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Cumberland Pioneer Settlers
1779 - 1804
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Construction of Bledsoe’s Fort – Bill Puryear, Artist
Volume I - Founding of the Cumberland Settlements
The First Atlas 1779 - 1804
Purchase now on our secure site $99.95 plus shipping, handling & sales tax for Tennessee residents
Not a traditional Atlas however it's
close with much, much more. This work will be a "must" for
those interested in area Pioneer History as well as Genealogists attempting to
solve family existence in this "Gateway to the early American Western Frontier".
- Focus area is all or portions of
an eleven county area of Northern Middle Tennessee
- Introductory summary of North
Carolina Land Grants and how they were awarded
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The Officials and Surveyors
involved in granting of the land
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Pioneer Grant Holders - 1,500 North Carolina land
grants transcribed, complete with surveyor plats
- North Carolina designated "Public
Lick Areas", Nashborough and Davidson Academy
- Maps - Earliest Indian trails, Traces and
Jury Roads
- Signers of the Cumberland Compact with
a biographical sketch of each
- Summary and detailed location of all
known
Pioneer sites
- Maps - detailed location of all grants and public areas on
current topographical maps
- Pictures of trace segments, fords and like images
- All name index
- See Volume I for a more detailed summary of contents
and other details
Volume II - Thoroughfare For Freedom
Target publication date is mid 2011
The story of where we came from, how we
got here, the land we settled and the society we created. While many
pioneers planted deep roots in the Cumberland River Valley most continued to
West Tennessee, down the Natchez Trace to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, to
Arkansas and Texas and ultimately to California and the west coast.
- Introduction
- Just Before Dawn
- Treaties, Trinkets and Treacheries
- "I Have Broken Your Land Stealer Against A Tree"
- Sunrise On The Cumberland
- Thunder On The Cumberland
- The Cumberland - Gateway to the West
- Triumph of the Rule of Law - A Society Creating Itself
- Biographies and Pioneer Portraits
- Evidences of Pioneer Life Today
- Conclusion and Summary
- See Volume II for a more detailed summary of contents
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