Reading Blount is said to have served as an officer in George Washington's main army during the American Revolution. He also served under General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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Blount was a member of a distinguished North Carolina family He was born in Beaufort (now Pitt) County, North Carolina on February 22, 1757, the son of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Blount Hall. His early years were spent in Pitt County, and later in or near Washington, North Carolina.
On April 16, 1776, at the age of nineteen, he was elected a captain by the Provincial Congress to serve in the Fifth North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line He was a part of Washington's main army and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
On May 12, 1778, after severe losses among the officers of the Fifth Regiment, he was promoted to major, under the command of Colonel John Patten, also from Pitt County. After creditable service in the northern campaigns he was ordered south where he was one of the battalion commanders at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, in South Carolina, on September 8, 1781 At this battle he distinguished himself. He remained in the army until mustered out in 1783.
He was an original member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when it was organized on October 21, 1783, and was a delegate to the first general meeting in Philadelphia that year, when General Washington was elected the first President-General.
He served in the state House of Commons from Pitt County, in 1786 and 1787, and afterward removed to Beaufort County where he expanded his landholdings along Chocowinity Bay and Blount's Creek, owning the famous Chocowinity Mills with his brother, Bryan Blount.
Blount was nearly thirty-seven when he married Lucy Harvey, younger daughter of Colonel Miles Harvey of Perquimans County and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Harvey. Mary, Lucy's older half-sister, was already the wife of John Gray Blount. The wedding of Lucy and Reading took place in the John Gray Blount home in Washington on February 4, 1794. This house, built by John Gray Blount in 1778, was the sixth dwelling in the infant village at the Forks of the Tar and was occupied continuously by the Blount family until 1917. The house was demolished in 1923. John Gray Blount and his brother Bryan owned the Chocowinity Mills, opposite Washington on the Pamlico River, and he referred in deeds to this river location as his residence.
He is said to have died at this plantation house, and is buried here in a plot near the dwelling.
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Spouse: Lucy Harvey
Children: Wiley; Mary Harvey; Louisa Ann; John Gray Reading Thomas; William Augustus; Caroline Jones, Isaac Moab
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As a matter of speculation, some logical guesses regarding the mother of Reading Blount's first two children, Isaac Moab and Mary, are here made. First, no record of Blount being married can be found prior to his marriege to Lucy Harvey. That marriage, into the prominent Harvey family, would have been one "for the record." Second, Blount's older brother William was reported to have a first marriage with children prior to his own permanent marriage. That marriage was to an native American woman and, therfore, easily annulled or ignored. Third, the conceptions and births of his first two children took place during his service in the Revolutionary War. Therefore, his first wife or consort could have been to a native American who accompanied him through military campaigns.
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Blount was a member of a distinguished North Carolina family He was born in Beaufort (now Pitt) County, North Carolina on February 22, 1757, the son of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Blount Hall. His early years were spent in Pitt County, and later in or near Washington, North Carolina.
On April 16, 1776, at the age of nineteen, he was elected a captain by the Provincial Congress to serve in the Fifth North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line He was a part of Washington's main army and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
On May 12, 1778, after severe losses among the officers of the Fifth Regiment, he was promoted to major, under the command of Colonel John Patten, also from Pitt County. After creditable service in the northern campaigns he was ordered south where he was one of the battalion commanders at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, in South Carolina, on September 8, 1781 At this battle he distinguished himself. He remained in the army until mustered out in 1783.
He was an original member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when it was organized on October 21, 1783, and was a delegate to the first general meeting in Philadelphia that year, when General Washington was elected the first President-General.
He served in the state House of Commons from Pitt County, in 1786 and 1787, and afterward removed to Beaufort County where he expanded his landholdings along Chocowinity Bay and Blount's Creek, owning the famous Chocowinity Mills with his brother, Bryan Blount.
Blount was nearly thirty-seven when he married Lucy Harvey, younger daughter of Colonel Miles Harvey of Perquimans County and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Harvey. Mary, Lucy's older half-sister, was already the wife of John Gray Blount. The wedding of Lucy and Reading took place in the John Gray Blount home in Washington on February 4, 1794. This house, built by John Gray Blount in 1778, was the sixth dwelling in the infant village at the Forks of the Tar and was occupied continuously by the Blount family until 1917. The house was demolished in 1923. John Gray Blount and his brother Bryan owned the Chocowinity Mills, opposite Washington on the Pamlico River, and he referred in deeds to this river location as his residence.
He is said to have died at this plantation house, and is buried here in a plot near the dwelling.
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Spouse: Lucy Harvey
Children: Wiley; Mary Harvey; Louisa Ann; John Gray Reading Thomas; William Augustus; Caroline Jones, Isaac Moab
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As a matter of speculation, some logical guesses regarding the mother of Reading Blount's first two children, Isaac Moab and Mary, are here made. First, no record of Blount being married can be found prior to his marriege to Lucy Harvey. That marriage, into the prominent Harvey family, would have been one "for the record." Second, Blount's older brother William was reported to have a first marriage with children prior to his own permanent marriage. That marriage was to an native American woman and, therfore, easily annulled or ignored. Third, the conceptions and births of his first two children took place during his service in the Revolutionary War. Therefore, his first wife or consort could have been to a native American who accompanied him through military campaigns.
