The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record Vol XI

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DEACON ALDEN BLODGET'S BIBLE
Contributed by Alice (Smith) Thompson (Mrs. F. C.).
Concord, New Hampshire.
Alden Blodget was the son of Joshua⁵ Blodget (Joshua⁴ Samuel^3-2 Thomas¹) and his wife Hannah⁵ Alden (Daniel⁴ Joseph^3-2 John¹). He lived at Stafford, Connecticut, on the farm which was granted to his grandfather Joshua⁴ Blodget, when he removed from Woburn, Massachusetts, and settled at Stafford, Connecticut, in 1720. This farm has remained in the family ever since, passing from generation to generation and is now part of the estate left by Mrs. Thompson's uncle, who recently died. Alden Blodget's Bible is now in possession of Mrs. Thompson, who is his great-great-granddaughter and who has identified with notes, many whose records are here given. BIRTHS

Alden Blodget	was born	March 14 1766
Sarah Abbott	was born	August 30 1767
Willard Blodget	was born	January 30 1789
Esther Blodget	was born	October 12 1790
Daniel Blodget	was born	January 25 1793
Hannah Blodget	was born	March 11 1795
Sally Blodget	was born	April 6 1797
Alden Blodget	was born	June 25 1799
Joshua Blodget	was born	August 10 1802
Joseph Blodget	was born	October 20 1803
Sidney Blodget	was born	February 4 1806
Wareham Blodget	was born	June 15 1808
Rufus L. Blodget	was born	April 8 1811
A still born dau	was born	January 21 1814
Almeda Converse	was born	April 3 1813 (a)
Adaline Converse	was born	July 2 1814 (a)
Washington Solva Converse	was born	June 22 1815 (a)
Austin Blodget	was born	October 13 1815 (b)
Alden Willard Blodget	was born	May 18 1817 (b)
Minerva Flint Blodget	was born	November 18 1818 (b)
Son of Solva Converse	was born	March 12 1819 (a)
Reuben S. Blodget	was born	August 11 1821 (c)
Henry Edwin Converse		Nov. 28 1836 (d)
Sarah Blodget	was born	Feb. 24 1821 (b)
Jacob Leonard 2d	born	June 17 1822 (e)
Orin Converse	was born	May 5 1822 (a)
Lucius Blodget	was born	June 27 1822 (c)
Alden Solva Converse	was born	June 17 1820 (a)
		Died March 31, 1861 9 (f)
Julius Blodget	was born	September 22 1825 (g)

(a) Children of Solva and Esther (Blodget) Converse.

(b) Children of Willard and Almira (Bliss) Blodget.

(d) This record is in pencil in a different hand and was evidently inserted at a much later date.

(e) Son of John and Sally (Blodget) Leonard.

(f) Death record in pencil.

(g) Children of Alden and Elvira (Cady) Blodget.

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

Julia Blodget	was born	January 5 1827 (g)
Charles Blodget	was born	March 13 1828 (g)
Austin K. Blodget	was born	April 6 1825 (c)
Giles Blodget	was born	November 27 1830 (g)
Ann Blodget	was born	December 25 1831 (g)
Josiah Converse	was born	Feb. 13 1824 (a)
Julius Converse	was born	May 1 1827 (a)
Henry Blodget	was born	February 19 1831 (h)
Hannah Blodget Converse	born	January 12 1829
Frances Esther Converse	born	. . . . 20 1824
		Died Dec. 24, 1833

MARRIAGES

Alden Blodget	Sarah Abbot were married September 11 1788
Solva Converse	Esther Blodget were married May 14 1812
Willard Blodget	Almira Bliss were married June 22 1814
Jacob Leonard	Hannah Blodget were married April 17 1817
John Leonard	Sally Blodget were married June 3 1819
Daniel Blodget	Martha Smith were married Jan. 5 1820
Alden Blodget	Elvira Cady were married Novem. 23 1824
Joshua Blodget	Almira Gay were married Sept. 13 1829

