John Blackburn, Sr., (d. 1752) was probably born in Loughgall, Armagh, Ireland. He married Mary Courtney Winter in 1701. She died in 1712 or 1713, then he married Rachel Morton in 1717. They came to America in 1736 and settled in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Utah, California, Oregon and elsewhere in the Unites States as well as in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.

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Finley Lucky Underwood (1814-1893) was born in Henry County, Missouri, the son of John and Nancy Blackburn Underwood. He married Mahala Dowden (1817-1878), daughter of Nathaniel and Agnes (Nancy) McLane Dowden, in 1834 in Shelby County, Kentucky. They had twelve children, 1836-1860. They family migrated from Shelby County, Kentucky, to Boone County, Indiana, in 1839; and to Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1857. He married 2) Mary J. Coffinberry Cole (1846- 1918), widow of Alexander Cole, in 1879 in Jasper County, Missouri. They had three children, 1880-1882. Finley and Mahala Underwood are buried at Salem Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Missouri. Descendants listed lived in Missouri, Indiana, California, Utah, and elsewhere.

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Elias Hicks Blackburn was born 17 September 1827 in Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. He was the son of Thomas Blackburn and Elizabeth Bowen and a 5th generation descendant of John Blackburn Sr., a devout Quaker who came from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1736. Elias joined the LDS Church (April 1845) in Nauvoo, Illinois and was a pioneer in the Western Mormon migration to Utah. Elias married several times and was a prominant medical doctor. Descendants lived primarily in Utah and elsewhere.

The Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators is proud to announce publication of Volume 3 of its multi-volume series, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania. Volume 3, distributed by the Penn State University Press, covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania, with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the eventual overthrow of the colonial government. Among the legislators profiled in Volume 3 are Benjamin Franklin, William Allen, Joseph Galloway, Daniel Roberdeau, George Bryan, John Armstrong, William Thompson, Henry Keppele, Isaac Norris, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, George Taylor, George Ross, Emanuel Carpenter, John Morton, Nathaniel Pennock, Israel Jacobs, Robert McPherson, Edward Biddle, John Potts, Samuel Potts, Thomas Potts, Samuel Miles, Michael Hillegas, and Thomas Willing. Also included are a series of introductory essays focusing on such topics as the rules and procedures of the Assembly, the Pennsylvania Iron Industry, the legislators and civic improvement, the Quaker party, and the prelude to revolution. The volume also contains 16 charts, two maps, a complete sessions list for those years, and numerous appendices that highlight such topics as the religious affiliations and residences of the legislators, laws enacted in Pennsylvania, and committee assignments by speaker.