Loyalist Captain Grimes Watauga and Kings Mtn
I am seeking the given name and any other pertinent information on Capt. Grimes who was leader of a party of Tories in the Watauga settlement of presnt day East Tennessee.This group killed a Mr. Millican, acquaintance of John Sevier, and threatened Mr. Roddy and Mr. Grubbs with death, but Mr. Grubbs agreed to turn over his property to them in exchange for his life.This same Loyalist Capt. Grimes served under Ferguson at Kings Mountain where he was captured.Sevier was one of the Captains of the Overmountain Patriots who took Grimes as a prisoner, tried and convicted him along with about 30 others.Capt. Grimes was one of nine Loyalists hung at the Biggerstaff Farm near Sunshine in Rutherford County NC.