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On September 15, 1874, Patrick Joseph O'Connor married Lydia M. Greene, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Robbins) Greene, of Percy. New Hampshire, and great-granddaughter of Edward Rowell, the first settler in the town. They have had ten children, of whom seven are now living : John Henry, William Lawrence, George Ellsworth, Ellen Grace, Charles Leland, Elizabeth Marion. Row- land Glennavon, Raymond St. Clair. Mabel Annie and Leo Brendon. John Henry was born at Percy, April 17, 1875, was educated at the high school and in a business college. and is now station agent on the Grand Trunk Railway system at Groveton, New Hampshire. William Lawrence, born February 28, 1878, was educated in the public and private schools, and is now a merchant in Percy. George Ellsworth, born June 21. 1879, was educated at public and private schools, and is now station agent of the Grand Trunk Railway system at Stark, this state. He is now (1907) serving in the capacity of select- man of the town of Stark. On April 26, 1905. he married Lydia M. Currier. of West Milan, New Hampshire, and they have one son, Lawrence Clif- ton, born March 12, 1906. Ellen Grace is mentioned below. Charles Leland, born April
27, 1882, died in infancy. Elizabeth Marion. born October 8, 1883. was educated in the public and private schools, and was the postmistress at Percy. until her marriage: was succeeded by her father. She was married May 29. 1907, to Henry J. White, of Lancaster. Roland Glennavon, born Janu- ary 23, 1885. had a common school education, and is now a sergeant in the United States Signal Corps. at present in Havana, Cuba. Raymond St. Clair. born February 5, 1887, received a common school education, and is now a relieving agent on the Grand Trunk Railway system. Mabel Annie, born Sep- tember 26, 1889. was educated in the public and private schools, and has also had musical instruction. She is now assistant postmaster at Percy. Leo Bren- clon, born April 24. 1892, died in babyhood. Besides
rearing and educating their own children, Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor took a boy from the Home for Desti- tute Catholic Children. Frank Scully, who is now a telegraph operator at Deering Maine, and now (1907) they are educating William J. Stanton, who came from St. Joseph's Home, in Manchester.
(III) Ellen Grace O'Connor, eldest daughter of Patrick J. and Lydia M. (Currier) O'Connor, was born August 24, 1880, and in the autumn of 1903 was appointed postmistress of Percy, an office which she ably filled to the close of her life. Although re- garded as a delicate child, as she grew older she be- came stronger, and enjoyed very good health until March, 1904. when a fall on the ice resulted in in- juries from which she never recovered. After a few weeks she was able to be about, but soon be- came a patient and helpless invalid. On July 26, ac- companied by her mother, brother, sister, and Dr. O'Brien, of Groveton, she was taken to Portland, it being thought that a surgical operation might re- store her health. The hopes of her relatives and friends were. however, disappointed, and on July 31 she breathed her last. At the funeral, which took place on August 3. same year, the floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The Rev. H. . E. Lennon, her pastor, assisted by the Rev. J. Des- mond, of Groveton, and the choir of the Catholic Church of Island Pond, Vermont. celebrated a solemn high mass. The services were largely at- tended by her many friends and the orders of which she was an active member. In the hearts of all who know her she has left a beautiful memory.
The Blodgett family in America is
BLODGETT of English origin. In the great tide of immigration between 1630 and 1640 came Thomas Blogget. "Glover," aged thirty, and his wife Susan, aged thirty-seven, with two young sons, Daniel, aged four, and Samuel, aged one and one-half years. They "embarqued in the Increase from London. April 18, 1635." and ar- rived in Boston in due course.
