• Library of Congress founded
• U.S. presidential election, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie in the Electoral College

• Thomas Jefferson elected president by the House of Representatives; Aaron Burr elected vice president.
• President Adams appoints John Marshall Chief Justice
• Thomas Jefferson becomes the third President; Aaron Burr becomes Vice President

• May 3 - Washington, D.C. incorporated as a city
• Jul 4 - 1st US Military Academy at West Point opens
• Jul 7 - 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, NY criticizing Republican politicians
• Oct 10 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma

• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton and Phebe's first born, William B. Tipton died at the age of 20. He had no wife or children.

• Louisiana Purchase

• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton first drew pension from the Revolutionary War on the invalid list in Virginia.

• 12th Amendment ratified
• Burr-Hamilton duel (Alexander Hamilton dies)
• Lewis and Clark set out
• U.S. presidential election; Thomas Jefferson reelected president; George Clinton elected vice president

• President Jefferson begins second term; George Clinton becomes Vice President

• Jan 8 - Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
• Mar 29 - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway
• Mar 29 - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway
• Apr 5 - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
• May 30 - Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
• Sep 23 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest

• Robert Fulton invents steamboat
• U.S. slave trade with Africa ends

• U.S. presidential election, James Madison elected president, George Clinton reelected vice president

• James Madison becomes the fourth President; Vice President Clinton begins second term

• Matilda "Tildia" Shields (Sep 5, 1809 - Oct 24, 1889 GA) Daughter of Robert Shields; Henry Whitehead was her 2nd husband

• Feb 1 - US Population: 7,239,881, African American population: 1,377,808 (19%)
• Jul 9 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire

• Jan 2 - US Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
• Jan 9 - 1st Women's Golf Tournament
• Feb 11 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
• Nov 7 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumseh Confederation
• Dec 16 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri, causing widespread damage

• Vice President Clinton dies
• War of 1812 begins
• U.S. presidential election; James Madison reelected president; Elbridge Gerry elected vice president

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

• President Madison begins second term; Elbridge Gerry becomes Vice President
• 1813-1814 - Creek War

• July 25: Henry "Frederick" Shields (Jul 25, 1813 Sevier, TN - Jan 21, 1885 Cades Cove) Son of Robert Shields
• August 9: William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton father, Col John Tipton died at the age of 83.

• British troops burn Washington, D.C. but are forced back at Baltimore
• Vice President Gerry dies
• Treaty of Ghent settles War of 1812
• Mar 27 - The Battle of Horseshoe Bend effectively ended Creek resistance to American advances into the southeast, opening up the Mississippi Territory for pioneer settlement. When the hostilities ended, the Creek Indians were forced to cede over 20 million acres of land to the US government, virtually half of what is today Alabama.

• John Oliver was born in North Carolina and at some time before 1814 he moved to Carter County, Tennessee. Supposedly illiterate and very poor, he was employed by Samuel Tipton as a collier, making charcoal. In 1814 he joined the militia under General Andrew Jackson for a six month enlistment. He participated in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and during this time, developed a friendship with another soldier named Joshua Jobe. Returning to Carter County from the war, John married Lurena Frazier and went back to work as a collier.

• Battle of New Orleans

• Once again in 1815 William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton accepted the call to service and traveled with his friend Andrew Jackson to New Orleans and the repulse of the British invasion. On that occasion Jackson remarked that with 'one company of Tiptons' he could lick the entire British Army. 

• U.S. presidential election, James Monroe elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice president

• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton and Phebe's son Jacob died in 1816 at the age of 24. Billy mentions Jacob's son,  Isaac Tipton in his will.

• James Monroe becomes the fifth President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President
• Harvard Law School founded

• Mary (Polly) Oliver Shields (1817 - 1892)

  
  John Oliver Daughter

• Cumberland Road opened [First federal road. It connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main transport path to the West for thousands of settlers.]
• Jackson Purchase [Added West Tennessee to the state.]

• John Oliver (1793-1863), a veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife Lucretia Frazier (1795-1888) were the first permanent European settlers in Cades Cove. The Olivers, originally from Carter County, arrived in 1818, accompanied by Joshua Jobe, who had initially persuaded them to settle in the cove. While Jobe returned to Carter County, the Olivers stayed, struggling through the winter and subsisting on dried pumpkin given to them by friendly Cherokees.
  
