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Subject: Re: [SOUTHEAST-PIONEERS] Blackman family from VA to NC---PIONEER'*HINTONS*!
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:39:05 -0500
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Looking for ANY INTEL on PIONEER *HINTONS*
Migrating from VIRGINIA thru the CAROLINA To Points WEST???????????
Our' Ancestors- *HINTONS* were of the SIR. THOMAS HINTON LINE- OF THE
"JAMESTPOWNE COLONY FINANCEERS"!!!!!!!!!!!
We have found Our' *COL. JOHN HINTON-(Died circa- 1731)* & MARY (HARDY)
-HINTON, & two Brothers in "CHOWAN COUNTY, NC-[ALBEMERLE DISTRICT], But
Nothing on the Migration from VIRGINIA!!!!!
Thanks and GOD BLESS
SEMPER FI
BA- In North GA!!
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This information is from an article I found reprinted on the Blackman
Message
Board at Ancestry.com. It was posted by Thomas Blackman on 2 Aug 1999.
I've
tried to contact him but with no success.
He states that the information was taken from Huckleberry Historian,
Volume
XIV, Number 2, 15 June 1992 and Volume XIV, Number 3, 15 Sep 1992,
"William &
John Blackman and Their Trail to Sampson & Johnston Counties, N.C." by
Donald
E. Collins, Ph. D.
The first part of the article is basically the same early information
that I
already posted on the list about the family being in Henrico County,
Virginia
and that there is no proof of any connection to either Nicholas Blackman
in
the lists of 1624 or Jeremiah/Jeremy Blackman, the ship's captain who
purchased
land in Berkeley Hundred in 1636 in company with several London
merchants.
The article states the following:
"A Humphrey Blackman is recorded as having been transported to Virginia
in
1638 by Richard Barn Howse. In 1646, Jermy Blackman, mariner, possessed
1,400
acres in what is now Chesterfield County. He passed this land on to his
son,
also named Jeremiah.
No connection has yet been made between Nicholas and Humphrey Blackman
and
the Blackmans of North Carolina. It is believed that Jermy/Jeremiah
Blackman was
either the father or grandfather of William who in turn was the father
of
John Blackman of North Carolina. The evidence connecting Jeremiah and
William is
circumstancial, based primarily on geographic proximity in combination
with
the extreme rarity of the Blackman name and the small number of settlers
in the
Falling Creek area during the period in question. Various records show
the
following:
1. On 14 March 1646 Jeremiah Blackman (d. by 1669) obtained 1,400 acres
of
land on the south side of the James River in the Falling Creek vicinity.
Neighboring families were the Wards and Branches who also appeared as
neighbors of
William and John Blackman. Upon his death he passed the land to his son
Jeremiah
who in turn sold it to Richard Ward in 1669.
2. Within ten years of this transaction William Blackman (b.1641), the
father
of John was residing on this land.
3. A little more tenuous than the geographic connection, John Blackman
apprenticed his ten year old son William to learn to be a mariner in
1723. Was he
carrying on a family tradition?
WILLIAM BLACKMAN
William Blackman was born in 1641, probably, if the above assumptions
are
correct, in the Falling Creek area of Henrico County (now in the city of
Richmond), Virginia. He married Dorothy and had four known children.
If records are to be believed, two different William Blackmans arrived
in
Virginia in 1663 and 1671, and a John Blackman arrived in 1702. What is
more
likely is that William and his son John participated in the widespread
abuse of
the headright system in which individuals were given 50 acres of land
for each
indentured person they brought into the colony as a settler. In practice
the
same names appear repeatedly in lists of transported (or imported)
persons.
William Blackman's plantation was located on Grindalls (also called
Grendons)
Run, a branch of Falling Creek that began near where the creek enters
the
James River. It was bounded by the land of Henry Sherman and Robert
Broadway with
whom the Blackmans are known to have close social relations and Peter
Lee.
The only product his plantation is known to have produced is tobacco.
(He paid
William Byrd 3,000 pounds of tobacco for 350 acres of land in 1669.)
In 1679, following incidents of hostility with the Indians, the Virginia
Assembly passed 'An Act For the Defense of the Country Against the
Incursions of
the Indian Enemy". William Blackman was named as one of eleven men in
his area
ordered to 'fitt out forty men, horses, armes, etc.' William Blackman
was
responsible for supplying two men with William Byrd in overall command.
Several children were placed in the care of William Blackman by his
neighbors
through their wills and by the Orphan Court of Henrico County. On 20
August
1682 he was given custody of one child of his neighbor Broadway for four
years
until the child came of age and could assume control of his own affairs.
In
1685, another neighbor, Gilbert Jones, willed his son Robert to William
Blackman
for a term of six years. In a will written 23 December 1689, and
probated in
1695, Joshua Stap made William executor of his will and placed him third
in
line after his children to inherit his estate. Joshua also 'bequeathed'
his
son-in-law (probably stepson) John Claiborne to William 'for the time he
hath to
serve'. His son Joshua was willed to serve William's wife, Dorothy
Blackman,
until age 18 (ten years), and his daughter Elizabeth was to serve her
until age
15. (William Blackman, Jr. was willed a gun).
The will of Edward Deely was written 18 October 1688 and shows ties
between
his family and the Blackmans. William and his four children were left
various
farm animals. Also mentioned in the will was Thomas Jefferson
(grandfather of
the President) who was referred to as 'my brother.'
William Blackman, Sr. died in Henrico County between 11 November 1697
when he
wrote his will and 1 April 1698 when it was probated. His wife Dorothy
was
named as executrix. His wife and four children inherited his estate,
William
receiving the southern half of his land on Grindalls Run and John
Blackman
receiving the northern half. The witnesses to the will included William
Blackman
Sr's former ward Robert Broadway and John Goode whose daughter Elizabeth
married
John Blackman.
Four years later Dorothy Blackman, no longer able to live alone, came to
live
with her son John on a plantation he had traded with Henry Ascough
(formerly
the land of Robert Broadway) for the land he (John) had inherited from
his
father. Called Orick or Warrick, but generally referred to as Warwick,
it was
located just north of Falling Creek on the King's Road and was bounded
by the
James River on one side and William Blackman Jr's land on Grindall Run
on the
other. John and his mother formalized the agreement in a legal document
in which
he agreed to live with his mother, support her and manage her affairs
for as
long as she lived. In turn she agreed not to sell or give away anything
she
possessed, and at her death none of her other children would have a
claim to any
of her estate. The agreement was signed 18 November 1701. The witnesses
included John Goode who was or would become John's father-in-law. On 30
May 1702,
Dorothy Blackman appointed her friend, Capt. Giles Webb as her attorney.
She
died by 25 Oct. 1704 and John sold Warwick back to Mary Ascough, the
widow of the
man from whom he had obtained it. (Note: Dorothy Blackman's maiden name
is
unknown. The only clue to her origin lies in the fact that she signed
her name
with an 'H')
Children of William and Dorothy (?) Blackman:
1. William Blackman
2. John Blackman b. abt. 1670 m. 1) Elizabeth Goode and 2) Sarah ?
3. Dorothy Blackman m. George Cogbill
4. Elizabeth Blackman m. Richard Ward
Barry Jernigan
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