Person:John Sevier (4)

Research notes

• 6 Sep 1794 - named solicitor and county attorney for Washington County, Tennessee
• 7 Sep 1794 - licensed to practice law by Governor Blount
• 10 Sep 1794 - made extensive purchases of land, much of it on Stony Creek, and attempted to mine lead in the vicinity. These grants, originally listed as in Washington County, were recorded in Carter County in 1807.
• 1800 - bought 3,100 acres for $3,000, including Colyer's lead mine, in Washington County, TN

1. ↑ Family Tree Maker site - Ancestors of Frank Buckley Adams - Mason City, IA.
2. ↑ Descendants of Abraham Goad, Generations 1-4 - (http:/www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/report.htm)
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3. ↑ LTJP-3PW^?, in FamilySearch Family Tree
   includes sources, last accessed Apr 2024.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Armstrong, Zella (Main Author), and Janie Preston Collup (Added Author) French. Notable Southern Families. (Chattanooga, TN: Lookout Publishing Company, 1918-1932)
   4:187.

   Major John Sevier, Jr. , as he known, was third son of Gov John Sevier and his first wife, Sarah Hawk'ns Sevier. He was born June 20, 1766, at New Market, Virginia, and given his father's full name. He died April 26, 1845.
   
   John Sevier, Jr., was too young to participate in the Battle of King's Mountain, though he accompanied his father on several of the later Indian Campaigns, and it is said by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Price, (Martha Ann Sevier) that he fought in the Revolution. He was only seventeen when the war was over, but his brother, James, was fighting at sixteen. It is probable that he accompanied his father in the campaigns of the last two years of the Revolutionary war and later in the Indian warfare.
   
   He was elected recording and engrossing clerk of the first Convention held in the State of Tennessee.
   
   He married three time and had eighteen children. He married first Elizabeth Conway; second, Sarah Richards, and third, Sophia Garoutte.
   
   His first wife, Elizabeth Conway, was the daughter of Colonel Henry Conway, of the Revolution. Her sisters, Nancy and Susannah Conway, also married into the Sevier family. Nancy married James Sevier, (John Sevier, Jr.'s, brother) and Susannah married John Sevier, son of Valentine, called Devil Jack to distinguish him among the Johns. He was first cousin to James and John.
   
   The marriage bond of John Sevier Jr., and Elizabeth Conway, is dated July 8, 1788. He was just twenty- two years of age. His bond was for $1,250, and it was signed by his father. It is said that his wife died in childbirth with her first child. A list of the children of John Sevier, Jr., prepared by his grand-daughter, Mrs. George French, a sister of Bishop Embree Hoss, from whom she secured her material, does not show the name of any child by the first wife. She gives seventeen children, beginning with the first child by the second wife. She told me that if there was a living child by Elizabeth Conway Sevier that she never heard of it. On the other hand, Bishop Hoss himself says there were eighteen children.