[1] Webster remained active in his military service serving as a captain in the United States Revenue Marine until his death.

[2] John Adams Webster was born at Broom's Bloom, his family's ancestral home, on September 19, 1789, in Harford County, Maryland.

Webster was engaged in several more battles and ended up in command of a six-gun battery located on the “Ferry” or middle branch of the Patapsco River, west of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The action lasted for over an hour, and the British retreated.”[5] Webster was wounded, including his right arm becoming partially disabled, but he remained on his post.

[2] On November 22, 1819, President Monroe appointed him captain in the United States Revenue Marine, which position he held until his death.

[7][8] Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford appointed him to his rank because of his "ability, intelligence, and zeal...and above all in consideration of the gallantry [he had] displayed during the late war.

Webster served until 1865 when he was retired with full pay by special order of the Treasury Department as a reward for exceptional service.

[9] It was in San Francisco that Webster “had under my control on board USRC Polk, seventeen Japanese,” who had been plucked from the sea by those aboard the American freighter Auckland.