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164 AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL Socrryrv.
Archives,” 4th series, vol. V) we learn that it “was con-
tinued:desperately for one hour and twenty minutes, when
the tender struck.” Of this important capture John Adams,
writing from Philadelphia on April 12, said : “We begin
to make some little figure here in the navy way. Captain
Barry fitted out here a few days ago in a I6-gun brig and put
to sea by the Roebuck man-of-war in the Delaware river, and
after he got without the Capes fell in with a tender be-
longing to the I.z'ver,oool man-of-war and took her after an
engagement of two glasses. She had eight carriage guns
and a number of swivels” (Atlzerzezmz ]l!ag., May, I826).
And Richard Henry Lee, writing to General Charles Lee
at Williamsburg, Va., from Philadelphia, April I 5, said :
“Captain Barry in an armed brig hence has taken 03 the
Capes of Virginia, and sent in here, a cutter with eight
carriage guns belonging to the Liverpool, with one of that
ship’s lieutenants commanding her. He fought his tender
well, not submitting until he was near sinking” (“Lee
Papers,” “N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll.,” I871).
The British seamen captured on this occasion were -
Captain Boger, John Johnston (midshipman), Isaac Burch,
Owen Humphries, William Fulton, John Henderson, Seth
Bowen, Robert Royston, Jacob Smith,Thomas Dopson, John
Dayton,James Webb, John Palmer, James Ogelby, Richard
Gibson, James Spencer, John Doyle, Henry Kelly, Thomas
Phillips, John Shad, JohnWilson, John N esbit (‘ ‘Pa. Arch., ”
2d series, vol. I, p. 479). Another list given on p. .‘,2I of the
same volume gives additional names of prisoners as fol-
lows: Richard Bowdger, John Dreaper (mate), Andrew
Kelly and John Stead, stated to be “in the sloop; ” John
Nesbit as “left at Capt. Temithy Shler’s, sick,” and
Thomas Phillips as “left at Meg’r Richard Westcot’s,
sick,” and John Wilson, “do.” Among those captured
on the Edward and not named above was Richard Dale.
He had been lieutenant of a light cruiser belonging to
Virginia, which had been captured by the Edward. Dale
“ was induced to adopt the royal cause,” and so served on
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