Jacob Blasdel

1754 - 1831  (77 years)

• Name	Jacob Blasdel
  Born	4 Apr 1754	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Apr 1831	Dearborn County, Indiana, USA   [1]
  Buried	Cambridge Cemetery, Dearborn Co, Indiana
  Person ID	I258	Decker Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Enoch Blaisdell,   b. 1714,   d. 1790  (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Satterlee,   b. 1713,   d. 1806  (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F734	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Morse,   b. 17 Feb 1755,   d. 17 Oct 1844, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Children	1. Enoch Blasdel,   b. 25 Jan 1779, Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 14 Jan 1847, Guilford, Dearborn, Indiana, USA  (Age 67 years)  [natural]   2. Jacob Blasdel,   b. 29 Jan 1782, Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 4 Aug 1841, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA  (Age 59 years)  [natural]   3. Polly Blasdel,   b. 8 Apr 1784,   d. 1800, Columbia, Hamilton, Ohio, USA  (Age 15 years)  [natural]   4. Nabby Blasdel,   b. 25 Nov 1784, Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 1864, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA  (Age 79 years)  [natural]   5. Elijah Blasdel,   b. 14 Oct 1796, Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 12 Jun 1863, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA  (Age 66 years)  [natural]   6. Jonathan Blasdel,   b. 1791,   d. 1859  (Age 68 years)  [natural]   7. Sallie B. Blasdel,   b. 24 Mar 1794, Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 20 Sep 1873, Dearborn County, Indiana, USA  (Age 79 years)  [natural]   8. Betsy Blasdel,   b. 28 Jul 1799, USA ,   d. 26 Mar 1875, Missouri, USA  (Age 75 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F94	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob resided in Amesbury, MA; Kingston, Brentwood, Tamworth, Eaton, Burton, NH; Columbia, OH; and Cambridge, IN. He was a Lieut. in the Revolutionary War where he served three enlistments and was paid a Warrant for land by the US Government. He sold 1,000 acres of land in New Hampshire, went by horse, oxen and by foot to the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh, PA, then by flat boat down the Ohio River to Marietta, Columbia and Cincinnati, OH. He stayed five years near the Great Miami River. In 1804 he bought Section 23 and 1/4 of Section 29 in Township 6 of Range 1 West, Indiana, three miles west of the Ohio line. He named the place Cambridge, now known as Pella or Pella Crossing. In 1805 at age 51 he began to clear his land. Usually a family could clear an acre a year. One of his first acts was to establish an Academy, a 20' x 24' timber house, believed to be the first college in the Indiana Territory. Lt. Jacob Blasdel was an experienced blacksmith, iron worker and millwright. He built a grist mill and saw mill, operated by power from Tanners Creek. He died in 1831 and left eight children and 45 grandchildren who survived him; he is buried in Cambridge Cemetery, Dearborn County, IN. His four sons, Enoch, Jacob, Jonathan and Elijah, and two of his daughters, Nabby and Sally, are buried in the same cemetery (Cambridge) where he is buried. New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls: Vol. I, pp 112, 158-195: Jacob Blasdel, 21, blacksmith of Kingston, was Private in Captain Philip Tilton's Company, Col. Enoch Poor's Regiment. Date of entry: 25 May 1775. Term of Service: 2 months, 12 days. Vol. II, pp 250, 251-256: Jacob Blasdel was Lieutenant in Captain Enoch Page's Company, Lt. Col. Joseph Senter's Regiment. March to Rhode Island. Term of Service: 25 Aug 1777 to 06 Jul 1778. Vol I, p 340: Jacob Blasdel was in Capt. David Quinby's Company, Col. Josiah Bartlett's Regiment. Raised for Canada. July, 1776." Thanks to David Nowlin for Bio

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Gravestone (year only).