Carteret County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Burns, Capt. Otway 
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Cemetery:           Old Burying Ground, Beaufort, NC
Name:               Capt. Otway Burns
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(22)  Captain Otway Burns (1775-1850) - Historians say he was one of 
North Carolina's greatest naval heroes in the War of 1812. He received 
Letters of Marque and Reprisal from the United States, which had only a 
small navy. He sailed from Nova Scotia to South America plundering 
British ships. It is said he captured cargo worth more than $2,000,000 
on one trip alone. His tomb is surmounted by a cannon taken from his 
privateer, Snapdragon. After the war, Captain Burns was a member of the 
North Carolina Legislature. Later, a grateful state made him light-ship 
keeper near Portsmouth. He died there and was brought by sharpie to 
Beaufort for burial. The town of Burnsville, in the mountains of North 
Carolina, was named for Otway Burns and a statute of him stands in the 
center of that town's square.

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