The Fugitive King

Garden - Boone, North Carolina

The Fugitive King, a murder mystery by Sarah R. Shaber, was primarily set in Boone, North Carolina, where we visited in August.

King's Mountain

King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain ..., By Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire, Isaac Shelby (1881).

Map cross-posted at In Deeds

Pennsylvania Was The Gateway

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Pennsylvania was the gateway and first resting place and the source of Scotch-Irish adventure and enterprise as they moved west and south. The wave of emigration striking the eastern border of Pennsylvania, in a measure deflected southward through Maryland. Virginia, the Carolinas, reaching and crossing the Savannah river... . 

North Carolina To Tennessee

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND by Harriette Simpson Arnow...:

North Carolina had used land (she had no cash) to pay her officers and soldiers for their services in the Revolution... .

Mansker's Station (North of Nashville, Tennessee)

Yet, none of the men out of the Revolution, no matter how great their sufferings during the rebellion or from Indians after settlement, had known the losses in blood, money, and time, or endured the hardships of the first settlers on the Cumberland. These had come away back in the winter of 1779-1780.... .

....[Mr. Buchanan, one of the founders of Nashville, Tennessee]...had been born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but his father, John, Sr., like so many Pennsylvania borderers, had migrated to North Carolina, settling in the neighborhood of Guilford Courthouse, now surrounded by the town of Greensboro.

Squire Boone In Exeter Township

The Penn Germania ...: A Popular Journal of German History and ..., Volumes 3-4
edited by Philip Columbus Croll, Henry Addison Schuler, Howard Wiegner Kriebel

Enroute To Illinois

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South ..., By Robert W. Andrews:

"...I met Mr Middleton Brooks, who kept the tavern in Statesburg, who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars and expenses to go to Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, for his father. I had then a 'trotting horse,' which I sold and bought one more fitted for the trip. I left my men in charge of my carpentering business, and, on June 5th, 1825, started for Illinois, passing through Camblin and

Salisbury On A North Carolina Map At LOC

Lancaster, South Carolina and Charlottetown and Salsbury, North Carolina, through Brunswick County, across the Blue Ridge mountains, by the Swannana Gap, into Tennesee; passed through that State and Kentucky, to the Ohio river, which I reached at Hudson's Ferry."

Safer After The Point Pleasant Campaign

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND:

The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774...

...that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee.

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia ...

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...had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark,...

...were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina.

Julia's Brother's Commanding Officer

An excerpt from Sixty years in a school-room....,  By Julia Ann Tevis, John Tevis:

In connection with General [Sam] Houston I am reminded of Colonel Thornton Posey, who was intimately associated with my brother during his last visit to the home circle in Washington. This dear brother, not twenty years old, held the honorable position of first lieutenant in Colonel Posey's regiment.

Louisiana State Gazette (New Orleans, Louisiana)30 Oct 1817 (Newspapers.com)

Colonel Posey had nobly distinguished himself in the war of 1812, and was retained in the peace establishment as a highly esteemed and trustworthy officer.

Note; Colonel Posey's brother, Alexander Posey, and William Roark [my ancestor] engaged in a real estate transaction.

The Affair At King's Mountain

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Directly From Savannah

The Hornet's Nest, A novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas...".

When William Few assembled Ethan Pratt and other platoon members near Wrightsborough late in June 1779, he gave them some bad news, directly from Savannah.  Indian Superintendent John Stuart had died earlier that year, and Governor Wright and leaders in London had decided to appoint Thomas Brown as superintendent of the Creeks, Cherokees, Catawbas, and a few smaller tribes along the Atlantic Coast.

Also see Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest.

Somewhat Safer After Point Pleasant

Monument At Point Pleasant, West Virginia

From the FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND by Harriette Simpson Arnow:

"The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774 that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark, were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina."

Cabin Near Shelbyville, Kentucky

Native Americans Of North Carolina In 1787

Scenery In North Carolina

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Horse Shoe Robinson

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"Its historic features were its chief charm, for it represented careful study of the events of the Revolution at the south, and unfolded a vast amount of information cncerning the temper and character of the people in the districts of central Virginia and the mountainous regions of the Carolinas."

See Mary Musgrove (where the author of Horse Shoe Robinson was identified as John Pendleton Kennedy and not Mark Littleton)

Diary Of Bartlett Yancey Malone

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Belestre's Incursions

By a letter from him [Belestre] dated April 29, 1756, it appears that, with a number of French and Indians, he went down the Ohio river, and thence east and south to the Carolinas, and

"marched about 30 leagues through settlements that had been abandoned, at the end of which time he fell in with a village of 30 or 40 houses which were taken and burnt; close by was a small wooden fort that was summoned to surrender; on its refusing to comply it was carried by assault and the garrison put to the sword. The killed and prisoners amounted to about 300; all the oxen and cows having been collected together were killed; 120 horses, which they found, served to carry the large quantity of plunder the Indians got, and in returning they set fire to all the settlements they had left."