Thomas settled in Cambridge, where he was one of the original members of "Rev. Thomas Shepherd's Company." which founded what is now the "Shepherd Memorial Church." He was alloted land the same year, and made a freeman in 1636. A daughter. Susanna, was born in 1637. Thomas, the father, died in 1642 and his will was probated in 1643. His descendants moved to Woburn, where they became numerous, and one branch, moving through Chelmsford and Westford. finally located at Iludson, New Hampshire, about 1710, at a period so carly that the pioneer had to live in a garrison for protection against the Indians, and a son of his was the first white male child born in that town. From Hudson a detachment settled in Plymouth. and thence went members of the family to central New York, Several families from Hudson settled at Dorchester, New Hampshire, where they abode for two generations. From Woburn and Chelmsford they also went to Lexington, and Windsor. Connec- ticut, in both of which localities they became nu- merons and prominent. At the beginning of the nineteenth century they were widely scattered throughout New England. In addition to places al- ready named, they were prominent in Amherst, Ash- lurnham, Brimfield. Palmer and Westminister. Mass- achusetts, and there were many representatives in other Massachusetts towns: also in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and some in Maine and Vermont. They were a patriotic race. They served in the French and Indian wars: at siege and capture of Louisburg; in the invasion of Canada: and the
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names are preserved of one hundred and fourteen revolutionary soldiers.
Many individuals have conferred honor and dis- tinction on the name. Samuel Blodgett (5) filled many important offices in civil and military life in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He was a friend and correspondent of Washington : was called "The Pioneer of Progress"; and was best known by his great enterprise-for the time-of completing a canal around Amoskeag Falls, at Manchester. New Hampshire. A son of his, Samuel, Jr. (6), served on the staff of Washington, and after the national capital was projected on the banks of the Potomac, he was chairman of the commissioners to further the project ; he built the first house there, and he furnished the first money ($10,000) toward laying the foundations of the capitol and the president's house. In the eighth generation there have been a United States senator, a judge of the United States district court, a chief justice of the supreme court of one New England state, an eminent judge of the superior court of another. a publicist and statistician of national reputation, a member of the New York chamber of commerce; and in the ninth generation a judge of the supreme court of a third New Eng- land state.
The name has been variously spelt. Genealogical records furnish not less than twenty-four variations, most of them of course the offspring of illiteracy ; one or two branches have adopted a fanciful termina- tion, perhaps to make plausible the claim that it had a Huguenot origin, but there is no good ground for that; the family came from the eastern counties of England. The original immigrant wrote the name Blogget, and that form prevailed for a century ; then Blodget was adopted, and about a hundred years ago Blodgett became the form followed by most of the name, and it is interesting to find from the "Visitations," i. e .. the Parish Records of Suffolk and Norfolk, that this was the correct. and as far as observed, the only English spelling, as far back as 1561, long before the immigrant Thomas arrived in Boston.
(I) Thomas Blodgett, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England of an ancient and honored family. in 1605. if his age was correctly given when le sailed for America. He came in the ship "In- crease." sailing April IS. 1635, with his wife Susan, and children, Daniel, and Samuel, aforementioned. The name is variously spelled in the early Massachu- setts records Blodget. Blodgett, Bloyett, Blogget, Bloghead. Bloget. Vloggitt, Bloged, Blokwod. Blog- got and Blodgit. He was a glover by trade and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he had a grant of land March 6. 1636-37. He died in 1641. His will was dated August 10. 1640, and proved July 8. following, bequcathing to wife Susan and three surviving children. named below. Ilis widow married, February 15. 1643-44, James Thompson, of Woburn : she died February 10, 1660-61. His chil- dren were: I. Daniel, subject of the next paragraph. 2. Samuel, mentioned at length in this article. 3. Susanna, born in Cambridge June. 1637, married Jonathan Thompson, son of James Thompson, her step-father. 4. Thomas, died August 7, 1639. in infancy.
(II) Daniel, eldest son and child of Thomas and Susan Blodgett, was born in England in' 1631. He was one of the original petitioners for the town of Chelmsford and resided in that part of the town which in 1720 was set off as Westford, His name frequently appears in the early town records of Chelmsford, and he died there June 28. 1672. Sep- tember 13, 1653, he married Mary Butterfield, and
she died September 5, 1666. His second wife was Sarah Underwood, daughter of William Underwood. The children of his first union were : Thomas, Anna. Daniel, Benjamin, Jonathan, Samuel and Nathaniel, the last named of whom died March 10, 1669.
