 This subterfuge was widespread at Norfolk Navy Yard, Teamoh wrote, " I was again hired by the U.S. Government to work in its ordinary service.- was there some two years [1843-1844] on board Ship USS Constitution lying in ordinary off Norfolk Navy Yard ..." Teamoh was even issued a discharge dated 10 September 1845, certifying that George Teamoh Ordinary Seaman was "regularly discharged from the United States Ship Constitution in Ordinary at Navy Yard Norfolk, and from the sea service of the United States.