Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-01-30
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
CHAPTER III.


carrying on gainful commerce with
the natives, it was discovered that an
other source of great profit lay within
the bosom of the wilderness. The an
cient inhabitants had left signs of their
former residence, but they had long
since departed. The animals freed from
the presence of ferocious man, fearless
and undisturbed, had securely propa-
gated, and filled the wilderness with
their numerous broods. Their flesh
could be exchanged for goods of Euro.
pean manufactures; and their skins and
furs commanded, in the markets of the
European colonists, gold and silver
Frequently, in the course of one season.
the industrious hunter would return
with packages of peltry, enough to
bring him 1900 or 17O0 dollars, an i'm
mense sum in those days, and sufficient
to procure great portion of the best
land, and other property of the coun-
try. No Indians then lived on the Hols.
ton or Clinch rivers. But all the waters
from Holston to the head waters of Ken
lucky and Cumberland, were without
single human inhabitant. The old
maps OF the western countries give
some insight into their early circum.
stances, in the time of the French claim
to all the countries between the Missis
sippi and the Allegheny mountains,
south of the lakes of Canada. These
old maps lay down the river Holston
and call it Cherokee river. The river
to the south of it occupies the position
which French Broad does. The river
to the south Of Holston as laid down
in the old maps is called the Tanses or
Tanasees. The Big Tennessee, below
that, is called the Ho go hee-gee.
Clinch is not laid down, nor is Cum
berland, but from other sources, it is
known that the French called the lat
ter Shauvanon, whilst the English call
ed it the Shawanoe. The Indians call
ed the Holston the Coot.cla. French
forts are represented in these maps as
standing, one at the mouth of Cata-
way, supposed to be the Kentucky:
one on the south of the Ohio, on the
bank of the river; another at the mouth
of the Oubach, now the Wabash, on
the north side Of the Ohio, on the
bank; another near the junction of the
Ohio with the Mississippi, on The north
side of the former; another at the
Chickasaw Bluffs, on the Mississippi
called Proud home; another near the
east bank of Red river, west of the
mouth of the Arkansaw, and west of
an old Indian village called Ackensa
another at the junction of the Coosa
and Tallapoosa. The fort was called
Halabama, as we'll as the river. An
Indian settlement below was called
Halabamas. Bear creek is laid down
with numerous Indian settlements up
on it. Fifteen or twenty miles up the
Tennessee from its mouth they had an
other fort; and somewhere upon the
headwaters of the Tombigbee, fort
called Thoulouse. One of the Indian
towns, eastwardly from the present site
of Natchez, is laid down by the name
of Mosco. AT the mouth of the Ken.
hawa on the northwest side of the
Ohio, is fort marked, called Shaw.
noah. One on the Illinois running in.
to the Mississippi called Creve- -ceur.
And one on the northwestern extremi
ity Of Lake Michigan, called fort Nj
AMI. One about half way up the Hi
nois marked French fort A nation oi
Indians called the Cheavenoes is laid
down as settled below the Cheroke es in
the country adjacent to where Fort De
posit now stands, on the Tennessee, anG
southwardly of it, which is supposed
to be the people now called the Shaw
nees, who may have settled there undel
the auspices of their old friends aut
allies, the Cherokees, after the expul
sion of the Shawnees from the Savan
nah river. This conjecture is fortified
by the circumstance that the French il
ancient times called what is now tn
Cumberland by the name of the Shau
vanon, on which the Shawnees wer
for many years settled. Mr.. Vaughan
who lived as late as the year 1901 il
the county OF Amelia, in Virginia, wa
employed about the year 1740 as
packman to go to the Cherokee natiol
with some Indian traders. The couu
try was then but thinly inhabited t
the west of Amelia; the last hunter
: cabin that ho saw was on Otter river,
branch of Staunton, now in Bedfor
County, Virginia. He exactly describe
the different prospects of the mour
tains, the fords of the river, and th
Grassy Springs, at the pi esent residenc
. of Micajah Lee, now in Hawkins Cour
}, ty, in East Tennessee. The tradin
path from Virginia, as he describes i
. proceeded nearly upon the ground tha
the Buckingham road now runs Oh
and to the point where it strikes tn
stage road in Bottetourt County: theme
nearly upon the ground which th
stage road occupies, crossing New ri,
er at the fort, at English's ferry, OIL
ward to the Seven Mile ford, on Ho
!, ston; thence on the left of the lin
which now forms the stage road, an
near the river to the north fork of Ho
ston, and crossing the same at the fol-
.