(III) Thomas, eldest son and child of Daniel and Mary (Butterfield) ) Blodgett, was born in Chelmsford. June 25. 1654. He resided on what is known as the Amos Heywood place, and died (prob- ably) March 30. 1741. He was first married April 20. 1682, to Mary Parkis, born August 10, 1657, daughter of Joseph Parkis, of Chelmsford, and his second wife, whom he married July 8, 1696, was Mary Druse, of Groton, Massachusetts. His first wife bore him Rebecca, Joseph and Benjamin, and the children of his second union were John, Samuel, Mary and Anne.
(IV) Joseph. second child and eldest son of Thomas and Mary (Parkis) Blodgett, was born in Chelmsford (West Parish), October IO, 1689. About the year 1710 he went to Nottingham West (now Hudson), New Hampshire, as a pioneer, and for some years after settling there it was necessary to be constantly on the alert for hostile savages. The site of the old garrison which served to protect him and his neighbors in times of danger is now marked by a boulder suitably inscribed. His death occurred , in Hudson, December 3. 1761. He mar- ried Dorothy Perham, a woman of marked ability, who was born July 9, 1696, and died March 6, 1778. They were the parents of eight children: Joseph, Ebenezer. Jeremiah. Abigail. Dorothy, Rebecca, Jon- athan and James. (N. B. Ebenezer and James Blod- gett were among the early settlers in Plymouth, New Hampshire ).
(V) Jeremiah, third son and child of Joseph and Dorothy ( Perham) Blodgett, was born in Hud- son, July 20. 1721. In 1745 he was one of a de- tachment of twenty men enrolled in the Colonial service under the command of John Goff. Jr., to do scouting duty between the Merrimack and Connecti- cut rivers. and served six weeks from October 10 to December 2. His death occurred at Hudson in 1796. The maiden name of his wife was Miriam Provender, and she died in May, 1800. Their chil- dren were: Jeremiah. Ebenezer, Asahel, Hannah, Sarah, Isaac and Beniah. Jeremiah. Ebenezer and Asahel were Revolutionary soldiers.
(VI) Asahel, third son and child of Jeremiah and Miriam (Provender) Blodgett, was born in Hudson. June 19, 1755. In 1776 he enlisted in Cap- tain William Walker's company of Colonel David Gilman's regiment for three months' service in the Continental army, and while on duty at Fishkill, New York, was stricken with a fever, which neces- sitated his being sent to Danbury. Connecticut, where he was finally discharged. Returning home he took charge of the farm, and cared for his parents and inherited the property, Hle erected a new one- story dwelling-house with a cellar under the entire structure, which was at that time considered the most pretentious residence in Hudson. In 1805 he sold his farm and the following year removed to Dorchester, New Hampshire, where he died June 2, 1842. Ile was buried in the Blodgett cemetery, sit- uated about one mile northwest of the town of Hud- son. December 13, 1781. he married Catherine Pol- lard, who was born June 16, 1761. daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail Pollard. She died December 20. 1705. The children of this union were: Cath- erinc. Asahel, Ebenezer, Isaac Sibyl, Lois and Caleh. Mr. Blodgett was a second time married in 1706 or 1797 to Lois Pollard, horn August 18. 1771, a sister of his first wife. She bore him six children : Rufus,
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Lucinda, Abner. Beniah. Jeremiah and Betsey, all of whom were born in Hudson except the youngest, who was a native of Dorchester. Of his large fam- ily of fourteen children the ages of ten of them averaged nearly four score years, while three of them died under thirty.
