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Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
own persevering researches. To these authorities I am able to subjoin the evidence of a contemporary witness. In a letter from the Governor of Virginia to the British Secretary of State, pleading warmly in favor of the propriety of making grants of land at the West, in Illinois, he derives his strongest argument from the establishment of this very Republic of Watauga. Extract of a letter from the Earl of Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, to the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State. Williamsburg, 16 May, 1774. * * * Whatever may be the law with respect to the title, there are, I think, divers reasons which should induce his majesty to comply with the petition, so far at least, as to admit the petitioners and their acquisitions, if not into this government, into some other. For if the title should be thought defective, it would still, at such a distance from the seat of any authority, be utterly impracticable to void it, or prevent the occupying of the lands, which being known
Red Stone Creek (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
ndisputed possession of countless buffaloes, whose bellowings resounded from hill and forest. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took the risk of crossing the country from Carolina to the Mississippi; but of those who perished by the way, no tradition preserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Pittsburg, and from Red Stone Creek to Fort Natchez. The pilot, who conducted the party of which Samuel Wells and John MacIntire were the Chiefs, was so attracted by the lands round the Fort, that he promised to remove there in the spring with his wife and family, and believed a hundred families from North Carolina Letter dated Fort Natchez, 19 July, 1770. Compare Hillsborough to Chester, 3 Oct. 1770; Gage to Hillsborough, 24 April, 1770. would follow. The zeal of hunters and emigrants outran the concessions extor
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
he Council, and notwithstanding the want of evidence, No testimony being present to prove him an accessory to the riots at Hillsborough. Tryon to the Sec. 31 Jan. 1771. that he had been even an accessory to the riots at Hillsborough, Tryon seized him under a warrant concerted with the Chief Justice, Tryon to Hillsborough, 31 Jan. 1771. Letter from Newbern, N. C. 5 Oct. 1770. Letter from a Gentleman in N. C. to his friend in New Jersey respecting the Regulators in North Carolina; in Pennsylvania Journal of 3 Oct. 1771, and in Boston Gazette, of 21 Oct. 1771. and kept him in prison without bail. Judge Martin, II. 269. Husbands remained several days in jail before he could procure bail. Worse than that; several weeks, and was not bailed at all. The Presbyterian party was the strongest in the House; Tryon to Hillsborough, with the laws of the session. to conciliate its power, a law was passed for endowing Queen's College in the town of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County; Se
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
s, Boston, 27 Dec. 1770. and he was sure that the unreasonableness of Great Britain would precipitate the epoch of American Independence. South Carolina received his letters, still urging union, directing attention to the Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. necessity, of finding some more efficacious method of redress than a bare resolution to suspend commerce, and encouraging in the young men the ambition of making themselves masters of the art military. Samuel Adams to Peter Timothy of Charleston, South Carolina, Boston, 21 Nov. 1770. Zeal for the cause was not wanting in the South. The people had their tribunes and most determined leaders in Thomas Lynch, praised by royalists as a man of sense, and inflexible firmness, Christopher Gadsden, the enthusiast in the cause, ever suspicious of British moderation, and John Mackenzie, whose English education at Cambridge furnished him with arguments for the Colonies. Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bull, private letter to Hillsborough, 5 Dec. 1770. On
Rowan (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
d on account of the disturbances; but the very persons of whom they complained, finding them peaceably disposed beyond expectation, From the letter of Fohock and Martin. agreed with them, that all differences with the officers of the county of Rowan should be settled by arbitration on the third Tuesday in May. The umpires being named, the Regulators marched through Salisbury, gave three cheers, and quietly returned Letters of Tryon and of Martin; Caruthers in Life of Galdwell. to their fenes that followed; but the Southern Treasurer complied. From Wilmington a body of militia under the command of Waddel, was sent to Salisbury, while Tryon himself, having writ- Chap. XLVI.} 1771. May. ten a harsh rebuke of the agreement in Rowan County for arbitration, marched into Orange County. His progress was marked by the destruction of wheat fields and orchards, the burning of every house which was found empty; the seizure of cattle, poultry and all the produce of the plantations. Th
