• British fleork.

• Throughout the 1700s, the Cherokee used two main trails to cross the Smokes from North Carolina to Tennessee en route to the Overhill settlements.

One was the Indian Gap Trail, which connected the Rutherford Indian Trace in the Balsam Mountains to the Great Indian Warpath in modern-day Sevier County.

The other was a lower trail that crested at Ekaneetlee Gap, a col just east of Gregory Bald. This trail traversed Cades Cove and Tuckaleechee Cove before proceeding along to Great Tellico and other Overhill towns along the Little Tennessee River.

• European traders were using trails through the area.

• The Tipton family were among the early Scottish settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. John Tipton (later known as Col. Tipton) married Mary Butler on Cedar Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia in the year 1751.

• French and Indian War Began
• The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, the American phase of a worldwide nine years' war fought between France and Great Britain. (The European phase was the Seven Years' War.)
• As a result of the war, France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
• The costs of the war contributed to the British government's decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies.
• French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine years' war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. (The more-complex European phase was the Seven Years' War [1756–63].)
• It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
• Three earlier phases of this extended contest for overseas mastery included King William's War (1689–97),
• Queen Anne's War (1702–13),
• and King George's War (1744–48).
• The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians.

• Indians forced the settlers into Maryland to wait out the French and Indian War.

• They returned only to be attacked by Indians again, resulting in the death of William's maternal grandfather, Thomas Butler. Mary Butler was pregnant during this turmoil and William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton was born early the following year.

• March 3: Patrick

• Feb 13: William "Fightin'Billy" Tipton was born in Dunmore (now Shenandoah) County, Virginia.

• 1754–1763: French and Indian War Ended
  
  • The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War.
    The American phase of a worldwide nine years' war fought between France and Great Britain.
    The European phase was the Seven Years' War.
    
    
• As a result of the war, France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
• The costs of the war contributed to the British government's decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies.
• French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine years' war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. (The more-complex European phase was the Seven Years' War [1756–63].)
• It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
• Three earlier phases of this extended contest for overseas mastery included King William's War (1689–97),
• Queen Anne's War (1702–13),
• and King George's War (1744–48).

 

• The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or

• Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history,
• British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.
• Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.
• Protests had been received from America against the enforcement of the Molasses Act, together with a plea that the duty be set at one penny per gallon.
• Although warnings were issued that the traffic could bear no more than that, the government of Prime Minister George Grenville refused to listen and placed a three-penny duty upon foreign molasses in the act (the preamble of which bluntly declared that its purpose was to raise money for military expenses).
• The act thus granted a virtual monopoly of the American market to British West Indies sugarcane planters.
• Early colonial protests at these duties were ended when the tax was lowered two years later.
• The protected price of British sugar actually benefited New England distillers, though they did not appreciate it.
• More objectionable to the colonists were the stricter bonding regulations for shipmasters, whose cargoes were subject to seizure and confiscation by British customs commissioners and who were placed under the authority of the Vice-Admiralty Court in distant Nova Scotia if they violated the trade rules or failed to pay duties.
• As a result of the Sugar Act, the earlier clandestine trade in foreign sugar and, thus, much colonial maritime commerce were severely hampered.

• Sugar Act

• Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history,
• British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.
• Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.
• Protests had been received from America against the enforcement of the Molasses Act, together with a plea that the duty be set at one penny per gallon.
• Although warnings were issued that the traffic could bear no more than that, the government of Prime Minister George Grenville refused to listen and placed a three-penny duty upon foreign molasses in the act (the preamble of which bluntly declared that its purpose was to raise money for military expenses).
• The act thus granted a virtual monopoly of the American market to British West Indies sugarcane planters.
• Early colonial protests at these duties were ended when the tax was lowered two years later.
• The protected price of British sugar actually benefited New England distillers, though they did not appreciate it.
• More objectionable to the colonists were the stricter bonding regulations for shipmasters, whose cargoes were subject to seizure and confiscation by British customs commissioners and who were placed under the authority of the Vice-Admiralty Court in distant Nova Scotia if they violated the trade rules or failed to pay duties.
• As a result of the Sugar Act, the earlier clandestine trade in foreign sugar and, thus, much colonial maritime commerce were severely hampered.

• March 22: Stamp Act
  The Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire. It was the first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions, including legal writs, newspaper advertisements, and ships' bills of lading. Enraged colonists nullified the Stamp Act through outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors.

• June 15–July 2: Townshend Acts
  A series of four acts, the Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties.
  
  The acts were resisted everywhere with verbal agitation and physical violence, deliberate evasion of duties, renewed nonimportation agreements among merchants, and overt acts of hostility toward British enforcement agents, especially in Boston.

• Oct: Parliament dispatched two regiments of the British army to Boston.

