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Brief Biographical Sketch:

William Blumfield (1650) / Isabel (Pearce)(Sackett) Blumfield

Name: William Blumfield (Blomfield, Bloomfield)

Birth: c. 1604, England, location unknown.(SAV)

Emigration: From Ipswich, County Suffolk, England to Cambridge, Mass. in 1634. To Hartford in 1639, to New London in 1648, to Middletown before March 1652, to Springfield in 1656, to Newton, L.I., N.Y. in 1662.(FFS)

Death: After February 24, 1663/4, Newtown, L.I., N.Y. (Sacketts of America/Weygant)

Occupation & Public Service: Fought in Pequot Indian War with Capt. Mason in 1637.

Marriage: m.(1) Susan, b. 1609 (SAV); or Sarah; m. in England before 1633; d. c. 1635; m.(2) Isabel (Pearce)(Sackett) about 1636 in Hartford, Conn. (b. Aug. 6, 1627 in St. John, Isle of Thant, Kent, England; d. c. 1663, Newton, L.I., N.Y.) (Sacketts of America/Weygant).

Children: At least four children between 1633-1647. (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).