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Rock Castle State Historic Site, located in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee, is the former home of Daniel Smith. Construction began in 1784; its completion was delayed by Indian attacks until 1791. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places and is open to the public. It is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's State-Owned Historic Sites and is operated by the Friends of Rock Castle in partnership with the Tennessee Historical Commission. ==Daniel Smith== Daniel Smith served as a captain in Lord Dunmore's War, colonel in the American Revolution, and Brigadier General of the militia in the Metro District. He was a member of the committee to frame the U.S. Bill of Rights, Territorial Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator. He also surveyed land boundaries in Middle Tennessee. Daniel Smith was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1748 as a twin.〔Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress, Second Session, Vol. 144 (October 15, 1998.)〕 He was baptized in Elbo Warren Baptist Church October 24, which was five days before his twin sister, Sarah, died.〔Bill Glidden, in Funeral of Daniel Smith: Historic Rock Castle, Hendersonville, TN. (Hendersonvill: Historic Productions, 2011)〕 Smith lived in Baltimore, Maryland before he moved into the home of Dr. Thomas Walker. At Walker’s, Smith studied medicine and surveying. Dr. Walker was famous for being the supposed teacher of Thomas Jefferson. There have been questions as to whether Jefferson and Smith actually knew each other. The answer is yes. Jefferson wrote :For intelligence, well-cultivated talents, integrity, and usefulness, in soundness of judgment in the practice of virtue and in shunning violence unequaled by few men, and in the purity of excelled by none.〔Thomas Jefferson, quoted in Bill Frist, U.S. Senator, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress, Second Session, Vol. 144 (October 15, 1998.)〕 Smith also studied at the College of William and Mary.〔Congressional Record.〕 The College does not have his name listed as a student. However, his certificate of surveying for the State of Virginia was certified by the college, this apparently does not mean that he was a student there.〔Walter T. Durham. Daniel Smith: Frontier Statesman. (Gallatin: Sumner Country Library Board, 1976), 6.〕 Smith served in the American Revolutionary War. He was a Captain and was appointed a Justice of the Peace by Patrick Henry. He was promoted to Major of the Washington County, Tennessee Militia. In 1778, Daniel Smith was appointed commissioner to locate roads. In 1779, along with Dr. Walker, he was appointed to extend the line between Virginia and North Carolina.〔Sarah Crosby Berry. “Application for the Membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Washington D.C.” (1911) Historic Rock Castle Collection, Hendersonville, Tennessee.〕 This later became the divisional lines of Kentucky and Tennessee. Afterward, in April 1778, now Major Smith was recommended to become the Sheriff of Washington County. He was appointed Commissioner of Tax in the same year. Later that same year, Smith was appointed Examiner of the Bills of Credit.〔 President George Washington appointed Smith as Secretary of the Territory South of the Ohio, Southwest Territory in 1790.〔“Smith, Daniel, (1748-1818)”, “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-Present.” United States Congress. Bioguide.congress.gov. (accessed April 25, 2013).〕 Later Smith became Indian negotiator, where he negotiated most of the treaties with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee. Smith, as mapmaker, created maps of Tennessee and Kentucky. He is the man that named the state “Tenasee” or () pronounced Ten-ah-see, with pronunciation of the center syllable. This was named after a Cherokee village of the same name in the eastern part of the state. Smith drafted the State Constitution of Tennessee and was one of the men who drafted a constitution for the Continental Congress in 1796.〔 While his was not chosen as the Federal Constitution, his was for the State of Tennessee. Smith became of the earliest Senators for Tennessee, and served two terms. Daniel Smith surveyed the area that would become Nashville, the Tennessee state capital.〔Amy Scott, Rock Castle Staff. Personal interview with author. 2013〕〔Daniel Smith Tennessee State Maps, (1778), (1786.)〕 In 1773, Smith married Sarah.〔Melinda Gaines, “Sarah Michie Smith, 1755-1831” in A Modest History of Rock Castle. (Hendersonville: Friends of Rock Castle, 1994), 3.〕 In 1783 Major Smith moved to the area that would become Tennessee with his wife and two young children to take up land that was given to him by the State of Virginia for his services in the Revolutionary War.〔Joseph Delaney, “A Historical Study of Rock Castle.” (Master’s Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1972-3), 2.〕 He moved into a small log cabin. The Smith family lived in this for only a short time before the local American Indians burned it down in one of many isolated raids.〔 His best friend and neighbor was Andrew Jackson. Jackson’s original log cabin was in Hunter’s Hill, where the remains are still visible. This was a two-story structure down the river from where Smith’s home was.〔Dave McArdle, Andrew Jackson impersonator and Scholar. Personal Communication with author, 2013.〕 Smith filled the vacancy in the Senate that was left open by Jackson’s resignation.〔“Smith, Daniel, (1748-1818)”〕 Smith was also an in-law of Jackson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rock Castle (Hendersonville, Tennessee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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