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        RUFUS BLAIR, son of Robert and Hannah (Thompson Blair, was born in Western, Massachusetts, February 24, 1758, and died in Blandford, October 7, 1800. He made his home in Blandford, receiving from his father a house, barn, and two hundred acres of land. He married, in Blandford, December 26, 1780, Dolly Boies, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Crooks) Boies. (See Boies III.)

Children:

1. Samuel, of whom further.
2. Phineas, born December 26, 1783.
3. Dolly, born March 13, 1787.
4. Rufus, born May 17,1790.
5. Sylvester, born December 30, 1796.
6. Wealthy, born April 8, died April 21, 1799.
7. Increase, born February 24, 1805; drowned in 1821 while crossing the Hudson River at the town of Hudson, New York.

(Leavitt: "Blair Family of New England," p. 78.)