Notes for Joseph Bledsoe: OCCUPATION: The Reverend Joseph Bledsoe was a member of "The Travelling Church" and leader of the "Wilderness Church". The following excerpt names Joseph: "Preachers were not lacking in the expedition itself. Joseph Bledsoe of the Wilderness Church and father of the afterwards noted Senator Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky; Joseph Craig, "the man who laid down in the road"; William Cave, a connection of the Craigs, and Simeon Walton, pastor for a season of Nottaway Church, were four of probably a dozen preachers who accompanied it..."[Page created by: jog1@ix.netcom.com on: Thu May 9 12:45:31 1996, "Travelling Church Lists: To Kentucky from Virginia", ] Joseph later constituted the Separate Baptist Church on Gilbert's Creek in Garrard Co., KY in 1783 alng with his son, the Reverend William M. Bledsoe, and his son-in-law, Thomas J. Chilton, Sr.
Children of Joseph Bledsoe and Elizabeth Miller are:
+William Miller Bledsoe, b. 13 Apr 1761, Spotsylvania, Virginia, d. 18 May 1811, Garrand, Kentucky.
Joseph Bledsoe (b. 1732, d. 1801)
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