Location
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Coordinates: 35.9325, -79.9814.
Type: Stop
Tour: Guilford Battle
County: Guilford
Difficult
Park in the north lot of Springfield Meeting House (to the right when facing the building). The northeast corner of the cemetery is at the back of the lot. Look diagonally into the graveyard. You will see a large group of mature trees and bushes at the rear of the first open section. Walk to the large, upright, rectangular marker in the middle, at the graves of Enos and Hannah Blair.
The Blairs of Springfield
Members of the Friends Society, known as Quakers, opposed war. This was part of the reason many of them migrated south from Pennsylvania during the French & Indian War. Hannah Milliken’s1 Irish father William, and American mother Jane, moved the family to North Carolina by 1758. In doing so they bypassed earlier emigrants to Virginia, including Colbert Blair, whose son Enos was born there. Many sources say the Blairs moved to Guilford County. However, a family genealogist says no evidence supports this, and instead they went directly to Rowan County.a In that case Enos came to this area on his own, likely by 1772, perhaps with cousins.
The Blairs were not Quakers, but Enos converte