early settlers of giles county, tn

They all raised corn in 1808. Ford went back and brought up his boat, and landed on the north side of the river at the mouth of the spring branch about 200 yards above the railroad bridge, on the fourth day of June, 1807. CLEAVELAND and CALLOWAY may have made corn in 1808. Old Reese PORTER and his sons, Reese, John, David, Jas. Fords Creek that runs by Prospect was named from Ford. German LESTER was among the first to build a comfortable family residence; he improved the lots now owned by Major B. F. CARTER, and lived on them until about 1847. His sons, David and John settled on the Lawrenceburg road at what has since been called the CONNOR and PORTER places. German LESTER came in 1809; probably the latter part of the year. When the Bill was on its third reading in the Senate, on motion of Mr. Benton, it was amended by striking out Giles, and inserting Shelby, as the name of the County. McCRACKEN, Jno. He sent his hands out from Davidson County, improved the place and made a crop, but did not move out his family until the latter part of the year. BUMPASS and his company opened the first road in the County south from Columbia; it came to Little Bigby by where Pillows Mill was, striking the Giles County line at what is now known as Yokleys Gap, at the headwaters of what is now known as the eastern branch of Big Creek and down the same by CUNNINGHAMs, now John ENGLISHs; thence by Andrew YOKLEYs, thence a little east of Campbellsville, by the place John I. MORRIS lives on, thence south on the dividing ridge between Big Creek and little Dry Creek striking Dry Creek where Sam WILSON lives; crossing Weakley Creek at Reeds ford, near the southeast corner of REEDs land; thence up Agnew Creek, thence by the WALTHALL place, known as the William D. ABERNATHY place; thence to Coopertown, and by the BLACK place to Richland, crossing at Mrs. Tyree RODES farm, and thence to Crosswater, making a very circuitous route to avoid the large cane. Giles County was created in 1809 out of Maury County, TN. John MCCABE settled the Rutledge place about the time LAIRD came out. The voting population in 1871 was 6,458; scholastic population in 1873, 9,484. C. P. REED, and Levi REED, a son of said Robert REED all went to school together. ***** A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County Tennessee by James McCallum 1876, published by The Pulaski Citizen 1928. Tennessees Disputes with North Carolina, by Gale Williams Bamman, CG, CGL,Genealogical Journal, Vol. All rights reserved. Wren lived near Robert Reed, Weakleys Creek, it is said was named or took its name from Robert WEAKLEY, who was one of the early surveyors. Hardy HIGHTOWER built the first mill on Bradshaw. In 1811 a school was taught by the Rev. East of WALKERs and in the same neighborhood were Presley and Robert TOPP; William James; William Urssery; and Hugh Caruthers; Samuel Patrick; Ephraim PATRICK; Ephraim M. MASSEY; and William MARR. The third Circuit Court was held in June, 1810. Robert McNAIRY, Alex TARPLEY, and Wm. Captain Baker P. POTTS settled at an early date west of the place owned by Gov. James BUFORD settled the place now owned by the heirs of Nicholas BUFORD; Somerset MOORE the place on Moores Creek, now owned by Mrs. FOGG. Lewis KIRK lived in a rough log cabin on the bluff of Richland Creek at the foot of the shoals. C. FLOURNOY, came about 1813, and settled on the Locust Hill place, where he died and was buried. (Part 2.) When North Carolina took control of her lands from the Crown in 1777, she established land entry offices in each of her counties. The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. Larger communities in Lawrence County include the following: It is now very difficult to ascertain who were the first settlers and when they came. The first County Court was held 3rd Monday in February, 1810, when the Magistrates were sworn in, and County officers elected or appointed. John AGNEW settled at the mouth of Agnews Creek for whom it was named. Charles NEELY, the first sheriff, was one of the Magistrates, and the tradition is that the magistrates, at the first election for sheriff, were in favor of keeping the office among themselves, as was the custom in the State of Virginia at that time; but, owing to some dissatisfaction about the mode of electing, NEELY resigned, and James BUFORD, who was his deputy, was elected. John and Lewis NELSON came about 1809 and settled a few miles northeast of Prospect. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. HENDERSON and James S. HAYNES; they came about the same time GORDON did, and settled the places long known by their names near Cornersville. ABERNATHY settled the place Chas. Shade HARWELL and Henry LOYD moved to the county the winter that Thomas MARKS came. B. DAVIS, Wm. Ohio. .* (7), *On 11 Sep 1807, an Elucidation was signed with the Cherokee Nation restating the bounds, including the additional statement that which tract of country had been claimed by the Cherokees and the Chickasaws; the eastern boundary whereof is limited by a line so to be run from the upper part of the Chickasaw Old Fields, as to include all the waters of the Elk River the eastern limits of said ceded tract shall be bounded by a line so to be run from the upper end of Chickasaw Old Fields, a little above the upper point of an island, called Chickasaw Island, as will directly intersect the first waters of Elk River, thence carried to the great Cumberland Mountain, in which the waters of Elk River have their source, then, along the margin of said mountain, until it shall intersect lands heretofore ceded to the United States, at the Tennessee Ridge. (ibid. To fully appreciate the character and noble achievements of those heroic men and women who came to the County when the whole face of the country was a dense cane-brake, inhabited only by wild beasts of the forest, with the Indians living in near proximity, and occasionally passing through it on their hunting or marauding excursions, it is necessary to recur to the antecedent and contemporaneous history of the country. American settlers, from early Colonial times right into the 20th century (remember the Sooners ! James DUGGER, Esquire, came at the same time, and settled on the place Carroll MARKS now lives. A few years later the Rev. In the Legislature of 1811, Amos JOHNSON represented Williamson, Rutherford, Maury, Bedford, Lincoln and Giles in the Senate. The following is a list of early settlers who lived "on the waters of" Cosby and Groundhog Creeks, creeks that are mostly in what was the old 12th district of Cocke County. Among those who came at later date to the neighborhood of Crosswater were: Robert OLIVER, who lived for many years on the place afterwards owned by the Rev. Early Settlers Burying Ground. Wm H FEILD is correctly spelled FEILD, notFIELD. BROWN half a mile southeast of Aspen Hill, at what has since been known as the PETTY place. It passed east of Spring Hill, crossed Duck River at what was afterwards known as Hollands Ferry above Davis Ford; passed by the widow MCNUTTs not far from where Mooresville is situated. For this I digress prior to the Revolutionary War, the British Government claimed the title in fee simple to all the lands in her American possessions not disposed of by the King, vested in him, and that the Indians were but tenants at will. DREW, Jas. MAYFIELD and sons were very early settlers, but the date they came is not known. Two or three families were in the neighborhood before GORDON came. Until after the organization of Maury county, what is now Giles County was regarded as a part of Williamson. Joe JARMIN came in the early part of 1808, John YOUNG, Esquire was one of the first settlers. The first corn raised in that part of the County was in 1809. The easternmost border of the Chickasaw land ran to the Chickasaw Old Fields, near Chickasaw Island on the Tennessee River east of Muscle Shoals, almost directly south of todays Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, where the Chickasaw and Cherokee lands met and overlapped, including some parts of the Elk and Duck Rivers in western Middle Tennessee. KYLE came and settled on the south side of the river, opposite Prospect, at what has since been known as the BROWN or VETO place. These settlers, with a few others in the neighborhood raised corn in 1807. Major Nathan DAVIS settled the Daniel ABERNATHY place and Captain Thomas C. STONE, the place now owned by John M. WHITE at a very early day; as early probably as 1808 or 1809. A man named JOHNSON between Fords and the Thomas REED place; and a man named ELLIS settled near the REED place; a family named EASLEY settled on the south side of the river, opposite the mouth of Richland, near where John BAILEY lives. Old William RIGGS, Joseph MOORE, and Daniel COX, came about the same time. This treaty not being entirely satisfactory was reaffirmed by a subsequent treaty in September, 1807, including the headwaters of the Elk River. The first permanent settlement in the county was made in