General Notes

    Per Chuckie Blaney's "The Blaney Family" ;

    There appears to be no record of Ambrose Blaney's death. That he died before 17 January 1760 is evidenced by a deed of that date from "Judeth Blane, of Roxbury, widow, one of the granddaughters of William Curtis, formerly of Salem, blacksmith, deceased," to Daniel Curtis, of Salem, shipwright, of one-twelfth of about five acres of land in South Field, so called, in Salem.

    The whereabouts of Judah (Curtis) Blaney are unknown until the beginning of the siege of Boston in April 1775 at which time she was either living with or staying with her son-in-law, Thomas Nolen, in Boston. A month later she joined the general exodus from Boston to Roxbury and the surrounding country as appears from the following letter to her son Aaron of Roxbury: -

    "Boston, May 25 - 1775 Brother Blaney

    I expect to Come Out to morrow with My famely I Expect to be at ye Lines by 12 O clock if you Can assist us wh a Carrage for your Mother & Sister I should be Very Glad & I Beleave I Shall want one Cart if you Can procure it youll Oblige me Very Much These from your Loving Brother Thos: Nolen."

    The following letter from her son-in-law, Samuel Bowen, of Roxbury, to her son Aaron Blaney at Boston, is not dated, but as Aaron did not locate to Boston until some time in 1777, her death, of which there appears to be no other record, must have occurred after that: -

    "Dear Brother

    It has pleased God in his wise providence To take to himself Our Worthy Friend & parent.

    She bore the Infirmities of Nature with a Christian fortitude and in her full senses with a Good assurance of a Better resigned her Life this morning a 6 oclock. This event was Expected But to us it was very Sudden. For after Several Restless faint turns She revived and was Better in the Course of 2 days past, But the Last after She revived She fell on Sleep.

    I am your Sincere friend & Brother Saml Bowen

    I will See you as soon as possable.

    Saturday 1/2 past 6 oclock Mr. Aaron Blaney at Boston"

    At a town meeting in Malden 21 January 1731-1732, it was "voted whather ye town would forgiue Ambros Blaneys Rates jn Samll Stoweres Lists and it passed in ye negitiue."[ ] This would seem to indicate that Ambrose Blaney was a resident or property owner in Malden at that time, which was before he purchased his house in Lynn. He was a younger brother of Capt.

    Benjamin Blaney, who lived at owned a tannery in Malden, and Ambrose may have been associated with him there. On 15 April 1734, Ambrose Blaney purchased of Samuel Hallowell, of Lynn, blacksmith, for ,340, the "Mansion House & Barn with Several Small Outhouses & an Orchard Situate in ye body of ye Town of Lyn aforesd lately Enjoyed by Danl Mansfield with ye Garden on ye Front of sd Mansion House the whole of sd Land Containing by Estimation Two Acres more or less & is bounded Northerly by ye County Road Easterly partly by ye Town Common & partly by a Town Way Southerly on the Land hereinafter mentioned & Conveyed & Westerly on ye Land of Jacob Ealton and partly on ye Town Common," also one acre and eighty poles of arable land adjoining the above.[ ] A year later he sold the acre and a half to Benjamin Newhall, cordwainer, of Lynn, for ,60;[ ] and on 2 October 1741, sold the mansion house, etc. to Jonathan Mansfield, blacksmith, of Lynn, for ,330.[ ] The sale of this house in Lynn, and the fact that his children born after this date, Mary and Aaron, were baptized in Chelsea, would seem to indicate that he may have moved to Chelsea at about this time.