Captain Otway Burns (1775 - 1850)
Plundering British ships from Nova
Scotia to South America
thanks to Letters of Marque and Reprisal received from the
United States, Captain Otway Burns is heralded as one of North
Carolina's greatest naval heroes during the War of 1812. A cannon
from his privateer Snapdragon rests upon his tomb. After the war,
the state of North Carolina honored Captain Burns by making him
a light-ship keeper near Portsmouth. What North Carolina town
is named for Captain Otway Burns?