Person:Thomas Blodgett (1)
Thomas Blodgett
b.18 Nov 1604 Stowmarket, Suffolk, England
d.Bef 10 Dec 1642 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Parents and Siblings
(edit)
m. Abt 1598
  1. Thomas Blodgett1604 - Bef 1642
Spouse and Children
(edit)
m. Abt 1626
  1. John BlodgettEst 1627 - 1632
  2. Nathaniel Blodgett1628/29 - 1630
  3. Daniel Blodgett1631 - 1672
  4. Samuel Blodgett1633 - 1720
  5. Susannah Blodgett1637 - 1697/98
  6. Thomas BlodgettAbt 1639 - 1639
Add another spouse & children
Facts and Events
Name Thomas Blodgett
Gender Male
Birth? 18 Nov 1604 Stowmarket, Suffolk, England
Alt Birth? Abt 1605 England
Marriage Abt 1626 Englandto Susanna Unknown
Other 8 Apr 1635 Migration
with Susanna Unknown
Other? 3 Mar 1635/36 Cambridge, Middlesex County, MassachusettsFreeman
Death? Bef 10 Dec 1642 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
[edit]

Origins

Historical Celebration of the town of Brimfield, Hampden County, Mass, pp. 382-383:
"The Blodgett family came from Lexington. Thomas Blodgett, a glover, came from London 1635, settled at Cambridge. Children, Daniel, Samuel, Susanna."

Appears to be listed on the Increase, 1635 with wife and children. See http://www.winthropsociety.org/ships.php. Also NEHGS Register, volume 14, p. 310. (Spelled Blogget; was a glover.)

viij Aprilis 1635. “Increase”
Tho. Bloggett, glover, 30 [b 1605]
Suzun Bloggett, uxor, 37
Daniell Bloggett, 4
Samuall Bloggett 1.5

History of Cambridge, MA [on ancestry.com], p. 35:
"Besides those who are here named by Mr. Sheperd, another Mr. Cooke and William French came in the same ship (The Defence) with him; and the larger portion of those whose names first appear in 1635 and 1636 may safely be regarded as members of his company, to wit:

1635...
Thomas Blodgett...
Robert Bradish...
Edmund Frost...

1636...
Francis Griswold...
Thomas Hayward..."

[edit]

Life in New England

Blackman and Allied Families, p. 50:
Thomas Blogget, glover aged 30, with wife Susanna, aged 37 (sic) and children, Daniel 4, and Samuel 1-1/2, came to this side in the ship "Increase," Apr. 8 1635. (N.E. Register, 14-310.) He settled in Cambridge, Mass., where he had a grant of land, Mar. 6, 1636-7. He died in Cambridge, Aug. 7, 1639 (Cambridge Vital Records, 2-473), and his will was probated July 8, 1642. (N.E. Register, 2-185.) His widow Susanna married in Woburn, Feb. 15, 1643-4, James Thompson, and died there Feb. 10, 1660-1. (Woburn vital records, 2-190.) Thomas and Susanna Blogget had 3 children. (Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, 1-203; Pope's Pioneers of Mass., p. 55; Paige's Cambridge, 1877, p. 489; Sewall's Woburn, 1868, p. 593.)

[edit]

Legacy

Thomas' will was proved in 1643 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.


The Increase (1635)
The Increase sailed in the spring of 1635.
Sailed: April? 1635 from London, England under Master Robert Leah
Arrived: June? 1635 at New England

Passengers:
~101 full list 		Symon Ayres family - George Bacon family - Philemon Dalton family - Thomas Jostlin family - Matthew Marvin family - Isack More - Jo: Warner - Samuel Morse family - Eliza Ward - Wm Rusco family - Tho. Page family - Edw Spurkes - Kat. Taylor - Samuel Andrews family - Robt Naney - Robt Sankey - James Gibbons - Ellen Lougie - Tho. Bloggett family - Tho Chittingen family - Ben. Thomlins - Edw Tomlins - Barb. Fford - Joan Broomer - Richard Brooke - Thos. Brooke - Symon Crosby family - Richd Rowton family - Percival Greene family - William Paine family - William Buck and son Roger Buck
Resources: Founders of New England (NEHGR) and additional pages

References
  1.   Thomas Blodgett, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

    ORIGIN: Stowmarket, Suffolk
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Increase
    FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
    OCCUPATION: Glover (in England).

    BIRTH: About 1605 (aged 30 in 1635 [Hotten 61]).
    DEATH: Cambridge between 10 August 1641 (date of will) and 10 December 1642 (date of inventory).

Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Blodgett_%281%29"