Blandford of New Jersey, Virginia; Early, Jones & Warren Counties

Clark Blandford was born 1754 in New Jersey. He was a Revolutionary War Soldier, enlisting in 1775 in the company of Captain John Montgomery and the regiment of Colonel Benedict Arnold. Blandford was in the Quebec expedition for 12 months before being captured; later paroled and returned to New Jersey where he entered the New Jersey Militia and served until the end of the war, first under Colonel John Nelson and Lt. Colonel Scudder at the taking of Bennetts Island. He was in the battles of Short Hills, Trenton, Springfield, Mud Island and Monmouth, and served as Sgt. and Sgt/Maj. of Nelson's Regiment He was wounded in action three times during the war. The New Jersey Tax Rateables July 1783 list for Windsor Twp., show Clark Blandford appearing on the scene and being listed in the Tax Rateables, he had no improved land but had a house on a lot. Blandford was listed as a householder only but with 8 inhabitants. In the Feb or July 1784 the NJ Tax Rateables of Windsor Twp, Clark Blandford is shown as a single man with 1 horse, 3 cattle and 4 white inhabitants.

Following the war, he removed to Virginia from New Jersey, thence to Georgia, thence to Florida, later returning to Georgia. He was married in Warren County, Georgia to Mary Hutchinson. Known issue:[2]

Clark Blandford, Jr., born 13 October 1790 in Warren County, Georgia, died 1840-1850 in Georgia. He married Nancy Hardin, January 1821, in Warren County. He may have married again, to Frances (unless Frances is the same person as Nancy Hardin). The LWT of Frances Blandford, dated 3 July 1850, probated 1 March 1852, in Jones County, named "the children of my deceased husband, Clark, Jr." To childredn of deceased husband: Clark blandford, Jr. Exr: Charles Hutchings.