Menu
- Home
- Search▼
- List▼
- Add▼
- My Relate▼
- Admin▼
ViewsWatchersBrowse |
Image Information
[edit] DescriptionExtract of Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, page 294, relating to Isaac Thomas. [edit] TextThomas, Isaac, born in Virginia, about 1735. He was an early Indian trader, and about 1755 located among the Cherokees, near Fort Loudoun. His immense strength and courage commanded great respect from the Indians. On one occasion he interfered in a feud between two Cherokee braves who had drawn tomahawks upon each other. and tore the weapons from their hands, when they both attacked him. He lifted one after the other into the air, and threw them into the Tellico river. One of the Indians subsequently saved his life at the Fort Loudoun massacre, of which it is said that he and two others were the sole survivors. After peace was restored, he again seitled among the Cherokees, making his home at their capital, Echota, where, in a log-cabin, he kept the trader's usual stuck. He was on very friendly terms with Nancy Ward, the Cherokee prophetess, who early in 1776 told him of the hostile designs of the Indians. He at once sent a truity messenger to John Sevier and James Robertson at Watauga, but remained behind till the actual outbreak of hostilities. At midnight on July 7, 1776, Nancy Ward again came to his cabin and urged him to leave the settlements. At great risk he mide the journey, and a few days later was with the lttle garrison of forty that repelled the attack of Oconostota on the fort at Watauga. Sevier probably could not have held out if he had not received the warning. :-oon afterward he piloted the expedition that laid waste the Indian country, and, for twenty years afterwards he acted as guide to Gen. Sevier in nearly all of his campaigns against the Creeks and Cherokees. Soon after the revolution he relinquished trade with the tndia1is. and settled upon an extensive farm in Sevier county. He called his settlement Sevierville, in honor of his general, and the place is now one of the most beautiful localities in the state of Tennessee. He died in Sevierville, Tennessee, in 1819. [edit] LicenseRecorded at GoogleBooks and copied for educational and academic use at WeRelate by BobC on 27 February 2011. File historyLegend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete
this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
LinksThe following pages link to this file: License: This image is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States prior to January 1, 1923 or its first publication anywhere in the world was prior to January 1, 1909.
|
