Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781

Covering the years 1769 to 1800, these 743 pages address each of the major political and governmental episodes, with their principal participants, in the formative period of the Volunteer State. To produce this achievement, the author worked assiduously in the archives of Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. as well as conversed with such founding fathers as James White, Charles McClung, and his maternal grandfather, John McKnitt Alexander, secretary of the Mecklenburg Convention of 1775. Although the researcher will discover genealogical sketches of Tennessee throughout the book. the focus of Ramsey's Annuals is narrative political history.Kellogg, Louise Phelps is the author of 'Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781', published 2003 under ISBN 9780806351919 and ISBN 0806351918.