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William Terrell Lewis
William Terrell Lewis (1757 – February 4, 1813) was an American Revolutionary War veteran, land surveyor, land speculator, tavern keeper, and North Carolina state legislator. Biography Lewis was one of 11 children of William Terrell Lewis Sr. and his wife Sallie Martin of Virginia; Lewis Sr. "kept a tavern on the Staunton Road, about three miles west of Charlottesville, called at first Terrell's and subsequently Lewis's Ordinary." The family moved to North Carolina and he and his brothers, Micajah Lewis, Col. Joel Lewis, and James M. Lewis, all fought with the Continental Army at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. His brother Micajah Lewis was killed at the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781. He was sometimes referred to as Maj. Wm. T. Lewis from his army rank. In 1784 he was named as surveyor for the western district of North Carolina land office, in what would shortly become Tennessee. He was appointed at the same time as William Polk and Stockley Donelson, brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Berkeley Lewis
William Berkeley Lewis (1784 – November 12, 1866) was an influential friend and advisor to Andrew Jackson. He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and later moved near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. Major Lewis served as quartermaster under General Jackson. Later, in politics, he was a manager of Jackson and retained considerable influence until Jackson's second term as President of the United States. Jackson appointed Lewis as second auditor of the Treasury, a position he was able to retain until the Polk administration. Political advisor In 1822, Lewis and John Eaton attempted to nominate a candidate before the New Hampshire legislature to oppose John Williams, who was openly against Jackson's candidacy for president in 1824. After being unable to find a viable candidate, they nominated Jackson himself. The strategy was successful, and Jackson won. The results took him by surprise, and although he did not wish to serve, he accepted the results of the election. Lewis played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Glasgow
James Glasgow (c. 1735 – November 17, 1819) served as the first North Carolina Secretary of State, from 1777 to 1798. Biography Early life James Glasgow, the son of a Scottish minister, Reverend James Patrick Glasgow and his wife, Martha Jones, of Cecil County, Maryland. He was born in the Colony of Maryland and educated at the College of William & Mary. After graduation he served as an accounting and corresponding clerk for an import-export house in Suffolk, Virginia. Career He was an officer in the American Revolutionary War in North Carolina, and in December 1776, was rewarded by the last of the state's provincial congresses with the office of Secretary of State. From 1777 to 1781, Glasgow lived at Harmony Hall in Kinston. Service record: * Adjutant in the Dobbs County Regiment of the North Carolina militia (1776) * Major in the Dobbs County Regiment (1776-1777) * Colonel in the Dobbs County Regiment (1777-1778, 1779-1780) * Secretary of State (1776-1799) I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natchez District
The Natchez District was one of two areas established in the Kingdom of Great Britain's West Florida colony during the 1770sthe other being the Tombigbee District. The first Anglo settlers in the district came primarily from other parts of British America. The district was recognized to be the area east of the Mississippi River from Bayou Sara in the south (presently St. Francisville, Louisiana) and Bayou Pierre in the north (presently Port Gibson, Mississippi). It became a center of wealth in the antebellum years, as a trading center for slaves and cotton, and the center of cotton culture in the Old Southwest. Today, this area corresponds roughly with and includes most of the lands south of Interstate 20 and west of Interstate 55 in the state of Mississippi, in the southwest corner of the state. After the United States made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 of large territories formerly controlled by France west of the Mississippi River, the lowlying delta area on the west side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natchez Trace
The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. The trail was created and used by Native Americans for centuries, and was later used by early European and American explorers, traders, and emigrants in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. European Americans founded inns, also known as "stands", along the Trace to serve food and lodging to travelers. As travel shifted to steamboats on the Mississippi and other rivers, most of these stands closed. Today, the path is commemorated by the Natchez Trace Parkway, which follows the approximate path of the Trace, as well as the related Natchez Trace Trail. Parts of the original trail are still accessible, and some segments are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Origins Largely following a geologic ridge line, prehist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as a member of the Muskogean language family. In the present day, they are organized as the federally recognized Chickasaw Nation. Chickasaw people have a migration story in which they moved from a land west of the Mississippi River, where they settled mostly in present-day northeast Mississippi, northwest Alabama, and into Lawrence County, Tennessee. They had interaction with French, English, and Spanish colonists during the colonial period. The United States considered the Chickasaw one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans. Resisting European-American settlers encroaching on their territory, they were forced by the U.S. government to sell their traditional lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck River (Tennessee)
