Note: It must be remembered that very few native Americans (Indians) lived in Southwest Va. during the time of the Indian Wars, just a few small pockets. East Tennessee (NC at the time) and Southwest Va/Ky was used by both the Cherokee and Northern Indians as hunting grounds.. Each time the British government made a new treaty with the Indians, the lines moved further west and settlers moved in.. Some brave settlers went beyond the treaty lines and staked out land claims hoping their claims would be recognized when the larger land surveys were made. Sometimes they lost their cleared land and cabins when the surveyors arrived... Some literature paints pictures of the settlers on the Holston and other western waters as horse theives and scoundrels but if you will read the court records of southwest Va., you will find that the large majority of these people were fine upstanding men who became honored statesmen in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.. It was from these early settlers that the men of Kings Mountain came and won a decisive battle of the Rev. War.. GLH