is presumed will be satisfactory to those whose duty it may be to examine and decide upon them.
The Board of Navy Commissioners trust it may not be considered an impropriety on their part, to request your influence in endeavoring to procure the passage of a law to bring under one general head all the special acts which authorize the building or rebuilding of particular vessels, and those which relate to their repair and support. A bill for this purpose was reported during the last session of Congress, and is believed to have failed to become a law only in consequence of inability to reach it in time. The advantage to the service generally, by allowing the use of materials when in their best state, and the great simplification of accounts at all the yards, by disbursing officers, and at the Treasury, will, it is hoped, be deemed sufficient to justify this reference to the subject.
The reappropriation of the sum which was originally appropriated for commencing a dry dock in the harbor of New York, and subsequently transferred to the surplus fund, has been submitted from a conviction of its general importance as connected with future naval operations, and from the absolute necessity for such a dock to give proper repairs to the Washington and Franklin ships of the line, and to other large ships which may be obliged to repair at that port, with due regard to economy and their efficiency.
The board again submit an estimate for additional clerks in their office, the duties of which have greatly increased and are still increasing; the present number, as the past year's experience, and present pressure of business, abundantly prove, is wholly insufficient to enable the board to perform their duties with the promptitude which the public interests require; the board would, therefore, respectfully state, that additional
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clerks are indispensably necessary to enable them to furnish the information essential to the proper performance of the duties of the department.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, sir, your obedient servant,
I. CHAUNCEY.
Hon. Jas. K. Paulding, Secretary of the Navy.
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A.
Estimate of the sums required for the support of the office of the Secretary of the Navy, for the year 1840.
Secretary of the Navy | $6,000 | |
Six clerks, per act of April 20, 1818 | $8,200 | |
One clerk, per act of May 26, 1824 | 1,000 | |
One clerk, per act of March 2, 1827 | 1,000 | |
10,200 | ||
One clerk of navy and privateer pension and navy hospital funds, per act of July 10, 1832 | 1,600 | |
Messenger and assistant messenger | 1,050 | |
Contingent expenses | 3,000 | |
5,650 | ||
21,850 |
Submitted
For two additional clerks, at $1,400 each | $2,800 |
For one additional clerk, at $1,000 | 1,000 |
3,800 |
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B.
Estimate of the sums required for the support of the office of the Navy Commissioners for the year 1840, as at present established by law.
For the salaries of the Commissioners of the Navy Board | $10,500 00 |
For the salary of their secretary | 2,000 00 |
For the salaries of their clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, per acts of 20th April, 1818, 24th May, 1824, and 2d March, 1827 | 8,450 00 |
For contingent expenses | 1,800 00 |
22,750 00 |
Submitted
Two additional clerks, at $1,400 each | $2,800 00 |
One additional clerk, at $1,000 | 1,000 00 |
3,800 00 |
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The Board of Navy Commissioners were induced to submit, at the last session of Congress, an estimate for three additional clerks, for the reasons stated at large in their letter of the 15th March, 1838, in answer to a call from the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, and also in their letter to you of the 16th March, of the same year, in consequence of a resolution of the Senate of the United States. These letters may be found in the printed documents of the Senate, fifth volume, pages 54 and 55.
In addition to the reasons therein expressed the experience of the past year has given further proof that additional clerks are indispensably necessary to keep the books of this office in such manner as to enable the board to furnish information which is essential to the proper performance of the duties of the department.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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C.
Estimate of the sums required for the expenses of the southwest executive building for the year 1840.
Superintendent | $250 00 |
Two watchmen, at $500 each | 1,000 00 |
Contingent expenses, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of building, engine, and improvement of the grounds | 3,350 00 |
4,600 00 |
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D.
There will be required for the general service for the navy during the year 1840, in addition to the balances which may remain on hand on the 1st day of January, 1840, the sum of four millions six hundred and forty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Estimated for 1840, including the exploring expedition. | Appropriated for 1839, including the exploring expedition. | |
1st. For the pay of commission, warrant, petty officers, and seamen | $2,250,000 00 | $2,352,625 64 |
2d. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards | 74,620 00 | 44,000 00 |
3d. For provisions | 620,000 00 | 600,000 00 |
4th. For the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission | 1,000,000 00 | 1,000,000 00 |
5th. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick | 75,000 00 | 75,000 00 |
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D—Continued.
Estimated fur 1840 including the exploring expedition | Appropriated for 1839, including the exploring expedition. | |
6th. For the improvement and necessary repairs of navy yards, viz: | ||
Portsmouth, N. H. | $20,000 00 | $30,000 00 |
Charlestown, Mass. | 17,000 00 | 26,000 00 |
Brooklyn, N. Y. | 18,000 00 | 7,500 00 |
Philadelphia | 5,800 00 | 8,000 00 |
Washington | 20,000 00 | 26,000 00 |
Gosport, Va. | 17,250 00 | 64,000 00 |
Pensacola | 13,000 00 | 25,000 00 |
7th. For ordnance and ordnance stores | 65,000 00 | 65,000 00 |
8th. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; for house rent to pursers when duly authorized; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judges advocate; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, or other services as authorized by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery; for the repair of steam-engines in navy yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and |
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D—Continued.
Estimated for 1840, including the exploring expedition. | Appropriated for 1839, including the exploring expedition. | |
other fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of navy yards and shore stations; and for no other object or purpose whatever | $450,000 00 | $450,000 00 |
9th. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated | 3,000 00 | 3,000 00 |
Less estimated for 1840 than appropriated for 1839, $128,305 64. | 4,647,820 00 | 4,776,125 64 |
I. CHAUNCEY,
C. MORRIS,
ALEX. S. WADSWORTH.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
Special estimates.
It is proposed that Congress be requested to authorize the transfer of $340,000 from the appropriations for the gradual improvement of the navy, in addition to the sum of $330,000 already conditionally authorized by the act making appropriations for the support of the navy for 1839, approved 3d March, 1839, for completing two steamers of war, which have been commenced under the authority given by that act; said transfer to be authorized under the same conditions and restrictions as in that already authorized.
Estimated for 1840 |
Approp'd for 1839 |
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To reappropriate the balance of the amount appropriated, 3d March, 1835, for a site and construction of a dry dock in the harbor of New York, which was subsequently carried to the surplus fund |
$95,063 61 | ||
To meet expenses on account of the hospitals, viz: | |||
For the hospital at New York | $9,500 00 | ||
For the naval asylum at Philadelphia | 4,250 00 | ||
For the hospital at Norfolk | 3,500 00 | ||
For the hospital at Pensacola | 7,000 00 | ||
24,250 00 | $35,260 00 |
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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Notes to the general estimate or paper D.
The estimates for the year 1840, under the several heads of appropriation, which comprise the first item in the general estimate, remain the same as those for 1839, with the exception of "vessels in commission," and "receiving vessels," which show an increase of about $116,000, as explained by the notes on papers D 1 and D 2. The Board of Navy Commissioners, however, are of opinion, from the balance which may remain in the Treasury on the 1st January next, under this head of appropriation, that the sum of $2,250,000 will be sufficient for pay, &c., for the year 1840, and they accordingly estimate for that sum only.
The difference which appears in the second item, is caused by the reduction made in the estimates for 1839, under this head of $26,820; by the difference between the pay of a naval constructor allowed at the navy yard Portsmouth, New Hampshire, instead of a master builder; by the pay of a principal steam engineer, and by the addition to the salary of the storekeeper at Mahon.
The detailed estimate for provisions for 1840, shows an increase of about $66,000 over the appropriation for 1839, but only $20,000 increase is proposed in the general estimate.
The estimate for 1839 was for $619,186, from which $19,186 were deducted. The estimate for 1840 is for $666,125, from which, the board are of opinion, the sum of $46,125 may be deducted.
The difference between the estimates for the two years, is caused by the substitution of a frigate and two sloops of war, in the place of the razee Independence, and by the force to be specially employed on the coast of Florida.
The estimate for the improvement of navy yards is less than for 1839, in the sum of $76,250, and the total amount of the general estimate for the support of the navy for 1840, is less than that for 1839, by the sum of $128,305 64.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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D 1.
Estimate of the amount of pay that will be required for the year 1840, or the following vessels in commission, viz: one ship of the line, six frigates, nineteen sloops of war, seven small vessels, and one steamer, being part of the first item in the general estimate for that year.
Six commanders of squadrons | $24,000 00 |
One ship of the line, two decks | 148,671 25 |
Four frigates, first class | 352,485 00 |
Two frigates, second class | 146,287 82 |
Twelve sloops of war, first class | 525,009 00 |
Two sloops of war, second class | 71,907 82 |
Five sloops of war, third class | 164,946 25 |
Seven small vessels | 131,964 25 |
One steamer | 34,847 25 |
Scientific corps | 20,700 00 |
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For vessels "to cruise along the coast of Florida, for the preservation of the lives and property of the citizens," having been transferred from the War to the Navy Department |
$66,531 70 |
Estimated for 1840 | 1,87,350 34 |
Estimated for 1839 | 1,575,706 14 |
Excess over the estimate for 1839 | 111,644 20 |
The excess in this item over the estimate for 1839, arises from the substitution of one frigate of the first class, and two of the new sloops of war in the present estimate, for the razee embraced in the estimates for 1839, and by the amount estimated for the vessels transferred from the War Department; although there appears an excess in this estimate, yet the general estimate is less for 1840, as appears from the note on paper D, in the sum of $123,305 64.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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D 2.
Estimate of the number and pay of officers, &c., required for five receiving vessels for the year 1840, being part of the first item in the general estimate for that year.
Boston. | New York. | Norfolk. | Philadelphia. | Baltimore. | Total. | Amount. | |
Captains | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | $10,500 00 | ||
Commanders | 1 | 1 | 2,100 00 | ||||
Lieutenants | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 33,000 00 |
Masters- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4,000 00 | |
Pursers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1,987 50 | ||
Surgeons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7,200 00 | ||
Assistant surgeons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3,600 00 | ||
Passed midshipmen | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 | 8,700 00 | ||
Midshipmen | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2,100 00 | |||
Clerks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1,500 00 | ||
Boatswains | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2,250 00 | ||
Gunners | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2,250 00 | ||
Carpenters | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2,250 00 | ||
Sailmakers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2,250 00 | ||
Yeomen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1,440 00 | ||
Boatswain's mates | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 3,192 00 |
Gunner's mates | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 684 00 | ||
Carpenter's mates | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1,140 00 |
Quartermasters | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 2,592 00 | ||
Masters-at-arms | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 648 00 |
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D 2—Continued.
Boston. | New York. | Norfolk. | Philadelphia. | Baltimore. | Total. | Amount. | |
Ship's corporals | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | $540 00 | ||
Ship's stewards | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1,080 00 |
Officers' stewards | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1,728 00 |
Surgeons' stewards | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 648 00 | ||
Ship's cooks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1,080 00 |
Officers' cooks | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1,512 00 | |
Captains of the hold | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 540 00 | ||
Seamen | 100 | 100 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 304 | 43,776 00 |
Ordinary seamen | 100 | 100 | 100 | 4 | 4 | 308 | 36,960 00 |
Landsmen and apprentices | 75 | 75 | 75 | 225 | 18,900 00 | ||
Estimate for 1840 | 330 | 330 | 330 | 19 | 16 | 1,025 | 200,147 50 |
Estimate for 1839 | 194,255 50 | ||||||
Excess for 1840, over the estimate for 1839 | 5,892 00 |
This excess is occasioned by a slight change in the number and grade of officers allowed to each vessel at Boston, New York, and Norfolk.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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D 3.
Estimate of the pay of the officers attached to five recruiting stations for the year 1840, being part of the first item in the general estimate for that year.
Boston. | New York. | Philadelphia. | Baltimore. | Norfolk. | Total. | Amount. | |
Commanders | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | $10,500 00 |
Lieutenants | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15,000 00 |
Surgeons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8,750 00 |
Midshipmen | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3,500 00 |
Estimated for 1840. Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 37,750 00 |
Estimated for 1839. | 37,750 00 |
I. CHAUNCEY,
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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D 4.
Estimate of the pay of officers and others at navy yards and stations, for the year 1840.
No. | PORTSMOUTH, N. H. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
3 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 1,050 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Sailmaker | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 941 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
$14,107 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Carpenter's mate | 228 | |
6 | Seamen, $144 each | 864 | |
12 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 1,440 | |
4,032 00 | |||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,400 | |
1 | Naval constructor | 2,300 | |
1 | Foreman and inspector of timber | 700 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 500 | |
1 | Clerk to the master builder | 400 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
7,400 00 | |||
Total | $25,539 75 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | BOSTON. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
2 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 3,000 | |
2 | Masters, at $1,000 each | 2,000 | |
i | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
2 | Assistant surgeons, at $950 each | 1,900 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
2 | Professors, at $1,200 each | 2,400 | |
4 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 1,400 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Sailmaker | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
1 | Steward, assistant to purser | 360 | |
$23,017 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
3 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 4,500 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
6 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 2,100 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
4 | Carpenter's mates, 3 as caulkers, at $228 ea. | 912 | |
2 | Boatswain's mates, at $228 each | 456 | |
14 | Seamen, at $144 each | 2,016 | |
30 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 4,320 | |
16,804 00 | |||
Hospital. | |||
1 | Surgeon | 1,750 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Steward | 360 | |
2 | Nurses, at $120 each {When the number} | 240 | |
2 | Washers, at $96 each {of sick shall re-} | 192 | |
1 | Cook {quire them.} | 144 | |
3,636 00 | |||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,700 | |
1 | Naval constructor | 2,300 | |
1 | Measurer and inspector of timber | 1,050 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | BOSTON—Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
1 | Clerk to the yard | $900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the commandant | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 750 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the storekeeper | 450 | |
1 | Clerk to the naval constructor | 650 | |
1 | Keeper of magazine | 480 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
$10,230 00 | |||
Total | 53,687 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon to the yard are to be required to attend to the marines also.
No. | NEW YORK. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
2 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 3,000 | |
2 | Masters, at $1,000 each | 2,000 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
2 | Assistant surgeons, at $950 each | 1,900 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
2 | Professors, at $1,200 each | 2,400 | |
4 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 1,400 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Sailmaker | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
1 | Steward, assistant to purser | 360 | |
$23,017 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
3 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 4,500 | |
1 | Master | 1.000 | |
6 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 2,100 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | NEW YORK—Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
1 | Carpenter | $500 | |
4 | Carpenter's mates, 3 as caulkers, at $228 ea. | 912 | |
2 | Boatswain's mates, at $228 each | 456 | |
14 | Seamen, at $144 each | 2,016 | |
36 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 4,320 | |
$16,804 00 | |||
Hospital. | |||
1 | Surgeon | 1,750 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Steward | 360 | |
2 | Nurses, at $120 each* | 240 | |
2 | Washers, at $96 each* | 192 | |
1 | Cook* | 144 | |
*When the number of sick shall require them. | 3,636 00 | ||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,700 | |
1 | Naval constructor | 2,300 | |
1 | Measurer and inspector of timber | 1,050 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the commandant | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 750 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the storekeeper | 450 | |
1 | Clerk to the naval constructor | 650 | |
1 | Keeper of the magazine | 480 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
10,230 00 | |||
Total | 53,687 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon of the yard, are also to be required to attend to the marines.
No. | PHILADELPHIA. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | PHILADELPHIA—Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
1 | Surgeon | $1,800 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
1 | Boatswain - | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
$14,907 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Boatswain's mate | 228 | |
4 | Seamen, at $144 each | 576 | |
12 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 1,440 | |
3 744 00 | |||
Naval asylum and hospital. | |||
1 | Captain | 3,500 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
1 | Secretary | 900 | |
1 | Surgeon* | 1,750 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon* | 950 | |
1 | Steward* | 360 | |
2 | Nurses, at $120 each* | 240 | |
2 | Washers, at $96 each* | 192 | |
1 | Cook* | 144 | |
*To attend to the hospital also if required. | 9 036 00 | ||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,250 | |
1 | Naval constructor | 2,300 | |
1 | Inspector and measurer of timber | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 500 | |
1 | Clerk to the naval constructor | 400 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
7,450 00 | |||
Total | 35,137 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon of the yard are also to be required to attend to the receiving vessel and the marines.
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D 4—Continued.
No. | WASHINGTON. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1.500 | |
1 | Masters, one in charge of ordnance, $1000 ea. | 2,000 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner, as laboratory officer | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
1 | Steward, assistant to purser | 360 | |
1 | Steward to hospital | 216 | |
$16,483 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
1 | Boatswain's mate | 228 | |
1 | Carpenter's mate | 228 | |
6 | Seamen, at $144 each | 864 | |
14 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 1,680 | 3,000 00 |
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,700 | |
1 | Master builder | 1,250 | |
1 | Inspector and measurer of timber | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the commandant | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the master builder | 450 | |
1 | Master camboose maker and plumber | 1,250 | |
1 | Chain cable and anchor maker | 1,250 | |
1 | Keeper of the magazine | 480 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
10,880 00 | |||
Total | $30,363 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon of the yard, are also required to attend to the hospital when necessary.
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D 4—Continued.
No. | NORFOLK. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
2 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 3,000 | |
2 | Masters, at $1,000 each | 2,000 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
2 | Assistant surgeon, at $950 each | 1,900 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
2 | Professors, at $1,200 each | 2,400 | |
4 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 1,400 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Sailmaker | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
1 | Steward, assistant to purser | 360 | |
$23,017 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
3 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 4,500 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
6 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 2,100 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
4 | Carpenter's mates, 3 as caulkers, at $228 ea. | 912 | |
2 | Boatswain's mates, at $228 each | 456 | |
14 | Seamen, at $144 each | 2,016 | |
36 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 4,320 | |
16,804 00 | |||
Hospital. | |||
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,750 | |
1 | Assistant Surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Steward | 360 | |
2 | Nurses, at $120 each* | 240 | |
2 | Washers, at $96 each* | 192 | |
1 | Cook* | 144 | |
*When the number of sick shall require them. | 5,136 00 | ||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,700 | |
1 | Naval constructor | 2,300 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | NORFOLK—Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
1 | Inspector and measurer of timber | $1,050 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the commandant | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 750 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the storekeeper | 450 | |
1 | Clerk to naval constructor | 650 | |
1 | Keeper of the magazine | 480 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
$10,230 00 | |||
Total | 55,187 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon of the yard are also to be required to attend to the marines.
No. | PENSACOLA. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
Naval. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Commander | 2,100 | |
2 | Lieutenants, at $1,500 each | 3,000 | |
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,800 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Chaplain | 1,200 | |
3 | Midshipmen, at $350 each | 1,050 | |
1 | Boatswain | 500 | |
1 | Gunner | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Sailmaker | 500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 1,141 75 | |
1 | Steward | 216 | |
$17,957 75 | |||
Ordinary. | |||
1 | Carpenter | 500 | |
1 | Carpenter's mate | 228 | |
1 | Boatswain's mate | 228 | |
10 | Seamen, at $144 each | 1,440 | |
10 | Ordinary seamen, at $120 each | 1,200 | |
3,596 00 | |||
Hospital. | |||
1 | Surgeon | 1,750 | |
1 | Assistant surgeon | 950 | |
1 | Steward | 360 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | PENSACOLA—Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
2 | Nurses, at $120 each* | $240 | |
2 | Washers, at $96 each* | 192 | |
1 | Cook* | 144 | |
*When the number of the sick shall require them. | $3,636 00 | ||
Civil. | |||
1 | Storekeeper | 1,700 | |
1 | Clerk to the yard | 900 | |
1 | Clerk to the commandant | 900 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the commandant | 750 | |
1 | Clerk to the storekeeper | 750 | |
1 | Clerk (2d) to the storekeeper | 450 | |
1 | Porter | 300 | |
5,750 00 | |||
Total | 30,939 75 |
Note.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon of the yard are also to attend to the marines and the receiving vessel, if one should be stationed near the yard, and to such persons employed in the yard as the commandant may direct.
