BLACKMON
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Arthur Blackman, born Abt. 1710 in Virginia; died 1768 in Craven County, North Carolina. He was the son of John Blackman and Elizabeth M. Goode. He married Elizabeth Hand Abt. 1745.
Elizabeth Hand, born Abt. 1728 in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina; died 1769 in Craven County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Peter Hand and Ann Zilpha Deiptt.
More About Arthur Blackman:
Elected: 1750, One of three Commisioners to select the site where the Duplin County seat would be.
Military service: Abt. 1760, Captain in the Duplin Foot militia
Note: Was described as a "Gentleman".
Occupation: Partner in a brickmaking business.
Property: June 05, 1740, Obtained land on the north side of the Neuse river.
Residence: Aft. 1760, Plantation that his wife inherited from her father along the Neuse river.
Children of Arthur Blackman and Elizabeth Hand are:
77 i. Mary Blackman, born Abt. 1752 in Craven County, North Carolina; died Aft. September 14, 1802 in Jones County, North Carolina; married Michael Becton Abt. 1772 in Craven County, North Carolina.
ii. Elizabeth Blackman, born Abt. 1750 in Craven County, North Carolina.
iii. John Blackman, born 1746 in Craven County, North Carolina.
iv. Nancy Blackman, born 1748; died Abt. 1833.
v. Arthur Blackman, born 1754 in Craven County, North Carolina.
vi. Penelope Blackman, born 1756 in Craven County, North Carolina.
vii. Azal (Azel) Blackman, born 1758 in North Carolina; died 1768.
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John Blackman, born in Henrico County, Virginia; died November 19, 1736 in Bertie County, North Carolina or Northhampton, County, NC. He was the son of William Blackman and Dorothy Deeley Or Broadway. He married Elizabeth M. Goode 1699 in Virginia.
Elizabeth M. Goode, born Abt. 1680 in Henrico County, Virginia; died 1724 in Bertie County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of John Goode and Ann Bennett.
Notes for John Blackman:
!Will of John Blackman 19 November 1736
The Following will obtained from Bertie County, N.C., or NC Archives
In the name of God, Amen. This ninetheenth day of November 1736, I
beloved son John Blackman one Negro boy Collie to him and his Ears
(Heirs) for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Bennett Blackman one
Negro girl maned Nanna to him and his Ears (Heirs) for ever. I further give
to y son Bennit Blackman a young horse which is called his and a young
mare called his, and increase of this horse to him and his hears (Heirs) for
ever.
Item. I give to my dearly beloved son Arthur Blackman one Negro boy
named Pettor to him and his heirs for Ever. I further give to my son Arthur
Blackman one young mare which is called his to him and his heirs for ever.
Item. I give to my dearly beloved son Joseph Blackman a young black mare
that is called his, to him and his heirs for ever. And after my debts paid the
rest of my Goods and Cattels to be equally divided amonst my Children. I
likewise constitute and make and ordain my dearly beloved son Bennit
Blackman & my well beloved friend Will of John Blackman
19 November 1736
The Following will obtained from Bertie County, N.C., or NC Archives
In the name of God, Amen. This ninetheenth day of November 1736, I
John Blackman of Bertie County, being very sick and weak in body, but
of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to God, therefore calling to
mind that this mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for
all men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last will and testament........,
and first of all recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my
body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the
discretion of my executors & as touching worldly estate wherewith it has
pleased allmity God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise, and dispose
of the same in the following (sic) manner & form.
Impremis. I give and bequeth to Sarah my dearly beloved wife the life of one
Negro woman called Filliss during life, then to return the said Negro woman
and her increase to my dearly beloved son Steven Blackman & my dearly
beloved daughter Elizabeth Blackman, to them & their Ears (Heirs) for ever
to be divided between them.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Blackman one Negro
boy Collie to him and his Ears (Heirs) for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Bennett Blackman one
Negro girl maned Nanna to him and his Ears (Heirs) for ever. I further give to
y son Bennit Blackman a young horse which is called his and a young mare
called his, and increase of this horse to him and his hears (Heirs) for ever.
Item. I give to my dearly beloved son Arthur Blackman one Negro boy named
Pettor to him and his heirs for Ever. I further give to my son Arthur Blackman
one young mare which is called his to him and his heirs for ever.
Item. I give to my dearly beloved son Joseph Blackman a young black mare
that is called his, to him and his heirs for ever. And after my debts pade the
rest of my Goods and Cattels to be equally divided amonst my Children. I
likewise constitute and make and ordain my dearly beloved son Bennit
Blackman & my well beloved friend Theophilus Williams I do make and ordain
them my sole executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby
utterly dissallow, reevoke and disannul all and every other former testaments,
wills, legacies and bequests and executors by me in any way before named,
.....and bequethed, and ratifying of this and no other to be my last will and
testament. In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day
and year above written.
John (X) Blackman
his mark
Signed, sealed in the presence of us by the said
John Blackman as his last will and testament.
More About John Blackman:
Probate: November 1736, Bertie County, North Carolina
Residence: 1722, Urshaw Swamp and Bridger's Creek
Will: November 19, 1736, Signed will in Bertie County,North Carolina
Children of John Blackman and Elizabeth Goode are:
154 i. Arthur Blackman, born Abt. 1710 in Virginia; died 1768 in Craven County, North Carolina; married Elizabeth Hand Abt. 1745.
ii. Stephen 'Steven' Blackman, born December 26, 1724 in Bertie County, North Carolina; died March 11, 1776 in Johnston County, North Carolina; married (1) Elizabeth Rice Bet. 1740 - 1748 in Duplin County, North Carolina; born Bet. 1725 - 1730 in Duplin County, North Carolina; died Bef. 1764; married (2) Ann Snell December 07, 1765 in Duplin County, North Carolina; born February 08, 1737 in North Carolina; died January 18, 1811 in Davidson County, Tennessee.
iii. Bennett Blackman, born Abt. 1715 in Henrico County, Virginia; died Abt. 1765 in Johnston County, North Carolina; married Blanch Early? Abt. 1764 in Duplin County, North Carolina.
iv. Joseph Blackman, born in Bertie, Chowan or Duplin County,North Carolina; died 1768 in Duplin County,North Carolina; married Elizabeth Lee Abt. 1754; born Bet. 1726 - 1732 in Chowan County,North Carolina.
v. Elizabeth Blackman
vi. John Blackman, born Abt. 1710; died April 03, 1760 in Johnston County, North Carolina; married Sarah Shuttleworth; born Abt. 1710.
vii. William Blackman
viii. Phebe Blackman, died Aft. 1790; married Henry W. Jernigan; born Bet. 1675 - 1685 in England; died 1736 in Bertie County,North Carolina.
Marriage Notes for Phebe Blackman and Henry Jernigan:
Family Data Collection - Marriages Record
Name: Henry Jernigan
Spouse: Phebe Blackman
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William Blackman, born Bet. 1640 - 1660; died November 11, 1697 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia. He was the son of Jeremy Blackman. He married Dorothy Deeley Or Broadway Abt. 1667 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia. Dorothy Deeley Or Broadway, born Bet. 1650 - 1660 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia; died October 25, 1704 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia.
Notes for William Blackman:
Henrico County, Virginia microfilm Reel #6, covering dates 1677-1699 at the Library of Virginia, pages 69 and 70. [June 2001][original spelling preserved]
William Blackman’s Will
In the Name of God Amen I William Blackman of the parish of Varina in ye Co’ty of Hen’o, planter being brought to ye remembrance of my mortallity and the frailty of this Temporall Life by the Gratious hand of Almighty God visiting me with a Grevious Sickness yet of Sound & perfect memory praised be God therefore I make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner & forme following vizt:
First I resign my sole to God that gave it in hopes of his____lane through the meritts & media__ of his beloved Son my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ and my body to ye Earth from whence it was formed to be Inter’d in such place & Deasent manner as my hereafter named Ex’x shall think fitt.
Item I Give and bequeath unto my Eldest Son William Blackman the South or Lower half part or Moiety of my plantacon [sic] or land scituate lying & being in the parish of Varina in the Co’ty of Hen’co to him & his heires forever also my long gun allways call’d his.
Item I give to my Son John Blackman the north or uper halfe of my sd. Lands or plantacon giveing & bequeathing the sd land to him & his heires forever more; also I give & bequeath to my sd. Son John three guns, namely my muskett a tradeing Gun & a long gun alsoe my feather bed standing in my outward room as it now stands with all the furniture and appurtenants belonging to itt. Alsoe I give & bequeath to my sd Son John my young horse named Jocky when he shall arive to manly age I mean my son not the horse. I alsoe give & ordaine to my sd son John Blackman three pounds
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Sterling the which I am indebted to him.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Dorothy Cogbill the wife of Geo Cogbill of the fores’d parish & County , Cooper, one shilling. Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Elisabeth Ward ye wife of Richard Ward of ye fores’d parish & County one shilling. Lastly I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Dorothy Blackman all the rest of my goods & chattles held in cattle houshold goods, mony utensalls debts owing to me & whatsoever not before named. The only thereof being to pay my debts & funerall charges, ordaining & hereby constituting her my Executrix of this my last will & Testament . In testimony & confirmacon of this my last will & testament I hereunto set my hand & seale the Eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord according to ye computacon of the Church of England sixteen hundred ninety & seven.
