Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Blackstone, James ???? - ????
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Source: History of Fayette County, L H Everts and Company 1882, page 786
Author: Franklin Ellis

    James Blackstone was a native of Maryland and must have located in
Fayette County prior to 1784 as in that year he is recorded as "appraiser
of damages." He located upon the land called "The Summit" in Tyrone
township which now belongs to William Moore and Presley Moore.  April 18,
1798, James Blackstone was appointed a justice of the peace.  His family
consisted of one son and three daughters.  Two of the daughters married
James Hurst and Thomas Hurst, living near Mount Pleasant, and the other
daughter became the wife of Judge Boyd Mercer of Washington County.  
    The son, James Blackstone Jr, removed to Connellsville in the year 1803
building for his home a brick house on Water Street, which is now known
as the Dean House.  He also carried on a general store in his building.  Of
his two children, both sons, Henry Blackstone, the oldest, is a civil
engineer now in the employ of the government.  James Blackstone, the
younger, has lived upon a farm near Connellsville for the last forty
years.  The land which was originally taken up by the elder Blackstone,
spoken of as the property of William Moore and Presley Moore, came to
these gentlemen through their grandmother, Mrs James Hurst, the daughter
to whom Blackstone gave it by will.  The 208 acres of land adjoining the
Blackstone property was taken up by Joseph Copper before 1786.  He
afterwards sold the property and emigrated West. 

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