See, in the collection of the Tenn.Hist.Soc., at Nashville, the MS.

notes containing an account of Sevier, given by one of the old settlers named Hillsman.

Hillsman especially dwells on the skill with which Sevier could persuade the backwoodsmen to come round to his own way of thinking, while at the same time making them believe that they were acting on their own ideas, and adds--"whatever he had was at the service of his friends and for the promotion of the Sevier party, which sometimes embraced nearly all the population." 23.

Mr.James Gilmore (Edmund Kirke), in his "John Sevier," makes some assertions, totally unbacked by proof, about his hero's alleged feats, when only a boy, in the wars between the Virginians and the Indians.

He gives no dates, but can only refer to Pontiac's war.