Born	1733
Died	?
Son of Samuel Hood and Mary Hoskyns

Richard Hood

From: http://www.hoodpedigree.org.uk/ "Two of our sons will be drowned, we cannot spare a third". So he stayed at home and was drowned in the little River Brue, not far from the old vicarage, while the two naval sons survived all their brothers & sisters. . (TAH p 15): From a letter to Captain Thomas Smith, dated 29 July 1745: Dear and good sir, I can with great truth declare that the most reviving cordial I and my afflicted family have received since the unfortunate loss of my lovely child, is the favour of you kind and endearing letter. This unhappy and fatal accident is by much the severest blow we ever yet received from the hand of God. He was a child of as promising a genius and of as sweet a disposition as any parents could wish to be blessed with. I know submission is our duty when God calls it; but the manner of losing him must, you may imagine, double the smart of the wound. For all your numerous past acts of friendship to my sons in the sea service, with the kind assurance of future, and for your late generous benevolence to my son in Cambridge, accept, I beseech you, the united thanks & grateful acknowledgements or me and my whole family...".