I35601: Wylie BLOUNT OF TENNESSEEGOV. (1768

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"Willie Blount, the ninth child of Jacob Blount was the first child by his second wife, Mrs. Hannah Salter Baker. He was born in 1768 and was twenty years younger than his distinguished brother the Colonial Governor. The similarity of his name with that of his elder brother causes confusion to the casual student of Tenneessee history. Though it was spelled Willie it was pronounced Wylie and was probably a family name in his mother's line. His first political position was Secretary to his brother then Governor William Blount and he evidently made the most of his opportunities for at twenty eight he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee and at forty was elected Governor. He served as Governor six years, (1809 to 1815) in an exciting period of history. During the War of 1812 he tendered to the United States, two thousand five hundred volunteers, and it is from them that the State gained its name, the Volunteer. He pledged his personal credit to equip three regiments which went to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. He was active in the Creek War also, raising almost as many volunteers and three hundred thousand dollars which for that period was a tremendous sum of money. He died at the residence of Wylie Johnston near Nashville in 1835 and is buried at Clarksville.

He married Lucinda Baker, daughter of John Baker and his wife Anne Norfleet Baker. They had two daughters, one of whom married Dr. J. T. Dabney and the other a ---Dortch. A son of the latter, Willie Blount Dortch, married a daughter of Governor Aaron V. Brown.

The monument in Clarksville erected by the State to the memory of Governor Willie Blount gives his birth place and his brother's as Bertie County, North Carolina, but the Historian, John H. Wheeler credits Blount Hill in Pitt County as their birthplace."

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residence of Wylie Johnston

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Children: Mark, Frances, Haydon LeMaire (Maj. Gen.; Bryant LeMaire, (Lt. Gen. AF), Charlotte Harriet and Elizabeth LeMaire Boatner

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Father: I Giles, Carter b. 1604 in Swell, Gloucester, England
Mother: Elizabeth Tracy b. 1589 in Stanway Manor, Gloucestershire, England

Will of James Crews 1676: To Giles CARTER, what he owes me, and he to hold plantation I let him have for life. If Hannah CARTER dies, the negro wench returns to Theodorick CARTER, her son.

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Sister to Frances Ball Carter

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Bridget (Wife). "The father of William McKenzie came from Scotland, settled in Maryland and remained there until about the close of the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier, then removed to Kentucky."

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3 William Meriwether b: 18 DEC 1782 d: 4 OCT 1784

My Southern Family

GOV. Wylie BLOUNT OF TENNESSEE

1768 - 1835

ID Number: I35601

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Hon. Mark Mayo BOATNER I

1872 - 1933

ID Number: I102286

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Giles H. CARTER "the Immigrant"

ABT 1634 - ABT 1700

ID Number: I85950

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Sarah CARTER

16 Jun 1744 - ____

ID Number: I60805

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Ann DUDLEY

____ - ____

ID Number: I37971

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Susan Jenny EVANS

ABT 1850 - ____

ID Number: I89271

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Joel HURT

ABT 1770 - ____

ID Number: I48205

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John MCKENZIE "the Immigrant"

ABT 1740 - AFT 1780

ID Number: I73409

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William MERIWETHER

18 Dec 1782 - 4 Oct 1784

ID Number: I98554

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James PENDLETON

23 Dec 1799 - 25 Sep 1885

ID Number: I20063

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Elizabeth PORTER

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I52121

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Susannah WALLACE

1719 - 1797

ID Number: I75779

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