Patriot Reverend William Blair, Jr.^{[1, 2, 3]}

1781 - 1839  (58 years)

• Name	William Blair
  	http://cybergata.com/roots/8568.htm William Blair b 1781 d 1840; md 18 May 1801 Nancy Thomas. He was an Elder in the Baptist Church of the Roanoke Association and is buried near old Kentuck Meeting House. "Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service" Vol.2 Compiled & published by members of James Hunter Chapter, National Society Daughters of American Revolution of Madison, North Carolina. (Whew!) "As a resident of York Co, PA, during the Revolutionary War, William Blair was a private in Capt Samuel Hay's Company No.1 in Col Williamm Irvine's Regiment of 6th Battalion, enlisting on 28 Feb 1776. He was captured by the British troops under Gen Frazier on 8 June 1776 at Trois Rivers, Quebec about 45 miles down the St. Laurence River from the mouth of the Sorel River. Gen Thompson and about 200 men were captured here and about 25 slain by the enemy. He was paroled 6 Aug 1776. (PA Archives 5th Series 11-206 and 6th Series 11-551 Haddenfield, N.J.)
  Title	Patriot
  Prefix	Reverend
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	15 Feb 1781	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Oct 1839	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Person ID	I547450075	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Rev. William Blair
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2018

  
  

  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	Nancy Thomas,   b. 25 Mar 1782,   d. 29 Jan 1843, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia  (Age 60 years)
  Married	1801`	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2018
  Family ID	F2239	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Marriages 1807-8 by Rev. William Blair Minister's Returns Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  		1804 Blair Deed - Sarah Blair, formerly Sarah Sutter Father George Sutter 1804 Blair Deed.jpg

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone Rev. William Blair, Pittsylvania County, Virginia DSC_0114.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  My Blair line: William Blair - Sarah Sutter Joseph Blair - Jane Matthews - Indiana Jonathan Blair - Sarah Blume - Indiana & Nebraska Charles Blair - Purva Ann Weaver William Blair - Mabel Atwood Eleanor Blair - Carlos Lopez - New Mexico Nancy Lopez - James Swetnam The photo above is of William Blair and Mabel Atwood, my grandparents -Nancy Lucía López

  
  

• Sources

  [S42] Obituary. Reverend William Blair Baptist Minister b in Pittsylvania County 1781. In 1804 United with the Strawberry Baptist Church. The same year was ordained to the ministry was for some time Pastor of that church was also pastor of Kentuck, Upper Banister, Sandy Creek, and Mill? Churches; in addition to these Pastoral duties, he performed valuable service as an evangelist, in Henry, Bedford, Halifax, Charlotte and Mecklenburg Cos. Va and Person, Caswell and other counties NC. He was a member of the Roanoke Missionary Society and was one of the Collecting Agents and was frequently the ______ of the Roanoke Association. The __ of his life, he was called to preach in Caswell Co., NC Before leaving home he said to his son, "if ___________ before ___________ I will Thursday. He ________ yesterday, released to his soul was taken sick and died _______________. He was a man of bold and commanding figure, and found _________ grace __________ and a just and fair representative as a minister honored and beloved. The copy of this text is badly degraded and many words are questionable; no mention is made of a wife; presumably there was one who brought him a son. Further research is underway. He probably is not the s/o William and Sarah Sutter; unless he is that William and his birth would be around 1750. He arrived in Pittsylvania County, already a grown man. The RWA of Jesse Reynolds, s/o William of Culpepper Reynolds says that He (Jesse) fought in the war with Rev. William Blair. It is believed that William of Culpepper Reynolds also came to Pittsylvania County in or around 1781. Several items in the Christine Reynolds Reynolds Memoir do not match facts later learned. She states that William Blair, husband of Sarah Sutter died on one date, but another child is listed born two years later. We have Jesse Reynolds RWA stating that he served with Rev. William Blair, so he could not have been born in 1781 and served with Jesse Reynolds. This seems to point to William Blair, h/o Sarah Sutter as being the minister and he did not die when the Christine Reynolds Stone's memoir states. - Further research is underway - Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston [S33] Sammy Blair. Sammy Blair - Facebook "Surnames Found in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, 1600 to 1750" Source: Thomas M. Blagg, ed., Indexes to Irish Wills, Vol. 5 (London: Phillimore & Co., 1920); P. Beryl Eustace, ed., Registry of Deeds Dublin: Abstract of Wills, Vol. I, 1708?1745 (Dublin: Stationary Office, 1956); and Secretary of State Record Group, Granville Proprietary Land Office: Land Entries, Warrants, and Plats of Survey, North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh (NCDAH) (referred to as ?Granville Grants?). Note: The list contains surnames of those recognized as owners of the original thirty Nottingham Settlement tracts in North Carolina. Additional surnames belong to others of the Settlement?s pioneering generation. Because the sample list includes both original landowners and others of the pioneering generation, table 2.1 reflects the fact that more than one of the Settlement?s pioneering generation owned a particular tract (tract No. 25, for example). The names and locations are taken from published transcriptions and abstracts of late seventeenth- to mid eighteenth-century probate records located in Ireland. SURNAMES SETTLEMENT TRACT NUMBERS FOUND IN ULSTER BARR [not specified in grant] not found BLAIR No. 25 Counties Derry and Donegal CALDWELL No. 25 County Derry CUNNINGHAM [not specified in grants] Counties Derry& Monaghan DENNY not applicable not found DONNELL No. 30 County Derry FINLEY not applicable Counties Derry & Tyrone LACKEY/LEAKEY No. 1 County Derry McCLINTOCK No. 13 & 17 County Derry McCUISTON/McQUISTON No. 12, 23, 25 & 28 not found McKNIGHT/McNITT No. 6 not found MITCHELL No. 7 & 26 Counties Antrim & Derry NICKS [not specified in grant] not found RANKIN No. 8 & 9 County Derry SCOTT No. 14 & 15 County Derry THOMPSON No. 18 & 29 County Derry [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/pittsylvania/vitals/marriages/marr1.txt. Nancy Thomas and William Blair, surety Benjamin Thomas, May 18 1801 James Blair and Polley Dickinson, dau of Frances Dickinson who consents, Apr 1 1796. Surety George Blair [S94] Piedmont Lineages, Vol. XXXVIII May 2016 No.2. William Blair Sr., b. 1750 Ireland, m. Sarah Sutter in PA, d. 1790 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, son William Blair Jr. md. Mary Thomas in Pittsylvania Co. in 1801, dying in 1840