William Brenton [SEP] place of death
William Brenton
William Brenton (c. 1610–1674) was a colonial President, Deputy Governor, and Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and an early settler of Portsmouth and Newport in the Rhode Island colony. Austin and other historians give his place of origin as Hammersmith in Middlesex, England (now a part of London), but in reviewing the evidence, Anderson concludes that his place of origin is unknown. Brenton named one of his Newport properties "Hammersmith," and this has led some writers to
death in January 1823 from the effects of the wound he received in the action with "Embuscade", the naval officer and historian Edward Pelham Brenton published his work "Naval History of Great Britain from the Year 1783 to 1822", in which he wrote that:
This version of events was refuted in 1827 by historian William James, who wrote in response to Brenton that "All we [James] can say to this extraordinary statement is, that our [James'] account was taken chiefly from "Boston"s log