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Peace Treaty in Virginia, 1677

Peace Treaty in Virginia, 1677

ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN CHARLES II AND SEVERAL INDIAN KINGS AND QUEENS CONCLUDED THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1677.   SYNOPSIS. The treaty consists of 21 articles, in which the Indians acknowledge subjection to the British Crown and the British guarantee them protection. They provide that no English settlement shall be made nearer than three miles of any Indian town and that the Indians shall be “secured and defended in their persons, goods and properties against all hurts and injuries of…

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The Carolina Charter, 1655

The Carolina Charter, 1655

The King’s charter for the Proprietorship of Carolina in effect gave Carolina (later North Carolina) the land that was to become Tennessee. The Charter specified Carolina’s boundary as:The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 145. Government Printing Office, 1953; pp. 215-229. “. . . All that Province, Territory, or Tract of ground, situate, lying, and being within our Dominions of America aforesaid, extending North and Eastward as far as the…

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The Aboriginal People of Tennessee

The Aboriginal People of Tennessee

The First People of Tennessee Our Aboriginal People of Tennessee map (93k) shows the Indian cultural groups at about 1700 CE (AD) just after the beginning of the Historic Period. The map locates the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Quapaw, Shawnee, and Yuchi (a.k.a Uchee) in what is now Tennessee. We have added to our list, Catawba, Chiaha, Kaskinampo, Mosopelia, Muscogee (Creek), Natchez, Tali, and Tuskegee. Of these First Nations, only the Cherokee and Chickasaw treated with the British colonials and/or later with the United…

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Indian Land Cessions

Indian Land Cessions

Part I Introduction The Aboriginal People of Tennessee The Carolina Charter, 1665 Peace Treaty in Virginia, 1677 Colonial North Carolina’s Indian Policy Shawnee, ca 1714-1715 Boys for Sale : the Business of Selling Indians The Yamasee War, 1715 The Indian Traders Treaty of Savannah, 1733 Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 The Land Companies Dr. Thomas Walker’s Journal, 1750 Treaty of Logstown, 1752 Treaty with the Catawba and Cherokee, 1756 Captain Jack and a Tennessee Land Purchase, 1757 French and Indian War,…

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Introduction

Introduction

  It started as a trickle and became a flood; European settlement of America. The English “Adventurers” (investors) watched the Spanish plunder the New World, and so they dreamed of riches. Then there was just that short trip from America’s eastern seaboard, over the mountains, to the Pacific Ocean, on then to the south seas, and to the East Indies – the Spice Islands – with all that Nutmeg,1 and of course, even more riches. First came the Roanoke settlement in…

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Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section IV – Revolutionary War

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section IV – Revolutionary War

Excerpted from “Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions,” Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., originally published in 1838, expanded in 1852 to include later records. Reminder: These are partial records. In many cases, the applicant, widow or heir applied successfully at a later date.

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section III – Revolutionary War

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section III – Revolutionary War

Excerpted from “Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions,” Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., originally published in 1838, expanded in 1852 to include later records. Reminder: These are partial records. In many cases, the applicant, widow or heir applied successfully at a later date.

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section II – Revolutionary War

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section II – Revolutionary War

Excerpted from “Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions,” Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., originally published in 1838, expanded in 1852 to include later records. Reminder: These are partial records. In many cases, the applicant, widow or heir applied successfully at a later date.

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section I – Revolutionary War

Rejected or Suspended Pensions Section I – Revolutionary War

Excerpted from “Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions,” Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., originally published in 1838, expanded in 1852 to include later records. Reminder: These are partial records. In many cases, the applicant, widow or heir applied successfully at a later date.

The Battle of King’s Mountain 7 Oct 1780

The Battle of King’s Mountain 7 Oct 1780

by C. Hammett, Coordinator Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War   Did you know that nearly half the men who fought at the Battle of King’s Mountain were Tennessee “Overmountain Men?” That the Battle of King’s Mountain is credited with having turned the tide of the Revolution? That without King’s Mountain, America might have had only ten colonies? That the battle was not Americans against the British, but Americans against Americans? That the American Whigs bested the American Tories in only…

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