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 23
om the Six Nations an inchoate title to the immense territory southwest of the Ohio, his influence secured its ratification, by organizing a powerful company to plant a Province in that part of the country which lay back of Virginia, between the Alleghanies and a line drawn from the Cumberland Gap to the mouth of the Scioto. See the elaborate Petition of Works. Benjamin Franklin to Congress, Passy, 20 Feb. 1780; not in his Virginia resisted the proposed limitation of her Chap. XLVI.} 1VI.} 1771. June. far wilderness offered shelter beyond the mountains, and the savages seemed comparatively mild protectors. Without concert, instinctively impelled by discontent and the wearisomeness of life exposed to bondage, men crossed the Alleghanies and descending into the basin of the Tennessee, made their homes in the valley of the Watauga. There no lawyer followed them; there no King's Governor came to be their Lord; there the flag of England never waved. They rapidly extended thei
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
s Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took the risk of crossing the country from Carolina to the Mississippi; but of those who perished by the way, no tradition preserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Prt of record. Boston Gazette, 22 July, 1771; 849, 2, 3. Yet the record was not closed. In the old counties of Orange and Mecklenburg, the overhill glades of Carolina, and the little band of moun- Chap. XLVI. taineers who planted the commonwealth of Tennessee, a bloodthirsty Governor, in his vengeful zeal for the Crown, had treasured up wrath for the day of wrath. Note. The successor of Tryon reached Carolina in August, 1771, and drank in all the accounts of the glorious spirit, which had defeated the Regulators near the Alamance. The next year he made a tour into Orange County. The result of his observations is best given in his own words.
Yadkin (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
by the indefatigable exertions of his own private Secretary, to obtain jurors and witnesses, suited to his purpose. Tryon to Hillsborough. The liberation of Husbands having stopped the march of the Regulators, it occurred to some of them on their return to visit Salisbury Superior Court. Colonels Frohock and Martin to Gov. Tryon, Salisbury, 18 March, 1771. On the sixth of March, about four or five hundred of them encamped in the woods near the Ferry, on the western side of the Yadkin River. The lawyers Chap. XLVI.} 1771. March are every thing they complained. There should be none in the Province. We shall be forced to kill them all. There never was such an Act as the Riot Act in the laws of England. Deposition of Waightstill Avery. This deposition of one of Tryon's witnesses, taken alone, gives a very wrong view of the case. The letter of Frohock and Martin must be compared. They are adverse witnesses, but far more candid than Avery. This was true; the Counsel to
John MacIntire (search for this): chapter 23
Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took the risk of crossing the country from Carolina to the Mississippi; but of those who perished by the way, no tradition preserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Pittsburg, and from Red Stone Creek to Fort Natchez. The pilot, who conducted the party of which Samuel Wells and John MacIntire were the Chiefs, was so attracted by the lands round the Fort, that he promised to remove there in the spring with his wife and family, and believed a hundred families from North Carolina Letter dated Fort Natchez, 19 July, 1770. Compare Hillsborough to Chester, 3 Oct. 1770; Gage to Hillsborough, 24 April, 1770. would follow. The zeal of hunters and emigrants outran the concessions extorted from the Board of Trade. This year James Robertson, from the home of the Regula- Chap. X
Joseph Chew (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 46: The origin of Tennessee.—Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies continued. October, 1770—June, 1771. The Colonization of the West was one of the Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Oct. great objects ever promoted by Franklin. No one had more vividly discerned the capacity of the Mississippi valley not only to sustain Commonwealths, but to connect them with the world by commerce; and when the Ministers would have rejected the Fort Stanwix Treaty, W. S. Johnson to Joseph Chew, 13 Feb. 1770. which conveyed from the Six Nations an inchoate title to the immense territory southwest of the Ohio, his influence secured its ratification, by organizing a powerful company to plant a Province in that part of the country which lay back of Virginia, between the Alleghanies and a line drawn from the Cumberland Gap to the mouth of the Scioto. See the elaborate Petition of Works. Benjamin Franklin to Congress, Passy, 20 Feb. 1780; not in his Virginia resisted the proposed l
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