• March 5: Boston Massacre
  
  In Boston, a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, an incident soon known as the Boston Massacre. The soldiers were charged with murder and were given a civilian trial, in which John Adams conducted a successful defense.

• Dec 16: Boston Tea Party

• March–June: Intolerable Acts
  In retaliation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773–74, the British Parliament enacted four measures that became known as the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts:
  • the Boston Port Act
  • Massachusetts Government Act
  • Administration of Justice Act
  • Quartering Act
    
    Rather than intimidating Massachusetts and isolating it from the other colonies, the oppressive acts became the justification for convening the First Continental Congress later in 1774.
    
    
• Sep 5: First Continental Congress convenes
  Called by the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia.

• March 23: Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
• Apr 18: The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes
• Apr 19: Minutemen and redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord "The shot heard 'round the world."
• May 10: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga
• May 10: The Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
• June 15: George Washington named Commander in Chief
• June 17: Battle of Bunker Hill: The British drive the Americans from Breed's Hill
• July 3: Washington assumes command of the Continental Army

• Billy's Uncle Jonathan moved south down the Shenandoah with John Sevier as an original land grantee of the Watauga purchase from the Cherokee.

• July 2: Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York.

• When William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton was 15 his mother, Mary Butler Tipton, died on June 8, during the birth of her 9th son Jonathan Tipton.
• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton father, John, served as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in June 1776 where he signed the Virginia Declaration of Rights written by George Mason.

• Jul 6 - British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
• Aug 16 - American militiamen defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington near Vermont
• Aug 28 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
• Sep 3 - Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware,
• Sep 30 - Continental Congress, flees to York, Pa, as British forces advance
• Oct 4 - Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British
• Oct 7 - Americans beat British in Second Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
• Oct 17 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
• Nov 15 - Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, is approved by the Continental Congress
• Dec 17 - George Washington's army returns to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• Dec 18 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
• Dec 19 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for the winter

• July 22: William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton's father married Martha Denton Moore. She was a widow of James Moore. Her father was Abraham Denton. With this marriage John became a stepfather to at least 4, and possibly 9 stepchildren.
  
  
• As soon as he was 17, William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton joined a company of the First Virginia, under Captain Wales Parker. The regimental commander was Colonel Richard Parker.
  
  
• Late summer: 400 Mingo, Wyandotte, and other tribes of the Ohio region laid siege to Wheeling which set all of western Virginia at immediate risk, but the siege failed.
  
  
• The First Virginia remained in the Parkersburg area patrolling the frontier until May 1779 when they marched to South Carolina and then to Augusta, Georgia a couple of months later. An army was gathering to prevent the southern colonies from falling under British control.
  
  

• Jan 18 - Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
• Jan 20 - 1st American military court martial trial begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Feb 6 - Britain declares war on France
• Feb 6 - France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris, 1st US treaty
• Feb 14 - "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
• Feb 23 - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
• Jun 19 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
• Jun 27 - Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
• Sep 17 - 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
• Sep 19 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
• Dec 29 - British troops occupy Savannah, Georgia

• October 9 – Siege of Savannah; The unsuccessful attempt by the Americans and the French to re-take Savannah, Georgia.

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• Oct 9: The Virginians, with 9 dead and 51 wounded that day, suffered the heaviest casualties of any Patriot unit. One of the wounded was William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton. He was struck three times: (1) the shoulder, (2) the ribs, and (3) the right hip, and left for dead on the battlefield.
  
  
• Unable to advance, and dying where they stood, the Americans retreated from the ditch which ended the fighting. Billy and the other wounded were left on the battlefield hoping for a truce which would be refused. It was the next day before they received a six-hour window to recover the fallen bodies of their men. It was only then that it was realized that Billy was alive.
  
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• January 28 – A stockade known as Fort Nashborough is founded on the banks of the Cumberland River. Two years later the site is renamed Nashville.
• December – Continental Army enters sixth winter with encampments in New York’s Hudson Highlands and Pompton and Morristown New Jersey

• October 19 – The British surrender at Yorktown

• Robert Shields (1784 - 1850) and his wife, Margaret Emert Shields (1781 - 1862), married in 1812.

• February 27 – The British House of Commons votes against further war, informally recognizing American independence.
• November 30 – preliminary Articles of Peace are signed by British negotiator Richard Oswald and representatives of the United States of America.

• The Tiptons played a role in the development of Cades Cove from the very beginning. Col. John Tipton and his son, William (Fightin' Billy) Tipton were both Revolutionary War veterans. They settled first in the Upper East Tennessee area in 1782. William later moved into Blount County and settled in Lakemont, an area between Maryville and Knoxville.

