 After the Treaty of Algiers freed them, Cathcart had the means to purchase a ship, which he sailed to Philadelphia in 1796 with twelve surviving members of the original crew.On 5 June 1798 he married Philadelphia belle Jane Bancker Woodside, and they had twelve children.His daughter JB Newkirk put together Cathcart’s narrative and published it in 1899, 56 years after his death, under the title of "The Captives, Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers".