The Great Road ran from Philadelphia thru Staunton, VA, to Salisbury NC,
Charlotte, NC; Newberry SC to Augusta GA.
At Fincastle (Big Lick)(Roanoke) VA the road branched to the right to the
West and was called the Wilderness Road. This road forked at Abingdon, VA.
One leg to the Cumberland Gap and KY; and the left leg to Knoxville, &
Nashville, TN.
The lost tribes of Harrison's are lost somewhere on this road.
The Great Road was first used by the Iroquois Indians, and in 1715 explored
by VA settlers. Daniel Boone in 1768 foraged through the gap to KY.
An Early settlement was Watauga (Boone, NC), where Col Sevier became a
popular frontiersman, many from this settlement migrated into E. TN before
the Rev. War.
After the Rev War some 200,000 migrated to the South and West along this road.
Somewhere along these two roads Harrisons settled, and their children moved
on West.
Gideon Harrison (b 1762 Rockingham, VA, d Murfreesboro, TN 1832) was with
Col Sevier at the Rev War battle of Kings Mtn. GA/SC in 1780.(Sevier took
240 men over the mountain and won the day)
In 1799 he was on jury duty Maryville,Blount Co.TN, And in 1807 he purchased
land in Madison Co. AL, and then lived in Limestone Co. AL until 1827.
He had a brother Michael H., who was sheriff of Wash Co.and Dist. 96 in
1795; he lived at Jonesboro, TN. and moved with Gideon to Madison Co. AL
1807 along with another brother Daniel H.(verified by Land Purchases), and
possibly James and Jesse.
There was a Joseph, James, Henry, and a William in this same area of E. TN
c1780.
At this point I am backtracking from Maryville, Blount Co. to Rockingham,
VA. Any clues appreciated.
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