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| | James Robertson |
 | | ROBERTSON, James, pioneer, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, 28, June, 1742 ; died in the Chickasaw country, Tennessee, 1 September, 1814. |
 | | Robertson was continually offered by the Spanish governor peace and the free navigation of the Mississippi if he would but cut loose from the Union and establish, with Watauga and Kentucky, an independent government. |
 | | Robertson's wife, mounted on the lookout, rifle in hand, seeing the stampede of the horses and the break in the Indian line, ordered the sentry to "open the gates and set the dogs upon them." The dogs flew at the savages, who drew tomahawks upon them, and thus the whites were enabled to escape. |
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