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Subject: [MDWASHIN-L] Blackford Family & Ferry Hill Plantation
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:40:54 EST

Hi everyone- I came across this info & thought it might be of interest to the
list:
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm6.ht
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Mss1B5645c, Blackford Family Papers, 1836-1858,
Jefferson County, Virginia [now West Virginia];
also Washington County, Maryland

This collection consists of four items arranged in sections by name of
individual and type of document. Section 1 consists of one item, a diary, 29
September 1836-3 January 1838, of John Blackford (1771-1839). The diary was
kept at Ferry Hill Plantation, Washington County, Maryland. Entries include
daily records of weather, farm and family life, and business activities,
especially ferry operations. Included are accounts of crops planted (chiefly
wheat and other grains), activities of slaves (two of whom ran the ferry) and
hired hands, livestock records, and social and family activities of the
Blackford and related Knode families. John Blackford had extensive business
and social dealings with persons in Boonsboro, Hagerstown, and Sharpsburg,
Maryland, and Shepherdstown, Virginia [now West Virginia].Section 2 consists
of two items, diaries, 1838-1846, of Franklin Blackford. The diaries were
kept at Ferry Hill Plantation, Washington County, Maryland, and include brief
entries recording weather, farm and family life, the activities of slaves and
hired workers, and the operation of a ferry between Washington County,
Maryland, and Jefferson County, Virginia [now West Virginia]. Throughout the
period Blackford made frequent business and social trips to Boonsboro,
Hagerstown, and Sharpsburg, Maryland.Section 3 consists of one item, an
account book, 1842-1858 [bulk 1842-1845], of Franklin Blackford. The volume
was kept at Ferry Hill Plantation, Washington County, Maryland, and consists
chiefly of accounts for ferriage from Blackford's Ferry in Washington County,
Maryland, to near Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia [now West
Virginia], but later entries include family accounts for goods purchased and
the schooling of children. Family members mentioned include Henry V. S.
Blackford, Janette E. Blackford, John Frank Blackford, Laura L. Blackford,
Mary C. Blackford, William H. Blackford, and William M. Blackford.N.B.
Researchers should note the existence of a printed volume, Fletcher M. Green,
ed., Ferry Hill Plantation Journal: Life on the Potomac River and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 4 January 1838-15 January 1839, (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1961), James Sprunt Studies in History
and Political Science, Vol. 43.


****************Krissy Slagle *******************
~~I collect ancestors and Baskets~~
**************Fayetteville, Georgia**************

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