9. Thomas Bailey Christian - NOT the son of Nathaniel

My entire note about Nathaniel needs to be updated.

Will post here soon. CdA May 2025

6. Daniel Smith, Tennessee Senator

 I research Daniel Smith because he was a close friend to Thomas Mastin who adopted TBC. Now, I am also working on the list of Longhunters at WeRelate and there are two Smiths - I really think they are related to our Daniel Smith - so I'm trying to figure this out now. More on this later. I am going to try to list the works by and about DS here.

*Note I'm reading that Daniel Smith went on at least one "long hunt" so I don't know why he isn't classified as a Longhunter.

Daniel Smith Frontier Statesman

purchase at Amazon

https://www.historicrockcastle.com/history

Now, I did find who I think is listed as "Longhunter James Smith" and doesn't seem to be related to our Daniel, but I'm still looking. Another problem: No mention of a Henry. So who was Longhunter Henry Smith? Was he related to Daniel? Mystery continues.

James Smith (frontiersman)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Smith_(frontiersman)

oddly, does not say he was a Longhunter but does say it other places on the Internet

The Long Hunter’s Legacy: James Smith’s Survival in Appalachia

https://storiesofappalachia.com/?p=3031

Virginia Posts

 

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/11/2-thomas-bailey-christian-locations.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/01/virginia-history-resources.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2023/05/maps-for-genealogy.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/06/virginia-maps.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/06/virginia-books.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/06/virginia-land-patents-and-grants.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/06/virginia-wills-probate.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2024/06/west-virginia-us-wills-and-probate.html

https://deeauvilstockphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/07/indian-creek-players.html

ΣVirginia

3. Thomas Bailey Christian Locations

 TAZEWELL

from History of Settlement & Indian Wars of Tazewell County, Virginia

Tazewell County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Tazewell_County,_Virginia_Compiled_Genealogies

Tazewell County Historical Society

https://www.tazewellhistorical.org/

https://www.facebook.com/tazcohistsociety/

https://www.instagram.com/tazcohistsoc/?hl=en

Tazewell County Public Library

https://tcplweb.org/genealogy/

FamilySearch Tazewell

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Tazewell_County,_Virginia_Genealogy

Tazewell Co. / Buchanan Co., VA, Genealogy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/606830176052712/

Tazewell Circuit Court: Genealogy Research (birth, death, wills)

https://www.courts.state.va.us/courts/circuit/Tazewell/genealogy

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Montgomery County, Virginia

Montgomery County was established in 1777 from Fincastle County

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Virginia

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Virginia_Genealogy

https://genealogytrails.com/vir/montgomery/

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Virginia_Compiled_Genealogies

https://www.cyndislist.com/us/va/counties/montgomery/#google_vignette

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Don't forget to consider Wythe, Wayne, Tazewell. Don't omitt counties in the Carolina states, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. Those are the places with the keys to the connections you all seek. Be sure to check Georgia. Heavy Shawano connections are there to our Christians.

:) Red Wolf

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Thomas Mastin's papers for the orphans are found in Tennessee.
There is also one from Hezekiah Whitt in Virginia for the recognition of Thomas Christian as a Cornstalk orphan. Montgomery County is the place to look.

:) Red Wolf

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Wythe County

I have seen someone write that TBC married 1st on 4 JUN 1793 in Wythe County. Hmm, let's see if we can find a source for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wythe_County,_Virginia

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Wythe_County,_Virginia_Genealogy

http://genealogytrails.com/vir/wythe/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WytheCountyVirginiaGenealogy/

https://usgenwebsites.org/VAWythe/

TENNESSEE

Sumner County

Longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick (where modern Goodlettsville would later develop). Another was Bledsoe's Station, built by Isaac Bledsoe at Castilian Springs.^[1] Sumner County was organized in 1786, just 3 years after the end of the American Revolutionary War, when Tennessee was still the western part of North Carolina.^{[citation needed]}

"Sumner County, Tennessee," Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee

https://www.tngenweb.org/sumner/

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~providence/genealogy/ourpage.html

https://sctnhs.org/wp_sc/index.php/home/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066458544071

http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/sumner/

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/

all of Tennessee

Tennessee Genealogical Society

Tennessee Virtual Archive

https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/index.html

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North Carolina

Surry County

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surry_County,_North_Carolina

https://www.co.surry.nc.us/departments/(k_through_z)/register_of_deeds/genealogy/index.php

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Surry_County,_North_Carolina_Genealogy

https://surrygenealogy.wordpress.com/

https://surrydigitalheritage.org/s/surry-digital-heritage/page/home

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ncsurry/

https://library.surry.edu/c.php?g=40360&p=6117097

http://genealogytrails.com/ncar/surry/

https://www.ancestry.com/search/places/usa/north_carolina/surry/

https://www.ncgenealogy.org/north-carolina-estate-files-surry-county-index/

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ΣTBC | ΣSkaggs | ΣJRedWolf

Whole Earth Catalog, Shelter

 I loved reading the Whole Earth Catalog when I was young. So I bought it for my new library. It is not available at Amazon so I had to get mine from eBay. When I did, there weren't any clean copies of the original 1968 $5 edition so I bought a newer on:

Now, I just looked at eBay and there were several good condition copies, so I bought one.

eBay Search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

Whole Earth Scanning Project

https://wholeearth.info/

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Also, I remember a book called Shelter that I loved - that one is still in print so I bought one at Amazon.

available at Amazon

There are more variations of this book and the author also wrote a book about septic systems

available at Amazon

Apparently, Lloyd Kahn was the "Shelter" editor for the original WEC and when I googled him, wow, he has a lot of writing on the Internet. He had a blog and now he has a Substack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kahn

https://www.lloydkahn.com/ blog

https://lloydkahn.substack.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lloyd.kahn/

Lloyd Kahn books at Amazon

There is a video interview of Kahn on Kirsten Dirksen's Youtube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN5WakKYbQ

Σhomesteading