AllenParkinson - Person Sheet
AllenParkinson - Person Sheet
NameRalph Blaisdell 
Birth11 MAR 1592/93, Hawkshead, Lancashire, England
Death1649, Salisbury, Essex, MA162
FatherHenry Bleasdale (1563-<1605)
MotherEllen Hall (1562-1619)
Spouses
Birth3 May 1612, Chipping, Lancaster, England
Death6 Aug 1667, Salisbury, Essex, MA755
Marriage3 Sep 1629, Chipping, Lancaster, England756
Notes for Ralph Blaisdell
Practically nothing is known of Ralph Blaisdell previous to his landing at Pemaquid Point, Maine, shipwrecked there according to the family traditions, on Aug 15, 1635. The traditions state that he shipped from Milford Haven, on the south coast of Wales on the ship Angel Gabriel, together with his wife, Elizabeth, and his small son Henry.
There is a small town in Lancashire, northern England, name "Bleasdale" and old records there include the name Ralph Bleasdel in the century previous to our Ralph. The name suggests that there was a later Ralph in this family. Moreover, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, this region was the center of a Puritan movement which led many converted to join the movement to the new world. There are other reasons also, to think that it was under the influence of this movement, that our ancestor determined to transfer to America.
It was not easy for such a person to get permission to leave England from the main ports where careful watch was kept. Possibly for this reason, or possibly because of ease of access, Ralph is supposed to have joined the ship at Milford Haven, rather than at Bristol, England, from which point the ship started - thus accounting for his name not appearing on the ship's roster of passengers.
The subsequent history of Ralph's adventure is commonly known. He was caught in the great storm which visited the Atlantic seaboard on Aug 15, 1635, and was shipwrecked on Pemaquid Point, from which place he made his way to York, ME where he first settled. Not being satisfied with conditions there he soon became one of the original settlers of Salisbury, MA, where he was one of the more prominent citizens. There is a tradition that late in life he move to Lynn and that his death occurred there about the year 1650. He left one son, Henry, who was one of the original settlers of Amesbury, MA - which was long the family center., 757, 758
That strom was called the Great Colonial Hurricane. The hurricane is the first great storm recorded by the Europeans who were steadily populating New England and the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard. Though no such scale existed at the time, the hurricane was probably a Category 3. The eye passed between Boston and Plymouth with winds approximately 115 miles per hour. A tidal surge of twenty feet was reported in Boston.759
He was a tailor, tavern keeper, farmer, constable. In 1648 he was an attorney at the Court of Hampton760
He was one of eight of the 69 “Commoners” [founders] of the town of Salisbury, to be given the honorific title of Mister.761
There is a small town in Lancashire, northern England, name "Bleasdale" and old records there include the name Ralph Bleasdel in the century previous to our Ralph. The name suggests that there was a later Ralph in this family. Moreover, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, this region was the center of a Puritan movement which led many converted to join the movement to the new world. There are other reasons also, to think that it was under the influence of this movement, that our ancestor determined to transfer to America.
It was not easy for such a person to get permission to leave England from the main ports where careful watch was kept. Possibly for this reason, or possibly because of ease of access, Ralph is supposed to have joined the ship at Milford Haven, rather than at Bristol, England, from which point the ship started - thus accounting for his name not appearing on the ship's roster of passengers.
The subsequent history of Ralph's adventure is commonly known. He was caught in the great storm which visited the Atlantic seaboard on Aug 15, 1635, and was shipwrecked on Pemaquid Point, from which place he made his way to York, ME where he first settled. Not being satisfied with conditions there he soon became one of the original settlers of Salisbury, MA, where he was one of the more prominent citizens. There is a tradition that late in life he move to Lynn and that his death occurred there about the year 1650. He left one son, Henry, who was one of the original settlers of Amesbury, MA - which was long the family center., 757, 758
That strom was called the Great Colonial Hurricane. The hurricane is the first great storm recorded by the Europeans who were steadily populating New England and the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard. Though no such scale existed at the time, the hurricane was probably a Category 3. The eye passed between Boston and Plymouth with winds approximately 115 miles per hour. A tidal surge of twenty feet was reported in Boston.759
He was a tailor, tavern keeper, farmer, constable. In 1648 he was an attorney at the Court of Hampton760
He was one of eight of the 69 “Commoners” [founders] of the town of Salisbury, to be given the honorific title of Mister.761