No. | STATIONS. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
BALTIMORE. | |||
1 | Captain | $3,500 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,500 | |
1 | Purser, including all allowances | 862 50 | |
$7,362 50 | |||
CHARLESTON. | |||
1 | Captain | 3,500 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
1 | Surgeon | 1,500 | |
1 | Purser and storekeeper, including all allowances | 1.189 75 | |
7,639 75 | |||
SACKETT'S HARBOR. | |||
1 | Master | 1,000 | |
1,000 00 | |||
FOR DUTY AT WASHINGTON, OR ON GENERAL DUTY. | |||
Ordnance. | |||
1 | Captain | 3,500 | |
1 | Lieutenant | 1,500 | |
5,000 00 |
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D 4—Continued.
No. | STATIONS-Continued. | Pay. | Aggregate. |
CHART AND INSTRUMENT DEPOT. | |||
1 | Lieutenant | $1,500 | |
3 | Passed midshipmen | 2,250 | |
$3,750 00 | |||
1 | Chief naval constructor | 3,000 | |
1 | Civil engineer | 4,000 | |
1 | Principal steam engineer | 2,500 | |
9,500 00 | |||
FOREIGN STATIONS. | |||
1 | Storekeeper at Mahon | 1,500 | |
1 | Storekeeper at Rio de Janeiro | 1,500 | |
3,000 00 |
RECAPITULATION.
Naval. 1st item. |
Ordinary. 1st item. |
Hospital. 1st item. |
Civil. 2d item. |
Aggregate. | |
Portsmouth, N. H. | $14,107 75 | $4,032 00 | $7,400 00 | $25,539 75 | |
Boston | 23,017 75 | 16,804 00 | $3,636 00 | 10,230 00 | 53,687 75 |
New York | 23,017 75 | 16,804 00 | 3,636 00 | 10,230 00 | 53,687 75 |
Philadelphia | 14,907 75 | 3,744 00 | 9,036 00 | 7,450 00 | 35,137 75 |
Washington | 16,483 75 | 3,000 00 | 10,880 00 | 30,363 75 | |
Norfolk | 23,017 75 | 16,804 00 | 5,136 00 | 10,230 00 | 55,187 75 |
Pensacola | 17,957 75 | 3,596 00 | 3,636 00 | 5,750 00 | 30,939 75 |
Baltimore | 7,362 50 | 7,362 50 | |||
Charleston | 7,689 75 | 7,689 75 | |||
Sackett's Harbor | 1,000 00 | 1,000 00 | |||
Ordnance | 5,000 00 | 5,000 00 | |||
Chart and instrument depot | 3,750 00 | 3,750 00 | |||
Naval constructor | 3,000 00 | 3,000 00 | |||
Civil engineer | 4,000 00 | 4,000 00 |
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Principal steam engineer | 2,500 00 | 2,500 00 | |||
Storekeepers | 3,000 00 | 3,000 00 | |||
Estimated for 1840 | 157,312 50 | 64,784 00 | 25,080 00 | 74,670 00 | 321,846 50 |
Appropriated for 1639 | 157,312 50 | 64,784 00 | 25,080 00 | 44,000 00 | 291,176 50 |
Increased | 30,670 00 | 30,670 00 |
Note.—The increase in the fourth column is caused by the difference between the pay of a naval constructor and master builder at the Portsmouth nary yard, $1,050; by the pay allowed to the principal steam engineer, $2,500; and by the addition of $300 to the pay of the storekeeper at Mahon, which added to the sum deducted at the last session of Congress, $26,820, shows the difference between the appropriation for 1839 and the estimate for 1840.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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D 5.
Estimate of the pay required for the commission and warrant officers waiting orders and on furlough for 1840, being part of the first item in the general estimate for that year.
Waiting orders. | Furlough. | Aggregate amount. | |
24 captains | $60,000 00 | ||
23 commanders | 41,000 00 | ||
86 lieutenants | 103,200 00 | ||
15 surgeons | 24,000 00 | ||
5 pursers | 3,312 50 | ||
1 purser | $331 25 | ||
2 assistant surgeons | 1,300 00 | ||
38 passed midshipmen | 22,800 00 | ||
1 passed midshipmen | 300 00 | ||
256,012 50 | 631 25 | $256,643 75 | |
Add for 28 midshipmen, who, after examination, may be entitled to be arranged as passed midshipmen, in addition to their pay as midshipmen |
8,400 00 | ||
265,043 75 |
Estimated for 1839 | $297,737 50 | |
Estimated for 1840 | 265,043 75 | |
Less estimated for 1840 | 32,693 75 | than for 1839. |
This difference is occasioned by fewer of the higher grades of officers remaining unemployed, and the number of midshipmen, who will be entitled to examination, being smaller in 1840 than were examined in 1839.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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D 6.
Estimate of the amount required for provisions for the year 1840, explanatory of the third item of the general estimate for that year.
6,955 | persons in vessels in commission, exclusive of marines. | |
587 | marines embarked in vessels in commission. | |
1,298 | persons attached to receiving vessels, and enlisted persons at shore stations. | |
Total | 8,840 |
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8,840 persons, at one ration each a day, will make 3,226,600 rations which, at 20 cents each ration, is equal to |
$645,320 00 |
For persons employed in vessels to cruise on the coast of Florida to protect the lives and property of the citizens, (285 persons—104,025 rations, at 20 cents) |
20,805 00 |
666,125 00 | |
Estimating the balance under this head that may remain in the Treasury on the 1st January, 1840, as available for that year, there may be deducted the sum of $46,125, which may not be required, say |
46,125 00 |
Which will leave | 620,000 00 |
As stated in the third item of the general estimate,
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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D 7.
Estimate of the proposed improvements and repairs to be made in the navy yards during the year 1840, explanatory of the sixth item in the general estimate.
At Portsmouth. N. H.
For 80 feet of wharf west of launching slip, No. 2 | $8,000 |
For completing stone launching slips at ship-houses, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 | 7,500 |
For foundation under the ship in ship-house, No. 2 | 2,000 |
For painting and repairs of all buildings, bridges, wharves, &c. | 2,500 |
20,000 |
At Charlestown, Mass.
For machinery in engine-house site, No. 55 | $4,500 |
For repairs of docks, wharves, and all buildings in the yard | 12,500 |
17,000 |
At Brooklyn, N. Y.
For completing timber shed, No. 7 | $2,500 |
For iron store | 7,500 |
For repairing cells and heels of ports of ship-house, No. 2 | 1,000 |
For filling in low grounds | 1,000 |
For repairs of all other buildings, docks, and wharves | 6,000 |
18,000 |
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At Philadelphia.
For flooring cellars in building A | $1,125 |
For building a coal-house near smith's shop | 525 |
For all other repairs and improvements | 3,350 |
5,000 |
At Washington.
For steam-engines and machinery for tank and camboose shops | $11,000 |
For repairs of wharves, buildings, &c. | 9,000 |
20,000 |
At Gosport, Va.
For steam-engines, boilers, &c., for saw-mills | $7,500 |
For magazine - | 750 |
For repairs of all docks, wharves, and buildings | 9,000 |
17,250 |
At Pensacola.
For furnishing 3d class houses, Nos. 8, 10, and 11 | $6,000 |
For extending yard wall into the water | 500 |
For repairs to all other buildings, &c. | 6,500 |
13,000 |
Recapitulation.
For navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. | $20,000 |
For navy yard at Charlestown, Mass. | 17,000 |
For navy yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. | 18,000 |
For navy yard at Philadelphia | 5,000 |
For navy yard at Washington | 20,000 |
For navy yard at Norfolk | 17,250 |
For navy yard at Pensacola | 13,000 |
110,250 |
Note.—The amount estimated for 1840 is less $76,250 than the amount appropriated for 1839. They have been decided after careful examination by the board of the recommendations of the respective commandants of navy yards, and the objects which have been selected, are those which are deemed most important for the public interests.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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Explanation of special estimate.
1. STEAM VESSELS.
The transfer of $340,000 from the appropriation for gradual improvement of the navy is proposed, because the sum of $330,000 already authorized to be taken from that appropriation will not meet the probable expenditure in 1840 upon the two steamers which have been commenced.
2. DRY DOCK AT NEW YORK.
To reappropriate the balance of the amount which was appropriated for a site and construction of a dry dock in the harbor of New York, on 3d March, 1835, and subsequently carried to the surplus fund | $95,063 61 |
The necessity of a dry dock to repair the ships of the line Washington and Franklin, and the great advantages of such an establishment for the general repairs of the vessels belonging to the navy, render the early commencement of this work a measure of great importance to the public interests.
3. FOR NAVY HOSPITALS.
For the hospital at New York | $9,500 |
For the naval asylum at Philadelphia | 4,250 |
For the hospital at Norfolk | 3,500 |
For the hospital at Pensacola | 7,000 |
The amounts asked for the hospitals are to meet expenses for completing the arrangements at some, for furnishing others with necessary furniture for the accommodation of the sick, and for general repairs and contingent expenses which necessarily arise in those establishment.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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Head Quarters Marine Corps,
Washington, November 7, 1839.
Sir:
I enclose, herewith, estimates for the marine corps for the year 1840.
I remain, with great respect, your obedient servant,
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON,
Colonel Commandant,
Com. Isaac Chauncey,
President Board of Navy Commissioners.
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F-—Continued.
Estimate of the expenses of the marine corps for the year 1840.
There will be required for the support of the marine corps during the year 1840, in addition to the balances remaining on hand on the 1st of January, 1840, the sum of four hundred ninety-three thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars, and one cent.
PAYMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. | ||
For the pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants, serving on shore; and subsistence of officers of the marine corps |
$175,050 40 | |
QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. | ||
2d. For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, servants and washerwomen serving on shore |
$45,054 09 | |
3d. For clothing | 43,662 50 | |
4th. For fuel, | 16,274 12 | |
5th. For the purchase of a site, and to commence the erection of barracks at Charlestown, Mass. |
50,000 00 | |
For the purchase of a site, and to commence the erection of barracks at Brooklyn, New York |
50,000 00 | |
For the purchase of a site, and to commence the erection of barracks at Gosport, Virginia |
50,000 00 | |
To commence the erection of barracks at | 25,000 00 | |
6th. For keeping barracks in repair; and for rent of temporary barracks at New York |
6,000 00 | |
7th. For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates; and expenses of recruiting |
8,000 00 | |
8th. For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical, instruments; and pay of matron and hospital stewards. |
4,140 00 | |
9th. For military stores; pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments |
2,300 00 | |
10th. For contingencies, viz: freight, ferriage-toll, wharfage and cartage; per diem allowance for attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judges advocate; house rent where no public quarters are assigned; per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant labor; expenses of burying deceased marines; printing, stationary, |
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F-Continued.
forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles and oil straw, barrack furniture, bedsacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenter's tools, and for the purchase and keeping of a horse for the messenger |
$17,980 00 | |
$318,411 61 | ||
493,462 01 |
GEO. W. WALKER,
Paymaster Marines.
AUG. A. NICHOLSON,
Quartermaster.
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Head Quarters Marine Corps,
Quartermaster's Office, Washington, October 21, 1839
Sir:
The quadruplicate estimates for the support of the, marine corps for the year 1840, which are herewith submitted, vary from the estimates of last year; the cause and amount of the variations are explained in the statement herewith.
I am, sir. very respectfully, your obedient servant,
AUG. A. NICHOLSON,
Quartermaster.
Col. Archibald Henderson,
Commandant Marine Corps, Head Quarters.
Explanation of estimate of expenses of the quartermaster's department, marine corps for the year 1840.
The items in the estimate of the expenses of the quartermaster's department, marine corps, for the year 1840, that differ from those of 1839 areas follow
An appropriation has been inserted for the purchase of sites and to commence the erection of barracks at Charlestown, Massachusetts and at Gosport, Virginia, of $50,000 ;each; and to commence the erection of barracks at Pensacola, of $25,000.
Keeping barracks in repair, has been reduced from 10,000 to $6,000.
Transportation and recruiting; an increase of $2,000 has been inserted over the sum appropriated for the current year; this increase is required for the payment of a bounty of two dollars for every recruit, and to defray other expenses of recruiting rendezvous.
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No. 1. —Pay Department.
Detailed estimate of pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, of the marine corps of the United Stales, for the year 1840.
RANK AND GRADE. | Number. | PAY. | SUBSISTENCE. | Aggregate | ||||||
Pay per month. | Extra pay per month. | Number of servants at $8 per month. |
Number of servants at $7 per month. |
Total. | No. rations p. day at 20 cts. |
No. extra or double rations p. day at 20 cts. |
Total. | |||
Colonel commandant | 1 | 75 00 | 2 | $1,069 00 | 6 | 6 | $878 40 | $1,946 40 | ||
Lieutenant colonel | 1 | 60 00 | 2 | 888 00 | 5 | 5 | 735 00 | 1,620 00 | ||
Majors | 4 | 50 00 | 2 | 3,072 00 | 4 | 4 | 2,342 40 | 5,414 40 | ||
Adjutant and inspector | 1 | 60 00 | 2 | 912 00 | 4 | 292 80 | 1,204 80 | |||
Paymaster | 1 | 60 00 | 2 | 912 00 | 4 | 292 80 | 1,204 80 | |||
Quartermaster | 1 | 60 00 | 2 | 912 00 | 4 | 4 | 585 60 | 1,497 60 | ||
Assistant quartermaster | 1 | 50 00 | 1 | 696 00 | 4 | 4 | 585 60 | 1,281 60 | ||
Captains commanding posts and at sea | 4 | 50 00 | 1 | 2,736 00 | 4 | 4 | 2,342 40 | 5,078 40 | ||
Captains on recruiting service | 4 | 40 00 | 1 | 2,256 00 | 4 | 4 | 2,342 40 | 4,598 40 | ||
Captains | 2 | 40 00 | 1 | 1,128 00 | 4 | 585 60 | 1,713 60 | |||
First lieutenants commanding guards or detachments at sea | 3 | 40 00 | 1 | 1,692 00 | 4 | 4 | 1,756 80 | 3,448 80 | ||
First lieutenants | 16 | 30 00 | 1 | 7,104 00 | 4 | 4,684 80 | 11,788 80 | |||
Second lieutenants | 20 | 25 00 | 1 | 7,680 00 | 4 | 5,856 00 | 13,536 00 | |||
Hospital steward | 1 | 18 00 | 216 00 | 1 | 73 20 | 289 20 | ||||
Sergeant major | 1 | 17 00 | 204 00 | 204 00 | ||||||
Quartermaster sergeant | 1 | 17 00 | 20 | 444 00 | 444 00 | |||||
Drum and fife majors | 2 | 16 00 | 384 00 | 384 00 | ||||||
Orderly sergeants and sergeants of guards at sea | 27 | 16 00 | 5,184 00 | 5,184 00 | ||||||
Orderly sergeants employed as clerks to colonel commandant, adjutant and inspector, and quartermaster | 3 | 16 00 | 20 | 1,296 00 | 1,296 00 | |||||
Sergeants | 50 | 13 00 | 7,800 00 | 7,800 00 | ||||||
Corporals | 80 | 9 00 | 8,610 00 | 8,640 00 | ||||||
Drummers and fifers | 60 | 8 00 | 5,760 00 | 5,760 00 | ||||||
Privates | 932 | 7 00 | 3,288 00 | 78,288 00 | ||||||
Clerk to paymaster | 1 | 15 80 | 20 | 429 00 | 1 | 73 20 | 502 80 | |||
Additional rations to officers for every five years' service | 139 | 10,174 80 | 10,174 80 | |||||||
Payment of bounty for re-enlistment | 125 | 1,750 00 | 1,750 00 | |||||||
141,451 60 | 33,598 80 | 175,050 40 |
Respectfully submitted.
GEORGE W. WALKER,
Paymaster United States Marine Corps.
Head Quarters of the Marine Corps,
Paymaster's Office, October 9, 1839.
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No. 2.—Provisions
For whom required. | Enlisted men. | Washerwomen | Matron | Servants | Clerks | Total | Rations per day, at 19 cts. |
Rations per day, at 20 cts. |
Amount. |
For non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and washer women | 517 | 34 | 1 | 552 | 1 | $38,281 20 | |||
For clerks and officers' servants | 68 | 5 | 73 | 1 | 5,329 00 | ||||
Required for two months' rations for each soldier, as premium for re-enlisting, agreeably to the act of 2d March, 1835 |
125 | 125 | 1 | 1,444 79 | |||||
45,054 99 |
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No. 3.—Clothing.
For whom required. | Enlisted men. | Servants. | Clerks. | Total. | Amount. |
For non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, at $33 per annum | 1,156 | 1,156 | $38,148 00 | ||
For officers' servants, at $33 per annum | 68 | 68 | 2,244 00 | ||
For paymaster's clerk, at $33 per annum | 1 | 1 | 33 00 | ||
For 300 watch coats, at $8 50 each | 2,250 00 | ||||
For two months' clothing for each soldier, as premium for re-enlisting, agreeably to the act of 2d March, 1835 | 125 | 125 | 687 50 | ||
43,662 50 |
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No. 4.-Fuel
For whom required. | Number | Fuel for each. | Total fuel. | Amount. | ||||
Cords | Feet | Inches | Cords | Feet | Inches | |||
Colonel commandant | 1 | 36 | 4 | 36 | 4 | |||
Lieut colonel south of latitude 39 | 1 | 26 | 26 | |||||
Majors south of latitude 39 | 1 | 26 | 26 | |||||
Majors north of latitude 39 | 3 | 29 | 87 | |||||
Captains north of latitude 43 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 8 | |
Captains north of latitude 39 | 2 | 23 | 6 | 47 | 4 | |||
Captains south of latitude 39 | 3 | 21 | 2 | 63 | 6 | |||
Staff south of latitude 39 | 3 | 26 | 78 | |||||
Staff north of latitude 39 | 1 | 29 | 29 | |||||
Lieutenants north of latitude 43 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 2 | 8 | |
Lieutenants north of latitude 39 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 222 | ||||
Lieutenants south of latitude 39 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 231 | ||||
Non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, servants, and washerwomen, north of latitude 40 | 239 | 1 | 5 | 338 | 3 | |||
Do. do. south of latitude 40 | 370 | 1 | 4 | 555 | ||||
Clerk to paymaster | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
Hospital matron | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||
Commanding officer's office, Portsmouth, N. H. | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | |
Guard room, Portsmouth, N. H. | 1 | 25 | 25 | |||||
Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H. | 1 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 4 | |
Mess room. Portsmouth, N. H. | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
Offices of the comm'dg officer and assist quartermaster at Charlestown, New York, and Philadelphia | 4 | 8 | 32 | |||||
Guard rooms at Charlestown, New York, and Philadelphia | 3 | 24 | 72 | |||||
Hospitals at Charlestown, New York, and Philadelphia | 3 | 18 | 4 | 55 | 4 | |||
Mess rooms at Charlestown, New York, and Philadelphia | 3 | 4 | 12 | |||||
Offices of the commandant and staff and commanding officer at head quarters, Norfolk and Pensacola | 7 | 7 | 49 | |||||
Guard rooms at headq'rs, navy yard, Washington, Norfolk, & Pensacola | 4 | 21 | 84 | |||||
Hospital at head quarters | 1 | 33 | 33 | |||||
Hospital at Norfolk and Pensacola | 2 | 16 | 4 | 33 | ||||
Mess rooms for officers at headquarters, Norfolk and Pensacola | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | |||
Armory at Washington | 1 | 30 | 30 | |||||
Cords | 2324 | 7 | ||||||
Which, at $7 50 per cord, is | $16,274 12 |
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Head Quarters Marine Corps,
Paymaster's Office, October 9, 1839.
Sir:
I transmit herewith detail estimates in quadruple of amount required by this department for pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, of the United States marine corps, for the year 1840.
The accumulation of duties in this office since the increase of the corps by the act of June, 1834, has made it indispensably necessary to call to my aid the services of a non-commissioned officer in addition to my regular clerk, to assist in the duties of the office. The compensation at
present received by them, is so inadequate for the services rendered, that deem it proper, as an act of common justice, to recommend as a small increase to their present pay, the following proposed estimate, in lieu of all pay and allowances which they now receive, to wit:
To the first clerk | $900 | per annum |
To the second clerk | 750 | " |
Should this estimate be acceded to, it will enable me to command the services of respectable and competent men, a desideratum, not to be lightly overlooked where so much responsibility is involved.
I am, sir, &c., &c., &c.,
GEORGE W. WALKER,
Paymaster United States Marine Corps.
Col. A. Henderson, &c., &c.
