The _Lively_ was swiftly called in and--what Captain Tom did to Quigley history does not state! The jolly piratical seaman did finely and flourished, green-bay like, in the sight of men.

He was not without honours either.

When Washington was rowed from Elizabethtown Point to the first inauguration, his barge was manned by a crew of thirteen ships' captains, and he who had the signal distinction of being coxswain of that historic boat's company, was Cap'n Tom! Indeed there seems to be abundant proof that the Captain engineered the whole proceeding.

It is certain that it was he who presented the "Presidential barge" to Washington for his use during his stay in New York, and he who selected that unusual crew,--practically every noted shipmaster then in port.

On the President's final departure for Mount Vernon, he again used the barge, putting out from the foot of Whitehall and when he reached Elizabethtown, he very courteously returned it as a gift to Captain Randall, and wrote him a letter of warm thanks.
It is believed that Captain Thomas came from Scotland some time in the early part of the eighteenth century, but we know nothing of his antecedents and not much of his private life.