Published signed sealed in presence of Matt Branch (signed), Will (his markWB) Burroughs
Thom (his mark TH) Harris
Rob’t (his mark BR) Brodway
John Goode
The mark of William (WB) Blackman (seal of red wax)
Henrico County April the first 1698. Proved in open court by the oaths of Mathew Branch, Will Burroughs, Tho’s Harris :& Robt Brodway four of the subscribed witnesses. Test. James Cocke.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Record
Name: Wm. Blackman Year: 1652
Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6220
Primary Immigrant: Blackman, Wm
Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977 and 1979. Issued originally by Nugent in parts between 1929 and 1931; the parts were then largely incorporated in this work, no. 6220. Stewart, item no. 9025, compiled the article, "Ancient Planters [1607]," pages xxviii-xxxiv.
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.
Page: 243
Name: Wm. Blackman Year: 1653 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 2772 Primary Immigrant: Blackman, Wm
Annotation: Includes 25,000 names from records of the Virginia State Land Office. Excerpts of the Irish names from the Greer list were published in no. 6258, O'Brien, Early Immigrants to Virginia....
Source Bibliography: GREER, GEORGE CABELL. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond [Va.]: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912, 376p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978. Repr. 1982.
Page: 35
Name: Wm. Blackman Year: 1663 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6220 Primary Immigrant: Blackman, Wm
Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977 and 1979. Issued originally by Nugent in parts between 1929 and 1931; the parts were then largely incorporated in this work, no. 6220. Stewart, item no. 9025, compiled the article, "Ancient Planters [1607]," pages xxviii-xxxiv.
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.
Page: 493
Name: Wm. Blackman Year: 1671 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6221 Primary Immigrant: Blackman, Wm
Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Patent books 6 through 8, from the Land Office records located at the Virginia State Library. Volumes 1 and 3 were indexed as nos. 6220 and 6223 respectively in PILI 1984.
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 2: 1666-1695. Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977. 609p.
Page: 141
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More About William Blackman:
Probate: April 01, 1698, Henrico County, Virginia
Will: November 11, 1697, Signed will in Henrico County, Virginia
Children of William Blackman and Dorothy Broadway are:
308 i. John Blackman, born in Henrico County, Virginia; died November 19, 1736 in Bertie County, North Carolina or Northhampton, County, NC; married Elizabeth M. Goode 1699 in Virginia.
ii. William Jr. Blackman, born Abt. 1668 in Varina Parish,Henrico County, Virginia; died July 1720 in Varina Parish,Henrico County, Virginia; married Ann Hatcher Abt. 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia; born Abt. 1664 in Henrico County, Virginia; died Abt. 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia.
iii. Dorothy Blackman, born Abt. 1673 in Varina Parish,Henrico County, Virginia; married George Cogbill April 20, 1695 in Henrico County, Virginia; born Bet. 1669 - 1670 in Virginia; died Abt. June 01, 1698.
iv. Elizabeth Blackman, born Bet. 1640 - 1675 in Henrico County, Virginia; died 1721 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia; married Richard Ward Abt. 1660; born Bet. 1636 - 1670 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia; died August 01, 1682 in Henrico County, Virginia.
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Jeremy Blackman He was the son of Jeremiah Blackman.
More About Jeremy Blackman: Note: Jeremy and Jeremiah Blackman may be the same person.
Child of Jeremy Blackman is:
616 i. William Blackman, born Bet. 1640 - 1660; died November 11, 1697 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia; married Dorothy Deeley Or Broadway Abt. 1667 in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia.
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Jeremiah Blackman He was the son of Nicholas Blackman.
More About Jeremiah Blackman:
Property: Owned Ships Expedition, and Bona Venture
Child of Jeremiah Blackman is:
I . Jeremy Blackmon
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Nicholas Blackman, born in St Andrew by the Wardrobe in London.
Notes for Nicholas Blackman:
Jeremiah Blackman, and Nicholas Blackman owned the ships that brought the Puritans over to the New World.
Children of Nicholas Blackman are:
2464 i. Jeremiah Blackman.
ii. Humphrey Blackman
More About Humphrey Blackman:
Property: Owned Ship "The Globe"