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Manning Island and later it was called Blackwell's Island when Robert Blackwell came into possession of it. Robert Blackwell also owned Ravenswood, now Long Island City in Brooklyn. He died in 1717, leav- ing issue.
Honorable Samuel Blackwell, the progenitor of the Carolina family, located in what is now Caswell Co., North Carolina and called his estate Blackwells. The village of Blackwells is now on what was his es- tate, and is named for his branch of the family. He left issue, but the name of his wife is unknown.
The Blackwells of Virginia have ever been promi- nent in affairs of Church and State. There is a marble tablet in the Court House at Heathsville, Northum- berland Co., Va., to the memory of a number of this family.
It reads thus:
Samuel Blackwell, 1680- 1732, Vestryman and Justice. Captain Samuel Blackwell, 1710- 1762, Member of Legisla-
ture and Vestryman.
Wm. Blackwell, 1713- 1772, Sheriff, Fauquier Co., Vir-
ginia.
John Blackwell, Revolutionary Patriot. Joseph Blackwell, Revolutionary Patriot. Col. Samuel Blackwell, 1785 - 1833.
Major Hiram Blackwell, War of 1812.
Col. Ferdinand Blackwell, Commonwealth's Attorney,
1846- 1856.
Lieut. Oscar Blackwell, C. S. A., 1861 - 1865.
Lieut. T. E. Blackwell, C. S. A., 1861 - 1865.
(Moore Carter Blackwell, my father, was grandson of Jos.
Blackwell).
Honorable Joseph Blackwell's (King's Surveyor, 1636) estate was the "Poplars". In 1936 I visited the place. Only the dining room and kitchen of the origi- nal residence remained, a new building having been erected where the front stood. He also owned "Wal- nut Lodge" where many of the family are buried. Only the foundation remains, with a frame house re-
built on it, and the cemetery has been destroyed.