William McFerrin joined the Continental Army to face the threat of Dragging Canoe.  Stuart and Cameron had brought with them large stores of supplies, including many kegs of gunpowder.  They had also advised Dragging Canoe that the colonists were too strong, and that he should not risk a fight with them.  The two armies met at Long Island, on the Holston River, where Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee merge.  Dragging Canoe was defeated.  He retreated down the Tennessee to a little tributary that flowed north out of Alabama.  The tribe and the creek became known as the Chickamauga.

Many in the Continental Army bivouacked on William McFerrin's farm.  They moved down into and across North Carolina.  They defeated the Tory arm at the Battle King's Mounakn, which would later become part of South Carolina, and again, at the Cowpens, which means exactly what it says.  The people south of the James River were generally patriots.  They supported their country, no matter what government happed to be in power.  After King's Mountain, the colonists were in control, so they became loyal to the Continental Congress.

According to the biorgraphy John B. McFerrin a quote about William McFerrin says: (p. 19)

He possessed good common sense, his general reading was considerable, and he was particularly well read in the Holy Scriptures, bing a Presbyterian of liberal views.

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