Both pension applications for Michael and Peter Fulp describe their participation in the 1776 Cherokee Expedition. The Cherokee Expedition was the combined efforts of militias from multiple colonies to exterminate the Cherokee and open up land for Euro-American settlers. At the end of the Seven Years’ War (commonly known as the French and Indian WarContinue reading “Michael and Peter Fulp | 1776 Cherokee Expedition”
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Peter Fulp | “Scotch Tories”
Georg Volpp had emigrated from the Rhinelands in the 1750s to escape perpetual war as the dynastic powers around him continued to march across the countryside. A generation later, the British Crown and its colonists were about to engage in war again. The backcountry of North Carolina, where Volpp settled, was also home to theContinue reading “Peter Fulp | “Scotch Tories””
Finding the Yellow Bricks 