What is the connection between an American military officer and explorer and a two story wood frame house  built in 1812?
Capt. John Gunnison House The Capt. John Gunnison House is a historic house on Goshen Center Road in Goshen, New Hampshire. This two story wood frame house was built in 1812, and exhibits Federal styling. Its main facade has five bays, with the door centered, with flanking sidelight windows and a false fanlight above. The house is notable as the boyhood home and probable birthplace of explorer John Williams Gunnison.
Thomas Macdonough Thomas Macdonough, Jr. (December 31, 1783 – November 10, 1825) was an early-19th-century American naval officer noted for his roles in the first Barbary War and the War of 1812. He was the son of a revolutionary officer, Thomas Macdonough, Sr. who lived near Middletown, Delaware. He was the sixth child from a family of ten siblings and was raised in the countryside. He entered naval life at an early age, receiving a midshipman's commission at the age of sixteen. Serving with Stephen Decatur at Tripoli, he was a member of "Preble's Boys", a select group of U.S. naval officers who served under the command of Commodore Preble during the First Barbary War. Macdonough achieved fame during the War of 1812, commanding the American naval forces that defeated the British navy at the Battle of Lake Champlain, part of the larger Battle of Plattsburgh, which helped lead to an end to that war.