Nathaniel Blackwell (1686 - 1759)

Born 27 Dec 1686 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

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Died 1759 at about age 72 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Nathaniel Blackwell, the son of John Blackwell and Sarah Warren, was born December 27, 1686 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts and died, in 1759 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.^[1][2]

He married first, about 1711, Joanna Hathaway who was born January 28, 1685 in Dartmouth and died there March 16, 1750. The will of John Hathaway of Dartmouth dated July 11, 1732 names a daughter Joanna Blackwell. He married second, on May 28, 1752, a widow, Elizabeth (______) Tripp.^[3][4]

"Nathaniel Blackwell is named in his grandfather Blackwell's will and his receipt for that legacy, dated 25 May 1710, reads:

"Nathaniel Blackwell, of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol, received of my Uncle Joshua Blackwell of the Town of Sandwich. £10 in full of the Legacie which was given me by my honoured Grandfather Michaell Blackwell late of sd Sandwich, deceased, under his Last Will"^[5]

"Nathaniel evidently plied his trade of blacksmith in various settlements: Little Compton, Swansea, Tiverton, Freetown, etc., before returning in about 1723 to Dartmouth. He is called "of Freetown" in a deed, dated 17 Dec. 1722, when he paid £80 to Samuell Joy for a Dartmouth lot, including housing situated on the west side of Acushnet River^[6]. He is called "of Dartmouth" in a deed, dated 3 Jan. 1738/9, when he paid Samuell Winslow £20 for a lot in the town of Bristol^[7]. In 1743 he paid Ephraim Hunt from Peter Tinkham for £24. 33 more acres there ^[8]. In a deed, dated 20 May 1752, "Nathaniell Blackwell of Dartmouth, Blacksmith, for the love and good will I do bear for my son John Blackwell of same, blacksmith," conveyed an acre of ‘°the Westerly end of my homestead farm"^[9]"^[10]

"The will. dated 26 Aug. 1756. of "Nathaniell Blackwell of . Dartmouth. blacksmith," gives "to my beloved wife all those goods that she brought with her, except what she hath already disposed of and one half ye neet cattle, swine, loomes, 1/2 all my wool, clothes, bedding, linen. etc. and ye use & improvement of 1/2 my household farm, untill my son Nathaniell's daughters come to the age of 18 yrs., while my widdow . . . To my daughter Mary Blackwell (1/2 as above). To my son Nathaniell Blackwell‘s two daughters: Desire Blackwell and Johannah Blackwell all ye new house I last built, joyning to my old one, and, land to ye southeastward, and ye household goods that I lent their Mother, etc. To my son John Blackwell, land, and to his son Nathaniell Blackwell (if he lives to 21) or to sd John's next male heir. To my son-in-law Nathaniell Spooner, my lands in Freetown, he to place gravestones for my son Nathaniell, my daughter Sarah, myself and my wife (if she be buried in ye same yard). To my three children, John Blackwell, Mary Blackwell and Hannah Spooner [the residue]" (Bristol County Probate, 16:292). Proved 3 July 1759. The inventory, presented the same date, shows a personal estate of £113. 4s. 7d."^[10]

Children (all by first wife):

1. Sarah, b. 20 June 1712; d. unm;
2. Mary, b. 15 Aug; 1715;
3. Hannah, b. 21 Feb. 1718/19^[11]; d. 22 Feb. 1795: m. 29 June 1749 Nathaniel Spooner^[12]
4. Joanna, b. 11 Aug. 1722; d. 13 Nov. 1724^[13]
5. Nathaniel, b. about 1724; d. in Freetown before 26 Aug. 1756 (see father’s will);
6. John, b. in Dartmouth 14 Dec. 1727.

Sources

1. ↑ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Births and Deaths Volumes 2, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD., 1992) pg. 453
2. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield and Janice A. Beebe et al, Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995) pgs. 143-144.
3. ↑ Dartmouth Vital Records, 1930, 2:64
4. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield and Janice A. Beebe et al, Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995) pgs. 143-144.
5. ↑ Barnstable County Probate, 3:86
6. ↑ Bristol County Deeds, 2:535
7. ↑ Bristol County Deeds, 5:173
8. ↑ Bristol County Deeds, 5:193.
9. ↑ Bristol County Deeds, 5:513.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} MICHAEL BLACKWELL OF SANDWICH MASS. (c. 1620-1710), By Lydia B.(Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass.and Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburgh, Pa. From: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 117
11. ↑ James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 4, pt. 7, "'Tiverton," p. 63
12. ↑ Dartmouth Vital Records, 2:64
13. ↑ Dartmouth Vital Records, 3:20