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No Find-a-Grave record located - July 2020 and Feb 2021
Record showed cemetery as "Mount Vernon" but Nathaniel Hamlin was not found here
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Author: Steven William Hamlin
Nathaniel Hamlin, son of Lewis Hamlin, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, November 29, 1741.
In 1759 he was engaged in building boats at Albany, New York, and perhaps at Lake George and Lake Champlain, for General Amherst's expedition. From May 2, 1760, to January 15, 1761, he served as private in Captain Bassett's company, of Chilmark, Massachusetts, Colonel Nathaniel Thwing's regiment, serving in Nova Scotia.
He was one of the garrison which blew up the fortifications of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia which began June 2, 1760, and ended October 17 or 18.
In May 1763, he moved to Wellfleet from Barnstable, and for some years was a boat builder there with his brothers, Lewis and Perez.
He and his wife were members of the Wellfleet church. In October 1772, they moved to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and in April 1778, he moved to Oxford, Massachusetts, where he purchased sixty-five acres of upland.
In the fall of 1776 he was drafted for the revolutionary army, but he furnished a substitute, not wishing to go himself owing to the fact that he had a family of five children under eleven years of age.
On July 30, 1780 he answered the alarm to march to Rhode Island, as a private in Captain Ebenezer Humphry's Company of Col. Jacob Davies' Worcester Co of Mass Regiment. This service is recognized by the Sons of the American Revolution, which lists Nathaniel Hamlin as patriot number P-173949 he is also recognized by the DAR with patriot number A050396.
During the years 1783-84 he and his son Theophilus were house carpenters in Hallowell and Vassalboro, Maine, one of the houses being the town meeting house in what is now Augusta. He returned to Oxford, but his sons and daughters gradually moved to Augusta, and he also settled there in 1795.
He was employed as a housewright, and being possessed of great mechanical skill made wooden clocks, spinning wheels and sleighs. In 1798 he purchased a house in Augusta on the gable of which he put a large dial attached to a clock, which served as a means of advertisement of his business. During his residence in Oxford he served in the capacity of collector of state and town taxes during the years 1783-84.
He married, December 5, 1763, Sarah Baker, born at Wellfleet, February 27, 1743, died July 4, 1830. Children, born at Wellfleet: Theophilus, December 6, 1765; Mary, April 10, 1768; Olive, November 2, 1770; born at Shrewsbury: Lewis, March 24, 1773; Sarah, August 19, 1775; Perez, October 1, 1777; born at Oxford: Nathaniel, June 23, 1780, died November 2, 1780; Lot. May 3, 1782.
Nathaniel Hamlin died on January 19, 1834, in Sidney, Maine, at the impressive age of 92, and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery in Augusta, Maine.
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