• April 19: Congress ratifies preliminary peace treaty
• September 3: The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolutionary War
• November 25: British troops leave New York City
  December 23: George Washington resigns as Commander-in Chief of the Continental Army

• January 14 – The Treaty of Paris is ratified by the Congress.
• April 9 – The Treaty of Paris is ratified by the British
• May 12 – Ratified treaties are exchanged in Paris between the two nations.
• August – "The state of Frankland," later known as Franklin, secedes from North Carolina

• Robert Shields (Oct 13, 1784 Blount, TN - Jan 1, 1850 Cades Cove); Wife - Margaret Emert (1788-1862)

• Congress refuses admission of Franklin to the Union

• Aug 8 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the money unit for the United States
• Sep 11 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
• Sep 26 Britain & France sign trade agreement

• May 14 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
• May 25 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
• Jul 13 Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
• Aug 6 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begins debate on the first draft of the Constitution
• Aug 10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
• Sep 12 American statesman GeorgeMason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion is defeated

• Mar – Sep - North Carolina reasserts its claim to its Washington District, at which time the proposed State of Franklin ceases to exist.
However, in 1790 this same area, the Washington District of North Carolina, is designated to be a part of the Southwest Territory. The Southwest Territory, is made up of land located west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of the Ohio River, and was an accepted territory of the Unite States from May 26, 1790, until June 1, 1796, when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee.

• Jun 21 - United States Constitution goes into effect.
• Dec 15, 1788-January 10, 1789 - United States first presidential election

• Despite his disabilities, William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton continued to serve in the militia as needed. During the battle for the State of Franklin he assisted his father John against forces led by John Sevier. As representatives of North Carolina they brought Sevier's movement for statehood to an unsuccessful end. 

• Mar 4 - Members of the 1st United States Congress begin to take their seats, Federal Hall New York.
• Apr 30 - George Washington is inaugurated as the nation's first president at Federal Hall in New York City.
• Jun 8 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives
• Jun 21 – The United States Constitution goes into effect.
• Sep 25 - US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
• Oct 2 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification

• Jan 7 - French Revolution: A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices
• Jan 8 - 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
• Feb 1 - US Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
• Mar 1 - 1st US census authorized
• Mar 22 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington
• Mar 26 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
• Apr 10 - US Patent system forms
• May 31 - US copyright law enacted
• Aug 2 - 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves
• Aug 4 - United States Revenue Cutter Service is established to serve as an armed customs enforcement service (becoming the US Coast Guard in 1915)
• Aug 4 - US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
• Dec 6 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• Jan 2 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• Feb 25 1st Bank of US chartered
• Mar 3 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
• Mar 3 Congress establishes US Mint
• Jun 21 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured

• Second U.S. presidential election; George Washington reelected president, John Adams reelected vice president

• Peter Cable (Dec 20, 1792 Guilford County, NC - Jan 27, 1866 Cades Cove)

• Mar 4 – President Washington and Vice President Adams begin second terms
• Mar 14 - Eli Whitney invents cotton gin patented

• Birth of John Olive, the first European settler and the man often referred to as the "father of Cades Cove".

• 1794 – Whiskey Rebellion
The Whisky Rebellion was a tax protest beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War.
The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration.

• Dec 17: Phebe's mother and William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton's stepmother, Martha "Mary" Denton Moore Tipton passed away.

• Aug 3 – Treaty of Greenville
A treaty between the United States and Indians of the Northwest Territory
• Feb 7 – 11th Amendment ratified
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of individuals to bring suit against states in federal court.

• Birth of Lurany (spelled differently in various sources) Frazier Oliver, wife of John Oliver. She and John were the first known European settler to live in Cades Cove.

• Jun 1 – Tennessee, formerly part of North Carolina, becomes the 16th state
• Third U.S. presidential election; John Adams is elected president, Thomas Jefferson vice president

• John Adams becomes the second President; Thomas Jefferson becomes Vice President

• By 1797 (and probably much earlier), the Cherokee had established a settlement in Cades Cove known as "Tsiya'hi," or "Otter Place."[14] This village, which may have been little more than a seasonal hunting camp, was located somewhere along the flats of Cove Creek.[15] Henry Timberlake, an early explorer in East Tennessee, reported that streams in this area were stocked with otter, although the otter was extinct in the cove by the time the first European settlers arrived

• Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams. They made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen, allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous or who were from a hostile nation, and criminalized making false statements that were critical of the federal government. Portions of these acts were allowed to expire in 1800 and 1801.

• Jan 30 – Logan Act
The Logan Act is a federal law that criminalizes any negotiation between an unauthorized person and a foreign government. The intent of the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining our government.

• Dec 14 – George Washington dies

• Daniel Davis Foute born in Blount County, and of course not an influence on the Cove at this time, but did become an entrepreneur and did much to develop Cades Cove.