The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-10-05
From the y. Y. Daily Times.
Commander Ingraham.

We have been favored, from reliable
source, with biographical sketch of
Commander Ingraham, whose late gal.
liant conduct in command of the st. Lou,
is, in the harbor Of Smyrna, has given
him worldwide reputation.
Commander Duncan n. Ingraham is
the son of the late Nathaniel IngraLam,
Esq of Charleston, S. c., and belongs
to family ominently naval in its char
actor Al of them, with one exception,
were officers in the Navy. His father,
being tue intimate friend of Capt Paul
Jones, volunteered under lis command,
when he left France in the Bon Hommd
Richard, in l779, and fought with him
in the battle with the British frigate Ser
apis, one of the most desperate actions
in the aunals Of naval warfare. His
Uncle, Capt. Joseph 1ngraham, L. S. n,
was lost in the U. s. ship Pickering,
which went down at sea. aud was never
he ard of, at the beginning Of this centu-
ry. His cousin, William Ingraham, was
killed at the age of twenty, when Lieu
tenant in the U. S. Navy.
The sole exception in the family, was
his uncle, Duncan iograham, Esq, from
whom he received his name. lie was
one of the most accomplished gentlemen
of his day, and though init mate with the
leading political men of our country, yet
from taste ana early associations, he was
q loyalist in his views. At the opening
of the Revolution, in MIA, he went to
Europe, and remained there until its
close. John Adams when Commissioner
to France, in l779, frequently speaks Of
him in his Diary, lately published, as his
associate in Paris. lie returned. how
ever, to this country in 1884, gave in his
adherence to the Government, and per-
mittcd his son to enter the Navy-the
Lieut.. William IngraLam whom we
have mentioned as being killed in the
service.
Capt. Ingraham received his Midship-
mans warrant, at tho age of nine years,
during the last war with Great Britain.
Commodore Smith, of South Carolina,
the intimate friend of his father, being
about to sail in the frigate Congress, re-
quested Mr.. Ingraham to allow him to
take his son with him. ave shall prob
ably have an engagement"-said he
'and it will do him good" He accor-
dinghy went to sea at once, at that ten
der age, and remained in active service
for two years till the end of tho war
lie then returned home, at the age of G.
leven, and resumed his education at
school. Since then, he has, most of his
time been employed in active duty. lie
the ill-fated Somers in block
ade duty in Vera Cruz and other parts
of the Gulf, during the whole Of the
Mexican war, and being Frustrated by
was sent home but a short time
before she was lost. For two years pre-
vious to his sailing for the Mediterrane-
an, in the st. Louis, he was attached to
the Navy-Yard at Philadelphia, the So
ciety of which city will long remember
him and his accomplished family
Captain Ingraham married Harriet
Rutledge Laurens, of South Caro- lima, a
grand. daughter. on the paternal side, of
Henry Laurens, tho President of the
Iirst Continental Congress, and who, af- !
torward, was captured by British frig- |
ate, while on his way to France as Amer
lean Commissioner, and confined for q !
long time in the Tower of London. On
The maternal side is the granddaughter
Of Edward Rutlcdge, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence. His
eldest son, Henry Laurens lngraham, is
now Midshipman at the Naval Acade-
my, at Annapolis.
1t is courteous circumstance, that by
ntermarriage with the American family,
Ihe Ingraham blood flows in the veins of
some Of the most distinguished officers
II the British Navy. Among these was
he late Captain Marryatt, G. b., lthe
luthor,) aud Sir Edward Belcher, X c.
b. who lately commanded the exploring
expedition round the world, and who now
tho Arctic Expedition, lately |