A compilation of biographical sketches of distinguished officers in the American Navy
Subtitle: with other interesting matter ...
By: By Benjamin Folsom
Publisher: Published by the compiler, and for sale at the Newburyport-bookstore, no. 13 Cornhill, and by various other booksellers in the United States. Horatio G. Allen, printer
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Newburyport
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813; Biography; History; United States. Navy
Notes: L. C. copy imperfect: front. wanting.

The biographies of Hull, Decatur, Jones, Lawrence, Burrows and Perry (the last three by Washington Irving) had appeared with portraits in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia) March-Dec. 1813 [n.s.] v. 1, no. 3, 6; v. 2, no. 7-8, 11-12. That of Hull is signed P. (i.e. James Kirke Paulding?) Those of Bainbridge, Allen and Murray, with portraits, appeared in the Port Folio (Philadelphia) Dec. 1813, Jan.-May 1814 [3d ser.] v. 2, no. 6; v. 3, no. 1, 5.
Table of contents: title: Memoirs of distinguished heroes in the American navy. Captain Isaac Hull, Commodore Decatur, Captain Jacob Jones, Com. William Bainbridge, Captain James Lawrence, Commodore John Rodgers, Captain William Henry Allen, Lieut. William Burrows, Com. Oliver Hazard Perry, Com. Alexander Murray, Lieutenant John C. Aylwin, Lieut. James M. Broom.; title: Poetical notices; title: Obituary notices.; title: Anecdotes of the battle on lake Erie.; title: Comparative strength of the different naval powers.