Jonathan Haraden was born in Gloucester, but as a boy was employed by George Cabot of Salem and made his home there for the remainder of his life. He followed the sea from his early youth, and had risen to a command in the merchant service when the Revolution began. The Massachusetts Colony placed two small vessels in commission as State vessels of war, and aboard one of these, the Tyrannicide, Jonathan Haraden was appointed lieutenant. On her first cruise, very early in the war, she fought a king's cutter from Halifax for New York. The British craft carried a much heavier crew than the Tyrannicide, but the Yankee seamen took her after a brisk engagement in which their gunnery was notably destructive. (more at website) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/paine03.html <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/paine03.html"> Jonathan Haraden Privateer - Mass., 1776 to 1782</A>