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JAMES ELLIS, Esq.
[Commander.]

Was first lieutenant of the Arethusa 32, Captain Samuel Marshall, and wounded in her celebrated action with the ​French frigate Belle Poule, July 17th, 1778[1]. He obtained the rank of commander on the 10th Nov. in the same year; and the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital Sept. 22d, 1806. His demise took place Sept. 7th, 1824, at which period he was in the 79th year of his age.

  1. ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 499.
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