about 1805, on Elk River, near the mouth of Richland Creek, and in the neighborhoods of the present towns of Elkton and Prospect, one of which lies above and the other, below the mouth of said creek, by William Crowson, his four sons and son-in-law, Vincent, Thomas Whitson, Jordan Word, Ja. Dr. BUMPASS settled the Crosswater place now owned by George E. SUTTLE. In 1801 the United States Government opened a road from Nashville to Natchez, called to Natchez road, which crossed Duck River at Gordons Ferry, below Williamsport, and the Tennessee at Colburts Ferry. Among those who removed the first cane were: General R. H. ALLEN, then a lad fifteen years of age, and Spencer CLACK, then a young man living with his father, on mile west of the court house. Leander M. SHIELDS, father of John M. SHIELDS, came in 1809 and settled near the church where he lived many years. He says the Bumpass trail came down the eastern branch of Big Creek, by the old man ROSS and by Mack ALEXANDERs or rather between the two thence south leaving Campbellsville about one mile to the right hand; it then left big Creek and took the Dividing Ridge between that creek and Dry Creek, bearing towards Dry Creek and crossing it where Samuel WILSON now lives, and where old Colonel John BODENHEIMER lived and died. Goodspeed Index: Originally . The road from Williamson County was through Chickasaw territory the most of the way, and they claimed the right to establish ferries, and houses of entertainment, on the road. Early History of Giles 1765-1820 (Part 1), On 11 Sep 1807, an Elucidation was signed with the Cherokee Nation restating the bounds, including the additional statement that which tract of country had been claimed by the Cherokees and the Chickasaws; the eastern boundary whereof is limited by a line so to be run from the upper part of the Chickasaw Old Fields, as to include all the waters of the Elk River the eastern limits of said ceded tract shall be bounded by a line so to be run from the upper end of Chickasaw Old Fields, a little above the upper point of an island, called Chickasaw Island, as will directly intersect the first waters of Elk River, thence carried to the great Cumberland Mountain, in which the waters of Elk River have their source, then, along the margin of said mountain, until it shall intersect lands heretofore ceded to the United States, at the Tennessee Ridge. (ibid.). Title: The Alexander family : early settlers of Giles county, Tennessee Publisher: The Alexander family : early settlers of Giles county, Tennessee Number of pages: 64 pages Year: 1977 - 1977 Language: English Topics: Geography, United States James B. PORTER was the first preacher. John LAIRD came in December 1809 and settled the place he lived on for many years on the turnpike half a mile north of Old Lynnville. They all or the most of them made corn in 1809. 1 Online Resources 2 Land Grants 3 North Carolina Revolutionary War Warrants 4 County Records 5 Websites 6 Research Guides 7 References Online Resources [ edit | edit source] North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931, ($), index Tennessee, Early Land Registers, 1778-1927, ($), Index and images James L. HENRY, who is now in his 87th years says he came to the neighborhood of Mt. Two or three months after FORD came, Major Wm. T. WHEELER now lives. Wm. RUBY, Reese PORTER and Jonathan BERRY were the elders. . Robert REED and Jonathan BERRY were Magistrates in their beat (or Captains Company), at an early day. CHAPTER FIRST CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY(partial). Q. TALBOT. Required fields are marked *. The boundaries of the County as defined by the Leislature, commenced at the South-east corner of Maury, thence South to the Southern boundary of the State, thence West far enough to include a constitutional County, thence North to the Maury line, thence with the Maury line to the beginning. The neighborhood of Aspen Hill was settled at a very early date. James R. DICKEY was about twelve years old when his father came to the County; says there were but few houses in Columbia when his father moved through there and but few on the road after he left Columbia. It is surrounded by the counties of Bedford, Lawrence, Lincoln, Maury, Marshall. 