Moses Blakeslee (1729 - 1807)

Born 25 Jan 1729 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Dunbar) Blakeslee — married 24 Sep 1753 (to 21 Sep 1774) in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut

Husband of Mary (Cook) Blakeslee — married 23 Feb 1775 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1807 at age 78 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Birth

Moses was born in 1729. He was the son of Moses Blakeslee and Sarah Benton.

Marriage

On 24 September 1753 Moses married Hannah Dunbar, the daughter of John Dunbar and Elizabeth Fenn. Moses and Hannah had 9 children: Asa, Caleb, Sarah, Moses, Hannah, Lucetta, Ann, Lyman, and Mary Dotha. Hannah died in 1774

2nd Marriage

:On the 23 February 1775 Moses married Mary (Cook) Smith, the daughter of Ephraim Cook and Lydia Merriman. Mary was the widow of John Smith.^[1]

Death

He passed away in 1807.I

Research notes

Needs Marriage Record for first marriage

Sources

1. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus. Families of Ancient New Haven Vol I, page 217 (Blakeslee Family).

• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006 (Marriage to Hannah Dunbar). [1]
• Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997 (Hannah Dunbar) [2]
• Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting. [3]
• Samuel Blakesley of New Haven, Conn and his descendants [4]