John Sevier became Colonel of Washington and Isaac Shelby Colonel of the newly erected Sullivan County.

Jonesborough, the oldest town in Tennessee, was laid out as the county seat of Washington; and in the same year (1778) Sevier moved to the bank of the Nolichucky River, so-called after the Indian name of this dashing sparkling stream, meaning rapid or precipitous.

Thus the nickname given John Sevier by his devotees had a dual application.

He was well called Nolichucky Jack.
When Virginia annulled Richard Henderson's immense purchase but allowed him a large tract on the Cumberland, she by no means discouraged that intrepid pioneer.

Henderson's tenure of Kentucky had been brief, but not unprofitable in experience.