1895.] duo IFrazer. 



U. S. N., and Sarali Yorke, who had besides this son an elder daughter, 

 Louisa, and a younger, Mary. 



' The birth of this latter daughter must have occurred shortly after 

 that of Edward, and either accompanied, or was closely followed by the 

 death of his mother ; for his father was remarried on October 31, 1831, 

 by the Rev. James Montgomery, to his second wife, Frances Ann 

 Jones, daughter of Hugh Jones, of North Carolina. They sailed for 

 Tripoli the following day, November 1, 1831 (letter of D. S. Macauley 

 in possession of Capt. C. N. B. M.). 



Edward's great uncle, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, U. S. N., had 

 a career in many respects unparalleled in the U. S. Navy, which can 

 be but briefly alluded to here. Born in Philadelphia, February 3, 

 1778, of Irish parents, he entered the merchant marine as cabin boy in 

 1791, and very soon commanded an Indiaman. He entered the Navy as 

 Lieutenant March 9, 1798, served with the greatest distinction in the 

 war with France, in that with the Barbary States, and in that with 

 England in 1812; and received, like the Constitution, which he long 

 commanded, the name of "Old Ironsides." He closed an active and 

 honorable career of seventy-one years in the service of the United States 

 on November 6, 1869. During this time he was on active duty for sixty- 

 four years, and for seventeen years ranking officer of the Navy. 



Edward's uncle, Commodore Charles Stewart McCauley (a nephew 

 of Charles Stewart), was born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1793. He 

 was appointed a midshipman, U. S. N., in 1809, and rose to the rank of 

 Lieutenant in 1814. He served with distinction on the Constellation in 

 1813, and on the Jefferson on Lake Ontario in 1814. At the breaking out 

 of the Rebellion of 1861 he was ordered to the Gosport navy yard and 

 prevented a large amount of material from falling into the hands of the 

 rebels. He died on May 21, 1869. 



The brother of Charles Stewart McCauley and father of the subject of 

 this sketch was Daniel Smith McCauley, who entered the United States 

 Navy as midshipman in 1814, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant, which 

 commission he resigned in 1825. The dates of his birth (which was proba- 

 bly in the nineties of the eighteenth century) and of his marriage to 

 Sarah Yorke (which is likely to have occurred about the time of his 

 resignation from the Navy) have not been discovered. 



It is probable that Sarah Yorke McCauley died about 1829. 



Owing to some reverse of fortune which was rendered more severe 

 by the fact that his associates in the unfortunate enterprise did not, 

 like Daniel Smith McCauley, pay their losses loyally, and to the sacrifice 

 of their capital, his circumstances were straitened, and he applied for 

 and received the appointment as U. S. Consul at Tripoli, July 29, 1831. 



There is some uncertainty as to the movements of the Consul's family 

 at this time. His youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary G. Moore, a sister of 

 the late Admiral, now living in England, informs the writer that she 

 and her sister, Louisa, had been sent out in a sailing vessel in charge of 



After this sketch was printed, a record in the family Bible was dis- 

 covered, which shows that Daniel Smith Macauley was married to Sarah 

 Yorke by the Rev. Gregory Bedell, on October 28, 1824. 



Sarah Yorke Macauley died November 13, 1830. 



