How Frontier Families Ignited America's Independence

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In 1772, these families did something the British Crown specifically told them NOT to do. And what happened next helped shape America. King George III had drawn a line along the Appalachian Mountains. Settlers weren’t supposed to keep pushing west. But on the other side of those mountains, Scotch-Irish families were already building something. And they weren’t leaving. In what is now East Tennessee, settlers around Watauga found themselves far from the government they were supposed to depend on. So they did something remarkable. They created their own agreement. Then came local courts, officials, and a militia. This was the Watauga Association—years before the Declaration of Independence. But here’s where this story gets even bigger. That fiercely independent Presbyterian culture would soon become deeply associated with resistance to British rule. And when the Revolution reached the southern backcountry… the descendants of those frontier families didn’t wait for the British to come to them. The Overmountain Men crossed the mountains… and helped destroy a Loyalist force at Kings Mountain in 1780. The mountains weren’t where these people went to hide. They were where they learned to govern—and fight—for themselves. Follow for the history buried in these hills.