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Harriet J (Lewis) Blakesly (abt. 1808 - aft. 1860)

Harriet J Blakesly formerly Lewis
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 52 [location unknown]
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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

Birth:
Date: ABT 1808/1809

Note

Note: A Harriet Lewis married Roswell Philips 1 Nov 1824 in Farmington, CT. (LR42, #568) Barbour says
that Roswell was of Burlington.
The Philips/Blakesley connections should not be ignored.
No other records for Roswell Phillips in Farmington vital index. Barbour says he was of Burlington
Also, Nov 2 1845, Harriet Maria Philips m Emerson Stedman...
Families of Early Hartford has info on a William Lewis, founder of Hartford who d Farmington 1680s.
Farmington 1850 census: previous entry to hers is Samuel Philips 20, laborer, b CT. Following hers are Henry and Nancy Lewis (both age 32), their son Chauncey age 8[by whom Alice Philips was said to have a child?], daus Augusta 6, Catherine 5. Then Charles Blakesley 23, blacksmith, and Viola 18. Bottom of page is Philena Gladding, 18, who later m a Blakesley.
Farmington 1870 census has Richard Lewis 45 in household before Charles. Henry Lewis is on next page, where he is a joiner 51 b CT. Nancy is 51 also.
Farmington 1860 p 595 shows Henry Lewis household : Henry 42, Nancy 43, Chauncy 18, Augusta 16 and ?Viola?.
Chauncey Lewis is in Bristol in 1880, works in clock shop. In Bristol 1870 also, age 29 , wife Addie 22 and daug Nellie, age 5 mo.
Hale Collection has a Harriet M. Beckley Lewis 1829-1900 bur New Britian 118, cem 1, p 48. Beckley vs Blakesley?? Age is wrong.
Thought she might be the "Harriet Thompson 62" in Farmington next to Chas. Blakeslee in 1870, but Harriet Thompson was also in 1860 census.
There is a Harriet Blakeslee age 70, b MA in Plymouth, Litchfield, CT (p 324) in 1870. Too old?
Presumably the Hale Collection's Hattie L. Blakeslee who d 1873 and bur Plymouth, 6 pages before Enos, and
only 3 pages before Emily 1805-1880.
Possible sequence of events (pure speculation at this point): Oliver Lewis (b abt 1785) has a dau Harriet J. who married Roswell Phillips in 1824 (Roswell was Oliver's nxt door nbr in 1830). I don't see Roswell in 1840 (is he in 1850 or 1860?) If not, maybe he died. Harriet is a young widow. Meanwhile, perhaps Thomas J. Blakeslee had married Hannah M. Grannis in 1822 (Barbour: of course, could be another TJB). Sometime between 1830 and 1840 she died (speculation) and the reason his family has picked up teen 2 boys and teen 1 girl in 1840 is that the widow and widowers' families are blended after they remarried (speculation). The extra teens are Phillips. If so, there is a chance that the Jane Phillips and Richard Blakeslee who married in 1848 were step-siblings. Would this be legal, although they are genetically unrelated? Also a Harriet Maria Phillips m in 1845, could be another
candidate to be the teenage girl. Note name. Perhaps there are some gravestones that could help; should check
Hale collection.
I think scenario above has a problem, because a Charles Blakeslee death record in Barbour (?) has Jefferson
Blakeslee as father and Maria Grannis as mother. A second Thomas J, I guess.
April 2012: no longer sure it's a second one. The written marriage record could be read as Harriet M. Grannis, though it was also possible to read it as Hannah M. Grannis and this is how the Barbour extracts it. The marriage was by the pastor of the Bristol Baptist church, but in Soutington. Later pastors of the Bristol Baptist church married other Grannises in Southington. Google records the existence of
"125th Anniversary Program, the Bristol Baptist Church, Bristol, Conn. April 9-13, 1916" but I cannot find any references to where I can find a copy. Must check LDS library.
Roswell Phillips of Burlington: checked Burlington 1850. Only one there is Samuel Phelps 36, wife Emily L, son Enos P., son William H. Also a Cynthia Cleveland 14. (Although there was a Roswell H. Phelps in Windsor CT 1860, I eliminated him for some reason.)
A "Richard Reubin Lewis" was, according to some Genforum posting, a Meherrrin of VA, enslaved and wound up in Farmington CT.
Timlow's "Ecclesiastical and other sketches of Southington Conn" says that Chauncey Lewis m 2) Sibyl Hill 28 April 1800. They had a son Chauncey and a dau Harriet. However, an Ancestral File or IGI entry (dunno how dependable) says this was Harriet Obedience Lewis born Sept 18, 1813, hence too young (and wrong middle initial)
Mitochondrial DNA testing on a maternal-line descendant shows that she was H2a. The mutation at 16157 is unusual and only about 10 people with it have been detected. Of the others who have had full sequence testing, the others in the group (7) clustered on coding sequence contains someone whose maternal line goes to France, one to Latvia, one to Lithuania and the rest unknown. Genbank shows someone with same coding sequence mutations in Finland.

Data Changed

Data Changed:
Date: 28 Jan 2013
Time: 22:27:50

Prior to import, this record was last changed 22:27:50 28 Jan 2013.

Sources

  1. Lewis-12040 was created by Owen Kaser through the import of hlewis-desc.ged on Apr 9, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
  • Source: S150 Title: Descendants of Charles Mitchell Author: Jonathan Mitchell Publication: author of Cranston, RI. Printout from July 2000. Note: largely based on family bible records. Note: last name gotten from Lewis Blakesley's death record (he provided me with a copy; it did not have a birthplace for her.)
  • Source: S53 Title: Genealogical Research for Alice Dart Author: Warren Buchanan Publication: done in 1995 for Mrs. Dart, author of Watertown CT. Note: he had mistakenly read her age as 57, not 51, from the 1860 census
  • Source: S55 Title: US census Note: entry for 1860 says age 51 CONT entry for 1850 says age 41
  • Source: S7 Title: vital records Note: for Lewis's birth, age 39 in Sept 1847. middle initial J.




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