  

  Martha Oliver Shields (1819 - 1864)

  
  John Oliver Daughter

• Panic of 1819 [First significant peacetime financial crisis followed by a general collapse of the US economy that continued through 1821]

• The Treaty of Calhoun (1819) ended all Cherokee claims to the Smokes, and Tsiya'hi was abandoned shortly thereafter. The Cherokee would linger in the surrounding forests, however, occasionally attacking settlers until 1838 when they were removed to the Oklahoma Territory

• Settlers entered Cades Cove legally after an Indian treaty transferred the land to the State of Tennessee


• Jobe returned in the spring of 1819 with a herd of cattle in tow, and gave the Oliver's two milk cows to ease their complaints.

Calhoun Treaty was signed in 1819

• U.S. presidential election, James Monroe reelected president unopposed, Daniel D. Tompkins reelected vice president.

• Dec 7: William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton started buying large tracts of Cades Cove which he in turn sold to his sons and relatives.

• President Monroe and Vice President Tompkins begin second terms

• 1821, a veteran of the American Revolution named William "Fighting Billy" Tipton (1761-1849) bought up large tracts of Cades Cove which he in turn sold to his sons and relatives, and settlement began to boom.
• Joshua Jobe came back in the spring of 1819 with a small herd of cattle. He was set upon by Lurena for leaving them alone to starve. Jobe gave her two milk cows as a peace offering and returned to Carter County to gather more settlers. He returned, in 1821, along with a number of friends and relatives to finally settle in Cades Cove.

• Jun 9 Charles Graham fo New York patents porcelain false teeth
• Dec 12 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US

• David Foute served as the Blount Circuit Court Clerk from 1822–36 and again from 1840–48. He served as justice of the peace from 1856–62.
• The John Oliver Cabin, constructed c. 1822-1823 by the cove's first permanent European settlers. Dunn reports that the Olivers spent the winter of 1818-1819 in an abandoned Cherokee hut, and built a crude structure the following year. The Oliver Cabin was built as a replacement for this first crude structure, which was located a few meters behind the cabin.

• Elizabeth Oliver Anthony (1822 - 1912)

  
  john oliver daughter

• George Oliver (1822 - 1826) died as a child

  
  john oliver son

• Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

• Charles Gregory - born May 30, 1823  died May 16, 1900. Buried at the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Cades Cove. Husband of Celia Carver Gregory.

• U.S. presidential election, Presidential results inconclusive. John C. Calhoun elected the vice president.

• Birth of Elijah Oliver, son of the first white settlers in the cove, John and Lucretia Frazier Oliver.

• The Cades Cove Methodist Church was organized as early as 18249. A circuit rider named George Eakin penetrated the mountains soon after the first settlers arrived. Dr. Jobe, son of Joshua Jobe, reported that he heard Reverend Eakin preach in Cades Cove in 1824. Dependent upon the circuit riders, the church was listed in 1830 as a church on the Little River Circuit. 10. The group met in homes at first for there were only a few members, but in 1840 they built their first meeting house.

• John Quincy Adams elected president by the House of Representatives;
• Adams becomes the sixth President; John C. Calhoun, Vice President
• Erie Canal is finally completed

• Robert Shields (1784 - 1850) and his wife, Margaret Emert Shields (1781 - 1862), married in 1812. After the Calhoun Treaty was signed in 1819, they moved the family to a place along the Little Tennessee River near Chilhowee. When in the 1820's - probably 1825 - a typhoid epidemic broke out in that area, they moved again to escape. They settled this time in the southwestern part of Cades Cove in a sugar cove above the Gregory Ridge trailhead.
• The Baptist denomination was established in the Cove.
• The congregation of the Cades Cove Methodist Church established.

• The Dan Lawson Place is also known as the Peter Cable house. To some this may be a confusion since different sources refer to the property by either or both names. To straighten out this confusion, it is necessary to go back and trace the ownership of the house.
  Peter and Dan Cable were brothers who lived in Carter County, Tennessee. In 1825, they purchased a part of the Jabez Thurman tract in Cades Cove. Peter and his wife, Catherine Hillhouse Cable, moved to the cove but Dan Cable never lived here. Nevertheless, in 1836, he and Peter were again listed as co-buyers of the remainder of the Thurman tract. A third Cable brother, Samuel, (father of John P. Cable) moved into Cades Cove with his family but by 1839 he had moved over the mountain to the Hazel Creek area of North Carolina. There he established the beginnings of the community of Cable Cove.

• Robert Shields (1784 - 1850) and his wife, Margaret Emert Shields (1781 - 1862), married in 1812. After the Calhoun Treaty was signed in 1819, they moved the family to a place along the Little Tennessee River near Chilhowee. When in the 1820's - probably 1825 - a typhoid epidemic broke out in that area, they moved again to escape. They settled this time in the southwestern part of Cades Cove in a sugar cove above the Gregory Ridge trailhead.

• Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.

• The Oliver's purchased the land on which they had been living in the Cove.

