Blasdel, Isaac (1738-1791)

Name:

Blasdel, Isaac (1738-1791)

Title:

Served in Continental Army, including Battle of Bennington.
Member, Committee of Safety, Chester, NH
Selectman, Town of Chester, 1783-5, 1788-91
Signer, Association Test, Town of Chester

Other Names:

Blasdell, Isaac

Born:

03/27/1738

Birthplace:

Amesbury, MA

Died:

10/09/1791

Death Location:

Chester, NH

Residence:

Amesbury, MA 1738-1762
Chester, NH 1762-1791

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clockmaker
Silversmith

Father:

Blasdel, David (1711/12-1756)

Mother:

Colby, Abigail (1713-

Relations:

Father: clockmaker David Blasdel
Brother: clockmaker Nicholas Blasdel
Son: clockmaker Richard Blasdel

Spouse:

Mary Currier (1741-1795), March 16, 1758, Amesbury

Children:

Hannah, born August 6, 1758, Amesbury; died February 6, 1795
Isaac, born June 2, 1760, Amesbury; died 1817, Salisbury NH; metalurgist; possibly a clockmaker; 3 marriages
Richard, born November 22, 1762, Chester; died July 20, 1790; clockmaker; musician.
Molly, born May 11, 1765, Chester
David, born May 19, 1767, Chester; res. Chester, NH, Campton, NH, Penacook, NH, Epsom, NH, Peacham, VT; blacksmith, clockmaker; m. Hannah Frye; 9 children)
Anna, born July 13, 1769, Chester; died February 22, 1808; m. Benjamin Pike Chase
Abner, born April 18, 1771; died 1812; res. Chester, cabinetmaker; m.Jemima Melcher; 7 children)
Lydia July 5, 1773; died April 1, 1857; m. Josiah Chase)
Abigail, born July 19, 1775; did May 19, 1803
Ebenezer, born October 5, 1778; died 1813; res. Chester NH; d. Acworth, NH; clockmaker; said to have apprenticed to Timothy Chandler in Concord, NH; m.Nancy Noyes; 7 children)

Notes:

"Blaisdell Clocks," Blaisdell Papers, (Summer 1944), 4-19.

Benjamin Chase, History of Old Chester, From 1719 to 1869. (Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke, 1869), 67, 136, 140, 142, 254, 373, 375, 377, 379, 437, 444, 456, 457.

John C. Chase, History of Chester, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Including Auburn. A Supplement to the History of Old Chester, Published in 1869. (Haverhill, MA: Record Publishing Company, 1926), 279-280.

John J. Dearborn, The History of Salisbury, New Hampshire, From Date of Settlement to the Present Time... (Manchester, New Hampshire: William E. Moore, 1890), 478-479.

Ephraim O. Jameson, Jamesons in America. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1901), 5.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers. A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips. (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 1002-1003.

Brooks Palmer, "The First New Hampshire Clockmakers," Antiques, 54(July, 1948)1, 36-37.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks & Clockmakers. (Exeter, NH: Adams Brown Company, 1976), 13, 64-65, 299.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Exeter, NH: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 86.

Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825. (Sturbridge, MA: Old Sturbridge Village, 1992), 16-17, 166.