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seamen who had been serving in the Shannon, 

 Acasta, Africa, and various other vessels. So there 

 was also a certain proportion of Americans among 

 the British crews, although forming a smaller per 

 centage of them than the British did on board the 

 American ships. In neither case was the number 

 sufficient to at all affect the result. 



The crews of our ships being thus mainly native 

 Americans, it may be interesting to try to find out 

 the proportions that were furnished by the different 

 sections of the country. There is not much difficulty 

 about the officers. The captains, masters comman 

 dant, lieutenants, marine officers, whose birthplaces 

 are given in the Navy List of 1816, 240 in all, 

 came from the various States as follows : 



N. H., 



Conn., 6 



f-N.y., 17] 



4 



Middle States 



Southern States 



42 



Del., 

 District of Columbia | D. C, 4 | 4 



no 



Total of given birthplaces 



240 



