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Youngest daughter of William Tilden and Abigail Blodgett of New York, NY. Died at 10 years of age from Scarlatina. One of the subjects in Eastman Johnson's family portrait of the Blodgetts "Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. Fanny Seward references her in her 1862-1863 diary when she recalls Mrs. Clark's claim that Mr. Blodgett has the "handsomest children."

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Biography: 
Youngest daughter of William Tilden and Abigail Blodgett of New York, NY. Died at 10 years of age from Scarlatina. One of the subjects in Eastman Johnson's family portrait of the Blodgetts "Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. Fanny Seward references her in her 1862-1863 diary when she recalls Mrs. Clark's claim that Mr. Blodgett has the "handsomest children."
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Eastman Johnson Portrait: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11258
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128912877/mary-frances-blodgett
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Mary Frances Blodgett - Find A Grave
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Ancestry.com
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Ancestry
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Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Digitized Content is licensed from the American Antiquarian Society ("AAS") and may not be reproduced, transferred, commercially or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, outside the terms and conditions of this service without the express written consent of AAS. All rights reserved.