Frankland (Franklin)
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Frankland (Or Franklin).
In 1784, North Carolina
ceded her western lands to the United States. The people of east
Tennessee, piqued at being thus disposed of, and feeling the burdens
of State taxation, alleging that no provision was made for their
defense or the administration of justice, assembled in convention at
Jonesboro, to take measures for organizing a new and independent
State. The North Carolina Assembly, willing to compromise, repealed
the act of cession the same year, made the Tennessee counties a
separate military district, with John Sevier as brigadier-general,
and also a separate judicial district, with proper officers. But
ambitious men urged the people forward, and at a second convention,
at the same place, December 14, 1784, they resolved to form an
independent State, under the name of Frankland. A provisional
government was formed; Sevier was chosen governor (March, 1785) ;
the machinery of an independent State was put in motion, and the
governor of North Carolina (Martin) was informed that the counties
of Sullivan, Washington, and Greene were no longer a part of the
State of North Carolina. Martin issued a proclamation, exhorting all
engaged in the movement to |
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