A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Paynter, John Meyrick
PAYNTER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
John Meyrick Paynter entered the Navy, 25 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral Sir) Rich. Goodwin Keats; and while in that ship, commanded for some time by Capts. Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Jackson, was present, as Midshipman, at the bombardment of Copenhagen, the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish General the Marquis de la Romans and his patriot troops, and the capture of Flushing. After a servitude of eight months at Spithead and Plymouth in the Puissant 74, Capts. Robt. Hall and John Irwin, and Menelaus 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, he joined, in July, 1810, the Milford 74, bearing the flag, at the defence of Cadiz, of his old Captain, Sir R. G. Keats, whom, in Aug. 1811, he followed into the Hibernia 110. Being again, in Aug. 1812, placed under the orders of Sir Peter Parker on board the Menelaus, he sailed in that ship for the coast of North America; where, on being nominated, 27 July, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the Weser troop-ship, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan, Bartholomew Kent, and Dan. Lawrence, he witnessed the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, and took part in the unsuccessful attack made upon Baltimore. His appointment to the Weser being confirmed by commission dated 11 Oct. 1814, he continued in that vessel until Nov. 1815, and was in consequence present in the expedition against New Orleans. Since 20 March, 1835, he has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.