When Martha Blaisdell was born on 16 November 1724, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Blaisdell, was 37 and her mother, Ebenezar Stevens, was 34. She married Nathan Webster on 10 February 1742, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 10 daughters. She died on 26 February 1778, in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 53.
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English (Cumbria and Lancashire): habitational name from a place inthe Lake District named Blaisdell, from the Old Norse bynameBlesi (from blesi ‘blaze, white spot’), or from thesame word used in the sense of a white spot on a hillside, + Old Norsedalr ‘valley’.
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