Tennessee Historical Society Annual Address
"Polygamy in the Early Republic:
The Case of Indian Agent Joseph Martin"
Prof. Natalie Inman,
Cumberland University
5:30 pm -- Wednesday, June, 2015
Fort Negley Visitor Center
1100 Fort Negley Boulevard, Nashville 37203
Join the THS membership on Wednesday for the 166th aniversary of the THS and its annual address.
Joseph Martin (1740-1808) fascinates as a Revolutionary War general who worked as a negotiator to the Cherokee. Born in Virginia, later a plantation owner and member of the state legislatures of North Carolina and Virginia, Martin was also something of “a rambler, and a gambler, and a sweet talking ladies’ man.” His complicated domestic life and his concurrent marriages to Cherokee Elizabeth Ward and Virginian Sarah Lucas provide insights into the complications of Indian-white relations in early Tennessee.
If you would like to reserve a seat for yourself and guests, please email us at info@tennesseehistory.org or call 615-741-8934.
