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See also:SEVIER, See also:JOHN (1745-1815) , See also:American frontiersman, first See also:governor of See also:Tennessee, was See also:born in See also:Rockingham See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 23rd of See also:September 1745, of Huguenot ancestry, the See also:family name being See also:Xavier. He settled on the Watauga on the western slope of the Alleghanies in r772, and served as a See also:captain in See also:Lord See also:Dunmore's See also:War in 1774. See also:Early in 1776 the Watauga settlements were annexed to See also:North Carolina, and Sevier, who from the beginning had been a member of the Watauga See also:government, now represented the See also:district in the provincial See also:congress, which met at See also:Halifax in See also:November-See also:December 1776 and adopted the first See also:state constitution, and in 1777 he was a member of the state See also:House of See also:Commons. He took See also:part in the See also:campaign of 178o against the See also:British, especially distinguishing himself in the See also:battle of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Mountain, where he led the right wing. In December 178o he defeated the Cherokees at See also:Boyd's See also:Creek (in the See also:present Sevier county, Tennessee), laying See also:waste their See also:country during the following See also:spring. Later in the same See also:year (1781), under See also:General See also:Francis See also:Marion, he fought the British in the Carolinas and See also:Georgia.
End of Article: SEVIER, JOHN (1745-1815)
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