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About John 'Nolichucky Jack' Sevier, 1st Gov. of Tennessee
John Sevier (September 23, 1745–September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. He played a leading role, both militarily and politically, in Tennessee's pre-statehood period, and was elected the state's first governor in 1796. DAR Ancestor #: A102092
Executive Summary
Tennessee folk hero, Pioneer, Statesman, and one of the founders of the republic, Governor of the state of Franklin, six times Governor of Tennessee, four times elected to Congress, a typical pioneer who conquered the Wilderness and fashioned the State, a protector and hero of King's Mountain, fought thirty-five battles, won thirty-five victories. His war cry, "Here they are! Come on boys!" is etched in stone on John Sevier's grave marker at the Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Feud with Andrew Jackson
Despite these claims [of bribery and land fraud], Sevier was successful in his campaign for governor, but he was still chafing under the humiliation of Jackson’s accusation. So when the two men encountered one another on the courthouse steps in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 1, 1803, a confrontation was inevitable.
H.W. Brands writes a vivid account of this courthouse confrontation in his book, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times:
"One day they met outside the courthouse and exchanged words. Their voices rose as their emotions engaged, and onlookers gathered around. After heated words, Sevier challenged Jackson to draw arms. But since Jackson carried only a cane, against Sevier's sword, he declined. The hot language continued. Sevier alluded to Jackson's lack of military experience before becoming major general, for Jackson defended his services to the state and the nation." "' Services?'" Sevier riposted. 'I know of no great service you rendered the country, except taking a trip to Natchez with another man's wife.'"
With that insult, John Sevier crossed a line from which he could not retreat. Stunned silence filled the air, but soon afterward, "Old Hickory" came to the defense of his wife's honor. "Great God! Do you mention her sacred name?" said Jackson, who then lunged at Sevier. The crowd quickly separated the two men ,but this was only the beginning of their confrontation. The next day Andrew Jackson laund into a written tirade against the Governor and challenged him to a duel.
Family
- from Wikipedia
Sevier is a distant relative of St. Francis Xavier, the name "Sevier" being an anglicized form of "Xavier."[3] In the 17th century, some members of the Xavier family became Protestants (Huguenots). In 1685, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Sevier's grandfather, Don Juan Xavier, moved to London and changed his name to John Sevier.[3] Sevier's father, Valentine "The Immigrant" Sevier (1712–1803), was born in London- and moved to America in 1740.[3]
Sevier married Sarah Hawkins (1746–1780) in 1761. They had ten children: Joseph, James, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary Ann, Valentine, Rebecca, Richard, and Nancy. Following her death, Sevier married Catherine Sherrill (1754–1836). They had eight children: Catherine, Ruthe, George Washington, Samuel, Polly, Eliza, Joanna, and Robert.[17]
Sevier's grandnephew, Ambrose Hundley Sevier (1801–1848), served as one of the first U.S. senators from Arkansas. Sevier County, Arkansas, is named for him. The Conway family, which dominated early Arkansas state politics, were cousins of the Seviers. Henry Conway, the grandfather of Ambrose Sevier and Arkansas's first governor, James Sevier Conway, was a friend of Sevier and served as Treasurer of the State of Franklin. Two of Sevier's sons, James and John, married Conway's daughters, Nancy and Elizabeth, respectively.[18]
A large family of Seviers in Madison Parish, Louisiana, also claim descent from John Sevier, among them State Senator Andrew L. Sevier of Tallulah, who served in the upper house in Baton Rouge from 1932 until his death in 1962.[19]
Biographical information
SEVIER, John, a Representative from North Carolina and from Tennessee; born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., September 23, 1745; attended the common schools and the academy at Fredericksburg, Va.; moved with his brothers to Watauga County, N.C., in 1773 and settled on the Holston River, N.C. (now Tennessee); county clerk and district judge 1777-1780; elected Governor of "the proclaimed" State of Franklin in March 1785 and served for three years; elected from North Carolina to the First Congress and served from June 16, 1790, until March 3, 1791; appointed in 1791 as brigadier general of militia for the Washington district of the territory south of the Ohio; upon the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union was chosen Governor and served from 1796 to 1801, and again from 1803 to 1809; appointed in 1798 as brigadier general of the Provisional Army; served one term in the State senate 1810-1811; elected as a Republican from Tennessee to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death; appointed in 1815 as one of the commissioners to determine the boundary between Georgia and the Creek territory in Alabama and served until his death, near Fort Decatur, Ala., September 24, 1815; interment at Fort Decatur, Ala.; reinterred in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1889.
State Court Judge North Carolina, 1777-1790 - 5th Congressional District, U.S. House Representatives, North Carolina 1790-1791 - 1st Governor State Tennessee, 1796-1801 - 3rd Governor State Tennessee 1803-1808 - State Senator State Tennessee 1810-1811 - 2nd Congressional District, U.S. House Representatives, State of Tennessee - 1811-1815. Previous to entering the Political arena he was Commander of the Tennesse, Washington County at Overton Mountain in the Battle of Kings Mountain. He had 2 wives and sired 18 children with these 2 wives.
