Author: Blodget, Joseph
Biography:
BLODGET, Joseph (d 1833: Hampshire Gazette)
A clergyman originally from Stafford County VA, he became the minister of the Congregational church in Greenwich MA in 1786 and served till his death in Dec. 1833. He is not known to have published much more than his consolation to bereaved parents in the volume of poems by Ann Mason, but on the same theme of the death of children there is a broadside poem "written upon the death of Louisa Burroughs," five years old, in 1805. (J. G. Holland, History of Western Massachusetts [1855]; WorldCat; Hampshire Gazette 25 Dec. 1833) HJ
Books written (1):
[?Greenwich MA]: [John Howe], [1803]