When Rufus Blakeslee was born on 19 April 1749, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Mathew Blakeslee, was 33 and his mother, Rhoda Beach, was 28. He married Esther Bronson on 12 September 1771, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 22 June 1773, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 24.
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English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire called Blakesley, from an Old English personal name, Blæcwulf, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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