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Before the privateers left, they spiked the cannons at the fort.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070578813&view=1up&seq=32 Selman letter. 1813]</ref>
While George Washington censored Selman and Broughton and released their prisoners, [[John Adams]] supported the privateers stating that they may “deserve censure for going counter to [their] orders, but I think in justice to ourselves we ought to seize every [Loyalist] officer in the service of Goverment wherever they may be found."<ref name="auto1"/>. When Selman was retired, the Vice President of the United States [[Elbridge Gerry]] favourably re-evaluated his contribution to the war effort and signed his letter, "with much esteem and respect, E. Gerry."<ref>https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070578813&view=1up&seq=35</ref>
In 1776, he became Captain in Colonel Jonathan Glover's 5th Essex Counrty Regiment. Three years later, he became 1st Major under Colonel Willian Bacon.
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