Daniel Blaisdell1

b. March 5, 1701/2, d. before October 4, 1735
  • Last Edited: 6 Dec 2016

Family: Naomi Tukesbury b. August 6, 1702

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 39.
  2. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 287.
  3. Paul J. Weckle, The Webb ancestry of Austin Parker Webb and all his connected families, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=1MpYAAAAMAAJ . (1987) , p. 115.
  4. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 34.
  5. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 35.
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Daniel Blaisdell1

b. perhaps 1804
  • Last Edited: 6 Apr 2010

Citations

  1. Robert Safford Hale, Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass., , at https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00hale . Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, (1889) , p. 308.
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Daniel Blaisdell1

b. perhaps 1729
  • Last Edited: 30 Aug 2016

Citations

  1. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 622.
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Daniel Blaisdell1

b. April 9, 1778, d. April 10, 1778
  • Last Edited: 5 Aug 2016

Citations

  1. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 634.
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Daniel Blaisdell1

b. March 12, 1776
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2016

Citations

  1. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., Vol. 2, , at https://archive.org/stream/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 634.
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Daniel Blaisdell1

b. April 10, 1724
  • Last Edited: 6 Dec 2016

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 34.
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David Blaisdell1

b. February 5, 1711/12, d. August 27, 1756
  • Reference: 0450f = 0904ks
  • David Blaisdell was born on February 5, 1711/12 in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

    Melissa Berry, posted August 25, 2014 on the Daily News of Newburyport site, writes:

    Amesbury historian Steven Klomps asserts that the Blaisdells were the first American-born clock makers. David Sr. was a “mechanical genius” and made his first clock in 1735.

    David hitched up with Abigail Colby and lived on Main Street in a house that is now the Bartlett Museum. The couple had four sons who became master clocker makers.

    David conducted business from Kendrick’s Lane in the front yard of his Uncle Charles’ home and “never was there a more industrious or useful man seldom found.” His talents went beyond clocks. He “repaired augers, andirons, steelyards, gunlocks, tin and brass ware, shod horses, and forged iron work for vessels.” He also “sold groceries, dry goods, meat, wood, and operated a cider mill.”

    The town voted to give David the meeting house bell that historians conclude he used for casting clock bells. The clocks are still ticking today and the fine craftsmanship and quality come through the painted pewter dials. There are 20 clocks on record made by him.

    Newbury’s Daniel Balch, another instrumental clock maker, apprenticed under David.

    In 1755 David was commissioned to Fort Ticonderoga to make armor. He brought his 14-year-old son Isaac to apprentice under him. Unfortunately, he was killed in battle, but Isaac returned home to work with David Jr. and Uncle Obadiah Colby. Isaac settled Chester, N.H., earning a fine reputation as a silversmith and clockmaker.

    Gary Sullivan of “PBS Antiques Road Show” states that David Jr. took over the business in 1756. David’s contribution to the clock world was mastering the sophisticated eight-day brass, time and strike movement, rather than the standard 30-hour lantern one. A clock sold at auction made in 1750 is easily identified because of its unusual features, namely the unique figural heart cut-outs on the hoods carved to skirt the loud bells strikes.

    In 1777, Salisbury made history when the frigate Alliance was forged by the Hackett family. Klomps notes that David’s talent as a blacksmith was utilized in the enterprise. An impressive account is listed in the records of Timothy Cushing.1,3
    The home of David and Abigail Blaisdell, now the Bartlett Museum in Amesbury
  • He was the son of Jonathan Blaisdell and Hannah Jameson.2
  • David married Abigail Colby, daughter of Samuel Colby and Dorothy Ambrose, on November 16, 1733 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, as her first husband.4
  • David died on August 27, 1756 at age 44, in the Army, near Lake George.2
  • Last Edited: 26 Nov 2015

