Person:Isaac Blanchard (3)

Blanchards of Rhode Island By Adelaide Blanchard Crandall Printed in U.S.A. Edwards Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1942 Page 25 -26 25 Isaac Blanchard (Wm., Jr.6), b. 1746; d. 1816 in Foster, R. I. When this study of Rhode Island Blanchards was begun this man, Isaac, was the earliest ancestor anybody living knew about. My sister Jessie (518) thought she once heard Earl Blanchard (438) say that Williams had lived in Isaac's house before him (which turned out to be true) but when I asked his sisters they said nobody knew, and Earl disclaimed any such knowledge. For proof Isaac lived on his father's land see ref. 24.

  Isaac was doubtless born in the house on the land William Blanchard, Jr. bought of Thomas Foster, the  foundation of which is under the present house on that lot, now owned by Ida Dawley, who is a Greene of Quidpissett. She says that Sam and Oliver Greene who lived right across the road from Isaac, or really around the corner, were her ancestors, and Quidnissett Greens, (Oliver's son, Oliver, Jr., married Phebe Peck (129). In 1783, it is seen by deeds of land to his sons by Stephen Foster, that Isaac was owner of the property his father bought of Thos. Foster in 1744. He owned other property. Some he bought of his brother Reuben. He and Reuben both owned land lying on the old colony line, perhaps in both cases extending the 160 rods between the old colony line and the present Connecticut line. (In 1675 the old colony line dividing the states was established - John Crandall (Ap. XVIII) was one of the committee. The lots between were called Head Lots. Reuben sold a part of No. 14.)
  Isaac married Rosannah Greene, b.    ;d. 1820. Her will probated 10-23-1820. By generally accepted tradition, she was a first cousin to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. Her name does not appear in The Greenes of Rhode Island. That is not denial of the fact, Adelaide Gibson suggests her family was probably not pleased to have a Quaker marry a Baptist, so did not record it. Neither does her name appear in the Greenes of Quidnissett which is of Greenes descended from John Greene, a cousin of the Chirugeon John Greene, who settled in Warwick.
  Adelaide Gibson told me when she was a little girl she used to hear her elders say "Granny Greene (meaning Rosannah) wasn't Oliver's kind of Greene. She was cousin to Gen. Nathaniel Greene."
  In Soldiers and Sailors Before the Revolution is a record of Isaac Blanchard's serving in Capt. Fry's Company in Havana in 1762. He has a later military record in Civil and Military Lists of Rhode Island by Joseph Jencks Smith. He was ensign in 1781, lieutenant in 1783, was captain several times later. He and another of my ancestors, John Johnson, (Ap. VII, lin.6), used to step aside for each other as captain of the militia.
  Isaac and Rosannah are buried in the little Blanchard cemetery in Moosup Valley, under rough fieldstone marked only by crude letters I.B. and R.B., preserved with great care, though outside the fence are disregarded older stones probably for Wm., Jr. or maybe Wm. I.

1. ↑ Crandall, Adelaide May Blanchard. Blanchards of Rhode Island. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edward Bros., 1942)
   25-26.