Lewis Mulford ¹

  General Notes:

# Death: of in a whaling accident 24 FEB 1719 in the sea off East Hampton
# Note:

From the records of the town of East Hampton:

February 24, 1719 - "This day a whale boat being alone the men struck a whale & she coming under ye boat in part staved it and tho ye men were not hurt with the whale, yet before any help came to them four men were tired and chilled and fell off ye boat & oars to which they hung and were drowned:

Henry Parsons
William Skellinx, Jr.
Lewis Mulford
Jeremiah Conkling, Jr."

Lewis married Hannah Parsons on 9 Feb 1716 in East Hampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, USA. (Hannah Parsons was born in 1697 in East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co, New York and died on 8 Aug 1775 in Elizabethtown, Essex /Union (after 1857) Co, New Jersey.)