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No. 5.
Estimate of the compensation proposed for clerks in the offices of the Col. Commandant and staff of the United States marine corps.
Col. commandant's office, one clerk at | $900 | per annum. |
Adjutant and inspector's office, one clerk at | 900 | " |
Paymaster's office, one clerk at | 900 | " |
And one assistant clerk at | 750 | " |
Quartermaster's office, one clerk at | 900 | " |
And one assistant clerk at | 750 | " |
$5,100 |
The explanatory notes which accompany the estimates for the marine corps, show the causes which produce the differences between the appropriations for 1839, and the estimates for 1840.
The principal of these differences as respects their amount, are the sums proposed for the purchase of sites, and commencing the erection of barracks, near Boston, New York, Norfolk, and Pensacola.
An opinion of the importance of providing suitable barracks for the distribution of the marines at these four stations, has been several times expressed by the Board of Navy Commissioners, and in addition to the reasons which refer to the general advantages of such an arrangement, may be stated the absolute want of barracks of any kind at New York
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and Norfolk, the unsuitableness of the temporary buildings which are used as such at Pensacola, and the want of sufficient room in those at Boston. The difficulty and expense of procuring proper sites at some of the places, will be constantly increasing the longer the purchases are delayed.
The proposed increase of the compensation of the clerks, which is stated in the special estimate, is a subject upon which the board have no other information than what is contained in the letters which accompany the estimates.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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List of vessels in commission of each squadron, their commanders and stations, on the 1st October, 1839.
Class. | Name | Flag ships. | Commanders of vessels. | Commanders of squadrons. | Stations. |
Ship of line | Ohio | Flag ship | Captain Joseph Smith | Commodore Isaac Hull | Mediterranean. |
Frigate | Brandywine | Captain Wm. C. Botton | Mediterranean. | ||
Sloop | Cyane | Comd'r W. K. Latimer | Mediterranean. | ||
Frigate | Constitution | Flag ship | Captain Daniel Turner | Commo. Alex. Claxton | Pacific. |
Sloop | Lexington | Captain Jno. H. Clack | Pacific. | ||
Sloop | Falmouth | Captain Isaac McKeever | Pacific. | ||
Sloop | St. Louis | Comd'r French Forrest | Pacific. | ||
Schooner- | Boxer | Lt. Com'g W. C. Nicholson | Pacific. | ||
Schooner | Shark | Lt. Comd'g A. Bigelow | Pacific. | ||
Razee | Independence | Flag ship | Commo. Jno. B. Nicolson | Commodore J. B. Nicolson | Coast of Brazil. |
Sloop | Fairfield | Com'r Charles Boarman | Coast of Brazil. | ||
Frigate | Macedonian | Flag ship | Captain Broerley Kennon | Commo. W. B. Shubrick | West Indies. |
Sloop | Vandalia | Comd'r U. P. Levy | West Indies. | ||
Sloop | Ontario | Comd'r J. D. Williamson | West Indies. | ||
Sloop | Erie | Comd'r Wm. V. Taylor | West Indies. | ||
Sloop | Servant | Comd'r Joseph Smoot | West Indies. | ||
Sloop | Warren | Comd'r Wm. A. Spencer | West Indies. | ||
Frigate | Columbia | Flag ship | Commodore G. C. Read | Commodore G. C. Read | East Indies. |
Sloop | John Adams | Comd'r Thos. W. Wayman | East Indies. | ||
Sloop | Vincennes | Flag ship | Lt Comd'g Charles Wilkes | Lt. Comd'g Charles Wilkes | Exploring expedition. |
Sloop | Peacock | Lt. Comd'g W. L. Hudson | Exploring expedition. | ||
Store ship | Relief | Lt Comd'g A. K. Long | Exploring expedition. | ||
Brig | Porpoise | Lt. Comd'g C. Ringgold | Exploring expedition. | ||
Schooner- | Grampus | Lt Comd'g Jno. S. Paine | Special service. | ||
Steam-ship | Fulton | Captain M. C. Perry | Atlantic coast. |
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H.
A statement of the names, distribution, and condition of the vessels, which remain in ordinary, or which are not commissioned for sea service, on the 1st October, 1839.
At Portsmouth, N. H.
The sloop of war Preble—has just been built and equipped ready for sea service.
At Charlestown, Mass.
The ship of the line Columbus—is in good order, equipped for and employed as a receiving ship, and could be prepared for sea at short notice.
The frigate United States—has been thoroughly repaired, and is nearly ready for sea service.
The frigate Constellation—has received a thorough repair in her hull, and her other repairs and equipments for sea service could be completed in a short time, if her services should be required.
The Concord, sloop of war—has been repaired, and is ready for sea service.
The Marion, sloop of war—has just been built, and is ready for sea service.
At Brooklyn, N. Y.
The North Carolina, ship of the line—is considered in good order for sea service, and is equipped for and employed as a receiving ship.
The Franklin, ship of the line, and the Washington, ship of the line— both require very extensive repairs.
The frigate Hudson—is considered unfit for sea service.
The sloop of war Natchez, and the sloop of war Boston—require repairs.
The sloop of war Decatur—has just been built, and is ready for sea service.
The schooner Porpoise—ready for sea.
The store brig Consort—is ready for service.
At Philadelphia.
The sloop of war Dale—has just been built, and is nearly ready for sea service.
The schooner Enterprise—has been repaired, and is ready for service.
The schooner Experiment—is fitted for and used as a receiving vessel; is not considered fit for general service.
At Baltimore.
The store brig Pioneer—is in good order, and used for a receiving vessel.
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At Gosport, Va.
The Pennsylvania, ship of the line—is in good order, and her equipments so far advanced that they might be completed in a short time.
The Delaware, ship of the line—has been thoroughly repaired, and is equipping for employment as a receiving vessel: she could be soon prepared for sea service.
The frigate Potomac—has been partially repaired in her hull, and might be completed, if required, in about three months.
The frigate Java—is unfit for sea service, and will be used for a receiving vessel until the arrangements of the Delaware are completed.
The frigate Guerriere—is much decayed, and will require to be very extensively repaired or rebuilt.
The sloop of war Yorktown—has just been built, and is ready for sea service.
RECAPITULATION.
Four ships of the line, in good order.
Two ships of the line, requiring extensive repairs.
One frigate, ready for sea service.
Two frigates, nearly repaired.
Three frigates, so much decayed that the expediency of repairing them is considered very doubtful.
Six sloops of war, ready for sea service.
Two sloops of war, requiring repairs.
Two schooners, ready for service; one unfit for general service.
Two store brigs, in good order.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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I.
A statement of the vessels on the stocks at the several navy yards.
At Portsmouth, N. H.
One ship of the line.
One frigate.
At Charlestown, Mass.
Two ships of the line.
One frigate.
At Brooklyn, N. Y.
Two frigates.
At Philadelphia.
One frigate.
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At Gosport, Va.
One ship of the line.
One frigate.
Recapitulation.
Four ships of the line.
Six frigates.
All of the foregoing vessels were commenced under the authority given by the acts for the gradual increase of the navy of the 29th April, 1816, and 3d March, 1831. Besides these, a frigate has been commenced at Portsmouth, N. H., to replace the Congress, under authority of the act of June 39, 1834. One steamer at New York, and one at Philadelphia, have been commenced under the act of March 3, 1839.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office, Nov. 25, 1839.
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K.
A statement of the measures which have been adopted to carry into effect the acts for the gradual increase of the navy, which were approved on the 29th April, 1816, and 3d March, 1831.
The ships of the line Columbus, North Carolina, and Delaware, were completed several years since.
The ship of the line Ohio was launched in 1820; her equipments were completed, and she went to sea in 1838.
The Pennsylvania ship of the line was launched in 1837, and the remaining balance of the appropriation for the gradual increase of the navy, with a special appropriation, was expended in preparing her for removal to Norfolk.
This ship has since had her equipments nearly completed from the ordinary appropriations.
The frigates Brandywine, Potomac, and Columbia, have been launched, equipped, and employed at sea.
Four ships of the line and six frigates remain on the stocks; they are generally sound; but the keels, keelson or deadwood of some of them are decayed, and will require to be replaced before they can be launched.
These, vessels are in general so far advanced that they might probably be made ready, for sea, as soon as the necessary crews could be collected for them.
The appropriation under which these vessels were commenced has been exhausted, and additional appropriations will be necessary whenever it may be deemed expedient to complete any of them for service.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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L.
Statement of the measures which have been taken to carry into effect the laws for the gradual improvement of the navy, which were approved 3d March, 1827, and 2d March, 1833.
Contracts have been made for the delivery of live-oak frames for fifteen ships of the line, eighteen frigates, fifteen sloops of war, nine steamers, and nine brigs, or schooners, besides a quantity of promiscuous timber.
The timber has been delivered for the complete frames of four ships of the line, seven frigates, four sloops of war, and two brigs, or schooners,
Of the remaining frames, partial deliveries only have been made, and the period for completing them will not expire before 1841. The danger of cutting timber in Florida has been urged by several of the contractors as an excuse for not making larger deliveries.
Under the terms of the appropriation of the last session of Congress, which authorized the President to commence steam-vessels, two have been commenced from materials belonging to this appropriation, and the labor and the purchase of articles not on hand have been paid from the same appropriation.
The expenditures upon these vessels may continue to be paid from this appropriation to the extent of the $335,000 which has been authorized, without interfering with other existing engagements, until Congress shall deem proper to cause it to be replaced by future appropriations.
The following statement gives, under several heads, a more detailed account of the objects upon which the expenditures have been made, and the balances which remain available on the 1st October, 1839.
Cost of dry dock at Charlestown. Mass. | $677,089 75 |
Cost of dry dock at Gosport, Va. | 974,356 69 |
Cost of timber sheds and other buildings at navy yards | 143,508 84 |
Cost of labor in receiving and stowing materials | 192,034 83 |
Cost of purchase of land, and preservation of live-oak timber | 71,114 54 |
Cost of 867,359 cubic feet live-oak timber | 1,105,215 47 |
Cost of 418.297 cubic feet white-oak timber | 142,539 70 |
Cost of 10,940 white-oak knees | 58,558 07 |
Cost of 256,634 cubic feet yellow-pine plank stocks | 80,264 37 |
Cost of 138,499 cubic feet yellow-pine beams and carlings | 47,903 48 |
Cost of 64,744 cubic feet mast, and spar timber | 40,676 88 |
Cost of 533,622 lbs. (57,571 sheets) of sheathing copper, and | 506,063 56 |
Cost of 1,736,963 lbs. copper bolts, spikes, and nails | |
160,004 10 | |
Transferred to exploring expedition | 150,000 00 |
Drawn from the Treasury for steamers | 28,500 00 |
Total expended to the 1st October, 1839 | 4,377,830 27 |
Amount of appropriations to same date | 6,250,000 00 |
Difference to be accounted for | 872,169 73 |
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There was in the Treasury, 1st October, 1839 | $827,609 61 | |
Supposed to be in the hands of agents and pursers | 44,560 12 | |
$872,169 73 | ||
To the above amount to be accounted for of | $872,169 73 | |
Add the appropriation due in 1840 | 750,000 00 | |
Gives a total available amount of | $1,622,169 73 | |
The liabilities under existing contracts on the 1st October, 1839, exclusive of the amount which may be taken for steam-vessels, estimated at |
1,205,133 22 | |
Leaves available for future use | 417,036 51 |
If the sum of $340,000 should be authorized to be taken from the appropriation for the gradual improvement of the navy, as proposed, the sum of $410,000 out of the $750,000 which will be due in 1840, under the appropriation for the gradual improvement of the navy, may be postponed till 1841, without any probable injury to the public interests, if it should be deemed advisable; provided the total amounts, which have been or may be transferred from the appropriation for the gradual improvement of the navy, shall be eventually restored by future appropriations.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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M.
Statement of the progress made in carrying into effect the appropriation which authorized the construction of six small vessels of not exceeding 18 guns each.
Five of these vessels have been built and are all nearly in readiness for sea.
The appropriation of $400,000 for these vessels, was in addition to materials which might be on hand belonging to other appropriations, and which could be advantageously applied to these.
This amount was at the time supposed to be sufficient, but a necessity for purchasing more than was originally contemplated, and the high price of labor, will absorb the whole appropriation, to complete the five which have been commenced. A further sum of $80,000 will therefore be required to build the sixth.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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N.
Statement of the measures taken to carry into effect the appropriation of the 3d March, 1839, which authorized the construction of certain, steam-vessels.
By direction of the President, two steamers were commenced under this authority, one at New York and the other at Philadelphia.
It is believed the vessels will be carried forward so as to be ready for the reception of the engines and machinery as soon as they can be completed.
Agreements for the engines, boilers, and their dependencies, have been made, and they will be built as rapidly as may be consistent with the proper execution of such heavy and important machinery.
The frames for these vessels have been taken from timber collected under the law for the gradual improvement of the navy, and the expense for labor and purchase of articles not on hand belonging to that appropriation, have been, and will continue to be paid from the $330,000, which was conditionally authorized to be taken for these purposes, from the amounts in the Treasury belonging to the appropriation for the gradual improvement of the navy. As this amount will eventually be required for other purposes under that appropriation, and a further sum be wanted to complete the steamers, the amount supposed to be necessary, has been asked for under the special estimate marked E.
I. CHAUNCEY.
Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 25, 1839.
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N 1.
Alphabetical list of invalid navy pensioners, complete to 30th September, 1839.
NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Zephaniah Allen | Marine | Mar. 1, 1801 | $3 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Samuel Abbot | Seaman | Mar. 1, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
James Allcorn | Sailingmaster | Jan. 1, 1815 | 20 00 | do. |
Jacob Albrecht | Seaman | Aug. 1, 1814 | 6 00 | do. |
Samuel Agers | Captain | Jan. 1, 1814 | 50 00 | do. |
Robert Andrews | Quarter gunner | Aug. 1, 1829 | 4 50 | do. |
Alexander Adams | Seaman | Oct. 6, 1812 | 3 00 | do. |
George Alexander | Ordinary seaman | July 19, 1814 | 8 00 | do. |
John Agnew | Seaman | Aug. 1, 1825 | 5 00 | do. |
John Adams | Seaman | Feb. 17, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
George Adams | Quarter gunner | Dec. 31, 1836 | 5 62 1/2 | do. |
William Adams | Seaman | July 25, 1838 | 3 00 | do. |
Joseph Ashley | Ordinary seaman- | Dec. 18, 1835 | 2 50 | do. |
Lemuel Bryant | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 1, 1814 | 8 00 | do. |
Robert Berry | Seaman | June 22, 1829 | 6 00 | do. |
Joseph Barrett | Quarter gunner | Ap'l 17, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
John Ball | Boatswain | July 4, 1814 | 9 00 | do. |
Joseph Blake | Ordinary seaman | July 26, 1822 | 5 00 | do. |
John Bennett | Seaman | Dec. 14, 1814 | 6 00 | do. |
John Burnham | Master's mate | Dec. 10, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
Thomas Bartlett | Seaman | Nov. 21, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Samuel Bosworth | Seaman | July 3, 1823 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Buchanan | Marine | June 4, 1829 | 3 00 | do. |
Samuel Bryant | Seaman | Mar. 5, 1830 | 3 00 | do. |
Nathan Burr | Quarter gunner | Dec. 30, 1814 | 4 50 | do. |
John Brown | Seaman | July 1, 1819 | 6 00 | do. |
Peter Barnard | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 1, 1814 | 4 00 | do. |
Edmund Brett | Marine | June 12, 1815 | 3 00 | do. |
John Brannon | Seaman | June 28, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
Isaac Bassett | Ordinary seaman | May 15, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
John Beatty | Marine | June 1, 1830 | 4 00 | do. |
Luke Brown | Seaman | July 5, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
William Baggs | Marine | Mar. 1, 1814 | 3 00 | do. |
John Baxter | Seaman | Feb. 28, 1819 | 6 00 | do. |
James Bell- | Seaman | Aug. 23, 1823 | 6 00 | do. |
Godfrey Bowman | Seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
William Barker | Marine | July 1, 1802 | 6 00 | do. |
John Brumley | Seaman | Sept. 1, 1826 | 6 00 | do. |
James Bantam | Ordinary seaman | July 5, 1833 | 4 00 | do. |
Jonathan Bulkley | Midshipman | June 17, 1834 | 9 00 | do. |
John Berry | Master-at-arms | Mar. 18, 1835 | 4 50 | do. |
John Butler | Seaman | Nov. 22, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
John Bruce | Quarter gunner | Nov. 1, 1826 | 9 00 | do. |
John Bostrom | Quartermaster | May 30, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
Peter Borge | Captain's steward | May 19, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Edward Barker | Marine | May 18, 1836 | 3 50 | do. |
Samuel Butler | Quarter gunner | Aug. 28, 1815 | 8 00 | do. |
Thomas Barry | Gunner | Aug. 10. 1809 | 5 00 | do. |
Thomas Barber | Ordinary seaman | July 6, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
John Bevins | Quarter gunner | Feb. 24, 1837 | 7 50 | do. |
William Bayne | Quarter gunner | Oct. 22, 1833 | 3 50 | do. |
David C. Bunnell | Seaman | Ap'l 27, 1813 | 3 00 | do. |
Thomas Bowden | Quartermaster | Dec. 7, 1837 | 4 00 | do. |
lames Barker | Quartermaster | Ap'l 20, 1836 | 8 00 | do. |
Alfred Batts | Ordinary seaman | Oct. 24, 1833 | 5 00 | do. |
James Barron | Captain | June 22, 1807 | 25 00 | do. |
Robert Butler | Quarter gunner | Ap'l 30, 1835 | 3 75 | do. |
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NAME OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
John Brown, 4th | Seaman | Aug. 31, 1825 | $3 00 | April 23, 1800 |
George T. Bassett | Surgeon | Aug. 20, 1830 | 25 00 | do. |
