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Our story finds Ben on his 16th birthday still grieving over the loss of his Grandpa and his Papa, and how he is expected to leave his mother alone while goes away to boarding school for higher education in the beginning of this new year. But before this happens there is a wedding of good friends the sale of the family farm, renovations to Mama's family home in Hartford, making it into a two family home, so that Mama's close friend Emma who is having to raise her 4 youngest children alone can have a place to live and work His school years had many trials and testings, even after Ben found the Lord as his personal Saviour. He is able to help Matt. and Vickey through a family crisis that caused great confliction between Vickey and the couple who raised heras their daughter. but really her aunt and uncle. Ben made his home with Matt and Vickey while he attennded Harvard Divinity college. Soon after graduation he received a commission as an exhorter among the seamen at Mystic conn., for a short time before being released to serve as Chaplain on a whaling ship and Missionary to any lands of Islands he might find himself in. The Whaler, Indian Queen.sailed away from Mystic on July 1 1831. For the next 3 years and 8 months of his life was filled with what Ben was to thnk of later as the greatest adventure of his life. His first chore was nursing the young cabin boy throuqh sea sickness. Many storms, times of becalm when there was not a breath of air to help them sail, that lasted for days at a time. The amazing sights at foreign ports, some civilized some entire Islands of naked black natives. where he delivered the message of the gospel of God, to all who would listen. And one Island where the Chief offered hi favorite daughter as a wife for Ben.