William Josephus Stafford

[11] Thomas W. Griffith filed a mortgage foreclosure on a piece of property in Baltimore City in Chancery County against William J.

[15] Dolphin operated in the sea lanes from Baltimore to Buenos Aires and across the Atlantic to the coast of Portugal.

Brigham actually published a statement in Baltimore acknowledging the kind and humane treatment received by him and his men.

After a stubborn fight of fifteen minutes, Captain Stafford surrendered Dolphin and was taken captive, but on April 7 and his surgeon were paroled and sent ashore.

Following the end of hostilities with the British in 1814, Stafford and other privateers sailed for Cartagena where they were arrested by Spanish forces who confiscated their ships and cargoes.

His brother James Bruce Stafford sailed with him in the period 1818–1819, and commanded one of their prizes on the voyage to Baltimore and Savannah.

George Coggeshall, author of History of American Privateers and Letters-of-Marque wrote of his personal acquaintance with Captain Stafford and said that he was "a modest, unassuming, gentlemanly man; no one can, for a moment, doubt his unflinching bravery and gallant bearing, when he reflects on the many battles he has gained over the enemies of his country."

Currier, author of The Cruise of the General San Martin, said of Captain Stafford that he was a man who had all the features of the seasoned and unscrupulous privateer, though able to impose his personality upon a crew that was diverse in language and nationality, obsessed with booty, rebellious and often mutinous.

[20] Feliciano Gamez Duarte wrote in his doctoral thesis at the University of Cadiz that Stafford must have been a man of great courage with a strong personality and the ability to control his riotous crew by the power of his own will.