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HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 



Church. II 8 (F M F), Samuel Cranston (1659-1727), after his marriage went to sea and was 

 captured by pirates. He held the military office of major for the islands of the colony and in 

 1698 succeeded his uncle as governor, remaining in office till his death. With him "the Quaker 

 regime went out and that of 'the world' came in." 



Fraternity of F F: III 1, Ebenezer and Benjamin Brenton. Ill 2 (F F), Jahleel Brenton. 

 Ill 3 (F M), Frances Cranston. Ill 4 (M F), Joseph Cowley, formerly of England. Ill 5 

 (MM), Penelope Pelham. 



IV 3 (F), Jahleel Brenton (1729-1802), very early in life entered the navy, and at the 

 outbreak of the Revolution, although he was but a lieutenant, he was offered the highest naval 

 rank that the Congress could give. But he left Rhode Island secretly and joined his majesty's 

 forces, rising to the rank of admiral. IV 4 (M), Henrietta Cowley. IV 5, James Brenton (a rela- 

 tive), a judge of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



Fraternity of Propositus: V 3, Edward Pelham Brenton (1774-1839), followed the sea 

 and held the rank of captain in the Royal Navy. In later years he was much interested in 

 establishing a reformatory for juvenile delinquents; he was author of a naval history of Great 

 Britain. V 4, James Wallis Brenton, was in the British navy and was killed in action when 

 first lieutenant of H. M. S. Petrel, in command of a boat expedition in chase of an enemy's vessel 

 near Barcelona. V 5 (first consort), Isabella Stewart, of Annapolis, Maryland (1771-1817). 

 V 6 (Propositus} SIR JAHLEEL BRENTON. V 7 (second consort), Harriet Brenton. 



Children of Propositus: VI 1, John Jervis Brenton (1803-1817), accompanied his father 

 upon a voyage in 1812 as "he had from infancy expressed a wish to follow his father's profes- 

 sion." VI 2, Isabella Brenton, born 1806. VI 3, Sir Launcelot Charles Lee Brenton (born 1808), 

 was a landsman; he had no artistic taste; was a nonconformist, a scholar, and a critic. He 

 edited his father's "Life." VI 4, Harriet Mary Brenton, born 1823. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



RAIKES, H. 1860. Memoir of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton. Ed. by C. Brenton. London: 



Longman and Co. cxxxv + 521 pp. 

 BRENTON, E. P. 1825. The Naval History of Great Britain. London: C. Rice. 5 vols. 



