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A native of South Carolina, Jacob Brown founded Brown’s Settlement on the Nolachucky River in 1771 and worked as a merchant, gunsmith, and blacksmith to the Cherokee Indians. In 1775 he purchased from those Indians two boundaries of land, a veritable principality, and was appointed commissioner to make treaties with the Indians. He served as a captain under Sevier in the Battle of King’s Mountain in 1780, as a major under Sevier in the Revolution in 1781, and in the militia of the State of Franklin in 1785. He was an ancestor of two Governors Brown of Georgia.
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