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History

The French established a trading post at Fort Prud'homme 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.

References

• 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).
• 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).
• 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.).