Edward Berry | Seaman | July 4, 1837 | 4 50 | do. |
William B. Brown | Gunner | July 4, 1835 | 2 50 | do. |
Leonard Chase | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 1, 1828 | 5 00 | do. |
John Clements | Seaman | Dec. 29, 1812 | 6 00 | do. |
Robert Catheart | Seaman | Sept. 20, 1816 | 6 00 | do. |
George Cornell | Carpenters male | Sept. 10, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
John C. Chaplin | Seaman | May 21, 1831 | 6 00 | do. |
Nathaniel Chapman | Quarter gunner | June 10, 1815 | 9 00 | do. |
James Cole- | Seaman | May 1, 1823 | 5 00 | do. |
John Collins | Seaman | Feb. 9, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Francis Covenhoven | Ordinary seaman | June 22, 1807 | 3 75 | do. |
John Cole | Ordinary seaman | Feb. 6, 1832 | 5 00 | do. |
Robert Carson | Ordinary seaman | June 26, 1821 | 5 00 | do. |
Daniel H. Cole | Marine | Dec. 27, 1833 | 3 00 | do. |
George Coomes | Seaman | July 1, 1825 | 8 00 | do. |
Enos R. Childs | Midshipman | Ap'l 2, 1823 | 9 50 | do. |
William Cantrill | Marine | Ap'l 8, 1830 | 2 00 | do. |
Step en Champlin | Lieutenant | Sept. 3, 1814 | 20 00 | do. |
Edward Carr | Seaman | May 13, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
William Cook | Cabin cook | June 30, 1836 | 4 50 | do. |
John Clough | Sailingmaster | June 4, 1829 | 15 00 | do. |
David Connor | Lieutenant | May 23, 1815 | 16 66 2/3 | do. |
Alexander Claxton | Midshipman | Oct. 18, 1812 | 7 12 1/2 | do. |
Horatio N. Crabb | 1st lt. marine corps | Jan. 1, 1831 | 7 50 | do. |
John S. Chauncey | Midshipman | Sept. 30, 1817 | 4 75 | do. |
Thomas R. Clarke | Ordinary seaman | Feb. 18, 1823 | 2 50 | do. |
Edward Cardeven | Seaman | Feb. 28, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
John Clark | Seaman | May 31, 1825 | 3 00 | do. |
John Clark | Boatswain's mate | Jan. 15, 1838 | 7 12 1/2 | do. |
Horace Carter | Landsman | Feb. 26, 1837 | 2 00 | do. |
John Davidson | Lieutenant | Mar. 1, 1801 | 20 00 | do. |
Stillman Dodge | Ordinary seaman | May 1, 1831 | 3 33 1/3 | do. |
John Dunn - | Marine | July 1, 1818 | 3 00 | do. |
Jacob Dornes | Seaman | July 1, 1802 | 8 50 | do. |
John Daniels | Quartermaster | Sept. 7, 1816 | 9 00 | do. |
Richard Dunn | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1829 | 6 00 | do. |
Samuel Daykin | Marine | Oct. 22, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
John Diragen | Seaman | Dec. 22, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
Matthias Douglass | Seaman | Ap'l 23, 1814 | 10 00 | do. |
Owen Deddolph | Gunner | June 25, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
William Dunn | Gunner | Oct. 8, 1835 | 10 00 | do. |
Daniel Denvers | Marine | Oct. 22, 1835 | 3 00 | do. |
Joseph Dalrymple | Seaman | Feb. 24, 1814 | 4 50 | do. |
Marmaduke Dove | Sailingmaster | Ap'l 20, 1833 | 5 00 | do. |
John Downes | Master commandant | Nov. 28, 1813 | 10 00 | do. |
John A. Dickason | Carpenter | Aug. 19, 1835 | 3 33 1/3 | do. |
Ebenezer Day | Ordinary seaman | June 1, 1813 | 1 66 2/3 | do. |
James Darley | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 1, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
James Dixon | Seaman | Nov. 11, 1835 | 3 00 | do. |
Timothy Donigan | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 27, 1837 | 2 50 | do. |
Ebenezer Evans | Seaman | Mar. 2, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Edwards | Quartermaster | Jan. 1, 1823 | 9 00 | do. |
Jesse Elam | Marine | Aug. 1, 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
Gardner Edwards | Ordinary seaman | June 4,1814 | 5 00 | do. |
Thomas English | Ordinary seaman | May 14, 1832 | 5 no | do. |
William Evans | Marine | May 1, 1827 | 3 00 | do. |
Abner Enos | Master's male | June 4, 1830 | 6 00 | do. |
Francis H. Ellison | Sailingmaster | Dec. 27, 1830 | 15 00 | do. |
D. S. Edwards | Surgeon's mate | June 28, 1822 | 7 50 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension. |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Alvin Edson | 1st lt. marine corps | Feb. 6, 1832 | $7 50 | April 23, 1800. |
George Edwards | Boy, (1st class) | May 21, 1837 | 4 00 | do. |
Francis Elliott | Marine | Ap'l 20, 1838 | 3 50 | do. |
James Eddo | Capt. of fore-castle | Jan. 16, 1835 | 1 75 | do. |
Standish F. Edwards | Seaman | May 11, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
Edward Field | Surgeon's mate | July 1, 1804 | 10 00 | do. |
Robert Forsaith | Marine | May 18, 1799 | 3 00 | do. |
John Fallahee | Landsman | Aug. 1, 1827 | 4 00 | do. |
N. S. Farrell | Marine | May 10, 1830 | 3 00 | do. |
William Farrell | Seaman | June 4, 1829 | 6 00 | do. |
Moses French | Seaman | Ap'l 19, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Alfred Fisher | Seaman | May 15, 1835 | 5 00 | do. |
William Farrer | Quartermaster | Ap'l 21, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Michael Fitzpatrick | Master-at-arms | June 4, 1829 | 9 00 | do. |
Peter Foley | Marine | June 27, 1837 | 3 50 | do. |
William Flagg | Lieutenant | Oct. 31, 1800 | 18 75 | do. |
James Ferguson | Sailingmaster | Feb. 19, 1827 | 10 00 | do. |
Jack Flood | Seaman | July 7, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
William Fitzgerald | Seaman | Dec. 31, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
George Fitzgerald | Seaman | Oct. 11, 1838 | 2 00 | do. |
John Geyer | Seaman | Ap'l 6, 1815 | 6 00 | April 2, 1816. |
Samuel H. Green | Quartermaster | Jan. 1, 1819 | 9 00 | April 23, 1800. |
John Grant | Ordinary seaman | July 1, 1831 | 4 00 | do. |
Anthony Gerome | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1832 | 6 00 | do. |
William Gregory | Marine | May 28, 1830 | 2 00 | do. |
John Grant | Seaman | May 20, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
William Gunnison | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 24, 1833 | 5 00 | do. |
Patrick Gilligan | Marine | June 4, 1829 | 3 50 | do. |
James Giant | Seaman | Ap'l 9, 1829 | 8 00 | do. |
Peter Green | Seaman | Ap'l 3, 1827 | 5 00 | do. |
Chester Goodell | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 12, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
Charles Gordon | Ordinary seaman | May 11, 1835 | 5 00 | do. |
William Gillen | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1832 | 6 00 | do. |
Jerry Gardner | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 14, 1818 | 5 00 | do. |
Anthony Gale | Lt col. marine corps | Jan. 5, 1835 | *25 00 | do. |
James Good | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1829 | 12 00 | do. |
John M. Garr | Steward | Nov. 11, 1832 | 4 50 | do. |
James Glass | Serg't. marine corps | Oct. 24, 1836 | 6 50 | do. |
William M. Goodshall | Seaman | July 15, 1825 | 6 00 | do. |
Richard Gilbody | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 14, 1800 | 4 00 | do. |
John Granso | Capt. of maintop | Mar. 30, 1838 | 3 50 | do. |
Daniel Gardner | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 28, 1814 | 2 50 | do. |
Uriah Hanscomb | Ordinary seaman | Oct. 16, 1799 | 6 00 | do. |
James Hatch | Quarter gunner | July 1, 1814 | 12 00 | do. |
James D. Hammond | Seaman | Dec. 29, 1812 | 6 00 | do. |
John Hamilton | Seaman | May 1, 1827 | 6 00 | do. |
Elijah L. Harris | Marine | Sept 25, 1833 | 3 00 | do. |
John Hoxse | Seaman | Aug. 15, 1800 | 8 50 | do. |
Garret Henricks | Seaman | Aug. 9, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
John Hodgkins | Corporal's mate | July 1, 1814 | 7 00 | do. |
Roswell Hale | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 25, 1819 | 5 00 | do. |
William Harringbrook | Seaman | Feb. 18, 1814 | 6 00 | do. |
John Hogan | Seaman | Mar. 4, 1830 | 3 00 | do. |
John Hall | Quartermaster | Oct. 20, 1830 | 4 50 | do. |
Henry Hervey | Seaman | Mar. 8, 1834 | 4 00 | do. |
William Hamilton | Seaman | July 1, 1829 | 6 00 | do. |
Isaac Harding | Seaman | May 9, 1834 | 5 00 | do. |
Samuel Hambleton | Purser | Sept. 10, 1813 | 20 00 | do. |
John Harris | Quarter gunner | Aug. 1, 1827 | 4 50 | do. |
* Increased from $15 to $25: to take effect from 1st July, 1838.
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Simon Hillman | Ordinary seamen | July 3, 1815 | $4 00 | April 23, 1800. |
John Hussey | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 1, 1832 | 5 00 | do. |
John J. Hardy | Seaman | June 25, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Joshua Howell | Ordinary seaman | June 30, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
William L. Hudson | Sailingmaster | July 6, 1817 | 15 00 | do. |
Elias Hughes | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 28, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
Ephraim Hathaway | Landsman | June 15, 1838 | 4 00 | do. |
Alexander Hamilton | Boatswain's mate | May 31, 1838 | 7 12 1/2 | do. |
J. L. C. Hardy | Midshipman | July 31, 1821 | 4 75 | do. |
Benjamin Herrod | Seaman | Oct. 28, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
Thomas Huntly | Seaman | Aug. 31, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
Horatio H. Harrison | Passed midshipman | July 15, 1838 | 6 50 | do. |
Robert Hazlett | Musician m. corps | Dec. 12, 1836 | 2 00 | do. |
Samuel P. Holbrook | Carpenter | Sept. 30, 1820 | 5 00 | do. |
David Jenkins | Seaman | Aug. I, 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
James Jackson | Seaman | Mar. 4, 1816 | 5 00 | do. |
John Johnson | Seaman | Mar. 28, 1814 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Jackson, 2d | Quartermaster | June 1, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
Sylvester Jameson | Seaman | Aug. 1, 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
Edward Ingram | Boatswain | Ap'l 1, 1831 | 5 00 | do. |
Thos. ap C. Jones | Lieutenant | Dec. 14, 1814 | 25 00 | do. |
James Jeffers | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 7, 1805 | 6 00 | do. |
Obadiah Johnson | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 1, 1819 | 5 00 | do. |
Lewis Jones | Seaman | Oct. 27, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
Richworth Jordon | Seaman | Mar. 15, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
Henry Jackson | Capt. of foretop | Sept. 20, 1836 | 3 75 | do. |
"William Jones | Boy | Aug. 24, 1814 | 2 25 | do. |
Henry Irwin | Marine | Feb. 20, 1837 | 1 75 | do. |
Gilbert Jones | Ordinary seaman | June 30, 1815 | 2 50 | do. |
Ichabod Jackson | Seaman | Jan. 25, 1837 | 4 50 | do. |
Michael Johnson | Seaman | Jan. 31, 1812 | 3 00 | do. |
James Kelly | Marine | Aug. 24, 1814 | 4 50 | do. |
John Kenney | Quarter gunner | July 1, 1825 | 4 50 | do. |
George Kensinger | Master at arms | May 22, 1819 | 9 00 | do. |
Daniel Kleiss | Ordinary seaman | May 6, 1829 | 5 00 | do. |
Nicholas Kline | Serg't. marine corps | Jan. 1, 1832 | 5 00 | do. |
William Kennear | Marine | Ap'l 3, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
William C. Keene | Master-at-arms | Sept. 10, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
Thomas Kelly | Seaman | Ap'l 25, 1815 | 4 00 | do. |
Joseph Kelly | Seaman | Oct. 31, 1835 | 4 50 | do. |
Henry Keeling | Gunner | Aug. 30 1831 | 5 00 | do. |
John Keegan | Quartermaster | Mar. 27, 1830 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Kowse | Quartermaster | Oct. 11, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
John Kiggan | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 30, 1838 | 2 50 | do. |
Richard Lee | Quartermaster | July 1, 1820 | 6 00 | do. |
John Lloyd | Marine | June 8, 1819 | 3 00 | do. |
Isaac Langley | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 1, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
Timothy Lane | Cook | Mar. 25, 1816 | 8 00 | do. |
John Lewis | Boatswain's mate | Jan. 1, 1832 | 9 00 | do. |
James Lloyd | Marine | April 5, 1834 | 2 00 | do. |
John Lagrange | Seaman | Nov 30, 1831 | 4 50 | do. |
Peter Levis | Ordinary seaman | July 30, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
John Loscomb | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 15, 1838 | 2 50 | do. |
John Lovely | Seaman | Ap'l 23, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
John Leonard | Seaman | July 1, 1829 | 9 00 | do. |
John G. Lanman | Quarter gunner | June 20, 1836 | 7 50 | do. |
Edward Libbis | Ordinary seaman | June 11, 1836 | 1 66 2/3 | do. |
Robert Lewis | Steward | Sept. 5, 1830 | 6 75 | do. |
James Merrill | Ordinary seaman | Oct. 23, 1819 | 5 00 | do. |
Colton Murray | Boatswain's mate | Aug. 11, 1831 | 9 00 | do. |
Enoch M. Miley | Quarter gunner | Mar. 28, 1814 | 8 00 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension. |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Peter McMahon | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 2, 1807 | $6 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Andrew Mattison | Seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 5 00 | do. |
Patrick McLaughlin | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 1, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
Charles Moore | Seaman | Aug. 5, 1822 | 6 00 | do. |
Giles Manchester | Ordinary seaman | May I, 1827 | 5 00 | do. |
John Myers | Seaman | Nov. 1, 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
Joseph Marks | Seaman | May 1, 1827 | 6 00 | do. |
Samuel McIsaacs | Boy | July 30, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
James Moses | Purser's steward | Ap'l 23, 1816 | 9 00 | do. |
William Moran | Seaman | Dec. 5, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
Enos Marks | Ordinary seaman | Feb 16, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
John H. McNeale | Seaman | June 1, 1832 | 3 00 | do. |
John Mitchell | Quartermaster | June 11, 1832 | 8 00 | do. |
Matthew McMurray | Seaman | Sept. 1, 1827 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Miller | Seaman | Oct. 23, 1829 | 4 00 | do. |
Matthias McGill | Seaman | May 28, 1814 | 8 00 | do. |
John Moore | Seaman | Dec. 4, 1817 | 6 00 | do. |
Archibald Moffat | Ordinary seaman | June 1, 1832 | 5 00 | do. |
John Meigs | Seaman | July 1, 1819 | 10 00 | do. |
Thomas Murdock | Seaman | June 30, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
John Munroe | Seaman | July 22, 1835 | 3 00 | do. |
Richard Merchant | Marine | June 30, 1824 | 1 75 | do. |
John McMahon | Ordinary seaman | July 9, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
Samuel Miller | Capt. marine corps | Ap'l 24, 1814 | 10 00 | do. |
James McDonnell | Seaman | Dec. 31, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
Charles Morris | Lieutenant | Aug. 19, 1812 | 12 50 | do. |
John T. McLaughlin | Passed midshipman | Feb. 8, 1837 | 9 37 1/2 | do. |
Jacob Marks | Marine | June 30, 1810 | 43 3/4 | do. |
George Marshall | Gunner | Mar. 31, 1825 | 2 50 | do. |
James McDonnell | Corporal m. corps | Dec. 31, 1814 | 2 25 | do. |
Edward Mania | Seaman | Mar. 3, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
Samuel Meade | Seaman | Oct. 19, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
William P. McArthur | Midshipman | Jan. 15, 1838 | 4 75 | do. |
John Marston, jr. | Midshipman | Dec. 31, 1814 | 4 75 | do. |
William Mervine | Midshipman | Nov. 28, 1812 | 3 66 2/3 | do. |
William Middleton | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1837 | 8 00 | do. |
James Mount | Sergeant | June 7, 1837 | 3 25 | do. |
Edward Myers | Seaman | May 27, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
Henry J. Mercier | Ordinary seaman | May 20, 1837 | 1 25 | do. |
John Moore | Seaman | Jan. 9, 1838 | 4 50 | do. |
Patrick Murphy | Ordinary seaman | Oct. 19, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
James Nickerson | Seaman | Jan. 15, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
John Nugent | Seaman | Aug. 14, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
John P. Noyer | Marine | July 1, 1826 | 5 00 | do. |
William Napier | Corporal m. corps | July 1, 1826 | 4 00 | do. |
John Neilson | Quarter gunner | Jan. 1, 1832 | 9 00 | do. |
James Nagle | Seaman | June 30, 1834 | 5 00 | do. |
David Newbury | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 15, 1836 | 2 50 | do. |
Francis B. Nichols | Midshipman | June 1, 1818 | 4 75 | do. |
William Newton | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 11, 1814 | 1 25 | do. |
Isaac Omans | Seaman | June 26, 1821 | 6 00 | do. |
Samuel Odiorne | Seaman | Dec. 24, 1825 | 6 00 | do. |
Asael Owens | Seaman | Jan. 22, 1838 | 3 00 | do. |
Thomas B. Parsons | Seaman | Sept. 1, 1808 | 6 00 | do. |
William Perry | Seaman | April 9, 1825 | 6 00 | do. |
John Peterson | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 5 00 | do. |
Usher Parsons | Surgeon | Feb. 7, 1816 | 12 50 | do. |
William Parker | Seaman | Ap'l 27, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Stephen Phyfer | Ordinary seaman | April 4, 1825 | 7 00 | do. |
John Piner | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 6, 1828 | 5 00 | do. |
Daniel Peck | Seaman | July 1, 1829 | 6 00 | do. |
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NAME OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
John Price | Seaman | May 11, 1835 | $6 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Charles Pasture | Seaman | Mar. 4, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
Neale Patterson | Seaman | July 1, 1820 | 8 00 | do. |
James Perry | Ship's corporal | Sept. 1, 1827 | 9 00 | do. |
Thomas Payne | Sailingmaster | Feb. 7, 1834 | 20 00 | do. |
Peter Pierson | Seaman | Mar. 30, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
Payne Perry | Seaman | April 6, 1815 | 6 00 | April 2, 1816. |
Joseph Peck | Seaman | Oct. 19, 1836 | 2 50 | April 23, 1800. |
Charles T. Platt | Lieutenant | June 4, 1829 | 25 00 | do. |
Samuel Philips | Carpenter | Mar. 23, 1815 | 7 50 | do. |
N. A. Prentiss | Sailingmaster | Nov. 30, 1814 | 10 00 | do. |
John Percival | Lieutenant | Dec. 22, 1825 | 12 50 | do. |
David Porter | Captain | Jan. 24, 1825 | 40 00 | do. |
Edward Power | Ordinary seaman | May 27, 1834 | 5 00 | do. |
Charles Perry | Seaman | Nov. 30, 1837 | 4 50 | do. |
David Quille | Quartermaster | Feb. 20, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
Peter Quantin | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 17, 1813 | 5 00 | do. |
Nathan Rolfe | Seaman | Dec. 14, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
James Rodgers | Sailingmaster | July 27, 1815 | 15 00 | do. |
Edward Ross | Boy | Jan. 1, 1827 | 3 00 | do. |
Edward Rowland | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 11, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
Rosnante Rhodes | Seaman | Dec. 3, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
John Rice | Seaman | July 19, 1830 | 6 00 | do. |
William Robinson | Marine | June 5, 1817 | 6 00 | do. |
John Rogers | Captain's yeoman | May 18, 1832 | 4 50 | do. |
John Romeo | Ordinary seaman | April 6, 1828 | 5 00 | do. |
John Randall | Marine | Sept. 2, 1805 | 3 00 | do. |
John Riley | Marine | July 1, 1831 | 3 00 | do. |
John Richards | Quarter gunner | Oct. 20, 1829 | 9 00 | do. |
Benjamin Richardson | Master's mate | Oct. 8, 1829 | 10 00 | do. |
Alonzo Rowley | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 15, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
John Roberts | Seaman | June 1, 1813 | 3 00 | do. |
R. S. Randolph | Midshipman | Oct. 7, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
John Revel | Ordinary seaman | Aug 20, 1833 | 2 50 | do. |
James [C]. Reed | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 5, 1837 | 2 50 | do. |
James Roberts | Quarter gunner | Ap'l 14, 1832 | 1 87 1/2 | do. |
Samuel Rose | Seaman | May 24, 1836 | 4 50 | do. |
John Richmond | Marine | July 31, 1816 | 1 75 | do. |
Samuel Riddle | Seaman | June 30, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
John Robinson | Master's mate | Jan. 31, 1814 | 1 25 | do. |
