Anthony BLEDSOE, COL.

Birth:
1733
Culpepper Co. Va - America
Death:
1788
Tn
Marriage:
1760
Va America
Father:
Thomas BLEDSOE
Mother:
Notes:
                      DOCUMENTATION: Estate shows deseased 31 Jul 1790 with Isaac & Mary Bledsoe                      Executors.
                   Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800 pg 131
                   Notes on Thomas/ Lyman Draper.  Interview with Sarah Bledsoe                  Shelby - oldest Da of Anthony.  State that Anthony & his                      brothers left home when he was 15 as they could not stand                     their step-mother.
                   He was an Indian Fighter, explorer, surveyor & frountiersman                  with his brother Isaac.
                   In 1781 they received a patented for several thousand A of
                      land near a sulpher springs in TN where the buffalo came
                      to lick the sald.  This area was explored by Isaac & the
                      lick & dreek still bear their name.
                   Captain in the Colonial Army of NJ.  In the VA Militia in                        the Revolutionary War.  Commander of the troops at Long
                      Island, NY - Dec 1776 - Apr 1777.
                   First Representative of Washington Co. VA in the Legislator
                   Killed by Indians -- see Knoxville Gazette - 11 Oct 1794
Mary RAMSEY
Birth:
1734
Va - America
Death:
1808
Tn
Father:
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Notes:
                      DOCUMENTATION: Marriages of some Virginia Residents 1607-1800 page 131
                   Sites DAR 65 739; 79 722
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                      DOCUMENTATION: Internet info from Draper manuscripts on file at the UofWis.
                   Interviews with Sarah Bledsoe Shelby.  Date of interview not                  given but she was in her 80's at the time.
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Anthony BLEDSOE, II
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Tn
 
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Notes:
                      DOCUMENTATION: From Knoxville Gazette  11 Oct 1794
                   March -- "On the 21st near the house of Secretary Smith,                      Anthony Bledsoe, the son of the late Col. Anthony Bledsoe,                    & Anthony Bledsoe, son of the late Col. Isaac Bledsoe, were
                   both killed by Inidans & scalped (their fathers, were both                    killed by Indians, one, in his house, the other in his                        field.  The same party of Indians catured a valuable negro                    fellow belonging to Secretary Smith."
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Anthony Bledsoe, Col. - Mary Ramsey

Anthony Bledsoe, Col. was born at Culpepper Co. Va - America 1733. His parents were Thomas Bledsoe and .

He married Mary Ramsey 1760 at Va America . Mary Ramsey was born at Va - America 1734 .

They were the parents of 11 children:
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Anthony Bledsoe, Col. died 1788 at Tn .

Mary Ramsey died 1808 at Tn .