In 1761 an expeditionary force of 2800 men commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Grant left Charleston for the Cherokee Lower and Middle towns. Along the way they destroyed15 villages. Captain Christopher French was among three people who kept journals of the expedition. The others were kept by Henry Laurens and Francis Marion (otherwise known as 'the Swamp Fox" of Revolutionary War fame.)
Transcripts of the Grant Expedition Against the Cherokee's by Captain Christopher French can be obtained in the Journal of Cherokee Studies,Volume 1, No. 1, Summer, 1976 www.cherokeemusuem.org
The northern-most point is the Little Tennessee River as it flows into what is now Monroe & Blount County, Tennessee