James Robertson.
James Robertson, (by some authors written Robinson), with Val. Sevier, discovered the Indians before the Battle of Point Pleasant. He was born i n Brunswick County, Va., 1742, died in Chickasaw County, Tenn., Sept. 1, 1814. He was the personal friend of Daniel Boone. He did more to consummate a peace between the Indians and whites than any man in Tennessee, when he became the founder of Nashville, where he withstood, with a handful of men, a siege of one thousand Indians. Flattering offers were made him by the Spanish government to cut the territory of Tennessee loose from the government, and, with Watauga and Kentucky, establish an independent country which he indignantly declined. In 1790, he was appointed a brigadier general by Washington. He shared with Sevier the honors and affections of Tennessee.
SOURCE: The Battle of Point Pleasant, A Battle of the Revolution, October 10th, 1774, Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger, The State Gazette, Point Pleasant, W.V., 1909
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