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There is a little known but interesting account of one Humphrey Blunt of Sir Thomas Gate's expedition into Virginia being killed by the indians. To avenge his death the indians were slain and their site became that of the the present City of Hampton. Blunt Point was named from this Blunt and it was there that Clairbourne of the Virginia Colony settled. Clairbourne had made the Isle of Kent a place of trade with the indians as early as 1631. In 1631 he brought from Virginia the Reverand Richard James to the Isle of Kent who conducted the first service of the Church of England within the territory of Maryland. From this came the o;ldest county in Maryland, Kent County, from which Queen County was taken. For sixty years there was continuous activity of the Church of England. It is believed that St Peter's was built before any other church in Maryland. Can there be any significance in the name of the church being the same as St Peter's in Bristol where ancestors of William and and his nephew Richard were buried? It has been suggested that William Blunt of Maryland may have been the uncle of Richard Blunt and tht he may have divided his early years in America between Andover, Massachusettes and Kent Island, Maryland. Richard Blunt did not come to Kent Island until 1649.
The above data was sent to George F Blount in August 1946 by Edith Tunnell, 1 Jacobus Place, New York City.
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