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Subject: [BLACK-L] Re: NANCY BLACK d/o Joshua Black of Anne Arundel, MD
Date: 14 Jan 2003 19:22:53 -0700
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Here is something on Joshua Black...
History of Indianapolis and Marion County Indiana; 1884; by B. R. Sulgrove, Page 613-615
Warren Township
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
Joshua Black, Aug. 27, 1831 to Aug. 27, 1836
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Marion County Indiana Commemorative Biographical Record [977.252/12 D3C]
page 374
>From George H. Black Biography
"...Joshua Black, son of Christopher and grandfather of George H., was born Oct. 3, 1788, in Howard county, Md., and was a soldier in the war of 1812. By trade he was a carpenter. He removed with his family in 1826 to Marion county, Ind., settling in Indianapolis, where for years he was engaged in building, erecting many structures of the day including the old Roberts Chapel, on the southwest corner of Meridian street and the Circle. Later he entered a tract of in Irvington, where he lived for a time, but returned to the city and died there Nov. 4 1879, at the age of ninety-one years and one month. He was a member of the Methodist Church, in which he was class leader. In politics he was an old-line Whig, serving as a member of city council. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Joshua Black married Elizabeth Burgess, and to them were born four children: Nancy, Washington, William and Sarah..."
I don't know a lot about this line of Blacks, but I read or heard somewhere that Nancy Black was disowned by her father. Whether that was true I don't know...
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