 Complete the following phrase:  The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a stream of explorers and traders into the region, among them additional longhunters. In an effort to mitigate conflicts with the Natives, Britain issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbade settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. Despite this proclamation, migration across the mountains continued, and the first permanent European settlers began arriving in northeastern Tennessee in the late 1760s. In 1769, William Bean an associate of famed explorer Daniel Boone built what is generally acknowledged as Tennessees first permanent Euro-American residence in Tennessee along the Watauga River in present-day Johnson City. Shortly thereafter, James Robertson and a group of migrants from North Carolina some historians suggest they were refugees of the Regulator wars formed the Watauga Settlement at Sycamore Shoals in modern-day Elizabethton on lands leased from the Cherokees. In 1772, the Wataugans established the Watauga Association, which was the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians, and the germ cell of the state of Tennessee. Most of these settlers were English or of primarily English descent, but nearly 20 of them were Scotch-Irish. In 1775, the settlers reorganized themselves into the Washington District to support the cause of the 