James Reid | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 14, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Thomas Riley | Gunner | June 23, 1837 | 7 50 | do. |
Burnet Rogan | Landsman | June 6, 1838 | 2 00 | do. |
Nathaniel Staples | Seaman | May 1, 1833 | 3 00 | do. |
Aaron Smith | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 1, 1828 | 2 50 | do. |
Patrick Scanton | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 1, 1811 | 6 00 | do. |
Benjamin Stevens | Master's mate | June 27, 1814 | 10 00 | do. |
Otis Sage | Corporal m. corps | Nov. 16, 1835 | 4 50 | do. |
Stephen Simpson | Marine | Nov. 16, 1835 | 3 50 | do. |
William Smith | Ordinary seaman | June 1, 1827 | 5 00 | do. |
John Schriver | Seaman | Ap'l 10, 1811 | 5 00 | do. |
John Schrouder | Seaman | June 29, 1819 | 6 00 | do. |
Robert Scatterly | Seaman | Mar. 28, 1812 | 4 00 | do. |
Jonas A. Stone | Seaman | April 4, 1829 | 9 00 | do. |
William Sitcher | Musician m. corps | Jan. 1, 1834 | 3 50 | do. |
Eli Stewart | Master's mate | May 20, 1814 | 7 00 | do. |
Harmon Sutton | Seaman | July 1, 1829 | 3 00 | do. |
William Stockdale | Marine | July 26, 1816 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Smith | Boatswain | April 6, 1815 | 10 00 | April 2, 1816. |
Thomas I. Still | Marine | Jan. 1, 1832 | 3 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Richard S. Suter | Midshipman | Dec. 16, 1814 | 9 50 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension. |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Charles Sheeter | Boatswain's mate | Nov. 1, 1832 | $6 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Robert Speddin | Lieutenant | Dec. 5, 1823 | 25 00 | do. |
Jacob Schriver | Seaman | Mar. 15, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
William Seymore | Seaman | Feb. 17, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas H. Stevens | Midshipman | Nov. 28, 1812 | 7 12 1/2 | do. |
Joseph Smith | Lieutenant | Sept. 11, 1814 | 18 75 | do. |
Joseph Smith | Boatswain | Dec. 31, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
James Shanklin | Ordinary seaman | June 1, 1813 | 2 50 | do. |
Leonard Stevens | Sergeant m. corps | Jan. 27, 1837 | 3 25 | do. |
Alfred Smith | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 27, 1837 | 2 50 | do. |
John Smith | Seaman | Aug. 31, 1834 | 3 00 | do. |
Alexander Smith | Seaman | July 26, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
James Smith | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 2, 1837 | 2 50 | do. |
Thomas Stalling | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 7, 1826 | 2 50 | do. |
John Strain | Seaman | Feb. 28, 1837 | 4 50 | do. |
John Stevens | Quartermaster | May 21, 1831 | 4 50 | do. |
Jeremiah Sullivan | Seaman | June 30, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Horace B. Sawyer | Midshipman | June 3, 1813 | 4 75 | do. |
William Smart | Ordinary seaman | July 1, 1829 | 5 00 | do. |
Thomas Smith | Seaman | April 5, 1839 | 2 00 | do. |
James Spiers | Ordinary seaman | May 5, 1837 | 3 75 | do. |
Samuel Spooner | Ordinary seaman | Oct. 15, 1838 | 1 66 2/3 | do. |
James Trumbull | Ordinary seaman | April 6, 1815 | 5 00 | April 2, 1816. |
Owen Taylor | Seaman | Aug. 19, 1812 | 6 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Henry Townsend | Ordinary seaman | Dec. 18, 1814 | 5 00 | do. |
David Thomas | Marine | Jan. 1, 1806 | 3 00 | do. |
Phillips Tully | Seaman | Jan. 10, 1816 | 6 00 | do. |
Isaac Thomas | Marine | Oct. 30, 1826 | 6 00 | do. |
William Thompson | Ordinary seaman | May 20, 1826 | 7 50 | do. |
John Tarleton | Ordinary seaman | May 8, 1833 | 4 00 | do. |
James Tull | Sergeant m. corps | June 29, 1816 | 5 00 | do. |
George Tunstall | Seaman | Ap'l 14, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
James Thompson | Seaman | June 30, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Findley | Seaman | April 6, 1815 | 3 00 | April 2, 1816. |
Julius Terry | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 31, 1812 | 5 00 | April 23, 1800. |
R. R. Tinslar | Surgeon | Jan. 31, 1830 | 6 50 | do. |
Peter Tooley | Marine | Jan. 27, 1837 | 3 50 | do. |
John Taylor | Quartermaster | May 31, 1839 | 8 00 | do. |
Benjamin Underwood | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 24, 1815 | 5 00 | do. |
George Upham | Marine | July 12, 1816 | 3 00 | do. |
William Venable | Boatswain's mate | May 2, 1834 | 4 75 | do. |
Gabriel Vanhorn | Marine | Dec. 23, 1837 | 3 50 | do. |
Caleb Wiggins | Ordinary seaman | May 23, 1814 | 3 00 | do. |
Peter Woodbury | Quartermaster | Mar. 18, 1813 | 9 00 | do. |
Reuben Wright | Carpenter's mate | Aug. 30, 1814 | 8 00 | do. |
John Williams | Seaman | July 1, 1818 | 6 00 | do. |
John Waters | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 24, 1824 | 5 00 | do. |
William S. Welsh | Seaman | May 1, 1827 | 6 00 | do. |
Solomon White | Seaman | Feb. 29, 1812 | 3 0[] | do. |
John Wright, 1st | Quarter gunner | Sept. 6, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
Charles Weeks | Seaman | Feb. 23, 1830 | 6 00 | do. |
James B. Wright | Quartermaster | May 1, 1831 | 9 00 | do. |
Henry Ward | Quarter gunner | May 27, 1833 | 9 00 | do. |
Robert M. Wilson | Master's mate | Jan. 1, 1816 | 10 00 | do. |
James Wines | Seaman | Mar. 28, 1824 | 6 00 | do. |
Thomas Ward | Captain of foretop | Jan. 14, 1835 | 7 50 | do. |
William Williams | Marine | July 9, 1828 | 3 50 | do. |
William A. Weaver | Midshipman | June 1, 1813 | 9 50 | do. |
Joseph Ward | Seaman | July 1, 1818 | 6 00 | do. |
James Wilson | Quartermaster | July 1, 1817 | 9 00 | do. |
James Williamson | Armorer | Sept. 1, 1831 | 3 00 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension. |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
William Whitney | Seaman | Nov. 1, 1818 | $8 00 | April 23, 1800. |
John A. Webster | Sailingmaster | Sept. 13, 1814 | 20 00 | June 30, 1834.* |
William Wicks | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 4, 1813 | 4 00 | April 23, 1800. |
Charles Wilson | Quartermaster | Oct. 1, 1826 | 9 00 | do. |
James Woodhouse | Seaman | Mar. 17, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
William Ward | Seaman | Aug. 1, 1832 | 6 00 | do. |
Charles Wheeler | Seaman | Oct. 3, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
John Wright, 2d | Quarter gunner | Nov. 7, 1836 | 5 62 1/2 | do. |
William Welsh | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 1, 1822 | 2 50 | do. |
Charles W. White | Ordinary seaman | Feb. 17, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
Marvel Wilcox | Carpenter's mate | Jan. 1, 1821 | 9 50 | do. |
Elias Wiley | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 2 50 | do. |
R. D. Wainwright | Lieutenant m. corps | Aug. 27, 1810 | 7 50 | do. |
Samuel E. Watson | Major marine corps | Feb. 4, 1837 | 18 75 | do, |
William Wright | Seaman | Aug. 31, 1832 | 3 00 | do. |
Thomas Williamson | Surgeon | Dec. 31, 1835 | 15 00 | do. |
Job G. Williams | 1st lieut. marine corps | June 30, 1828 | 7 50 | do. |
John Williams | 1st capt. of foretop | Sept. 9, 1830 | 1 87 1/2 | do. |
Edward Watts | Seaman | Dec. 31, 1828 | 3 00 | do. |
Henry Walpole | Seaman | Oct. 2, 1820 | 3 00 | do. |
Jack Williams | Seaman | Mar. 22, 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
Francis Williams | Landsman | Jan. 15, 1838 | 1 00 | do. |
George Wiley | Seaman | Mar. 1, 1837 | 3 00 | do. |
Henry Williams | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 3, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Thomas Welsh | Quarter gunner | Feb. 26, 1820 | 12 00 | do. |
Samuel Williams | Quartermaster | Sept. 1, 1827 | 9 00 | do. |
William Wagner | Quarter gunner | Dec. 3, 1819 | 9 00 | do. |
Robert Woods | Seaman | Dec. 31, 1836 | 3 00 | do. |
James L Walsh | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 30, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
William G. Woolsey | Lieutenant | Oct. 22, 1828 | 8 33 1/3 | do. |
John Waters | Seaman | Sept. 30, 1838 | 3 00 | do. |
George Wilson | Seaman | Mar. 23, 1838 | 6 00 | do. |
John W. West | Lieutenant | Nov. 30, 1830 | 6 25 | do. |
John Young | Lieutenant | May 21, 1829 | 25 00 | do. |
The number of invalid pensioners is 456.
Annual amount to pay them, $33,844 74.
* Special.
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N 2.
Alphabetical list of widow pensioners, complete to September 30, 1839.
NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Sally Annis | Seaman | Ap'l 20, 1815 | $6 00 | March 4, 1814. |
Adelaide H. Adams | Master commandant | Jan. 1, 1831 | 30 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Louisa Auchmiety | Lieutenant | Oct. 8, 1835 | 25 00 | do. |
Betsey Armstrong | Carpenter | Sept. 6, 1836 | 10 00 | do. |
Catharine Anderson | Marine | Feb. 19, 1813 | 3 50 | March 3, 1837. |
Abigail Appleton | Seaman | Jan. 4, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
Martha Ann Atwood | Purser | May 11, 1823 | 20 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Armitage | Seaman | Mar. 7, 1810 | 6 00 | do. |
Juliana Burchmore | Surgeon | Sept. 10, 1829 | 27 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Maria Babbit | Surgeon | May 24, 1826 | 25 00 | do. |
Caroline M. Berry | Lieutenant | July 17, 1824 | 25 00 | do. |
Elizabeth H. Baldwin | Captain's clerk | Ap'l 12, 1816 | 12 50 | March 3, 1817. |
Nabby Burchstead | Carpenter | Dec. 14, 1833 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Mary Burns | Seaman | Mar. 4, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
Susan Bainbridge | Captain | July 27, 1833 | 50 00 | do. |
Eliza K. Boughan | Lieutenant | Nov. 6, 1832 | 25 00 | do. |
Emily Beale | Purser | Ap'l 4, 1835 | 20 00 | do. |
Mary J. Babbit | Nov. 29, 1830 | 16 66 2/3 | July 2, 1836* | |
Letitia Blake | Marine | Aug. 14, 1836 | 3 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Lydia Brown | Carpenter | Mar. 28, 1824 | 10 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Beeler | Corporal m. corps | Sept. 8, 1830 | 4 50 | March 3, 1837. |
Catharine M. Beers | Surgeon | June 8, 1831 | 25 00 | do. |
Polly Barry | Marine | Dec. 7. 1812 | 3 50 | do. |
Elizabeth Bishop | Seaman | Dec. 18, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Martha Burrill | Seaman | Dec. 14, 1822 | 6 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Bartlett | Seaman | Ap'l 25, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Barnes | Carpenter | Nov. 2, 1819 | 10 00 | do. |
Mahala Berry | Seaman | May 18, 1838 | 6 00 | do. |
Eliza Bradlee | Sergeant m. corps | Ap'l 12, 1838 | 6 50 | do. |
Gratia Bay | Quartermaster | Jan. 6, 1834 | 18 00 | do. |
Sarah Bernard | Carpenter's mate | Sept. 10, 1829 | 9 50 | do. |
Abigail Bailey | Landsman | Dec. 31, 1834 | 4 00 | do. |
Phebe Butler | Purser | Ap'l 9, 1837 | 20 00 | do. |
Mary Ann Boyd | Surgeon | Mar. 26, 1839 | 30 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Buck | Musician m. corps | Dec. 5, 1838 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Bellingham | Seaman | Aug. 9, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Mary Cheever | Ap'l 12, 1814 | 8 33 1/3 | Ap'l 12, 1814.* | |
Abigail Cowell | Lieutenant | Ap'l 18, 1814 | 25 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Harriet Carter | Lieutenant | Sept. 6, 1823 | 25 00 | do. |
Ann M. Clunet | Sergeant m. corps | Dec. 1, 1825 | 6 50 | June 20, 1813. |
Eliza M. Cloud | Assistant surgeon | Aug. 1, 1831 | 15 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Celia Cross | Lieutenant | Feb. 10, 1834 | 25 00 | do. |
Eliza Cassin | Purser | Aug. 19, 1821 | 20 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Frances P. Cook | Lieutenant | Feb. 7, 1834 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Leah Carter | Musician m. corps | Sept. 23, 1834 | 4 00 | do. |
Maria J. Cuvilier | Musician m. corps | June 28, 1834 | 4 00 | do. |
Eliza M. Cocke | Lieutenant | Mar. 7, 1823 | 25 00 | June 20, 1813. |
Fanny Cassin | Lieutenant | Nov. 30, 1826 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Ann V. Cocke | Lieutenant | May 31, 1835 | 25 00 | do. |
Ann Clarke | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 27, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
Ann D. Campbell | Lieutenant | June 3, 1836 | 25 00 | do. |
Sarah Clementson | Sailmaker | July 9, 1833 | 10 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Margaret Cowan | Gunner | Sept. 14, 1831 | 10 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Cash | Seaman | Jan. 12, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Ellen Coxe | Passed midshipman | June 30, 1822 | 12 50 | do. |
Susannah Critchet | Seaman | June 19, 1812 | 6 00 | March 4, 1814. |
Eleanor Carreia | Gunner | Dec. 21, 1823 | 10 00 | March 3, 1837. |
* Special.
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Elizabeth J.Caldwell | Lieutenant | Aug. 9, 1831 | $25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Margaret Carmick | Major marine corps | Nov. 6, 1816 | 25 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Mary Cassin | Lieutenant | Oct. 15, 1837 | 25 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Cernon | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 28, 1823 | 5 00 | do. |
Hannah J. Caldwell | Lieutenant | June 30, 1834 | 25 00 | do. |
Ellen Cars | Lieutenant | May 3, 1837 | 25 00 | do. |
Sarah Ann Cooke | Surgeon | Dec. 4, 1838 | 35 00 | do. |
Ann Conrad | Landsman | Mar. 8, 1834 | 4 00 | do. |
Harriet Creighton | Captain | Oct. 13, 1838 | 50 00 | do. |
Ann Crain | Ship's corporal | Oct. 25, 1834 | 7 00 | do. |
Ellen Dix | Surgeon | Ap'l 16, 1823 | 27 50 | March 3, 1817. |
Eliza Doxey | Sailingmaster | May 20, 1828 | 20 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Lamitia Dill | Boatswain | Dec. 19, 1831 | 10 00 | do. |
Laura P. Daggett | Gunner | Ap'l 9, 1836 | 10 00 | do. |
Catharine Davidson | Seaman | June 27, 1836 | 6 00 | do. |
Sarah Drew | Sailingmaster | Ap'l 19, 1823 | 20 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Susan Decatur | Captain | Mar. 22, 1820 | 50 00 | do. |
Susan Davis | Quarter gunner | Aug. 10, 1800 | 7 50 | do. |
Virginia Duncan | Passed midshipman | Aug. 3, 1836 | 12 50 | do. |
Ellen Dever | Landsman | Ap'l 23, 1823 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Ann Dent | Captain | July 31, 1823 | 50 00 | do. |
Prudence Denham | Ordinary seaman | June 27, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
Peggy Dorney | Steward | Jan. 25, 1838 | 9 00 | do. |
Arabella Dubois | Seaman | Aug. 30, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Sarah Davis | Master's mate | Jan. 6, 1820 | 10 00 | do. |
Mary Davis | July 1, 1823 | 9 00 | do. | |
Mary Frances Davis | Sailmaker | Jan. 26, 1839 | 10 00 | do. |
Dorothy M. Evans | Boatswain | July 9, 1832 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Jane Evans | Captain | June 2, 1824 | 50 00 | do. |
Harriet Ann Elbert | Lieutenant | Dec. 20, 1812 | 25 00 | March 4, 1814. |
Abigail Eldridge | Seaman | June 2, 1831 | 6 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Hannah Everett | Chaplain | Ap'l 12, 1837 | 20 00 | do. |
Phebe Eldridge | Gunner | Dec. 31, 1806 | 10 00 | do. |
Ann R. Edwards | Lieutenant | Jan. 1, 1838 | 25 00 | do. |
Mary Ford | Carpenter's mate | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 9 00 | March 4 1814. |
Abigail Fernald | Seamen | Feb. 24, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
Mary T. Forrest | Lieutenant | Oct. 1, 1825 | 25 00 | June 30, 1831 |
Catharine Freemody | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 20, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Ferguson | Seaman | July 24, 1814 | G 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Mary Forrest | Sergeant m. corps | Mar. 11, 1832 | 8 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Eliza M. Fortin | Steward | Jan. 28, 1833 | 9 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Lucy Flagg | Gunner | Ap'l 20, 1816 | 10 00 | do. |
Ann Fletcher | Marine | Jan. 20, 1818 | 3 50 | do. |
Mary Griffin | Surgeon | Nov. 1, 1814 | 30 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Margaret F. Green | Carpenter | Nov 11, 1834 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Eliza Grayson | Captain m. corps | June 30, 1823 | 20 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Sophia Gardner | Master commandant | Sept. 1, 1815 | 30 00 | do. |
Elizabeth C. Gray | Boatswain | Feb. 15, 1836 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Hannah L. Gamble | Major marine corps | Sept. 11, 1836 | 25 00 | do. |
Ann B. Grimes | Captain m. corps | July 25, 1834 | 20 00 | do. |
Ann Gardner | Gunner | Ap'l 28, 1835 | 10 00 | do. |
Olive Grover | Ordinary seaman | Feb. 2, 1836 | 5 00 | do. |
Dionysia Goodrum | Lieutenant | May 9, 1836 | 25 00 | do. |
Ann T. Green | Purser | Aug. 24, 1812 | 20 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Elizabeth Goldthwait | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 25, 1813 | 5 00 | do. |
Laura Griswold | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 29, 1837 | 5 00 | do. |
Jane Goslin | Marine | Dec. 28, 1831 | 3 50 | do. |
Mary GalIon | Seaman | Ap'l 28, 1825 | 6 00 | do. |
Mary Glass | Carpenter's mate | Oct. 1, 1837 | 9 50 | do. |
Mary S. Gadsden | Master commandant | Aug. 28, 1812 | 30 00 | do. |
Rebecca Gulliver | Marine | Jan. 31. 1822 | 3 50 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Mary E. Holbert | Corporal m. corps | June 30, 1834 | $4 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Phebe Hamersley | Lieutenant | Oct. 1, 1823 | 25 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Sarah Higgins | Seaman | Sept. 28, 1834 | 6 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Diana Hardy | Ordinary seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 5 00 | March 4, 1814. |
Susan Harraden | Master commandant | Jan. 20, 1818 | 30 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Ellen Nora Hanbury | Sergeant m. corps | Jan. 4, 1825 | 8 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Theresa Hoffman | Musician m. corps | Sept. 10, 1837 | 4 00 | do. |
Eliza Henley | Captain | May 23, 1835 | 50 00 | do. |
Mary Henley | Captain | Oct. 7, 1828 | 50 00 | do. |
Mary R. Hatch | Pilot | Feb. 5, 1814 | 20 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Phebe W. Hoffman | Captain | Dec. 10, 1834 | 50 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Anne R. Hall | Sailmaker | Sept. 18, 1826 | 10 00 | do. |
Hannah Hazen | Seaman | Mar. 28, 1814 | 6 00 | Jon. 20, 1813. |
Cornelia Hobbs | Lieutenant | April 3, 1830 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Mary Ann H. Holmes | Armorer | Sept. 8, 1833 | 9 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Mary S. Hunter | Chaplin | Feb. 24, 1823 | 20 00 | do. |
Hannah Hammond | Marine | Nov. 10, 1817 | 3 50 | do. |
Mary Ann Hartnett | Carpenter | Sept. 9, 1830 | 10 00 | do. |
Phebe Hollis | Marine | May 13, 1811 | 3 50 | do. |
Emma Horton | Midshipman | Aug. 7, 1815 | 9 50 | do. |
Hetty Henry | Seaman | May 25, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Mary A. Horsley | Surgeon | Sept. 8, 1831 | 27 50 | do. |
Mary Hanna | Gunner | Jan. 17, 1837 | 10 00 | do. |
Ann J. Holmes | Master-at-arms | Aug. 22, 1836 | 9 00 | do. |
Rebecca Higgins | Seaman | Sept. 30, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Sarah A. Huntt | Purser | April 4, 1837 | 20 00 | do. |
Mary Hackleton | Seaman | Dec. 5, 1812 | 6 00 | do. |
Eliza Halsey | Purser | Jan. 2, 1838 | 20 00 | do. |
Ellen Hunter | Marine | May 16, 1838 | 3 50 | do. |
Abigail Jones | Cook | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 9 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Ellen Jenkins | Seaman | June 2, 1825 | 6 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Mary Jones | Chaplin | Jan. 29, 1820 | 20 00 | do. |
