Very interesting, Jen. Do you or anyone else know if this Smithfield is in PA or IN?
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Subject: [INDELAWA] William Blount article
I ran across this in an old newspaper I bought recently. I thought someone
might find it interesting.
Jennifer
The Muncie Sunday Star, September 25, 1927
FIRST LAND GRANT TO WILLIAM BLOUNT WAS ISSUED IN 1826
The first land grant made to a Muncie settler was to William Blount, an
ancester of Charles and Thomas Blease and Mrs. Thomas Blease, of Riverdale.
Blount was Mrs. Blease's greant-great-grandfather
After coming here in a covered wagon in 1826 from Pennsylvania with his
wife, a gun, an axe and a bag of salt, Blount built a log cabin on the land
which is now known as McCulloch Park.
Desirous of taking up some of the public lands offered in this section by
the acts of 1820, Blount tramped to Indianapolis and secured papers for a
tract of land of eighty acres about four miles east of Muncie, what is now know
as the Lon Lennon farm. The grant was signed by John Quincy Adams.
Prior to settling in Muncie, Blount had had a cabin at Smithfield and was
one of the early settlers of that section. His son, one of eleven children,
settled in Perry Township. Blount was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He
died and was buried in a cemetery at what is now Washington Street and Ohio
Avenue.
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