Robert BLAIR

Notes:

Served in the Revolutionary War. Occupation, Judge and Sheriff. He was active in the New Jersey Legislature and served as a court justice and Sheriff of Somersett Co., NJ. Called both Capt. Blair and Robert Blair, Esq.



He may have had a daughter who married a ____ Barkley and lived in NY.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor SUTPHEN. Eleanor (daughter of Guisbert Sutphen and Ariantje Van Pelt) was born on 9 Jan 1755 in Bedminster, Sommerset Co., NJ; died on 17 Nov 1827 in Sommerset CO., NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. II Robert BLAIR was born on 15 Sep 1777 in Somersett Co., NJ; died on 21 Sep 1849 in Aurora, Kane Co., IL.

Notes:

According to information received from the Blair Society for Genealogival Research:



Vol IX, #2 pg 8 " The earliest Blair we have found in Somerset Co., NJ was a John Blair "of Peapack". In 1754 a notice was published in the Philadelphia paper for John Blair of Peapack to pick up his mail in Trenton, NJ. John was also listed
in the day book of a merchant John Van Der Veer in Bedminster Twp Somerset Co., NJ covering May 1, 1767 to Jan 25, 1774. His purchases included rum, snuff, ginger, tar, tobacco, wine, sugar, and a castor hat. He paid his debt in tallow, wheat
and pork. No further word has yet been found in the surviving documentsof that period, but we can hazard a guess that John Blair COULD be the father of five men, three of whom lived in Somerset Co. These three married girls whose families
also lived in Somerset.