Reading Blount is said to have served as an officer in George Washington's main army during the American Revolution. He also served under General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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Blount was a member of a distinguished North Carolina family He was born in Beaufort (now Pitt) County, North Carolina on February 22, 1757, the son of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Blount Hall. His early years were spent in Pitt County, and later in or near Washington, North Carolina.
On April 16, 1776, at the age of nineteen, he was elected a captain by the Provincial Congress to serve in the Fifth North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line He was a part of Washington's main army and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
On May 12, 1778, after severe losses among the officers of the Fifth Regiment, he was promoted to major, under the command of Colonel John Patten, also from Pitt County. After creditable service in the northern campaigns he was ordered south where he was one of the battalion commanders at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, in South Carolina, on September 8, 1781 At this battle he distinguished himself. He remained in the army until mustered out in 1783.
He was an original member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when it was organized on October 21, 1783, and was a delegate to the first general meeting in Philadelphia that year, when General Washington was elected the first President-General.
He served in the state House of Commons from Pitt County, in 1786 and 1787, and afterward removed to Beaufort County where he expanded his landholdings along Chocowinity Bay and Blount's Creek, owning the famous Chocowinity Mills with his brother, Bryan Blount.
Blount was nearly thirty-seven when he married Lucy Harvey, younger daughter of Colonel Miles Harvey of Perquimans County and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Harvey. Mary, Lucy's older half-sister, was already the wife of John Gray Blount. The wedding of Lucy and Reading took place in the John Gray Blount home in Washington on February 4, 1794. This house, built by John Gray Blount in 1778, was the sixth dwelling in the infant village at the Forks of the Tar and was occupied continuously by the Blount family until 1917. The house was demolished in 1923. John Gray Blount and his brother Bryan owned the Chocowinity Mills, opposite Washington on the Pamlico River, and he referred in deeds to this river location as his residence.
He is said to have died at this plantation house, and is buried here in a plot near the dwelling.
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Spouse: Lucy Harvey
Children: Wiley; Mary Harvey; Louisa Ann; John Gray Reading Thomas; William Augustus; Caroline Jones, Isaac Moab
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As a matter of speculation, some logical guesses regarding the mother of Reading Blount's first two children, Isaac Moab and Mary, are here made. First, no record of Blount being married can be found prior to his marriege to Lucy Harvey. That marriage, into the prominent Harvey family, would have been one "for the record." Second, Blount's older brother William was reported to have a first marriage with children prior to his own permanent marriage. That marriage was to an native American woman and, therfore, easily annulled or ignored. Third, the conceptions and births of his first two children took place during his service in the Revolutionary War. Therefore, his first wife or consort could have been to a native American who accompanied him through military campaigns.
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Blount was a member of a distinguished North Carolina family He was born in Beaufort (now Pitt) County, North Carolina on February 22, 1757, the son of Jacob and Barbara Gray Blount of Blount Hall. His early years were spent in Pitt County, and later in or near Washington, North Carolina.
On April 16, 1776, at the age of nineteen, he was elected a captain by the Provincial Congress to serve in the Fifth North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line He was a part of Washington's main army and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
On May 12, 1778, after severe losses among the officers of the Fifth Regiment, he was promoted to major, under the command of Colonel John Patten, also from Pitt County. After creditable service in the northern campaigns he was ordered south where he was one of the battalion commanders at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, in South Carolina, on September 8, 1781 At this battle he distinguished himself. He remained in the army until mustered out in 1783.
He was an original member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when it was organized on October 21, 1783, and was a delegate to the first general meeting in Philadelphia that year, when General Washington was elected the first President-General.
He served in the state House of Commons from Pitt County, in 1786 and 1787, and afterward removed to Beaufort County where he expanded his landholdings along Chocowinity Bay and Blount's Creek, owning the famous Chocowinity Mills with his brother, Bryan Blount.
Blount was nearly thirty-seven when he married Lucy Harvey, younger daughter of Colonel Miles Harvey of Perquimans County and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Harvey. Mary, Lucy's older half-sister, was already the wife of John Gray Blount. The wedding of Lucy and Reading took place in the John Gray Blount home in Washington on February 4, 1794. This house, built by John Gray Blount in 1778, was the sixth dwelling in the infant village at the Forks of the Tar and was occupied continuously by the Blount family until 1917. The house was demolished in 1923. John Gray Blount and his brother Bryan owned the Chocowinity Mills, opposite Washington on the Pamlico River, and he referred in deeds to this river location as his residence.
He is said to have died at this plantation house, and is buried here in a plot near the dwelling.
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Spouse: Lucy Harvey
Children: Wiley; Mary Harvey; Louisa Ann; John Gray Reading Thomas; William Augustus; Caroline Jones, Isaac Moab
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As a matter of speculation, some logical guesses regarding the mother of Reading Blount's first two children, Isaac Moab and Mary, are here made. First, no record of Blount being married can be found prior to his marriege to Lucy Harvey. That marriage, into the prominent Harvey family, would have been one "for the record." Second, Blount's older brother William was reported to have a first marriage with children prior to his own permanent marriage. That marriage was to an native American woman and, therfore, easily annulled or ignored. Third, the conceptions and births of his first two children took place during his service in the Revolutionary War. Therefore, his first wife or consort could have been to a native American who accompanied him through military campaigns.
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