The Wataugans: First Free and Independent Community on the ContinentOriginally published as part of a series for the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, this well-written volume gives necessary background information and details the early activities in that area in the 1760s. It thoroughly covers the settlement during its vanguard role in the 1770s and chronicles the various events that brought a change from that of a holding action to one of aggressive expansion in the 1780s. |
Contents
BETWEEN THE WARS AND BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS | 1 |
EARLY WATAUGA | 4 |
A LITTLE SPOT OF GROUND | 12 |
THE WATAUGA ASSOCIATION | 16 |
VTWO QUIET YEARS 17721774 | 22 |
A LITTLE SPOT OF GROUND II | 28 |
THE WATAUGANS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 34 |
INDIANS AGENTS AND THE PETITION OF 1776 | 38 |
THE CHEROKEE WAR AND THE END OF AN ERA | 44 |
1777RAPPROACHEMENTHONEYMOON | 52 |
SEPTEMBER 25 1780RENDEZVOUS AT SYCAMORE SHOALS | 55 |
17851789THE LOST STATE OF FRANKLIN | 62 |
IN THE END WHAT SIGNIFICANCE? | 69 |
The Petition of 1776 to North Carolina | 73 |
The Minutes of the North Carolina legislatures acknowledgement on August 22 1776 of the petition of the Wataugans | 76 |
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Alamance American Andrew Attacullaculla battle Blue Ridge boundary British Carolinians Carter's Valley cession Charles Robertson Charleston Cherokee Chickamaugans chiefs Chota Colonel colonies Company constitution Continental Congress Cornwallis Court Creek Cumberland Compact Dawn of Tennessee defeat Dragging Canoe Dunmore early east Evan Shelby expedition Fincastle County Fort Watauga Franklin French Broad historians History of Tennessee Holston hundred independence Indian land Isaac Shelby Jacob Brown James Robertson John Carter John Sevier John Stuart Jonesborough Kentucky King's Mountain later lease legislature Lochaber Long Island Loyalist military militia moved Nolichucky settlement North Carolina North-of-Holston Oconostota Old Southwest orders Overhill towns Overmountain Overmountain Men Patriot political present-day Proclamation purchase Regulators Revolution Revolutionary riflemen River S. C. Williams settlers Shawnee soon South squatters stockade Sycamore Shoals Tennessee Historical Transylvania treaty Virginia warriors Washington County Washington District Watauga and Nolichucky Watauga Association Watauga settlements western William Bean William Tatham Wolf Hills