Sevier had survived his old friend, co-founder with him of Watauga, by one year.
This letter was brought to Watauga at dead of night by a masked man who slipped it through a window and rode away.
Sevier decided to join the settlement on the Watauga, 124and went back to bring his wife and two children.
The Watauga victory thus helped to secure in 1776 the ground won two years before at the Great Kanawha.
