Well I have not traced enough of my Scot/ Irish/ English ancestors to
know if they fought at King Mt. but they were living in the hills of
Nc, so I fiqure when the British left they did not want another
saddle on their back and several of them did mover further west into
TN. SInce I can trace my Cherokee ancestor back as late as 1875 here
in TN. I don't know which side they fought with durning the
revolutionary war but they were to smart or something to be marched
off to Oklahoma during the Removal in the 1830s, mixing with the
Scot / Irish probably helped.--- In
[email protected], "kiddleddee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "David Macko" <dmacko@> wrote:
> >
> > The term "merciless Indian savages" is a direct quote from the
> Declaration of Independence. Throughout history, which you should
> read before you dismiss Mr. Jefferson's description of them, with
> which all of the other Signers concurred, most people haven't given
> a d*mn. Fortunately, during the Revolution and during the
> establishment of what used to be our government, enough did to
> create the most libertarian form of government in history.
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> I would venture to guess that "most" of those who fought in the
> revolution were fighting for independence, not to create
> another "nation". That is certainly what my ancestors - who left
> their small farms in the mountains of Carolina (which they had
> purchased from the "Indian savages" by the way and were living
> peacibly among them) in order to defeat the British at Kings
> Mountain, the battle that won the revolutionary war, only to then
> return to live in peace and without interference from any central
> distant government - thought they were fighting for.
>
> And like I said after the central government was established,
> thousands of "Americans" began to flee its (effective)
jurisdiction,
> choosing instead to take their chances with the "Indian savages".
>
