A TRIP TO DENVER

Sometimes I am sure my patient husband, Bob, wonders to what lengths I will go to 'do genealogy'. The first week in February I left sixty to eighty degree weather in California to travel to Denver. You all know what the weather is in Denver in February. Ed and I felt we needed to get some reseach done, plan this newsletter, and talk of upcoming getherings. We did all three and even had time to go to the Ramses II Egyptian exhibit.

We spent two days at the National Archives following up on censuses; one day in the Denver Public Library and spent a great deal of time trying to sort through what we already know, what we surmise, and where we are going.

The fact that you are receiving a newsletter shows we accomplished something. I came home with ideas and promptly got busy typing. Ed has been busy with correspondence and reaching out on an individual basis to many of you during the last several months. We really do want to hear from you with your family stories, etc.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

We called Don Blincoe in Florida to get input on gatherings. We also called Bro. Tom Spalding and Ben Blincoe in Louisville. The general consensus is to have none in 1988 but to have two in 1989, if possible. We would like to have one on the west coast as there are many Blincoes out west from many divergent branches and families. This one would be in the latter part of May or first of June, 1989. Some of the Louisville Blincoes have indicated they will help organize one in Louisville. This will help a great deal and we will plan one there in the fall of 1989 depending on the time they give us which is best for them. Of course everybody is encouraged to come to both of them. More later.
-by Helen Blincoe Simpson #200

THE FIRST KNOWN BOOKIE BLINCOE IN AMERICA

"That Leesburg was provided with its first street pavements through the proceeds of a public lottery bas long been town gossip.

By way of confirmation, there is an advertisement in the 12th May 1818 issue of the Genius of Liberty:

'By authority. Scheme of Lottery to raise $8000 for the purpose of paving the streets of the town of Leesburg, Va. ' providing a first prize of $4000 and 2011 other prizes running from $1200 down to $6 each, totalling $30,000. Against these 2012 prizes were to be 3988 blanks, to be represented by 6000 tickets and that each of the prizes were to be paid in part by other tickets, and that each of the prizes were to be 'subject to a deduction of $15 to $100'. To inspire the confidence of the public, the notice was signed by the following representative citizens as Commissioners: Prestley Cardell, C.F. Mercer, George Rust, Joseph Beard, Richd H. Henderson, Samuel Clapham, John Humphreys, John I Harding, Sampson Blincoe, Fleet Smith, Samuel Carr and John Gray.

So successful was the lottery, avers tradition, that with its profits not only was the town able to pave its principal streets but also brought in, through wooden pipes, a much needed supply of water from Rock Spring.
(From Legends of Loudon by Harrison Williams; Garrett and-Massie, Inc., Richmond, VA.)

Research by Tom Spalding indicates that Sampson Blincoe married Mary S. Jones on 21 Mar 1808. Sampson's will was dated 19 Dec 1825 and submitted to probate 11 Dec 1826. In the will his wife, Martha S., son Charles William, daughter Sally E. and an unborn child are named.
The editors are not aware of any living descendants of Sampson.

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