Mary T. Johnson | Carpenter's mate | Jan. 30, 1814 | 9 50 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Elizabeth Jones | Marine | Sept. 1, 1827 | 3 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Catharine Jolly | Captain of fore-top | Dec. 26, 1836 | 7 00 | do. |
Hannah Ingraham | Seaman | Ap'l 10, 1837 | 6 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Abigail Jones | Seaman | Aug. 16, 1800 | 6 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Johnston | Landsman | Feb. 21, 1833 | 4 00 | do. |
Catharine Johnson | Gunner | Aug. 11, 1818 | 10 00 | do. |
Mary Ann Jackson | Ordinary seaman | May 2, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Theresa Jones | Marine | June 26, 1810 | 3 50 | do. |
Abigail Kitchen | Seaman | Aug. 16, 1800 | 6 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Harriet J. Kissam | Surgeon | Oct. 6, 1828 | 30 00 | do. |
Eliza Kitts | Sailingmaster | Sept. 27, 1819 | 20 00 | March 3, 1837. |
C.C. King | Sergeant m. corps | Aug 3, 1837 | 6 50 | do. |
Lydia Low | Yeoman | Aug. 1, 1834 | 7 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Julia M. Lawrence | Captain | June 1, 1813 | 50 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Elizabeth Lee | Lieutenant | June 30, 1832 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Frances M. Lewis | Master commandant | Sept. 1, 1815 | 30 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Elizabeth Lagoner | Seaman | Mar. 4, 1835 | 6 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Sarah Ann Lent | Sailmaker's mate | Sept. 14, 1824 | 9 50 | do. |
Deborah Lindsay | Sailingmaster | May 19, 1826 | 20 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Betsey Low | Seaman | Sept. 4, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
Susannah Lippincott | Ordinary seaman | Jan. 1, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Ann G. McCullough | Sailingmaster | Aug. 24, 1814 | 20 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
June Moulton | Seaman | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 6 00 | March 1, 1814. |
Ann Martin | Quarter gunner | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 9 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Phebe Montgomery | Surgeon | Jan. 3, 1828 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Lydia Macabee | Seaman | Aug. 6, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Sarah Matthews | Quarter gunner | Nov. 30, 1814 | 9 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Ann Midlen | Master's mate | Sept. 15, 1814 | 10 00 | do. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension. |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Mary E. McPherson | Master commandant | Ap'l 28, 1824 | $30 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Eliza Maury | Lieutenant | June 24, 1823 | 25 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Mary McNelly | Gunner | Nov. 29, 1834 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Catharine Mitchell | Landsman | Nov. 20, 1832 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Mays | Sept. 3, 1834 | 9 50 | do. | |
Rachel Marshall | Seaman | Dec. 31, 1827 | 6 00 | do. |
Rebecca McGee | Marine | Jan. 2B, 1830 | 3 00 | do. |
Elizabeth McMurtrie | Purser | Mar. 23, 1836 | 20 00 | do. |
Hester Murphy | Corporal m. corps | Dec. 20, 1831 | 4 50 | March 3, 1837. |
Catharine McLaughlin | First class boy | Feb. 1ft, 1837 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Martin | Boatswain | Sept. 1, 1829 | 10 00 | do. |
Abigail Morgan | Carpenter's mate | Mar. 12, 1813 | 9 50 | do. |
Carolina Monteath | Lieutenant | Oct. 16, 1819 | 25 00 | do. |
Susan Metz | Landsman | Sept. 11, 1823 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth H. Marshall | Corporal m. corps | Dec. 11, 1822 | 4 50 | do. |
Susan McCullough | Lieutenant | Dec. 31, 1827 | 25 00 | do. |
Mary P. Morris | Lieutenant | Nov. 5, 1837 | 25 00 | do. |
Mary McCall | Surgeon | Sept. 15, 1831 | 25 00 | do. |
Martha Mosart | Master-at-arms | Feb. 20, 1838 | 9 00 | do. |
Hester Meredith | Ordinary seaman | Feb. 17, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Hetty McDermott | Quarter gunner | Sept 30, 1837 | 7 50 | do. |
Mary Ann Marshall | (widow of Thomas) | Aug. 8, 1827 | 10 00 | do. |
Celeste McGowan | Lieutenant | Feb. 19, 1826 | 25 00 | do. |
Mary D. McClure | Quarter gunner | June 5, 1834 | 7 50 | do. |
Mary McCawley | Captain m. corps | Feb. 22, 1839 | 20 00 | do. |
Ann Mix | Commander | Feb. 8, 1839 | 30 00 | do. |
Martha McNelly | Boatswain | July 14, 1839 | 10 00 | do. |
Honora McCarty | Ordinary seaman | May 25, 1839 | 5 00 | do. |
Rhoda Newcomb | Lieutenant | Nov. 1, 1825 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Margaret Navarro | Sailmaker | Oct. 2, 1823 | 10 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Elizabeth Nagle | Boatswain | Nov. 19. 1834 | 9 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Mary Neale | Lieutenant | Sept. 1, 1815 | 25 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Sarah H. Nichols | Sailingmaster | Sept. 12, 1822 | 20 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Sarah L. Noyes | Ship's corporal | Oct. 9, 1835 | 7 00 | do. |
Charity Nicholson | Sept. 9, 1814 | 10 00 | do. | |
Ann Nantz | Sailingmaster | Dec. 27, 1824 | 20 00 | do. |
Ann Nelson | Seaman | Nov. 11, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Laura C. Nicholson | Captain | Dec. 12, 1838 | 50 00 | do. |
Eliza A. Oliver | Gunner | Mar. 30, 1834 | 10 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Margaret Osbourn | Seaman | Aug. 16, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Elizabeth O'Hare | Carpenter's mate | Aug. 28, 1838 | 9 50 | March 3, 1837. |
Rebecca Oellers | Seaman | Mar. 21, 1839 | 6 00 | do. |
Nancy Patch | Seaman | Oct. 29, 1812 | 6 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Lucretia M. Perry | Purser | May 8, 1832 | 20 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Eliza L. Pierce | Lieutenant | Aug. 7, 1822 | 25 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Margaret Parsell | Sailmaker | Aug. 20, 1819 | 10 00 | do. |
Sarah Phillips | Marine | Oct. 22, 1834 | 3 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Georgiana A. Peaco | Surgeon | May 23, 1827 | 25 00 | do. |
Frances Pottinger | Lieutenant | Feb. 5, 1833 | 25 00 | do. |
Maria Page | Surgeon | Mar. 15, 1832 | 25 00 | do. |
Eliza C. Porter | Master commandant | Sept. 2, 1834 | 30 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Henrietta Prather | Marine | Sept. 14, 1834 | 3 50 | do. |
Eliza Page | Sailingmaster | Sept. 16, 1826 | 20 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Perry | Captain | Aug. 23, 1820 | 50 00 | March 3, 1817. |
Mary Ann Patterson | Boatswain | Dec. 13, 1836 | 10 00 | March 3, 1837. |
Catharine Ann Pierce | Carpenter's mate | Sept. 10, 1829 | 9 50 | do. |
Mary Preble | Captain | Aug. 25, 1837 | 50 00 | do. |
Jane R. Palmer | Passed ass't surgeon | Nov. 6, 1836 | 17 50 | do. |
Frances W. Parker | Carpenter | Aug. 26, 1830 | 10 00 | do. |
* Special.
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Mary Procter | Steward | July 1, 1837 | $9 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Abigail Parrott | Ordinary seaman | Mar. 3, 1832 | 5 00 | do. |
Nabby Pippen | Coxswain | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 9 00 | do. |
Rachel Patten | Ordinary seaman | Aug. 11, 1835 | 5 00 | do. |
Sarah Potts | Sailingmaster | May 8, 1839 | 20 00 | do. |
George Anne Patterson | Captain | Aug. 25, 1839 | 50 00 | do. |
Catharine Rossmusoin | Pilot | July 22, 1813 | 20 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Nancy Riggs | Seaman | Dec. 27, 1814 | 6 00 | Mar. 4, 1814. |
Mary W. Rose | Master commandant | Aug. 27, 1830 | 30 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Mary Russell | Sergeant m. corps | July 7, 1829 | 6 50 | do. |
Martha Rose | Seaman | Sept. 10, 1813 | 6 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Ann M. Rodgers | Captain | May 21, 1832 | 50 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Eliza Ring | Boatswain | Sept. 25, 1835 | 10 00 | do. |
Phebe Reynolds | Boatswain | May 21, 1823 | 10 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Catharine S. M. Ray | Surgeon | Sept. 7, 1835 | 35 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Catharine Rinker | Sailingmaster | July 10, 1823 | 20 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Catharine C. Read | Lieutenant | Jan. 6, 1812 | 25 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Ann J. Ross | 1st lieut. m. corps | Dec. 11, 1836 | 15 00 | do. |
Sally Russell | Master's mate | Oct. 17, 1813 | 10 00 | do. |
Eliza Rumney | Sailingmaster | Mar. 31, 1823 | 20 00 | do. |
Sarah Richardson | Boatswain's mate | Jan. 9, 1837 | 9 50 | do. |
Elizabeth Roberts | 1st serg't. m. corps | Feb. 14, 1838 | 8 00 | do. |
Rebecca Rainey | Ordinary seaman | Nov. 11, 1804 | 5 00 | do. |
E. J. Russell | Lieutenant | July 21, 1838 | 25 00 | do. |
Sarah Robinson | Ordinary seaman | June 10, 1838 | 5 00 | do. |
Minerva Rogers | Captain | Aug. 1, 1838 | 50 00 | do. |
Hannah Stone | Seaman | July 1, 1815 | 6 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Mehitable Smith | Lieutenant | Sept. 10, 1829 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
M. C. Spence | Captain | Sept. 26, 1826 | 50 00 | do. |
Mary Stevenson | Seaman | Oct. [], 1828 | 6 00 | do. |
Ann Stephenson | Sailingmaster | Aug. 27, 1813 | 20 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Eleanor Smart | Seaman | Oct. 15, 1814 | 6 00 | Mar. 4, 1817. |
Harriet H. Sanders | Lieutenant | Dec. 7, 1816 | 25 00 | Jan. 30, 1813. |
Clarissa B. Scott | Lieutenant | Feb. 16, 1830 | 25 00 | Jan. 30, 1834. |
Mary Stellwagen | Sailingmaster | Nov. 16, 1828 | 20 00 | do. |
Louisa Sherburne | Lieutenant | Nov. 20, 1830 | 25 00 | do. |
Ann E. Sardo | Musician m. corps | Dec. 20, 1835 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Sevier | Captain m. corps | May 9, 1837 | 20 00 | Jan. 20, 1813. |
Mary B. Shaw | Captain | Sept. 17, 1823 | 50 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Margaret E. Shaw | Purser | Oct. 17, 1820 | 20 00 | do. |
Jane Smith | Midshipman | Mar. 21, 1831 | 9 50 | June 30, 1834. |
Rachel Steele | Ord. serg't. m. corps | Nov. 28, 1832 | 8 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Mary H. Stockton | Lieutenant | Nov. 20, 1836 | 25 00 | do. |
Mary Stevens | Sailingmaster | Ap'l 18, 1816 | 20 00 | do. |
Sally Schlosser | Seaman | Feb. 5, 1831 | 6 00 | do. |
Louisa H. Smith | Lieutenant | Nov. 30, 1836 | 25 00 | do. |
Hannah Stricker | Serg't. marine corps | Oct. 1, 1820 | 6 50 | do. |
Hannorah Sullivan | Seaman | June 30, 1837 | 6 00 | do. |
Alice Smiley | Seaman | Feb. 27, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Sarah Smith | Steward | Dec. 19, 1820 | 9 00 | do. |
Patty Smith, alias Wilson | Boatswain | June 17, 1815 | 10 00 | do. |
Catharine Smith | Marine | Mar. 18, 1837 | 3 50 | do. |
Mary Stone | Seaman | Ap'l 20, 1815 | 6 00 | do. |
Mary Ann Springer | Lieutenant | May 25, 1820 | 25 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Simmons | Marine | Jan. 30, 1811 | 3 50 | do. |
Charlotte M. R. Thorn | Surgeon | Aug. 18, 1827 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Ann E. Tingey | Captain | Feb. 22, 1829 | 50 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Trenchard | Captain | Nov. 3, 18[]4 | 50 00 | do. |
Wary Tanner | Quarter gunner | Feb. 22, 1834 | 7 50 | do. |
Elizabeth Trapnell | Marine | Sept 10, 1813 | 3 50 | Mar. 4, 1814. |
Frances H. Thomas | Lieutenant | Sept. 10, 1829 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Husband's rank. | Commencement of pension. |
Monthly pension |
Act of Congress under which allowed. |
Emma C. B. Thompson | Captain | Sept. 2, 1832 | $50 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Lucy It. Temple | Lieutenant | June 23, 1830 | 25 00 | do. |
Charlotte Trant | Lieutenant | Sept. 11, 1820 | 25 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Ann Tight | Seaman | Mar. 24, 1834 | 6 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Tobey | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 30, 1813 | 5 00 | do. |
Hannah Thompson | Seaman | Ap'l 9, 1835 | 6 00 | do. |
Grizel A. Taylor | Sailingmaster | Jan. 3, 1820 | 20 00 | do. |
Eliza Toohey | Serg't. marine corps | Nov 13, 1837 | 6 50 | do. |
Ann Taggert | Gunner | Dec. 13, 1836 | 10 00 | do. |
Emily Tupper | Captain m. corps | Jan. 18, 1838 | 20 00 | do. |
Hannah Ulrick | Sailingmaster | June 6, 1822 | 20 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Ann Vanderfien | Ordinary seaman | June 30, 1834 | 5 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Lydia Van Horn | Marine | Oct. 10, 1814 | 3 50 | Mar. 4, 1814. |
Rachel Van Patten | Ordinary seaman | Ap'l 23, 1825 | 5 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Hannah Webb | Seaman | Jan. 1, 1813 | 6 00 | Mar. 4, 1814. |
Catharine Wise | Purser | Nov. 20, 1824 | 20 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Marvel Wilcox | Carpenters mate | Aug. 8, 1813 | 9 50 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Charlotte Wares | Sailingmaster | Dec. 4, 1815 | 20 00 | do. |
Electa Webster | Lieutenant | Aug. 25, 1825 | 25 00 | June 30, 1834. |
Rebecca Winn | Purser | Feb. 18, 1836 | 20 00 | do. |
Edna Maria Wood | Passed midshipman | Oct. 9, 1836 | 12 50 | do. |
Elizabeth White | Master-at-arms | May 18, 1815 | 9 00 | Mar. 3, 1817. |
Mary D. Wade | Lieutenant | Nov. 15, 1816 | 25 00 | Mar. 3, 1837. |
Eleanor Wills | Landsman | Aug. 10, 1800 | 4 00 | do. |
Elizabeth Westcott | Lieutenant | Mar. 25, 1837 | 25 00 | do. |
Sarah H. Willard | Sergeant m. corps | May 30, 1837 | 6 50 | do. |
Abigail Warren | Marine | Sept. 12, 1812 | 3 50 | do. |
Catharine Walling | Seaman | Dec. 3, 1813 | 6 00 | do. |
Julia Weed | Captain m. corps | Mar. 5, 1838 | 20 00 | do. |
Sarah V. Waldo | Master | Aug. 30, 1838 | 20 00 | do. |
Susan C. Woolsey | Captain | May 18, 1838 | 50 00 | do. |
The number of widow pensioners is 330.
Annual sum to pay them, $62,064.
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N 3.
Alphabetical list of minor children, to whom pensions were granted under the act of March 3d, 1837, complete to September 30, 1839.
NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Father's rank. | Monthly pension |
Commencement of pension. |
John Armstrong | |||
Franklin Armstrong | |||
Venerando Armstrong | Sergeant marine corps | $7 50 | January 23, 1825. |
William Anderson | |||
Laura V. Anderson | Captain marine corps | 20 00 | June 13, 1830. |
Thomas W. Adams | Sailmaker | 10 00 | September 10, 1829. |
Elizabeth Ardis | |||
Ann Ardis | |||
Emma Ardis | Carpenter's mate | 9 50 | September 8, 1831. |
Julia Ann Blakslee | Marine | 3 50 | July 31, 1827. |
Emma Brown | |||
Alexander Brown | Captain | 50 00 | November 28, 1828. |
Margaretta Baldwin | Surgeon | 27 50 | September 1, 1819. |
Susan E. Barry | Sailingmaster | 20 00 | May 2, 1830. |
George T. Bassett | Surgeon | 25 00 | August 20, 1830. |
Walter M. Booth | |||
William L. Booth | |||
Thomas A. Booth | Master commandant | 30 00 | July 26, 1828. |
Charles H. Budd | Lieutenant | 25 00 | March 14, 1827. |
James R. Blade | Ordinary seaman | 5 00 | September 26, 1834. |
Thomas J. P. Bliss | Seaman | 6 00 | July 1, 1838. |
John Bell, | |||
Mary Jane Bell | |||
Maria Bell | |||
Marcellus Bell | Cook | 9 50 | August 15, 1831. |
William B. Cunningham | |||
Edward F. Cunningham | Gunner | 10 00 | April 18, 1828. |
Charles R. Chamberlain | |||
Margaret F. Chamberlain | Sailingmaster | 20 00 | February 8, 1822. |
Emeline Cousins, | |||
Delia Cousins | Seaman | 6 00 | May 21, 1829. |
James Covenhoven | Marine | 3 50 | February 26, 1837. |
William M. Caldwell | Lieutenant | 25 00 | June 5, 1827. |
Charles William Conway | Marine | 3 50 | July 14, 1833. |
Emma Demarist | Sergeant marine corps | 7 50 | August 24, 1824. |
Teresa Davis | Carpenter | 10 00 | June 11, 1829. |
Ellen E. Dexter | Master commandant | 30 00 | October 10, 1818. |
Eliza A. R. Dennison | Purser | 20 00 | March 15, 1822. |
Francis A. Davis | |||
Elizabeth C. Davis | Musician | 4 00 | June 4, 1822. |
Franklin Wharton Desha | |||
Margaret Frances Desha | 1st Lieut. marine corps | 15 00 | November 6, 1822. |
Margaret P. Darrah | Purser | 20 00 | January 9, 1831. |
Mary Ann Fisher | Corporal marine corps | 4 50 | May 18, 1829. |
Edward Garrison | Seaman | 6 00 | April 2, 1825. |
M. A. S.Grinke | Lieutenant | 25 00 | November 30, 1825. |
Mary Garretson | Purser | 20 00 | July 1, 1837. |
Stephen D. Hibbert | Gunner | 10 00 | July 9, 1832. |
John H. Harrison | Seaman | 6 00 | August 16, 1834. |
George J. Hall | Seaman | 6 00 | December 10, 1834. |
Adolphus Heerman, | |||
Theodore Heerman, | |||
Valentine M. Heerman | |||
Clifford Heerman | |||
Charles F. Heerman | Surgeon | 35 00 | April 20, 1837. |
Maurice J. B. Harrison | Surgeon's mate | 15 00 | July 1, 1837. |
Mary Ann Hunt | Ordinary seaman | 5 00 | April 20, 1837. |
Permelia Ann Jones |
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NAMES OF PENSIONERS. | Father's rank. | Monthly pension. |
Commencement of pension. |
Daniel F. Jones | |||
James B. Jones | Sailingmaster | $20 00 | May 21, 1826. |
William Kidwell | |||
John Kidwell | Murine | 3 50 | July 1, 1837. |
Jane P. Linscott | |||
Mary F. Linscott | |||
Caroline W. Linscott | Boatswain | 10 00 | May 23, 1827. |
Caroline Lord | Gunner | 10 00 | May 9, 1829. |
Adeline K. Low | Lieutenant | 25 00 | May 2, 1836. |
Edgar Lightelle | |||
Benjamin T. Lightelle | |||
John O. B. Lightelle | Marine | 3 50 | December 22, 1824. |
Catharine Livingston | |||
James Livingston | Ordinary seaman | 5 00 | June 4, 1829. |
Robert C. Ludlow | Purser | 20 00 | May 15, 1826. |
William Middleton | Quartermaster | 8 00 | July 1, 1830. |
Charles S. Macdonough | |||
Augustus R. Macdonough | |||
Thomas Macdonough | |||
Charlotte R. Macdonough | Captain | 50 00 | November 10, 1835. |
Mary Louisa Mott | Lieutenant | 25 00 | July 4, 1823. |
Margaret Munroe | Boatswain | 10 00 | March 27, 1832. |
James B. McCauley | Lieutenant | 25 00 | February 20, 1827. |
Mary Ann McCloud | Boatswain | 10 00 | July 1, 1837. |
Alexander Moran | Quarter gunner | 7 50 | September 10, 1829. |
John H. McIntosh Madison | Lieutenant | 25 00 | July 1, 1838. |
William Orleans Martin | Seaman | 6 00 | October 9, 1838. |
James W. A. Nicholson | |||
Frederick A. G. Nicholson | Lieutenant | 25 00 | June 24, 1832. |
Maria C. Norris | |||
Shubrick Norris | Master commandant | 30 00 | January 1, 1838. |
Godfrey B. Neagle | Sergeant marine corps | 6 50 | August 5, 1838. |
John B. Packett | |||
Mary Ann Packett | Lieutenant | 25 00 | March 29, 1820. |
Nancy B. Perry, | |||
Alexander Perry | Lieutenant | 25 00 | March 12, 1826. |
Mary R. Ritchie | Lieutenant | 25 00 | June 26, 1831. |
Susan D. Robertson | |||
Eliza B. W. Robertson | Purser | 20 00 | August 11, 1821. |
Mary K. Reany | Purser's steward | 9 00 | July 3, 1831. |
Amanda H. Reynolds | Boatswain | 10 00 | April 23, 1835. |
Mary Roberts | |||
Margaret Roberts | Musician marine corps | 4 00 | October 31, 1835. |
Theophilus Rogers | Assistant surgeon | 20 00 | July 1, 1839. |
Hannah T. Sanderson | Lieutenant | 26 00 | August 23, 1831. |
William Sinclair | |||
Gilberta F. Sinclair | Captain | 50 00 | February 7, 1831. |
Mary V. Timberlake | |||
Margaret R. Timberlake | Purser | 20 00 | April 2, 1828. |
Virginia A. Towner | |||
Robert Towner | Gunner | 10 00 | September 2, 1834. |
Eliza J. Trimble | |||
Joshua W. Trimble | Sailmaker | 10 00 | July 28, 1824. |
Emily Vandachenhausen | Marine | 3 50 | March 12, 1833. |
Silas D. Wickes | Surgeon | 25 00 | August 21, 1819. |
John Woods | Boatswain | 10 00 | January 1, 1839. |
Thomas A. Young | Sergeant marine corps | 12 50 | July 7, 1835. |
The number of minor children pensioners is 115.