DEATHS
     Joshua Blodget departed this life Oct 31 1816 in the 95th. year of his age.
Hannah Blodget departed this life Mar. 26 1794 in the 66th. Year of her age.
Sidney Blodget departed this life Mar. 30 1806 aged 7 weeks.
Washington Solva Converse departed this life July 6 1816 aged fifteen days
Son of Solva Converse departed this life Mar. 24 1819 being 12 days old.
Austin Abbott Blodget departed this life Oct. 26 1821 aged six years
Hannah Leonard departed this life August 21 1827 aged 32 years
Sidney Leonard died May - 1827 aged 6 months
Wareham Blodget departed this life July 31 1831 aged 23 years
Almira Blodget wife of Doct. Joshua Blodget departed this life March 11 1823 aged 28 yrs.
Sarah Blodget wife of Dea. Alden Blodget departed this life December 28 1839 aged 72
Eli Blodget died October 20 1845 aged 77
Alden Blodget died Sept. 13 1848 aged 82 years
Reuben S. Blodget died Jan. 6 1845 aged 24 years
Austin K. Blodget departed this life Nov. 4 1853 aged 28 years
Daniel Blodget departed this life May 2 1855 aged 62 years
Alden Blodget died Aug. 1869 aged 70 years
Lucius Blodget died Jan. 4 1892 aged 69 years
Martha widow of Daniel Blodget died Oct. 15 1896 aged 98 years 10 mos 15 days.
Eliza Ann Bidwell widow of Lucius Blodget died Sept. 28 1915 aged 91 years 5 mos


JOSHUA BLODGET FAMILY RECORDS
Contributed by Alice (Smith) Thompson (Mrs. F. C.)
Concord, New Hampshire.

The following record* is from a leaf from an old account book which was badly torn. The handwriting is apparently the same as that of the earlier entries in the old Bible just given, and was

(h) Son of Joshua and Almira (Gay) Blodget.

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probably that Deacon Alden Blodget. The imperfect records indicate the torn edges and the data in brackets has been supplied from authentic records of the family. November 2 1749 [Jo]shua Blodget and Hannah Alde[n] were married
[Hu]ldah Blodget their eldest daughter born June 19 1750
[Joshu]a Blodget their eldest son was b[orn] February 4 1752
Joshua Blodget their second son was born the 2nd. day of October 1753
Abigail Blodget their second daughter was born October 31 1755^Ý
Joseph Blodget their third son was born May 10 1757
Benjamin Blodget their fourth son was born May 18 1759
Abigail Blodget their third daughter born February 10 1761
Hannah Blodget their fourth daughter was born September 23 1762
Eleanor Blodget their fifth daughter was born June 6 1764ý
Olive Blodget their sixth daughter [twin] born March 14 1766
Alden Blodget their fifth son was born March 14 1766
Eli Blodget their sixth son was born August 22 1768
Daniel Blodget their seventh son was born 20th. of July 1770
Ezra Blodget their eighth son was born July 8 1773
Joshua Blodget's bo[rn] January 10 1722
Hannah Blodget's bo[rn] November 17 D 1727

These last two items were most carefully, even beautifully written.

*This record supplements the account of the family of Joshua⁵ Blodget (Joshua⁴ Samuel^3-2 Thomas¹), which was published in the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record, Vol. II, p. 121, and it also corrects three statements, the birth dates of the fourth and ninth children and the name of the eighth child. In Sept. 1926 Mr. Edwin A. Blodgett, Springfield, Mass., sent the record of this family to May (Bennett) Avery, compiler of the above article, as he had copied it from the records at Stratford, Conn. Disagreements are probably due to errors in copying.

ÝMr. Blodgett's copy reads "Oct. 15th, 1756." This is plainly an error in copying.

ýMr. Blodgett's copy reads "Sept. 23rd, 1762." This is evidently an error in copying; her older sister was born Sept. 23.

DOUGLAS COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSES

Compiled by Vera F. Rasmussen, Omaha, Nebr., assisted by Mary Clark.
[Continued from Vol. XI, p. 14.]
(original text was single spaced)

Charles Birkett - Mary Ann Brick - Jan. 11, 1860

B. B. Gurman - Catherine Gustin - Mar. 1, 1860

John Neligh^(a) - Catherine Brobst - Mar. 12, 1860.

Olla Madson - Karna Monson - Mar. 26, 1860.

Henry Stuben - Lucia Maria Paulsen - Mar 27, 1860.

Alexander Miller - Hannah May Dickerson - Apr. 7, 1860.

John Foster - Katerine O'Hearn - Apr. 13, 1860.

Cuerett B. Hurlburt - Cordelia Munger - Apr. 25, 1860.

Charles Karbach - Wilhelmenia Hagardorn - May 9, 1860.

John Hymas - Catherine Perry - May 12, 1860.

John Sautter - Anna Lehner - May 14, 1860.

Hiram Hadley - Harriet Ultz - May 21, 1860.

Lewis Merkgraff - Catherine Clark - Aug. 23, 1860.