Belestre was slightly wounded in one arm and in the shoulder. Returning to Fort Duquesne, he engaged with a party of Cherokees and a few Frenchmen on incursions in the neighborhood of that place and was captured by the English troops on June 17, 1757, and on June 20 was taken for examination before a committee composed of Edmund Atkin, superintendent of Indian affairs, Col. George Washington and George Croghan, deputy to Sir William Johnson.

Source - Scouts Overlooking Fort Duquesne (Site Of Pittsburgh)

We have no account of the manner in which Belestre escaped from the Americans, but the next we hear of him he was in the northern part of New York, commanding a body of 300 men, of whom 200 were Indians. They left Montreal in October 1757 and proceeded among the Iroquois Indians to stir them up to attack the English. Some forts and a village in the Palatine were attacked and destroyed, and the people either carried off or massacred. The official report states that during this time a party of Canadians and Indians ravaged and burned 60 houses of the Palatines, their barns, and other outhuildings, as well as the water mill. Forty English perished, either killed or drowned, and 150 men women and children were taken prisoners. Apparently in 1758 Belestre was promoted to a lieutenancy, for he is referred to as a lieutenant in Montcalm's report of Feb 19, and a few months later in the "Bulletin of the most important operations during the winter of 1757-58," he is called a captain of colonial troops. [Historical Collections, Volume 34]

See another post about Belestre at Braddock's Defeat

Ridley's Journey To The Cumberland

True, he [Daniel Ridley] had been born in Tidewater, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1737...but the year 1755 when he was only eighteen had found him deep in the back parts.

Braddock's Secret Grave Location (With Marker)

A survivor of the Battle of the Wilderness, he had, after the death of General Braddock, been one of the weary marchers from the Monongahela near Fort Duquesne back to the comparative safety of Fort Cumberland.

Colonel Ridley had also fought in the Revolution, though as a borderer he had known many battles and skirmishes undignified by the title of any war. Then, in the midst of the Revolution and while Sally was still a small child, he had taken a push still further west, settling in 1779 in what was then called the Holston Country, or the ‘back parts’ of North Carolina, in time to be known as East Tennessee. 

Holston River In The Middle Of The Map

Strange, but it was at this time [after the rise and fall of the State of Franklin and the more settled and peaceful time in the Holston Country], after having survived eleven years of forted life, Colonel Ridley took his family still further west into the most dangerous spot of all—the Cumberland settlements. [Source -Text]

Cumberland Plateau Area Of Tennessee

Somewhat Safer

Battle Of Point Pleasant (West Virginia)

The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774* that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee.

Fort Harrod (Reconstruction) In Kentucky

"Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that *year."

Sign At Fort Harrod, Kentucky

Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark, were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina. [Source: Flowering Of The Cumberland, Arnow, 1963]

Major George Farragut

Artifact Depicting George Farragut's Son* At The Farragut Museum

From the biography of Major George Farragut:

With those few of the present generation who have heard at all of Major George Farragut, the idea usually prevails that his only title to distinction lay in the fact that he became the father* of one of America's most noted naval commanders. Yet the services rendered by George Farragut himself, both as a soldier and sailor, were not unappreciated during his own lifetime. This gentleman, sometime a Captain of North Carolina Cavalry in the army of the Revolution, a pioneer in the trans-montane settlements of Tennessee and the Gulf States, and who was later engaged in the naval service of the United States, was a native of the Island of Minorca, one of the Balearic group, in the Mediterranean sea.

Guilford Courthouse To Goodlettsville

Guilford Courthouse Road - Greensboro, North Carolina

....like so many Pennsylvania borderers, [Buchanan] had migrated to North Carolina, settling in the neighborhood of Guilford Courthouse, now surrounded by the town of Greensboro.

Mansker Station Woodturner

In any case, late 1779 found the younger Buchanans building a station on the southern side of the Cumberland River...of what is now Nashville. On the other side of the Lick Branch, another station was soon being built, that of George Freeland, while north of the river about twelve miles away, near present day Goodlettsville, there was a finished station. This belonged to Kaspar Mansker who had by 1779 been hunting over the region for more than a dozen years. [Source: Flowering of the Cumberland, Arnow]

Forts On Indian Lands

Fort Loudon (Tennessee)

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