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Van brunt, Gershom Jaques 1798-1863

Naval officer; born in Monmouth county, N. J., Aug. 28, 1798; entered the navy as mid-:shipman in 1818; served in Com. David Porter's Mosquito fleet against pirates in the West Indies; was made lieutenant in 1827; had command of the brig Etna during the Mexican War; and took part in the expedition against Tuspan and in the second expedition against Tobasco. He was a commissioner to survey the boundary-line of California in 1848-50; was promoted captain in 1855; in the Civil War had command of the Minnesota and was active in the operations in the North Carolina Sound and in the blockade of Hampton Roads, where he saved his ship from the Confederate ram, Merrimac; and was promoted commodore in 1862. He died in Dedham, Mass., Dec. 17, 1863.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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