“History does not make clear the policy of the North Carolina colony in dealing with the Indians in regards to their lands; it does not appear that any official policy was adopted until the near the close of its colonial existence . . . “. . . the relations existing between the settlers and natives were friendly and peaceful up to the year 1711 . . . After the conquest of the Tuskarora there was no other tribe, except the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.