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Margaret (Davis) Blakely (abt. 1735 - abt. 1825)

Margaret Blakely formerly Davis
Born about in North Carolinamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , and
Died about at about age 90 in Knox, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

Margaret Davis married Charles Blakely and was the mother of eleven children. Charles appears as a taxpayer in Botecourt county, Virginia in 1770. During the early 1770's, Botecourt County covered most of the Upper Shenandoah Valley and the Virginia Panhandle. The location specified by the tax collector was at the headwaters of the Middle Holston River near the present town of Marion in Smyth county. By 1794, Charles Blackely appears in Knox county, Tennessee, where on September 7th, he purchased 246 acres of land from Joseph Karns. [1] Children of Margaret and Charles are:

  • John Blakely, married Lavina Brown on June 6, 1817, in Knox county, Tennessee
  • Anna Blackley/Blakely, married Joseph Adamson. She died before her father in 1815, however her husband is mentioned in Charles Blackley's Will.
  • James Blakely, born before 1773
  • Alexander Blakely, born April 3, 1773, probably in Smyth county, Virginia, died August 13, 1849, in Penn Township, Jefferson county, Iowa
  • Sarah Blakely, born January 5, 1775, died May 27, 1861, in Westvile, LaPorte county, Indiana
  • Jessie Blakely, born December 25, 1777, died January 17, 1853, in Gentry county, Missouri
  • Agnes Blakely, born circa 1779
  • Mary Blakely, born circa 1781, married James Routh
  • Martha Blakely, born circa 1783, died October 18, 1832, in Jackson county, Missouri
  • Charles Blakley, born circa 1785
  • Joseph Martin Blakely, born circa 1787, died January 21, 1857, in Barnard, Grant Township, Nodaway county, Misouri


U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560 - 1900

  • Name: Davis
  • Gender: Female
  • Spouse Name: Charles Blackley
  • Marriage State: of TN
  • Name: Margaret Davis
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Year: 1736
  • Spouse Name: Charles Blakley
  • Marriage State: of TN

Sources

  1. ↑ The Charles Blackley family of Knox County, Tennessee, by Gregory M Perry, Anundsen Pub. Co., Decorah, Iowa, 1991




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