- March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
- March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
- March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
William Blount
BLOUNT, William, statesman, born in North Carolina in 1749; died in Knoxville, Tenn., 21 March, 1800.
He was educated in the colony, and served in the Revolutionary army. After the war he was elected to the Continental Congress, and was a delegate to the convention that framed the Federal Constitution, which he signed.
He was appointed governor of the territory south of the Ohio river in 1790, and was active in organizing the territorial government. In 1796 he was elected U.S. senator from Tennessee, but was expelled in 1797 for alleged complicity in a scheme to aid Great Britain in conquering Florida and Louisiana.
Despite this, he remained popular in Tennessee and was elected to the state senate, where he served until his death. Blount was a man of energy and ambition, and played a prominent part in the early history of the southwestern frontier.
Source:
Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887. Patriot Echoes Archive
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