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- [S2561] Wikipedia: William Blount, (Name: Wikipedia;), Governor and Senator William Blount.
William Blount (March 26, 1749 – March 21, 1800) was an American statesman and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at the Fayetteville Convention. He then served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory and played a leading role in helping the territory gain admission to the union as the state of Tennessee. He was selected as one of Tennessee's initial United States Senators in 1796.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blount
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- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), Governor BLOUNT William Benjamin 1749-1800 (Veteran) - Territorial Governor of Tennessee.
Tennessee Territorial Governor, U.S. Senator, Signer of the United States Constitution. Born in Bertie County, North Carolina near Windsor, the son of Jacob Blount and Barbara Gray, he became instrumental in the establishment of Tennessee as a state. He was married on February 12, 1778 to Mary Grainger, the daughter of Caleb Grainger. They had seven children: Ann (wife of Henry I. Toole); Mary Eliza (wife of Joseph Lawrence and later Weeks Hadley); Mary Louisa (wife of Pleasant M. Miller); William Grainger; Richard Blackledge; Barbara (wife of Edmund Pendleton Gaines); and Eliza (wife of Edwin Wiatt). In 1778, he served in the Revolutionary War as a paymaster but resigned his position to serve in the North Carolina legislature and the Continental Congress. In 1787, he was selected to be a delegate at the Constitutional Convention. He missed a month of the proceedings because he felt it was more important to remain in Congress and while at the Convention contributed little to the drafting of the document before voting for it and working for its ratification back in North Carolina. In 1790, he was named Territorial Governor of the "western territory south of the Ohio River". Additional duties included being the "Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Southern Department". His handling of the western expansion and his competent negotiations with the region's Native American tribes made him an increasingly popular figure with both the Indians and the frontiersmen. In 1795, he called for a convention to draft a constitution for the proposed state of Tennessee. The next year, it was admitted to the Union and Blount was elected to represent the new state in the U.S. Senate. In 1797 though, his career as a U.S. Senate ended abruptly when he was charged with a "high misdemeanor" for allegedly being part of a plot to team with Indians and British Naval forces to take control of the Spanish provinces of Florida and Louisiana. He was expelled from the Senate but returned to Tennessee with his popularity soaring and was immediately sent to the state senate where he was that body's speaker. He died two years later in Knoxville.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4721/william-blount
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- [S4094] Daughters of the American Revolution - Ancestors, BLOUNT, WILLIAM -- Ancestor #: A011522.
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, STAFF OFFICER
Birth: 3-26-1749 BERTIE CO NORTH CAROLINA
Death: 3-21-1800 KNOXVILLE KNOX CO TENNESSEE
1) PAYMASTER IN 3RD REGT; MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY
https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A011522
- [S4149] Sons of the American Revolution - Patriots, William BLOUNT -- SAR Patriot #: P-116776.
State of Service: NC Qualifying Service: Staff Officer / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A011522
Birth: 25 Mar 1749 / Bertie / NC
Death: 21 Mar 1800 Knoxville / TN
Patriotic Service Description:
PAYMASTER IN 3RD REGT
Member of Continental Congress in 1783-4 and again 1786-7
Member of Constitutional Convention of 1787
1st Territorial Governor of Tennessee
Founded city of Knoxville.
https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/116776
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