Ainsworth Blunt was an American missionary to the Cherokee at the Brainerd Mission and the first mayor of Dalton, Georgia. Ainsworth Emery Blunt was born on February 22, 1800, in Amherst, New Hampshire to John Isaac (1756–1836) and Sarah (Eames) Blunt (1765-1858). He was baptized in the Amherst Congregationalist Church on March 9, 1800. He married Harriet Ellsworth on 17 November 1822. They had five children: Martha, John, Sarah, Harriet, and Ainsworth, Jr..