Mary Gillett (Selkirk) Blakeslee (1758 - 1832)

Born 13 Apr 1758 in Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Died 22 Aug 1832 at age 74 in Northfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Name

Mary/Polly Selkirk (NY Genealogical & Biographical Record) (Greene)

Polly Stilson (Find A Grave)

Birth

1759 based on information found on headstone (Find A Grave) (January 5, 1761 is the birth day of Polley Blakeslee given in the The Barbour Collection, so this is probably wrong.)

Death

August 22, 1832 Connecticut (Payne)

Burial

Northfield Cemetery, Northfield, Litchfield, Connecticut (Find A Grave)

Sources

• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1908) Vol. 39, Page 204: "Samuel and Polly (Selkirk) Blakeslee"
• Greene, Richard Henry. Greene Family of Plymouth Colony (T.A. Wright, New York, 1909) Page 28: "Samuel and Polly (Selkirk) Blakeslee"
• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records

Name: Polly Blakeslee

Birth: abt 1759

Death: 22 Aug 1832

Age at Death: 73

Cemetery: Northfield Cemetery, Litchfield, Connecticut

• Find A Grave: Memorial #15061726

• Polly (Stilson) Blakeslee
• Burial: Northfield Cemetery, Northfield, Litchfield, Connecticut

• Payne, Charles Thomas. Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions (D.C. Kilbourn, Litchfield, Conn., 1905) Page 147

• "In memory of | Polly | wife of | Samuel Blakeslee | who died | Aug 22, 1832 | aged 73 years"
• "In | Memory | of | Samuel Blakeslee | who died | Feb 16, 1831 | aged 74 years"

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Waterbury, Page 280. Sellkrig, Polly Gillet, d.[Nath[anie]ll & Mary], b. Apr. 13, 1756.
• Journal of Jeremiah Selkrigg Revolutionary War soldier Transcribed by William Brackett, Detroit Society of Genealogical Research, Newsletter Volume IX Nov - Dec 1945, Number 2, pages 37-44.