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Robert Black, Sr.
b.Bef 1755
Facts and Events
| Name |
Robert Black, Sr. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Bef 1755 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 1775 |
to Jane (add) |
Robert Black, Sr. was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 486.--20th August, 1782. Robert Callwell to Robert Black, of Bartley County. Elizabeth Caldwell, widdow of Samuel Caldwell, deceased, relinquished dower, conveyed to Robert by John Caldwell.
Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 339.--19th September, 1786. Robert Black to James Brand, Sr.. of Washington County, Maryland.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 1 - AUGUST 21, 1782. - (420) Deed from Robert Caldwell to Robert Black ordered recorded, and Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Caldwell, relinquished dower.
- Vol. 1 - SEPTEMBER 21, 1784. - (310) Commission to issue to take priv. examination of Sarah, wife of John Caldwell, of Lincoln County, Kentucky, touching her dower in land sold by John to Robert Black. [Note: same Robert Black?]
References
- GenForum.
Robert Black and Jane bought property in Augusta Co. VA in 1782 and sold it in 1786. They then show up in Robertson Co. TN in 1787 and they have a son Robert Jr. who married Jane Buchanan. There are court documents proving this relationship.
Robert Jr.'s first son was James Buchanan Black, named for Jane's father; the second son was Andrew Livingston Black. It was the search for a possible Livingston family link that led me to your posting. I have seen your Black family postings also.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/livingston/messages/2831.html
- Goodspeed's History of Tennessee Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches of Thirty East Tennessee Counties: Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Washington. (Reprint, Nashville, Tennessee: C. and R. Elder Booksellers, 1972).
Limited as was the course of study it was suited to the simple wants of the times, and many a successful business man has received his only instruction in those schools. One of the first teachers in the county was a Frenchman, named Rousseau, who taught for several years in the vicinity of what is now the First Civil District. Among the other early teachers in that neighborhood were Wilson C. Nimmo, Robert James, Pendleton Gaines and an old man by the name of Farrar. It has also been stated that the first school in the county was taught by Robert Black on Sulphur Fork, near Capt. Isaac Dortch's, about 1789.
http://www.tngenweb.org/goodspeed/robertson/robtco.pdf
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