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dition against Louisburg, in 1745, and as Judge in Hillsboro' county, 

 N. H. ; also as an extensive manufacturer at Blodget's Mills, near 

 Concord, during the Revolutionary war, and supplied the patriot ser- 

 vice with the product of his mills. 



Samuel Blodget, Jr., was born at Woburn, in 1755, ^"^ ^^ ^^^ Ume 

 of the encampment of the patriot forces at Cambridge, in July, 1775, 

 entered into the military service, and became acquainted with the new 

 Commander-in-Chief, General Washington, with whom his father was 

 also personally intimate, and afterwards a correspondent. He was es- 

 pecially interested in the two favorite projects then entertained by Gen- 

 eral Washington, the founding of a "federal city," or national capital, 

 and the establishment of a national university; and after three years of 

 arduous service in the army, a part of the time on the staff of the 

 Commander-in-Chief, left the service in broken health in 17 78, and 

 engaged in the East India trade, in Boston, visiting Europe in 17S4, 

 and again in 1790. These visits and much of his time and efforts for 

 many years were devoted to the carrying out of the great enterprises 

 which enlisted his patriotism* early in the war, and subsequently brought 

 him to Philadelphia and to Washington, and induced him to invest his 

 entire fortune in the founding of the city of Washington and the estab- 

 lishment of a national university. The account of his earlier efforts in 

 this direction is briefly given in a work published at Washington in 

 1S06,* and he was almost alone among prominent citizens in the 



daughter of Samuel Blodget, Sr. (Savage's Genealogical Dictionary; Bond's Genealogy 

 of Watertown, etc.) 



S-imuel Blodget published A Prospective Plan of the Battle near Lake George, 

 on the Eighth Day of September, 1755, with an Explanation thereof; containing 

 a full, though short, History of that important affair. By Samuel Blodget, occasionally 

 at the camp when the battle was fought. Boston, N. E. : Richard Draper. MDCCLV., 

 4to. Title, pp. 5. Plan. London : T. Jefferys. MDCCLVL 4to, pp. {2), 5. 



* " The writer needed not the recommendation of his former commander to persuade 

 him to purchase, as he did in 1791, property to the amount of above 5ioo,ooo in and 

 adjoining the city, one day to become the noblest of the universe. Of the first pur- 

 chase he made he gave above 1,500 lots to the United States, or one-half of his 

 property, in common with other proprietors of the lands, on the site selected for the 

 permanent seat of the government." — (Economica, page 24.) 



" From the time of the first mention of a federal city and a national university, every 

 opportunity to expand the mind of the writer has been embraced. The opportunities 

 for inquiry were but few, until when, in an impaired state of health, originating in the 

 army by the severe campaigns of 1775 to 1778, occasioned in 1784 a visit to Europe, 

 where no time was lost to search for such information as was deemed worth transport- 

 ing to America. After a second visit to Europe, the writer returned in 1791 ami 

 informed President Washington of the plans he had attempted from the best points 

 onlv of the ancient and modern cities of the old world, and adapted to his ideas for. a 



