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Under this White Oak in 1772, Col. Jacob Brown signed a treaty with Oconostota and other Cherokee chiefs for tracts of land along the Nolichucky River. \u00a0Col. Brown was a trader, store owner, smithy, soldier and founder of the Nolichucky settlement that united with Watauga in 1775.\u00a0 The great oak became known simply as the \u201ctreaty oak\u201d.<\/p>\n

The tree reportedly blew down in a storm in 1958.\u00a0 A gavel made from the tree was presented by Esther Pearce, a direct descendent of Col. Brown, to the Tennessee State Society in 1972.<\/p>\n

The tree was owned by Jim Hatsell, a relative of Col. Brown, and nominated as a Heritage Tree by C. David Carr of the Kings Mountain Chapter, TN Sons of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under this White Oak in 1772, Col. Jacob Brown signed a treaty with Oconostota and other Cherokee chiefs for tracts of land along the Nolichucky River. \u00a0Col. Brown was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[71,70],"project_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tufc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}