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- From: jsanders@phys.ksu.edu (Justin M. Sanders)
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- Subject: Re: The State of Franklin
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 06:34:26 GMT
- Organization: Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, USA
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- In article <2B66B5A4@ssd0.laafb.af.mil> KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
- >The state of Franklin existed from 1784 to 1788. Eventually, it dissolved
- >itself and became part of the new state of Tennessee (in 1792?). That's
- >basically all I could find.
-
- Here is what the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica says--
- In 1784, NC offered to cede her western territory to the U.S. The
- inhabitants feared that they would be left without any government and were
- mad that NC would cede them away without their consent. They began to
- form a new government, meanwhile NC repealed its offer of cession. The
- westerners, by 1785 finished organizing the State of Franklin, elected
- Sevier governor, and sent a delegate to Congress to request admission
- as a state. Four counties were created. NC was very diplomatic, repeated
- its repeal of the cession and remitted the taxes which the Frankliners
- hadn't paid since 1784. Consequently, when Sevier's term expired, no
- sucessor was elected, and the State of Franklin died (Congress had
- refused to admit it also).
- After his term had expired, men under Servier's command massacred
- some Indians and provoked a war in which Sevier took part. He was
- arrested by NC, partly for his role in the S. of Franklin and partly
- for the Indian massacre, but he escaped. (This is in 1788) In 1789,
- he served in the NC senate, and in 1790-91 in the U.S. Congress from
- NC.
- In Feb 1790, NC again ceded its western land to the U.S., and in
- May 1790, the "Territory South of the Ohio" was organized. And TN
- became a state in June 1796. Sevier was the first governer, serving
- from 1796-1801 and 1803-09, again in the U.S. House 1811-15.
-
- In Feb 1790
- --
- Justin M. Sanders "As the grandest mill in the world will not
- Dept. of Physics extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages
- Kansas State Univ. of formulae will not get a definite result
- Manhattan, KS from loose data." -- T.H. Huxley
-