He served as a lieutenant in the North Carolina Line and as an adjutant general to Major General Richard Caswell in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Jacob Blount acquired an estate of six thousand acres on Contentnea Creek between 1757 and 1783.

Thomas's mother died in 1763 and his father remarried to Hannah Salter Baker.

John Gray and William were representatives in the North Carolina General Assembly.

[1] In 1777 at the age of 16, Blount entered the Continental Army's 5th North Carolina Regiment during the American Revolutionary War.

[5][6][1] His home at Tarboro, The Grove, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.