John Blackfan

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Husband John Blackfan ¹

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1 M Edward Blackfan ¹

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         Spouse: Rebecca Crispin (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 24 Aug 1688 - County of Sussex, England 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Blackfan

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Stenning, county of Sussex, England

He appears to have been a man of some position in his locality. He early joined the Society of Friends and suffered much persecution for his religion. Besse, in his "Sufferings," reports several instances. In 1659 John Blackfan was persecuted in the Exchequer for twenty pounds for tithes of eight and a half acres, when all the corn that grew on his land was scarce worth half that amount. In 1662 he was committed to Horsham Gaol on a writ de cxcomniunicato capiendo, after prosecution in the Ecclesiastical Court for refusing to pay towards the repairs to the Steeple House. In 1663 he and the others were persecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court for being absent from public worship, and he was excommunicated and some of the others imprisoned.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 357.