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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Stephen Badlam family records. 29 pages and one loose sheet. Small 4to notebook, printed wrappers with portrait of Washington, rebacked. Dorchester, 1719-1901
A manuscript family register begun by Maj. Stephen Badlam the 4th (1751-1815) of Dorchester, MA, which he describes as "A chronological journal . . . partly from information and records of others & partly from his own knowledge." Later maintained in detail by his descendants, it lists major family events from 1690 through 1901--the usual births, marriages and deaths, and much more, including his military commissions in the Revolution. Some records are annotated with entries such as "He died in harbour of Calcutta on the night he arrived there, a navigator of a Chinese junk." Son John Bedlam settled in Argentina, where he raised a family described in detail; grandson Stephen was shot in Buenos Aires in 1835 during a revolutionary disturbance. Tipped in to the volume is an original manuscript list of Dorchester marriages from 1719 and 1720, which Badlam took from a court house that was being demolished.
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