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JOHN CHILD, Esq.
[Commander.]

Son, we believe, of the late Admiral Smith Child[1]. He was made a lieutenant in 1790; promoted to the command of the Merlin sloop, on the Jamaica station, Sept. 15th, 1800; and employed, during part of the late war, in the Irish Sea-Fencible service.

  1. ↑ See Suppl. Part I. note ‖ at p. 5.
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