Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Blackstone, James July 19, 1808 - ????
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Source: History of Fayette County, L H Everts and Company 1882, page 545
Author: Franklin Ellis

    The venerable Mr James Blackstone of Dunbar township near the line of
New Haven, is of English descent.  
    His grandfather, James Blackstone, came hither from the Eastern Shore of
Maryland shortly after Col William Crawford and his comrades found their
way into Yohogania County, Virginia, as the region of which Fayette
County is a part was then called.  Mr Blackstone married before he left
Maryland and brought his family and some negroes with him and settled in
what is now Tyrone township on the farm recently owned by Ebenezer Moore.
He had four daughters and one son, James Blackstone Jr, the father of the
present James Blackstone, who was born June 4, 1780.  
    On the 13th of October, 1803, James Blackstone Jr married Miss Sarah
Rogers of Dunbar township, and going to Connellsville there engaged in
merchandising and built the home now occupied as a hotel by E Dean on
Water Street into which he moved.  He died July 16, 1809, leaving three
children, the youngest of whom, born July 19, 1808, is the subject of
this sketch.
    Mr Blackstone grew up under the care of his mother, a most estimable
woman, and spent his youth in the village except two years thereof passed
at college in New Athens, Ohio.  After returning from college, he spent
some time as a clerk in the store of Davidson & Blackstone, the latter of
whom was his brother, Henry Blackstone, at Connellsville and some time as
clerk at Breakneck Furnace then owned by Mr William Davidson; but farming
was always more to his taste than merchandising.
    On the 10th of June, 1834, he married Nancy C Johnston of Connellsville
and lived there till 1836, in the spring of which year he bought the
Colonel William L Miller Roscommon Farm, moved to it June 23rd, and has
there lived ever since.  Mr and Mrs Blackstone have nine children, four
sons and five daughters, living.
    Mr Blackstone was an old line Whig and is now a Republican, but never
was an active politician, never holding pubic office and never desiring
one.  He has ever led a quiet life and enjoyed an enviable reputation for
integrity.  

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