Jacob Brown (1736-1785)

Jacob Brown, 1730-1785. A native of South Carolina, founder of Brown's Settlement on Nolichucky River, 1771, merchant, gunsmith and blacksmith to the Cherokee Indians; purchased from those indians two boundaries of land - a veritable principality- in 1775; was appointed Commissioner to make treaties with the indians. Captain Under Sevier in the Battle of King's Mountain, 1780; Major under Sevier in the Revolution, 1781, and in the Militia of the State of Franklin, 1785; ancestor of two Governor's, Brown of Georgia. Jacob Brown's plaque is located to the left of the front door of the old courthouse, Main St, in Jonesborough Tennessee. He is recognized as COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE on the plaque placed there by The Tennessee Daughter of the American Colonist, March 8, 1938.