Person:Adam Blakeman (3)

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Rev. Adam Blakeman (10 June 1596 – 7 September 1665) was an English Church of England clergyman who was an early migrant to New England and a founder of Stratford, Connecticut.

Blakeman was born in Gnosall, Staffordshire, England on 10 June 1596. His birthplace is frequently misspelled in websites due to transcription errors from old records.

Blakeman matriculated (entered college) at Christ Church, Oxford on 28 May 1617. He was a preacher for some years in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, and in Derbyshire, and in 1638 went to Connecticut. In 1639 he led the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, and served as the first minister of the church until his death on 7 September 1665.

Stratford, like a number of other New England towns of the 1630s, was founded as a Utopian community by Puritans fleeing persecution in England. The town's minister was also its political leader, and ruled both his flock and his town as the unquestioned representative of God.

During the 17th century (and until well into the 19th century) consistent spelling of names was not enforced, due to lower literacy levels and the absence of the standardization required by government bureaucracies. By 1800 Blakeman's descendants most often used the Blackman spelling of the name, although in the 18th century some alternated between the two spellings three times in successive generations. Records of Christ Church, Oxford use the Blakeman spelling and the name Blakeman is still common in Coventry, England. (Office for National Statistics, UK Census 2001) From The History and Genealogy of The Families of Old Fairfield From County Stafford, matriculated at Christ's College, Oxford, 28 May 1617 in 19 year; preached in Cos. Leicester and Derby; came over abt. 1638, and was a short time at Guilford. First minister at Stratford, 1640, where he d. 7 Sept. 1665. Will 16 Mar. 1664/5; sons John, James and Samuel have had portions; wife; son Benjamin; son Atwater's son Joshua; dau. Mary Atwater; son John's children; wives of sons James and Samuel; son Deliverance provided the returns; Joseph Blackman; to dau. Blackman if she marry not John Thomas; overseers, Brother Groves, bro. Booth, bro. Hawley. Inv. 22 Sept. 1665. Will of Jane Blackman 20 Sept. 1671; son Deliverance

1. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Connecticut. (1930, Fairfield, Connecticut)
   page 81-82.
2.   Adam Blakeman, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
3. ↑ Carrothers, George, in A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio: embellished with portraits of many well known people of Hancock County, who have been or are prominent in its history and development. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988)
   pp 12-15, 1903.

   The family of Mrs. Carrothers is of ancient origin and many of its members have made creditable records both in civic and military life. Rev. Adam Blackman, the founder of the family in America, was born in England in 1598 and came to this country as far back as 1639. He settled in Stratford, Connecticut, where he organized the first Congregational church, of which he was pastor for twenty-five years, and died there in 1665. John Blackman, one of his descendants, became the father of Ebenezer Blackman, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Carrothers. Her great-grandfather was Enoch Blackman, who served at different times in the Revolutionary army, his last enlistment being August 1, 1780, and his discharge December 9, in the same year. Rev. Philo Blackman, father of Mrs. Carrothers, served as a private in the Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1877. The mother of Mrs. Carrothers was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and died at Columbus Grove, Ohio, when eighty-one years of age.

4. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Roxbury Land and Church Records. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell & Churchill, City Printers, 1881)
   p.203.

   7. 7.[16]65. mr. Adam Blakeman Pastor to ye church at Stratford rested from his labours.