An American Family History

Margaret Yerkes Blue (Peggy) was born about 1776 in Berkeley County, Virginia which is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. Her father was Joshua Yerkes.

She married Jesse (Jake) Blue (Blew) on November 19 1796 in Berkeley County, Virginia. Jesse Blue was born in 1775. His parents were John Blue and Catherine Sotore.

Their children were Ezekiel Blue (1798), Joshua Blue (1801), Margaret Blue, Mary A. Blue Russell (1803), John L. Blue (1805), Nancy Blue Howard, Saulten Blue and Priscilla  Blue Gorrell.

The family (Jesse Blew) appeared in the 1810 census in Jefferson County, Virginia. The family consisted of seven children and two adults.

Jesse died in 1814. In 1820, Ezekiel Blue was in Lee Township, Jefferson County, Virginia.

The Blue family went to Butler County, Ohio when the Yerkes family moved there and some of them went on to Indiana.