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JACOB BROWN OF THE NOLICHUCKY. In 1777 Jacob Brown, accompanies by a few families, came to the Nolichucky River area where he set up a trading post and practiced his skills as a blacksmith and gunsmith. The group apparently enjoyed good relations with the Cherokees, for soon after the lease of lands by the Wataugans, Brown was able to negotiate ...
In 1772 Jacob Brown located on the north bank of the Nolichucky River. He had brought a packhorse loaded with goods with which he purchased the lease of land from the indigenous people (and later received a deed) for a large tract on both sides of the Nolichucky. He sold this land to settlers.
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The grants are located along the Nolichucky River in what is now East Tennessee. The land is adjacent to the Charles Roberson or Watauga Grant made by the Cherokee a few days earlier. The Nolichucky Grants were two of five property transactions made near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, collectively k...
It is noted on the Tennessee Historical Marker in Greene County that in 1771 Jacob Brown came to the Nolichucky River and set up tents on the northern bank. From this location he conducted trade with the Cherokee. In 1772 he leased a tract of ground on the Nolichucky from the Cherokee. The consideration was said to be a horse load of goods.The exac...
In March 1775 there was a gathering at Sycamore Shoalson the Watauga River of some 600 settlers and 1,200 Cherokee to transact the sale of lands. The lands sold by the Cherokee to the Richard Henderson & Co are described in the Path Grant Deed and the Great Grant Deed. These lands were north of the Holston River in East Tennessee and Southwest Virg...
The Great Grant Deed article indicates that the entire proceedings at Sycamore Shoals were likely transactions by sellers with no right to sell and buyers with no right to buy. In the Jacob Brown transactions that statement turned out to be only half true. The Cherokee were certainly the aboriginal owners of the property along the Nolichucky. The r...
At a much later date, on May 6, 1784 Jacob Brown petitioned the State of North Carolina for the reimbursement of money paid by him to the Cherokee in 1775 for property that was effectively taken by North Carolina and sold to the same people to whom he sold the property but was never paid. File:Jacob Brown Petition 2.pdf – via Wikisource. Brown was ...
Ramsey, J. G. M. (1853). The annals of Tennessee. Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press. p. 110. ISBN 1570720916.Henderson, Archibald. The Conquest of the Old Southwest. ISBN 1406923095.Henderson, Archibald (1 January 1931). "THE TREATY OF LONG ISLAND OF HOLSTON, JULY, 1777". The North Carolina Historical Review. 8 (1): 55–116. JSTOR 23516001.Hamer, Philip. "Tennessee A History 1675- 1932". The American Historical Society. 1: 71.Aug 16, 2006 · As early as 1772, Jacob Brown, with one or two other families from North Carolina, pitched tents upon the northern bank of the Nolachuckey River. Jacob was a small merchant, and for the goods that were carried to his new settlement upon a single packhorse, secured a lease of large tract of large tracts of this fertile country from the Cherokees.
Aug 23, 2018 · By: Jonesborough Genealogical Society. In 1777 Jacob Brown, accompanies by a few families, came to the Nolichucky River area where he set up a trading post and practiced his skills as a blacksmith and gunsmith. The group apparently enjoyed good relations with the Cherokees, for soon after the lease of lands by the Wataugans, Brown was able to ...
Sep 26, 2009 · About one mile S.W., this pioneer from S.C. settled on Nolichucky River in 1771. (A historical marker located in Jonesborough in Washington County, Tennessee.) HMdb.org
Nearly one hundred years later, in 1771, Jacob Brown settled on the north side of the Nolichucky River on John Ryan’s 1768 claim. In 1775, Brown negotiated a series of purchases with the Indians for two large tracts of land that cover most of the present counties of Washington and Greene, including the Cherokee Creek area.
