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William Blount (/ b l ĘŚ n t / BLUNT; April 6, 1749 – March 21, 1800) [1] was an American politician, landowner and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States.
Craig donated 50 acres (20 ha) next to his fort for the founding of a new town. Incorporated as a city on July 11, 1795, the settlement was named in honor of Mary Grainger Blount, wife of the territorial governor William Blount. Blount County was named after him. [10]
William Blount was born circa 1478 in Barton Blount, Derbyshire, the eldest son of John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy (c. 1450 – 1485) by his wife Lora Berkeley (died 1501), daughter of Edward Berkeley (died 1506) of Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire.
Wife of Sir William Arundel F36 Margaret, Lady Roe of Hamlake 1399 ... William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy: 1478–1534 1526 290 William Fitzwilliam: c. 1490–1542
It is named for Mary Grainger Blount, [11] the wife of William Blount, making it the only county in Tennessee named for a woman. [11] In 1801, Rutledge was selected as the county seat. [ 9 ] Anderson, Claiborne, Campbell, Hamblen, Hancock, Scott and Union counties were formed from portions of the original Grainger County following its reduction ...
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Grainger County, Tennessee, named for Mary Grainger Blount, the wife of William Blount, the only governor of the Southwest Territory (modern Tennessee). [5] Hart County, Georgia, named for Nancy Hart, a sharpshooter and patriot in the American Revolutionary War. [6]
By his first wife he had two sons, Edward, Esq. (died 1517) and Sir Anthony, Kt., and by the second wife 6 children, including sons Henry and William, and daughters Elizabeth, who married John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, and Anne, who married Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy.