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536 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
The genealogy of the Hamblens I wrote very rapidly often
sending the manuscript to the printer without looking it over and revising
it, consequently I have made mistakes which will mislead the
reader. Since it was printed I have revised the article, and request
those who keep files of these papers to note the following errors
55. V. Joseph Hamblin. I say "respecting this Joseph I have no
information." I had, but I wrote under the Impression that the Joseph
who married Sept. 1718, Abigail Davis, was Joseph, son of Eleazer.
Abigail Davis' history 1 omitted to give in my account of her family.
She was a daughter of Jabez Davis, born 26th April, 1698. After
the death of her father in 1711, she removed to Preston, and was a member
of the church in that town, and dismissed to the Barnstable church
July 9, 1721 and on the division of the church she joined the East. In
the church records the following curious passage occurs
"July 28, 1725. The Brethren voted that Abigail Hamblen, wife to
Joseph Hamblen, shall desire the Pastor, before the congregation, to
inform of her sorrow and repentance for her inconsistency in her profession
in going to the assemblies of the Quakers on the Lord's Day, of
choice and disputing much for them upon her return from Nantucket,
before she be admitted unto the privileges of the church." It does not
appear by the record that she complied with the requirement of the
Brethren. The children of Joseph and Abigail Hamblin do not appear
on the town record. On the church records three of their children are
named: Lois, baptized May 26, 1722; Esther, April 23, 1727; Susannah,
May 12, 1728. Joseph Hamblen died soon after the latter date, and his
widow married Barlow. Her death is thus entered : "April 25,
1740, Abigail Barlow (formerly Hamblen) departed this life very aged."
As she was only 42, I do not perceive the propriety of calling her "very
aged."
No. 158, (11.) The first paragraph I wrote from recollection of the
facts. On recurring to the Probate Records T find that Eleazer Hamblin,
son of James, 2d, died in 1698, and that his widow administered
and afterwards married Thos. Snow as stated.
76. I. I say perhaps Ebenezer Hamblen married Hopestill Davis.
She married as afterwards stated, Joseph Hamblen.
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