Sarah Harrison Blair
(1670-1713)
BIRTH
1670
PLACE
Surry County, Virginia Colony
NAME
Sarah Harrison
DEATH
May 5, 1713
PLACE
Jamestown, Virginia Colony
FAMILY
HUSBAND
James Blair
(1656-1743)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Sarah Harrison Blair (1670–1713) was a Virginia planter’s daughter who married James Blair, founder of William & Mary, in 1687. A later account says she refused the wedding vow to obey him. She managed their Virginia affairs during his journeys to England and apparently helped operate a Williamsburg trading store. Caught in his political disputes, she lived at Rich Neck Plantation and died in 1713. She was buried in the Jamestown churchyard.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sarah Harrison Blair’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Sarah Harrison Blair with work or public activity as a planter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Harrison Blair died in 1713, in Jamestown, Virginia Colony. Sarah Harrison Blair was a Virginia planter’s daughter who married James Blair, founder of William & Mary, in 1687. A later account says she refused the wedding vow to obey him. She managed their Virginia affairs during his journeys to England and apparently helped operate a Williamsburg trading store. Caught in his political disputes, she lived at Rich Neck Plantation and died in 1713. She was buried in the Jamestown churchyard. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Jamestown Memorial Church (Old Church Tower)
Island Dr, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, USA
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