James Blair (abt. 1825 - abt. 1903)

Born about 1825 in Virginia, USA

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Biography

James Blair is a part of US Black heritage.

James was born about 1825. He passed away about 1903.

James was one of 272 slaves in 1838 sold by Maryland's Jesuit priests to Southern plantations to raise money for Georgetown University. Georgetown Memory Project code: GMP-108.

He was enumerated on a passenger list for the Katherine Jackson which departed Alexandria, District of Columbia, and arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana on 13 Nov 1838.^[1]

He was married to A Johnson on 20 Nov 1868.

He was later married to Sarah Graham and had one child:

1. Mary (b.1871)

There is a marriage for a James Blair and Sarah Graham in Orleans Parish, Louisiana on 6 Jun 1871, which may possibly be the marriage of the persons in this profile.^[2]

Who Are GU272?

In 1838, the Maryland Jesuits sold more than 300 enslaved people to sugar plantations in southern Louisiana, in order to rescue Georgetown University from bankruptcy. In all, the Jesuits sold 314 men, women and children over a 5-year period stretching from 1838 to 1843. Today, these enslaved people are known collectively as the “GU272 Ancestors.” Genealogists have identified many of the original people who were sold, along with 8,425 of their descendants, living and dead.

Sources

1. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807-1860; Microfilm Serial: M1895; Microfilm Roll: 8
2. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ8-K99H : 8 November 2020), James Blair and Sarah Graham, 06 Jun 1871; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 906,331.

• GU272 Descendants, 1785-2000. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://trees.americanancestors.org/#!/tree/33166/people/567-42NV-EVQK

• GU272 Descendants, 1785-2000. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2756/i/55285//1425737215