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=== Research Notes from Lee Philpott
George Dawson Blackmore
All of my information on George Dawson Blackmore (except land deed and findagrave) is from:
--U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, online \http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1995&enc=1\, George D. Blackmore, 1833, Tennessee, images 481-514
b 20 Feb 1760
Maryland
In his application for a military pension on 11 May 1830, George D. Blackmore stated that he was "aged 70 on February 20 last".
April 1777
Frederick Town, Frederick County, Maryland
He enlisted on "Easter Monday" as a soldier in the Maryland Line after running away from his step-father [he was underage]. He "served as a private in Captain Thomas Beall's company, Colonel Rawlings' Rifle Regiment; he was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, wintered at Valley Forge, in the spring of 1778, marched under Lieutenant Tannehill and guarded pack horses loaded with munitions of war, from Fort Cumberland to Fort Pitt; he continued at Fort Pitt until he marched down the Ohio River in General McIntosh's Expedition, assisted in building Forts McIntosh and Laurens, and returned to Fort Pitt where he was discharged early in 1779 by Captain Benjamin Harrison, who then commanded the company."
1779
Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania
He was discharged early in the year by Captain Benjamin Harrison
July 1780
He returned to Frederick County, Maryland, and volunteered in Captain Sprigg's Maryland company, served as cornet until the summer of 1781, scouting after Tories, with whom they had an engagement. He marched in August, 1781 in Colonel Armand's Corps of Horse to Yorktown, was in the siege there, after which he guarded prisoners, until discharged sometime in December, 1781 by Colonel Thomas."
26 Mar 1784
Frederick County, Maryland
He sold 96 acres of The Forrest to Barton Garrott. [This included with John Garrott, Jr. material.]
circa 1784
left Maryland and moved to Kentucky, then French Lick, Tennessee.
between 1785 and 1794
Tennessee
He served in the Indian Wars, part of the time acting as a Captain of Rangers guarding the frontier.
he married Elizabeth Neely
--Find A Grave Memorial# 40644053
died 27 September 1833
Sumner County, TN
buried Blackmore Cemetery, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN
--Find A Grave Memorial# 40636720
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http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/stagser/s1400/s1437/html/1437mo.html
Maryland State Archives
MARYLAND INDEXES
(Assessment of 1783, Index)
1783
Montgomery County
MSA S 1437
George Blackmore. MO Sugarland and Upper Potomac Hundred, p. 1. MSA S 1161-8-4 1/4/5/51
George Blackmore. Forrest, 100 acres. MO Sugarland and Upper Potomac Hundred, p. 12. MSA S 1161-8-4 1/4/5/51
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1760 - 1833 (73 years)