When Moses Blakeslee II was born on 5 September 1702, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Blakeslee, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Benton, was 16. He died on 28 November 1726, in his hometown, at the age of 24, and was buried in North East Village, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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n his will of 1714, the Reverend James Pierpont (1659–1714) of New Haven gave 8 acres (32,000 m2) to his neighbors in the Northeast Parish, as North Haven was called As this small group of families became established, their settlement came to be known as the Northeast Village.
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire called Blakesley, from an Old English personal name, Blæcwulf, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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