Many of my ancestors came to America in the seventeenth century and settled in northeastern Massachusetts - all ancestors of grandpa U. D. Casey. If I could identify all his great-great-great-greats living in the eighteenth century, it would total 64 families!
In the 1630's Ruth's parents brought her from Kent, England (in the southwest not far from London) to Massachusetts when she was a baby or small child. Her father, Stephen, died on the trip across the ocean. Her mother, Elizabeth Bennett Eggleton, married Joseph Potcham a few years later.
Woburn, Massachusetts marriage records show the marriage of Ruth to Samuel Blodgett in 1655. They spent their lives in Woburn, just north of Boston, and had at least 8 children including a Ruth and a Samuel. Their son Samuel lived all his life in Woburn. They all had to deal with the natives, illnesses for which there were no vaccinations or antibiotics, wild animals, territorial disputes.
Ruth died in 1703 in Woburn and Samuel lived to be 87 years old.
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