Martha Blaisdell was born in 1644 at Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Ralph Blaisdell and Elizabeth (?).¹ She married Richard Bowden.¹ She married Thomas Sealey, son of Andrew Sealy and (?) (?), in 1662 at Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire.² She married John Clough on 15 January 1686/87 at Hampton.^3,1 She died after 1 April 1707.¹
     Martha Blaisdell was deeded for love and affection to daughter Elizabeth Davis on 1 November 1684.¹
     Martha Blaisdell's second husband was probably a member of the sea-faring family of Sealy from Stoke-in-Teignhead, Co. Devon, of whom three brothers George, Richard and William, were active at the Isles of Shoals in the seventeenth century. By a process of elimination it seems probable that he was Thomas Sealy, possibly the fourth brother baptized at Stoke-in-Teignhead on July 28, 1638. This Thomas was in the Kennebec region in the 1660's and when King Philip's war broke out he took refuge in Braintree, a likely place for him to have met the young widow Bowden of Boston. The last record of him found is 1679 when he took the Oath of Allegiance on April 21.⁴