Three died young.

Of the others, all boys, the eldest, James, entered the Navy, and lived to be a Commander, when, in 1794, he was drowned.

The second, Nathaniel, also in the Navy, was lost in a hurricane in 1780.

The third died when at Cambridge.

They none of them lived to be married, and no descendant of the great navigator has perpetuated his race.
Of Cook's private life during his brief intervals at home we know nothing.