2, No. They were resisted by the Government and those claiming under said purchase were driven off. The first resident lawyers were Alfred M. HARRIS, George CUNNINGHAM, Lunsford M. BRAMLETTE, Tryon M. YANCY, W. H. FIELD, and Aaron V. BROWN. These all raised corn in 1808. The Indians lived in North Georgia, the Southern part of East Tennessee, and Southwestern North Carolina, but claimed as hunting grounds East and Middle Tennessee, also Kentucky, and as far north as the Ohio River. Walker settled first where WHITE and WALKERs store was, and a year or two afterwards moved east of Elk Ridge church where he resided until his death. The Tennessee General Assembly created Giles County in 1809 from land once part of North Carolina. John and William RUTLEDGE, Jacob and Andrew BLYTHE, Joel Rutledge, and Parrish Simms, settled on the middle prong of Lynn Creek in the Fall of 1807, Nicholas Absolom, and Hugh BARREN, Thomas MOONEY and Andrew PICKENS, settled on the west prong in 1807; most of these raised corn in 1808. It is difficult to ascertain who were the first settler in the town of Pulaski, or the date at which they came. Early History of Giles 1765-1820 (Part 1) by (Mrs.) Sarah Smith, Historian A Brief Summary of Giles' Earliest Settlements and Historical Land Boundaries Part I of II (Revised) Created for Giles Co, TNGenWeb by Frederick Smoot from his Bureau of American Ethnology Indian Cessions map of Tennessee (56) (694k) The Colony of North Carolina claimed that, under her Colonial Grant from the King, her boundaries extended west as far as the British Government had title, and without admitting the title of the Indians, but from motives of policy, treated with them from time to time for portions of the land. Moriah Church. John DABNEY, Sr., settled about one mile north of Gordon at a very early day. B., and Thos. Old man PATITE first settled on Locust Hill, where old Silas FLOURNOY settled. Hamilton C. CAMPBELL and Jacob BAYLOR came about the same time that DICKEY did. In July, 1805, a treaty was made with the Chickasaws by General Robertson and Colonel Meigs, by which they ceded all their claims to land North of Duck River, and East of the Natchez Road as far as the ridge that divides the waters of Duck River, at present known as Lewiss Grave, and all North and East from a line from Lewiss Grave eastwardly along said ridge to the headwaters of the Buffalo, thence South-east to Dittos landing, striking the Tennessee River three miles below the landing, and eight miles below the Easter boundary of the Chickasaw claim. KERLEY, known as Captain KERLEY came to the County with him, and lived on his farm several years. Valentine CHOATE settled on Choates Creek, from whom the creek took its name. Hiram and Boyd WILSON settled the lands over in the valley now owned by Martin FRY at a very early date, as early as 1809. BROWN at what has since been called the Steven BILES place. John WHITE settled near where Buford Station is, and built a mill on Robertsons Fork, just above the Station. Aaron BROWN and his sons, Thomas and William settled in the neighborhood. TNGenWeb & all content contributors. At that time, all of the occupied land in what is now Tennessee was Washington County, North Carolina. But the character of the country being well known to the people of East Tennessee, soon after the treaty a number of persons of wealth and influence came down the river in boats and settled around what is called Hunts Spring, afterwards Huntsville; and soon thereafterwards, others descended the river to the mouth of the Elk, and ascended Elk to the neighborhood of Prospect, and the mouth of Richland. Pisgah was in 1811 and held near where William OLIVER lived about half a mile north of Mt. In the Legislature of 1809, Thos. Contents 1 County Information 1.1 Description 1.2 County Courthouse 1.3 Giles County, Virginia Record Dates 1.4 Record Loss 1.5 Boundary Changes 1.6 Populated Places 1.7 History Timeline Green: James Baxter: 41: 04/08/1824: Henry Valentine Robert McGaha: Holloway . The country between the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers had been for many years the great battle ground of the Indians, each Nation claiming an interest in it, but no one of them was permitted by the others to permanently occupy it; hence the vindictive and unceasing warfare they waged against the first white settlers. HAMBY, Thos. Orcutt, 2006. Among these were William CROWSON and his four sons, and his son-in-law, VINCENT, with their families, who came about February, 1807, and settled the west side of Richland Creek, and near the mouth of it and raised corn in 1807. About the time the BLACKS and KIRKS came, or soon after, Ralph GROVES, Sr. settled about two hundred yards east of J. 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