First Baptist Church, c 1907.

ID: 707 ~ Source: Courtesy North Adams Historical Society.

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The First Baptist Church, built to replace the one that burned in 1879. Sanford Blackinton helped to finance the reconstruction.

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Sanford Blackinton and family

By Patrick Demeo

The Blackinton family has its origins in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Pentecost Blackinton, Sanford’s Blackinton’s great, great grandfather was born in Marblehead in 1662. He married Ann Pedrick and they moved to Attleboro, Massachusetts. They had…