ADM Sylvanus Godon: Hanging ”Lucky Nat” Gordon

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 5

Admiral Sylvanus William Godon spent his life in the Navy. The high point was probably the capture of the USS Erie with its cargo of 897 enslaved Africans. The captain of that ship, Nathaniel "Lucky Nat" Gordon, went to the gallows for his crime.