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John appears in the following Plymouth Colony General Court records, all associated with the town of Sandwich:

5 June 1671, surveyor of highways, Sandwich 5:5
5 June 1672, grand inquest 5:91
29 Oct 1673, case against Steven Skiffe and John Blacke alias Blackwell of the town of Sandwich for taking down fencesMisc Records, 185
6 March 1676/77, "John Blacke," on a jury involving men murdered by Indians 5:224
5 June 1678, constable, Sandwich5:258
3 June 1679, selectman, Sandwich 6:10
2 March 1679/80, John Smith, Sr. and Steven Skiff complained that, despite giving the town money through John as, constable, in 1678 with the proviso that the meetinghouse only be used for worship, John unlocked the church and held a town meeting there anyway. They asked for their money back and he refused. Found for Smith and Skiff.MR, 222 6 June 1682, selectman84
6 June 1683, selectman107

     John is on a list, probably of men taking the Oath of Allegiance, not dated JA, 184. Surrounding lists that are dated infer this was before John, Jr., came of age. John or John, Jr., was on a series of what are likely freeman lists, arranged by town, probably taken much later. 205 They are preceeded by a list specifically of men taking the freeman's oath at court in June 1689. If these were accounts of freemen living in each town in the colony, it could be father or son. If these were all men taking the oath in June 1689, it had to have been John, Jr.

Sandwich town records:

April 1678, involved on a committee to establish the division between the Town Neck and Scoton or Scooten Neck areas of Sandwich ancestry.com image 45 of ms. p. 81
12 May 1679, selectman, Sandwich39 69
abt 1680, undated town minutes, John is appointed to lay out land for the town47 85
19 August 1680, of Scusset, chosen a town "rater," or tax assessorIbid
18 May 1680, John, of "Scusett," was among a group of men to account for the "black birds" (crows) killed on behalf of the town.48 87
17 May 1682, selectman57 107
24 May 1683, selectman41 73
29 July 1683, he is on the town's list of debts, he to be paid for spending ten days at court.55 101

     "Scusett," as mentioned above in reference to where John lived, must have been west of Scusset River, the east side of which was the Town Neck, which is now the Sagamore area of the town of Bourne.

The 28th of November 1688

An Invintory of the Estate of John Blackwel of Sandwich deceased

It 2 oxen 6 cowes 2 yearlings 15-00-00
all the horse kind and sheep 07=00=00
2 poore beds and beading 5 pillows, some Fethers 3 poore guns & a sword 07=00=00
8 pewter platters porringers spoones and a grinding stoane 00=04-00
Bottles and Juggs quart pott wooden things friing pan other small things 03=00-00
bolt shakle & other old Iron 02=00=00
Spitt tooles Chaine Kittles Skillit Chests table warming pan & other small old things about the house 01-00-00
Wearing clothes all sorts, shoues stockings Indian Corne, Rye Barley wheate 04=00-00
All sorts of Swine young & old. 01=00-00
Som Sheepes wool 4 pound of flaxe, firkin of Butter 02=00-00
Wollin and Linning yarne 02=00=00
Pillow Bears table clothes napkins and awry old sheet and some small Linin 01=00=00
Some other small things the land at Eguewam and Namaskit bought of Samuel Dunham and John Haskall at 03=00=00
this Invintory amounts to 48=04=00
The Estate indebted about 02=10=00

Sarah the Relict of the abovesd John Blackwel made oath to the truth of this Invintory in Court December the 6th 1688

Attest, Joseph Lothrop. Depty Regr Taken out of the origanal Invintory duly compared therewith and entred December the 8th 1688

children of John Blackwell and Sarah Warren:

Desire, b. 20 December 1678

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