From "Records of officers and men of New Jersey in wars 1791-1815."
GAMBLE, JOHN M.
Midshipman, January 16, 1809
Ordered to duty at New York, N.Y.:
Transferred to merchant service, July 5, 1809.
He remains the only known US Marine ever to command a Navy ship, which he did twice during the War of 1812.
(For subsequent and continued record, see Officers of the United States Marine Corps, War with Great Britain.)
--Brock-Perry
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