Valentine Sevier during Indian War was a sargent in Capt. Evan Shelby's
Co. at Battle of Point Plesant. He entered the Revolutionary War as a
Captain and commanded a company at Cedar Springs, Musgrove Mill and Kings
Mountain. He was the first sheriff of Washington Co. a justice of the
peace and Col of the County Malita. He emigrated to the town of
Cumberland on Red river opposite Clarksville near New Providence in 1789.
With him was James Robertson, a General in the Rev., who moved on to
settle the town of Nashville.

On January 15, 1792 Double Head, Cherokee Chief, lay in wait for a
hunting party that contained Robert and William Sevier, sons of
Valentine. As their boat came around a bend they fired and killed John
Curtis, Robert and William Sevier and wounded another son
Valentine, III. Valentine III escaped but died the next day. the entire
family was attacked by 40 Creek Indians on Nov. 11, 1794. Joseph,
elizabeth and Ann Sevier were all killed. Rebecca was scalped but didn't
die. James survied along with Alexander and Joanna. James was working in
a field.



VALENTINE SEVIER was born in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia,
about 1747, and settled at an early period in East Tennessee. He was a
Sergeant, and one of the spies, at the battle of Point Pleasant, where,
says Isaac SHELBY, "he was distinguished for vigilance, activity, and
bravery." He subsequently served in the Indian wars in East Tennessee,
and commanded a company at Thicketty Fort, Cedar Springs, Musgrove's
Mill, and King's Mountain. He was the first Sheriff of Washington County,
a Justice of the court, and rose in the militia to the rank of a Colonel.
He removed to the mouth of Red river on Cumberland, now Clarksville,
where he was attacked by Indians, November eleventh, 1794, killing and
wounding several of his family. After long suffering from chronic
rheumatism, he died at Clarksville [Montgomery Co, TN], February
twenty-third, 1800, in his fifty-third year; his widow surviving till
1844 in her one hundred and first year, His younger brother, Robert
SEVIER, who also commanded a company at King's Mountain, and was mortally
wounded in the conflict, was previously much engaged in ridding the
Watauga and Nolachucky region of Tories and horse thieves.


(Excerpted from King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of
King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It by
Lyman C. Draper, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1881, pp.
418-424)
Clarkesville, Dec. 18, 1794

Dear Brother: - The news from this place is desperate with me. On
Tuesday, 11th of November last, about twelve o'clock, my station was
attacked by about forty Indians. On so sudden a surprise, they were in
almost every house before they were discovered. All the men belonging to
the station were out, only Mr. Snider and myself. Mr. Snider, Betsy his
wife, his son John and my son Joseph, were killed in Snider's house. I
saved Snider, so the Indians did not get his scalp, but shot and
tomahawked him in a barbarous manner.

They also killed Ann King and her son James, and scalped my daughter
Rebecca. I hope she will still recover. The Indians have killed whole
families about here this fall. You may hear cries of some persons for
their friends daily.

The engagement, commenced by the Indians at my house, continued about an
hour, as the neighbours say. Such a scene no man ever witnessed before.

Nothing but screams and roaring of guns, and no man to assist me for some
time. The Indians have robbed all the goods out of every house, and have
destroyed all my stock. You will write our ancient father this horrid
news; also my son Johnny. My health is much impaired. The remains of my
family are in good health. I am so distressed in my mind, that I can
scarcely write. Your affectionate brother, till death.

— Valentine Sevier
(Excerpted from The Annals of Tennessee to The End of The Eighteenth
Century by J. G. M. Ramsey, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1853,
p. 619, letter of Valentine SEVIER to his brother, Col. John SEVIER,
prefaced by Ramsey's statement that "Col. Valentine SEVIER had removed
west of Cumberland Mountain, and built a station near Clarkesville
[Montgomery Co, TN]. This the Indians attacked. An account of the assault
is copied from his letter to his brother, General SEVIER)."

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On 1 May 1837, Naomi "Amy" DOUGLAS Sevier, widow of Valentine SEVIER,
applied for Revolutionary War widow benefits in Greene County, TN, aged
91. She declared that her late husband had first enlisted in Shenandoah
Co, VA (4), then removed to Washington County, North Carolina, the part
that later became Carter County, Tennessee, that he also enlisted there,
serving under Col. John SEVIER on several campaigns (no relationship
stated), and that he died on 22 Feb 1800. She further stated that they
had married about 1767 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and had six
children, of which two were twins born before the start of the
Revolution, and that at the time of his death, three of their children
were minors: Abraham, Joseph and Aleander, all of whom were deceased by
1837. Amy died on 17 Jul 1844, leaving children: James SEVIER, Rebecca
RECTOR (aged 69 in 1851, a resident of Greene County), Elizabeth, John,
Ann and Valentine. In 1837, a Major John SEVIER was aged 70, a resident
of Greene, who steaed that he had known Valentine and Amy very well, and
in 1837, a James SEVIER, aged 73, referred to Valentine SEVIER as his
uncle. In 1843, one A. H. [Ambrose Hundley] SEVIER was a U.S. Senator,
but no relationship was stated. On 17 Jul 1851, her daughter, Rebecca,
applied for an increase of her mother's pension [sic-Armstrong, and
declared that her father had served as a Major in the Revolution, and
that at the time of her mother's death on 17 Jul 1845, she had only two
living children, James SEVIER and Rebecca SEVIER Rector, and that
Valentine SEVIER had died some fifty years ago. (Pension File No. W6012).


Colonel Valentine Sevier and Naomi "Amy" Douglass were married by the
Reverend John Alderson, minister of the Linville Creek Baptist Church,
according to Naomi's pension application.



MaryAnn ANDERSEN
14959 Riverside Ave. N. Marine, MN 55047

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Submission Search: 850038-0609100154819

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Killed by Indians in 1792

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Killed by Indians in 1792 two day's after brother
Twin Brother of William

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Killed by Indians in 1792
Twin Brother of Robert

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4. MaryAnn Anderson, Watauga, Settlement, Clarksville, Tn

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Killed in a Indian Massacre November 11, 1794

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Marine Corps. War 1812

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4. Witness By Terry and Sandra Bradley,