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Margaret Blackburn see FAMILY TREE
Bap. 16 Oct 1740 Lancaster, PA

 
Married: 19 Oct 1763 Menallen Meeting, York, PA

 
Died: After 23 Aug 1805 possibly Fayette, PA
 

FATHER

John Blackburn

MOTHER

Rebecca Harlan

HUSBAND

Solomon Shepherd

CHILDREN

1. Amy Rebecca Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1764
    m. Bef. 10 11th mo 1783 to John Allen
         (disowned for marrying out of unity)
    d. Oct 1817 Brookeville, Franklin, IN

2. Jane (Jean) Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1766
    m. bef. 28 7th mo. 1798 to Mattock
        (disowned for marrying out of unity)

3. John Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1768
    (disowned for fornication 23rd 1st mo. 1790)
    m. 29 Feb 1795 Lucretia Patterson
    d. 1809 Breckinridge Co., KY

4. Solomon Shepherd
    b. Oct 1769
    m. Bef. 22 10th mo. 1791
        (disowned for marrying out of unity)

5. Elizabeth Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1771
    (disowned 25 10th mo. 1794)

6. Mary Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1773
    m. Bef. 27 10th mo. 1792 to Peter Andrews
        (disowned for marrying out of unity)

7. Joseph Shepherd
    b. 1 Jul 1777
    (disowned 23 6th mo. 1792)
    m. 1799 to Elizabeth Medix
    (Reinstated 22 5th mo. 1817)
    d. 1 Jul 1859 Fayette, PA

8. Sarah M Shepherd
    b,. Abt. 1779
    m. Bef. 25 Feb 1797 to William C Colvin
     (disowned for marrying out of unity)

9. Benjamin Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1780
    (married contrary to discipline 1799)
    tax record Washington, PA 1820

10. Thomas Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1782
    m. Bef. 28 Nov 1812 to unknown
    (disowned for marrying out of unity)
    (reinstated at Redstone 22 1st mo. 1817) 

Margaret Blackburn
by Susan Brooke
April 2023

Margaret Blackburn was the first born child of John Blackburn and Rebecca Harlan.  She was born 16 Dec 1740 as was recorded in the Menallen Montly Meeting. (1) They married at the Menallen Meeting on 19 Oct 1763.  She had ten children, the last born when she was about 42 yeas old.  On 23 Aug 1805 Solomon and Margaret Shepherd were admitted to the Redstone Meeting. However, she was not on her husband's Certificate to Redstone in 1810 (3)

Sources 

(1) Menallen Monthly Meeting 

 1820.Menallen Meeting

(2) History and Genealogy of the   Harland Family Vo 1 by Alpheus  n H Harland, page 34

(3) Backburn & Allied Descendants of John Blackburn, Sr.  by Evelyn D. Gilson, 1978  page 42
Death of Margaret Blackburn