{"id":103869,"date":"2025-08-13T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/?p=103869"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:33:45","slug":"jacob-hamblin-mayflower-and-wampanoag-connections-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/jacob-hamblin-mayflower-and-wampanoag-connections-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Hamblin: \u2018Mayflower\u2019 and Wampanoag Connections? (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Jacob Hamblin, a Mormon pioneer known as the \u201cBuckskin Apostle,\u201d with possible Wampanoag and Mayflower family lines. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s topic is Jacob Vernon Hamblin (1819\u20131886), aka the \u201cBuckskin Apostle,\u201d a notable Western pioneer, missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and diplomat to various Native American tribes throughout the Southwest and Great Basin regions.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: a restored photo of Jacob Hamblin, originally taken c.\u20091860. Credit: Canyonconnections; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacob traveled extensively and made significant contributions to the European American settlement of southern Utah and northern Arizona, earning recognition as a reliable intermediary between Latter-day Saint settlers and native populations.<\/p>\n

\"Map:
Map: Jacob Hamblin\u2019s documented travels during his mission years to southern Utah and northern Arizona, from 1854 to 1878. Credit: Wadewixom; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacob is one of 12 children of Isaiah and Daphne (Haynes) Hamblin, with family roots tracing to early colonial Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

He is the biological father of 24 children and provided care for several others whom he subsequently adopted.<\/p>\n

Austin Bearse was the fourth great-grandfather of Jacob Hamblin, through his daughter, Sarah Bearse, who married John Hamblin.<\/p>\n

Austin and Mary Bearse raised a large family, and many of the prominent families of America today can trace their ancestry to them.<\/p>\n

Many genealogists have doubted the claim that Austin\u2019s wife Mary was one of the Wampanoag people, a daughter of John Hyanno, sagamore of the Mattachee Indians of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of the great Indian sachem Iyannough. However, there are no documents to either prove or disprove the family line. There is only oral tradition thus far.<\/p>\n

I introduced this subject in my story \u201cMayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 11)<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there are no records on Mary\u2019s birth or death. And despite Austin Bearse\u2019s eminent position in the community only a few church records, legal documents, and written history exist. There is no death record or probate for him either.<\/p>\n

Some of the Hamblin family descendants acknowledge the Wampanoag history and maintain that Jacob\u2019s lifelong missionary work with Native American peoples was influenced by his claimed descent from an Indian chieftain.<\/p>\n

I have included the lineage as documented from the Hamblin family record \u201cOur Golden Heritage: The Duane and Addie Noble Hamblin Family,\u201d which shows the Wampanoag line.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I am currently researching several possible Mayflower<\/em> ancestries and will present my findings in subsequent articles. These lines are indicated with asterisks.<\/p>\n