I just received this message. I think you would be able to answer this to the group better than I. Thanks for your help to all who need your expertise on this subject. June >From : John Carter <[email protected]> To : 'June Bork' <[email protected]> Subject : RE: FIRST INHABITANTS of WATAUGA Date : Sun, 8 Sep 2002 23:54:16 -0400 June, What part of what will become Tennessee, does this include? John Carter >From: Pansylea Willburn <[email protected]> >To: June Bork <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [KYWAYNE] FIRST INHABITANTS of WATAUGA >Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:57:31 -0700 > >June, thank you so much for all of your work in sharing and publishing >records through the years! You have made my Wayne Co., KY research on my >West, Bland, and Rabourn families so much easier with your published >marriage records! > >Now, about this list. I also research extensively (lines other than my >Wayne Co., KY ones) in the area you describe below, some of which became, >first, Greene Co., North Carolina, and then Greene Co., Tennessee, and >during the time when there was a State of Franklin, records are there for >many of these people. > >My family the Casey/Kersey family went to the Watauga area, Greene County >in 1785 and settled on Lick Creek. Court records, often in the same >record, >use the two spellings interchangeably. It should be Kersey, but most >descendants used Casey. The Kersey family was fleeing from the Indian >wars/burnings in Washington Co., PA, land which was originally the old >Yohagania County, VA. Some of the settlers on Lick Creek in the early to >mid 1780s made this same migrational trek. Others came directly from VA >or >NC. Some of the names below I know well because of their marriages, etc. >into my family. These people were frontier people, not weak of heart, used >to fighting and surviving. > >I think the Lew Bowyer below is the attorney Luke Bowyer who practiced in >Greene Co..and was a bondsman at one or two of my Casey/Kersey marriages in >the State of Franklin (Greene Co.) in 1786. > >The Buller mentioned is Bullard in most records and at an early date (1786) >one of them also married into my Casey/Kersey family. Many Bullard >families for over a 100 years named a son Bowyer Bullard (see Missoui >records, etc.) and some named sons Casey Bullard. > >In using this list, please remember that spelling was not standardized! > >Many of the readers of your list below will recognize historically >important >names in early Tennessee history. It is interesting to me that young >Andrew Jackson also registered with the Greene County court to practice >law, >when I think he was just in his late teens or early twenties. > >I have written all of this to suggest that, if any reader, wants to pursue >some of the names on this list that they contact the Greene County, TN >Genealogical and Historical Society and get back issues of their >quarterlies >which published the yearly early tax lists for Greene County. > >Also, there are two wonderfully detailed and entertaining volumes of the >early Greene County Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas (compiled by >Goldene Burgner), which show many of these hardy people and their >descendants going about their business of serving on juries, suing each >other, occasionally breaking the law, establishing infrastructure for their >communities, buying and selling land, and paying their yearly taxes. > >Best regards, Pansylea Howard Willburn > > > From: "June Bork" <[email protected]> > > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 05:23:26 -0700 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [KYWAYNE] FIRST INHABITANTS of WATAUGA > > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 06:23:29 -0600 > > > > ‘FIRST INHABITANTS of WATAUGA' > > (From Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee) > > > > This document is without date. The original, now in the state archives >at > > Raleigh, North Carolina, has endorsed upon it, "Received August 22, >1776." > > It was possibly drawn up in the early part of that year. > > > > John Carter, Chn. > > John Sevier > > John Jones > > Charles Robertson > > Jas. Smith > > George Russell > > James Robertson > > Jacob Brown > > Jacob Womack > > Zach.[Zachariah] Isbell > > Wm. Been > > Robert Lucas > > > > The above signers are the Members in Committee assembled. > > /s/ William Tatham, Clerk, P.T. > > > > Jacob Womack > > Joseph Dunham > > Rice Durroon > > Edward Hopson > > Lew. Bowyer, D. Atty > > Joseph Buller > > Andw. Greer > > Joab X Mitchell > > Gideon Morris > > Shadrack Morris > > William Crocket > > Thos. Dedmon > > David Hickey > > Mark Mitchell > > Hugh Blair > > Elias Pebeer > > Jos. Brown > > John Neave > > John Robinson > > Christopher Cunningham > > Jas Easeley > > Ambrose Hodge > > Dan'l Morris > > Wm Cox > > James Easley > > John Haile > > Elijah Robertson > > William Clark > > John (X) Dunham > > Wm. Overall > > Matt. Hawkins > > John Brown > > Jos. Brown > > Job Bumper > > Isaac Wilson > > Richard Norton > > George Hutson > > Thomas Simpson > > Valentine Sevier > > Jonathan Tipton > > Robert Sevier > > Drury Goodan > > Richard Fletcher > > Ellexander Greear > > Jos. Greear > > Andrew Greear, jun. > > Teeler Nave > > Lewis Jones > > John I. Cox > > John Cox Jr > > Abraham Cox > > Emanuel Shote > > Tho. Houghton > > Jos. Luske > > Wm. Reeves > > David Hughes > > Landon Carter > > John McCormick > > David Crocket > > Edw'd Cox > > Tho's Hughes > > William Roberson > > Henry Siler > > Frederick Calvit > > John Moore > > William Newberry > > Adam Sherrell > > Samuel Sherrell, junr. > > Samuel Sherrell, senr. > > Ossa Rose > > Henry Bates, junr. > > Jos. Grimes > > Christopher Cunningham, senr. > > Joshua Barten, sen > > Joud. Bostin, sen > > Henry Bates, jun > > Will'm Dod > > Groves Morris > > Wm. Bates > > Rob't Mosely > > Ge. Hartt > > Isaac Wilson > > Jno. Waddell > > Jarret Williams > > Oldham Hightower > > Abednago Hix > > Charles McCartney > > Frederick Vaughn > > Jos. McCartney > > Mark Robertson > > Joseph Calvit > > Joshua Hughton > > John Chukinbeard > > James Cooper > > William Brokees > > Julius Robertson > > John King > > Michael Hider > > John Davis > > John Barley > > > > Nothing has been found after the most careful examination, to show what > > action was taken by the Provincial Council in reference to the petition. >It > > is probable, however, that in the exercise of its now omnipotent and > > unrestricted authority, the Council advised the settlers to send forward > > their representatives to the Provincial Congress at Halifax, as it is >known > > they did as delegates from 'Washington District, Watauga Settlement.'" > > > > > > > > > > > >