Their horses, cattle, and hogs throve and multiplied.

The stumps were grubbed out of the clearings, and different kinds of grains and roots were planted.

Wings were added to the houses, and sometimes they were roofed with shingles.

The little town of Jonesboro, the first that was not a mere stockaded fort, was laid off midway between the Watauga and the Nolichucky.
As soon as the region grew at all well settled, clergymen began to come in.

Here, as elsewhere, most of the frontiersmen who had any religion at all professed the faith of the Scotch-Irish; and the first regular church in this cradle-spot of Tennessee was a Presbyterian log meeting-house, built near Jonesboro in 1777, and christened Salem Church.