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Thankful WEBBER

Thankful WEBBER

Female 14 Aug 1727? - 1784


  • Name Thankful WEBBER 
    Birth 14 Aug 1727? 
    Gender Female 
    Death 26 Feb 1784  Lebanon, York, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Thankful Blaisdell
      in the Maine, Death Records, 1761-1922
      Name: Thankful Blaisdell
      Gender: Female
      Death Date: 26 Feb 1784
      Death Place: Lebanon, York, Maine, USA
      Spouse: Dea Ephriam
      Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 9
      Thankful Blaisdell d Lebanon 26 February 1784
      married
      wife of Dea Ephraim Blaisdell
      ae 59
      A lingering disorder
    Burial
    • Thankful Blaisdell
      in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
      Name: Thankful Blaisdell
      Maiden Name: Webber
      Birth Date: 14 Aug 1727
      Birth Place: York Village, York County, Maine, United States of America
      Death Date: 26 Feb 1784
      Death Place: Lebanon, York County, Maine, United States of America
      Cemetery: First Parish Cemetery
      Burial or Cremation Place: Lebanon, York County, Maine, United States of America
      Has Bio?: Y
      Spouse: Ephraim Blaisdell
      Children: John Blaisdell
      Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121946410
      Thankful Webber Blaisdell
      BIRTH 14 Aug 1727 York Village, York County, Maine, USA
      DEATH 26 Feb 1784 Lebanon, York County, Maine, USA
      BURIAL First Parish Cemetery Lebanon, York County, Maine, USA
      MEMORIAL ID 121946410

      Ephraim Blaisdell — A Freewill Baptist Pioneer

      Ephraim Blaisdell, 1717-1802, was one of theoriginal 60 Proprietors for the Town of Lebanon, Maine, when it was formed as a township in 1735 by the General Court of Massachusetts. The proprietors erected the first public buildings in 1762: a 40' x 30' two-story Meeting House and a 36' x 24' one-story Minister's House. The first church in Lebanon, an Orthodox Congregational Church, was constituted in Ephraim's home June 24, 1765. He was one of six charter members, having transferred his membership from the Congregational Church in York, ME. He was elected as one of the first two Deacons for the congregation August 8, 1765. His wife, Thankful (Webber) Blaisdell, was admitted to the church in1767. Ephraim's Sin, Confession, Restoration The church records of April 17, 1767 charge Ephraim of stealing and killing a steer. He was dismissed from the office of Deacon and suspended from communion. On Sept. 13, 1767 he made public confession of his sin, was restored to communion, but not to the office of Deacon. By 1770 he stopped worshipping at the church andby 1772 began to hold worship in homes aroundtown, which became the basis for the Free WillBaptist Society in Lebanon. His wife continued to worship at the Orthodox Congregational Church. One day after refusing toattend her husband's church, Ephraim "seizing anew pair of shoes belonging to his wife, which had been procured by her only a few days previous, took his knife and cut one of them asunder crosswise through the vamps so she could not wear them, inorder to deprive her from attending meeting that day."1 Free Will Baptist Tenets Ephraim believed these tenets: The only Scriptural mode of baptism was immersion. The ministry should not be educated and should not receive any pecuniary compensation for preaching. There is to be no established order in conducting worship on the Sabbath; both preacher and hearer should act as they be moved by the Holy Spirit.
      Ephraim's son, John Blaisdell, was the first Free Will Baptist minister in Lebanon. David and Edward Blaisdell, sons of Ephraim Blaisdell, Jr., Ephraim's brother, also became Free Will Baptist ministers. Ephraim Blaisdell was a great great grandson to patriarch Ralph Blaisdell — (5.11) 1. A History of the Town of Lebanon, Maine by Samuel Wingate Jones, p. 63. From: Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 211, June 2007.

      Family Members
      Spouse
      Ephraim Blaisdell*
      1717–1802

      Children
      John Blaisdell*
      1756–1823

      *Calculated Relationship
      First Parish Cemetery
      Lebanon
      York County
      Maine
      USA

      Memorials Region North America USA Maine York County Lebanon First Parish Cemetery Thankful Webber Blaisdell
      Created by: Jeffrey James
      Added: 20 Dec 2013
      Find A Grave Memorial 121946410
    Person ID I50695  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 31 May 2019 

    Father Benjamin WEBBER,   b. C 1688   d. 1741? 
    Mother Mehitable ALLEN   d. 4 Feb 1737/8? 
    Marriage C 1714 
    Family ID F15523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ephraim BLAISDELL 
    Marriage 3 May 1742? 
    Family ID F16815  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart