John Blair Linn and Esther Bailey

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Husband John Blair Linn ¹

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           Born: 14 Mar 1777 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 30 Aug 1804 2
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         Father: Rev. William Linn, D.D. (1752-1808) 3 4
         Mother: Rebecca Blair (      -      ) 3 4

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       Marriage: 1799 2

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Wife Esther Bailey ²

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         Father: Col. John Bailey (      -      ) 2
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   Other Spouse: John R. Bleeker (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M John Blair Linn ²

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General Notes: Husband - John Blair Linn

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He graduated from Columbia College, New York, in 1796; read law under Alexander Hamilton; abandoned that profession for the ministry, and licensed 1798; installed as co-pastor of First Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1799. Dr. Linn's published writings are "The Powers of Genius," a poem, second edition, published 1802; "Valerian,'' a poem, published in 1806, after his death, with a sketch of his life, by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 368.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 369.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 367.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 50.