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Important early map of the Cherokee Country, which appeared in The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, (Who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762), first published in London in 1762.
Timberlake's book was not a great success at the time and hence is scarce on the market. However, modern historians have held Timberlake's map in high regards and his descriptions of the manners and customs of the Cherokee and other observations have become an essential reference tool for scholars and archaeologists.
Henry Timberlake (1730-1765) was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He joined the Virginia Militia at the outset of the French & Indian War in 1756. He was later commissioned as an Ensign. After an undistinguished participation in the action around Fort Duquesne and Pittsburg, he participated in the campaign against the Cherokee in 1761, where he gained a knowledge of the Overhill Country of Tennessee at Fort Robinson and accompanied two other soldiers on a trip to the Cherokee Country, down the Holston River to the French Broad River and the Little Tennessee River. The trip was intended as a show of good faith in connection with a peace treaty and resulted in his travelling extensively among the Cherokee, before returning to Virginia with several Indian Chiefs.
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