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Brenda, I looked at your web page and a very good one it is! Do you think the Collins on there are kin to the ones I am researching? I will be glad to send you what info I have. I am researching Joseph Uriah Collins families from East TN. Mostly from Greene County. I am also researcing the Lawsons. Thanks for any help!
Cindy,
I have a question for you. Have you found any of your Collins listed as mullato or free person of color?
Here is something that came to me from another list; I thought you might be interested in.
Greene County, Tennessee 1783 Tax List
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Listed below are the names listed on the 1783 Greene Co Tax list, this was the first list taken for Greene Co. The original tax list can be viewed at the Nathanael Greene Museum in Greeneville.
This list does not have any locations just the names, although some notes of interest were added to this list of names:
Almost all on list were Revolutionary soldiers.
They were known as the “Nollichuckey Settlers.”
In 1785 Adam Meek built his cabin farthest westward but civilization had not reached the present Knox Co border.
Many of them settled on the “Brown Purchase” — land bought from the indians by Jacob Brown, a Major in the Revolution.
The Nolichuckey settlers were famous as riflemen.
Many of them were enlisted with the NC Continental Line or the VA Militia.
Samuel Wear, whose family came from Bucks Co, VA, was a border hero and one of the first TN representatives.
In 1782 several families came to Greene Co from PA. The Galbreaths, Rankins, Magills, Delaneys, Wilsons, Moores and McClungs.
Early land grants: the Nelsons, Vances, Crosbys, Inmans, Casteels, Pates, Jones and Conways.
The first pioneers here were the Gillespies, Crocketts, Henry Earnest, Francis Hughes, Nathan Davis, Ashael Rawlings and Col. Daniel Kenedy (first Clerk of Court) and Amos Byrd from Westover Manor in VA.
Maryland families to settle here were the Howards, Dewitts, Weltys, Hills and Gists.
From Washington Co., VA were Col Arthur Campbell, the Craigs, Blackburns.
Earliest NC families were the Loves, Whites, Alexanders, Balches and Vances.
Robert Wylie was one of the first merchants in Greene County.
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The list of names is long . There are no Collins listed but there is an Anthoney Lawson.
Brenda
Hello Brenda,
The above list that you provided, is it a list of European settlers?
Sincerely,
Coheelady
Cohee,
{Many of them settled on the “Brown Purchase” — land bought from the indians by Jacob Brown, a Major in the Revolution}
Down through history we have found that some Indians left after the sell of their land and others decided to stay and live the white man’s way. I don’t know what tribe was in Green Co.TN at that time frame but maybe somebody else knowes. My best guess, and that is all it is, would be Cherokee or Creek.
The Tuscaroras went north but many stayed behind. The Saponi went north and south but many remained behind.
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