Name: Hugh BLAIR
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Birth: 1706 Ulster, Northern Ireland
Death: Aug 1783 Surrey, NC
Occupation: Possibly Presbyterian Minister
Residence: /Immigrated to America in 1746 settled in Rising sun, Pennsylvania, as members of the Nottingham Company which helped the Scotch-Irish emigrants come to America and find land to purchase.
Residence: may have been born in Scotland as early as 1706 then migrated to Ireland in 1731 where he married Mary Dawson in 1738 Came to America in the Summer of 1746 settled in cumberland or Lancaster Co. Pa  later came to Guilford Co. NC then on to Washington Co
Marriage: 1738 Ireland
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Spouse: Mary DAWSON
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Birth: Feb  County Down, Ireland
Death: 29 Mar 1828 Surry Co. NC

Children:
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1 M: James BLAIR
Birth: 1740 Rowan Co. NC
Death: abt 1776 Guilford Co NC
Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM
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2 M: Hugh BLAIR JR.
Birth: 1744 Ireland
Death:  Loudon Co. Tennessee
Spouse: Jane McCALEB
Marriage: 8 Aug 1778 Guilford Co NC
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3 F: Jane or Jean BLAIR
Birth: 20 Aug 1746 On voyage to America from Ireland
Death: 21 Apr 1839 Bedford Co. TN
Spouse: James ENDSLEY
Marriage: abt 1767 Guilford Co. NC
Spouse: Capt. John C CUMMINGS Jr.
Marriage: bef 1781 North Carolina
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4 F: Mary BLAIR
Birth: 18 Feb 1748 Lancaster Co. PA
Death: 29 Mar 1828 Bedford Co. TN
Spouse: James LEEPER SR.
Marriage: 4 Nov 1766 Rowan Co. NC
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5 M: John "The Miller" BLAIR
Birth: 12 Apr 1749 Lancaster Co. PA
Death: 17 Dec 1819 Jonesboro, Washington Co. TN
Birth: 28 Apr 1750
Spouse:  Jane GAMBLE
Marriage: 9 Feb 1771 Guilford Co NC
Spouse: Hannah CARUTHERS
Marriage: 26 Nov 1793 Washington Co. TN
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6 F: Elizabeth BLAIR
Birth: 1742 Ireland
Death: 1823 Guilford Co. NC
Spouse: Moses McQUISTON
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7 F: Martha (Mattie) BLAIR
Birth: 1751 Lancaster Co. PA
Death: 1838 Bedford Co. TN
Spouse: William CUNNINGHAM
Marriage: 31 Dec 1771 Guilford Co Tennessee

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Notes for Hugh BLAIR
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Blair History from the files of Lucy Steele, Loudon Tennessee
During the Revolution of 1688, William Blair of Blair supported the Covenanter Party and later raised a troop of horseman in support of the newly crowned King, William III (1688-1702). It was at this period that a branch of the family was established in the north of Ireland by Robert Blair, a Minister of the Gospel from Ayshire.  His decendent, Hugh Blair, is said to have left Ireland after the rebellion and eventually settled in Pennsylvania(1746), perhaps in Lancaster County, erected since from Cumberland County Pa.  Later he moved to Guilford County, North Carolina. This Hugh Blair, as far as we have been able to determine, was the Progenitor of "The Blair's Ferry Blairs".
HUGH BLAIR
Hugh Blair was born in Scotland in 1706, migrated to Ireland in 1731 and there, in 1738 married Mary Dawson, of whose family we have no record. Hugh, Mary and their three eldest children, James, Elizabeth and Hugh, came to America in the summer of 1746.  Their daughter Jane was born on the voyage over. They settled in Cumberland or Lancaster County, Pa. Where three other children, Mary, John and Martha were born.  Later they came to Guilford County, N.C.  Then on to Washington County, N.C. now Washington County, Tennessee. Some have said that Hugh was engaged in farming, others, that he was a Presbyterian Minister, However, this seems of little consequence since, to me, either are honorable occupations and I will only say, and I know that all of you Blairs share my opinion, that if he was a farmer, he was a good one and if he was a Minister of the Gospel, he furthered the Kingdom of Heaven. In The Annals of Tennessee by J.G.M. Ramsey (page 138) we find Hugh Blair listed as on of the signers of The Watauga Petition, which was received by the Provencial Council of North Carolina on Aug. 22, 1776. There is no record of Mary Dawson's death but Hugh died in Aug. 1783.  No marked graves have been located for them but it is probable that they are buried in Washington County, Tenn
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Wilson Family Genealogy Book  "You Take it From Here".
Blair Genealogy Section III Principle sorce of this informaiton is an article written
by Reb. James Hugh Blair Hall and published in The Blair Magazine for Nov.,
1926, Vol. I, pp. 43, 45.  See also the Presbyterian Advocate, a magazine
published in Nashville, Tenn. Feb 1, 1912.
Born in Ireland and there married Mary Dawson, about 1738.  He came to
America in summer of 1746 and settled first in Pennsylvania - perhaps in
present Lancaster County.  He may have lived in South Carolina for some time
but is know to have settled in Guilford County, N.C. where, presumably, he
died.
     Children of Hugh and Mary (Dawson) Blair:
1.  John, (q.v.)
2. Hugh, Jr. Hugh Blair signed a petition to North Carolina from the
"Western
Country" (Now Tenn.) in 1776. (Ramsey's Annals of Tenn.)
3. James, m. Sarah Lowery.
4. Martha ("Mattie"). m. William cunningham in 1771.
5. Mary, m. James Leeper.
6. Jane, m. (1) John endsley; m. (2) ______ Cummings.
7.  Betsy (or Betty), m. _____ McQuiston (McChristian, etc.)
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