Person:Edward Blakeslee (1)

REV. EDWARD BLAKESLEE, A. M.

"The Rev. Edward Blakeslee, son of Abraham Blakeslee, was born at North-Haven, in the State of Connecticut, June 27th, 1766. He was sent to Yale College for his education, but did not graduate on account of the loss of his parents, which happened in his senior year. Some time after this, he began to turn his attention to the study of divinity, and piously and fervently endeavored to qualify himself for the sacred ministry of Christ's Church. In 1787, he was ordained by the Right Rev. Bishop Seabury. The 30th of March, 1788, he was married by the Rev. Richard Mansfield of Derby, to his third daughter, Miss Sarah Mansfield. By this lady, he had one child, who is now living and married to Dr. Crafts, a physician of eminence, at Derby. In 1790, his felicity was interrupted by the loss of this amiable wife, whose pious conversation, and good example, were an honor to her sex. The 11th of November, 1792, he was again married in the Episcopal Church at Derby, by the Rev. Richard Mansfield, to Miss Hannah Howd, only child of the late Mr. John Howd of that place. In June following, he received Priest's orders at New-London, from the hands of the same Bishop who had before admitted him into the holy order of Deacons. His parochial services were at that time confined to Derby, Humphreyville, and Woodbridge. The 15th of July, 1797, he departed this life full of the hopes of immortality and glory.─By this premature death, his family were deprived of a kind and affectionate husband, father, and brother; the Episcopal church, of a zealous and faithful minister; and the public of a disinterested friend. 'The memory of the just is blessed.'─Prov. 10, 7. ─Mr. Blakeslee left a widow with four small children. To lament their bereaved situation. The 20th of February, 1812, his son died suddenly in the city of New-York, and was interred in a vault in St. Paul's church cemetery. Mrs. Blakeslee was still living at Derby, 1819."^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Blakeslee, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   1:221.

   "Edward (Blakeslee), b 21 June 1766 (New Haven Vital Records), bp 1766 (church record, St. John's Church [Prot. Ep.], North Haven), d 15 July 1797 æ. 31 (gravestone, Episcopal graveyard, Derby); Rev. (Prot. Ep.);

2. ↑ Rev Edward Blakeslee, in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 The Sunday Visitant, or Weekly Repository of Christian Knowledge.
   Volume II. No. 54. p. 133, 21 Aug 1819.

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