GEORGIA BAPTIST:  MILLER BLEDSOE

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SOURCE: GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse
H. Campbell, [1847] 1993, published by Oldbuck Press, Inc.,
PO Box 1623, Conway, Arkansas 72034, pp. 38-40.   A copy of
this book can be purchased for $21.00 postage paid from the
publisher.

Miller Bledsoe was born in Fredericksburg, VA, October 7,
1761.  At the age of fifteen, he entered the service of his
country under Capt. Ambrose Dudley, in Orange county, who
was himself a minister of the Baptist persuasion; who yet
felt it his duty, in those perilous times to give the
strongest evidence of his love to his country.  Capt.
Dudley’s company belonged to the Second Virginia Regiment.
After remaining in Virginia some time, his company marched
to Valley Forge in 1788.

Mr. Bledsoe was detached with others, under Col. Lee, to
capture a certain strong post of the enemy’s, called the
Hook… 

In 1788 he obtained a hope, and joined the church in Orange
County, Called North Fork, -- was baptized by Aaron Bledsoe,
a relative of his… In February, 1793, he emigrated to
Oglethorpe County, Georgia…  He Was still living in July,
1839, about seventy-eight years old.



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