Sarah Harrison Blair
BIRTH
1670
Surry County, Virginia Colony
DEATH
May 5, 1713
Jamestown, Virginia Colony
FAMILY
MOTHER:
Elizabeth Bassett
(1730-1792)
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Blair, Sarah Harrison
(1670-1713)
Sarah Harrison Blair (1670-1713) was a planter and estate manager and the spouse of James Blair. James Blair was a public official and clergyman whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Sarah Harrison Blair to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Although this life ended before the fighting for independence began, the marriage and family connections formed part of the colonial society inherited by the Revolutionary generation. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Sarah Harrison Blair in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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BROTHER
Carter Bassett Harrison
(?-1808)
HUSBAND
James Blair
(1656-1743)
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DIED:
Jamestown, Virginia Colony
May 5, 1713
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.