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George Blackburn
b.Bef 1734
Facts and Events
Early Land Acquisition in Virginia
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:
- H-594: Arthur, George & William Blackburn of Fairfax County, 242 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. John Baylis. On Mulberry Run, adj. William Wilson, Margaret & Wm. Blackburn her son. 3 Jan. 1755. Deed not signed. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 82]. (Note: Mulberry Run was actually in Frederick County, not Fairfax, verified in other records).
Black's Fort
- January 28th, in the first year of the commonweath [sic] of Virginia, and in the year of our Lord Christ 1777, being the day appointed by act of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, for holding the first court of the county of Washington at "Black’s Fort." A commission of the Peace and Declimus [?] of this county, directed to Arthur Campbell, William Campbell, Evan Shelby, Daniel Smith, William Edmiston, John Campbell, Joseph Martin, Alexander Buchanan, James Dysart, John Kincaid, John Sanderson, James Montgomery, John [Coale? – illegible], John Snoddy, George Blackburn and Moses Marten, gentlemen, bearing date the 21st day of December, 1776, were produced and read: Thereupon, pursuant to the Declimus William Campbell and Joseph Martin two of the aforesaid justices, administered the oath of a justice of the peace, and of a justice of the county court of chancery, to Arthur Campbell, the first justice named in said commission, and he afterwards administered the aforesaid oaths to William Campbell, William Edmiston and others named as aforesaid in the said commission.
- George Blackburn witnessed Evan Shelby's last will testament on the 21st day of February, 1778 . Evan Shelby's will filed Sullivan County, Tennessee, and probated Washington County, Virginia, Will Bk 2 p186.
References
- Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. Historical sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and kindred families: including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell families. (Nashville, Tenn.: Press of Marshall & Bruce Co., 1911)
Page 96-100, 1911.
Page 437 - INDEX. - List of Copies of Old Letters and Manuscripts - Source: - In an article for "The Virginian," Governor David Campbell (1779–1859) described the settlement of old Washington County, Virginia. The Vances, Newells, Blackburns, and several others of that connection were there. Specifically, George Blackburn, Arthur Blackburn and William Blackburn. This family specifically was in this area prior to 1772.
Page 96 - Some account of the first settlers of old Washington County, Virginia, would, no doubt, be interesting to many of the readers of the Virginian, and I could tell them something on that subject, if I had the resolution to write it down, but on that point I have some misgivings. I will, however, try. Hunters visited the county as early as 1745, but no families came and settled permanently until about 1767 or 1768. In two years from that time many emigrated, so that in 1770 the county was dotted all over with improvements. The first great migration was from Augusta County, but the spirit was immediately caught, and large numbers of families, and, indeed, whole connections, came from Frederick County and the Valley - from the Augusta line to the Potomac - from the upper counties of Maryland and from Pennsylvania. Botetourt and the country on each side of it sent members. The first large connections were the Edmondsons, of whom there were ten or twelve families of the same name. Then the Vances, Newells, Blackburns, and several others of that connection; the Campbells, five or six families, the Davises, four brothers - Nathaniel, John, James and Samuel Davis, the Craigs, three brothers - David, Robert and James Craig, two or three families of the Colvilles, and the same number of Briggses,
Page 97 - two families of Logans, John and Benjamin Logan, a large number of Buchanaus, and several families of Beatys and their connections, the Rayburns and Dysarts, also a large connection of the Berry family; five or six Lowrey families; the Sharps and Laughlins, a large connection, including the Kings and Youngs. These Youngs were not the German family, they were of Irish descent. I have named such as occurs to me, but that the reader may know who were the heads of families that composed the Rev. Charles Cummings' congregation at Sinking Spring, in the Grace Spring neighborhood, I will give a list of their names, and it must be remembered that they were all Presbyterians.
Source http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/washington/misc/oldwash1.txt
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