The Duck River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 8, 2011 is the longest river located entirely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. Free flowing for most of its length, the Duck River is home to over 50 species of freshwater mussels and 151 species of fish, making it the most biologically diverse river in North America. The Duck River drains a significant portion of Middle Tennessee. It rises in hills near an area of Middle Tennessee known as the "Barrens", an area with enough rainfall to support a woodland but which white settlers found already deforested upon their arrival. (Several theories have been advanced to explain this phenomenon.) It enters the city of Manchester and meets its confluence with a major tributary, the Little Duck River, at Old Stone Fort State Park, named after an ancient Native American structure between the two rivers believed to be nearly 2,000 years old. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Colbert
Chief George Colbert, also known as ''Tootemastubbe'' in Chickasaw (c. 1764–1839), was a leader and war chief of the Chickasaw people in the early 19th century, then occupying territory in what are now the jurisdictions of Alabama and Mississippi. During the Creek War of 1813–1814, he commanded 350 Chickasaw auxiliary troops, whom he had recruited, as a militia captain under Andrew Jackson. Later he joined the US Army under Jackson for the remainder of the War of 1812. Colbert temporarily became an overall chief of the Chickasaw, succeeding his older brother Levi Colbert who died in 1834. Colbert was a planter who owned significant cotton lands in Mississippi and numerous enslaved African Americans to work them. He also owned and operated a ferry across the Tennessee River in northwestern Alabama. His father, James Logan Colbert, was half Scots-Irish, half Chickasaw. Colbert's mother was Chickasaw, so Colbert and his siblings were three-quarters Chickasaw and one quarter Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Colbert
Levi Colbert (1759–1834), also known as ''Itawamba'' in Chickasaw, was a leader and chief of the Chickasaw nation. Colbert was called ''Itte-wamba Mingo'', meaning ''bench chief''. He and his brother George Colbert were prominent interpreters and negotiators with United States negotiators in the early decades of the 19th century. They were appointed by President Andrew Jackson's administration to gain cession of their lands and arrange for removal of their people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. They were under considerable pressure from the Mississippi state government, white interlopers in their area, and the federal government to cede their lands. Levi Colbert (''Itawamba'') worked most closely with US Indian Agent John Dabney Terrell, Sr. of Marion County, Alabama. The Chickasaw negotiated hard; after their representatives initially surveyed the lands offered in the West, they returned saying it was unacceptable. The Chickasaw worked to gain more appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Colbert (Chickasaw)
William Colbert (born 1742 to 1750May 30, 1824), native name Chooshemataha, was the oldest son of North American trader James Colbert by his first wife, a Chickasaw woman. Along with his several of his brothers, William Colbert was important leader of the Chickasaw people in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Chickasaw were aligned with the British during the American Revolutionary War, and William joined his father in capturing Spanish ships on the Mississippi and the Battle of Arkansas Post in 1783. In 1791, under command of Arthur St. Clair in Ohio, William, his brother George Colbert, and Piomingo fought other Indigenous people for which they were awarded medals by George Washington. William Colbert also led attacks on Osage people across the Mississippi River, which frustrated U.S. Indian Agent Samuel Mitchell because it led to retaliatory attacks on non-Chicksaws. On February 14, 1804, Andrew Jackson, U.S. District Court Judge John McNairy, surveyor William T. Lewis, and Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gordon (militia Captain)
John Gordon, (July 15, 1759 – June 6, 1819) was an American pioneer, Indian trader, planter, and militia captain in several Indian wars. Part of the post-Revolutionary War settlement of the trans- Appalachian frontier, Gordon was an early settler in the Nashville, Tennessee area. He gained notability and rank in the Tennessee Militia, fighting against the Creeks and Seminoles for Andrew Jackson, during the War of 1812. Jackson referred to him as his "Captain of the Spies." Partnering with a Chickasaw chieftain, Gordon helped improve the Natchez Trace, which gave access to the settlers pushing into western Tennessee and south into the Louisiana and Mississippi territories. He was a key figure major battles of the Creek War, including the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the capture of Pensacola from the British. Early life and Tennessee settler Gordon was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia to an aristocratic landholding family. His father had fought in the War of Independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson (explorer)
James Robertson (June 28, 1742 – September 1, 1814) was an American explorer, soldier and Indian agent, and one of the founding fathers of what became the State of Tennessee. An early companion of explorer Daniel Boone, Robertson helped establish the Watauga Association in the early 1770s, and to defend Fort Watauga from an attack by Cherokee in 1776. In 1779, he co-founded what is now Nashville, and was instrumental in the settlement of Middle Tennessee. He served as a brigadier general in the Southwest Territory militia in the early 1790s, and as an Indian Commissioner in later life. Early life and education Robertson was born in 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, of Scots-Irish and English descent. Around 1749, his father relocated the family to Wake County, North Carolina. Robertson worked with his siblings on their family farm and had limited formal education, but he learned to track and hunt animals and know his way in the woods and waterways. Marriage and ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of The Former Territorial Limits Of The Cherokee "Nation Of" Indians ; Map Showing The Territory Originally Assigned Cherokee "Nation Of" Indians
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
