History of the Lost State of Franklin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780806347400)

This scarce work should be of interest to all researchers with early Tennessee ancestors inasmuch as it covers the controversial period prior to statehood when the settlement in eastern Tennessee was under quasi-independent rule. One such controversy involved the creation in 1784 by John Sevier and others of a separate, self-governing territorial unit from lands in western North Carolina known as the State of Franklin. Samuel Williams' History of the Lost State of Franklin portrays the figures on both sides and their motivations, chronicles the various meetings of the various legislative assemblies concerned with the movement for a separate government in the west, clarifies the role of the Spanish government in fostering the separatist cause, and discusses the way of life and people of Franklin and the survival of the "spirit of Franklin" among eastern Tennesseeans. A full sixty pages of the work, moreover, are devoted to biographical sketches of John Sevier (who would become the first governor of Tennessee), Arthur Campbell, and scores of other personalities who took part in the Franklin episode.

Author: Samuel Cole Williams
ISBN-10: 0806347406
ISBN-13: 9780806347400
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d