William Blake

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Biography
William was the son of Joseph Blake and Sarah Sindrey of the Province of South Carolina. He studied law at the Inns of Court in London and entered the Inner Temple in 1758; however, he returned to South Carolina after about a year. After returning, he sold his plantations in Colleton County and purchased Grove Hall Plantation in St. James Goose Creek Parish and Bonny Hall Plantation on the Combahee River.[1]

In 1760 he was elected to the Commons House of Assembly from St. Bartholomew Parish and subsequently represented Prince William Parish in 1762-1765. He left South Carolina for England in 1774, and during the Revolution he supported the Crown. As a Loyalist, his estates in South Carolina were amerced in 1782. William remained in England, where he purchased Sunbury Place in Middlesex and a house in London.[1]

On 11 February 1759 in South Carolina he married Anne Izard, daughter of Walter Izard and Elizabeth Gibbes.[2] They had children Joseph (b. 1769), Daniel (b. 1775), and Anne.[3]

William wrote his Will on18 March 1802 with a codicil dated 3 December 1802. The Will was proved in England on 15 July 1803. In it he describes himself as a citizen of the United States of America but now living in Sunbury, county of Middlesex. He mentions his wife Ann, sons Joseph and Daniel Blake, daughter Ann Blake, and grandchildren William, Joseph, Anne, and Robert Blake (children of his son Joseph Blake). He left his plantations in South Carolina to his sons, with the exception of Newington and Cypress [which he had inheritied from his brother Daniel], which he left to his grandson William Blake. [4]

William Blake died 29 June 1803 in England. [1]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edgar, Walter B. and N. Louise Bailey. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II: the Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775 (1977), pp. 82-3
↑ Salley, A. S. Marriage Notices In the South-Carolina Gazette And Its Successors. (1732-1801). (1902) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073810010&view=1up&...
↑ “Blake of South Carolina.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 1, no. 2 (1900): 161 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27574908
↑ Charleston District Probate Court Wills, 1800-1807, Vol. 029, 367, page 738[1]
familysearch.org, William Blake, Family Tree, Sources[2]
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKYN-CM6 : 19 March 2020), William Blake in entry for Ann Mary Carolina Blake, 1769.
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NDWB-BXX : 19 March 2020), William Blake in entry for Joseph Blake, 1773.