From Find-a-Grave.
U.S. Naval officer, veteran of the War of 1812, friend and former messmate of writer James Fennimore Cooper ("Last of the Mohicans").
Born in Recklestown (now Chesterfield, New Jersey) on the first Christmas Eve following the American revolution, he was the eldest of four brothers who died in the service of their country.
Only 34 at the time of his death, he became fatally ill while in command of the sloop USS Erie of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean Squadron, and died in the naval hospital in Pisa, Italy, during the autumn of 1818.
His friendship with James Fennimore Cooper had begun a decade earlier when they had served together as midshipmen on Lake Ontario. There they assisted future Commodore Melancton Woolsey in the construction of the brig USS Oneida, the first American warship on the Great Lakes.
--Brock-Perry
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