by John Marshall

“ The moment, therefore, the tide served, every effort was made to get up the river, which, from the shallowness of the water, was very difficult, the Emerald having passed through the mud in three feet less than she drew. * * * * The indefatigable zeal of Captains O’Bryen and Nash, in arranging and forwarding the supplies, and Captains Maxwell, Ferris, Waring, and Richardson, in giving aid to the army, as well as Captain Kempt, agent for transports, claim my warmest applause [2] . ”

“ Cooke, Halford and Son.
↑ The O’Bryens are one of the aboriginal families of Ireland, and descended from the kings of Thomond and Muuster; their pedigree is traced with peculiar exactness by the Editor of a Biographical Peerage of Ireland, published in 1817. ”

“ This officer is the second son of the late Edward O’Bryen, Esq., a Captain in the army, brother of Murrough, the first Marquis of Thomond [1] . During the greater part of the first French revolutionary war, he commanded the Shark and Childers sloops of war. His post commission bears date Feb. 14, 1799. We subsequently find him in the Emerald frigate, assisting at the capture of St. ”