TENTH GENERATION

608. Jacob BLOUNT was born in 1726 in of, Beaufort, <North Carolina>, North Carolina. He died on 17 Aug 1789 in Blount Hall, Pitt, North Carolina. Jacob married Barbara Gray of Bertie County, North Carolina in 1748, and for
some years following resided in Bertie County, near Windsor. Barbara had
inherited 600 acres of land on the west side of Cashia (Cashie) River,
adjoining the land of her brother William. It is probable that Jacob and
Barbara lived on this land while in Bertie County. While there, Jacob was made
a Justice of the Peace. Three of Jacob's and Barbara's children were born in
Bertie County, North Carolina: William, Ann, and John Gray Blount.
It might be assumed that Jacob and Barbara left the county about 1759, for a
new Justice of the Peace was appointed at that time.
In 1735, Jacob inherited from his Uncle Churchill Reading, 500 acres of land on
the Contentnea Creek in Craven County, North Carolina. In 1753, he was granted
100 acres on Contentnea, near Hencoop swamp. The next year he bought another
hundred acres, and in 1757 took out warrants for two plots of 240 acres, each
lying on the north side of Great Contentnea between John Caldom's line and a
creek near Francis Jackson. Between 1757 and 1783 he bought at intervals, plots
ranging from 50 to 640 acres. In 1761, Jacob and Richard Blackledge went into
the mercantile business at the forks of the Tar River, where the town of
Washington stands.
Jacob represented Craven County, North Carolina in the General Assembly in
1766, 1768, 1769, and 1770-1771. Although Jacob took part in the battle of
Alamance against the Regulators, he became very active in the movements against
royal authority within the next decade. He was a member of the Provincial
Congress at New Bern in April 1775, of the Third Provincial Congress at
Hillsboro, and of the fourth Provincial Congress at Halifax in April 1776.
While a member of the Provincial Congress at New Bern, he served on a committee
to aid in collecting supplies for the support of the sufferers in Boston,
Massachusetts who were being penalized by the British Government.
Jacob's and Barbara's home was located sixteen miles southwest of Greenville,
North Carolina, and was known as Blount Hall. This home was originally in
Craven County, later included in Pitt County. At this home in Craven County,
Jacob and Barbara had an additional four children: Louisa, Reading, Thomas and
Jacob. Barbara, Jacob's wife, died 8 April 1763. Jacob remarried shortly
thereafter to Hannah Salter Baker, daughter of Colonel Edward Salter and widow
of William Baker. Five children were born to this marriage, two of which lived
to maturity: Willie, pronounced "Wylie", and Sharpe. Jacob outlived his second
wife also, and on 9 August 1787, married Mrs Mary Adams. Two years after this
marriage, Jacob died of "nervous fever" at Blount Hall on 17 August, 1789. He was married to Barbara GRAY in 1748 in Bertie, , North Carolina.

609. Barbara GRAY died on 8 Apr 1763 in , <Craven>, North Carolina. She was born in , of Bertie, North Carolina. Children were:

i. William BLOUNT was born on 26 Mar 1749 in , Bertie, North Carolina.
ii. Ann BLOUNT was born on 3 Oct 1750 in , Bertie, North Carolina.
iii. John Gray BLOUNT was born on 21 Sep 1752 in , Bertie, North Carolina.
iv. Louisa BLOUNT was born on 17 Jan 1755 in , Craven, North Carolina.
304 v. Redding (Reading) BLOUNT.
vi. Thomas BLOUNT was born on 10 May 1759 in , Craven, North Carolina.
vii. Jacob BLOUNT was born on 5 Nov 1760 in , Craven, North Carolina.