82 HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 



of the inhabitants of Pascagoula, by whom he is greatly beloved, I prevailed on 

 Sailing Master George Farragut to accept the commission of magistrate." He 

 served with General Jackson in the Indian campaigns. Of him the admiral says: 

 "a restless disposition and a mind filled with enterprise, courage, and a desire 

 for novelty." He was for a time major of cavalry in the State of Tennessee. 

 (Loyall Farragut, 1879, pp. 4-7.) He died in Louisiana in 1817. He was during 

 his life sailor, soldier, explorer, pioneer, and planter. 



George Farragut was a man of great energy and daring, as the following 

 statements of his son show: 



"The most daring enterprise that my father ever performed by water was 

 in going from New Orleans to Havana in a pirogue, a species of canoe made of two 

 pieces of wood instead of one. . . . This fondness for the sea was very strong with 

 him, but his health was not sufficiently good, at that period of his life, to endure 

 the hardships of actual service, or to indulge in the pleasures of an extended cruise; 

 so he contented himself with making frequent trips across the Lake (Pontchar- 

 train), with his children, hi the yawl; a practice he kept up until the day of his 

 death. When the weather was bad we usually slept on the beach of one of the 

 numerous islands of the lake, or else on the shore of the mainland, wrapped in 

 the boat sail, and, if the weather was cold, we generally half buried ourselves in 

 the dry sand." (L. Farragut, 1879, pp. 9, 10.) 



Mother. Elizabeth Shine, of North Carolina, was "of the good old Scotch 

 family of Mclven." The admiral writes: 



"I remember that on one occasion, during my father's absence, a party of 

 Indians came to our house, which was somewhat isolated. My mother, who was 

 a brave and energetic woman, barred the door in the most effectual manner, and 

 sent all of us trembling little ones up into the loft of the barn, while she guarded 

 the entrance with an axe. The savages attempted to parley with her, but she kept 

 them at bay." (L. Farragut, 1879, p. 8.) 



It is said of Farragut that from his Scotch ancestry came his canny judgment, 

 his keen sense of humor, his coolness in danger, and his deeply religious nature. 



FAMILY HISTORY OF DAVID G. FARRAGTJT. 



II (F F) Antonio Ferragut, born in Majorca, a son of Jorge Ferragut and Ursula Guitart. 

 12 (F M), Juana Mesquida, daughter of Juan Mesquite and 

 Juana Bagur. 13 (M F), John Shine, was in western North 

 Carolina in the middle third of the eighteenth century, and 

 was thus a pioneer. 14 (MM), Ellenor Mclven ("the good 

 old Scotch family of Mclven." L. Farragut, 1879, p. 6). 



II 1 (F), George Farragut, born at Minorca, Balearic 

 Islands, 1755. "In his veins flowed the blood of a large line 

 of soldiers, sailors, and adventurers." He was for a time 

 engaged in seafaring pursuits. He went to America in 1776, 

 and fought with the colonial army. II 2 (M), Elizabeth 

 Shine. II 2, Jordan Merchant, of Norfolk, Virginia. II 5, 

 William Loyall, esq., of Norfolk, Virginia. 



Fraternity of Propositus: III 1, William Farragut, procured an appointment in the navy 

 through his father before 1808. He joined his brother David in a cruise against the pirates of 

 the West Indies in the spring of 1823; he became crippled with rheumatism while on duty in the 

 West Indies and died at New Orleans in 1859. Ill 3, George A. Farragut (born 1805), was 

 drowned by falling overboard from a boat that was being towed by a schooner, 1815. Ill 4 

 (consort), Susan C. Marchant, married Farragut, September 24, 1823, at Norfolk, Virginia. 

 She suffered from neuralgia for many years and had to be carried about like a child; she died 



