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Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount; An Officer of the Revolutionary Army, Member of the Continental Congress, and of the Conventi

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... military service. They and their brother John G. were all at different times members of the General Assembly, or of the War Congress which sat during the early part of the struggle. Thomas was taken prisioner and carried to England, where he underwent a long confinement. He was afterwards and for many years a member of Congress from the Edgecomb District, up to his death in 1812. John G. and Reading resided in Beaufort County, where they reached influential positions and were held in high estimation, and have left many descendents, who honorably represent their names and lienage. Willie became a judge of the Supreme Court in Tennessee, and afterwards Governor. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834, and died soon afterwards at his residence in Clarksville, greatly revered by the community. As Jacob Blount, the father of this large family, was a man of considerable estate, his children were educated in a manner corresponding to his ample means and to his high local position. William, I who had already become a rising man, was married Pebuary 12, I 1778, to Mary, the daughter of Colonel Caleb Grainger, of Wilmington, a member of the General Assembly from New Hanover County. William was generally a member of that body from 1780 to 1790 and contemporaneously with that service was a member of the Continental Congress in 1783 and 1784, and again in 1786 and 1787. He represented North Carolina in the Convention which framed the Federal Constitution in 1781, and was in the State Convention which ratified that instrument in 1789. He was an ardent friend of the act passed in 1789 for the cession to the United States of the western domain, now Tennessee. During these years of constant and varied public service, he took great...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230430492
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230430490
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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