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==Online Records==
 


==History==
==History==
The French established a trading post at Fort Prudhomme in 1682, with other forts built in subsequent years. The French ceded the land to Great Britain after 1763. The first permanent settlement in Tennessee was in the Watauga Valley by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia. The Watauga Settlement was included in the Washington District of North Carolina and later Washington County. With land ceded from South Carolina, the state of Franklin was laid out 1784, however, North Carolina did not acknowledge it as a state. In 1790, Tennessee became part of the Southwest Territory in the United States.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 617. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
The French established a trading post at Fort Prud'homme in 1682. The French built other forts including Fort Assumption where French soldiers were stationed. In 1759, the British built Fort Loudon, however, the people were massacred the following year. The French ceded the land to the British after 1763. The first permanent settlement in Tennessee was in the Watauga Valley by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 617. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
 
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==Resources==
 
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/491063-redirection ''The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising its Settlement, as the Watauga Association, from 1769-1777; a Part of North Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the State of Franklin from 1788 to 1790; the Territory of the U.S., South of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796; the State of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800''] by James Gettys McGready Ramsey. (Charleston, SC: Walker and James, 1853. Reprint. n.p., 1967).
*{{FSC|396716|item|disp=''Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790-1796, a Narrative History of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio''}} by Walter T. Durham. (Piney Flats, TN: Ricky Mount Historical Association, 1990).
*{{FSC|221623|item|disp=''History of the Lost State of Franklin''}} by Samuel Cole Williams. (New York: Press of the pioneers, 1933).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/574350-redirection ''History of the South Carolina Cession and the Northern Boundary of Tennessee''] by W. R. Garrett. (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing house, 1884).
*{{FSC|484757|item|disp=''Partial census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as taken from the North Carolina land grants''}} by Lucy Kate McGhee. (Washington, DC : The Author, n.d.).
*''Records Relating to Tennessee in the North Carolina State Archives'' by C. F. Coker. (Raleigh: The Archives, 1980).
*{{FSC|636163|item|disp=''Religion in Tennessee, 1777-1945''}} by Herman A. Norton. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981).
*{{FSC|398256|item|disp=''Spartanburg County/District, South Carolina, deed abstracts, books A-T, 1785-1827 (1752-1827)''}} by Albert Bruce Pruitt. (Easley, South Carolina : Southern Historical Press, 1988).
*{{FSC|8619|item|disp=''Tennessee, a History, a 1673-1932''}} by Philip May Hamer. (1933. Reprint. Tucson, AZ: W.C. Cox, 1974).
*{{FSC|174343|item|disp=''The Wataugah Purchase, March 19, 1775 at Sycamore Shoals of Wataugah River: The Cherokee Indians to Charles Robertson, Trustee for the Wataugah Settlers, an Index of the Wataugah Purchase, the North Carolina Land Grants and Deeds Through 1782''}} by Mary Hardin McCown. (Johnson City, TN : Overmountain Press, 1976).


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History[edit | edit source]

The French established a trading post at Fort Prud'homme in 1682. The French built other forts including Fort Assumption where French soldiers were stationed. In 1759, the British built Fort Loudon, however, the people were massacred the following year. The French ceded the land to the British after 1763. The first permanent settlement in Tennessee was in the Watauga Valley by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 617. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
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