260:), four years before his father. His father bequeathed Rippon Lodge to his grandchildren by this son, expecting it to be sold to pay debts owed to Bushrod Washington on this son's behalf. His brother Thomas Blackburn Jr. was administrator of his estate in Virginia, and paid for the coffin as well as received his final pay and sold a slave on the estate's behalf. He is mentioned as both deceased and with the rank of "Major" in the marriage notice of his daughter. The University of Michigan library has a journal he kept traveling from Winchester, Virginia to meet Gen. James Wilkinson in Lexington, Kentucky, and then travel down to New Orleans.
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