John BLAKEMAN

                   After John's death, Dorothy was married three times.  Quoting The Commemorative
Biographical Record of Fairfield County Conn.; `Concerning Dorothy Smith
Blakeman, She appears to have possessed remarkable charms, either of person,
intellect or heart, for, besides passing through a case of litigation in court
for her hand, she was married a total of four times; twice agter she was over
fifty years of age. After the death of her first husband, John, she apparently
had  a suitor named John Thomas.  Rev. Adam Blakeman, who survived his son,
John, in his will of 1665, says: ` I give to my darghter [in law] Dorothy
Blakeman, if she marry not John Thomas and shall continue a widow, five
pounds.'  The General Court, Oct. 10, 1665, recorded: ` The magistrates do
order that, in case John Thomas and the widow Blakeman do not issue their
difference now included on that, the said Thomas shall make good his claim to
that woman at the best court at Fairfield, otherwise the widow shall have
liberty to marry upon this.'  John Thomas seems to have abandoned his claims,
for Francis Hall, who had been the attorney for the widow of Rev. Adam Blakeman
in this case before the court, became encharmed with his opponent and married
her that same month."  Francis Hall died in 1690, and Dorothy, still possessing
charms too attractive to be confined to widowhood, married Mark St. John of
Norwalk, Conn., the same year.  He died in 1693, after which she married Deacon
Isaac Moore of Farmington, Conn., in 1694."