John Blair

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Husband John Blair ^{1 2}

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           Died:  - northern Ireland
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Wife

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Children

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1 M Hugh Blair ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 1741 - Donagar, County Antrim, Ireland 1
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           Died: 5 Jan 1837 - near Hartstown, Crawford Co, PA 1 3 4
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         Spouse: Janet Thompson (1745-1835) 2
           Marr: Ireland

         Spouse: Jane Thompson (Abt 1745-1835) 1 6

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General Notes: Husband - John Blair

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The Blairs left Scotland with many of the best people of the section to escape religious persecution. They settled in the North of Ireland where John Blair died at the great age of one hundred and one years.

The Blair families of Ireland and America are descended from the Ayrshire Blairs of Scotland. Their lineage has been traced back on the female side more than once to a royal ancestor, according to family records. The Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Blairs trace their line directly to Dr. Robert Blair, of St. Andrews, Scotland, and later of Ireland, who was the first Presbyterian minster in Ulster County, Ireland, and had a congregation at Bangor, County Down, in 1610. Later he retired to Aghaddy, County Antrim. His grandson, John Blair, born in Ireland, died there at the age of 101 years.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1696.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 420.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 679.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 143.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 173, 343.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 343.