"...[He] graduated from Columbia College, N.Y., in 1795; read law under Alexander Hamilton; abandoned that profession for the ministry, and licensed 1798; installed co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia on Market Street, 1799.
[Two of] "Dr. Linn's published writings are 'The Powers of Genius,' a poem published 1802, and 'Valerian' a poem, published 1805, after his death, with a sketch of his life, by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law.
"Dr. Linn married in 1799, Esther Bailey, daughter of Col. John Bailey, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They had one son, John Blair Linn, who died in 1858. Dr. Linn died August 30, 1804. His widow married John R. Bleeker, of Albany, and Mary, her daughter by Mr. Bleeker, became the wife of Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, N.Y."
From: "Pennsylvania Genealogies" [Linn of Lurgan], William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, pp. 369.
The eulogy for the Rev. John Blair Linn was delivered by the Dr. Samuel Blair (1741-1818, and the second chaplain of the United States House of Representatives) and reprinted in the local newspapers shortly after the funeral.
Rev. John Blair Linn would have been buried in the Bank Street Burial Ground which was the cemetery for the First Presbyterian Church on High, later Market Street where he had preached, but which church was closed in 1820 because it was declared structurally unsafe.
According to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, the Bank Street Burial Ground had housed about 2,400 burials. A new church was built in a different location, the City of Philadelphia closed the cemetery as being too crowded, and the land too valuable for continued cemetery use, and so between 1847 and 1848 about 1,500 bodies were dug up and re-interred together in the then new Laurel Hill Cemetery. However, Rev. Johm Blair Linn isn't buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, according to their records.
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From DAR records, the service record of John Bailey, the father of Esther Bailey, John Blair Linn's wife:
BAILEY, JOHN
Ancestor #: A004680
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Birth: 12-4-1732 FISHKILL NEW YORK
Death: 8-9-1806 POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK
Service Description:
1) 2ND REGIMENT
2) SIGNER OF ASSOCIATION TEST.
SPOUSE: ATTIE VAN WYCK
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Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
Psalms 23:6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
[Two of] "Dr. Linn's published writings are 'The Powers of Genius,' a poem published 1802, and 'Valerian' a poem, published 1805, after his death, with a sketch of his life, by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law.
"Dr. Linn married in 1799, Esther Bailey, daughter of Col. John Bailey, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They had one son, John Blair Linn, who died in 1858. Dr. Linn died August 30, 1804. His widow married John R. Bleeker, of Albany, and Mary, her daughter by Mr. Bleeker, became the wife of Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, N.Y."
From: "Pennsylvania Genealogies" [Linn of Lurgan], William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, pp. 369.
The eulogy for the Rev. John Blair Linn was delivered by the Dr. Samuel Blair (1741-1818, and the second chaplain of the United States House of Representatives) and reprinted in the local newspapers shortly after the funeral.
Rev. John Blair Linn would have been buried in the Bank Street Burial Ground which was the cemetery for the First Presbyterian Church on High, later Market Street where he had preached, but which church was closed in 1820 because it was declared structurally unsafe.
According to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, the Bank Street Burial Ground had housed about 2,400 burials. A new church was built in a different location, the City of Philadelphia closed the cemetery as being too crowded, and the land too valuable for continued cemetery use, and so between 1847 and 1848 about 1,500 bodies were dug up and re-interred together in the then new Laurel Hill Cemetery. However, Rev. Johm Blair Linn isn't buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, according to their records.
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From DAR records, the service record of John Bailey, the father of Esther Bailey, John Blair Linn's wife:
BAILEY, JOHN
Ancestor #: A004680
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Birth: 12-4-1732 FISHKILL NEW YORK
Death: 8-9-1806 POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK
Service Description:
1) 2ND REGIMENT
2) SIGNER OF ASSOCIATION TEST.
