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 | | Sevier, along with his first wife, Sarah Hawkins, and their children, settled in the Holston River Valley in what is now East Tennessee, although as this was still then claimed by Virginia, he served briefly under George Washington in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. |
 | | Sevier was one of several prominent men who stepped into that vacuum, accepting the role of governor of the new State of Franklin (named after Benjamin Franklin according to most sources, but occasionally spelled 'Frankland,' meaning 'land of free men'). |
 | | Sevier died two days past his seventieth birthday while surveying the boundary between the state of Georgia and the Creek Nation in modern Alabama, an area he was familiar with from his days as a land speculator. |
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