Any one know who this James Hanly was???? By NADINE WEBB OVERALL page 350 Ramsay, in his Annals of Tennessee, under the entry of 1779, says: “Nearly ten years had now elapsed since the germ of a civilized community has been planted in Upper East Tennessee.... In the early spring of 1779 a colony of gallant adventurers from [p.350] the parent hive at Watauga crossed the Cumberland Mountains, penetrated the intervening wilds, and pitched their tents near the French Lick, and planted a field of corn where the city of Nashville now stands. . . . These pioneers were Capt. James Robertson, George Freeland, Wm. Neely, Edward Swanson, James Hanly, Mark Robertson, Zachariah White, and Wm. Overall. A Negro fellow also accompanied them... After the crop was made, Overall, White, and Swanson were left to keep the buffaloes out of the unenclosed fields of corn while the rest of the party returned for their families.”