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Haraden, Jonathan 1745-1803
Naval officer: born in Gloucester, Mass..
in 1745.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War he entered the navy: later was made captain and placed in command of the Pickering.
He captured a British privateer in a night attack in the Bay of Biscay, and defeated another one, of 140 men and forty-two guns.
Subsequently he took three armed vessels one after another.
It is said that during the war he captured almost 1,000 cannon.
He was himself captured with all his ships by Rodney, the English commander in the West Indies, in 1781.
He died in Salem, Mass. Nov.26, 1803.