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Samuel Blodgett
Portrait of Blodgett by Robert Field
Born
April 1, 1724
Woburn, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Died
September 1, 1807 (1807-10) (aged 83)
Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Lawyer, industrialist, and financier
Known for
Founded the city of Manchester, New Hampshire
Amoskeag Canal lottery ticket, signed by Judge Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett (April 1, 1724 – September 1, 1807)[1] (sometimes spelled Blodget, and sometimes Samuel Blodgett Sr. to distinguish him from descendants with the same name) was an early American lawyer, industrialist, and financier who founded the city of Manchester, New Hampshire.
As a lawyer, Blodgett served as a mediator between the sides in the Pine Tree Riot, getting a settlement from anti-Crown mill owners who had hired him to represent their case against the Royalist governor of New Hampshire John Wentworth in 1772. During the American Revolutionary War he firmly supported the patriot cause.
In 1807, Blodgett built a canal around Amoskeag Falls to aid in navigation of ships traveling up and down the Merrimack River. He pushed for the renaming of the small rural town of Derryfield, New Hampshire to Manchester, in honor of Manchester in England, a well-known textile-manufacturing center. The renaming of the town, at Blodgett's behest, coincided with the founding of the Amoskeag Mills by his friend and fellow industrialist Benjamin Prichard. The town would later be incorporated as a city and become the most populous city in the state of New Hampshire.
^Blodgett, Edwin; Blodgett, Edith A; Blodgett, Evelyn M (1969). Ten generations of Blodgetts in America. Barre, Vt.: Printed by Modern Print. Co. p. 41. OCLC 119353.
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monument of American industrial history and urban design." In May 1807, SamuelBlodgett completed a canal and lock system beside the Merrimack River at Derryfield...
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