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- -age 1 when moved to Granby, Lower Canada from Vermont
-came to Middlesex Cy c1828
[HMC, p513]: Warren Blinn settled in London Township where the Asylum now stands [1889]
[HMC, p736]: Warren Blinn, father of [William], was also a native of Vermont, and was but one year old when he was brought by his parents to Lower Canada. He was of French descent on his father's side, and of English on his mother's side. He immigrated to Middlesex County when about twenty-nine years of age, and brought with him his wife and daughter, Eliza, and one son, William, ....who was then five years of age. Mr. blinn had married, in Lower canada, Miss Harriet Dyer, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Dyer, whose sister, Lotta, married Capt. Butler, of Massachusetts, and became the mother of the eminent Gen. Benj. F. Butler, of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Blinn became the parents of three children - William, Eliza and Hiram. Mr. Blinn first settled where the Insane Asylum now stands, and was a contractor by occupation, and also owned a mill. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1876, at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife died in 1882, at the age of 84.
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