14 SERMONS-18thC including EXECUTION SERMON
Most of these fourteen sermons date from the 18th century and a few date from the very early 19th centruy. These sermons are from all over the eastern US including one from Fredericksburg MD. The most interesting of these sermons is an Execution sermon published in Boston is 1796. This sermon was given at the hanging of Henry Blackburn an Englishman accused of murdering an American at sea. Another interesting sermon is a "Discourse on Natural Religion" given by Thomas Barnard in Boston in 1795. The oldest sermon was given in New York in 1768. These fourteen sermons are bound together in a book with marbleized boards. The bottom board is loose and some of the title pages have some minor foxing but otherwise all the sermons are in extremely good condition.

and here he is ....

Sebastian Miniature Howard Blackburn #2659, copr. 1983, PW baston jr. SML 412a. Gray label.This figurine is quite tall 4 1/2". Front of base says Howard Blackburn- Glouster Seaman. Included in the box is a short story on his history. Mint condition, packed in original box. 1,440 were made - issued 1983 - withdrawn 1988, discontinued forever 4/30/88. From a non-smoking home. buyer pays shipping and insurance.

Picture added 2nd March 20002

(13th August 2001)
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I really don't know the whole story of this 1913 8" X 10" original photo of black boxer Jack Blackburn, but it is identified on the back in Philadelphia sportswriter Harry Pegg's writing "Blackburn had just been released from Eastern Pen". He identifies the other people as "Lew 'Bum' Bailey, Howard Dougherty, Son of Jimmy, Jimmy 'Brown' Dougherty, Lou Loughill (sp?) deceased, Jack Mc Guigan, Blackburn and a man named Martin." Evidently there was a caption at the bottom of the photo that was whited out by Pegg for one of his publications. White-out does not effect image.

I'm currently under the assumption that all Blackburns are somehow related. I'm operating on a passage I saw in a book a long time ago that the first Blackburns are noted in Aberdeen, Scotland in the 13th century, but it looks like they had then migrated out a little before then, since no Blackburn clan exists in Scotland, but there is a Blackburn coat-of-arms in Lancashire.

I'm entertaining a notion that there may not be a black stream, per se, But it looks like 13th century Aberdeen was emerging from an era that saw much mixing of tribes and languages through war and commerce. What I'm thinking is that the name Blackburn may not refer to a geographical stream at all, but rather the possibility that this family was such a fierce mix of Pictish warriors, Scottish soldiers, Norse invaders, ambitious Anglo-Saxons, and Gaullish traders, that they were in fact considered black-blooded........ Or perhaps the Black Stream is anywhere the blood of those that challenged our territory collected...... Before we ventured out to found cities after our name. (I guess with these thoughts, could romantically call the Blackburns the last of the Picts.)

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Canal Zone 1928 Blackburn PB, F-VF, NH