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Yes, you've answered your own question. But I think BOXER was first a British ship and we refitted it, can't remember exactly. Somewhere deep in my files I have a report from Porter on the progress of the construction of BOXER from the National Archives. I think I also have BOXER's ship registration, as I have gone through a lot of the files at Mystic Seaport Museum for a WPA project copied all the old Middletown Customs House files, as well as HOLKARs'. Glad to hear J. was the uncle of DD. I didn't know whether they were related. (You can read my whole Tenn. R. campaign chapter online, that includes all of the Miss. R. campaign, at http://www.nymas.org, right sidebar, scroll down-- that gives more credit to the Navy, including Foote, also a relative through my Churchill line).
Also of interest is MACEDONIA which I had a hard time tracking. There was a refitted HMS Macedonia, but not ours. But CT histories listed a MACEDONIA for the War of 1812 as out of our shipyard. Turns out, I learned through a fluke, MACEDONIA was a ship built for JJ Astor. Astor being a friend of Gallatin, managed to talk the Navy into letting MACEDOnIA accompany Bainbridge's squadron to the Pacific, with it as a supply ship. The squadron got attacked by the Brits, but MACEDONIA escaped and wended its way to China with a load of furs, and unforutnately opium, I believe the first US shipment (our citizens also used opium heavily--I believe the term "invalid" was a code word for "drug addict'--so it was no partiuclar plot against the Chinese except that we had nothing else to sell them).
Kay