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colonial North Carolina public official
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Captain Thomas Blount was an American officer, politician, and planter in colonial North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina Assembly and served as a Magistrate for Chowan County. He and his father James Blount participated and were rebels in Culpeper's Rebellion, one of the earliest instances of open defiance of British crown rule in America.
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