The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough (York: E. & R. Peck, 1795)

The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough (York: E. & R. Peck, 1795) · John Metcalf (dictated) · York: E. & R. Peck, 1795; Project Gutenberg ebook #69595

For John Metcalf (1717–1810)

"John Metcalf was born at Knaresborough, on the 15th of August, 1717. When four years old, he was put to school by his parents, who were working people, and continued at school two years: He was then seized with the small-pox, which rendered him totally blind." … "His father keeping horses, he learned to ride." … "His parents having other children, at the age of thirteen had John taught music."

The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough (York: E. & R. Peck, 1795) · John Metcalf (dictated) · York: E. & R. Peck, 1795; Project Gutenberg ebook #69595

For Dorothy Benson (1717–1778)

"his favourite, Dorothy Benson" … "whom he had brought into Cheshire, and left at Stockport, that she might avail herself of the medical advice of a person there, famed for the cure of rheumatic complaints … she there died, in the summer 1778, after thirty-nine years of conjugal felicity … She died in the sixty-first year of her age, leaving four children; and was buried in Stockport church-yard."