Annual sum to pay them, $14,214.
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N 4.
A statement showing the receipts and expenditures on account of the navy pension fund, from the 1st day of October, 1838, to the 30th of September, 1839, inclusively; and advances to agents from the Treasury during the same period.
I. Balance in the Treasury to the credit of fund, 1st of October, 1838, per Register's return | $10,966 30 | ||
II. Amount received into the Treasury since the 1st of October, 1838, from whom, and on what account, viz: | |||
1838. | |||
Nov. 1 | From Secretary of the Navy, for interest on Washington corporation stock | $843 76 | |
2 | Do. for dividend on Union Bank stock, Georgetown | 900 00 | |
17 | Do. for dividend on Washington Bank stock: | 560 90 | |
Dec. 6 | Do. tor balance due by the Branch Bank of Alabama, at Mobile | 14 00 | |
12 | Do. for sale of Pennsylvania stock | 60,000 00 | |
13 | Do. for dividend on Union Bank stock, due 1st October | 375 00 | |
19 | Do. for sale of Pennsylvania stock | 20,000 00 | |
22 | Do. for interest on Washington corporation stock, due 1st October, 1836, and 1st April, 1837 | 1,486 82 | |
1839. | |||
January 8 | Do. for interest on Illinois bonds, due 1st January | 3,000 00 | |
21 | Do. for interest on Washington corporation stock, due 1st January | 843 76 | |
30 | Do. for interest on Cincinnati corporation stock, due 1st October, 1838 | 2,500 00 | |
March 7 | Do. for sale of Washington corporation stock | 3,000 00 |
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N 4.—Continued.
March 20 | From Secretary of the Navy, for sale of Washington corporation stock | 83,000 00 | |
April 25 | Do. for interest on Cincinnati corporation stock, due 1st April | 2,500 00 | |
May 10 | Do. for sale of Washington corporation stock | 2,000 00 | |
16 | Do. for interest on Washington Bank stock | 420 00 | |
25 | Do. for dividend on Union Bank stock | 900 00 | |
June 14 | Do. for sale of Illinois bonds | 30,000 00 | |
20 | Do. for sale of Pennsylvania stock | 20,000 00 | |
21 | Do. for amount refunded by Lewis S. German | 95 82 | |
21 | Do. for sale of Pennsylvania stock | 758 70 | |
27 | Do. for interest on Illinois bonds | 2,100 00 | |
July 12 | Do. tor interest on Washington corporation stock | 721 73 | |
August 1 | Do. for interest on Washington corporation stock | 624 99 | |
Total amount of receipts | $156,644 58 | ||
1838. | III. Expenditures from October 1, 1838, to September 30, 1839, inclusively, viz: | ||
October 4 | Paid B. R. Tinslar, for arrears of pension | 75 00 | |
5 | Paid James B. Moody, do. do. | 1.402 80 | |
Nov. 13 | Paid Ann E. Bentley, do. do. | 1,030 00 | |
28 | Paid Sally Nason, do. do. | 15 57 | |
28 | Paid Hannah Murray, do. do. | 60 79 | |
28 | Paid Charles B. Murray, do. do. | 115 37 | |
28 | Paid Theodosia Ford, do. do. | 207 37 | |
28 | Paid Phebe Peabody, do. do. | 47 67 | |
Dec. 12 | Paid Eliza Seymore, do. do. | 284 50 | |
12 | Paid Susan Seymore, do. do. | 575 70 | |
14 | Paid William Neagle, do. do. | 633 75 |
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Jan. 18 | Faid James Lowry, do. do. | 386 96 | |
18 | Paid Godfrey B. Neagle, do. do. | 633 75 | |
Feb. 9 | Paid James Cole, do. do. | 4 33 | |
9 | Paid Samuel Robertson, do. do. | 788 50 | |
22 | Paid Sarah Morse, do. do. | 766 42 | |
Mar. 2 | Paid David Porter, do. do. | 3,250 00 | |
7 | Paid Hester Ann Stanfield, for balance of pension due her late husband | 12 40 | |
9 | Paid president of the Commonwealth Bank, Boston, balance due him at settlement of his account, and which is transferred to his credit on the books of the Treasury |
1,934 57 | |
11 | Paid Ann Tilden, widow of John Tilden, (lost in the Wasp,) for extra pay and prize money | 281 80 | |
12 | Paid Sinah Kibbey, widow, for arrears of pension | 126 00 | |
April 1 | Paid president Bank of the Metropolis, for balance due him | 205 77 | |
23 | Paid Thomas Ap C. Jones, for arrears of pension | 1,585 50 | |
May 1 | Paid Sally H. Lane, do. do. | 629 58 | |
21 | Paid Telemachus Rogers, do. do. | 1,176 11 | |
28 | Paid Ellen Coxe, do. do. | 1,044 00 | |
28 | Paid Eliza and Susan Seymore, children of Jesse Seymore, (lost in the Wasp,) for extra pay and prize money |
281 80 | |
June 1 | Paid Lydia March, for arrears of pension | 67 50 | |
July 31 | Paid Thomas S. Brimslecomb, for arrears of pension | 258 00 | |
Aug. 17 | Paid S. H. Green, do. do. | 467 47 | |
21 | Paid John Schrouder, do. do. | 56 00 | |
Sept. 17 | Paid Daniel Bowie, do. do. | 161 33 | |
17 | Paid Jane B. Lowndes, do. do. | 384 67 | |
18 | Paid Theophilus H. Rogers, do. do. | 1,296 10 | |
18 | Paid Augustine Rogers, do. do. | 1,079 77 | |
Total amount of expenditures | $21,326 85 |
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N 4.—Continued.
1838. | IV. Advances to agents to pay pensions, viz: | |
Oct. 6 | To the president of the Bank of the Metropolis, Washington | $6,000 00 |
12 | Do. Bank of the Metropolis, Washington | 4,000 00 |
23 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 1,988 50 |
Nov. 20 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 400 00 |
Dec. 13 | To president of the Maine Bank, Portland | 984 00 |
13 | Do. Arcade Bank, Providence, R. I. | 1,200 00 |
13 | Do. Farmers and Mechanics' Bank, Hartford, Conn. | 1,350 00 |
13 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 6,709 48 |
13 | To president of Farmers' Bank of Delaware, at Newcastle | 24 00 |
13 | Do. Commercial Bank, Portsmouth, N. H. | 67 01 |
13 | Do. Mechanics' Bank, New York | 31,720 49 |
13 | Do. Moyamensing Bank, Philadelphia | 6,364 35 |
13 | Do. Merchants and Manufacturers' Bank, Pittsburg | 60 00 |
13 | Do. Trenton Banking Company, N. J. | 486 00 |
13 | Do. Commercial Bank, Cincinnati | 332 00 |
13 | Do. Louisville Savings Institution, Ky. | 436 35 |
13 | Do. Planters and Mechanics' Bank, Charleston, S. C. | 334 00 |
13 | Do. Planters' Bank, Savannah, Ga. | 270 00 |
13 | Do. Commercial Bank, New Orleans | 885 75 |
13 | To George Loyall, navy pension agent, Norfolk, Va. | 4,953 08 |
19 | To president of the Bank of the Metropolis, Washington | 7,000 00 |
19 | To president of the Union Bank of Maryland, Baltimore | 4,914 75 |
1839. | ||
Jan. 4 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 1,100 00 |
21 | To president of the Mechanics' Bank, New York | 1,000 00 |
24 | To president of the Farmers' Bank of Delaware, at Newcastle | 1,900 00 |
Feb. 4 | To Elias Kane, navy pension agent, Washington | 5,000 00 |
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6 | To president of the Farmers' Bank of Delaware, at Newcastle | 100 00 | |
6 | To B. D. Heriot, navy pension agent, Charleston, S. C. | 500 00 | |
Mar. 5 | To president of the Commercial Bank, New Orleans | 700 00 | |
18 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 1,258 66 | |
April 17 | To B. D. Heriot, navy pension agent. Charleston, S. C. | 800 00 | |
17 | To president of the Commercial Bank, Cincinnati | 300 00 | |
May 4 | Do. Merchants and Manufacturers' Bank, Pittsburg | 66 00 | |
6 | Do. Maine Bank, Portland | 297 56 | |
17 | To Michael W. Ash, navy pension agent, Philadelphia | 836 00 | |
June 17 | To George Loyall, navy pension agent, Norfolk | 5,975 90 | |
17 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | [],532 97 | |
17 | To John Thomas, navy pension agent, Baltimore | 1,944 99 | |
17 | To Michael W. Ash, navy pension agent. Philadelphia | 6,564 62 | |
17 | To J. P. Henry, navy pension agent, Savannah | 529 37 | |
17 | To B. D. Heriot, navy pension agent, Charleston, S. C. | 906 00 | |
17 | To John Laighton, navy pension agent, Portsmouth, N. H. | 957 00 | |
17 | To president of the Maine Bank. Portland | 1,116 00 | |
17 | Do. Merchants and Manufacturers' Bank, Pittsburg | 186 00 | |
17 | Do. Arcade Bank, Providence, R. I. | 1,396 43 | |
17 | Do. Mechanics' Bank, Hartford, Ct. | 1,350 00 | |
17 | Do. Savings Institution, Louisville, Ky. | 618 00 | |
17 | Do. Commercial Bank, Cincinnati | 480 00 | |
17 | Do. Farmers' Bank of Delaware, Newcastle | 58 00 | |
17 | Do. Trenton Banking Company, N. J. | 486 00 | |
24 | Do. Mechanics' Bank, New York | 12,419 14 | |
24 | To Elias Kane, navy pension agent, Washington | 8,684 78 | |
Aug. 5 | To John Thomas, navy pension agent, Baltimore | 1,000 00 | |
29 | To Leonard Jarvis, navy pension agent, Boston | 500 00 | |
Total amount of advances | $145,043 18 |
Treasury Department, Fourth Auditor's Office, October 18, 1839.
A. O. DAYTON.
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N 5.
Stocks owned by the navy pension fund on the 1st of October, 1839.
City of Cincinnati 5 per cent. | $100,000 00 |
City of Washington 5 per cent. | 57,739 00 |
Bank of Washington | 14,000 00 |
Union Bank of Georgetown | 11,400 00 |
State of Illinois 6 per cent. | 70,000 00 |
253,139 00 |
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N 6.
Navy hospital fund.
Balance 1st October, 1838 | $123,470 28 |
Receipts from 1st October, 1838, to 1st October, 1839 | 20,603 83 |
144,074 11 | |
Disbursements from 1st October, 1838, to 1st October, 1839 | 900 00 |
Balance 1st October, 1839 | 143,174 11 |
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N 7.
An abstract of the public navy pension laws, and statement of their effects.
1. Act of 23d April, 1800, established the navy pension fund and granted pensions to every officer, seaman, and marine, disabled in the line of duty, to continue during life or disability, not exceeding half-pay.
Note.-Invalids were examined by surgeons, biennially, to ascertain the continuance of disability, but the act of 14th July, 1832, dispensed with such examination; consequently, pensions to invalids continued during life. The act of 1800 provides that the funds "shall be and remain for ever for the payment of pensions, and half-pay, should the same be granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same and it pledges the public faith to make up any deficiency in the fund. Under this act pensions are granted to officers, seamen, and marines, during life, although they may remain in the service and receive full pay.
2. Act of 26th March, 1804, directs that money accruing from prizes shall belong to the navy pension fund, and authorizes the commissioners of the fund "to make such regulations as may to them appear expedient for the admission of persons on the roll of navy pensioners, and for the payment of pensions."
Note.—All the powers of the commissioners were transferred to the Secretary of the Navy by the act of 10th July, 1832; consequently each Secretary regulates as to him appears expedient.
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3. Act of 20th January, 1813, grants pensions to the widows, and, if no widows, to the children, of officers, only, "who shall be killed or die by reason of wounds received in the line of duty."
Note.—The act of 1800, before stated, had pledged the fund to remain for ever for the payment of pensions to officers and seamen—not to widows and children. It is therefore supposed that Congress is pledged to restore to the fund the amount paid out of this fund to widows and children.
4. Act of 4th March, 1814, grants pensions to the widows, and, if no widows, to the children under sixteen years old, of officers, seamen, and marines who died since 18th June, 1812, or who shall die "by reason of wounds received in the line of duty."
5. Act of 18th April, 1814, grants pensions to officers and seamen of revenue cutters wounded or disabled in the discharge of duty while cooperating with the navy by order of the President.
6. Act of 2d April, 1816, grants pensions to those wounded in the massacre at Dartmoor prison, 6th April, 1815, and to the widows and children of those killed on that occasion.
Note.—Not one of the killed or wounded belonged to the United States navy; but the pensions were all paid out of the navy pension fund.
7. Act of 16th April, 1816, prescribes in what mode prizes shall pass to the credit of the navy pension fund; and it authorizes the commissioners of the fund to increase an invalid's monthly pension to any sum not exceeding full monthly pay.
Note.—This authority has been used in very few cases; not more than four or five.
8. Act of 3d March, 1817, grants pensions to the widows, and, if no widows, to the children under sixteen years old, of officers, seamen, or marines "who shall die, or shall have died since 18th of June, 1812," of disease contracted, or of casualties or injuries received, while in the line of duty.
Note.—This act was repealed by the act of 22d January, 1824, but the rights which had accrued under it were reserved. It was repealed because so many deaths by yellow fever in the West Indies made too heavy a charge upon the fund.
Note.—Pensions to widows and children were granted for periods of five years.
9. Act of 16th April, 1818, extends pensions to widows, and children under sixteen years old, for another term of five years.
10. Act of 3d March, 1819, grants another term of five years' pension "to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle, or who died of wounds received in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States during the late war."
11. Act of 22d January, 1824, grants another term of five years' pension to widows and children, arid repeals the act of 3d March, 1817, but reserves the rights which had accrued under it.
12. Act of 23d May, 1828, extends pensions to widows and children for another term of five years.
13. Act of 28th June, 1832, extends pensions to widows only, for another term of five years.
14. Act of 14th July, 1832, repeals the act of 3d March, 1819, which required proof of continuance of disability.
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Note.—These acts were supposed to relate to military pensions; but the Attorney General decided that pensions to naval invalids also were included.
Note.—The effect of this is to give to invalids pensions for life. It takes away from the department the power to stop a pension, although the pensioner may have perfectly recovered from his disability.
15. Act of 10th July, 1832, transfers to the Secretary of the Navy all the powers of the commissioners of the navy pension and navy hospital funds; establishes a separate clerkship for those funds and the privateer pension fund; points out the duty of the Secretary of the Navy and his clerk respecting the funds; and repeals all laws inconsistent with the provisions of said act.
10. Act of 30th June, 1834, extends five years' pensions to widows; grants five years' pensions to the "widows of officers, seamen, and marines, who have died in the naval service since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, or who may die in said service; and the pensions of such widows shall commence from the passage of this act," viz: 30th June, 1834.
Note.—It would seem from this act, that if an officer, &c., shall die in fifty, or 100, &c., years' time, Congress intended to give his widow a pension to be paid to her from 30th June, 1834. Such result would be the legal effect of this act.
This act also reimburses to the navy pension fund the cost of the stock of the Bank of Columbia.
17. Act of 3d March, 1837, grants pensions to the widows, and, if no widows, to the children under twenty-one years of age, of all officers, seamen, and marines, who "have died, or may hereafter die, in the naval service," to be paid from the dates of the deaths, and to be half-pay of the navy as such pay was on the 1st of January, 1835. It provides that pensions already granted, or to be granted, to invalids, shall be paid from the time when they were disabled; and it repeals all laws inconsistent with itself. This most comprehensive act has, in the short space of two years, distributed to navy pensioners more money than was required by the operation of all the other navy pension laws during the period of nearly forty years. Its future effect is beyond estimate.
Pensions to invalids of the army, and to the widows and children of those killed in the army, have not been so lavishly bestowed as in the navy; and the reason of the difference is said to be, because the navy pension fund was created by the services of the navy, and is not a charge upon the public treasury. So long as the fund thus created shall last, the reason will be satisfactory; but when the fund shall be exhausted, (as it must be in two years, and, probably, in less time,) and Congress shall find it necessary to make large appropriations out of the public treasury on this account, the reason of the difference will cease. It will then be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to refuse to the army a pension law similar to the act of 3d March, 1837, for the navy. It must be noticed that this act allows pensions to the widows of all persons who ever died, or shall die, in the navy, to be paid to them from the dates of the deaths, until they shall die or many; and, if no widows, then to the children under twenty-one years old. Should the deaths occur in violation of duty, or even by sentence of a court-martial, still the widows and children are entitled to pensions under this law. The pensions already
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vested and granted by this act will, in two years—perhaps sooner—exhaust the fund; and this must be the result even if the act were repealed to-day; for such repeal cannot reach the pensions already granted and vested by the act. The public faith is pledged by act of Congress to make up the deficiency in the navy pension fund; and as this pledge must soon be redeemed, it is now necessary to contemplate the subject.
The vast importance and consequences of the act of 3d March, 1837, will justify a circumstantial detail of its history; and that the whole may be fully understood it is proper to state, that the naval committee of the Senate had requested the Secretary of the Navy to prepare a plan for navy pensions. After the most careful consideration, he submitted a plan which was as liberal as it could be made without diminishing the capital of the pension fund. The committee reported a bill very nearly in all respects according to the plan of the Secretary. It passed the Senate; but, it is believed, that on its third reading in the House of Representatives, about midnight, on the 3d of March, 1837, it was most unexpectedly denounced as an extravagant measure, that it would destroy the fund, &c. The bill was then amended, by striking out all except the enacting clause and inserting what is now the act of 3d March, 1837. This amendment was understood to be less expensive than the bill from the Senate; that it was a retrenchment measure; would save money to the fund, &c.
