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I have some info regarding Joel Burdine's line
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I have info regarding this line.
In the years during and following our Independance and
in early years of the French Indian War, there is
referrence to a goup of men known as "overmountain
men" a term given to the militia and volunteers west
of the mountains were called. They were mustered to go
to the aid of the hard-pressed Continentals and to
persuade the Cherokees not to attack the settlements.
Some of these Indians were or had joind the
Chickamauga faction of the tribe to take up arms
against the American patriots. "In the opening
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