Daniel Blacke is a name found on, A list of the passengers aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene Mr. bound for New England, dated 11 Nov 1651. ~ Suffolk Deeds, LIBER I., Massachusetts, 1880. Google Books Online
Name Variations: Blacke, Black

First Generation in the New World

1. DANIEL BLACK, was born in Scotland about 1628 and died in Massachusetts on 5 Dec 1689. He married at Boxford, Massachusetts by 1664, FAITH BRIDGES, daughter of Edmund Bridges.

Biographical Notes:
1. Geni.com “Daniel Black”
2. “In 1654, the Middlesex County Court in Charlestown ordered that: “Daniel Blacke Scotchman servant to Mr. Wilton Simes, being lawfully convicted for assaulting & beating his master, is by this Court committed to prison, until further order of Court.”^[27] Simes was probably the son of Charlestown’s minister, Zechariah Symmes, one of the town’s most prominent citizens. The Symmes family farm, covering much of present-day Winchester, was located near the corner of Cambridge Farms where William Munro must have worked, and Blacke undoubtedly labored there cutting hay in the meadows.^[28] No further records about Blacke’s imprisonment have been located, but he must have overcome this episode of violence and moved on after his indenture, for his name turns up again later in Topsfield. A New York governor, Frank S. Black, traced his ancestry to this Scots war prisoner.”
– From American Ancestors Online www.americanancestors.org

Children of Daniel and Faith (Bridges) Black:
2. i. MARGRETT* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 21 Oct 1665*.
2. ii. DANIEL* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topfield* on 24 Aug 1667*.
2. iii. JAMES BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield (or Boxford?) on 4 May 1669.
2. iv. MEHITABELL* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 10 Mar 1671/2*.
2. v. JOHN* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 28 Jul 1672*.
2. vi. EDMOND* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 6 Feb 1674*.

Second Generation

2. i. MARGRETT* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 21 Oct 1665*.

2. ii. DANIEL* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topfield* on 24 Aug 1667*. He married, first, at Boxford, Massachusetts on 14 Jul 169?, MARY CUMMINGS. He married, second, at Topsfield on 19 Jul 1695, SARAH ADDAMS, of Yorke.

Biographical Notes: He was a weaver by trade. He removed to York, Maine after he married Sarah Adams of York, Maine in 1695.

2. iii. JAMES BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield (or Boxford?) on 4 May 1669. He married, at Boxford, about 1700, ABIGAIL (_____).

Children of James and Abigail (_____) Black:
3. i. EDMOND BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), b. at Boxford on 25 Apr 1704*.
3. ii. JAMES BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), b. at Boxford on 29 Oct 1705*.
3. iii. JOHN BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), b. at Boxford on 28 Jan 1708*.
3. iv. JOSIAH BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), bp. at Boxford on 1 Jul 1710*.
3. v. DANIEL BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), b. at Boxford on 4 Mar 1715*.
3. vi. ABIGAIL BLACK, (James², Daniel¹), b. at Boxford on 1 May 1718*.

2. iv. MEHITABELL* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 10 Mar 1671/2*.

2. v. JOHN* BLACK, (Daniel¹), born at Topsfield* on 28 Jul 1672*.

2. vi. EDMOND* BLACK, (Daniel¹), was born at Topsfield* on 6 Feb 1674*.

Biographical Notes:
There is a Private Edmund Black of Topsfield who served in the Colonial Military for 16 weeks and 2 days from 18 Jan 1725 to 11 May 1725 under Capt. Jeremiah Moulton. Could be this Edmund or his son? No age is given in this record. Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013). Page 25.

Published on: 04 Dec 2014
Updated: 24 May 2018
Researcher: Teresa Rust
Editor: Teresa Rust

List of his Descendants & Researchers

SOURCES AND NOTES:

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). “Topsfield, Massachusetts, Births, page 17.”

On 22 November 2016, Renée Marie Boudreau wrote:
I am a descendant of Daniel Black!
Daniel Black (1628 – 1689)
9th great-grandfather
Josiah Black (1676 – 1744)
son of Daniel Black
Josiah Tertius Black (1712 – )
son of Josiah Black
Olive BLACK (1748 – 1819)
daughter of Josiah Tertius Black
Sarah Hadley (1774 – 1853)
daughter of Olive BLACK
Simeon Higgins (1798 – 1865)
son of Sarah Hadley
Nathan Augustus Higgins (1823 – 1892)
son of Simeon Higgins
Nathan Augustus Higgins II. (1864 – 1929)
son of Nathan Augustus Higgins
Samuel Nathaniel Higgins (1891 – 1957)
son of Nathan Augustus Higgins II.
Joseph Fredrick Higgins (1913 – 1943)
son of Samuel Nathaniel Higgins
Margaret Higgins (1942 – )
daughter of Joseph Fredrick Higgins

Take for example Daniel Blacke/Black. The following is from American Ancestors Online: “In 1654, the Middlesex County Court in Charlestown ordered that: “Daniel Blacke Scotchman servant to Mr. Wilton Simes [William Symmes?], being lawfully convicted for assaulting & beating his master, is by this Court committed to prison, until further order of Court.”^[27] Simes was probably the son of Charlestown’s minister, Zechariah Symmes, one of the town’s most prominent citizens. The Symmes family farm, covering much of present-day Winchester, was located near the corner of Cambridge Farms where William Munro must have worked, and Blacke undoubtedly labored there cutting hay in the meadows.^[28] No further records about Blacke’s imprisonment have been located, but he must have overcome this episode of violence and moved on after his indenture, for his name turns up again later in Topsfield. A New York governor, Frank S. Black, traced his ancestry to this Scots war prisoner.”

I would love to get the back story to this event! He is convicted of this assault and sent to prison but one can’t help but wonder what the details really were to this “assault.” I can only imagine his frustration as a proud Highlander being bossed about by a Puritan Englishman.

Daniel Black, a Scottish prisoner of war, was deported to Massachusetts Bay in early 1652 he arrived on the ship “John and Sara” with nothing. On March 8, 1853 in York County, Maine, his grandson Frank Swett Black was born and would become New York State’s 32nd governor! According to Wikipedia, Frank S. Black was one of eleven children born to Jacob and Charlotte B. Black in Limington, York, Maine. You can read more about them at Google Books: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 3 By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs. I’ve posted this information about Daniel Blacke on our website/blog. If you are a descendant of Daniel Blacke please let me know so I can add you to our list by his name.