Memoirs of Ann [Baker] Carson (published in 1822):
"The United States had then few or no regular ships of war so that all our naval enterprizes were conducted, and the ships owned, by private individuals. Anongst the number, Blair M. Clenahan held the first rank, and was owner of the Holker."
"My father continued on board the Holker some time; during this period he had seen and fallen in love with my mother, then a celebrated beauty in Southwark, and just entering in her fourteenth year."
"...on his return to Philadelphia he was rewarded for all his sufferings and losses by receiving the hand of my mother from her father the hand of his lovely and beloved Jane."
"Blessed and blessing, he, for a time enjoyed all the raptures of domestic happiness in the arms of his young and lovely bride, he became the father of an infant daughter as my mother entered her sixteenth year."
From an article, That Mischievous Holker - The Story of a Privateer:
"...the Holker survivors had been hustled ashore. Four of them, having been British prisoners on board the privateer, were released. Ten, who preferred service in the English navy to confinement as prisoners of war, were sent to His Majesty's ships Princess and Royal Oak. The remaining thirty-seven, by order of Admiral Hugh Pigot, were consigned to the Peter prison ship, lying at anchor there. Included among the latter were Quinlan and Thomas Baker, the first lieutenant."
"Although the Holker was at the bottom of the sea, her affairs were not ended."
"Most of them drifted back to Philadelphia. Relatives of some of those who had perished in the little brig filed suit in admiralty court to recover prize money due them. Quinlan and Baker returned to command merchant vessels."
