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Title: A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Maclay, Edgar Stanton, 1863-1919
Subjects: Leech, Samuel, 1798-1848 Adventure and adventurers Sailors United States -- History War of 1812 Personal narratives
Publisher: Greenlawn, N.Y., Navy Blue Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ning wascorrect in theory, the fact was that the JohnAdams was not captured by the enemy. After two weeks of idleness and, finding thathis stock of money accumulated aboard theMacedonian was fast ebbing away, Leech ac-cepted the offer of an Englishman by the name ofSmith (who was a deserter from the British armybut was then employed as a bootmaker in thefirm of Benton & Co., in Broadway) to becomean apprentice in the art, science, secrets andmysteries of a cordwainer.* Behold me, then, records our hero, trans-formed from the character of a runaway Britishsailor into that of a quiet scholar, at the feet ofSt. Crispin; where, in the matter of awls, wax-ends, lapstones and pegs, I soon became quiteproficient. It is altogether likely that our hero would havepassed the remainder of his days in the artof shoemaking had it not been for a rumor thatreached him one day, after he had been about twomonths in his new service, that a tall, stout sailornamed George Turner was in the crew of the
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AX A.MKKICAX MAX-O-WAKSMAN IN 1812.Draziti from a contci).f>on:iicous shrtcli. Looking ur a Relativk. 137 United States. Dctcrniincd to invcstij^atc, Sam-uel, one fine Sunday morninc;- went a1)oarcl thatfri<:)^ate and was heartily received hy some of hisformer shipmates of the Macedonian who hadentered the American service. Leech soon presented himself to his cousin and.after remindinci^ him of several incidents con-nected with their relatives and home at Wanstead,established his identity before that worthy tar.Turner advised the youth to give up the sea and,very kindly, oflfered him a home in Salem wherehe had a wife and family. Severing his connection with his kind em-ployer in the cordwainer shop, Leech engagedsteerage passage in a sloop bound for Providence,for five dollars. Before that vessel sailed, Sam-uel found that his clothes bag had been robbed bya negro and the master of the craft, to save thegood name of his packet, returned to Leech twodollars of the passage money

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