Aylwin, John Cushing, approximately 1780-1813
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found: American naval biography, 1815:p. 242 (Lieutenant Aylwin), p. [258] (Aylwin, John Cushing)
found: DAB (1923 ed.)(Aylwin, John Cushing, b. ca. 1780, d. 1813; naval officer, the son of Thomas Aylwin, a merchant of Boston, and Lucy (Cushing) Aylwin, a sister of William Cushing, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Served as captain of several merchant ships out of Boston, and, at the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was appointed sailing-master with the rank of lieutenant of the frigate Constitution. He took a prominent part of the battle which resulted in the capture of the British frigate Guerrière, and heroically ended his career and his life during the fight of the Constitution and the Java)
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2006-10-03: new
2013-03-22: revised
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