Seth Hamblen1

#24040, (13 June 1708 - 16 May 1771)
Father*Joseph Hamblen2 (1680 - 1766)
Mother*Mercy Howland2 (s 1683 - c 1749)

Family

Sarah Blush b. 1707
Children 1.Mercy Hamblen+1 (1737 - )
 2.Sarah Hamblen8 (1739 - )
 3.Abigail Hamblen8 (1741 - )
 4.Seth Hamblen Jr.8 (1744 - )
 5.Alice Hamblen8 (1747 - )
Seth Hamblen was also known as Hamblen. 
Seth Hamblen was also known as Hamlin. 
Seth Hamblen was also known as Hamelin. 
Spelling of the name:
Hamlin, chosen by the author of The Hamlin Family, "Hamlin is undoubtedly the most approved Anglicized form of the nam; the b in the name is manifestly an interloper."
Hamelin in Eben Johnson's transcription of Barnstable Town Records.
Hamblin in Beers's Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts and Bliss's Genealogy of the Bliss Family.
Hamblen in Otis's Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families.3
 
Birth*13 June 1708He was born on 13 June 1708 at Barnstable, Massachusetts; (poss. Mar 1708, see citations.)4,5,6 
Marriage*9 October 1735He married Sarah Blush, daughter of Joseph Blush and Hannah Childs, on 9 October 1735 at Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Province; (but intentions 1 Mar 1735.)1,7 
Death*16 May 1771He died on 16 May 1771 at Massachusetts Bay Province at age 62.3 

Citations

  1. [S2101] John R Totten, Thacher–Thatcher Genealogy (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910), pp. 292-296.
  2. [S2104] H. Franklin Andrews, History of the Hamlin Family (Exira, Iowa: George W Guernsy, 1894), p. 88.
  3. [S520] VWH.
  4. [S2101] John R Totten, Thacher–Thatcher Genealogy, pp. 292-296, giving Mar 1708.
  5. [S2102] Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, revised by C F Swift (Barnstable, Mass.: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888), p. 242, giving 13 Jun 1708.
  6. [S2104] H. Franklin Andrews, History of the Hamlin Family, pp. 124–125, giving 4 Mar 1708.
  7. [S2103] Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Barnstable 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1885), Transcript of Records, 1713-1781, vol. 2. Page 425, original p. 326: Seth Hamlin and Sarah Blish, marr. intentions 1 Mar 1734 [1734/35].
    Town Records, 1713-1781, Vol. 2, p. 285, img. 156/193: 9 Oct 1735, Seth Hamlin and Sarah Blish married. Their children: Mercy, b. 15 Nov 1737; Sarah, b. 18 Aug 1739; Abigail, b. 14 Aug 1741; Seth, b. 20 Aug 1744; and Alice, b. 12 Aug 1747.
  8. [S2104] H. Franklin Andrews, History of the Hamlin Family, pp. 124–125.