Jesse Maxey
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Jesse Maxey (c. 1750–1808) was a private in the American Revolutionary War, an original signer of the Cumberland Compact and one of Tennessee's founding fathers.[1]
Maxey was born in Cumberland County, Colony of Virginia in 1750, son of Mary Ann Radford Netherland and Walter Maxey, grandson of James Eamon Gates, one of the later settlers of Jamestown Colony. Maxey served in the American Revolution as a private in the Lincoln Militia under Captain Samuel Kirkham guarding the salt works from 22 September through 21 October 1782. He married Elizabeth Loving Scott in 1783.
A contemporary of Daniel Boone, he was also a longhunter who was one of 256 settlers who signed the Cumberland Compact on May 13, 1780, near French Lick in what would later become Nashville, Tennessee.[2] He settled in Station Camp Creek which was raided in 1788 by Native Americans. He was stabbed in the back, scalped, and slashed in the throat. He lived another 20 years but received his nourishment through an opening in his throat, as the scar tissue which formed over his esophagus prevented him from swallowing properly. He died in 1808 and is buried in Douglas Cemetery.[3]