This statement is thus particularly made that Congress may have a complete view of the entire subject, and because it is certain that any postponement of the matter will create embarrassments difficult to be removed by any future legislation. The department has, so far as possible, in every instance limited the disbursements under the act. But when the parties satisfactorily proved their claims under the act, the Secretary of the Navy had no authority to refuse payment.
The system has expanded to its present extent through the legislation of Congress; and doubtless that honorable body will adopt such course respecting it as will, under all the circumstances, best redeem their pledge of the public faith, without affording any just cause of complaint to the parties interested.
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N 8.
Claim of Mrs. Harrison, child of John Garde, who, it is alleged, was lost on board the United States ship L'Insurgente, in August, 1800.
Talbot county, State of Maryland,
At St. Michael's, May 1, 1839.
Honored Sir:
I hereby make application for the arrears of pension to which I maybe entitled as the only child of John Garde, who was a sailing-master on board the United States ship of war L'Insurgente, and who was lost in said ship in the naval service, in or about the year 1800.
Respectfully referring you to the accompanying proofs of my identity as the lawful and only child of said John Garde, I am, your obedient servant,
MARIA HARRISON,
Hon. J. K. Paulding,
Secretary of the Navy.
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State of Maryland.
I, Stephen Harrison, of Talbot county, State of Maryland, aged forty-eight years, do hereby certify, that I was present at, and witnessed the marriage of John Garde to Elizabeth Harrison, which marriage was solemnized in my presence in said county, at a place called Oxford Neck, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine; that I have, always understood that the said John Garde entered the United States service on board the ship of war L'Insurgente in the year 1800. That within a few months after he had sailed in said ship, his wife, the said Eliza Garde, was delivered of a daughter, viz: in the month of March, eighteen hundred and one, and who was named Maria Garde, and who was always recognised and known as the lawful daughter of him, the said John Garde, she being born at the residence of my father Joseph Harrison, late of said county, I residing there at the same time.
That the said Eliza Garde, mother of said Maria Garde, and widow of said John Garde, intermarried with Thomas Hardcastle of said county, in the year 1805, and she, the said Eliza, died in the year 1818. I do further certify, that the aforesaid Maria Garde, daughter of said John and Eliza Garde, was married to Thomas Harrison of said county, in the year 1826, which said Thomas Harrison died in the year 1829. And I do further certify, that the said Maria Harrison is the daughter and only child left by the said John Garde: that she now resides at St. Michael's in Talbot county aforesaid, and is, to my own knowledge, the same identical person who is about applying for a pension on account of her said father John Garde, who, it is believed, was lost at sea on board the United States ship L'Insurgente in the naval service of the United States, as a sailingmaster in said ship. And I do further certify, that I am not in anywise interested in the result of her said application, as witness my hand this first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
STEPHEN HARRISON.
Witness:
Wm. Caulk.
State of Maryland,}
Talbot county. }ss
On the 1st day of May, 1839, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace, in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared, Stephen Harrison, known to me as a respectable resident of said county, of lawful age, and entitled to full credit, and in my presence subscribed his name to the aforegoing certificate; and being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the contents of said certificate are correct and true as therein stated.
JAMES HARRISON, J. P.
State of Maryland,}
Talbot county. }ss
On this first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Talbot county aforesaid, personally appeared Ann Caulk, a resident of said county, aged 52 years, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that she was personally and intimately ac-
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quainted with John Garde and his wife Eliza Garde, late of Talbot county aforesaid, both deceased. That they died leaving only one child (never having had any other) named Maria Garde, who was born in the month of March, in the year eighteen hundred and one, and who is now the widow of Thomas Harrison of said county, to whom she was married in the year 1826, and who died in the year 1829. That she, the said Maria Harrison, daughter of the said John Garde and Eliza his wife, now resides at St. Michael's in Talbot county aforesaid, and is the same identical person who is about applying for a pension on account of her father, the said John Garde, who, it is believed, was lost at sea in the naval service of the United States on board the frigate L'Insurgente. That she was acquainted with the said John Garde and his wife Eliza Garde prior to their marriage, which took place in Talbot county aforesaid, as a matter of public notoriety and belief in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. That her acquaintance with him continued until he entered the naval service, in the year 1800. That she knew his widow until her death, and has known their daughter above named, now the said Maria Harrison, from the infancy of her, the said Maria Harrison, to this time. And this deponent further saith, that she is not interested either directly or indirectly in the result of the application about to be made for a pension by her, the said Maria Harrison, on account of the naval services of her father, the said John Garde, who, it is believed, was lost at sea in the naval service of the United States on board the frigate L'Insurgente.
ANN CAULK.
Witness:
Stephen Harrison.
Sworn and subscribed, this first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me. JAMES HARRISON, J. P.
And I do hereby certify, that Ann Caulk, who, in my presence, subscribed her name to the aforegoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the facts therein stated, is known to me as a respectable resident of Talbot county aforesaid, of lawful age, and entitled to full credit. In witness whereof, I do hereto subscribe my name the day and year first within written.
JAMES HARRISON, J. P.
I, Alexander B. Harrison, of Talbot county, State of Maryland, aged forty-nine years, do hereby certify, that I was personally acquainted with John Garde and his wife Eliza Garde, both of said county, deceased. That they were publicly known and recognised as man and wife in very respectable society, in the year 1800, at which time they went to the city of Baltimore; and he, the said John Garde, to my own certain knowledge, entered on board the United States ship of war L'Insurgente, as a sailing master, (he having been previously a ship master from the port of Baltimore.) That at the time of entering said ship of war, his wife, the said Eliza Garde, was in a state of pregnancy, and in a short time thereafter had a daughter born unto him, the said John Garde; who was named Maria Garde, and who was always known and recognised as the lawful child of him, the said John Garde. That it was always believed that he, the said Captain John Garde, was lost in the naval service of the United States on board the said ship of war L'Insurgente. I do further certify,
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that the said Eliza Garde, widow of said John Garde, intermarried with a gentleman named Thomas Hardcastle of said county, (Talbot,) in or about the year 1805, and she died in or about the year 1818. And I do further certify, that the aforesaid Maria Garde, daughter of the said John and Eliza Garde, (her name being now Maria Harrison, she having married Thomas Harrison of said county, who died in the year 1826,)—that the said Maria Harrison, daughter of the said John and Eliza Garde, is now living at St. Michael's in Talbot county aforesaid; and is the only child of them, the said John and Eliza Garde, they never having had any other child or children. I do further certify, that my personal acquaintance with her, the said Maria Garde, now Maria Harrison, has continued from her infancy to this time. And that she, the said Maria Harrison, is the identical person who is now about to apply for a pension on account of the naval service of her said father, John Garde, who was lost in the service of the United States on board the frigate L'Insurgente as aforementioned. And I do further certify, that I am not interested either directly or indirectly in the results of said application. In witness whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, this second day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
ALEXANDER B. HARRISON.
Witnesses:
James W. Harrison.
Alexander Yearley.
State of Maryland,}
Talbot county. }ss.
On this second day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, and for Talbot county aforesaid, personally appeared, Alexander B. Harrison, and in my presence, subscribed his name to the aforegoing certificate; and who, being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the contents of the said certificate are correct and true as therein stated. And I do hereby certify, that the said deponent, Alexander B. Harrison, is known to me as a person of good character, of lawful age, and entitled to full and ample credit. Subscribed and sworn to, before me.
JAMES W. HARRISON, J. P.
State of Maryland, }
Talbot county. } to wit.
I hereby certify, that James Harrison and James W. Harrison, gentlemen, before whom the aforegoing depositions were taken, and who have thereto subscribed their names, and given certificates of the character of deponents, were, at the time of so doing, two of the said State's justices of the peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of [l. s.] Talbot county court this second day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
JAMES PARROTT,
Clerk of Talbot county court.
I, Richard Robinson, now of Baltimore county, formerly of Talbot county, in the State of Maryland, aged fifty-five years, do hereby certify,
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that I was present at, and witnessed the celebration of the marriage rites, between Captain John Garde and Eliza Harrison; which took place in Talbot county, in the State aforesaid, at a place called Oxford Neck, at the dwelling of Joseph Harrison, the father of the said Eliza Harrison, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. As witness my hand this 13th day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
RICHARD ROBINSON.
Witness:
Charles H. Ross.
State of Maryland, }
Baltimore county. }ss.
On this thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore county, personally appeared, Richard Robinson, a resident of said county, of lawful age, and in my presence, subscribed the aforegoing certificate, and, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the contents of said certificate are correct and true as therein stated; and that he is not interested therein. And I do hereby certify, that of my own knowledge, the said Richard Robinson is a person of good character, and entitled to full credit.
ELIJAH TAYLOR, J. P.
State of Maryland, }
Baltimore county. }ss.
I hereby certify, that Elijah Taylor, gentleman, before whom the within affidavit was made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was, at the time of so doing, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore county, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of [l. s.] Baltimore county court, this fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
THOMAS KELL,
Clerk of Baltimore county court.
I, Eleanor Harrison, a resident of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, aged sixty years, do hereby certify, that I was personally acquainted with Captain John Garde, who was a ship master, from the port of Baltimore, prior to the year 1800, when he entered on board the United States ship of war L'Insurgente, as master of the sailing department on board said ship; I was also at, and prior to that period, well acquainted with Eliza Garde his wife. That, in company with the said John Garde, and his said wife, Eliza Garde, and others, I went on board said ship of war L'Insurgente, in the summer of the year eighteen hundred, when she was about to sail from near Fort McHenry, at the port of Baltimore, on her last cruise. That; then and there, I saw the said captain or master John Garde, on board said ship, acting as master of the sailing department in his official dress; that he then and there took his last leave of his said wife Eliza Garde, who, (said Eliza,) with myself, and others, was conveyed to the shore, where we saw the said ship of war L'Insurgente get under way, and sail on her last cruise, with him, the said John Garde,
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master of the sailing department, on board. And he, the said master, John Garde, was lost in said ship, he never having been heard of since the said ship L'Insurgente sailed on her last cruise, with him on board. And I do further certify, that I continued to be acquainted with the said Eliza Garde, wife and widow of him, the said John Garde, who was lost in the L'Insurgente as aforesaid. That she had an only child by her said husband, which was born a few months after he sailed as aforesaid, she being left by him in a state of pregnancy; that their said child was named Maria Garde, who, after maturity, intermarried with a certain Thomas Harrison, which said Thomas Harrison is now deceased. That the said Maria Garde, now Harrison, has been known to me from her infancy, living in credit, to this time, as the only lawful child of him, the said John Garde, master of the sailing department, on board the United States ship of war L'Insurgente, in which he was lost as aforesaid. And that she, the said Maria Harrison, is the same identical person who is now applying for a pension on account of her said father, who was sailing: master, or master of the sailing department, on board the said United States ship of war L'Insurgente, and was lost in the same. (Her mother, the said Eliza, being deceased many years ago.) And I do further certify, that I am not in any wise interested in the matter or result of said application of said Maria Harrison for a pension on account of her said father, John Garde, who was master of the sailing department, or sailing-master on board the said ship L'Insurgente, and was lost in her as aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I do hereto subscribe my name, this twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
ELEANOR HARRISON.
State of Maryland,}
City of Baltimore,}ss
On this twenty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, personally appeared, Eleanor Harrison, and, in my presence, subscribed her name to the aforegoing certificate; and, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the contents of said certificate are correct and true as therein stated. And I hereby certify, that the said deponent, Eleanor Harrison, is an aged and respectable resident of this city, and that she is entitled to ample credit. Witness my hand arid Seal, the day and year above written.
SIMON KEMP, J P.
State of Maryland,}
Baltimore county. }ss.
I hereby certify that Simon Kemp, gentleman, before whom the above, affidavit was made, and who has thereto signed his name, was at the time of so doings one of the justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of [l. s.] Baltimore county court, on this 23d day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
THOMAS KELL
Clerk of Baltimore county court.
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I, Ann Harrison, a resident of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, aged 63 years, depose and say, that I resided at Fell's Point, in said city, in the year 1800; and was then and there personally acquainted with Captain John Garde, who was sailing-master (or master of the sailing department) on board the United States ship L'Insurgente; that I knew him prior to his entrance on board said ship, and afterward; and, that he was never heard of after he sailed in said ship, on her last cruise, in the year 1800; he being sailing-master on board, and was lost in her. That, I also was well acquainted with Mrs. Eliza Garde, the wife and widow of him, the said John Garde; that I have known their only child, Maria Garde, now Harrison, from her infancy, as the lawful child of him, the said John Garde, who was sailing-master, or master of the sailing department, on board the said L'Insurgente, and was lost in her. That the said Maria Garde, now Harrison, was born in the early part of the year 1801, and now resides at St. Michael's, Talbot county, Maryland, and is applying for a pension on account of her said father. And that she, the said Maria Harrison, now applying for a pension as aforesaid, is the identical daughter and only child, above mentioned, of him, the said John Garde, who was a sailing-master, or master of the sailing or navigation department, in the said ship L'Insurgente, was lost therein as above stated. And I do further depose and say, that I am not interested in the matter or results of this deposition and statement. In witness whereof, I do hereto set my hand, this fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
ANN HARRISON.
State of Maryland, }
City of Baltimore. }ss
On this fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, personally appeared, Ann Harrison, and subscribed her name to the above statement, and being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the contents of the same are correct and true as therein stated. And I do hereby certify, that the above named deponent, Ann Harrison, is an aged and respectable resident of this city, and entitled to full credit.
JAMES P. HEATH, J. P.
State of Maryland,}
Baltimore county,}ss
I hereby certify, that James P. Heath, gentleman, before whom the aforegoing deposition was made, and who has thereto signed his name, was at the time of so doing, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of [l. s.] Baltimore county court, this fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
THOMAS KELL, Clerk.
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O.
List of deaths in the navy, as ascertained by the department, since the 1st of December, 1838.
Names and rank. | Date. | Place. |
Captains. | ||
Daniel T. Patterson | August 25, 1839 | Navy yard, Washington. |
Joseph J. Nicholson | Dec. 12, 1838 | Baltimore. |
Commanders. | ||
Marvine P. Mix | Feb. 8, 1839 | New York. |
William E. McKenney | August 24, 1839 | New York. |
Lieutenants. | ||
William H. Campbell | Sept. 6, 1839 | New York. |
Horatio M. Houston | July 2, 1839 | Lancaster county, Penn. |
Charles S. Ridgely | Oct. 14, 1839 | Baltimore. |
Surgeons. | ||
Thomas J. Boyd | March 26, 1839 | New York. |
William Plumstead | April 17, 1839 | Naval hospital, Pensacola. |
Assistant surgeons. | ||
Philemon Baker | March 22, 1839 | Island of St. Croix. |
William A. Green | November, 1839 | Naval hospital, Pensacola. |
Purser. | ||
William A. Slacum | Nov. 1, 1839 | St. Augustine, Florida. |
Passed midshipmen. | ||
Henry J. Paul | March 10, 1839 | Lost overboard from sloop Vandalia, West Indies. |
James L. Heap | Jan. 15, 1839 | Philadelphia. |
William Scandreth Smith | Nov. 13, 1839 | St. Augustine, Florida. |
Henry Waddell | Sept. 27, 1839 | On board the steamer Poinsett, Indian Key, Florida. |
Stephen W. Wilkinson | Nov. 14, 1839 | Pensacola, Florida. |
Midshipmen. | ||
Alexander H. Cass | August 27, 1839 | Dresden, Ohio. |
William M. Wallace | Feb. 10, 1839 | Baltimore. |
Walter W. Hays | Nov. 9, 1839 | Naval hospital, Pensacola. |
Master. | ||
James B. Potts | May 8, 1839 | Gosport, Virginia. |
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O—Continued.
Names and rank. | Dale. | Place. |
Professor of Mathematics. | ||
Elisha Fitch | Oct. 15, 1839 | Naval hospital, Pensacola. |
Boatswain. | ||
John McNelly | July 14, 1839 | Drowned at Boston. |
Carpenter. | ||
Samuel Phillips | Oct. 9, 1839 | Plainfield, New Jersey. |
Sailmaker. | ||
James Davis | Jan. 26, 1839 | Navy yard, Boston. |
Marine officers. | ||
Captain James McCawley | Feb. 22, 1839 | Philadelphia. |
2d Lieut. John F. Young | Feb. 9, 1839 | Virginia. |
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P.
List of dismissions from the navy since the 1st of December, 1838.
Names, and rank. | Date of dismission. |
PASSED MIDSHIPMAN. | |
William Craney | 31st May, 1839. |
MIDSHIPMEN. | |
Clement W. Bennett | 6th July, 1839. |
James L. Hannegan | 8th July, 1839. |
William E. Newton | 15th June, 1839. |
Charles O. Ritchie | 19th May, 1839. |
Thaddeus K. Perlee | 8th July, 1839. |
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Q.
List of resignations in the navy since the 1st of December, 1838.
Names and rank. | When accepted. |
LIEUTENANTS. | |
Grey Skipwith | 19th December, 1838. |
Ezra T. Doughty | 18th February, 1839. |
Edwin W. Moore | 16th July, 1839. |
PASSED MIDSHIPMEN. | |
John J. White | 18th January, 1839. |
Monfort S. Stokes | 6th February, 1839. |
Matthew F. Pitcher | 24th January, 1839. |
William Pope | 19th June, 1839. |
George W. Randolph | 22d July, 1839. |
William R. Postell | 14th June, 1839. |
George Wickham | 26th July, 1839. |
MIDSHIPMEN. | |
Nathan Barnes | 28th August, 1839. |
Thomas O. Glascock | 11th May, 1839. |
Joseph Gold | 27th February, 1839. |
Hamilton Godman | 15th May, 1839. |
Edmund C. Kennedy | 15th June, 1839. |
Charles J. Love | 11th March, 1839. |
Benjamin P. McNeil | 5th November, 1839. |
James O. Shannessy | 27th February, 1839. |
Charles H. Piper | 8th January, 1839. |
William W. Polk | 1st July, 1839. |
Eugene E. Rogers | 12th September, 1839. |
Samuel Smith | 21st October, 1839. |
Camillus Saunders | 25th February, 1839. |
James D. Usher | 15th June, 1839. |
Westerlo Van Rensselaer | 14th September, 1839. |
James H. R. Taylor | 30th July, 1839. |
Charles Wager | 6th November, 1839. |
William S. Weed | 22d December, 1839. |
Edward A. Weyman | 21st September, 1839. |
BOATSWAINS. | |
Thomas M. Randlett | 29th March, 1839. |
John Miller | 21st June, 1839. |
William Farrow | 16th July, 1839. |
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Q—Continued.
Names and rank. | When accepted. |
GUNNER. | |
Samuel Allen | 1st March, 1839. |
CARPENTERS. | |
William L. Shuttleworth | Appointed 2d lieut. of marines 28th February, 1839. |
John O. Butler | 16th February, 1839. |
Samuel Macomb | 18th January, 1839. |
SAILMAKERS. | |
N. C. L'Hommedieu | 25th January, 1839. |
John C. O. Connor | 25th July, 1839. |
MARINE OFFICERS. | |
1st lieut. George W. McLean | 7th February, 1839. |
2d lieut. Wm. H. Brewster | 2d February, 1839. |
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R.
Suppression of the slave trade, under the act of March 3, 1819.
Dr. | Cr. | |||||
Nov. 23, 1838 | To balance in the Treasury | $10,763 74 | Mar. 11, 1839 | By labor at Gosport navy yard, for Colonization Society | $32 38 | |
Mar. 29, 1839 | Labor at Gosport navy yard, for Colonization Society | 34 92 | ||||
Ap'l 12, 1839 | Labor at Gosport navy yard, for Colonization Society | 166 57 | ||||
July 27, 1839 | Paid Samuel Wilkinson his account for transporting eight recaptured Africans to Liberia | 320 00 | ||||
Oct. 8, 1839 | Paid Thomas Buchanan, agent, for six months' salary | 750 00 | ||||
Oct. 10, 1839 | Paid Samuel H. Duval, marshal of Florida, for maintenance of seven Africans | 2,026 50 | ||||
10,763 74 | Nov. 14, 1839 | By balance in the Treasury | 7,433 37 | |||
Nov. 14, 1839 | To balance in the Treasury | $7,433 37 | 10,763 74 |
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