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State of Tennessee,
Was originally a part of North Carolina, and was claimed as a hunting-ground by the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Shawnees, and even by the Six Nations.
No tribe made it a fixed habitation excepting the Cherokees, who dwelt in the extreme southeast part.
Earl London, governor of Virginia, sent Andrew Lewis thither in 1756 to plant a settlement, and he built Fort Loudon, on the Tennessee River, about 30 miles from the site of Knoxville.
It was besieged by Indians in 1760 and captured, the inmates being murdered or reduced to captivity.
Armed men from Virginia and North Carolina retook the fort in 1761, and compelled the Indians to sue for peace.
Immigrants from North Carolina, led by James Robinson, settled on the Watauga River, one of the head streams of the Tennessee, in 1768.
It was on lands of the Cherokees, from whom the settlers obtained an eight-year lease in 1771.
They there organized themselves into a body politic, and adopted a code of laws signed by