Sumner County TN Archives Military Records.....Blackmore, George Dawson 
Revwar - Pension 
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LIEUTENANT GEORGE DAWSON BLACKMORE



   George Dawson Blackmore applied for revolutionary pension while living in

Sumner County, Tennessee. He was born near Hagerstown, Md., in February, 1762.

He moved to Virginia and was living there when he enlisted in the 2nd Virginia

regiment. He was commissioned lieutenant in February 1781. He was taken prisoner

at Charleston. He moved to Sumner County about 1784 with the Bledsoe family. He

was a captain in the Indian wars and served as captain in the Nickajack

expedition. He died in Sumner County, September 30, 1835.



   Note: George Dawson Blackmore married Elizabeth Neely, daughter of Captain

Alexander Neely and Elizabeth Montgomery Neely (whose sister, Catherine, was the

wife of Colonel Isaac Bledsoe). They had ten children, 6 daughters and 4 sons:

Polly (d. y.), Margaret (d. y.), Elizabeth (d. unm.), Rachel (m. James Carlton),

Catherine Montgomery, (m. Josephus C. Guild), Emaline (m. James Hadley), Charles

Neely, George Dawson, Jr., (d unm), James H., and William Montgomery Blackmore

(m. Rachel Jackson Barry, daughter of Redmond Dillion Barry).





Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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