Register of the Officers of the |
Rank / # in Grade |
Name |
Date of Commission |
Cutter/Station |
Captain |
John Cahoone |
|
--/On Leave |
|
John Jackson |
|
Jefferson/Charleston, S.C. |
|
John A. Webster |
|
Taney/Norfolk |
|
Winslow Foster |
|
Morris/Portland |
5 |
Henry D. Hunter |
|
Jackson/On the coast |
|
William W. Polk |
|
Rush/ |
|
Nicholas Bicker |
|
Gallatin/Wilmington,
|
|
Daniel Dobbin |
|
Erie/Lake |
|
Andrew Mather |
|
Wolcott/New Haven |
10 |
William Coody |
|
Vigilant/ |
|
Thomas L. Shaw |
|
Madison/Portsmouth |
|
William A. Howard |
|
McLane/New
|
|
Farnifold Green |
16 May 1831 |
Dallas/Newbern |
|
Uriah Coolidge |
|
Swiftsure/Passamaquoddy |
15 |
Robert Day |
|
Crawford/Savannah |
|
Thomas M. Randolph |
|
Washington/Key West |
|
Joseph Gold |
|
Alert/ |
|
Ezekiel Jones |
|
Ingham/New |
|
Lewis Girdler |
|
Hamilton/Boston |
20 |
Thomas C. Rudolph |
|
Dexter/Mobile |
|
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|
First Lieutenants |
Michael Conner |
|
Erie/Lake |
|
Caleb Currier |
|
Madison/Portsmouth |
|
John Besse |
|
Rush/ |
|
Green Walden |
|
Morris/Portland |
5 |
Charles B. Childs |
31 May 1831 |
Jefferson/Charleston |
|
Levi C. Harby |
|
Ingham/New |
|
Philemon Gatewood |
31 May 1832 |
Dallas/Newbern |
|
Gabriel O’Brien |
|
--/On Leave |
|
Henry B. Nones |
|
Alert/ |
10 |
Josiah Sturges |
|
McLane/New
|
|
Henry Prince, Jr. |
|
Wolcott/New Haven |
|
Josiah Murch |
|
Gallatin/Wilmington,
|
|
John Whitcomb |
|
Swiftsure/Passamaquoddy |
|
Richard Evans |
|
Taney/Norfolk |
15 |
Samuel P. Scott |
|
Hamilton/Boston |
|
Napoleon L. Coste |
|
Washington/Key
West (Attached to |
|
H. N. Tracy |
|
Vigilant/ |
|
John Little |
|
Dexter/Mobile |
|
Wm. B. Whitehead |
|
Crawford/Savannah |
20 |
John C. Jones |
|
Campbell/Baltimore |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second Lieutenants |
Stephen Thatcher |
|
Wolcott/New Haven |
|
W. M. A. Moore |
30 May 1832 |
Washington/Key West |
|
Gay Moore |
|
Taney/Norfolk |
|
Alex’r V. Frazer |
|
Alert/ |
5 |
Douglas Ottinger * |
|
Erie/Lake |
|
Wm. Russell |
|
Dallas/Newbern |
|
John J. Nimmo |
|
Vigilant/ |
|
George Hayes |
|
Morris/Portland |
|
Charles Grover |
|
Dexter/Mobile |
10 |
James B. Rodgers |
|
Gallatin/Wilmington,
|
|
Thomas Sands |
|
Jackson/On the coast |
|
Thomas Stoddart |
|
Hamilton/Boston |
|
Charles B. Beaufort |
|
Ingham/New |
|
Francis Martin * |
|
McLane/New
|
15 |
Stephen Cornell |
|
Jefferson/Charleston |
|
Joseph A. Noyes |
|
Swiftsure/Eastport |
|
Peter Storer |
|
Rush/ |
|
John McGowen |
|
Crawford/Savannah |
19 |
James H. Roach |
|
Madison/Portsmouth |
|
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|
Third Lieutenants |
Blyden Hedge |
|
Rush/ |
|
Samuel Winchester |
|
Dexter/Mobile |
|
George Clarke |
|
Washington/Key West |
|
Wm. B. McLean |
|
Madison/Portsmouth |
5 |
John Walker |
|
Taney/Norfolk |
|
David M. Stokes |
|
Vigilant/ |
|
Richard Powell |
|
Jackson/On the Coast |
|
Osmond Peters |
|
Hamilton/Boston |
|
F. B. Wright |
|
McLane/New
|
10 |
Thomas Osborne |
|
Jefferson/Charleston |
|
John B. Fulton |
|
Dallas/Newbern |
|
George Berriman |
|
Alert/ |
|
|
|
Swiftsure/Passamaquoddy |
|
Richard D. Millen |
|
Crawford/Savannah |
15 |
James Thompson |
|
Wolcott/New Haven |
|
Beverly Digges |
|
Campbell/Baltimore |
|
Charles A. Newton |
|
Gallatin/Wilmington |
|
Samuel T. Williams |
|
Morris/Portland |
|
John B. Meigs |
|
Ingham/New |
20 |
John W. Hunter |
|
Jackson/On the
Coast |
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* - Ottinger and Martin remained
on the Revenue Cutter Register until at least as late as
the Senior Captains on the list at the time, both listed as “Waiting Orders”.
Note: The pay for Revenue Cutter Service officers as of this date was:
Captains : 50 Dollars/Month
1st Lts. : 35 Dollars/Month
2nd Lts. : 30 Dollars/Month
3rd Lts. : 25 Dollars/Month
All were entitled to “four army rations per diem” in addition to pay.
Source: I came across this info while looking through historical databases online. It was
published in “The Military and
Naval Magazine of the