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John Sevier (1745-1815)
John Sevier -- Governor of State of Franklin for 4 years; 1st (and six times) Governor of the state of Tennessee and U.S. Representative from Tennessee until his death. Served as commander (General) of the Washington Co., TN, contingent of the Overmountain Men in the Battle of Kings Mountain.
Elizabethton, Tennessee, site of the muster of the Overmountain Men.
Colonel Rev War
Lt Col Lord Dunmore War
The State of Franklin was an autonomous, secessionist United States territory created not long after the end of the American Revolution, from the territory that later was ceded by North Carolina to the federal government. The territory comprising Franklin later became part of the state of Tennessee.
Franklin was never officially admitted into the Union of the United States and existed for only four years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sevier
http://www.johnsevier.com/bio_johnsevier.html
John Sevier
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John Sevier "Nolichucky Jack"
Capsule Biography
SEVIER, John, a Representative from North Carolina and from Tennessee; born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., September 23, 1745; attended the common schools and the academy at Fredericksburg, Va.; moved with his brothers to Watauga County, N.C., in 1773 and settled on the Holston River, N.C. (now Tennessee); county clerk and district judge 1777-1780; elected Governor of "the proclaimed" State of Franklin in March 1785 and served for three years; elected from North Carolina to the First Congress and served from June 16, 1790, until March 3, 1791; appointed in 1791 as brigadier general of militia for the Washington district of the territory south of the Ohio; upon the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union was chosen Governor and served from 1796 to 1801, and again from 1803 to 1809; appointed in 1798 as brigadier general of the Provisional Army; served one term in the State senate 1810-1811; elected as a Republican from Tennessee to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death; appointed in 1815 as one of the commissioners to determine the boundary between Georgia and the Creek territory in Alabama and served until his death, near Fort Decatur, Ala., September 24, 1815; interment at Fort Decatur, Ala.; reinterred in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1889.
Bibliography: DAB; Driver, Carl S. "John Sevier, A Pioneer of the Old Southwest." Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1929.
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
[http://tnportraits.org/sevier-john-min-nash.htm]
View copies of his original letters at the URL below. –––––––– http://www.johnsevier.com/letters.html
American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. First Governor of Tennessee -
- Military_service: North Carolina, United States - 1777
- Residence: United States
- Residence: New Market, Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America - 1765
- Residence: Woodstock, Dunmore, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America - 1770
- Residence: North Carolina, British Colonial America - December 1773
- Residence: Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee, United States - from 1777 to 1778
- Residence: Washington, Tennessee, United States - 1781
- Residence: Tennessee, United States - 1790
- Residence: Chester, South Carolina, United States - 1800
- Residence: Marble Springs Farm, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States - about 1809
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 8 2022, 20:29:25 UTC
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 8 2022, 20:29:25 UTC
I ought to have mentioned before, that [Gov. William Charles Cole Claiborne of Louisiana] had become most intimately acquainted with Gen. John Sevier, a delegate in congress from the territory south-west the river Ohio, now state of Tennessee; that a friendship grew up between them which continued unimpaired during their lives, and that of all the benefactors Mr. Claiborne met with in his journey through life there was none like Gen. Sevier in the number and greatness of his favors, and what made them the more estimable was that they were totally disinterested [i.e. no strings attached].
How deplorable is the state of literature in our country; in other words, how little pains are taken to preserve the memory of the lives of useful men. In no book is any further information of John Sevier to be met with, save that of his commanding one of the four regiments that defended Ferguson during the revolutionary war at King's Mountain...
John Sevier was born in the state of Virginia, he had little or no education, but nature had given him a mind of such astonishing powers, that he could analyze with ease the most complex subjects, and all who knew him, put confidence in his judgment.
Most men, who (like John Sevier) have raised themselves to eminence by their personal exertions, without the aid of a liberal education, look with a prejudiced eye on learned accomplishments; but not so with Sevier, he admired and patronized every enterprising, well informed and virtuous youth who sought his acquaintance, and contented with the share of public honors his country had bestowed on him, has frequently retired from political canvass to give a fairer chance of success to young men of merit.
In private life he was to the last degree mild and forbearing; in the field of battle fertile and expedient, and rapid in execution.
He had early in life moved to the frontiers of North Carolina, and in the wars with the Indians had become conspicuous for his valor and military genius. He commanded a regiment at the battle of King's Mountain, and I have heard it frequently asserted, that he was among the very first who gained the summit of the hill on that eventful day.
He had filled many offices of honor and trust, and shortly after his acquaintance with [Gov. William Charles Cole Claiborne of Louisiana] commenced, the veteran was raised to the chief magistracy of the new state of Tennessee.
"Notes on the War in the South" by Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne of Franklin Co., Virginia (c.1817)
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John 'Nolichucky Jack' Sevier, 1st Gov. of Tennessee's Timeline
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September 23, 1745
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Rockingham, Virginia
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March 17, 1763
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Augusta County, Virginia, Colonial America
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October 25, 1764
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Augusta County, Virginia, Colonial America
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June 20, 1766
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New Market, Prince William County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1768
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New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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July 1770
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New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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March 10, 1772
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Woodstock, Dunmore, now Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1773
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Woodstock, Dunmore, now Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1775
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Rockingham County, Virginia, Colonial America
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