You're an early riser!
Just a tidbit, there's piles more...
After the treaty of Tellico
Plains with the Cherokee Indians in 1775, the
Cumberland Mountain Country was opened to white settlers and about ninety percent of it was given to veterans of the Revolutionary War. Among those was William
Pennington Quarles, our ancestor. It was Christmas Day, 1809, that he and his family, his wife, Ann
Hawes Quarles, their ten children, and four sons-in-law William
Burton and brother Charles
Burton, William
Hawes and
Harrison Irby Hughes, emigrated from Bedfor County,
Virginia and arrived at White
Plains. They were one month in making the trip from
Bedford County, VA. They arrived about forty-five years before Cookeville was founded.
I have photos of the house that stands on the ground (the part not covered by a huge "White
Plains Golf Course" and the family cemetary. Both are historical monuments.
Hope this helps.
You do know about the Adventurers, so called because of sponsoring the ships, earlier than but including the Mayflower. There were originally 45 or so and it eventially dropped to 38. Quarles was in from the first. To my best recollection (I'll have to find my notes), the first young man of the family arrived with the first ship to Jamestown, on April 23, 1609. Don't quote me on this part, but I believe my memory serves me. In any event, they brought unsharpened halpets (I have one) armour/armor, and no women :) To settle that problem the young single men mingled with the friendly local (I believe Cherokee) tribes.
I could copy my pictures of E-Mail them to you is you are interested.
Good evening!
Kitty
