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The people below all signed the Watauga Petition to North Carolina for annexation in 1776:

 

John Carter     John Sevier     John Jones     Charles Roberdson     Jas. Smith     George Rusel    

 

James Roberton     John Brown     Jacob Womack     Zach. Isbel     Wm. Been     Robert Lucas

 

The above signers are the Members in the Committee assembled.

 

Jacob Womack     John Brown     Adam Sherrell     Joseph Dunham     Jos. Brown    

 

Samuel Sherrell, junr.     Rice Durroon     Job Bumper     Samuel Sherell, senr.    

 

Edward Hopson     Esaac Wilson     Ossa Rose     Lew. Bowyer, D. Atty     Richard Norton

 

Henry Bates, jun.     Joseph Buller     George Hutson     Jos. Grimes     Andw. Greer

 

Thomas Simpson     Christopher Cunningham, sen.     Joab X Mitchell     Jonathan Tipton

 

Joshua Barten, sen.     Robert Sevier     Joud. Bostin, sen.     Gideon Morris     Drury Goodan    

 

Henry Bates, jun.     Shadrack Morris     Richard Fletcher     Will'm Dod     William Crocket

 

Ellexander Greear     Groves Morris     Thos. Dedmon     Jos. Greear     Wm. Bates

 

David Hickey     Andrew Greear, jun.     Rob't Mosely     Mark Mitchell     Teeler Nave

 

Ge. Hartt     Hugh Blair     Lewis Jones     Isaac Wilson     Elias Pebeer     John I. Cox

 

Jno. Waddell     Jos. Brown     John Cox, jr.     Jarret Williams     John Neave     Abraham Cox

 

Oldham Hightower     John Robinson     Emanuel Shote     Abednago Hix    

 

Christopher Cunningham     Tho. Houghton     Charles McCartney     Jos. Luske    

 

Frederick Vaughn      Jas. Easeley     Wm. Reeves     Jos. McCartney     Ambrose Hodge

 

David Hughes     Mark Robertson     Dan'l Morris     Landon Carter      Joseph Calvit

 

Wm. Cox     John McCormick     Joshua Houghton     James Easley     David Crocket

 

John Chuckinbeard     John Haile     Edw'd Cox     James Cooper     Elijah Robertson

 

Tho's Hughes      William Brokees     William Clark      William Robertson     Julius Robertson

 

John X Dunham     Frederick Calvit     Michael Hider     John Moore     John Davis

 

Wm. Overall     William Newberry     John Barley     Matt. Hawkins

 

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My ancestor is listed as Emanuel Shote.

President Theodore Roosevelt later wrote that the Watauga settlers were the "first men of American birth to establish a free and indepent community on the continent."

Jacob Womack, a committman on the Watauga Petition and builder of Womack's Fort in present day Sullivan Co., TN was my 5th great grandfather.  He and his family were the first Womacks in Tennessee. 

On 23 Dec 1776 new commissions for some members of the Watauga group were made by the Provincial Congress of Halifax, NC: 

"...Resolved that John Carter be Colonel, John Sevier be Lieutenant Colonel, Charles Robertson 1st Major, and Jacob Womack 2nd Major for the District of Washington, and that commissions issued accordingly.  Resolved that John Carter be supplied with 200 wt. of gun powder from the magazine in Halifax, for the defense of the District of Washington, and Mr. Christopher Dudley is hereby directed to furnish him with the same."

Jacob was a witness on the 20 Jul 1777 Treaty made and concluded at Ft. Henry on Holston River near Long Island with the Cherokee and the state of North Carolina.  Other witnesses were James Robins, John Reed, Isaac Bledsoe, Brice Martin, (another) John Reed, and John Kearns. 

Quite a few men who filed for their Revolutionary War pensions stated they served under Jacob.  One application has a handwritten release of duty written and signed by Jacob Womack. 

The information regarding Jacob Womack of Womack's Old Fort historical marker is incorrect.  Jacob Womack did not move further west after he left present day Sullivan Co., TN.  He moved to North Carolina, and there are many records for him in Burke Co., NC .  He and his large family were enumerated in 1790 in Pendleton District, SC.  They left that area and returned to Grainger Co., TN before 1797. 

The last record I have for Jacob Womack is in Grainger Co., TN in a WPA transcription at Tennessee state archives for Grainger Co., TN court records 1796-1802 which indicates Jacob Womack and his son David were part of a jury to lay off a road, and it referred to him as Major Jacob Womack.  Jacob's sons  are on tax lists in Grainger and White Co., TN between 1797 and 1811.  Jacob's sons moved to Arkansas by 1816 and were the first Womacks in Arkansas.  They area where they lived in 1816 was known as Lawrence Co., Arkansas Territory of Missouri, which is present day Randolph Co., AR. 

Perhaps your list is abbreviated? My ancestors were signers, Abraham Cox and William Cox, my 5th and 4th great grandfathers respectively. The above listed Edward Cox is the son of Abraham and brother to William.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~snipper/wau/waupe...

Happy to see so many descendants here. Even without blood connections we are cousins in history. It is a wonderful legacy.

The Greers of the 1776 Watauga Petition - Andrew Greer, Sr. and sons by 1st wife Ruth Kinkaid - Andrew Greer, Jr., Alexander Greer, Joseph Greer.  Andrew Greer, Sr. and his 2nd wife, Mary Vance had Thomas Greer, born 28 Nov 1770.  Thomas married Lucinda Bradford, and they had Joseph "Hatchy" Greer, who married Caroline Dillingham.  Sixty-five years later, Their son Michel Dillingham Greer married 5 Feb 1841 Harrison Co., TX Matilda Womack, daughter of Frances (nee Basye) Quick and  Larkin Womack, Sr., son of Unknown Wife and David Womack, son of Sarah Johnson and Maj. Jacob Womack, a committeeman on the Watauga Petition,   

I don't see Michael Hider. According to the DAR GRS, he did sign which makes his descendants eligible for DAR

Michael Hider's name is on the Watauga Petition - third name from bottom of right column.  Service in the Revolutionary War is a requirement to be a patriot of an applicant or member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  The Watauga Petition and the Revolutionary War are not the same thing.

My signer is John Sevier. I've doing a lot of research on the man, once I found out he truly is my ancestor, and not a figment of my paternal grandfather's imagination (as in just a family story). What confuses me, however, is the many things he allegedly was involved with in the year 1776. Yes, he helped prepare the plea to North Carolina, yes after the United Settlements were approved as part of North Carolina he was elected as a representative to the Convention of Halifax (and according to one thing read, he was seated), but he also took part in Colonel Christian's (Col. Christie's) campaign. And he stayed on with that campaign through part of 1777 until the Treaty of Long Island of Holston July 1777. That same account said he "hasten to arrive in season" to take part in said campaign. Problem is, according to the internet, the Convention began on 12 November 1776 and wasn't finished until 18 December 1776 (some cite 28 December 1776), while Cristie's campaign ran from October- December 1776. I'm so confused.

 To think after John Sevier became one of the original signers of the Watauga Association, he had some reservations on making the move there. He returned to Virginia and bought an additional half-acre of land for twenty pounds in April 1773, and then sold it again for the purchase price in July of the same year. One can only speculate as to what was going on inside of his head. After settling some additional business (he signed a promissory note) on 27 November 1773,  he, his wife and children, plus several other family members made the three hundred mile trek southwest to arrive on the Long Island of Holston on 24 or 25 of  December 1773.

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