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ated from Harvard College in 1789. He rose to the head of the law profession in Worcester and 

 became a member of the State senate: he died in 1817. IV 6 (M), Elizabeth Augusta Chandler. 

 IV 7 (Consort's F), James Barren, of Virginia (1769-1851), came of well-known naval stock, and 

 became a sailor in his youth. He was in command of the Chesapeake when she was boarded 

 by officers from the Leopard (1807) and he was suspended from the navy for five years for setting 

 out for sea unprepared. IV 9, George Bancroft (born 1800), was appointed secretary of the 

 navy and was instrumental in establishing the Naval Academy at Annapolis; he also acted as 

 secretary of war; was United States minister to England, to Prussia, and the German Empire. 

 He is noted as a historian. IV 10, Henry Bancroft (1787-1817), was an East Indian captain 

 and was in command of one of Commodore MacDonough's ships on Lake Champlain in 1814. 

 IV 11, John Bancroft (1789-1821), an East Indian captain. IV 13, Thomas Bancroft (born 

 1877), was a seafaring man. IV 14, Jane Putnam Bancroft (1798-1839). IV 15, Donati Gherardi, 

 a teacher of Italian in the Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts. IV 16, Charles 

 Bancroft, born and died in 1805. 



Fraternity of Propositus: V 1, Francis Arthur Blake (1796-1814), was a graduate of 

 Harvard College (1814). V 2, Juliana Blake. V 3, Charles C. Tucker. V 4, Joseph Gardiner 

 Blake (born 1800). V 5, Charlotte Caldwell Blake (born 1804). V 6, Rev. Thomas R. Sulli- 

 van. V 7, Elizabeth Blake (1806-1810). V 8, Dorothea Ward Blake. V 9, Oliver Hunter 

 Blood. V 10 (Propositus) GEORGE SMITH BLAKE. V 11 (consort), Mary Allen Barren. V 12, 

 Bancroft Gherardi (born 1832), rose to the rank of a rear admiral in the United States navy. 



VI 1, Charles Follen Blood, changed his name to C. F. Blake. After being graduated 

 from the United States Naval Academy in 1861, he was appointed a lieutenant; and, in 1866, 

 was lieutenant commander on the Brooklyn. Child of Propositus: VI 3, Francis Barren Blake 

 (born 1837), was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1857, and in 1861 was 

 appointed a lieutenant on board the frigate Colorado. He helped destroy the privateer Judith, 

 while she was moored at Pensacola under the guns of the navy yard. Later he was attached to 

 the steamer Kennebec and was on her during her attempted passage of Forts St. Philip and Jackson, 

 April 24, 1862. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in 1863, but resigned in 1870, when 

 he became a banker. VI 4, Walter Gherardi, a lieutenant in the United States navy. 



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BLAKE, F. 1871. Memoir of George Smith Blake. Cambridge University Press. 25 pp. 

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 DWIGHT, B. 1874. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight. New York: J. Trow and 



Son. 2 vols. in 1. xxix + 1144 pp. 

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of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Boston: Privately printed; 64 pp. 

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Press of C. Hamilton. 33 pp. 



