Andrew Pickens was a militia leader in the American Revolution. A slave-owner,he developed his Hopewell plantation on the east side of the Keowee River across from the Cherokee town of Isunigu (Seneca) in western South Carolina. He was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives from western South Carolina. Several treaties with the Cherokee were negotiated and signed at his plantation of Hopewell.
Tuskegee was an Overhill Cherokee town located along the lower Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County,Tennessee,United States. The town developed in the late 1750s alongside Fort Loudoun,and was inhabited until the late 1770s. It was forcibly evacuated and probably burned during the Cherokee–American wars.
Chota is a historic Overhill Cherokee town site in Monroe County,Tennessee,in the southeastern United States. Developing after nearby Tanasi,Chota was the most important of the Overhill towns from the late 1740s until 1788. It replaced Tanasi as the de facto capital,or 'mother town' of the Cherokee people.
Tanasi was a historic Overhill settlement site in present-day Monroe County,Tennessee,in the southeastern United States. The village became the namesake for the state of Tennessee. It was abandoned by the Cherokee in the 19th century for a rising town whose chief was more powerful. Tanasi served as the de facto capital of the Overhill Cherokee from as early as 1721 until 1730,when the capital shifted to Great Tellico.
The Cherokee Path was the primary route of English and Scots traders from Charleston to Columbia,South Carolina in Colonial America. It was the way they reached Cherokee towns and territories along the upper Keowee River and its tributaries. In its lower section it was known as the Savannah River. They referred to these towns along the Keowee and Tugaloo rivers as the Lower Towns,in contrast to the Middle Towns in Western North Carolina and the Overhill Towns in present-day southeastern Tennessee west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Anglo-Cherokee War,was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War,the Cherokee Uprising,or the Cherokee Rebellion. The war was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee bands during the French and Indian War.
South Carolina was outraged over British tax policies in the 1760s that violated what they saw as their constitutional right to "no taxation without representation". Merchants joined the boycott against buying British products. When the London government harshly punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party,South Carolina's leaders joined 11 other colonies in forming the Continental Congress. When the British attacked Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775 and were beaten back by the Massachusetts Patriots,South Carolina rallied to support the American Revolution. Loyalists and Patriots of the colony were split by nearly 50/50. Many of the South Carolinian battles fought during the American Revolution were with loyalist Carolinians and the part of the Cherokee tribe that allied with the British. This was to General Henry Clinton's advantage. His strategy was to march his troops north from St. Augustine,Florida,and sandwich George Washington in the North. Clinton alienated Loyalists and enraged Patriots by attacking a fleeing army of Patriot soldiers who posed no threat. Enslaved Africans and African Americans chose independence by escaping to British lines where they were promised freedom.
Otacity Ostenaco in the thickly-settled Cherokee township of Tellico. It has been conjectured that he was born into the Ani-waya(Wolf) clan,the one associated in particular with bearing numerous warriors. By his thirties,he had assumed the warrior rank of Utsidihi (Mankiller),and the title of the Tassite of Great Tellico. He then rose to assume the higher Cherokee rank of Cherokee chief warrior or skiagusta,orator,and leading figure in diplomacy with British colonial authorities. The name Otacity
Thomas De Lage Sumter was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina,and a grandson of American Revolutionary War General Thomas Sumter.
Overhill Cherokee was the term for the Cherokee people located in their historic settlements in what is now the U.S. state of Tennessee in the Southeastern United States,on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains. This name was used by 18th-century European traders and explorers from British colonies along the Atlantic coast,as they had to cross the mountains to reach these settlements.
Henry Timberlake was a colonial Anglo-American officer,journalist,and cartographer. He was born in the Colony of Virginia and died in England. He is best known for his work as an emissary from the British colonies to the Overhill Cherokee during the 1761–1762 Timberlake Expedition.
Tomotley is a prehistoric and historic Native American site along the lower Little Tennessee River in Monroe County,Tennessee,in the southeastern United States. Occupied as early as the Archaic period,the Tomotley site was occupied particularly during the Mississippian period,which was likely when its earthwork platform mounds were built. It was also occupied during the eighteenth century as a Cherokee town. It revealed an unexpected style:an octagonal townhouse and square or rectangular residences. In the Overhill period,Cherokee townhouses found in the Carolinas in the same period were circular in design,with,
The Battle of Blackstock's Farm,an encounter of the American Revolutionary War,took place in what today is Union County,South Carolina,a few miles from Cross Anchor,on November 20,1780.
The High Hills of Santee,sometimes known as the High Hills of the Santee,is a long,narrow hilly region in the western part of Sumter County,South Carolina. It has been called "one of the state's most famous areas". The High Hills of Santee region lies north of the Santee River and east of the Wateree River,one of the two rivers that join to form the Santee. It extends north almost to the Kershaw county line and northeasterly to include the former summer resort town of Bradford Springs. Since 1902 the town has been included in Lee County.
Citico is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County,Tennessee,in the southeastern United States. The site's namesake Cherokee village was the largest of the Overhill towns,housing an estimated Indian population of 1,000 by the mid-18th century. The Mississippian village that preceded the site's Cherokee occupation is believed to have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567.
Tallassee is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in present-day Blount and Monroe counties,Tennessee in the southeastern United States. Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of Overhill Cherokee towns that existed along the lower Little Tennessee River on the west side of the Appalachian Mountains in the 18th century. Although Tallassee receives scant attention in primary historical accounts,it is one of the few Overhill towns to be shown on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley.
Elijah Isaacs (1730–1799) was a farmer,politician from Wilkes County,North Carolina,and militia officer in Wilkes County Regiment of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
The Siege of Fort Loudoun was an engagement during the Anglo-Cherokee War fought from February 1760 to August 1760 between the warriors of the Cherokee led by Ostenaco and the garrison of Fort Loudoun composed of British and colonial soldiers commanded by Captain Paul Demeré.
The Timberlake Expedition was an excursion into the Overhill Cherokee lands west of the Appalachian Mountains,which took place in 1761 following the Anglo-Cherokee War. Its purpose was to renew and solidify friendship between Colonial Americans and the Cherokee People following the three-year war. The endeavor is named after the commander of the expedition,Henry Timberlake.
The Treaty of Dewitts Corner ended the initial Overhill Cherokee targeted attacks on colonial settlements that took place at the beginning of the American Revolution. A peace document signed by the Cherokee and South Carolina,the treaty instead laid the foundation for the decades long Cherokee–American wars fought between the European-Americans and the Chickamauga Cherokee people.
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