Ger The Annals Of Tennessee To

Author : James Gettys Mcgready Ramsey
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230324388
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Its Settlement, As the Watauga Association, from 1769 to 1777; a Part of Nor written by James Gettys Mcgready Ramsey and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...should be gratified, if the malcontents would return to their allegiance. The argument was forcible--to many perfectly satisfactory and irresistible. It inflicted a vital stab upon the new government, which, within the next year, caused its dissolution. PROGRESS Of THE SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF FRENCH BROAD. The Irish Bottom began to be settled. George McNutt was one of the earliest emigrants. His daughter, afterwards the wife of Col. McFarland, and still living in Jefferson county, was the first white child born south of French Broad. Nancy Rogers, daughter of Jonah Rogers was the second. After the treaty of Dumplin, great facilities existed for ( occupying the country acquired under it, south of I French Broad and Holston, and the stream of emigration was principally directed in that channel. From Henry's Station, at the mouth of Dumplin, the emigrants crossed the river, settling along Boyd's Creek Valley, where McGaughy's, Newell's and other stations were formed. They soon crossed the ridge dividing that stream from Elijah, and formed a station, McTeer's, still in the occupancy of a descendant of the same name, William McTeer, Esq. It soon became the nucleus of an excellent neighbourhood of intelligent, worthy and patriotic citizens--emigrants principally from the valley of Virginia, who brought with, and diffused around them, republicanism, religion, intelligence and thrift. They were, for several years, annoyed and harassed by Cherokee incursions. The proximity of their settlement to the fastnesses of the adjoining mountains, made it necessary, constantly, to guard their frontier. While one worked in the field, another acted as a scout or a sentinel. They were often driven into stations, and twice had to leave their farms and cabins, and...