2172860Royal Naval Biography — Seward, JamesJohn Marshall


JAMES SEWARD, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]

This officer was made a Lieutenant, July 30, 1779; and commanded la Sirenne sloop of war, on the Jamaica station, in 1796. He subsequently held an appointment in the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Hampshire. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802.

Captain Seward married, in 1800, a daughter of Colonel, (now Lieutenant-General) Eveleigh, of the Royal Engineers, That lady died in 1813.

Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.