previous next

Jones, Jacob -1850

Naval officer; born near Smyrna, Del., in March, 1768; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania,

Jacob Jones.

and entered the navy as a midshipman in 1799. He was an officer of the Philadelphia when she was captured at Tripoli. In 1810 he was made commander, and when the War of 1812-15 broke out he was in charge of the sloop-of-war Wasp, in which he gained a victory. He commanded the Macedonian, in Decatur's squadron, as post-captain. After the war he commanded the Mediterranean squadron; was a commissioner of the navy board; and governor of the naval asylum at Philadelphia. Congress voted him thanks and a gold medal and several States presented him with swords. He died in Philadelphia, Aug. 3, 1850.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Jacob Jones (2)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
August 3rd, 1850 AD (1)
1850 AD (1)
1815 AD (1)
1812 AD (1)
1810 AD (1)
1799 AD (1)
March, 1768 AD (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: