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Jedediah Bingham¹

• Father*: Lemuel Bingham¹ b. 20 Sep 1713, d. 3 Nov 1788
• Mother*: Hannah Perkins¹ b. 1717, d. 21 Oct 1793

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Jedediah Bingham was born on 3 March 1747/48 at Windham, Connecticut.¹
• He married Elizabeth Webb at Windham, Connecticut, on 29 April 1779.¹

Jerusha Bingham¹

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Jerusha Bingham married Rev. Samuel Kirtland, son of Rev. Daniel Kirtland and Mary Perkins.

Jerusha Bingham¹

• Father*: Lemuel Bingham¹ b. 20 Sep 1713, d. 3 Nov 1788
• Mother*: Hannah Perkins¹ b. 1717, d. 21 Oct 1793

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Jerusha Bingham was born on 3 July 1756 at Windham, Connecticut.¹
• She died on 10 July 1756 at Windham, Connecticut.¹

John Bingham¹

• Father*: Elias Bingham¹ b. 28 Sep 1753, d. 1829
• Mother*: Vashti Eldkerkin¹ b. 1754, d. 1804

• John Bingham was born in 1788 at Cornish, New Hampshire.¹
• He married Lydia Thompson.¹
• John Bingham died in 1854 at Morristown, Vermont.¹

John Augustine Bingham¹

• Father*: John Bingham¹ b. 1788, d. 1854
• Mother*: Lydia Thompson¹ b. 1785, d. 1839

• John Augustine Bingham was born in 1819 at Morristown, Vermont.¹
• He married Caroline Elizabeth Churchill.¹
• John Augustine Bingham died in 1865 at Monroe, Wisconsin.¹

Lemuel Bingham¹

• Father*: Capt. Samuel Bingham² b. 28 Mar 1687, d. 1 Mar 1760
• Mother*: Faith Ripley² b. 20 Sep 1686, d. 11 Feb 1720/21

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Lemuel Bingham was born on 20 September 1713 at Windham, Connecticut.²
• He married Hannah Perkins, daughter of Joseph Perkins and Martha Morgan, at Windham, Connecticut, on 28 April 1737.^1,3
• Lemuel Bingham died on 3 November 1788 at Windham, Connecticut.²

• Lemuel Bingham resided at Windham, Connecticut.⁴

Lemuel Bingham¹

• Father*: Elias Bingham¹ b. 28 Sep 1753, d. 1829
• Mother*: Vashti Eldkerkin¹ b. 1754, d. 1804

• Lemuel Bingham was born on 23 March 1781 at Windham, Connecticut.¹

Lucy Bingham¹

• Father*: Lemuel Bingham¹ b. 20 Sep 1713, d. 3 Nov 1788
• Mother*: Hannah Perkins¹ b. 1717, d. 21 Oct 1793

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Lucy Bingham was born on 14 September 1742 at Windham, Connecticut.¹
• She died on 7 February 1777 at Windham, Connecticut.¹

Luther Bingham¹

• Father*: Elias Bingham¹ b. 28 Sep 1753, d. 1829
• Mother*: Vashti Eldkerkin¹ b. 1754, d. 1804

• Luther Bingham was born on 5 April 1778 at Windham, Connecticut.¹

Sgt. Thomas Bingham^1,2,3

• Father*: Thomas Bingham¹ b. 5 Jun 1642, d. 16 Jan 1729/30
• Mother*: Mary Rudd¹ b. c 1648, d. 5 Aug 1726

• Sgt. Thomas Bingham was born on 11 December 1667 at Norwich, Connecticut.¹
• He married Hannah Backus, daughter of Lieut. William Backus and Elizabeth Pratt, on 17 February 1691/92.¹
• Sgt. Thomas Bingham died on 1 April 1710 at Norwich, Connecticut.¹

Zerviah Bingham¹

• Father*: Lemuel Bingham² b. 20 Sep 1713, d. 3 Nov 1788
• Mother*: Hannah Perkins² b. 1717, d. 21 Oct 1793

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Zerviah Bingham was born on 5 March 1740 at Windham, Connecticut.²
• She married Oliver Smith at Windham, Connecticut, on 27 September 1764.²

Ann Bird¹

• Father*: Thomas Bird
• Mother*: Mary²

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Ann Bird was born on 10 August 1724 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.²
• She married John Williams, son of John Williams and Dorothy Brewer, at Dorchester, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1749 (Ann Bird of Dorchester).³
• Ann Bird died on 9 April 1767 at Roxbury, Massachusetts; "Ann, w. John, of Dorchester Brook, in her 43rd y."⁴

Dorothy Bird¹

• Dorothy Bird was baptized on 25 May 1588 at St. Laurence Church, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England.²
• She married Thomas Lord at Petersborough (near Towcester), Northamptonshire, England, on 23 February 1610/11.³
• Dorothy Bird died before 12 May 1675 at Hartford, Connecticut.

• Her will was dated on 8 February 1669 at Hartford, Connecticut, proved 14 May 1675. "I Dorothy Lord of Hartford..." Lower lot in the lower meadow to children of son Thomas Lord, deceased, at the age of 18. To daughter Amy Gilbert and her children, three acres of meadow and swamp land in the upper lot in the Long Meadow next to that Mrs. Olcott now has. To son Robert Lord, if he lives after my decease, three acres in upper lot adjoing that given to daughter Gilbert. To son William Lord, 2 acres in my Great Lott in the Long Meadow next adjoing that given to my son Robert. To son John Lord, £10 in current pay of the country. To grandson Richard Lord to reimburse him for expenses he paid for the building of my chimney, shingling my house, and repairs, give to him all that my Meadow Lott in the Long Meadow which abutts upon the Great River East, the Little River West, Mr. Westwood's Land North, & Barth Barnard's Land South. Also to grandson Richard Lord, all the remainder of my upper lot in the Long Meadow which I have not given to my sons Robert and William and my daughter Gilbert and her children, he paying legacies hereafter expressed: son John, grandchild Hannah Ingersoll, grandchildren Dorothy and Margaret Ingersoll. All moveable estate to son William Lord, grandson Richard Lord, daughter Stanton, daughter Gilbert and children of daughter Ingersoll, the whole to be divided into five parts. Appoints son William Lord and grandson Richard Lord as executors, friend John Allyn as overseer.^4,5
• Inventory of estate taken on 12 May 1675 by George Grave and John Shepherd. Total £187:17:08.⁵

Mary Ellen Bird¹

• Father*: John Traill Bird¹
• Mother*: Mary Livermore¹ b. 22 Jun 1867, d. 11 Apr 1900

• Mary Ellen Bird was born on 28 August 1895 at Swampscott, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹
• She married Benjamin Harmon Dudley, son of Harvey James Dudley and Carrie Melissa Harmon, in 1920.
• Mary Ellen Bird died in 1976 at Rochester, Monroe Co., New York.¹

Rebecca Bird¹

• Rebecca Bird married Samuel Lamb, son of John Lamb and Joanna, at Springfield, Massachusetts, on 1 December 1687.¹
• Rebecca Bird married second at Springfield, Massachusetts, on 26 October 1731 William Warriner.¹

Marilla Ingram Birdsall

• Marilla Ingram Birdsall was born circa 1810 at Connecticut.¹
• She married Eli Beeman.¹
• Marilla Ingram Birdsall died on 11 February 1855; age 47.²
• She was buried at Hillside Cemetery, Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.²

• She appeared on the census on 3 September 1850 at Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, as Marrilla Beeman, age 40, born in Connecticut.¹

Abigal Birge¹

• Father*: Cornelius Birge¹
• Mother*: Priscilla Kelsey¹

• Abigal Birge was born on 20 September 1663.¹
• She married second on 11 February 1702/3 Joseph Loomis, son of Joseph Loomis and Sarah Lyman.¹

John Birket¹

• John Birket married Mehitabell Starkweather, daughter of Timothy Starkweather and Mehitable Fenner.¹

Ann Bishop¹

• Ann Bishop married John Jordan.¹
• Ann Bishop married Thomas Clark in May 1652.²
• Ann Bishop died on 3 January 1684 at Saybrook, Connecticut.^3,4

Anna Bishop

• Father*: Reuben Bishop
• Mother*: Sarah

• Anna Bishop was christened on 19 November 1769 at Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.¹
• She married Elam Crane, son of John Crane and Abigail Camp, at Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, between 1790 and 1792.²
• Anna Bishop died in January 1798 at Ontario Co., New York; "leaving two sons and a daughter."²

Daniel Bishop¹

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Daniel Bishop married Mary Perkins, daughter of Joseph Perkins Jr. and Mary Bushnell.¹

Hannah Bishop¹

• Father*: Capt. Samuel Bishop² b. Feb 1678/79, d. 18 Nov 1760
• Mother*: Sarah Forbes² b. 24 Jun 1684, d. 11 Mar 1759

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Hannah Bishop was born on 2 August 1722 at Norwich, Connecticut.³
• She married Matthew Perkins, son of Joseph Perkins and Martha Morgan, at Norwich, Connecticut, on 19 April 1739 by Daniel Kirtland, pastor in the Third Society.⁴
• Hannah Bishop died on 28 October 1809 at Lisbon, Connecticut; aged 87.²

Jonas Bishop¹

• Jonas Bishop married Phebe Crane, daughter of Henry Crane and Mercy Francis, at Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, on 19 January 1763 or 20 January 1763.^2,3

Marion Bishop¹

• Marion Bishop was born in 1892.¹
• She married H. Stanley Johnson, son of Hiram O. Johnson and Abigail C. Crane.¹
• Marion Bishop died in 1991.¹
• She was buried at Academy Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario Co., New York.¹

Mary Bishop¹

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Mary Bishop married Nathan Parks, son of Robert Parks and Mary Killam, at Ohio on 6 November 1835.²

Nathaniel Bishop¹

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• Nathaniel Bishop married Lydia Perkins, daughter of John Perkins and Lydia Tracy.¹

Samuel Bishop¹

• Father*: Thomas Bishop² b. c 1618, d. 7 Feb 1670/71
• Mother*: Margaret³

• Samuel Bishop was born circa 1645 at Ipswich, Massachusetts.²
• He married Hester Cogswell, daughter of William Cogswell and Susanna Hawkes, at Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 24 August 1675.^4,5
• Died shortly before on 2 March 1687 at Ipswich, Massachusetts.²

• Samuel Bishop graduated from at Harvard College in 1665.²

John Bissell¹

• Father*: John Bissell² b. c 1591, d. 3 Oct 1677

• John Bissell was probably born at England.³
• He married Israel Mason, daughter of John Mason and a wife (name unknown), on 17 June 1658.⁴
• John Bissell died in 1688 at New York.³

• Inventory of estate taken on 7 March 1688/89.⁵

Lucy Ame Bissell¹

• Charts: Thomas Beeman, Descendants Chart

• Lucy Ame Bissell was born circa 1833.¹
• She married Ansel Beeman, son of Eli Beeman and Clarissa Beebe, at Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, on 20 October 1850.¹

Mary Bissell¹

• Father*: John Bissell² d. 1688
• Mother*: Israel Mason² b. s 1638, d. 29 Mar 1665

• Mary Bissell was born on 17 June 1658 at Windsor, Connecticut.²
• She married Daniel Owen, son of John Owen and Rebecca Wade, on 24 January 1681.¹
• Mary Bissell married second Joseph Birge.³
• Mary Bissell died on 11 April 1690.³

Joseph Bixby¹

• Father*: George Bixby¹
• Mother*: Anna Cole¹

• Joseph Bixby married Sarah Riddlesdale, daughter of Edward Riddlesdale and Mary.¹
• Joseph Bixby died on 19 April 1700 at Boxford, Massachusetts.¹

Rebecca Blair¹

• Rebecca Blair was born circa 1753.
• She married first at Palmer, Massachusetts, on 14 May 1789 Francis Breckenridge.²
• Rebecca Blair married second at Palmer, Massachusetts, on 15 March 1792 Col. Ebenezer Webber.³
• Rebecca Blair died on 21 October 1828 at Palmer, Massachusetts; age 75.⁴
• She was buried at Old Center Cemetery, Palmer, Hampden Co., Massachusetts.⁵

• Also known as Rebeka Blare.²
• Also known as Rebecca Brackenridge.³

Abigail Blake¹

• Abigail Blake married Thomas Bevans, son of Arthur Bevans and Mary.¹

John Blake¹

• Father*: James Blake¹
• Mother*: Elizabeth Clapp¹

• John Blake was born on 16 March 1656/57 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.¹
• He married Hannah Capen, daughter of John Capen and Mary Bass, before 26 April 1687.¹
• John Blake died on 2 March 1717/18 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.¹

Newcomb Blake¹

• Newcomb Blake married Abigail Mather, daughter of Rev. Increase Mather and Maria Cotton, on 27 April 1715.^1,2

• Also known as Newcourt Blake.²

Esther Blakeley¹

• Esther Blakeley married first John Bond.²
• Esther Blakeley married second at Haverhill, Massachusetts, on 5 May 1675 John Williams, son of John Williams and Jane.²

• Also known as Hester Blakely.²

Mark J. Blakely¹

• Charts: Thomas Beeman, Descendants Chart

• Mark J. Blakely married Marietta Beeman, daughter of Abel Beeman Jr. and Lucinda Palmer, at Canandaigua, Ontario Co., New York, in April 1830.²

Mehitable Blanchard

• Mehitable Blanchard was born on 8 April 1797 at Preston, New London Co., Connecticut.
• She married Isaac Warren Choate, son of Joshua Choate and Betsey W. Warn, on 20 February 1820.¹
• Mehitable Blanchard died on 5 November 1873 at Williamsville, Erie Co., New York.

Aaron Blatchley¹

• Aaron Blatchley married Sarah Potter, daughter of William Potter and Frances, in 1686.¹

Rev. Richard Blinman^1,2,3,4,5

• Rev. Richard Blinman was born in 1608 at Chepstowe, Monmouthshire, England.
• He married Mary Parke, daughter of Robert Parke and Martha Chaplin, circa 1641.
• Rev. Richard Blinman died in 1687 at Bristol, England.

• Surname is also spelled Blynman.⁶
• Richard Blinman, A.B., was the son of William and Jane (Morgan) Blinman, he returned to Bristol, England where he died between April 13, and July 26, 1687. Foster's Alumni Oxonienses informs us that Richard Blinman, Bon of William of Chepstowe co., Monmouth, pleb., matriculated at New Inn Hall, Oxford, 24 April, 1635, aged 20; and took his degree of B. A. 19 Jan., 1635-6. came to New England, 1640; settled in Marshfield, 1641-1642, as the first minister; settled Gloucester, 1642-1648, as the first minister; settledNew London, Connecticut, 1650-1657; settled New Haven, Connecticut, 1657-1658; settled Newfoundland, 1659; returned to Bristol, England, where he died between April 13, and July 26, 1687.Chepstow was a town on the river Wye, near its confluence with the Severn, and from this, his native place, the Rev. Mr. Blinman is thought to have come direct to New England through the influence of Mr. Edward Winslow, then living at Green's Harbour in the Plymouth Colony. To Winslow and others the Court of Freemen gave orders, March 3, 1639-40, to set off certain farm land and a house lot for a minister; " either for Nathaniel Smyth or some other as the said inhabitants of Green's Harbour shall place in." Mr. Smyth, after marrying, June 21, 1640, Anne, daughter of Thomas Bourne, removed to Norwich, Conn., his wife's sister having previously married Edward Winslow's youngest brother, Josias. The former, writing to Gov. Winthrop from his home, " Careswell," Oct. 10, 1640, says " Mr. Blinman salutes you," and on Jan. 28th following mentions '° the many businesses I have had (and the more in regard of Mr. Blinman's friends that are come to live with us and the straightness of place to receive them) and our preparations to enter into covenant, &c."Green's Harbour was first called Rexhorne by the Plymouth government, though its corporate name in 1640 was Marshfield. John Winthrop, in his History of New England, says "One Mr. Blininan, a minister in Wales, a godly and able man, came over with some friends of his, and being invited to Green's Harbour, near Plymouth, they went thither, but ere the yere was expired there fell out some difference among them, which by no means could be reconciled, so they agreed to part, and he came with his company and sat down at Cape Ann, which at this Court (3: 18: 1642) was established to be a plantation, and called Gloucester."Blinman had been propounded at Plymouth March 2,1640-1, but, as " Air. Richard Blinman," he was admitted to the freedom of the Mass. Colony on the 7th of the following October. He and his people, though speaking English, were known as " the Welch party," and they soon obtained a grant of land at Cape Ann.About the time of his obtaining the freedom of the Colony our young minister must have taken a wife, `' Mary," supposed to have been a sister of Dorothy, wife of Thomas Parke of Stoughton, afterwards of Pequot (New London) ; others, Savage says, " with slight grounds," think she was an own sister of Parke. Their children wereI. Jeremiah, born 20 July, 1642; said to have remained in New Loudon after his father's departure, but who eventually returned to England ; was married perhaps twice, and had children.II. EZEKIEL, born, 11 Nov., 1643; prob. died young.III. AZRIKAM, born, 2 Jan., 1646; thought to be living 1687.IV. Nathaniel married. Martha had daughter. Anne.V. MARGARET, married. Rich. Bowes; had one child living 1687.VI. Hannah married. John Wadlaud, and had a child living 1687.VII. Margaret married Henry A'Court.In 1643, Dec. 1, John Endecott writes from Salem to Gov. John Winthrop stating that he had recently "received a letter from Mr. Blinman together with a complaint of the town against Griffen's companies for several: misdemeanors," such as Sabbath-breaking, swearing and drunkenness, the men being engaged at shipbuilding. As early as 1638, according to the Court records of Salem, " Mr. Endicott was willed to send three men to view Cape Ann, whether it may be cut through, and certify how they find it." Allusion is here made to the cutting of a passage between what was subsequently Gloucester harbor and the Anisquam river, and leave was given the following May for a Fishing Plantation to be commenced at the Cape. Gloucester records of 1643 state that " Mr. Blinman, Pastor, is to cut the heath through and to maintain it, and hath given him three acres of upland, and be is to have the benefit of£ it, himself and his, forever, giving the inhabitants of the town free passage." Sixty-two years later a great spring-storm and tide cut a natural channel, thus saving the fishing boats the trouble of doubling the Cape.In the fall of 1650 Blinman, with some families of his congregation, again removed ; this time to New London in the Connecticut Colony, where grants of land were set off. to them, Oct. 19, on the west side of the town, in anew street familiarly known; as "Cape Ann Lane," or Ann Street. Here he received a salary of ,£.60 per annum, and a house was built for him west of the first burial ground, on what is now Granite Street.Emanuel Downing writing from Salem or Boston, to John Winthrop, Jr., at Pequoit, between 1650_ and '54, usually sends his love and service to °° honest Mr. Blynman and his good wife."Oct. 28, 1652, Gov. John Haynes, Hartford, writes to the same party, saying, °° I hear that Mr. Blinman is somewhat unsettled in his spirret by reason of some affronts by ill disposed persons they: I am sorry to hear it, but hope He will not offer to pluck himself from you or us (by engaging himself elsewhere) without consulting Magistrates and Elders hear ; for the Court have done that for help to the place for yours, his, & the Churches sake, that I am confident would not otherwise have been granted."Subsequently contentions about membership, discipline and baptism arose in the Church at Hartford, increasing in violence and extending to neighboring churches. Several unsuccessful attempts were made by the General Court of Connecticut and by ecclesiastic councils to heal the dissension, and on Feb. 26, 1656-7, the Court desired John Russell of Wethersfield, Mr. Worham, Sam Stone and Richard Blinman "to meet the elders, who should be delegated from the other colonies, at Boston, the next June ; and to assist in debating the questions proposed by the said general court, or any of the other counts, and report the determination of the Council."John Winthrop Jr. was elected Governor of Connecticut in May, 1657 ; during the following winter he received a long letter from Jonathan Brewster of Pequoit, in which he says : " I had comed to your Worship, but the season will not permit. I therefore desyre & intreate you seriously to consyder what I write of, concerning Mr: Blinman, who stands in a distance from manie in our towne, as well as from myself, upon small grounds ; but his perverse will, who can endure no opposition or contradiction, but in a way episcopal & tiranicall, if he bad power to his will, both in Church & Towne, that I profess he is no way qualified for a pastor in way of government." It seems that in some matter under discussion Brewster had opposed the minister's judgment, and the town had declared that, except the latter "would practice that conclusion they would not pay his maintenance." Whereupon Blinman was aroused, and, continues the letter, "he broke then into words, that he would leave the place, with expressions of discontent, with fury" A town vote taken to decide whether they would havehim stay, passed in the affirmative. "After, in his public teachings," saps Brewster, " he throwed Balls of Fire against particular persons, & especially against my self, though not named ; that gave great offence," and, on oneoccasion, drew forth a reply from Mr. Brewster. Subsequently it was proposed to send four or five of the congregation " to see if they could remove the grievances that lyes in Mr. Blyndman brest, if he would make them Known, and the knowing to admit debate"; they were at the same time to express a willingness on the part of the town for him to stay, but the minister " thanked the Towne, & whereas he had a call to another place,the next day was thither going, he promised he would not engage himself before he returned, &c." Brewster desired the Governor's `° help for this poor Towne, to help vs compose differences" ; but any attempt. at reconciliation was unsuccessful, and the irate parson soon shook the dust of New London from his feet and proceeded to New Haven.Jan. 30, 1657-8, John Davenport, of the latter place, writes Gov. Winthrop at Hartford as follows: "Though this being the last day of the week, & by Mr. Blyaman's staying the Lords day at Gillford, I am disappointed of his expected help ; so that the whole worke, of preaching both times and administering the Lord('s) supper, lyeth upon me, whereby I am constrained to be as brief, in these lines, as I may." After this Blinman appears to have had no regular calling, and though the journal of Thomas Minor of New London and Stonington, under date of£ July 27, 1659, says Mr. Blinman `° taught " in the former place, it is evident that the reverend gentleman was already preparing to return to England. to which end he raised some funds in May by selling a portion of his library to YaleCollege. Savage states that a letter written by him, from Newfoundland to Mr. Davenport, on Aug. 22 following, mentions his arrival and his having declined offers to settle there.In January, 1670-1, he was living at Bristol "in the Castle," and 13 of 2d mo., 1677, Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, Conn., in a letter to Rev. Increase Mather of Boston, encloses another to be forwarded to Mr. Blinman, " who," he says, " I suppose you may likewise know, & have acquaintance w" all." RLG. xxv. 375.Calamy's Nonconformists' Manual (2d Edit., London, 1777) observes " We may here also mention some that lived in Bristol, tho' they had been ejected in other places ; as Mr. Richard Blinman who had been minister of Chepstow, but whether ejected or not is uncertain." Mather, in his History of New England, has this account of him "After a faithful discharge of his ministry at Gloucester and at New London, he returned into England, and living to a good old age, he who, wherever he came, did set himself to do good, concluded his life at the city of Bristol where one of the last things he did was to defend in print the cause of Infant Baptism," in an essay tending to issue the controversy. A certain " H. D.", i.e. Henry Danvers, who is styled " Anabaptist and politician " (Dict. of National Biography, xvi. 39), published in 1673 "A Treatise of Baptism" To this, it seems, Blinman issued an "Answer," which must have been of some extent, for in a " Rejoynder " he refers (p. 20) to what he had said at p. 190 of the " Answer," and he would appear to have been acquainted with Hebrew, as well as with Greek and Latin. Of the "Answer," there is no copy in. the British Museum, and in the Catalogue of the Bodleian, a library which is rich in works of this class, no book by Bliaman is mentioned. The same may be said of the Catalogue of the Library ofTrinity College, Dublin. The " Answer" is therefore undoubtedly veryrare. Blinman followed suit with a small tract entitled" A Rejoynder to Mr. Henry Danvers Brief friendly Reply To my Answer about Infant Baptism. By Richard Blinman, Minister of the Gospel. London. Printed for Thomas Wall, Bookseller in Bristol, 1675."Danvers in the meantime had sent forth ;" Innocency and Truth Vindicated. . With a brief Answer to Mr. Blin3nan's Essay." The "Brief and Friendly Reply" occupies pp. 177-172.Blinman's rather quaint will, made and proved in 1687, is found on record in the Consistory Court of Bristol, as followsI Richard Blinman Minister of the Gospel of Christ having lived to the age of 72 years and somewhat more and being now under infirmities of Body do think it my duty to set my House in order before I dye; and to express my full mind and meaning in this my last Will and Testament. And 1.-I doe now again (as through Grace I have done 50 years since) resign my self into the Hands of God the father through Jesus Christ my only Mediator in whose Righteousness alone by faith I look for Pardon of Sins and Justification and Peace with God by the help of the holy spirit. Next bequeath my Body to be decently buried near to my dear Wife ; and as for my Worldly goods wherewith God hath endowed me, though it hath not been so Large a Portion as many others have had, yet blessed be the name of my gracious God it hath been sufficient all along for me and my numerous Family, and what little I have to dispose shall be as followeth.Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my son in law Richard Bowes and my Daughter Margaret his Wife and to their Child now living (I having not Mony to bestow upon [sic.] I give and bequeath) 10 pound weight of Dr. Starky's Fill and half a Pound of Oyle of Amber and a Quart Bottle full of the Tincture of Starky's Pill Diaphoretic a Vial Bottle full of the Tincture of Amber and another Bottle of Laudanum liquid tartarizatum, 12 or 15 drops of which in an equal Quantity of Malago Sack & Poppy water, is good against the Cough, also several Divinity books which I shall express particularly in a Catalogue annexed to this my Will, also her dear Mother's best Truck with other things in it.Item. I give and Bequeath to my Son in law John [sic.] Wadland and to my Daughter Hannah his Wife and to their Children now living, my best Bed with 2 Bolsters 2 Blankets and the Rug belonging to them and also 2 Pound of Starky's Pill and also the several divinity books mentioned in the Catalogue annexed to, this my Will; also I give and bequeath to my said Daughter Hannah a Vial Bottle of the Tincture of Amber and also 3 of my red Chairs and 2 of the matted Chairs, also a Gown of her Mother's and anew Morning Gown.Item. I give and bequeath to my Son in Law Henry Acourt (A'Court) and my Daughter Margaret his Wife the several Divinity and History books expressed in the aforesaid Catalogue annexed to this my will.Item. I give and bequeath to my Son Nathaniel all my Physical Latin books as also several other Divinity books which I shall mention in the aforesaid Catalogue annexed to this my will also I give and bequeath to my said son Nathaniel 2 pound of Starky's Pill and also that he shall have liberty to choose 4 of my English Physic books.Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter in Law Martha Blinman a small piece of Gold and Mr. Rogers's Sermons upon Judges and also Thomas Phillips Lamentations or a Treatise of Hell.Item. I give and bequeath to Anne Blinman her Daughter and my Grandchild now with me a new Trunk marked with the letters of her Name, wherein I have caused divers things to be put tip and kept for her which I shall not here mend on, together with the Money which is in her own little Trunk; which Trunk and the things in it I shall leave in the Custody of my Reverend friend Mr Thomas Palmer Minister of the Gospel, and Mr Jeremiah Holwey Senr in Corn street, to be kept for the Child's use and to be disposed of to her by them both as they shall see meet; they having each of them a Key to the said Trunk.Item. I give and bequeath unto my Eldest Son Jeremiah Blinman (whom I make my sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament) all the rest of my roods and Chattels and Physical things without exception, provided yt when lie Bath made sale of wt is to be sold, if his Brother, my Son AZRIKAM Blinman, be alive and shall appear, that he shall pay him 10 Pounds and yt the rest of the goods or just sum of them shall be given unto the children that he hath or shall have by Mrs Elizabeth Blinman his now Wife my Daughter in Law, to which Elizabeth I also bequeath one Guiny as a token of my love. This my last Will and Testament I have dictated from the beginning to the End, being through the mercy of God of clear sense and perfect use of Reason. April Wednesday 13th 1687.I do appoint my dear and trusty friends Mr Jeremiah Holwey Senz, Dr Chancy, Mr Alexander Doleman, MI John Richardson, and Mr Edmond Reddish; or any two of them to be my Overseers of this my last Will and Testament. It is my Will and I shall require it of my Son Jeremiah my sole Executor yt he take a care of the civil and Religious Education of my Grandchild, Anne Blinman, until she be fit to be put abroad; he shall be supplied with divers things towards her maintenance both by her Mother and by the Keepers of the Keys of her Trunk before specified and this is the Conclusion of this my last will and Testament.Witnesses: SAM LLOYD RICHARD (seat)JOHN DREW BLINMAN Christopher ROBERTSproved AT Bristol, July 26, 1687
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  Nathaniel Morton, who was contemporary to the events, wrote that the church at Marshfield was the second to issue from the Plymouth Church, and that with the help of Edward Winslow, Marshfield procured several Welsh gentlemen of good note to settle there, with Mr. Richard Blinman as minister. However, "some desentions fell amongst them which Caused a prteing." Those who had settled Marshfield from Plymouth "with that Godly Gentleman mr Willam Thomas" continued to act as a church until Mr. Edward Bulkeley was chosen minister. Blinman had come from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, on the Welsh marches. He arrived at Marshfield sometime after 19 January 1635/36, when he received his degree at Oxford, but certainly before 10 October 1640 (probably closer to the latter date, for he first served as minister in his home parish of Chepstow), with a group known as "the Welsh party." There were disputes between the Blinman group and the settlers from Plymouth who had preceded him there, and Blinman and his followers moved to Cape Ann. "Mr. Edward Buckley" is on the Marshfield list of August 1643 of men able to bear arms, [p.60] and thus he arrived there prior to this date. The total number of names from Marshfield on this list was fifty-one, giving us a good idea of the number of able-bodied males between ages sixteen and sixty living in Marshfield at this time. Footnote Ply. Ch. Recs. 1:71; David L. Greene, FASG, "Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman of Marshfield, Gloucester, and New London: An Unsolved Problem," The Genealogist (hereafter TG) 4:173; PCR 8:196.
  (Statton)
  
  Blinman, Richard, Gloucester 1641, came from Chepstow, in Co. Monmouth, that is separat. from Gloucestersh. only by the riv. Wye. There he had preach. and with much effect, if it be true, as is said, that many wh. accomp. or follow, him from home and had with him first set [p.200] down at Marshfield, soon after reach. Plymouth in 1640, pursued his pleasure in cross. to the opposite side of the bay coming under ano. jurisdict. and chang. the name of their town from Cape Ann to Gloucester, the city,where sev. of them had been b. He had gr. of ld. in 1641, and was made freem. 7 Oct. of the same yr. By w. Mary he had Jeremiah, b. 20 July 1642; Ezekiel, 11 Nov. 1643; and Azrikam, 2 Jan. 1646; rem. Oct. 1650, to New London, and drew thither many of his Gloncester friends. Fewer, perhaps, follow. him to New Haven, whence after short resid. and sell. some of his library to the Col. in May 1659, he went home, carry. all his ch. exc. Jeremiah, wh. was at New London so late as 1663. His w. is thot. to have bee sis. of deac. William Parke of Roxbury, but with slight grounds. He d. at Bristol, _in a good old age,_ says Calamy, II. 610. (Savage).

Ebenezer Bliss

• Ebenezer Bliss married Joanna Lamb, daughter of Samuel Lamb and Rebecca Bird, at Springfield, Massachusetts, on 23 July 1723 (int. pub. 5 Jul 1723).¹

