Person:John Black (84)

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John Black
  1. John Black1750 - 1830
  2. Alexander BlackBet 1750 & 1760 - Bef 1806
  3. James BlackBet 1755 & 1765 -
m. 17 Jul 1792
  1. William BlackBef 1796 -
  2. Alexander BlackAbt 1797 - 1843
  3. John BlackBef 1803 -
  4. James Walker Black1804 -
  5. Mary Black1808 -
  6. Christopher Black1810 -
Facts and Events
Name John Black
Gender Male
Birth[3] 4 Oct 1750 Augusta County, Virginia
Military[3] 1776 VirginiaRev War -
Marriage 17 Jul 1792 Bourbon, Kentucky, United Statesto Emilia Anne Norton
Will[2] 3 Apr 1829 Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
Death[3] 20 Nov 1830 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Probate? 6 Dec 1830 Bourbon, Kentucky, United States

John Black was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Note: some researchers claim that this John Black was a son of Rev. Samuel Black (abt. 1700-1770) and his wife Catherine Shaw. This is in error, as Rev. Samuel Black's son John Black died and left will in 1808 in Augusta County, Virginia, naming several of his brothers and sisters.

Acquisition of Land in Kentucky

  • 19 July 1791 - Bargain & Sale from James Black, Sen'r to John Black, 285 acres, part of the 1,000 acre tract granted by patent to the sd. James Black, bounded on a side by James Black's 100 acre survey. Wit: James McHuain, Wm. Wright and James Wright. Bourbon County, Kentucky Deed Book B, 1790-1794, Pg. 130 & 131
References
  1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

    Pension Application of Milly Norton Black, widow of John Black R891
    Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

    [Milly Black, 69, first applied for a pension as the widow of John Black on 24 July 1843. The following application includes more detail, except that it does not repeat the assertion that John Black served “in the Virginia Continental line from the County of Augusta and State of Virginia in Captain Cofers[?] Company and Colonel Pogue’s ridgement.” George Poage was Colonel in the Botetourt County Militia.]

    State of Kentucky } Sct
    County of Clarke }

    Milly Black of said county aged 78 years being sworn does on her oath say that she is the widow of John Black deceased who was a private soldier in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution.

    She has heretofore applied for a pension as the widow of the above named John Black and to the papers in that application she refers also the family record cut out of the Family Bible of the above named John Black accompanying this application containing record of Birth, Marriages and Deaths.

    She was married to the said John Black in Bourbon County Kentucky on the 17th day of July 1792 (seventeen hundred and ninety two) (See Family Record) by one James Sutton a minister of the Gospel and my name before my marriage was Milly Norton.

    The said John Black was a farmer by occupation. his height in manhood was about six feet perhaps a little higher: erect carriage blue eyes hair a little sandy weight about two hundred pounds

    I have heard him say that he lived in both Albemarle and Augusta Counties Virginia During the Revolutionary War, and that he was at the Seige of Cornwallis at Yorktown; and that his tour which included said Seige he served six months and about the time of the surrender of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781] he went home on furlough to take home a sick brother. I have heard him say that he helped build a stockade at that seige; and of helping to guard some prisoners and of receiving a slight wound on the knee (the scar of which I frequently saw) at some period of his service.

    I have heard him speak of other tours which he served during the war Viz One regular tour of three months, besides several scouting tours after the Tories

    I do not remember that he told me when or where he entered the service or was discharged; and my reccollection is that he was drafted in each instance in the Virginia Militia.

    My reccollection is that his captain at the above named seige was either Pouge or McClure. I have heard him speak of these two names as being officers I think of the Rank of Captain

    I have now no reccollection of the names of higher officers

    The said John Black died in Bourbon County of this state on the 20th day of November 1830 (Eighteen hundred and thirty) and I am still his widow

    I make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which I am entitled as the widow of the above named John Black under the Act of Congress passed July the 7th 1838.

