honeycut

Updated: July 16, 2026

Robertson spent some time with a man named Honeycut in the Watauga region, raised a crop of corn, and chose for himself and his friends suitable locations for settlement.

Archibald Henderson - The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

At twenty-eight he must have been a serious young man, little given to laughter; indeed, spontaneity is perhaps the only good trait we miss in studying his face. He was a thinker who had not yet found his purpose a thinker in leash, for at this time James Robertson could neither read nor write. At Watauga, Robertson lived for a while in the cabin of a man named Honeycut.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground