Robert Blackburn

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DAR # A 010690 for VA

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GEDCOM Note

There were thirteen children born of this marriage according to the family records.

Robert received a 500 acre land grant from Lord Fairfax in Frederick county, Virginia, on the "drains of Opekcon Creek", which lies a few miles southwest of Winchester, Aug. 6, 1768.

Roberts marriage in 1765 or 1766 to Margaret Richie was recorded in the lost records of the Cedar Creek Presbyterian Church. He and Margaret signed a deed to the grant tract in 1769 and doubtless moved down to the Augusta-Rockbridge county line, where their third son, Gideon, was born August 27, 1772. They were members of the Providence Presbyterian Church near Steele's Tavern and probably some of the family members are buried in the old cemetery at that place.

In about 1770 or 1771, Robert and Margaret moved on down to the neighborhood of what is now Bristol, Tennessee. In the campaign against the Chickamauga Indians in April of 1779, we find the name of Robert as a private in the Company of Capt. James Shelby.

Both Robert and Martha signed the marriage sertificate as witnesses
Full Context of Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934; Frederick County, VA
[p.249]WALKER--BRUCE
Lewis Walker, of the County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia, and Sarah Bruce, Daughter of George Bruce of the said County and Colony; 17th day of 3d month, 1768.