• Daniel Bird Lawson was born in Greene County, Tennessee in 1827. With his parents, he moved to Blount County sometime before 1850. They did not move into Cades Cove, but instead settled in the area of Wear’s Cove or Tuckaleechee Cove (Townsend). Dan found employment with Peter Cable in Cades Cove and, in 1850, married Peter’s oldest daughter, Mary Jane. In 1856, Dan Lawson bought Peter Cable’s property.

• Feb 27 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
  Feb 28 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
  Apr 2 - US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils
  Nov 15 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US

• 1827, Daniel Foute opened the Cades Cove Bloomery Forge to fashion metal tools

  Daniel Bird Lawson was born in Greene County, Tennessee in 1827.

Lazarus Oliver (1827 - 1902)

• U.S. presidential election, 1828: Andrew Jackson elected president; John C. Calhoun reelected vice president
• December 22 - First Lady-designate Rachel Jackson dies of a heart attack.

• The cabin standing today is part of the original structure built by John Oliver in 1828. The first crude cabin, built soon after their arrival, stood behind the present structure. The site of their first cabin can be located by looking for a pile of rocks that was the original chimney just north of the present building. The structure was initially built of southern yellow pine. Many of the logs were replaced over the years by family members and by Park Service restoration crews. Original logs can be seen in the east and west walls. The north wall, the porches and part of the south wall, sills, floor joists, roof and chimney have all been replaced since the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created.

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• Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh President; Vice President Calhoun begins second term

• The Cades Cove Baptist Church established.

• Elijah Oliver (1829 - 1905)

  was the son of John and Lurena Oliver.
• The church requested independence of the Millers Cove group in 1827, reorganizing instead as the Cades Cove Arm of the Wear’s Cove Baptist Church. In 1829, they achieved autonomy as the Cades Cove Baptist Church. EDIT

• The Cades Cove Baptist Church was a member of the Tennessee Association of Primitive Baptists from 1829 to 1914. The Association was called upon to clarify questions of doctrine and settle major disputes occasionally, but final decisions were always in the hands of the individual church and majority rule of the membership.

• Second Great Awakening is the religious revival movement
• 1830s – Oregon Trail which comes into use by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest
• Indian Removal Act [Ultimately, the Indians were forcibly removed from their land by the United States government in a march to the west that later became known as the Trail of Tears.]

• Population reached 271
• Celia Carver Gregory - born November 30, 1830
  died March 20, 1906. Buried at the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Cades Cove. Wife of Charles Gregory.

• Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper

• . Later, they moved out into the Cove itself and settled on land near the present site of the Tipton Place. In 1831, Robert Shields purchased 1,600 acres of land from William Tipton and with several others, established a bloomery forge. He also built the first grist mill in the Cove. It was powered by an overshot waterwheel. It continued in operation into the 1900's.53

• Department of Indian Affairs established
• United States presidential election, Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president
• John C. Calhoun resigns as vice president

• President Jackson begins second term; Martin Van Buren becomes Vice President

• June 28, 1833, Cades Cove was established a U. S. post office with Absolem C. Renfro as first postmaster. At that time Renfro owned 160 acres of land situated in the lower or west end of Cades Cove.

• Rutha Oliver Gregory (1833 - 1891)

  
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• Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic

• Mexican President Santa Anna annuls the 1824 constitution, precipitating a civil war which spawns the Texas War for Independence.

• Robert Shields arrived in the cove in 1835, and would erect a tub mill on Forge Creek
•  In 1836 Absolem C.Renfro, postmaster, sold out to Daniel H. Emmett.

• Son (1830/35) died as an infant

  
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• President Santa Anna's army defeats Texas rebels at Battle of the Alamo
• Santa Anna deposed after losing the Battle of San Jacinto and recognizing Texican independence.
• Creek War of 1836
• Samuel Colt invents the revolver
• U.S. presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren elected president; no one is elected Vice President.

• Cades Cove was designated as the 16th Civil District of Blount County.
• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton donated land for the Primitive Baptist Church.
• 1836 -1840 - Justice of the Peace - John Deavers and Daniel H. Emmet were probably the first

• Richard M. Johnson elected vice president by the Senate.
• 1837 – Van Buren becomes the eighth President; Johnson, Vice President

• Nov 4, 1837 Blount County Court Records " On petition of a number of citizens of Blount County, it is ordered by the Court.....that Joshua Parsons, Robert Shields, Jacob Tipton, William Henry, Joshia Reagan, Russell Gregory, John Frazier, Green Hill, John Davis and James Sparks be appointed a Jury of View, to view and mark a road of second class to the nearest and best way from Emmett's Mill in Cades Cove to the turnpike road at or near Parson's and report thereof to any subsequent term of the Court." The above order resulted in the Parsons Branch Road from the Cades Cove community to the Parsons Turnpike and stimulated a number of families to establish home places in the area known as Chestnut Flats. Only a few families, including that of Robert Shields, are known to have lived in this isolated area previously. The majority of growth occurred after the Civil War when families, dominated by the Burchfields and the Powells, established a population density with sufficient children to justify a school house.

