Who was John Sevier?
John Sevier was an early pioneer leader, soldier, farmer, land speculator, and politician who was born in Virginia, September 23, 1745. He married Sarah Hawkins, the daughter of an innkeeper and store owner, when he was sixteen and she was fifteen. They established a farm and began a family. They founded the town of New Market, Virginia and sold lots to new settlers. In 1772 John Sevier visited the Watauga Valley in what later became the state of Tennessee and became friendly with James Robertson, and Isaac Shelby. The Seviers moved to the new territory in 1774 settling first at Holly Bottom on the South Holston River and two years later settling on the Watauga. In 1778 the family settled in the Nolichucky Valley, at Plum Grove and then for a time at Sevier’s Mill on Little Limestone Creek. Sarah Sevier died in early 1780, and seven months later John married a near neighbor, Bonny Kate Sherrill, whom he had rescued in an Indian attack four years earlier. John Sevier was appointed Lieut
ohn Sevier (23 September 1745 25 September 1815) served four years (17851789) as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years (17961801 and 18031809) as Governor of Tennessee, and as a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death. He also served as the commander of the Washington County, Tennessee, contingent of the Overmountain Men in the Battle of Kings Mountain.http://en.wikipedia.
