David Looney

  • American

Moses and David Looney came from Wales and moved to the western wilderness at a very early date. A pass through the Clinch Mountains was called Looney's Gap marking their presence on the wilderness frontier. Records from the court of Fincastle ' County, Virginia, May 3, 1774, ordered Anthony Bledsoe to report all "tithables" in Captain Moses Looney's militia company.

David Looney was a member of the lower house of the Carolina Assembly of 1784 He was chosen as a delegate from Sullivan County for the 1788 convention called to consider ratification of a national constitution. In 1790 Governor Blount commissioned David Looney as a justice of the-peace under the territorial government. He also represented the county in the first legislature of the state of Tennessee. By 1796 David Looney had moved to Knoxville where he became well known as an innkeeper. - NRHP, 2 February 1977


Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1780/02/07 Sullivan County is organized at Moses Looney's. David Looney, the first justice of the peace in the new county, and nine other justices of the peace are present for meetings of the court which met at Looney's fort house. Home Moses Looney Fort House Kingsport, TN
1780/05/00 Sullivan County government's second meeting takes place at the home of James Hollis Sr, he was not there. Justice of the Peace Yancey's Tavern Kingsport, TN
1788/06/02 Delegates of the Virginia Convention begin deliberating the ratification of the National Constitution at the Richmond Theatre (lost). Eight states had already voted to ratify, leaving New Hampshire, New York and Virginia to vote on ratification. Delegate from Sullivan County Constitution of the United States Monumental Church Richmond
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