Moses Blackman ¹⁰

   General Notes:

He (Daniel Cram) was married in 1838 to Mary A., daughter of Moses Blackman
who settled here at the same time as Mr. Cram.
(HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY OHIO' CHICAGO: INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO. 1883
CHAPTER XLV, page 1236)

[Ohio Land Records]
Patentee: Moses Blackman
Land Office: Chillicothe
Document Numbers: 6250, 6251, 6252, 6473
Title Authority: Cash Entry Sale
Signature: Y
Signature Date: 1837/08/08
Description Number: 1
Aliquot Parts: W NW, NW SW, SE SW, E NW
Section Number: 11
Township: 11 N
Range: 17 W
Base Line: Ohio River Survey
Total Acres: 80.6300, 40.3100, 40.3100, 80.6300
Fractional Section: N
Metes and Bounds Description: N
Canceled Document: N
Multiple Patentee(s): N
Multiple Warantee(s): N
Access Number: OH1200_.120
Image Name: 00014455
Image Type: P
Volume ID: 051

These land records were given to me on a Vinton County Lookup.
Moses Blackman of Athens County Ohio
purchased 40.31 acres on November 1, 1836 Range 17 west, township 11 north, section 11
purchased 40.31 acres on November 1, 1836 Range 17 west, township 11 north, section 11
purchased 80.63 acres on November 1, 1836 Range 17 west, township 11 north, section 11
purchased 80.63 acres on December 30, 1836 Range 17 west, township 11 north, section 11
This is in Elk Township, Vinton County, Ohio.
Some of the land after Moses died was bought or given to his daughter Mary and her husband Daniel Cram.
Vinton County was made up from Gallia, Athens, Ross, Jackson, and Hocking, in 1858. It was Athens County, Elk Township, when Moses bought his land, and died. It is now Vintion County, Elk Township.

George's biography says he came to Ohio in 1833, and the "History of Hocking Vally Ohio" says he came out about 1837.

His headstone says...
Moses Blackman
Died
Dec. 10, 1846
IN THE
65 yr of his
AGE

From "A Brief History Of Vinton County", by Louse Ogan Biggs, it is said that Moses Blackman and his daughter aged seventeen were both buried in Elk Fork Cemetery in 1846. I show that his daughter Harriet, wife of Joseph Barker, also died in 1846 and is buried there, but she was 31 years old at the time.

   Marriage Information:

Moses married Hannah Wentworth, daughter of Jedediah Wentworth and Mary Jordan, on 20 Jan 1806 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ⁹. (Hannah Wentworth was born in 1789 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, died on 24 Dec 1872 in McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio and was buried in Elk Fork Cemetery, Mcarthur, Vinton County, Ohio.)

   Marriage Notes:

Not all the early families were like minded with the Lanes, the Blackmans, the Westcoats and the Swaims as to good citizenship. There were families who were opposed to churches and schools being established in the communities. (From "A Brief History Of Vinton County", by Louse Ogan Biggs)
Moses & Hannah having married and raised their children in Dedham, Massachusetts area removed with their family from Massachusetts to Ohio, in 1833, while the children were still young, settled in Vinton County, Ohio purchasing 430 acres of land there on which he errected a beautiful residence and at the time of his death, 1844 he had one of the best improved farms in Vinton County. (From the Portrait & Bio. Album of Wapello County, Iowa 1887 pgs 322, 323)