Whaling Log of the Hannibal, 1845-1849

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43 PROSPECT AVENUE MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY

Benjamin F.

Margaret thought she should have shared in an equal division and so brought suit against the estate, claiming that her mother "was utterly incompetent to make a will at that time." Eloise (the third child) testified that her mother was incompetent, as did Margaret, but her mother's brother (Gilber Howell) testified for Benjamin F., and the court upheld the will. This, of course, soured Aunt Ellen on her husband's two sisters, and when he died a few months later, she "sold everything" and went back to New England. Thus ends Philos' account. Yesterday, I received word that Philos Tyler died on August 22, 1956, with heart trouble, just three weeks after his 88th birthday. I have tried without success to locate the letter from George Washington to Col. Benjamin Huntting. It does not appear in the published collection of Washington's letters, perhaps because its existence was not known to the collectors when the collection was published (1922). The silver situation interests me too. Family legend has it that each of the six Huntting children