Olive (Curtis) Blakeslee (1728 - 1818)

Born Jul 1728 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of John Blakeslee — married 4 Mar 1745 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 1818 at about age 89 in Connecticut, United States

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Biography

When Olive Curtis was born sometime in July, 1728, in Wallingford, Connecticut, her father, Samuel, was 50, and her mother, Elizabeth, was 41. ^{[1] [2]} She married John Blakeslee on March 4, 1745, in Waterbury, Connecticut. ^{[3] [4]} They had 11 children in 23 years. ^[5] Olive died at ninety years of age in about 1818. ^[6]

Note: According to A genealogy of the Curtiss family being a record of the descendants of widow Elizabeth Curtiss page 15, Olive's sister Alice Curtis was born on June 3, 1728. The History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1694-1840, page 293 write that Olive was born in July of 1728.

Sources

1. ↑ Curtiss, Frederic Haines. A genealogy of the Curtiss family being a record of the descendants of widow Elizabeth Curtiss who. Rockwell and Churchill Press. 1903, page 15 [1]
2. ↑ Beach, Joseph Perkins. History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1694-1840 (Lady Fenwick Chapter, D.A.R., Cheshire, Conn., 1912) Page 293
3. ↑ Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
4. ↑ Shepard, James. Samuel Blakesley of New Haven, Conn and his descendants, Boston: Press od D. Clapp & Son. page 10 [https://archive.org/details/samuelblakesleyo00lcshep/page/10
5. ↑ New Haven genealogical magazineby Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970, page 216-217 [2]
6. ↑ Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

See Also:

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