Did Scandalously Combine....

....to injure and defame the character of his superior officer, captain Isaac Hull.

Niles' National Register, Volume 23:

"....Joel Abbot did...scandalously combine with surgeon Samuel R. Trevett, of the navy....scandalously combine with Cheever Felch, a chaplain in the navy....[and]...with lieutenant Henry Ward, of the navy.....".