S.

St. Asaph's Station founded, 136.

St. Augustine, Spanish at, 55, 56.

St. Vincent, Island of, Ferguson on, 197.

Sapperton, trader, 117.

Scotch-Irish, as immigrants, 1-2, 6; characteristics, 2-3, 5-6; religion, 3, 4; persecution of, 4-5; and American Independence, 7-8; bibliography, 287; see also Highlanders.

Seven Years' War, casus belli, 76; in Europe, 82; land promised to soldiers of, 118; Ferguson in, 196.

Sevier, John, 133; probably seen by Brother Grube, 20-21; marriage, 48; at Watauga, 166-167, 169, 170, 171; and New Market, 167; and Robertson, 167, 168, 239; personal characteristics, 168-169; writes Virginia Committee, 173-174; and Indian troubles, 174, 181-183, 226-228; and "Bonnie Kate," 182; nicknamed "Nolichucky Jack," 184; and King's Mountain, 200-201, 205-206, 208 et seq.; as a statesman, 226 et seq.; feud with Tipton, 227, 234, 239-240, 241, 267; elected Governor of Tennessee, 265; and Jackson, 266-269; death (1815), 269.

Sevier, John, Jr., 243 (note).

Sevier, Valentine, 125 (note).

Shawanoe Indians, 178; location, 57; and French, 58; Findlay a prisoner of, 97; and Boone, 98-99, 108, 143-148; war with, 114, 118, 123-126; relinquish right to Kentucky, 131; capture girls from Boonesborough, 141.

Shelby, Isaac, at battle of Point Pleasant, 124 (note); Colonel of Sullivan, 184; at King's Mountain, 200 et seq.; moves to Kentucky, 230.

Sheltowee (Big Turtle), name given to Boone by Indians, 145.

Sherrill, Bonnie Kate, wife of John Sevier, 182.

Six Nations, right to dispose of territory, 76; see also Iroquois Indians.

Social customs, of seaboard towns, 32; of pioneers, 32 et seq.

South Carolina, Yamasi Indians in, 56; and Cherokees, 177; Tories in, 195; see also Carolinas.

Spain, and Indians, 53, 54, 55; attitude toward American independence, 248-255; plots against United States, 255-265; State of Franklin and, 259.

Spangenburg, Bishop, 18.

Spanish Succession, War of (1701-13), 15.

Spencer, Judge, issues warrant for Sevier, 241.

Stanwix, Fort, treaty of (1768), 132.

Stephen, Adam, Boone, 125 (note).

Stewart, John, brother-in-law of Daniel Boone, 95, 98, 100.

Stoner, Michael, 120, 121.

Stover, Jacob, husband of Sarah Boone, 25.

Stuart, Henry, deputy Indian agent, 177.

Stuart, John, with Dunmore's forces, Boone, 125 (note); British agent, 174, 176 (note); in Revolution, 229.

Sullivan County, formed from Washington County, 184; troops in, 201.

Sycamore Shoals, conference with Indians at (1775), 132-134, 170; troops mustered at, 206.