HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 

1847.  Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, p. 203 

[Bourbon county].



JESSE BLEDSOE was born on the 6th of April, 1776, in Culpepper [sic] 

county, Virginia.  His father, Joseph Bledsoe, was a Baptist preacher.  

His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Miller.  In early life, Judge 

Bledsoe's health was delicate, and from weakness in his eyes, could not 

be sent regularly to school.  When his health and sight were restored, 

which was not until he had become quite a large boy, (having emigrated 

with an elder brother to the neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky), he 

went to Transylvania seminary, and by the force of talent and assidious 

industry, became a fine scholar.  Few men were better or riper classical 

scholars; and to the day of his death it was his pleasure and delight to 

read the Grecian orators and poets in their original tongue.  After 

finishing his collegiate course, he studied law, and commenced its 

practice with success and reputation.

	Judge Bledsoe was repeatedly elected to the house of 

representatives of the Kentucky legislature, from the counties of 

Fayette and Bourbon; and was also a senator from the latter county.  He 

was secretary of state, of Kentucky, under Gov. Charles Scott; and 

during the war with Great Britain, as elected a senator in the congress 

of the United States from the state of Kentcuky, for an unexpired term, 

serving in that capacity for two or three years.  In 1822, he was 

appointed by Gov. Adair, a circuit judge in the Lexington district, and 

removed to Lexington, where he received the appointment of professor for 

five or six years, when he resigned both, and again commenced the 

practice of law.

	In 1833, he removed to Mississippi, and in the fall of 1835 or 

spring of 1836, he emigrated to Texas, and commenced gathering materials 

for a hisory of the new republic.  In May, 1836, he was taken sick in 

that portion of Texas near the line of the United States, and not far 

from Nacogdoches, where he died.

	At an early age, he married the eldest daughter of Colonel 

Nathaniel Gist, and his widow is still living in Frankfort.



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