Nathaniel Blinn was a ship captain in Bath, North Carolina. He may have been the same Nathaniel Blinn that was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 21, 1737. Blinn owned enslaved people. According to John Simpson, in 1775 one of Blinn's enslaved people, a man named Merrick, tried to foment a rebellion amongst the enslaved people living in Beaufort and Pitt counties. Any further information about Blinn has not been located.