biography
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| lived:
| (1750–78)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. One of the first five captains commissioned by Congress (1775), he participated in the capture of New Providence I, Bahamas (1776), and captured several British ships. He was killed when his ship, the USS Randolph, exploded. |
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