Mary E "Molly" Hamblen

Daughter of Joseph Blakemore and Ann Sanders. She is said to have been killed also by Indians near Fort Blackmore in 1790, even though she is mentioned in her father's will.

Married (1)~1776 JESSE ADAMS and ten children massacred by the Indians on Stock Creek in 1782. Joseph Blakemore was made guardian of Molly's children, Jonathon and Sarah Adams on 19 April 1787, which indicates their mother had remarried.

Children: Jonathan Adams (~1776-81), Sarah Adams ~1776-81).

The Adams children were apprenticed to their grandfather, Joseph Blakemore, Sr., which indicates their mother had remarried.

Married (2) 19 June 1787(but illegally) HENRY HAMBLEN (1740-1815 Ft. Blakemore) - Henry Hamblen came to Castlewood and settled in upper Castlewood, on the North side of Clinch River in 1769. He operated a mill there long before Bickley's Mill and the old foundation still stands on Mill Creek. Married his first wife, Mary "Polly" Dickenson before 1776. Later he moved to Rye Cove and married his second wife Mary "Molly" Blackmore. During the Revolutionary War he is reported to have been a Tory.

Child of Mary Dickenson: Champ Hamblen, Charles Hamblen, John Hamblen, Francis Hamblen (b.1772/4)and Frances "Fannie" Hamblen (b.1770).

In the year 1781, a company of eleven Indians visited the home of a Mr. Hamblin, n Clinch river, near Castles Woods. Mrs. Hamblin, who was at home, barred the doors to her house and defended it against the attack of the Indians with an old musket-gun that would not fire. Account 1: But in the May of 1782, the Indians returned to her home, at which time they succeeded in killing and scalping Mrs. Hamblin.

When Henry's first wife was killed by Indians in May of 1782, son Champ Hamblen, then a boy ten years of age, was captured and carried west, but eventually was transported into Canada, where he was ransomed by a French trader and taken to Quebec, from which place he was sent by boat to Norfolk, and that from Norfolk he made his way back to his home near Fort Blackmore; two of the boys, Charles and John, and most likely daughter Frances, were saved from the Indians by a negro slave, a giant in stature and weighing three-hundred and fifty pounds; that for this act the slave was given his freedom and a small farm some six miles south of Jonesville.

That Henry Hamblen's wife was killed by Indians in the Spring of 1782 is substantiated by the personal testimony of James Fraley, who applied for a pension for his service to the United States as an Indian spy and scout on the frontier during that period in history. Court records, plus D.A.R. records, prove that five of Henry Hamblen's children survived the Indian raid of 1782.

Child of Mary Blakemore: Cynthia Hamblen m. Mr. Chadwell

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 23 2017, 22:31:40 UTC