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	William Blount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Blount, [March 26 (sometimes given as April 6), 1749 – March 21, 1800] was a U.S. statesman.
		Blount was born near Windsor, North Carolina in Bertie County into a family of distinguished merchants and planters who owned extensive properties along the banks of the Pamlico River.
		Blount was the father of William Grainger Blount (1784-1827), Tennessee state representative and U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1815-1819.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Blount (900 words)

	Tennessee history, preservation and educational artifacts
		William Blount was born on March 26, 1749 in Bertie County, NC in the Palmico Sound region near the coastal town of Wilmington.
		William Blount tossed his hat into the ring for the seat of U.S. Senator from North Carolina, but lost the seat and returned to his comfortable home in the state and his four children – a son, named William Grainger Blount, was born in 1784 and an infant named Richard.
		Blount was chosen to preside over the committee and, when the state constitution was drafted in Blount’s office, it was immediately taken to Philadelphia – then serving as the nation’s capitol.
	www.tennesseehistory.com /class/Blount.htm (3134 words)

	Gov. William BLOUNT and Mary Molsey GRAINGER
		Portrait of "William Blount" from Historic Sullivan by Oliver Taylor (1909).
		The Blount Mansion was the Governor's residence at the time of his death.
		It is a National Historic Landmark, open to the public as a museum and administered by the Blount Mansion Association.
	dgmweb.net /genealogy/FGS/B/BlountWilliam-MaryMolseyGrainger.shtml (432 words)

	Virginia and North Carolina Genealogical Exchange - pafg68 - Generatedby Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Blount [Parents] was born 26 Mar 1749 in,, Bertie, North Carolina.
		Cornelius Blount was born 1793 in, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee.
		Blount Blount was born 1797 in, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee.
	members.aol.com /vafdking1/pafg68.htm (702 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Grainger Blount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Blount, (March 26 (sometimes given as April 6), 1749 - March 21, 1800) was a U.S. statesman.
		William Blount and his brothers, John Gray, Reading, Thomas, Jacob Jr., and his half brothers Willie and Sharpe Blount controlled vast tracts of land in North Carolina and Tennessee and became one of the wealthiest landholding families in nineteenth century America.
		Blount had large holdings of land in western country and has been called one of the major land speculators of his time; president company organized in 1783 for promotion of the “Muscle Shoals Scheme” to develop lands lying in the Great Bend of the Tennessee River (in present day Alabama, but then Georgia’s western lands).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Grainger-Blount (778 words)

	John Bryan Sr of Nansemond County, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		WILLIAM BRYAN was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
		She married WILLIAM WILLIAMS COL, son of SAMUEL WILLIAMS SR and ELIZABETH ALSTON, on 2 Oct 1746 at of, Edgecombe, North Carolina.
		(a) WILLIAM WILLIAMS was born on 11 Dec 1773 at Halifax, North Carolina.
	members.aol.com /vafdking/bryan.htm (6875 words)

	Maryville Tennessee Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mary Grainger Blount, for whom Maryville was named, moved to Knoxville in 1792 from Rocky Mount (Sullivan County), the first capital of the new territory.
		William Blount, appointed by U.S. President George Washington as Governor of the Territory Southwest of the River Ohio, led the area now known as Tennessee into statehood in 1796 and signed the original Legislative Act of 1795 which established Blount County and the city of Maryville.
		William Edmund Parham was Blount County's historian and genealogist.
	www.ci.maryville.tn.us /cityhist/biogrphy.htm (4006 words)

	Encyclopedia: Paris, Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Blount County is a county located in the state of Tennessee.
		Grainger County is a county located in the state of Tennessee.
		William T. Haskell, the most brilliant Tennessean, spent the earlier years of his life in Paris, as did his wife, who was the first woman to hold the office of Librarian in Tennessee.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paris,-Tennessee (5924 words)

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		William Blount was appointed governor of the territory.
		It was named for William Blount, governor of the territory south of the Ohio River, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and United States Senator from Tennessee.
		Grainger County, with Rutledge as its seat, was established.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/genealogy/roots-l/genealog/genealog.tnchron1 (2035 words)

	Biography of William Blount, TNGenNet Inc. TNGenWeb Project, Autobiographies, Biographies, and Diaries of Our Ancestors.
		In 1795, Blount called a constitutional convention to organize the state, served as president of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1796; Tennessee entered the Union that year as the 16th state.
		Mary Grainger Blount, William’s wife died in 1802 and is buried beside her husband.
		William Bount was the father of William Grainger Blount, and half-brother of Willie Blount.
	www.tngenweb.org /bios/b/blount.html (634 words)

	Visitors Guide to Grainger County Tennessee
		The Grainger County Tomato Festival held the last weekend in July in Rutledge is by far the county’s largest annual festival and the largest free festival in Tennessee.
		It is the only county in Tennessee named in honor of a woman: Mary Grainger, the wife of William Blount, the first territorial governor of Tennessee.
		William Bean and Daniel Boone were the first white men known to have viewed the land that is now Grainger County.
	www.graingertn.com /pages/visitors.html (912 words)

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		The county was named for William Blount, governor of the territory of the United States south of the Ohio River.
		Blount County is governed by a county commission/county mayor form of government.
		Blount County Facts—page 3 of 3 The Knoxville metropolitan airport, McGhee-Tyson, is located in Alcoa.
	www.vacationeasttennessee.org /BlountCountyFacts.doc (752 words)

	Blount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blount (or Blunt) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or dull (Middle English blunt, blont)
		William Grainger Blount (1784–1827), American stateman from Tennessee, son of William Blount
		William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (1478–1534) scholar and chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blount (298 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Blount County is one of the oldest counties in Tennessee.
		The new county was named in honor of William Blount, Governor of the Territory of the United States south of the Ohio River.
		In 1792, the first frame house west of the Appalachians, Blount Mansion, was built to accommodate the governor of the vast territory south of the river Ohio.
	www.blountweb.com /bcwebs/infoworks/research/history_toc.htm (833 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Constitution (William Blount) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Blount was the great-grandson of Thomas Blount, who came from England to Virginia soon after 1660 and settled on a North Carolina plantation.
		William, the eldest in a large family, was born in 1749 while his mother was visiting his grandfather's Rosefield estate, on the site of present Windsor near Pamlico Sound.
		Blount spent most of the remainder of his life in public office.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/constitution/bio5.htm (538 words)

	USGenWeb - Grainger County Tennessee - Welcome to Free Genealogy Resources for Grainger County
		Grainger County has a rich history dating back to its creation in 1796 from parts of Hawkins and Knox counties.
		Grainger's current population is estimated at just over 21,000, with most living in owner occupied single family dwellings.
		It's namesake was Mary Grainger, who married Governor William Blount and became First Lady of the Territory South of the River Ohio (which later became known as Tennessee).
	www.graingertn.us (568 words)

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