Display Patriot - P-116364 - Anthony BLEDSOE

Anthony BLEDSOE

SAR Patriot #: P-116364

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: VA/NC      Qualifying Service: Colonel / Civil Service / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A011213

Birth: 1733 / Spotsylvania / VA
Death: 20 Jul 1788 / Sumner / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Justice of Peace, Fincastle County, Virginia
  2. Member, House of Delegates
  3. ​​​​​​He served as a Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel in both the Continental Army and the Fincastle County, Virginia Militia
  4. 1775-1776, he commanded troops on Long Island, New York
  5. 1776, Built Fort Bledsoe and participated in the Battle of the Flats

Additional References:
  1. Cisco, Jay Guy, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage, and Douglass Families …, Tennessee. Nashville: Folk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909, pg 18-107
  2. Putnam, Albigence Waldo, History of Middle Tennessee; or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson, Tennessee. Nashville: self-published, 1859, pg 29, 54, 161, 172, 210-212, 226, 297-298, 414, 425, 450, 470, 492, 502, 516, 618, 639
  3. Phelan, J, History of Tennessee, The Making of a State, New York City: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888, pg 32, 130, 134, 140, 144, 157
  4. Virginia Magazine of History:
    • Oct 1898, pg 123
    • Jul 1899, pg 2, 11
  5. Summers, Lewis Preston, Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800, Tennessee. Johnson City: The Overmountain Press, 1992, pg 817
  6. Gwathmey, John H, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783, Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1938, pg 70
  7. Clark, Walter, William Saunders, and Stephen Weeks, The Colonial Records of North Carolina: Published Under the Supervision of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, by Order of the General Assembly, North Carolina. Goldsboro: Nash Brothers, 1907:
    • Vol 10, pg 660-1
    • Vol 16, pg 587
    • Vol 17, pg 660

Spouse: Mary Ramsey
Children: Elizabeth/Betsy; Henry Ramsey; Isaac Moore; Mary/Polly; Rachel; Sarah; Susan/Susannah/Suckey;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1941-10-21 NY Unassigned Wesley Steele Block Jr (60504) Susan   
1958-08-29 TN Unassigned DeWitt Sherrell Figuers (81319) Betsy   
1959-06-23 TN Unassigned Howard McCoy Sherrell (83922) Betsy   
1960-06-30 VA Unassigned Beaumont Manor Buck (86207)   
1963-11-27 CA Unassigned Wayne Laverne Bledsoe (90200)   
1964-07-31 CA Unassigned Douglas Lawrence Bledsoe (91781)   
1971-10-29 VA Unassigned Byron Augustus Bledsoe (101900) Henry   
1975-06-23 NM Unassigned Tracy Wayne Headstream (109051) Polly   
1979-06-19 TX Unassigned Michael D Gaertner (115816) Polly   
1979-08-27 MS Unassigned William Floyd Bruce Jr (116030) Polly   
1979-09-21 TX Unassigned Timothy A Gaertner (116084) Polly   
1981-03-31 CA Unassigned James L Buck (118400) Polly   
1982-07-19 CA Unassigned Wellington Baird Anton (120584) Isaac   
1986-02-19 TN 228288 Thomas Anthony Mabrey (127115) Susan   
1987-03-02 TX 225567 Timothy Ray Brown (129079) Mary/Polly   
1990-11-13 TN 217170 Tyler Gwaltney Ford III (135923) Betsy   
1991-03-15 TN 215880 James Jeremiah Upshaw (136678) Betsy   
1992-12-14 TX 211848 Edwin Shelby Wright (139868) Sarah   
1996-01-10 GA 204648 Davis Wayne King Jr (145708) Mary/Polly   
1996-07-16 CA 203483 Philip Scott Rader (146749) Susan   
2006-02-17 GA 24865 Herbert McCammon Henry (166599) Polly   
2011-02-17 FL 41410 Wayne Allen Horton (178868) Mary/Polly   
2011-11-22 FL 45182 Kenneth David Gunn (181513) Polly   
2021-07-02 AZ 97731 Keith Allen Justus (219617) Henry   
2022-04-22 OK 101385 Kolten Dale Taylor (222255) Henry   
2022-04-22 OK 101388 Elias Jack Kuhlman (222258) Henry   
2022-04-22 OK 101389 Ezekiel Karl Kuhlman (222259) Henry   
2022-04-22 OK 101390 Taylor Walter Kuhlman (222260) Henry   
2022-12-02 TN 104523 Karl Edwin Taylor Jr. (224498) Henry   
2025-01-17 MS 114831 Sanders Lawrence Edmonson (232301)   
Location:
Castalian Springs / Sumner / TN / USA
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Marker Type:
SAR Granite
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
22 Oct 2022

Comments:

Photos used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Find-a-Grave Cite: "Cemetery is within Bledsoe's Fort Historic Park. A map of the park is located in the main parking lot. Follow the walking trail to cemetery which is on the east side of the park."




Author: David Miles Vaughn

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