Excerpt from Brief Sketches of the Officers Who Were in the Battle of Lake Erie Capt. Taylor was a sailor before the mast, then mate, and finally captain in the merchant service. Being thrown out of employ by the declaration of war in 1812, Capt. Perry obtained for him a war rant as sailing master in the flotilla under his command in Newport harbor, early in 1813, and having a high appreciation of his abilities took him to Erie to aid in fitting out and rigging the vessels there building. Mr. Taylor arrived there in April, in charge of a gang of sailors, and rendered highly important services in superintending the equipment of the vessels, being more experienced than any one on the station, in the duties of seamanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.