Dropped stitches in Tennessee history

by John Allison

FOOTNOTES:

[J] Haywood, Ramsey, Putnam and Phelan unanimously and invariably so spell it.

[K] Haywood’s History of Tennessee.

[L] This “big Injun” seems to have written his name as the fancy struck him. The signature to one of the letters is “McGillivray,” while the other two are signed “McGilveray.” All are in the same handwriting, and all are evidently autographic.