years of age, he
served in the navy, and was often surrounded with dangers and
difficulties unparalleled: always approving himself an able,
active, and gallant officer. He went out a lieutenant on board
His Majesty's ship Centurion, under the auspicious conduct of
Commodore Anson, in his expedition to the South Seas: he was
commanding officer of the said ship when she was driven from
her moorings at the island of Tinian.

"In the year 1747, being captain of the Nottingham, a sixty gun
ship, he (then alone) attacked and took the Mars, a French ship
of sixty-four guns.

"In the first engagement in the following year, when Admiral
Anson defeated and took a squadron of French men-of-war and
Indiamen, he had an honourable share; and in the second, under
Admiral Hawke, when the enemy, after an obstinate resistance,
was again routed, in pursuing two ships that were making their
escape, he gloriously but unfortunately fell.

"He was the son of Matthew De Saumarez, of the island of
Guernsey, Esq. by Anne Durell, of the island of Jersey, his
wife.

"He was born November 17th, 1710;
killed October 14th, 1747;
buried in the old Church at Plymouth,
with all honours due to his distinguished merits;
and this monument is erected, out of
gratitude and affection,
by his Brothers and Sisters."

APPENDIX A.

The first of the De Sausmarez (Saumarez) family found on the public
records of the metropolis, is Nicholas, the son of Matthew de Sausmarez,
who in 1331 made application for a confirmation of his rights and
prerogatives as formerly enjoyed by his ancestors, and whose son Thomas
was Lord of the _Seigneurie_ of Sausmarez in the year 1481. Thomas
married Colishe, daughter of Nicholas Fonachin, bailiff of the island of
Guernsey, and had two sons and two daughters; one of whom, Michael,
inherited the estate, and was succeeded by his eldest son John, who in
1543 was jurat of the island of Guernsey, and married Margaret, daughter
of James Guille, then bailiff. John was succeeded by his son Thomas,
also a jurat of the Royal Court, who married Rebecca Hancock; and the
property descended to his son, likewise a jurat of the Royal Court, who
married Bertrand, daughter of Cardin Fautrart: he was succeeded by his
son Thomas