Wm. Heman - Mary Euerson - Sept. 1, 1860.

(a) John Neligh, son of John and Elizabeth (Peterman) Neligh, was born in Allen Twp., Northampton Co., Pa., Oct. 9, 1831. In 1857 he came to Omaha and in 1858 was the first settler on the present site of West Point, Nebr. Catherine Brobst was the daughter of Soloman and Kate (Hiskey) Brobst, natives of Penna. - Morton-Watkins, History of Nebraska, II, 58.

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

D. L. Rising - Ruth Johnson - Sept. 11, 1860.

John Springer - Celestia M. Clark - Sept. 14, 1860.

Edward O'Neill - Helen McNeal - Sept. 14,1860.

Lyman Richardson^(b) - Virginia Harrison Clark - Sept. 28, 1860.

James Barret - Jane C. Barman - Oct. 3, 1860.

David Harkness - Julia Lowue - Oct. 7, 1860.

John Bell - Priscilla Levy - Oct. 23, 1860.

Thomas McCormack - Winifred Shea - Oct. 28, 1860.

Jesse Hitchcock - Amanda Sap - Oct. 29, 1860.

Stephen D. Stimin - Harriet A. Morris - Nov. 8, 1860.

Jacob Collins - Hannah Blackford - Nov. 11, 1860.

Bernard Hughes - Mary Dorin - Nov. 13, 1860.

H. H. Mitchell - Eliza Jane Shoemaker - father, Wm. Mitchell - Nov. 22, 1860.

Charles Gorham - Jenette Hobert - Nov. 26, 1860.

Henry Frahm - Dora Rohwer - Nov. 27, 1860.

Thomas Hutton - Lucy Wils - Nov. 27, 1860.

Joseph Creighton - Catherine Furlong - Dec. 1, 1860.

Conrad Soule - Catherine Bloomauer - Dec. 16, 1860.

James Sweeney - Julia Ann Sooren - Dec. 25, 1860.

David Harpster^(c) - Amanda Redman - Jan. 1, 1861.

Clark Potter - Mary Jane Vincent - Jan. 10, 1861.

Washington Lewin - Maria Eubanks - Jan. 12, 1861.

Henry Meyer - Emma Neighly - Feb. 8, 1861.

Geo. Wm. Peck - Elizabeth Trisler - Simon Peck, Father - Mar. 7, 1861.

Alexander Hunter - Jenney Eckford - Mar. 8, 1861.

Ferdinand Berm - Irene A. Smiley - Mar. 19 1861.

Johannas Theodore Paulson^(d) - Anne Caroline Hagedorn - Mar. 30, 1861.

Michael Bagley - Ann Maher - Apr. 7, 1861.

Jefferson Osborn - Henry (sic) Johnson - Apr. 11, 1861.

John Epeneter - Henrietta Rudoesky - Apr. 15, 1861.

William Sanders - Lorinda Graves - Apr. 26, 1861.

John M. Bride - Bridget Doyle - May 1, 1861.

Francis Marion Butter - Elizabeth Baxter - May 4, 1861.

James Sheehan - Ann Cleary - May 10, 1861.

Pius Neff - Mary Kenney - June 2, 1861.

Patrick McArdel - Catherine Conney - June 6, 1861.

Thomas Davis - Amanda Jane West - June 6, 1861.

Allen Spoor - Julia Weeks - June 16, 1861.

Elmer Dundy^(e) - May H. Robeson - June 17, 1861.

Francis Perkinson - Margaret Bennan - June 17, 1861.

Leonard Bartholmew - Mary Ann Labaugh - July 3, 1861.

Capt. Wm. G. Hollins - Martha A. Allis^(f) - July 4, 1861.

John S. Ward - Margaret Musgrove - July 25, 1861.

Wm. Hughes - Rebecca C. A. Smiley - July 30, 1861.

Piatt Adkins - Maria Algeo - July 31, 1861.

J. P. McPherson - Susannah Shull - Aug. 7, 1861.

(b) Lyman Richardson. son of Origen D. and Sarah P. Richardson, was born at Pontiac, Mich., June 6, 1834. He was on the editorial staff of the Omaha Herald from 1858 to 1887. Later he removed to Baltimore, Md. - Ibid. I, 259.

(c) David Harpster born at Tyrone, Blair Co., Pa., Jan. 30, 1832, settled at Omaha in 1858. Amanda L. Redman was born at Frankstown, Pa., Jan. 25, 1836. - Andreas, History of Nebraska, i73.

