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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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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 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.

Goodspeed’s County Histories & Biographies

Goodspeed’s County Histories & Biographies

The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville TN, 1887       The Goodspeed Publishing Company of Nashville and Chicago issued A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of … [County names go here] . . during 1886 and 1887. Unfortunately, the project was not completed and therefore not all Tennessee counties are represented in this series. A total of eighty-two counties were recorded, however, the histories of Davidson County and twelve rural…

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Dr. Thomas Walker’s Journal (6 Mar 1749/50 – 13 Jul 1750)

Dr. Thomas Walker’s Journal (6 Mar 1749/50 – 13 Jul 1750)

The Land of our Ancestors A TNGenWeb Project History Presentation From 1729 to 1749, the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina was based on the 1728 survey “from the Sea to Peters Creek” by the Honorable William Byrd, William Dandridge and Richard Fitzwilliams, Commissioners, and Mr. Alexander Irvine and Mr. William Mayo, surveyors. During this period, white settlements on both sides of the line had already extended much further west than Peter’s Creek as is shown in a map…

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Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (July 31, 1908)

Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (July 31, 1908)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original page. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language.  On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context. Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 49 No. 34 — Friday, July 31, 1908 FROM BELLS — Hix MARLOW, who has been in…

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