(VII) Hon. Caleb, youngest son and child of Asahel and Catherine ( Pollard) Blodgett, was born in Hudson, December 13, 1793. Although a farmer by occupation, he devoted much of his time to pub- lic service. and was one of the prominent men of the state in his day. He was selectman in Dorchester for the years 1819 and 1822, and subsequently for several terms. Represented Dorchester in the legis- lature for the years 1823-24-25-26-29 and 30: and was a member of the state senate from the Eleventh district in 1833-34. In May, 1833. he was appointed deputy sheriff, which necessitated his removal to Canaan, and in 1836 was chosen sheriff of Grafton county, retaining that office until 1840, when he ac- cepted a reappointment as deputy and continued to served in that capacity until 1855. In Canaan he served upon the board of selectmen in 1838-39-40-41 and 49; represented that town in the lower house of the legislature for the years 1842-43: was one of the road commissioners of Grafton county in 1841- 42, and a member of the governor's council in 1844- 45. He died in Canaan. October 20. 1872. He was married September 7, 1824. to Charlotte Piper, who was born February 12, 1804. daughter of Noah and Jane Piper, and she died in Canaan, February 1. 1873. They were the parents of four children : Catherine, born July 20, 1825. died young. Emily R., born May 13, 1828, married Miles Jackson, and died August 23. 1851, leaving one son. George Jack- son. Calch, born June 3, 1832. Isaac N., who will he again referred to. Caleb Blodgett graduated from Dartmouth College in 1856, became a lawyer and a member of the firm of Boardman & Blodgett in Bos- ton. In 1882 he was appointed a justice of the su- perior court of Massachusetts by Governor Long : declined a seat upon the supreme bench in 18QI on account of failing health: resigned in September, 1900, and died in Canaan. December 1I, 1901. De- cember 14. 1865. he married Roxalana B. Martin. daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin, and had one son.
(VIII) Chief Justice Isaac N., youngest child of Hon. Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Canaan, March 6, 1838. His educational op- portunities were excellent and he prepared for the legal profession in the office of Adam S. Marshall, of Concord, where he was admitted to the har in December. 1860. He inaugurated his practice in Canaan. but in 1867 removed to Franklin, where he was in partnership with the Hon. Austin F. Pike until ISSo, when he was elected to the bench of the supreme court. In 1898 he was appointed chief jus- tice and served in that capacity for four years, or until July 1. 1002, when he resigned. Judge Blodgett was a member of the New Hampshire house of rep- resentatives for the years 1871-73-74-78, and of the senate in 18;0-80: was chairman of the Democratic state committee in 18;6-77, and a member of the constitutional conventions of 1876-87 and 1903: and was elected mayor of Franklin on the Citizen's ticket in 1903-04. Ile was president of the Franklin Savings Bank and vice-president of the Franklin National Bank. Dartmouth College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1870. and that of Doctor of Laws in 1000. He was elected :11 honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa So- viety. Alpha, of New Hampshire ( Dartmouth Col- lege) in 1881. ITis death occurred in Franklin, No-
vember 27, 1005. May 24. 1861. Judge Blodgett mar- ried Sarah Azubah Gerould, born in Alstead, April 13. 1839. daughter of Rev. Moses and Cynthia ( Locke) Gerould (see Gerould). Judge Blodgett left one daughter, Anna Geraldine, born in Canaan, August 13, 1862.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Blodgett, was born in England, in 1633. He settled in Woburn, Mass- achusetts. Married. December 13, 1655, Ruth Eggle- den or Iggleden, of Boston. He died in Woburn, July 3, 1687 : his widow Ruth died October 14. 1703. Children, born at Woburn: I. Ruth, born December 28. 1656. 2. Samuel, børn December 10, 1658, men- tioned below. 3. Thomas, born February 26, 1661, married. November II. 1685. Rebecca Tidd. 4. Stts- anna, married James Simonds. 5. Sarah, born Feb- ruary 17. 1668. 6. Mary (twin of Martha). 7. Martha, born September 15. 1673. married Joseph Winn.
( III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (r) Blod- gett, was born in Woburn. December 10. 1658. Hle married. April 30. 1683. Huldah Simonds, daughter of William Simonds. He died November 5, 1743: his widow March 14, 1745-46. He was deputy to the general court and ensign in the Woburn military company. Children, born at Woburn: 1. Samuel. December 21, 1683. 2. Daniel. March 24, 1685. men- tioned below. 3. William, January 1I, 1686-87. 4. Huldah. February 9 1688-89. 5. Caleb, November II. 1691. 6. Joshua, February 26. 1693-94. 7. Josiah, March 27. 1606. 8. John. April 19, 1600. 9. Benja- min. March 4, 1701. 10. Nathan, March 15, 1704.
