The Great Island (Long Island of the Holston)
An island in the Holston River, about 140 miles from the Cherokee towns, where the Virginians built a fort and made peace with the Cherokee in 1761.
Today: Long Island, Kingsport, Tennessee, United States
Peace in the Town-House at Chota
Henry Timberlake, Memoirs (London, 1765): arrival among the Overhill Cherokee, December 1761 · events of December 1761; printed at London, 1765
We were received at Tommotly in a very kind manner by Ostenaco, the commander in chief, who told me, he had already given me up for lost, as the gang I parted with at the Great Island had returned about ten days before, and that my servant was then actually preparing for his return, with the news of my death.
We were received at Tommotly in a very kind manner by Ostenaco, the commander in chief. He told me he had already given me up for lost. The party I parted from at the Great Island had come back about ten days before. My servant was then actually preparing to go back with the news of my death.