Family: Abigail Colby b. April 29, 1713

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 39.
  2. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , pp. 65-66.
  3. Melissa Berry, Blaisdell, Noyse families crafted clocks, combs, , at http://www.newburyportnews.com/opinion/blaisdell-noyse-families-crafted-clocks-combs/article_459e85c5-df6a-5675-af2e-1ab7ebee223f.html . Newburyport, MA: The Daily News of Newburyport, (August 25, 2014).
  4. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 288.
  5. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 36.
  6. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby family in early America; early generations of the descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1595-1661, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=TXdGAAAAMAAJ . Caledonia: The Colonial Press, (1970) , p. 61.
  7. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 37.
  8. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 38.
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David Blaisdell1

b. November 8, 1734, d. before February 21, 1735/36
  • Last Edited: 26 Nov 2015

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 36.
  2. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby family in early America; early generations of the descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1595-1661, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=TXdGAAAAMAAJ . Caledonia: The Colonial Press, (1970) , p. 61.
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David Blaisdell1

b. February 21, 1735/36
  • Reference: 0450fb
  • Last Edited: 5 Aug 2016

Family: Judith Jewell b. perhaps 1738

Citations

  1. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby family in early America; early generations of the descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1595-1661, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=TXdGAAAAMAAJ . Caledonia: The Colonial Press, (1970) , p. 61.
  2. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 634.
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David Blaisdell1

b. August 14, 1758, d. January 4, 1776
  • Reference: 0450fbb
  • Last Edited: 16 Sep 2016

Citations

  1. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 634.
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Dorothy Blaisdell1

b. January 26, 1744/45
  • Reference: 0450ff
  • Last Edited: 18 Jul 2016

Family: Thomas Bartlett III b. perhaps 1743

Citations

  1. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-8ZN : 12 December 2014), David Bartlett, 27 Jun 1773; citing Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  2. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 36.
  3. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby family in early America; early generations of the descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1595-1661, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=TXdGAAAAMAAJ . Caledonia: The Colonial Press, (1970) , p. 62.
  4. "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDNR-BVP : 12 December 2014), Moody Bartlet, 05 Sep 1765; citing NEWMARKET TWP,ROCKINGHAM,NEW HAMPSHIRE; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  5. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-DJ3 : 12 December 2014), Eunice Bartlet, 27 Feb 1767; citing Newbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  6. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-252 : 12 December 2014), Tristram Bartlett, 14 Mar 1768; citing Newbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  7. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-JJK : 12 December 2014), Molley Bartlet, 07 Mar 1769; citing Newbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  8. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-C4B : 12 December 2014), Abagail Bartlet, 17 Sep 1775; citing Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  9. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-D7F : 12 December 2014), Elizabeth Bartlet, 25 Feb 1777; citing Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  10. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-DJW : 12 December 2014), Edmund Bartlet, 23 Feb 1778; citing Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  11. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-J3P : 12 December 2014), Lydia Bartlett, 03 May 1778; citing Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  12. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-2RQ : 12 December 2014), Thomas Bartlet, 25 Dec 1780; citing Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
  13. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2F-J2G : 12 December 2014), Mandy Bartlet, 05 Sep 1785; citing Newmarket, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,371.
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Dorothy Blaisdell1

b. January 20, 1749
  • Last Edited: 14 Apr 2016

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 33.
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Dorothy Blaisdell1

b. January 8, 1738, d. before January 20, 1749
  • Reference: 0450hb
  • Last Edited: 11 Sep 2016

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 36.
  2. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 33.
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Dorothy Blaisdell1

b. July 8, 1750
  • Last Edited: 14 Dec 2016

Citations

  1. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 36.
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Ebenezer Blaisdell1

b. October 17, 1657, d. August 10, 1710
  • Last Edited: 28 Oct 2015

Family: Sarah Colby b. July 17, 1658

Citations

  1. Vital records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1915) , p. 21.
  2. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., (1908) , p. 352.
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Ebenezer Blaisdell1

b. December 29, 1686
  • Reference: 1792abc
  • Last Edited: 5 Jun 2012

Family:

Citations

  1. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., (1908) , p. 352.
  2. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, , at https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofam00ames . Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, (1913) , p. 33.
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Ebenezer Blaisdell1

b. November 27, 1748
  • Last Edited: 6 Sep 2015

Citations

  1. David W. Hoyt, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine / David W. Hoyt., , at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924025963772 . Providence, R. I.: Snow & Farnham, (1897) , p. 624-625.
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