Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 7, 1791
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 7 Feb 1791
Additional Source Text:
Also listed in New-Hampshire Spy (Portsmouth), 23 Feb 1790
Notes:
Thomas Tingey (1750-1829), a native Briton, held a warrant officer’s commission in the Royal Navy before settling in America. Traditional assertions of service in the Continental navy are unsubstantiated, but during the Revolution he piloted vessels engaged in the West India trade. Tingey retired from commercial pursuits in 1798 to accept a captain’s commission in the nascent U.S. Navy. He served with distinction in the Quasi-War against France and later became commandant of the Washington Navy Yard (1804-1829).
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