separatist feeling in Kentucky;
anger of Virginians over;
separatist feeling in West;
separatist movement in West Virginia;
in Kentucky;
failure of movement.
Settlers, character of;
occupation of.
Sevier, James, goes to Gardoqui.
Sevier, John, president of Jonesboro Convention;
Governor of Franklin;
correspondence with Gov. Martin;
and Patrick Henry;
issues manifesto;
rivalry with Tipton;
brawls with Tipton;
asks help of Evan Shelby;
friendly relations with Georgia;
member of Cincinnati;
he and his men compared with bygone colonizers;
leads forays against Indians;
corresponds with Benj. Franklin;
with Shelby;
end of term as governor;
in dire straits;
fight with Tipton's men;
further forays against Indians;
fails to protect Indian prisoners;
reprobated for his failure;
abandoned for moment by frontiersmen;
arrest ordered by Governor of North Carolina;
leads other forays;
is arrested;
escapes;
proceedings against him dropped;
corresponds with Gardoqui;
offers to enter into alliance with Spain;
becomes a Federalist;
destroys Indian town on Coosa;
ransoms captive whites;
made brigadier-general.
Sevier, Valentine, at Muscle Shoals.
Shawnees, hostile;
surrender prisoners;
burn prisoners.
Shelby, Evan, appealed to by state of Franklin;
corresponds with Sevier;
hostile to state of Franklin.
Slavery, negro, in West;
a curse to the whites;
prohibited in Northwest.
Slim Tom, an Indian, brutal murder by.
Spaniards, on southwestern frontier;
their dominion jeopardized by backwoodsmen;
who look at them as the Germans once looked at the Roman Empire;
they recognize the frontiersmen as their special foes;
treachery of;
diplomatic negotiations with;
corruption of officials;
outrages by American and creole traders;
seize goods of Cumberland trader;
dread the backwoodsmen;
try to keep the Indians their allies;
and incite them to war against settlers;
towards whom they behave with shameful duplicity;
religious intolerance of;
expel American traders from among the southern tribes.
St. Clair, Arthur, Governor of Northwest Territory;