George Dyson, an English merchant, was appointed U.S. navy agent at Syracuse by Edward Preble in January 1804. William Eaton described Dyson as “a plain, frank, up and down, hospitable Yorkshireman.” In 1807, with the withdrawal of American naval forces from the Mediterranean, Dyson resigned his agency and sailed for the United States to present his accounts (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 3:339, 351; 5:55; 6:430, 546-8, 552, 570).