Stafford Springs, CT Blodgett connection
Through the years a French Bible was handed down in my family. In 1954 it was donated to the Dayton Art Institute by my great great aunt Mary Burrowes, of Dayton, OH. It is inscribed, "La Bibble de la Granmere, Monsieur Benjamin Blodgett" . I inherited documents re: my Blodget relations (mostly obits and a written history of the Blodgett family done at around 1910 by my 4 great aunts of Springfield, OH) and an article in the newspaper ca. 1940's re; the adventure that this bible has undertaken via family legend. A Dr. William Blodget, of Stafford, CT ( I have the bill of sale of the Stafford farm in CT), moved to Brownsville, PA then to Dayton, OH. He was an early physician in Dayton, OH. His wife was a Martha/Mary Hersey of Rutland, VT. They had four children: Eliza Blodget Griffin of Phila. PA, Harriet Blodget Henry of Phila. PA (her portrait is in the Dayton Art Institute, painted by JAMES REID LAMBDIN, student od Thomas Sully, C 1838), William H. Blodgett, a lawyer in Dayton, OH and Mary Hersey Blodget Holt of Dayton, OH. My ancestor is from Mary H. Blodget Holt/George B. Holt line of Dayton, OH. He was a judge in Dayton. We're looking at a time span of early 1800's - 1890's when these people were alive. Anyway, this French Huguenot Bible ended up with the Blodget/t family in Dayton, OH. Looking for help to locate graves in Stafford Springs, CT. w/Blodgett/Fenton conenctions