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Jesse Duncan Elliott was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, the son of Robert and Ann Elliott, who were Pennsylvanians. The father, who was descended from the Elliotts of Fincastle, County Donegal, Ireland, was killed in 1794 by the Indians, while serving as a commissary in General Wayne’s army.
The early schooling of the son was received at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from which place in 1804 he was appointed by President Jefferson a midshipman in the navy.
His first cruise was in the Mediterranean on the Essex under Commodore James Barron, and he was with that unfortunate officer when he surrendered the Chesapeake.
Made a lieutenant in 1810, he was sent to London as a bearer of dispatches to the American minister there.
In that city he was “insulted” by an Englishman, who however declined to receive his overtures for a duel.
Early in the War of 1812, accepting a command on the Lakes, he, aided by Capt. Nathan Towson of the army, surprised and captured on Lake Erie the two vessels Detroit and Caledonia.
For this well conceived and gallant exploit he was voted a sword by Congress and was, July 1813, promoted master commandant over thirty lieutenants.
Twenty years after the war, Towson, then a general, entered into a correspondence with Elliott, claiming that the official report of the capture of the two vessels did not do justice to the army’s share therein, but he failed in his object, the provoking of Elliott to a duel.
Placed in command of the naval forces on Lake Erie, Elliott, in the fall of 1812, collected a small fleet of vessels and began the construction of the brigs Lawrence and Niagara.
In the spring he was succeeded by Commodore O. H. Perry [q. f. ].
After a brief tour of duty on Brazilian navy. From 1829 to 1832 he commanded the West-Indian Squadron.
From 1833 to 1835 he was commandant of the Boston navy-yard.
His last cruise, made in 1835—38 as commander- in-chief of the Mediterranean Squadron, was marked by many exhibitions of good will to the numerous potentates whom he visited in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Within the squadron, however, there was much discord and he arrived home with several disgruntled subalterns.
They preferred charges against him—thirteen in all —some of which now seem ludicrous.
Jackson’s administration had been succeeded by one much less friendly to the commodore and he was found guilty and sentenced to suspension from the navy for four years, two of which were to be without pay.
President Van Buren remitted the penalty respecting pay.
In the meantime he had been challenged to a duel by Commodore David Porter, but some of his friends prevailed upon him to settle his differences peacefully.
During his suspension he engaged in farming and the raising of fine sheep and hogs, but continued to fight his enemies.
A change in the federal administration placed his friends once more in power and on October 19, 1843, President Tyler remitted the remaining period of his suspension.
In December 1844 he was given command of the Philadelphia navy-yard and a year later he died.
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On April 7, 1812, he was married in Norfolk, Virginia, to Frances C. Vaughan and established an additional bond of sympathy with the South.
