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On 30 October 1753 he married Dorothy Willing, the daughter of Charles Willing, a Philadelphia merchant.
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Walter Stirling
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Born in 1718, Walter Stirling entered the Royal Navy. He was made "The Regulating Captain of the Impress at the Tower". In 1780 he was captain of the Gibraltar, and was present when Admiral George Rodney captured the island of Sint Eustatius from the Dutch during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.
Selected to take home dispatches, he was knighted on arrival.
In 1783 he appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. When King George III inspected Stirling"s ships, he was so impressed that he offered to make Stirling a baronet.
He died in London in November 1786. His second surviving son, Charles, also became an admiral.
