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Watauga Purchase

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On March 19, 1775, at Sycamore Shoals, the Watauga Association, with Charles Robertson as trustee, bought from the Cherokee, with Oconostota as chief, lands along the Watauga, Holston, and Great Canaway, now New, rivers for 2000 pounds sterling.
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