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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
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Bradford County PA
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Tioga County PA
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The Blackwell Family
by James Blackwell
Written for The Gate Keeper, 1912
John and Sarah Blackwell, Nailsworth, Glocestershire, England,
and Enoch Blackwell, Sr., of Haven Parish, Glocestershire, England.
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Children of Enoch Sr.: William, John, Nancy, Phebe, Hannah, Sarab
(Sarah) and Enoch, half brother.
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Children of John and Sarah: Enoch Jr., Thomas, Peter, and Joshua.
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Children of Joshua: John Hay, George A., Enoch the 3d and Amelia.
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Children of Enoch the 3d: William Bush Blackwell, George A., Spencer
W., Edward S., Christina C.
These all came over in 1804. Sailed from Bristol on April 2, landed at
Philadelphia May 17. Among this company was a lad 13 years old, by the
name of Thomas Lloyd and a lady by the name of Sarah Lugg.
She became the wife of Thomas Clinch and later the wife of Enoch
Blackwell, Sr.
The company of men purchased 12,000 acres of land in the counties of
Tioga and Lycoming and paid $12,000 for it. A Presbyterian minister by
the name of Joehn Hay was their leader. In the early spring of 1805
they started for their new homes and reached there in safety and commenced
living in the darkest kind of wilderness. A forest of the largest kind
of timber, principally pine and hemlock. They went to work and cleared
up several farms. After several years they became discontented and began
to leave. Their place was named English settlement; I think the first to
leave was Enoch Sr. Its name today is Oregon Hill. He went to Pine
Creek where Blackwells is now situated. There he purchased 400 acres and
commenced to clear it up and lumber. This was the spring of 1810. He farmed
and lumbered until 1816 in the spring, and went down the river with his
lumber and was taken sick at Jersey Shore and died, aged 54. William
was his oldest son, John, Nancy, Hannah, Phebe and Sarah.
Nancy married a man by the name of Henry Tomb and lived
at Dantz Run on Pine Creek.
Hannah married a man by the name of Haydock, they went
west.
Phebe married a man by the name of Shearer and they went
to Illinois.
Sarah married John Gamble of Jersey Shore.
Enoch, half brother, settled at Nelson, Tioga County.
John went to Bradford County, West Burlington, and there he
remained.
Joshua went to Jersey Shore. I can not name his children.
Peter, I think, died at English Settlement, in what year I can
not tell. Quite a few died at English Settlement.
William, son of Enoch Sr., remained at Blackwells untill he
died, December 3, 1859.
Children of William: Mary Ann Blackwell, George Blackwell,
Enoch Blackwell, John M. Blackwell, Sarah Blackwell, William Blackwell
and James Blackwell. I am the only one left of this family and I will
be 74 years old the 16th day of September. (note: 1912 lzc)
taken from Gemini published by the Twin Tiers Genealogical Society
Vol. IX no 1 September 1979 page 11.
