Posted on 04/23/2009 7:46:03 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
Did you know that in 1786 there was a US State formed, by the name of Franklin? It's true:
In August 1784 delegates from three of the eight western counties of North Carolina met in the town of Jonesborough. There was a vote (by no means unanimous, a gentleman by the name of Tipton was vocal in his opposition) and on the 23rd of the month they declared the lands independent. The state of Franklin was born. Opposition was immediate - North Carolina published a manifesto condemining the formation of the new state. In fact it brought about the first political pamphlet war for that part of America.
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I live there
Because of constant pressure of settlers wetward past the no go lines of various Indian treaties, the new national American government took the land patenting process and right to trade with Indians from the individual states. It also adopted a colonial style process for the organization of government in the new western wastelands and the granting of statehood. (Northwest and Southwest Ordinances.) The populist formation of the state of Franklin, although consistent with a belief in social compact, self government and self determination, did not serve the national need to transfer ownership of the western wastelands to the nation to settle the war debt.
I believe the USSSA is what is intended.
This link is to the website for the Rocky Mount historic site, just north of Johnson City.
As a matter of fact one of their wills was made in the State of Franklin.
Tipton was not a new enemy as he had tried to vanish several of the ancestors when they all lived in the Colony of Virginia, country of Dunmore, (now Shenandoah County) just before the revolution as they all left and went to the County of Washington in what is now Tennessee and was then western North Carolina and they also participated in the war against the British as soem of the Mountain Men.
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