Apparently he was picked up by the authorities and then became indentured to a silversmith named Henderson. At the young age of eight, even though he looked much older, he ran away from home and made his way to Philadelphia. His father then married a woman with whom James could not agree. James's mother died when he was very young. Some writers have mistakenly reversed this identification. James Black is on the right and his good friend Jacob Buzzard is on the left. He is given credit for forging a knife for Jim Bowie who was a frontiersman, a speculator in land, a slave trader, and an Indian fighter. He emigrated to the Arkansas frontier about 1820, thus becoming a pioneer of Arkansas and a citizen of a new community where he learned a new trade as a blacksmith, fell in love, raised a family, and became a leader in the community. He trained as a silversmith in Philadelphia when a young boy.
He died June 22, 1872, in Washington, Arkansas.
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James Black was born May 1, 1800, in New Jersey. Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter of James Black SILVERSMITH - BLACKSMITH - KNIFESMITH - ARKANSAS PIONEER
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