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Rachel Napier

John Blair sat on the (1745–1770), becoming its president in 1757 and serving as acting on four occasions. Born in Scotland, iii. Rachel Napier (b. 07 Jun 1852, d. 30 May 1925)

he came to as a child, living in Williamsburg and earning a degree there at the College of William and Mary, founded by his uncle,

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Rachel Napier (daughter of and ) was born 07 Jun 1852 in Mill Creek, Breathitt Co. KY, and died 30 May 1925 in Lost Mother:

Creek, Breathitt Co. KY. She married on 1871 in KY, son of and .

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More About Rachel Napier and James W. Noble:

John Blair (ca. 1687–1771)

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Marriage: 1871, KY.

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James married (2) Rachel Napier daughter of James Napier in 1871. Rachel was born on 7 Jun 1852 in Breathitt Co., KY. She died on 29 May 1925 in Lost Creek, Perry Co., KY. She was buried in Noble Cem on Cutches Branch.

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Children of Rachel Napier and James W. Noble are:

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George Washington Noble

John Blair sat on the (1745–1770), becoming its president in 1757 and serving as acting on four occasions. Born in Scotland, xi.

b. 1824. d. 1862. Age 38.

he came to as a child, living in Williamsburg and earning a degree there at the College of William and Mary, founded by his xii.

m. Phoebe Campbell (Part Cherokee)

uncle, . John Blair served as deputy auditor general from 1728 until 1771, reforming and improving the procedures by which the xiii

Notes from Genealogy.com: “Two Yankees, Nim McIntosh and Hen Kilburn waylaid George at his home on

government collected revenue. In addition, he served as York County justice of the peace (1724–1745) and as a naval officer on Barge’s Branch, Breathitt Co., KY and when he came out they shot and killed him. His brother Lossen Noble was

the James River (1727–1728). Upon the death of his father, Archibald Blair, he joined the representing (1724–1736). In 1736, he killed about the same time on John Little’s Creek. George went to Missouri in 1844 and came back to Kentucky

was elected as a burgess from Williamsburg, serving until 1740. He is probably the same John Blair who also served as mayor of and married Phoebe Campbell, daughter of Lewis Campbell, and he named his first daughter Missouri for the

Williamsburg in 1751. After the governor’s death and in ill health himself, Blair resigned from the Council in 1770 rather than state. George was a farmer.”

serve as acting governor a fifth time. He died in 1771.

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Caleb Jacob Lovejoy Noble

Blair was the only recorded son of Archibald Blair and his first wife, whose name is not known. He was born in Scotland xv.

b. 1859, KY. d. 1928. KY Age 78.

around 1687 and before his father immigrated to Virginia in the 1690s. He was educated at the College of William and Mary and xvi.

m. Sarah Jane Noble b. 1878. d. 1954. Daughter of James Noble and Rachel Napier

lived virtually all of his life in Williamsburg.

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Ambrose Noble

Blair was a manager of the mercantile house in Williamsburg known as Dr. Blair’s Store, of which his father was the largest xviii. b. circa 1896. d. 1963. Age 67.

shareholder, until Archibald Blair died in 1733. For about fourteen years during the 1740s and 1750s Blair was a partner of John xix.

m. Omega Noble

Blair Jr., the son of a cousin, in another Williamsburg store. The names of John Blair and John Blair Jr. often appear together in xx.

Vesta Noble

the records of York County. Blair also owned several valuable properties in Williamsburg, including the Raleigh Tavern, which xxi.

b. 1921. d. 2003 Age 83.

he rented to a succession of tavern keepers and sold in 1742, and the Chowning Tavern, which he owned from 1726 to sometime xxii. m. Edward Fugate (1912-1964)

before 1739. In 1745 Blair and seventeen other men received a grant for one hundred thousand acres of land on the Potomac and xxiii. Inez Fugate

Youghiogheny rivers.

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b. 1948

Blair’s long and distinguished public career may have begun as early as 1715, when he or a namesake cousin was named keeper xxv.

m. Robert Liftig. 1971. b. 1947

of the royal storehouse in Williamsburg. Blair took the oaths of office as a justice of the peace for York County on August 17, 1724,

Anya Liftig

and served until he was sworn in as a member of the governor’s Council more than two decades later. He was appointed naval officer xxvi. b. 1977

for the upper district of the James River on February 5, 1727, and held that post until he became deputy auditor general on August 15, xxvii. m. Noel Hartman, 2011

1728. Blair remained deputy auditor until his death. He succeeded his father as burgess for Jamestown in 1734, and he represented xxviii. Dorothy Liftig

Williamsburg from 1736 to 1740. He was probably the John Blair who served as mayor of Williamsburg in 1751. He also served as a xxix.

vestryman of Bruton Parish beginning at least as early as 1744, was a churchwarden about 1749, and was a visitor of the College of xxx.

b. 1981

William and Mary in 1758. Blair served as clerk of the governor’s Council from April 22, 1741, until October 15, 1741, during part of xxxi. m. David Martin, 2009

which his uncle James Blair was acting governor. Blair’s only known marriage was to his first cousin Mary Munro about 1726. They had at least eight daughters and four sons. Their fourth child, also named John Blair, became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. John Blair died in Williamsburg on November 5, 1771, and was buried in Bruton Parish churchyard.

Born: 20 Jan 1709 at Williamsburg, James City Co, VA

Died: 22 Apr 1775 at Cobbs , Chesterfield Co, From Henrico , VA

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