by John Marshall

“ He entered the naval service as a Midshipman, on board the Otter sloop of war, commanded by Captain John Oakes Hardy, in 1787, and continued in that vessel till June 1789, when he joined the Adamant, of 50 guns, bearing the flag of Sir Richard Hughes, from which ship he removed into the Thisbe frigate on the coast of North America. ”

“ This officer is the eldest son of the late John Delap Halliday, of Castlemains, in the Stewartry of Kircudbright, N.B., and of the Leasowes, in Shropshire, Esq., by Lady Jane Tollemache, daughter of Lionel, third Earl of Dysart, whose ancestors were settled at Bentley, in Suffolk, previous to the Norman Conquest. ”