John BLUE

John Jun. Blue

in the Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890

Name: John Jun. Blue

State: VA

County: Hampshire County

Township: 10 00

Year: 1782

Record Type: Continental Census

Page: 26

Database: VA Early Census Index

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Name: John J Blue

Birth Date: 1713

Birth Place: Somerset County, New Jersey, United States of America

Death Date: 1791

Death Place: Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America

Cemetery: Indian Mound Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America

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Father: John Blew

Mother: Cattron Blue

Spouse: Mary Blue

Children: Hannah Herriott

John Blue

William H Blue

Peter Keyser Blue

Michael Blue

Jacob Blue

Benjamin Blue

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About John Blue III

John Blue and his family were probably drawn to Hampshire County by the existence of a sizeable Dutch population,which had previously migrated from New Jersey and New York. According to Maxwell and Swisher in "History of Hampshire Co., WV", George Washington, as a lad of 16 years, was commissioned in 1748 by Lord Fairfax to survey http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24908697/person/12594252835/media/4?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum

some of the Fairfax lands. "On April 4 he made an entry showing the kind of people who lived there (along the South Branch of the Potomac), and who were all squatters on the lands of Lord Fairfax, or at least on land claimed by him....... .

On April 4 he (Washington) writes, 'We were all attended with a great company of people, men, women and children, who followed us through the woods, showing their antic tricks. They seemed to be as ignorant a set of people as the Indians. They would never speak English, but when spoken to all spoke Dutch'."

Since John's first wife, Mary Marshall, had her last child in 1753, it is probable that she had died before the family set out from Somerset Co., NJ, or that she died during the journey to Virginia. Sometime in the 1750's John married his

second wife, reputed to be Margaret Keyser (some say Van Meter). Together, they had ten children to add to the four from his first marriage.

Sometime after 1 May 1754, John Blue (Blew) received a grant from Lord Fairfax for Lot 27, 304 acres on the South

Branch of the Potomac River. He and his family lived on this land, located on the east bank of the river just south of

Hanging Rocks, for about twenty years. In 1770, at about the time of his father's death, he purchased Lot 31, north of theRocks and containing 243 acres, from Job http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24908697/person/12594252835/media/4?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum Welton. He was living on this tract of land when he died in 1791. In 1773 he

purchased Lot 30, containing 312 acres, from Thomas Wood, and in 1774 he received a grant of 203 acres adjacent to

Lots 27 and 30. So, at this time, John (1.1.1) owned 1062 acres along the South Branch, surrounding Hanging Rocks.

John Blue's will was proved on 14 April 1791. In this will he divided his land between his four eldest sons (sons of his

first marriage); John received Lot 30, except for seven acres above the Rocks which went to Uriah; Uriah received Lot 27;

and Michael and Garret each received a half share of Lot 31. Each son also received a one-fourth part of the "new survey"of 203 acres. Each of these four sons was obliged to pay certain sums of money to the remaining ten children.

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