PATRIOT Captain James Blair^[1]

1775 - 1840  (65 years)

• Name	James Blair  [2]
  Title	PATRIOT
  Prefix	Captain
  Born	27 Mar 1775	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 May 1840	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Person ID	I547449618	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Rev. William Blair
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. William Blair,   b. Abt 1750, Ireland ,   d. 1790, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Mother	Sarah Sutor,   b. Abt 1760, Fawn Grove Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 1807, Murry Co., Tennessee  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Family ID	F2705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary 'Polly' Dickinson/Dickerson,   b. 29 Apr 1776, York Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 24 Mar 1831, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 54 years)
  Married	1 Apr 1796
  Children	+ 1. Nancy Blair,   b. 24 Dec 1796, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 1859, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 62 years)   2. Sarah 'Sally' Blair,   b. 20 Mar 1799, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 21 Mar 1853, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 54 years) + 3. Drury Blair,   b. 20 Mar 1801, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 2 Sep 1864, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	18 May 2015
  Family ID	F518494707	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Ann S. Coleman,   b. Est 1786, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 12 Sep 1854, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Children	+ 1. James Young Blair,   b. 22 Oct 1834, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 10 Dec 1913, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2017
  Family ID	F4106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		1804 Blair Deed - Sarah Blair, formerly Sarah Sutter Father George Sutter 1804 Blair Deed.jpg
  		Listing of Blair Cemetery, Callands, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia BlairGraveyard-2.jpg
  		Newspaper Article Wm. Blair & Sarah Sutor Family 15770 mBlair&SaraSutterFam.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S129] Cemetery Records. http://www.vancpgs.org/contents/Cemeteries_Listing.pdf Blair (Visited 2008) Outside fence, hand inscribed,veryworn: - Capt. James Blair Mar27, 1775 May 29, 1840 - Polly Blair Apr 29, 1776 Mar 24, 1831 I believe the Blairs migrated to Pittsylvania in the 1760's along with the Reynolds, Devins, Neeleys and others. Several Blairs are seen on the Tax Rolls in Martock, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [S84] Rootsweb, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I43246. Ann S. Coleman married (1) William A. Price on 20 Mar 1826. William's will was proven in Pittsylvania Co., VA, 16 Apr 1827. It was written 13 Mar 1827 and named a "child yet unborn". That child, born 1827, was named William A. Price. Ann married (2) widower James Blair on 23 Oct 1832. James Blair's 1st wife Polly Dickinson died 24 Mar 1831 (in the Family Bible). That family Bible in the possession of Martha Blair Hylton in Danville, VA, records that James Blair married (1) Polly Dickinson on 01 Apr 1796. She was the daughter of Francis Dickinson. The Bible also records a date of birth for Drury Blair as 20 Mar 1801, the marriage of Drury and Chloe Coleman on 08 Nov 1827, and that Drury died 02 Sep 1864. Note that Chloe Coleman is the sister of Ann Coleman. So James Blair married the older, widowed sister of his son's wife. Drury reported Chloe's death of typhoid on 12 Sep 1854 (Death Register of Pittsylvania Co., VA, p. 15, line 168). Per the Bible, James Blair had 4 children by his first wife Polly, and 1 by Ann Coleman. His child with Ann Coleman was son James Young Blair. The Bible gives the last names of 3 wives for James Young Blair, a Soyars, a Thomas, and a Willis. James Blair Marriage 1 Ann S. Coleman b: 1788?Married: 23 OCT 1832 Children1. James Young Blair Marriage 2 Polly Dickinson