Settlement of TN 4th Grade

The first white settler to settler to come west and permanently stay in TN.

• William Bean

• William Blount

• John Sevier

• John Donelson

Leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee

• Little Carpenter

• Squanto

• Dragging Canoe

• Sequoyah

Settled near Boone's Creek, eventually became the Watauga settlement.

• Richard Henderson

• Bob

• Daniel Boone

• William Bean

Did not want the settlers to take over Cherokee Land, led many attacks on the settlements.

• Sailboat Sam

• Dragging Canoe

• Running River

• Little Bear

Attempted to found the Transylvania Colony

• Richard Henderson

• Roy Rogers

• Daniel Boone

• William Bean

Hired Daniel Boone and encouraged westward expansion

• John Donelson

• Richard Henderson

• James Robertson

• William Bean

Built Fort Watauga, one of the first leaders there.

Led men into battle against the Cherokee.

• William Blount

• John Sevier

• John Donelson

• Richard Henderson

First governor of TN

• Dragging Canoe

• William Blount

• James Robertson

• John Sevier

Forged the Cumberland Gap

• Ben Franklin

• Richard Henderson

• Dragging Canoe

• Daniel Boone

First governor of the Southwest Territory

• John Sevier

• William Bean

• William Blount

• Daniel Boone