Benjamin Paine

Benjamin was born the son of John and Bennet (Freeman) Paine. He died at age 15, when the whaling boat he was working on was staved to pieces and he was thrown into the water. He developed a fever and, with his wounds, died. His is the oldest inscribed fieldstone (as opposed to slate) grave marker on Cape Cod. He is buried next to his mother, Bennet.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Paine&GSfn=be...

"On the fifteenth day of December 1713 my Son Benjamin departed this LIfe who on hte eighth day of the Same month being at Sea on a whaleing desine the boat in which he was: was Staved to peices by a whale and he thrown into the water and wounded in his Body which with the cold of the water and wether Set him into a grevious fevour which coopperating with his bodily hurt was the means of his death he was a lovly and desirable child both in life and death the last words almost which uttered wer: Lord Jesus recive my Soul" - Deacon John Paine's Journal, in MD9:99 (1907).

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/lost/i94.htm#i17175