In all his
"thirty-five battles" it is said he lost not more than fifty men.
The Cherokees made peace in 1777, after about a year of almost
continuous warfare, the treaty being concluded on their side by
the old chiefs who had never countenanced the war. Dragging Canoe
refused to take part, but he was rendered innocuous for the time
being by the destruction of several of the Chickamaugan villages.
James Robertson now went to Chota as Indian agent for North
Carolina. So fast was population growing, owing to the opening of
a wagon road into Burke County, North Carolina, that Washington
County was divided. John Sevier became Colonel of Washington and
Isaac Shelby Colonel of the newly erected Sullivan County.
Jonesborough, the oldest town in Tennessee, was laid out as the
county seat of Washington; and in the same year (1778) Sevier
moved to the bank of the Nolichucky River, so-called after the
Indian name of this dashing sparkling stream, meaning rapid or
precipitous. Thus the nickname given John Sevier by his devotees
had a dual application. He was well called Nolichucky Jack.
When Virginia annulled Richard Henderson's immense purchase but
allowed him a large tract on the Cumberland, she by no means
discouraged that intrepid pioneer. Henderson's tenure of Kentucky
had been brief, but not unprofitable in experience.
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