Esau Blount

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Esau Blount was a North Carolina colonist.

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Research Notes

"Literary and Historical Activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905"[1]

"Tom Blount, the last king of the Tuscaroras, of whom frequent mention is made in the accounts of the Indian War, received his name from this circumstance: In one of the earliest raids of the "enemy indians" upon the whites, some years before the Tuscarora War, there were twin brothers, Jacob & Esau, sons of Thomas Blount of Chowan. Esau was captured by the Indians and put to death in a shocking manner.... His brother Jacob swore vengeance for this act; and he took in battle the young son of the then Chief of the Tuscaroras and kept him a hostage for some time. Pity for the youth softened the hearts of his captors, and the boy was treated so kindly that he assumed the name of his benefactor, Thomas Blount, father of Jacob and Esau; and he was ever after the friend and ally of the settlers. Upon the return of the Indian King's son, Mr. Abraham Sheppard of Pitt County, then a mere boy, who had been captured by the Tuscarora Indians, was set at liberty. Mr. Sheppard, when quite an old man, gave these particulars to the late John Gray Blount of Washington (NC), who had them written in a book of his family records, now in possession of his descendants."

John Grey Blount was a great grandson of Capt. Thomas Blount.