A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barretté, Augustus George
BARRETTÉ. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 11; h-p., 27.)
Augustus George Barretté entered the Navy, 31 Oct. 1809, as Second-cl. Boy, on board the Frederickstein 32, Capts. Joseph Nourse and Fras. Beaufort, the latter of whom he accompanied on a surveying expedition to the Archipelago. After a continued servitude of two years and a half in the Mediterranean as Midshipman of the Volontaire 38, Capt. Nourse, Repulse 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, and Undaunted 38, Capts. Rich. Thomas and Thos. Ussher, he rqoined the first-mentioned officer in Sept. 1813, on board the Severn 40, and proceeded with a fleet of transports and merchantmen to Bermuda. He afterwards attended the expeditions against Washington and Baltimore, assisted at the taking of St. Mary’s, a town on the coast of Georgia, and further contributed to the capture of several of the enemy’s privateers and other vessels. From Sept. 1815, until confirmed in his present rank, 12 June, 1820, Mr. Barrette served as Master’s Mate, Admiralty Midshipman, and latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Rosario 10, Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake, Sybille 44, flag-ship of Sir Home Popham, and Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Channel, West India, and Mediterranean stations. He has since been on half-pay. He married, in Feb. 1823, Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Thos. Jelly, Esq., solicitor, of Bath.