Mary Munro
(1708-c. 1768)
BIRTH
January 16, 1708
PLACE
Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, British America
DEATH
c. 1768
PLACE
Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, British America
FAMILY
MOTHER
Christian Burwell
(c. 1727-1784)
HUSBAND
John Blair Sr.
(1687-1771)
CHILDREN
Mary Blair Braxton Burwell
(1734–1799)
CHILDREN
Sarah Blair Cary
(1738-1799)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Munro Blair was the first cousin and wife of John Blair, a Williamsburg merchant who served on Virginia’s governor’s Council. They married about 1726 and had at least twelve children, including John Blair Jr., later a signer of the Constitution and a Supreme Court justice. Their daughters married into the Burwell, Braxton and Cary families. Mary’s life is documented chiefly through family records; published accounts disagree over her death year.
EARLY LIFE
Mary Munro was born on Jan 16, 1708. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Munro is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mary Munro died on Sep 23, 1748. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Munro died on Sep 23, 1748, in Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, British America. Mary Munro Blair was the first cousin and wife of John Blair, a Williamsburg merchant who served on Virginia’s governor’s Council. They married about 1726 and had at least twelve children, including John Blair Jr., later a signer of the Constitution and a Supreme Court justice. Their daughters married into the Burwell, Braxton and Cary families. Mary’s life is documented chiefly through family records; published accounts disagree over her death year. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
100069