General Stephen Badlam IV

Ancestor of Miriam Currie “Dimpy” Miller Balson

 

Stephen Badlam IV was born May 7, 1751 in Stoughton or Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, son of Stephen and Hannah (Clapp) Badlam, and he died August 24, 1815, Dorchester, Massachusetts.  General Badlam served in the American Revolution, and in the MA Militia during the War of 1812.  He ran an inn, worked as a joiner and cabinet maker, and farmed on land centered at Dorchester Lower Mills and Milton villages.

He married Mary Adams on June 1, 1775.  Mary died on July 26, 1794 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.  In 1797 he married second to Elizabeth Turner.  Stephen and Mary had eight children: Sarah, Polly, Stephen, Abigail, Nancy, Lucretia, John and Clarissa.  The oldest son of Stephen and Mary, Stephen Badlam V, was born December 2, 1779 at Dorchester; he died in Boston in 1847. He married Nancy Clark in 1820; she bore him nine children.