    Witness my hand and seal in Clarke County Kentucky on this 24th day of September 1852

    Milly herXmark Black

    I James Norton [pension application S38266] a resident of the County of Greenup and State of Kentucky aged eighty years state that I am a pensioner for services in the revolutionary war from the County of Rockenham [sic: Rockingham] and State of Virginia in Nathan Lamb Company and I think it was Colonel Pogue’s ridgment. it was in the militia that I was in I do not recollect of seeing John Black when I was in the army but I have heard him relate circumstances that occured in the army that I believe he was on the same towers that I was and I have frequently heard my Brother John Norton say that he was in the the army with John Black I know that my Brother John was in the war of the revolution my Brother John Norton and John Black was in the same Company together and marched through the same Cuntry that I did which I refer to the papers and evidence on file in the war office that give me a pension for the Colonel that we was under and the Cuntry that we marched through and the numbers of towers that we served I have frequently heard my Brother John and John Black relate the prevations that they went through and of their being acquainted with each other in the army and of their being at the seag of Little York I was not in the regular [i.e. Continental] servis myself & I do not know any thing about his being a regular, but his wife Milly Black is a woman of respectability and truth and would not state anything that she did not hear her husband say. I was at their marriage in the County of Bourboun and State of Kentucky it was in the year seventeen hundred and ninty two, his death took place in the year of eighteen teen hundred and thirty in the County of Bourboun Kentucky. Milly Black who resides in the County of Clarke is the widow of John Black that died in the County of Bourboun Kentucky in the year eighteen hundred and thirty she has remained a widow ever since his death. I further state that John Black was a man of respectability and truth and he would not state any thing but the truth and that he was a man who was not in the habit of using ardant spirits given from under my hand this 19 th day of August 1843 John [sic] hisXmark Norton

    State of Kentucky }
    County of Clarke } Sct

    James Norton of the said aged nearly ninety years being sworn does on his oath say that he was well acquainted with John Black deceased a Soldier in the service of the United States in the War of The Revolution in the Virginia Militia (Viz)

    I was acquainted with him in Augusta or Boutetort County Virginia in the early period of the Revolutionary War. I met with him frequently and became intimate with him I did not see him in actual service in the Revolutionary War, but soon after the Seige of Cornwallis at Yorktown I met with him and he told me he had been there as a private soldier: My best recollection is that he was under an officer by the name of Pogue a Colonel of the Virginia Militia. I have no reccollection of the name of his Captain but I have no doubt that he has often told me I have heard him speak of another tour which he served but I do not know where it was: I knew him after the war until his death which as well as I remember took place more than twenty years since in Bourbon County of this State. He married my sister Milly Norton in Bourbon County Kentucky in 1792. I was intimate with him all his life and have often heard him speak of his Revolutionary Service and always beleived his statements to be true

    His widow Milly Black my sister now lives in this county and claims a pension on account of his service

    I further swear that I am a disinterested witness.

    Given under my hand and seal this 24th day of September AD 1852 in Clarke County Kentucky James hisXmark Norton

    NOTE: In the file is a copy of the record of the marriage of John Black to Milly Norton on 15 July 1792. Also in the file is the original family register, transcribed as follows:

    MARRIAGES
    John Black and Milley Norton July 17th 1792
    William Black and Elizabeth Cowen [date missing]
    John Black [died] November 20th 1830
    James Walker Black & Mary al ridge [Mary Alridge] September 6 1832

    BIRTHS
    John Black October 4th 1750
    Milley Black March 7th 1774
    Mary Black December 14th 1808
    Christopher Black December 3rd 1810
    Mary Jean Thomas [died] Febuary 18th [page torn]

  2. Will Abstract, in Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
    1:20 (Bourbon County).

    JOHN BLACK-Will Book H, page 441-Those mentioned-wife, Milly Black, for support of three youngest children; Christopher, when comes of age; Thomas C., Hiram and Sally; Samuel Black and John Black's son, William Hervey (grand-son); son, William; son, Alexander; son, John; daughter, Elizabeth; Samuel, Christopher and Mary (youngest children); to James Wmy. Written April 3rd, 1829. Proved December 6th, 1830. Witnesses-Bennett Maupin, John P. Wycoff.

  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pension, in Wardell, Patrick G. Virginia/West Virginia genealogical data from Revolutionary War pension and bounty land warrant records. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c1988-1998)
    1.

    Black, John - entered service 177-, Augusta County, Virginia; born 10/4/1750; died 11/20/1830, Bourbon County, KY; married there 7/15 or 7/17/1792 Milly Norton; widow born 3/7/1774, & applied for Pension 1743 in Clark County, KY; Pension Application Rejected, insufficient proof of service; children's births: Mary 12/14/1808 & Christopher 12/3/1810; other family bible data: James Walker Black md. 9/6/1832 Mary Aldridge, Wiliam Black md. Elizabeth Cowen, Mary Jean Thomas died 2/18/18--; widow's brother James age 80 in Greenup County, Kentucky, 1843 made affidavit that he was Revolutionary War soldier from Rockingham County, Virginia, & his brother John served in same company with John Black; James Norton resided in Clark County, 1852. R252.