Occasion.—Victory on Lake Erie.
Device.—A bust of Commodore Perry.
Legend.—Oliverus H. Perry, princeps stagno Eriensi classim totam contudit.
Reverse.—A fleet closely engaged.
Legend.—Viam invenit virtus aut facit.
Exergue.—Inter class. Ameri. et Brit. Die 10th Sept. 1813.
COMMODORE ELLIOTT.
Jesse Duncan Elliott was born in Maryland, on the 14th of July, 1780. His father, Robert Elliott, was unfortunately killed by the Indians in the year 1794, near the Muskingum river, while transacting business for the army of the United States. The following resolution was passed by Congress on this melancholy event. “Be it enacted,” &c., “that the sum of two thousand dollars be allowed to the widow of Robert Elliott, who was killed by a party of hostile Indians while he was conducting the necessary supplies for the army commanded by Major-General Wayne, in the year 1794,” &c. &c. Until the year 1804, Jesse Elliott was engaged in prosecuting his studies at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when he was appointed a midshipman in the navy, and ordered on board the United States frigate Essex. The United States being then engaged in a war with the Barbary powers, the above-mentioned frigate was ordered to cruise in the Mediterranean.