The Blaine family
Subtitle: James Blaine, emigrant, and his children, Ephraim, Alexander, William, Eleanor
By: comp. and ed. by John Ewing Blaine ...
Publisher: The Ebbert & Richardson co.
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Cincinnati
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Blaine family  (James Blaine, ca. 1715-179?); Blaine, Ephraim, 1741-1804.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: Page; title: Chapter One 3-6; title: Blaine Ancestry; James Blaine; the Galbraiths; the Lyons; settled and remained in Pennsylvania.; title: Chapter Two 7-12; title: Ephraim Blaine's Education; Appointment to an Ensigncy in the Provincial Service; Commander of Fort Ligonier, Pennsylvania;; title: Letters; Resignation.; title: Chapter Three: 13-19; title: Ephraim Blaine Marries Rebecca Galbraith; the Galbraiths of Donegal;. Scotch-Irish. Donegal Church. John Lyon, John Armstrong and His Sister, Margaret. John Armstrong Public Services.; title: 'Samuel Lyon Public Services; Marries Eleanor, Ephraim Blaine's Sister.; title: Chapter Four 20-24; title: Ephraim Blaine Elected Sheriff; Owner of Grist and Saw Mills; Lieutenant in Battalion of Associators, Member of Committee of; title: Observation; Special Commissioner to Treat with Indians; Appointed by Congress to Purchase Quartermaster and Com-; title: missary Supplies; Colonel 1st Battalion Cumberland County Militia.; title: Chapter Five25-31; title: Ephraim Blaine again Appointed to Purchase Quartermaster and Commissary Supplies; Resigns as Colonel of Militia; The Execu-; title: tive Council tenders Him Appointment as Lieutenant of Cumberland County which is Declined; Elected by Congress Deputy; title: Commissary General of Purchases; Services in Commissary Department; Elected by Congress Commissary General of Purchases; Monies Disbursed.; title: Chapter Six32-38; title: Ephraim Blaine, Commissary General of Purchases; Letters; Aided in His Work by His Brothers William and Alexander and His Brother-in-Law Samuel Lyon; Remained in Service to the Close of the War. Record of Public Services of Ephraim Blaine; title: and Authorities.; title: Chapter Seven39-43; title: Ephraim Blaine resumes Private Business; Fortune Impaired by War; Makes Philadelphia His Winter Home; Forms Business; title: Connection with William Bell; Visits Kentucky to Enter Lands in Partnership and on Their Individual Accounts; Partial List of; title: Lands Entered; Makes a LaterVisit; Meets Dr. Saugrain, an Early Kentucky Explorer and with Him Travels through the State.; title: Pages; title: Chapter Eight44-49; title: James Blaine sent to Europe for Special Professional Training;; title: Bearer to this Country of Jays Treaty; Appointed by Governor; title: McKean Captain of the First Troop of Light Horse Militia of; title: Pennsylvania; Appointed by President John Adams Captain in; title: United States Infantry; Marries Jane Hoge, who died within a; title: year. Robert Blaine Marries Susanna Metzger. Ephraim Blaine; title: Purchases Middlesex Estate. Whiskey Insurrection. President; title: Washington Entertained by Colonel Blaine in His Carlisle Home.; title: Dinner Party at George Metzger's.; title: Chapter Nine50-54; title: James Blaine Marries (a second time) His Cousin Margaret; title: Lyon. Death of Colonel Blaine's Wife, Rebecca Galbraith,; title: and of General John Armstrong. Colonel Blaine Presents each of His; title: Sons with Handsome Homes in Carlisle; Marries (a second time); title: Sarah Elizabeth Postlethwaite Duncan. Will of Colonel Blaine.; title: Tragic Death of Ephraim Blaine, Jr. Death of Colonel Ephraim; title: Blaine, February 18, 1804. His Sons James and Robert as; title: Executor's Present Claims to Congress for Monies Due their; title: Father for Salary and for Money Advanced by Him. Robert; title: Blaine remains in Carlisle.; title: Chapter Ten 55-60; title: James Blaine Moves with His Family to Western Pennsylvania.; title: Samuel Lyon Blaine Marries Anna Coons and Establishes His Home; title: in Kentucky. Marriage of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria Gil-; title: lespie, Parents of James Gillespie Blaine. Marriage of Eleanor; title: Blaine and John Hoge Ewing. David Hoge lays out Town of; title: Washington, Pennsylvania. James Blaine Spends His Last Days in; title: Washington, Pennsylvania.; title: PART II; title: Appendix61-76; title: "Colonel Ephraim Blaine-Interesting Reminiscences," pub-; title: lished in the "Washington Examiner," Washington, Pennsylvania,; title: September 2, 1858; title: Extracts from "Fragments of Family and Contemporary His-; title: tory, gathered by Rev. Thomas Hastings Robinson, D. D.," and; title: published in 1867.; title: Extracts from "Carlisle, Old and New," published by the Civic; title: Club of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.; title: Extracts from the "History of Cumberland County, Pennsyl-; title: vania," by Rev. Conway F. King, D. D.; title: PART III; title: Genealogy and Index of Names77-109.