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Benjamin Hamblin (b. February 11, 1691/92, d. July 1737)
Notes for Benjamin Hamblin:
The Boston "News Letter" of August 25, 1737, records an account of his death:
"We haar that some time in the beginning of July, Captain Atherton Hough, Master of a whaling vessel being in the streights, killed a large whale and brought her to the vessel's side as usual to cut her up:and as the hands were hoisting the blubber into the hold, the runner of the block gave way, and fell with great force, on the head of a man, who stood underneath--Benjamin Hamblin, of Eastham--and instantly killed him.
More About Benjamin Hamblin:
Fact 1: Died July 1737 at sea..
More About Benjamin Hamblin and Anne Mayo:
Marriage: October 25, 1716, Orleans, Mass..
Children of Benjamin Hamblin and Anne Mayo are:
- +Isaac Hamblin, b. 1728, Barnstable, Massachusetts, d. 1762, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass.