"Captain George Musalas Colvocoresses, U.S.N., was another survivor of the massacre of Chios. His father, escaping to the Austrian consulate, was able to ransom his family, though George saw his uncle killed and his aged grandmother beaten to death before he reached safety. He, only six years old, with nine other Chiote boys was placed on board an American brig bound for Baltimore On the voyage he was cared for and taught English by the mate of the brig. On his arrival he appears to have made an especially good impression upon the committee of influential gentlemen who interested themselves in these boys, and General Harper procured from President Monroe the promise of a cadetship at West Point for the little lad. Attracted by the accounts in the newspapers, Captain Alder Partridge, head of a military academy in Norwich, Vermont, took the boy and educated and provided for him. Later he entered the Navy, where he served the rest of his life with honor.

He sailed in various important naval expeditions all over the world, and in the Civil War commanded the U.S.S. Supply and later the U.S.S. Saratoga, when he won the repeated thanks of Admiral Dahlgren in general orders and the commendation of the Secretary of the Navy for his "zeal and good service to the country." In 1865 he was retired with the rank of Captain and lived till his death in 1872 with his family in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Greek Lad Became Ward of Capt. Partridge at Norwich Millitary Academy and Later Entered Navy. His Son 45 Years In Same Service and Retired as Rear Admiral

Among the papers of the late Capt G. M. Colvocoresses, U. S. N. there Is an account of the circumstances under which he came to the United States and his later connection with Norwich University, Northfield then located at Norwich.

He was born in the Island ot Chios, Grecian Archipelago, and was seven years old when the Turkish fleet appeared off that island in 1882 and in executing the vengeance of the sultan committed what Mr. Gladstone characterized as "that unparalleled atrocity of modern times," the massacre of Chios.

By this barbarity a peaceful and industrious population was driven from home, some 60,000 men and women and children put to the sword or carried to the slave market of Asia Minor to suffer a worse fate than death.

Many of young Colvocoresses' relatives were slain and others scattered. He, with his mother and two sisters, was captured in their flight. His father escaped and subsequently ransomed the surviving members of his family through friends at the Austrian consulate.

After this ransom George was placed with nine Greek boys on board the American brig Margareta to seek an asylum in the United States whose people manifested great sympathy for the struggling Greeks. The notice of the arrival of the boys published in the Baltimore American attracted the attention of Capt. Alden Partridge, of the United States Army, superintendent of the military academy at Norwich.

Capt. Partridge who was no less distinguished for his benevolence than for his ability as an educator, wrote the postmaster at Baltimore stating his interest In the story of young George and that he would gladly care for and educate him as a son.

The Greek relief committee that had the boys in charge accepted the offer and sent the boy to Norwich where he remained until he was 16. Then a warrant was procured for him as midshipman in the United States Navy in which he rose to the rank of captain. His son, George Partridge Colvocoresses, went to sea with his father for two years during the Civil War, subsequently entered the United States Naval Academy and after serving actively 45 years was retired as a rear admiral.

Source: "Papers of Late Captain Colvocoresses Relate Sad Experience." Montpelier Morning Journal [Vermont], 24 September 1912, p. 22