Keywords: Timberlake-map-tanasi-1765.jpg Detail of Henry Timberlake's 1762 published 1765 Draught of the Cherokee Country showing Tanasi Timberlake's spelling of Tanasi as Tennessee is one of the first widely published uses of this spelling of the state's namesake Tanasi declined after 1730 and by Timberlake's time had been overshadowed by neighboring Chota The bend in the river is Bacon's Bend Henry Timberlake Memoirs 1765 1765 Henry Timberlake <gallery>File Draught of the Cherokee Country jpg Full map </gallery> Draught of the Cherokee Country PD-old-100 |