Robert Blackburn: Robin's Roots Test

1742 - 1809 (67 years)

TNG Descendant Charts

Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person, but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page) They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print, but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart with more than three or four generations of data, you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF. On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF, but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes, wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart. (That's good news and bad news). In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling, and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width (albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
- The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
- When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense, and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all; they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Robert Blackburn was born in 1742; died on 9 Feb 1809.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Bef 1765, Frederick County, Virginia, USA; Land grand from Lord Fairfax on the "drains of Opekon Creen"
Residence: 1769, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Residence: Abt 1774, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA
Civil: 22 Feb 1779, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Jury service
Military: Apr 1779, East Tennessee, Tennessee, USA; Capt James Shelby's capaign against the Chickamauga Cherokee
Civil: 25 May 1780, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Grand jury
Residence: 1787, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; land grant "on Richland Creek on the north side of the Nolichuckey River"
Property: 1794, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Sold 500 acres at the head of Town Creek

Robert married Margaret Richie about 1765. Margaret died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

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2. Gideon Blackburn was born on 27 Aug 1772; died on 23 Aug 1838.

Generation: 2

Gideon Blackburn

(1.Robert¹) was born on 27 Aug 1772; died on 23 Aug 1838.

Other Events and Attributes:

Occupation: Presbyterian minister, including a period from 1803-1809 wshen he was a cultural missionary to the Cherokee Nation
Residence: Abt 1795, Marysville, Blount County, Tennessee, USA; Founded and led New Providence CHurch.
MIssionary: Betw 1803 and 1809, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Cultural missionary to the Cherokee Nation. Founded schools for Cherokee boys in Bradley Co (1804) and Hamilton Co (1806). But resigned and closed both schools because of accusations of whiskey trading.
Residence: Abt 1810, Franklin County, Tennessee, USA; Itinerant preacher; founded several Presbyterian churches in Tennessee and Alabama
Residence: 1820, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: Abt 1823, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA

Notes:

He is credited with founding Blackburn College, but, though he tried to create a seminary in Macoupin County, Illinois, it didn't open until 2 decades after his death, whereupon it was named Blackburn Seminary (later College) after him.
See articles about him on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Blackburn and The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, at http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=96.
Two more detailed biographies can be found at JSTOR.org:
Gideon Blackburn: A Contemporary's Perspective, by Lester Lamon in the Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 62, No. 4( Winter 1894) pp. 3654-367, at http://www.jstor.org/stable/23328651
Gideon Blackburn, the Founder of Blackburn University, Carlinville, Illinois, by Thomas Binaker, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Oct., 1924), pp. 398-410, at https://www.jstor.org/stable/40186876

Birth:
Son of Robert Blackburn & Margaraet S Ritchie. Some family trees list Ritchie or Richie as his middle name.

Died:
GRid=40307311; Tall family monument topped by a sculpture of books and a dangling tablcloth.

Gideon married Grizelle Blackburn on 2 Oct 1793. Grizelle (daughter of John B Blackburn and Janet Mathews) was born on 27 Oct 1774; died on 25 Jul 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]