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From the state marker“Member of Continental Congress, signer of the Federal Constitution, governor S.W. Territory, Senator from Tennessee. Birthplace 1/5 mi. S.W.”
State historical marker: A-41: William Blount
1749–1800 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
7 indexed works are connected with this person.
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Governor Alexander Martin's correspondence from his second administration, 12 January to 27 November 1792, with some items from 1791, in 121 images. Oliver Wolcott Jr. is among the writers. Matters include taxation, tobacco, liquor, military pensions, debts and the army's clothing accounts, with William Blount, Benjamin Hawkins, Richard Caswell and Hillsborough named.
Court papers laid before the General Assembly in its session of November 1792 to January 1793, including grand jury presentments from Halifax District and from the Hillsborough District superior court and Orange County court, a complaint of John Den and a New Bern District judgment. Twenty-one images.
Reports and papers of the House Committee of Privileges and Elections for the 1783 session at Hillsborough, including depositions on disputed elections in Washington, Bladen, Rutherford and Beaufort counties. John Gray Blount, William Blount and Landon Carter appear. 62 images.
House joint resolutions of May 1 to 17, 1783, from the Assembly's Hillsborough session. They settle what was owed to Samuel Johnston and Whitmell Hill, former delegates to Congress, review the court-martial of Chowan County's Colonel James Blount, and touch on Moravians, Quakers, Mennonites and Cherokee affairs. 73 images.
Report and papers of the Committee of Propositions and Grievances at the April and May 1782 session of the General Assembly in Hillsborough. Petitions come from the District of Salisbury, Isaac Newton, William Lansdell and Rutherford County officers on behalf of George Russell's wife. Other matters include bribery, prisoners of war, courts martial, the ship Prince of Wales, William Blount and Peter Mallett. 154 pages.
Letters from the first administration of Governor Alexander Martin, 4 May to 2 November 1782, in 22 images. Martin first held the office as acting governor after Tories captured Thomas Burke in 1781. Business in these months touches elections, clemency, judges and Continental Army pay, and names William Blount, William R. Davie, Hillsborough and Orange County.
Joint resolutions of the House of Commons, October 19 to November 10, 1779: tax exemptions for people in Franklin, Orange and Wilkes counties, the disbanding of the state regiment, and a call for the Continental delegates to attend the Assembly. Supplies, prisoners of war and trade with the West Indies also appear. 192 images.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
North Carolina's part in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, told by Burton Craige (1875 to 1945) with biographical sketches of the state's delegates: William Blount, William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight and Hugh Williamson. Archibald Craige published it in 1987, the Convention's bicentennial; 200 pages with portraits, a bibliography and a folded color facsimile map in a back pocket.
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