Warren Blakesley, son of Amasa Blakesley and Mary Kellogg, was born 23 February 1806 (presumably at Paris) in Oneida County, New York. In 1829, he was elected the first Constable of Venice Township in Seneca County, Ohio.   And, he was listed in the federal census there the following year.

On 1 March 1848, Warren was granted 40 acres of land in McHenry County, Illinois.   His eldest son, purchased a similar tract just seven miles away during the following month.   He was listed as a resident of that county in the 1850 Census.

By 1870, Warren was living at Bear Creek in Poweshiek County, Iowa.  And, in 1880, he was living at Highlands in Gage County, Nebraska.

Warren married firstly to Hannah Peck, daughter of Philo Peck and Sarah Ann Priest, who was born in New York about 1809.  She died of consumption in January 1850, in Mc Henry County, Illinois.

Warren quickly remarried on 20 June 1850 to Betsey Miracle of Boone County, Illinois, who was born in New York about 1829.   She died soon thereafter, and he married thirdly on 31 December 1857 to Mrs. Frances Ann Payne (nee Burland) of Boone County, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1825.

Warren died 23 November 1882, and was buried at Highlands Center Cemetery in Gage County, Nebraska.

Warren Blakesley had fifteen children, ten by his first wife Hannah, two by his second wife Betsey, and three by his third wife Frances:

i. Amasa Blakesley, III (1828-1874) - my ancestor.  Married Eliza Swan.

ii. Betsey Blakesley, born in New York in 1829.

iii. Warren Alpheus Blakesley, born 30 May 1831 in Seneca County, Ohio.  As a young man, he worked for a brief time on the farm of neighbor Christopher Spinknable in McHenry County, Illinois.  But, he soon joined the Gold Rush, and settled at Elizabethtown in Plumas County.  That mining village was named for his wife, Celia Elizabeth Starke  (18 October 1838 - 18 May 1918).  They were married 24 January 1854,  and settled at Quincy in Plumas County, where Warren died 24 April 1902.   Warren and Elizabeth are buried alongside their two sons at Quincy Cemetery in Plumas County.

iv. Lucy J. Blakesley, born 1834 in New York.

v. Lovinia Blakesley, born 1838 in Illinois.

vi. Eliza Blakesley, born 1840 in McHenry County, Illinois.   She married Theodore Blake of Cedar Falls in Black Hawk County, Iowa, some time prior to the 1860 Census.  He was born in New York, about the year 1837.   Eliza apparently died prior to 1880, when Mr. Blake is found in the census records of Lester in Black Hawk County with his second wife Mary.  Eliza had two known children.

viii. Alonzo Peck Blakesley, born 1843 in McHenry County, Illinois.   He was a butcher by trade and married a woman named Matilda, who was born about 1859 in Iowa.  They settled in Nodaway County, Missouri, and lived with Alonzo's uncle Henry Peck.

viii. Winny Ann Blakesley, born 1845 in McHenry County, Illinois.

ix. Maria Blakesley, born October 1849 in McHenry County, Illinois, and died there of scarlet fever in April 1850.

x. Alice Blakesley.

xi. George W. Blakesley, born 1854 in Pennsylvania.

xii. Henry J. Blakesley, (4 April 1859 - 12 May 1884), buried near his father and younger brother in Gage County, Nebraska.

xiii. Orin H. Blakesley, (8 February 1861 - 8 April 1887), also buried near his father and older brother in Gage County, Nebraska.

xiv. Clarence Eugene Blakesley, born 14 September 1868 at Bear Creek in Poweshiek County, Iowa.  He married Fredia Belle Bailey (29 September 1878 - 25 June 1960) and settled at Metoma, Kansas, where he died 13 June 1918.   His widow later moved to Yakima, Washington.  They had ten children.453