• William Oliver (1837 - 1901)

  
  john oliver son

• Forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern U.S. leads to over 4,000 deaths in the Trail of Tears

• Sevierville post master Philip Seaton set up a weekly mail route to the cove in 1839

• Trail of Tears continues

• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton and Phebe's son John Tipton, died in 1839 at the age of 40.
• The Missionary Baptist Church formed in Cades Cove.

• United States presidential election, William Henry Harrison is elected president; John Tyler is elected vice president

• Dan Lawson Place, built by Peter Cable in the 1840s and acquired by Dan Lawson (1827-1905) after he married Cable's daughter, Mary Jane. Lawson was the cove's wealthiest resident. The homestead includes a cabin (still called the Peter Cable cabin), a smokehouse, a chicken coop, and a hay barn.
• 1840-1852 - Justice of the Peace - Curran Lemmons

In 1840, Dr. Isaac Anderson undertook to build a road across the Great Smoky Mountains from Tuckaleechee Cove, through Schoolhouse Gap and generally along the route of the present Bote Mountain Trail. This route was laid out on the Tennessee side of the mountains but never connected to anything on the North Carolina side. It was called the Anderson Turnpike and unlike Foute, Anderson’s motivation was to improve opportunities to advance his project of educating young men for the ministry.68 A connection was made between this road and Cades Cove generally along the route of the present Laurel Creek Road, but it did not extend past the Anderson Turnpike. At least part of this connection had been there for several years since there were people who had settled out of Cades Cove in the section called Spruce Flats which reached a mile or two east of Crib Gap. This Crib Gap Road did not extend beyond Schoolhouse Gap until well into the 20th century when the Civilian Conservation Corps personnel began work on the extension to the Townsend “Y”. [See Bote Mountain Trail and Schoolhouse Gap Trail under Hiking Trails in Cades Cove]

• March 4 – Harrison becomes the ninth President; Tyler, Vice President
• April 4 – President Harrison dies after only a month in office
• April 6 - Vice President Tyler becomes the tenth President
• September 11 - Harrison's former cabinet resigns en masse. Only Daniel Webster remains.

• The Cades Cove Missionary Baptist Church, even though they had no meeting place, left the former building to meet on their own.
• The remaining congregation of the Cades Cove Baptist Church then changed its name to the Primitive Baptist Church.

• Mar 3 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours
• Mar 5 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
• Aug 9 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty

• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton and Phebe's daughter Mary "Polly" Tipton Waterhouse, died in 1842 at the age of 56.

• Attempt to impeach President Tyler fails

• A North-South lane (Currently named Sparks Lane) crosses Cades Cove, and was part of a family-to-family road system.
• In 1843 Daniel H. Emmett sold to Daniel D. Fout. About the close of the Civil War, Fout sold said land to Frederick Shields.
  It is reasonably supposed that Emmet and Fout followed in succession as postmasters of Cades Cove. And that the Old Fout house was the site of the Cades Cove post office.
  

• U.S. presidential election, James K. Polk is elected president; George M. Dallas is elected vice president

• In 1844 their son, Isaac Tipton died. William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton mentions Samuel Tipton, son of Isaac, in his will.

• Polk becomes the 11th President ; Dallas, Vice President

• U.S.– Mexican War begins

• Jan 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

• Dr. Calvin Post moved into the Cove. He left in 1873.

• U.S. presidential election, 1848; Zachary Taylor is elected president; Millard Fillmore is elected vice president
• 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War

• Taylor becomes the 12th President; Fillmore, Vice President
• California Gold Rush begins

• 1850s, various roads connected Cades Cove with Tuckaleechee and Montvale Springs
• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton dies on November 3, 1849. Around the time William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton dies his sons, Reuben and Benjamin, passed away. After he wrote his will and William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton daughter, Ann, dies. She had married John Stevens and he recently passed away. William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton mentions Ann Stephens widow of John Stevens in his will.
• William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton and Phebe had 14 children. Billy outlived 10 and Phebe outlived 5.

  William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton was a prominent citizen and substantial property owner until his death in 1849. Interesting that, even with all the passing years, he still summarized himself by reference to service in the American Revolution. William "Fightin' Billy" Tipton Tipton lived to be 89 and was buried at Tipton's Station.