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Elisha Newcomb

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Birthplace: Wellfleet, Barnstable, Ma
Death: November 1772 (29-30) (lost at sea, murdered)
Immediate Family:

Son of Joseph Newcomb, Gorham's Rangers and Mary Newcomb
Ex-husband of Phebe Nickerson
Father of Elisha Newcomb and Phebe Newcomb
Brother of Joseph Newcomb; Ruth Newcomb; Sarah Newcomb; Deborah Newcomb; Ruth Newcomb and 1 other
Half brother of Thomas Bassett

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About Elisha Newcomb

He was murdered with his two brothers-in-law, Thomas and Sparrow Nickerson and a fourteen year old cabin boy aboard their Schooner from Boston to Chatham. The perpetrator of the deed was believed to be his wife's cousin Ansel Nickerson.

Article in New York Post-Boy "Nickerson, Capt., master of a schooner bound from Boston to Chatham, Cape Cod - murdered by pirates last Sunday; also murdered was his brother and also his brother-in-law named Newcomb;" Boston dispatch of Nov, 19 (11/30)

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/lost/i88.htm#i21317

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Elisha Newcomb's Timeline

1742
1742
Wellfleet, Barnstable, Ma
1772
November 1772
Age 30
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