Isaac Brashear is born in Orange Co., North Carolina, presently Guilford Co.. The family had come here from Maryland about 1753 and settled on the Reedy Fork of the Haw River and Buffalo Creek.

1770's - Robert Samuel Brashear with some of his sons moves west into the territory of what is now Sullivan Co. Tennessee. Here they built a house near Timberlake branch of Reedy Creek, north of the Holston River, not too far from what is now Kingsport, TN. this house stood on the shoulder of a hill, some 200 yards above the Wilderness Road to Kentucky.
[Charles Brashears, Brashears Family Records ]

Isaac and Samuel stayed with the land while their other brother Robert Samuel and Philip went on to Pendelton Dist., South Carolina. Samuel ends up inheriting this house and land. [Charles Brashears, Brashears Family Records, (unpublished1996)]

1793 - "Robert Samuel Brashear with his sons Philip and Isaac Brashear and some of his sons-in-law had moved to the banks of the Clinch river in present-day Roane County Tennessee. They were on the west bank of the river, where Cherokee Indian title was not "extinguished" until 1808. There, Robert Samuel built a block house of squared, Yellow Poplar logs in Sugar Grove Valley. The holdings were on a creek called Brashears Creek, which empties into the Clinch river at Brashears Island. Edwards and his wife tore down the last remnants of the old block house and built their home on the site. Robert Samuel Brashears, the Rolling Stone, is buried behind this house, as is Phoebe, Robert's wife, and a number of other, including the Ladd grandparents of Senator Howard Baker." [Charles Brashears, Brashears Family Records, (unpublished1996)]

1801 - Isaac Brashear signs a petition to create Roane County from a portion of Knox Co. The document also includes the signatures of James DeArmand, Joseph Hankins, Stephen Rice (m. Isaac's sister, Phoebe Brashears) Basil(Bazzel) Brashears (Isaac's brother, Basil, born. 1781, would have been 20 years old, this may be a cousin), John Brashears (relationship unknown: Isaac's own son, John, would have been 15 years old or so), Robert Samuel Brashears (Isaac's father), Philip Brashears (Isaac's brother), Daniel Mason (m. Isaac's sister, Mary "Polly" Brashears), Nathaniel Mason (2nd husband of Isaac's sister, Phoebe), John Gilliland, Steven Rice (1st husband of Isaac's sister, Phoebe, and Bas. Beshears (? does that make three Basils present in Roane in 1801?). [Charles Brashears, Brashears Family Records, (unpublished1996 to be in Vol. 2)]

1802 Isaac was in Capt. Gray Simms's Militia Co., one of seven militia companies formed for the new county of Roane Co., Tennesee. [Wells, History of Roane County]

1824-

The State of Tennessee
No. 23930

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye, that by virture of part of Certificate No. 4962, dated the 21st day of January 1826, issued by the Register of west Tennessee to George Jenkins for 326 acres and entered on the 17th day of may 1824 as an occupant claim under the act of 1824, my No 76

there is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto Isaac Brashears assignee of the said George Jenkins

A certain tract or parcel of land, containing Eighty two acres by survey bearing the date the date the 18th day of June 1824, lying in the Ninth District in Perry County, Eight range and Seventh Section on the waters of the Tennessee River and bounded as follows, to wit: beginning at a stake, poplar and white oak pointers, two hundred and thirty four poles West of the branch post west of the north east corner of said Section, runs then West one hundred and forty two poles to a black Oak, thence South ninety three poles to a white oak, thence East one hundred and forty two pole to a hickory, then North ninety three poles to the beginning...

With the Hereditaments and Appertenances to have and to hold and said tract or parcel of land with his appertenances to the said Isaac Brashears and his heirs forever. In witness whereof, William Carroll, Governor of the State of Tennessee, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the great seal of the state to offices, at Murfreesboro on the 11th day of July in the year of our Lord, one thosand eight hundred and twenty five and of the Independence of the United States the 50th.
By the Governor

Isaac Brashers Sr my father departed this life the 25th day of July in the year of our Lord 1833

Sources:

Brashear, Charles and McCoy, Shirley Brasher. A Brashear(s) Family History, Vol. 1, The First Two Hundred Years of Brashears in America, (of eight proposed volumes) 1998 Charles Brashear/Shirley McCoy, P.O.Box 38, Clearlake Oaks, CA 95423-0038, 707/998-1008, email- brashear@mail.sdsu.edu
Wells, History of Roane County

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