Ancestry of
Cecil B. DeMille

American Film Director

James Blount

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Cecil B. DeMille — 9th Generation
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  • from 10 Mar 1686 to 17 Jul 1686 
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  • prob. Chowan Precinct (now Chowan County), North Carolina 
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  John Blount (Ahnentafel No:176 )

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  • James Blount is said to be the older brother of Thomas Blount of Taw River.

    Claims of royal ancestry for James Blount have been long proven to be false.

    James Blount may have been the son of James and _____ (Clare) Bount. The elder James had a brother Charles Blount whose will dated 19 DEC 1655 and recorded in London mentioned "my cozen James Blount one of the Sonnes of my late brother James Blount Esquire deceased the summe of fiftie pounds in case he be liveinge or such returned from beyond the seas where now he is to demand the same."

    The name of James Blount's first wife unknown. She is the mother of his children and she died between 27 SEP 1670 (when she appeared as an unnamed witness in court) and 13 JUN 1683 when James married Anna Willix, his second wife

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  • Anna Willix
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  • BEF 13 Jun 1683

• Sources for James Blount

  • ¹ North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 522.
  • ² Brayton, John Anderson, Order of First Families of North Carolina, Ancestor Biographies, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Otter Bay Books (2011), 22-23.
  • ³ Wheeler, John H., Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians, Washington: Press of Henkle and Co. (1885), lvii [roman numerals].