Joseph
Blake
Born in Standish, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin Blake
and Elizabeth (Bolter) Blake
Husband of
Hannah (Hopkins) Blake
— married
1781 in Standish, Maine
Descendants 
Father of
Phebe (Blake) Boynton and Hannah (Blake) Sturgis
Died
at about age 83
in Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Nov 2018
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Biography
Sergeant Joseph Blake served with Col. Josiah Brewer's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.
Joseph Blake is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A010972.
Joseph Blake was born around 1757, probably in Scarborough, Maine[1].
He married Hannah Hopkins in 1781. They were both living in Standish, Maine, at the time, but relocated before the birth of their first child to Gorham, Maine. They had eight children[2]:
- 1. Adriel, born 5 Apr 1782
- 2. Phebe, born 7 Dec 1783; married Samuel Boynton
- 3. Hannah, born 3 Sep 1785; married Joseph Sturgis
- 4. Eunice, born 8 Sep 1787; married Richard Paine
- 5. Lydia, born 21 Aug 1790; married Thomas Paine
- 6. Lucy, born 9 May 1793; married Nathaniel Phinney
- 7. Charles, born 6 Nov 1800; married Rebecca Moody
- 8. Joseph, born 15 Apr 1803; married Elizabeth Moody
Joseph was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and received a pension for his services[1]. He passed away on 28 January 1840 in Gorham[3] and is buried in West Gorham Cemetery.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sears, Albert J. Early Families of Standish, Maine. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2010. Page 59.
- ↑ McLellan, Hugh Davis. History of Gorham, Maine. Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, 1903. Page 403.
- ↑ "Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXQ8-9JR : 13 March 2018), Joseph Blake, 28 Jan 1840; citing Death, Gorham, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,001,837.
- Massachusetts. 1896-1908. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War : A Compilation from the Archives. Boston: Wright and Potter Print. Co. State Printers Volume 2, Page 133.
- Charles Alcott Flagg An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Dover Maine 1920
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