Forwarded for your use...I have also added the link to the Polk site ----- Original Message ----- From: Billie R. McNamara <mcnamara@usit.net> To: <Recipient list suppressed> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 5:11 AM Subject: [TN-all] Pre-statehood Tennessee history > This volume of pre-statehood Tennessee history is available for reading > online. Enjoy... > > The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers > into Virginia, The > Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson, > Ph.D., D.C.L. > > http://history1700s.about.com/homework/history1700s/library/mresource/metext s/history/blcnqsw.htm > > This quote from the introduction to one of the chapters kinda sums up why > we have so much trouble with our pioneer research: > > "It was thought good policy to settle those lands as fast as possible, and > that the granting them to men of the first consequence who were likeliest > and best able to procure large bodies of people to settle on them was the > most probable means of effecting the end proposed." --Acting-Governor > Nelson of Virginia to the Earl of Hillsborough: 1770. > > > **** > > > > >