(d) John T. Paulson was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1837, came to America in 1853, and settled at Omaha in 1857. Anna C. Hagesdorn was also a native of Schleswig-Holstein. Ibid, p. 790.

(e) Elmer S. Dundy was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, Mar. 5, 1830, and came to Nebraska in 1857, settling in Richardson County. He was appointed United States District Judge in 1868. Morton-Watkins, History of Nebraska, I, 352.

THE NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST

Frank Legras - Josephine St. Clair - Aug. 17, 1861.

Thomas Stewart---Anna Ritchie---Aug. 21, 1861.

Geo. B. Blake--Abbie G. Hays - Sept. 7, 1861.

Geo. Davidson--Maggie Morgan - Oct. 11, 1861.

Thomas Hartford - Sussanah Bayless - Nov. 7, 1861.

Daniel Laughlin of Dakota - Ella McCune - Nov. 20, 1861.

Charles N. Moe - Ellen Hart - Nov. 22, 1861.

Samuel Durnall - Adalaide Chapman - Nov. 27, 1861.

Richard M. McMurray - Marietta Johnson - Nov. 25, 1861.

J. N. Ailing - J. E. Munger - Dec. 12, 1861.

Baldac Kramer - Catherine Schite - Dec. 23, 1861.

John K. Hazard - Ann O. Forrest - Dec. 25, 1861.

John Bievivine - Ann Tanner - Dec. 30, 1861.

John Taffe^(g) - Clara Ritchie - Jan. 16, 1862

Geo. Smith - Sarah Converse - Jan. 27, 1862.

Nathaniel Crowner - Mary Holmes - Jan. 29, 1862.

William Robinson - Mary E. Miller - Jan. 29, 1862.

Michael Dee - Catherine Conner - Feb. 2, 1862.

William Loland - Elisha Whelan - Feb. 25, 1862.

Elam Hollingsworth - Martha Keetch - Feb. 27, 1862.

L. J. Ruth - Augusta Smiley - Mar. 15, 1862.

Frederick Pflug - Lettcheir Brandt - Mar. 18, 1862.

Byron Reed^(h) - Mary M. Perkins - Apr. 29, 1862.

Jonathan Reed - Emma Keach - Mar. 28, 1862.

Henry Ritcher - Joanna Iverson - May 17, 1862.

David E. Delany - Sophia Nelson - May 12, 1862.

Eli Williams - Isabel Shepherd - May 28, 1862.

Roger T. Beall - Sarah Ellen Hugus - June 19, 1862.

Wm. Blake - Kate Critun - June 21, 1862.

S. C. Banstu - Sarah A. Glasgow - July 18, 1862.

(f) Martha Allis, born Nov. 15, 1840, at Bellevue, Nebr., was the daughter of Samuel and Emeline (Palmer) Allis. Her parents were missionaries to the Pawnee Indians. Ibid, II, 484-486.

(g) John Taffe, born Jan. 30, 1827, at Indianapolis, Indiana, settled at Dakota City Nebr., in 1856. He married a daughter of Col. John Ritchie of Omaha. Mr. Taffe was three times elected to Congress. Ibid, 356.

(h) Byron Reed was born at Darien, Genesee Co., N. Y. and settled at Omaha in Nov., 1855. Mary M. Perkins was the daughter of V. G. Perkins, who settled in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1852, and came to Omaha in 1854. Andreas, History of Nebraska, 792.

DANIEL L. TUCKER BIBLE RECORD
Contributed by Lisle D. Tucker, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
(original text was single spaced) This Bible is now in possession of Lisle D. Tucker, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
     Daniel L. Tucker Born November 18th, 1808 at Windham, Greene Co., N. Y.

Henrietta Tucker Born December 27th, 1814 at Windham, Greene Co., N. Y.

Mary Eliza Tucker Born June 15th, 1834. at Bloomfleld, Ontario Co., N. Y.

Silas S. Tucker Born June 27th, 1837 at Hanover, Chautauque Co., N. Y.

John H. Tucker Born July 13th, 1840 at Newstead, Erie County, N. Y.

James M. Tucker Born July 31st, 1844 at Shelby Basin, Orleans County, N. Y.

Maria P. Tucker Born Dec. 22, 1848 at Shelby Basin, Orleans Co., N. Y.*

Martha Jane Tucker Born December 9th, 1852 at Shelby Basin, Orleans Co., N. Y.

   *The census of 1850 lists Daniel Tucker, farmer, as living in the Town of Shelby, Orleans Co., N. Y. The family was not there in 1860.