BLAKE, Dr. Obadiah

1719 - 1810  (91 years)

• Name	BLAKE, Obadiah
  Title	Dr.
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	9 Jun 1719	Wrentham, MA
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 19532156
  _COLOR	11
  Death	14 Jun 1810	Keene, NH
  Burial	Keene, NH
  	Address: West Cemetery
  Person ID	I13773	Puffers
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2019

  
  

  Family 1	HARRIS, Zipporah,   b. 19 Feb 1727, Wrentham, MA d. 25 Feb 1785, Keene, NH (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	27 Nov 1749	Wrentham, MA
  Children	1. BLAKE, Obadiah,   b. 1749, Wrentham, MA d. 3 Dec 1752, Wrentham, MA (Age 3 years)   2. BLAKE, Dr. Obadiah Jr.,   b. 26 Sep 1753, Wrentham, MA d. 16 Sep 1826, Putnam, NY (Age 72 years)   3. BLAKE, Artemisia,   b. 5 Dec 1765, Keene, NH d. 8 Jan 1837, Keene, NH (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F3510	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	THURBER, Lydia,   b. 1733   d. 28 Jan 1810, Keene, NH (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	11 Feb 1788	Richmond, NH   [1]
  Family ID	F3511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  He was the second physician in town, Jeremiah Hall having been the first (see sketch of Dr. Hall), and his practice covered a large territory, extending as far as Hardwick and Royalston, Mass., Westminister, Vt., and Croydon, N.H. His journeys, on horseback, by trails or marked trees, were usually long, and his fees were small, and were usually taken in products of the farm. He had a jocose way of keeping his accounts, sometimes closing them with the entries: "Cancelled in full by poverty;" "Ran a way;" "settled by death;" "Left with Noah Cooke (the lawyer);" and, at long intervals, "Paid in cash to me." He bequeated his saddlebags, vials and lancet to his son, Obadiah, Jr. He died in 1810, aged ninety-two, and was buried in the west yard, on Bradford street.

  
  

• Sources

  [S606] New Hampshire Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947.