Grace Bliss¹

• Father*: Silvanus Bliss b. 26 Jan 1728, d. 26 Oct 1810
• Mother*: Sarah Brown b. 5 Apr 1731, d. 28 Jan 1812

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart, Thomas Beeman, Descendants Chart

• Grace Bliss was born on 20 July 1755.²
• She married Timothy Beeman, son of Daniel Beeman and Lydia Cogswell, at Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, on 26 February 1778 Married by Daniel Lee, J.P.^3,4

John Bliss¹

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart

• John Bliss married Hannah Tickner, daughter of John Tickner and Mary Bailey.¹

Lawrence Bliss¹

• Father*: Thomas Bliss¹ b. c 1590
• Mother*: Margaret Hulins¹ b. c 1595, d. 28 Aug 1684

• Lawrence Bliss was born circa 1628 at England.¹
• He married Lydia Wright, daughter of Samuel Wright and Margaret, at Springfield, Massachusetts, on 25 October 1654.²
• Lawrence Bliss died in 1676 at Springfield, Massachusetts.¹

• Also known as Laurens Bliss.³

Mary Bliss

• Father*: Silvanus Bliss b. 26 Jan 1728, d. 26 Oct 1810
• Mother*: Sarah Brown b. 5 Apr 1731, d. 28 Jan 1812

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart, Thomas Beeman, Descendants Chart

• Mary Bliss was born on 6 November 1757.¹
• She married Daniel Beeman Jr., son of Daniel Beeman and Lydia Cogswell, at Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, on 23 February 1779 Married by Rev. Peter Starr.^2,3
• Mary Bliss died on 12 March 1851 at Warren, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.⁴

• She appeared on the census on 30 September 1850 at Warren, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, as Mary Beeman, age 92, born in Connecticut. In the household is Lucinda Beeman, age 62. Mary's son Daniel, and his family is enumerated on the same page.⁵

Sarah Bliss¹

• Father*: Silvanus Bliss b. 26 Jan 1728, d. 26 Oct 1810
• Mother*: Sarah Brown b. 5 Apr 1731, d. 28 Jan 1812

• Charts: Descendants of Alice Freeman Chart, Thomas Beeman, Descendants Chart

• Sarah Bliss was born on 4 February 1754.²
• She married Thomas Beeman, son of Daniel Beeman and Lydia Cogswell.
• Sarah Bliss died on 12 March 1838 at Warren, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.

Sarah Bliss¹

• Father*: Thomas Bliss b. c 1618, d. 15 Apr 1688
• Mother*: Elizabeth Birchard

• Sarah Bliss was born on 26 August 1647 at Saybrook, Connecticut.²
• She married Thomas Sluman in December 1668 they had six children.²
• Sarah Bliss married second at Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut, on 8 April 1686 Dr. Soloman Tracy, son of Lieut. Thomas Tracy and a wife (name unknown).³
• Sarah Bliss died on 29 August 1730 at Norwich, Connecticut.⁴

Jane Bliven¹

• Jane Bliven was born circa 1793.¹
• She married Benjamin Mosher, son of Silas Mosher and Judith Lake, before 1817.¹

• Born in either New York or Connecticut. She was living in 1855 with her daughter Amy, having been in Saratoga Co. since 1805. She was with her son Cyrus in Greenfield in 1850 and 1860.¹

William Blodgett¹

• Father*: Dr. William Blodgett¹

• William Blodgett married Mary Starkweather, daughter of Timothy Starkweather and Mehitable Fenner, at Preston, New London Co., Connecticut, on 23 January 1738.^1,2

• Also known as William Blodgil.²

Ambrose Blount

• Ambrose Blount was born on 17 July 1717 at Andover, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
• He married Joanna Clark, daughter of Isaac Clark and Mariam Tracy, on 13 November 1739.
• Ambrose Blount died in 1800 at New London, New London Co., Connecticut.