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moving west, Blount and others--including
his friend John Sevier--seized the moment and purchased grants
representing hundreds of thousands of acres.
In October 1784 Blount was
reelected to the North Carolina legislature and subsequently
won an internal vote for Speaker of the House. In December 1785
he was elected to the Continental Congress, where he served
briefly before returning to North Carolina. Blount increased
his ties with the western lands by working for the formation of
Davidson County in the Cumberland region and the establishment
of a judicial district there.
In February 1790 North
Carolina ceded its western land holdings to the United States.
A few months later the area became the newly created Territory
of the United States South of the River Ohio (the Southwest
Territory). President George Washington appointed Blount
territorial governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
the Southern Department.
Without a public building in
which to conduct the affairs of the territory, Blount selected
Rocky Mount, the spacious home of William Cobb at the fork of
the Holston and Watauga Rivers, as his temporary capitol. The
room Blount selected for his office had windows and a
fireplace, affording him a location from which to conduct
business in comfort and style.
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I found that Links on most site are a
kind of hit and miss deal. Some times they can be
real helpfull but most places I vist now a days are
more about taking you to a site to buy something.
Way back in the early days of the internet,
links servied a great purpose of give the
folks who were nice enough to come vist your site a
quick link to other address from other site which would
have more information on the same subjects or to a very
interesting site which were new to the web. With
this in mind I will try to expland on the links that we
have here.
As a side note to
those folk who spend a lot more time on the internet
then myself looking around finding those rare site
which has great information on Tennessee history or
Colonial American . If you could share your finds
with us I would gladly add them to the list. Thanks!
Tennessee Historical Commission - The state orgiziation which
manages historical through out the state like Marble
Springs.
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The Tennessee State Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution - Stephen Holston Chapter, Knoxville
www.johnsevier.com Independent Sevier family member
page
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WILLIAM BLOUNT
1749-1800
Territorial Governor and U.S. Senator
William Blount was born on Easter Sunday (March 26) 1749, the
eldest child of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Bertie County,
North Carolina. As a lad, Blount received informal training in
commerce at the side of his father, who operated a farm and a
mill and sold tar and turpentine. With maturity, Blount assumed
a more active role in his father's businesses. Blount's
business acumen gained respect, and in 1776 he was named
paymaster of the Third North Carolina battalion of the
Continental troops.
At the age of thirty-one
Blount entered politics when he won election as New Bern's
representative to the North Carolina House of Commons; he
assumed his post in late January 1781. Within a year he was
elected to the Continental Congress, an office he held for
approximately one year before returning to the North Carolina
legislature. Blount's local legislative efforts reflected his
growing interest in the western lands. He successfully promoted
a bill to provide land grants west of the mountains to North
Carolina soldiers with two years military service. Since most
soldiers sold their grants instead of