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The Founding of Tennessee

In 1606, following the settlement of the Virginia colony, King James I chartered the region as a British province. European immigration to the new world increased with each passing year and soon American real estate started becoming a worthy possession for British officials.
Sixty-six years and two royals later, King James II made a huge gift to eight of his friends in North America that was soon chartered as the British Province of Carolina. The "gift" included the lands over the Appalachians reaching to the Pacific Ocean, an area encompassing close to 150,000 square miles. There was no way for James II's friends to realize just how expansive the gift was. In that era, no one even knew if there was an overland route to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1693, the King's friends decided to equally split the province of Carolina into Northern and Southern territories with North Carolina laying claim to all lands west of its boundaries over the Appalachians - including the great valley beyond its crest.
Following the establishment of the 1763 Proclamation line that ran along the crest of the Appalachian mountains, British Lieutenant Henry Timberlake was sent to make an official visit to the Cherokee tribe as a token of friendship and, in the process, laid out the first working map of the region. Using native guides as interpreters,Timberlake first wrote the word "Tennessee" as a name for one of the regions on the map and, unknowingly, coined a term that would later become more than a name on a British chart.

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