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"A boate going out of Hampton River was cast away and the psons all
drowned who were in number eight: Em. Hilliar, Jon. Philbrick and An
Philbrick his wife; Sarah Philbrick there daughter; Alice the wyfe of
Moses Cox and John Cox his sonne, Robert Read; who all perished in ye
sea ye 20th of the 8 mo. 1657."--_Norfolk County Records._
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From the same Records, we learn that "Capt. Benjamin Swett of Hampton
was slain at Black Point by the barbarous Indians the 29th June, 1677."