(1\') Daniel, son of Samuel Blodgett, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, March 24, 1685: married. April 4. 1700, Mary Mallett. He resided in Wo- burn until I710 and removed to Stafford. Connecti- cut. Children: 1. Daniel, born at Woburn, Jan- uary 10, 1710, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born at Woburn. July 23. ITII. Others born at Stafford. Connecticut.
(V) Daniel. son of Daniel Blodgett, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, January 19, 1710. re- moved when a child to Stafford. Connecticut. He married, November 16. 1732, Deborah Ellsworth, of Stafford, who died March 3. 1703. He died February 24. 1793. Children, born at Stafford, were: John. horn August 16, 1733: Patience, died June 8. 1737 : Daniel, horn October 13, 1738; Nathan, born October 25. 1741 : Benjamin, born March 27. 1745: William, born November 5. 1751 : Mary.
(VI) Daniel, son of Daniel Blodgett, was born in Stafford, Connecticut, October 13, 1738. He was a soldier in the Revolution in the Stafford company. marching to Cambridge, April 10. 1775. on the Lex- ington Call under Captain Zephaniah Allen, Lieuten- ant-Colonel Stephen Moulton, with the rank of sergeant. He married. November 27, 1760. Lydia Robinson, of Stafford. Children: Daniel, Nathan. Abishai, Lydia. Rubie, Phebe, Benjamin, Daniel and Roxy.
(VII) Nathan, second son of Daniel and Lydia Robinson) Blodgett. was born in Stafford. Connect- ient. September 27. 1761, and died in Lebanon, New Hampshire. August 26, 1708. He married Anna Perry, of Lebanon, March 3, 1785. She died April ch. 1838, aged seventy-four years. Children : 1. Flias, born April 22, 1786: married Sally Dustin. December 3. 1800; children-Orein, Mary Ann and Sanford. Sanford, born December 23. 1787, died February 22, 1805. 3. Seth, mentioned below. 4 Abishai, born February 13, 1702. died July 17. 1817. 5. Amasa, born February 27. 1704, died at White Creek, New York. 6. Nathan, born 1706, died at White Creck. 7. Roxanna, born March 31,
Elioin A. Graf, M. A .
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1798, married. January 1, 1826, John Shepherd, of Canaan. New Hampshire, and died there.
(VIII) Seth, son of Nathan Blodgett, was born in Lebanon, June 24, 1789, died December 13, 1867. He married (first ) Polly Holmes, of Camp- ton, New Hampshire, March 20, 1814. She died August 19, 1822. He married (second), February II, 1824, Lydia Gould, who died January 14, 1804. He had the homestead and was a farmer and dealer in cattle, which he drove to the market at Boston. In politics he was a Democrat. Children of Seth and Polly Blodgett: I. Emeline, born November 20, 1816, died February 9. 1826. 2. George, men- tioned below. 3. Nathan, born November 1, 1819, died July 21, 1854, at Washington, Ohio.
(IX) George, son of Seth Blodgett, was born in Lebanon, December 22, 1817. and died there July 12, 1885. Ile married ( first) Agnes Austin, of Tun- bridge, Vermont, December 29, 1846. She died February 3. 1854. He married (second), November 13. 1855, Delia M. ( Cutting) Thompson. She was daughter of Elias and Maria Cutting of Weathers- field, Vermont. born May II, 1824; she married first, November 15. 1844, Nathan M. Thompson at Hanover, New Hampshire. He died August 2, 1854. She married ( second) George Blodgett, as above stated. and she is yet living in Lebanon, New Hampshire, at the age of eighty-three years. George Blodgett was a farmer at Lebanon, New Hampshire, and a dealer in real estate in that section. He was a man of much force of character and business abil- ity. and accumulated a competence. He was trus- tee of the Lebanon Bank many years. In politics he was a Democrat. Children of George and Agnes Blodgett: I. Emeline Marion, born March 7, 1850, died October 19, 1865. Children of George and Delia C. Blodgett: born at Lebanon : Nellie Maria, born February 1, 1857, resides at Lebanon, is ac- tive in church and social affairs. Annie Bell, born December 10, 1860, married, September 17. 1884, Amos W. Gee, a merchant of Lebanon, and they have two children: Myra Blodgett Gee, born Feb- ruary 17, 1888, died September 21, 1889; George Blodgett Gee, born June 6, 1891.