SPOUSE: ATTIE VAN WYCK
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Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
Psalms 23:6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
"...[He] graduated from Columbia College, N.Y., in 1795; read law under Alexander Hamilton; abandoned that profession for the ministry, and licensed 1798; installed co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia on Market Street, 1799.
[Two of] "Dr. Linn's published writings are 'The Powers of Genius,' a poem published 1802, and 'Valerian' a poem, published 1805, after his death, with a sketch of his life, by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law.
"Dr. Linn married in 1799, Esther Bailey, daughter of Col. John Bailey, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They had one son, John Blair Linn, who died in 1858. Dr. Linn died August 30, 1804. His widow married John R. Bleeker, of Albany, and Mary, her daughter by Mr. Bleeker, became the wife of Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, N.Y."
From: "Pennsylvania Genealogies" [Linn of Lurgan], William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, pp. 369.
The eulogy for the Rev. John Blair Linn was delivered by the Dr. Samuel Blair (1741-1818, and the second chaplain of the United States House of Representatives) and reprinted in the local newspapers shortly after the funeral.
Rev. John Blair Linn would have been buried in the Bank Street Burial Ground which was the cemetery for the First Presbyterian Church on High, later Market Street where he had preached, but which church was closed in 1820 because it was declared structurally unsafe.
According to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, the Bank Street Burial Ground had housed about 2,400 burials. A new church was built in a different location, the City of Philadelphia closed the cemetery as being too crowded, and the land too valuable for continued cemetery use, and so between 1847 and 1848 about 1,500 bodies were dug up and re-interred together in the then new Laurel Hill Cemetery. However, Rev. Johm Blair Linn isn't buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, according to their records.
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From DAR records, the service record of John Bailey, the father of Esther Bailey, John Blair Linn's wife:
BAILEY, JOHN
Ancestor #: A004680
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Birth: 12-4-1732 FISHKILL NEW YORK
Death: 8-9-1806 POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK
Service Description:
1) 2ND REGIMENT
2) SIGNER OF ASSOCIATION TEST.
SPOUSE: ATTIE VAN WYCK
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Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
Psalms 23:6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
[Two of] "Dr. Linn's published writings are 'The Powers of Genius,' a poem published 1802, and 'Valerian' a poem, published 1805, after his death, with a sketch of his life, by Charles Brockden Brown, his brother-in-law.
"Dr. Linn married in 1799, Esther Bailey, daughter of Col. John Bailey, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They had one son, John Blair Linn, who died in 1858. Dr. Linn died August 30, 1804. His widow married John R. Bleeker, of Albany, and Mary, her daughter by Mr. Bleeker, became the wife of Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, N.Y."
From: "Pennsylvania Genealogies" [Linn of Lurgan], William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, PA, 1896, pp. 369.
The eulogy for the Rev. John Blair Linn was delivered by the Dr. Samuel Blair (1741-1818, and the second chaplain of the United States House of Representatives) and reprinted in the local newspapers shortly after the funeral.
Rev. John Blair Linn would have been buried in the Bank Street Burial Ground which was the cemetery for the First Presbyterian Church on High, later Market Street where he had preached, but which church was closed in 1820 because it was declared structurally unsafe.
According to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, the Bank Street Burial Ground had housed about 2,400 burials. A new church was built in a different location, the City of Philadelphia closed the cemetery as being too crowded, and the land too valuable for continued cemetery use, and so between 1847 and 1848 about 1,500 bodies were dug up and re-interred together in the then new Laurel Hill Cemetery. However, Rev. Johm Blair Linn isn't buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, according to their records.
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From DAR records, the service record of John Bailey, the father of Esther Bailey, John Blair Linn's wife:
BAILEY, JOHN
Ancestor #: A004680
Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Birth: 12-4-1732 FISHKILL NEW YORK
Death: 8-9-1806 POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK
Service Description:
1) 2ND REGIMENT
2) SIGNER OF ASSOCIATION TEST.
SPOUSE: ATTIE VAN WYCK
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Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
Psalms 23:6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
