A history of the United States . beyond: inthe southwest there wasa little group of settle-ments in eastern Ten-nessee, and in the north-west traders and settlerswere gradually pushingtheir way from Fort Pittdown the Ohio first settlers in Ten-nessee came from Virginiaand were mainly of Scotch-Irish antecedents. Inthe little valley betweenthe Cumberland andthe Great Smoky mountains lie the streams which uniteto form the Tennessee River, — the Clinch, the Holston,the Watauga, the Nolichucky, and the French upper end of the valley lies in southwestern Virginia,and here on the
A history of the United States . beyond: inthe southwest there wasa little group of settle-ments in eastern Ten-nessee, and in the north-west traders and settlerswere gradually pushingtheir way from Fort Pittdown the Ohio first settlers in Ten-nessee came from Virginiaand were mainly of Scotch-Irish antecedents. Inthe little valley betweenthe Cumberland andthe Great Smoky mountains lie the streams which uniteto form the Tennessee River, — the Clinch, the Holston,the Watauga, the Nolichucky, and the French upper end of the valley lies in southwestern Virginia,and here on the headwaters of the Holston, the first set-tlement was formed by a body of Virginians. A year or two later, in 1769, the year that Daniel Boonefirst went to Kentucky, the first settlement was formed onthe Watauga, then within the limits of North the settlements were growing, it was necessary to pro-vide some form of civil government, but as North Carolinawas at this time engaged in the struggle with the Regulators,. Daniel Boone. 108 The American Revolution it was useless to appeal to her for aid in governing the newcommunity. About this time two men of unusual abiUty,who were destined to figure in history as the founders ofTennessee, came to Watauga, James Robertson in 1770, andJohn Sevier in 1772. They were both natives of Virginia,and for the next thirty years they played the chief part in the history of the south-west. In 1772 theyorganized a civil gov-ernment under a writtenconstitution known asthe Articles of the Wa-tauga Association, thusestabUshing the first in-dependent community ofnative-born Americanson the continent. TheWatauga Association con-tinued as an independentcommunity for four years,but in 1776, at its ownrequest, it was received under the jurisdiction of NorthCarolina. On the very eve of the Revolution serious troubles oc-curred between the Indians and the Enghsh settlementsalong the upper waters of the Ohio. The feelingbetween the Indians and
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