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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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Communities

Communities

Compiled by Jane Norton Powell before 2005. Allen’s Station, Asbury, Belle Eagle, Bethel, Brownsville, Christmasville or Castellaw Corner, Clark’s, Cliff Creek, Dancyville, Jim Dancy’s Dancyville, Eurekaton, Forked Deer, Hillville, Johnson’s Grove, Jones Station, Keeling, KoKo, Lebanon, Nutbush, Orysa, Owl City, Providence, Rudolph, Shepp, Stanton, Sulphur Springs, Sunny Hill, Tabernacle, Tibbs, Union, Wellwood, Wesley, Woodland, Woodville, Zion BETHEL: Probably settled by Bob Taylor, and later Mr. Stocton bought the land which became known as Stocton’s Bottom. In 1870 Gibson Kendrick moved…

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