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William Blodgett

Birth
Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
15 Nov 1852 (aged 114)
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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William Blodget, born 25 January 1738/39


William's Obituary Notice reads in part: "At Groton, Mass. Nov. 15, 1852, William Blodgett, formerly of Tyngsboro, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 90 years and 6 months. His descendants number 6 children, 23 grandchildren and one of the fourth generation. He entered the Army at the age of 16, and was one of the number to guard Burgoyne's troops at Winter Hill. He afterwards shipped on board a Letter of Marque on a trading voyage in 1782. On his return home in the brig 'Iris' of Boston, they captured at the mouth of the James River in Virginia, an English brig mounting 16 guns with about 100 prisoners among whom were 30 Americans in irons. On the second day after the battle they encountered a storm which drove the American brig and the Prize both on shore and dashed them in pieces and all were lost except the crews. He next entered the service of his Savior and remained in that service about 60 years, and he repeated the following lines as he entered the threshold of eternity:

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,

Or to defend his cause,

Maintain the honor of his word,

The glory of his Cross."

 

(source: Ten Generations of Blodgetts in America by The Late Edwin A Blodgett of Springfield, Mass., pages 36-37)

William Blodget, born 25 January 1738/39


William's Obituary Notice reads in part: "At Groton, Mass. Nov. 15, 1852, William Blodgett, formerly of Tyngsboro, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 90 years and 6 months. His descendants number 6 children, 23 grandchildren and one of the fourth generation. He entered the Army at the age of 16, and was one of the number to guard Burgoyne's troops at Winter Hill. He afterwards shipped on board a Letter of Marque on a trading voyage in 1782. On his return home in the brig 'Iris' of Boston, they captured at the mouth of the James River in Virginia, an English brig mounting 16 guns with about 100 prisoners among whom were 30 Americans in irons. On the second day after the battle they encountered a storm which drove the American brig and the Prize both on shore and dashed them in pieces and all were lost except the crews. He next entered the service of his Savior and remained in that service about 60 years, and he repeated the following lines as he entered the threshold of eternity:

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,

Or to defend his cause,

Maintain the honor of his word,

The glory of his Cross."

 

(source: Ten Generations of Blodgetts in America by The Late Edwin A Blodgett of Springfield, Mass., pages 36-37)

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