The first person of this occupative sur-
COOK name took it from his vocation. Persons of this name were among the carly set- tlers of New England. The lapse of time and faulty records make it impossible to trace many branches to the early ancestors.
(I) Benjamin Franklin Cook, was born in Hart- ford. Connecticut, November 29, 1793, and died in Leamington, Vermont. August 23, 1843. He was a farmer. After his marriage he removed to New Hampshire, where he conducted a cotton mill for some years. He married Betsey Lucas, who was born February 25, 1801, and died in Leamington, March 20. 1857. Her father, - Lucas, was a hotel keeper in Groton, New Hampshire, and died September 10. 1820. The children of this marriage were: Betsey Jane. John, Benjamin Lucas. David Hardy. Charles and Sarah Hardy. ( Mention of David H and descendants appears in this article.) (II) John, second son and fourth child of Ben- jamin F. and Betsy (Lucas) Cook, was born in Leamington, Vermont 1823, and died in 1893. He was a farmer and resided in Leamington until 1868, when he removed to Columbia, where he continued to reside until his death. He was a Democrat, and was elected to various town offices and served a term in the legislature. He married February 16. 1851, Roxanna Legro, who was born in 1833, and died March 20, 1905, daughter of David Legro. Four
children were born to them: Mary J., deceased ; Ella S., wife of William Lyman, of Columbia, New Hampshire; Benjamin F., who is mentioned below : John C., deceased.
(III) Benjamin Franklin, third child and eldest of the two sons of John and Roxanna ( Legro) Cook, was born in Leamington, Vermont, April 1, 1859. He grew up on his father's farm and made the cultivation of the soil his chief occupation until 1002, when he removed to Colebrook, New Hamp- shire. Soon after his removal he formed a partner- ship with D. N. Hapgood, under the firm name of Cook & Hapgood, and since that time has been em- ployed in the grain business. While in Columbia he held various town offices and represented the town in the legislature in 1880. Ile married, in Columbia, November 3, 1880. Carrie B. Hammond. who was born in Columbia, August 9, 1860, daugh- ter of George and Elizabeth ( Stoddard) Hammond. They have two children: Vera D., who married Durand M. Hapgood, of Colebrook; and Eva L .. who lives with her parents. Mrs. Hapgood has one child, Dorris E.
(II) David Hardy Cock, fourth child and third son of Benjamin F. and Betsey (Lucas) Cook, was born in Bloomfield. Vermont. July 27, 1834, and died at Colebrook, New Hampshire. February 22, 1907. His life was spent on his father's farm until he was twenty years of age, when he went to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he entered the Washington Mills, eventually rising to the position of foreman of the shawl department. In 1860, soon after his marriage, he removed to Leamington, Vermont. where he purchased a farm, taking his father and mother, who were in impoverished circumstances. and caring for them as long as they lived. In 1868 he removed to Columbia, New Hampshire where he lived on a farm until 1903, when he went to Cole- brook to live with his son, Dr. E. A. Cook. In pol- ities he was a Republican, and while a resident of Leamington, represented that town in the legislature two successive terms. During his residence in Co- lumbia he was active in town affairs and for many years was a member of the board of selectmen, and represented it in the general court in 1880. He was an honored member of Excelsior Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. from its organization up to a short time before his death, and hekdl all the important offices in it, being for twenty consec- utive terms its treasurer. He was a just and hon- orable man and highly respected by those who knew him. He married. in Lawrence, Massachu- setts. 1860. Sarah L. Willoughby, who was born in Lawrence, daughter of Amos and . ( Lucas) Willoughby. of Lawrence. Mr. Willoughby was born in Groton, New Hampshire, in 1801, and died. in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1874. His wife was born in Rummer, New Hampshire, in 1806, and died in Lawrence. Massachusetts. in 1876. She was a sister of Betsey Lucas, who married Benjamin Conk
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