American Colonies during the Mevolutionari/ War. 03 



His sons and several of liis later descendants have also been 

 eminent in law and other professions. 



His elder brother, Thomas Tudor Tucker, who was born in Ber- 

 muda, 1'745, and emigrated to South Carolina, was a surgeon in the 

 army, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress, 1787-8, and 

 representative in the United States Congress subsequently, 1789- 

 1793 ; from December, 1801, to his death. May, 1828, '27 years, he 

 was Treasurer of the United States. 



Capt. George Okd was born in England, May 26, 1741, He 

 died Oct. 13, 1806. He came to America when 18 years old. He 

 carried on a ship chandlery, together with a rope-walk in Phila- 

 delphia, before the war, and had already acquired considerable 

 knowledge of naval affairs in England. These occupations and his 

 experience made him useful in the first formation of the Naval 

 Board, as shown by letters to him, still preserved, from Thomas 

 Wharton, " First President of Council."* 



He was an uncle of George Ord, Esq., a well known naturalist 

 of Philadelphia, and for many years an active member of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences and American Philosophical Society. 

 He was a friend and patron of Wilson, the ornithologist, and edited 

 his Ornithology, writing the last volfime himself. He was also 

 intimate with Audubon, Lesueur, and other notable naturalists of 

 that period. It was through him that the papers and relics of Capt. 

 Ord were transmitted to his nephew, DeLancey Cleveland, who wrote 

 the article on the capture of the gunpowder, referred to above. 

 The following is a copy of the commission of Capt. George Ord. 

 The original is preserved by Mr. DeLancey Cleveland : 



IN CONGEESS. 



The Delegates of the United States, of New Hampshire, Massachusettes Bay, Rhode 

 Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New 

 Castle, Kenf and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, 

 South-Carolina, and Georgia, 



To all unto whom these Presents shall come, send Greeting : Know Ye, 



THAT we have granted, and by these Presents do grant Licence and Author- 

 ity to George Ord Esq" Mariner, Commander of the Brig" called Retalia- 

 tion of the Burthen of 90-Tons, or thereabouts, moimting fourteen Carriage 

 Guns, and navigated by 100 Men, to fit out and set forth the said Brig" in a 



* For these partictilars I am indebted to Mrs. DeLancey Cleveland, of New 

 York. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XIII. 5 July, 1907. 



