The Blackwood surname

In the chronology 25 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Blackwood, A. D. 1 entry, 1888
  • March 2, 1888: Baptist minister A. D. Blackwood dies at Chapel Hill
• Blackwood, A. J. 2 entries, 1914–1917
  • 1914: A. J. Blackwood recruits Cora Oakley's family from Burlington to the Carrboro mills
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
• Blackwood, A. S. 1 entry, 1934
  • by November 2, 1934: R. R. Benson closes his Chapel Hill plumbing and heating business
• Blackwood, Alice 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Herbert and Alice Blackwood purchase and revitalize the farm
• Blackwood, Mrs. Arthur 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
• Blackwood, David K. 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard
• Blackwood, Mrs. H. A. 1 entry, 1923
  • by March 1, 1923: Carrboro organizes a Parent-Teacher Association
• Blackwood, Herbert 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Herbert and Alice Blackwood purchase and revitalize the farm
• Blackwood, J. H. 2 entries, 1846–1896
  • 1846–1922: Elm Grove school district, 1846–1922
  • 1896: The Elm Grove school district builds a new schoolhouse on the New Hope road
• Blackwood, J. M. 2 entries, 1857–1868
  • November 17, 1857: Chapel Hill forms a volunteer military company
  • March to April 1868: Agent Whittemore makes a planter divide a crop with two freedmen after two former Confederate officers vouch for them
• Blackwood, Janie 1 entry, 1935
  • September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
• Blackwood, John 4 entries, 1812–1979
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  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
  • October 7, 1978: Carrboro's mayor on a bicycle beats the police chief in a car to University Mall
  • by October 12, 1979: Carrboro hires Arvid Sidney Herje as police chief
  • March 14, 1979: Carrboro police chief John Blackwood steps down for a new community liaison post
• Blackwood, John H. 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows
• Blackwood, John M. 3 entries, 1859–1876
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
  • by January 12, 1876: Town commissioners choose A. W. Graham mayor of Hillsborough
• Blackwood, John W. 2 entries, 1971–1973
  • 1971–1992: Carrboro's town government, 1971–1992
  • September 7, 1973: John W. Blackwood becomes Carrboro's police chief
• Blackwood, M. C. 2 entries, 1926
  • March 1, 1926: The county agrees to widen the road from Chapel Hill to Blackwood's school house
  • by December 23, 1926: Post Office extends Rural Route 2 in the Orange Church and Blackwood sections
• Blackwood, Malcolm C. 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows
• Blackwood, Mary 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: Orange County purchases Blackwood Farm
• Blackwood, Nannie 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: Orange County purchases Blackwood Farm
• Blackwood, Rebecca 1 entry, 1825
  • 7 June 1825: Rebecca Blackwood names Dr. Charles R. Yancey as her child's father
• Blackwood, Richard 1 entry, 1812
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Blackwood, S. B. 1 entry, 1920
  • February 15, 1920: The Employes Supply Company of Carrboro dissolves
• Blackwood, Samuel D. 1 entry, 1871
  • June 1871: John T. Hogan and Samuel D. Blackwood are ordained elders at New Hope
• Blackwood, William 4 entries, 1740–1754
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  • 1740–1840: New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–1840
  • about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
  • 1752: William Blackwood's grant on Buffalo Creek is entered
  • 1754 and 1755: William Craig and Richard Caswell take up land in the New Hope area
• Blackwood, William C. 2 entries, 1740–1840
  • 1740–1840: New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–1840
  • May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Blackwood family family, 3 works
• Blackwood, Mattie E., 1889-1977 1 work

In the historical records 321 records

74 deeds, 5 records of enslaved people, 66 marriages, 152 court minutes, 9 tax list entries and 15 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Blackwood marriages in full · Search the name in every collection