Eli Ayers of the American Colonization Society, negotiated a treaty that led to the founding of the state of Liberia. Alligator along the African Windward Coast, Lt. In December of 1821, while commanding the U.S.S. He was the first naval officer to act against the slave trade and captured several slave ships. After that conflict, Lieutenant Stockton was assigned to ships operating in the Mediterranean, in the Caribbean and off the coast of West Africa. Navy in September 1811, shortly after his 16th birthday, and served at sea and ashore during the War of 1812. Stockton was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. Senator and Representative, and his grandfather, Judge Richard Stockton was Attorney General for New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was born at Morven, Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey, into a political family his father Richard Stockton was a U.S. Stockton was from a notable political family and also served as a U.S. He was a naval innovator and an early advocate for a propeller-driven, steam-powered navy. Robert Field Stockton (Aug– October 7, 1866) was a United States naval commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.
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