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Africa Smithwick m. Apr 4, 1750 Tyrrell Co. NC b. 1727? NC d. 1793 |
Chloe b. 1748 Tyrrell Co. NC |
Hannah b. 1749 Tyrrell Co. NC |
Benjamin III b. 1750 Tyrrell Co. NC d. 1838 Nash Co NC |
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Africa b. 1752 Tyrrell Co. NC |
Asia b. 1752 Tyrrell Co. NC |
Levi b. 1753 Tyrrell Co. NC |
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Edmund b. 1755 Tyrrell Co. NC d. 1823 |
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Albemarle County was formed in 1664 but by 1670 part of it had been split into Chowan and
Perquimans Precincts. Tyrrell County was formed in 1729 from Chowan, Bertie and
other parts of the Albemarle Sound region. See
Map of the North Carolina
Counties in 1740. |
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Benjamin Blount, Jr. was a veteran of Colonial wars, and a member of the convention
to frame the state constitution. |
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Son Edmund was in the Revolution. |
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Sources: Daughters of American Colonists, Lineage #5504. Grimes, J. Bryan, Abstract of Wills, NC, Raleigh, 1910. Prescott, Helen M. Blount, Blount and Blunt, one-page pedigree chart, Press of W.F. Roberts, Washington DC, 1902. Smallwood, Marilu Burch, Related Royal Families, 1966. Tyrrell Co., NC, Marriage bonds, NC Archives. Will of Benjamin Blount Sr., drawn Nov 4, 1786, Tyrrell Co. Will Book 1, (typed copy), NC Archives, p. 158. |
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