When David Crockett was born on August 17th, 1786, he was born in what is now Cocke County, Tennessee. A few years prior, it was part of North Carolina. But when David was born, he was born in the state of Frankland.
What would cause four counties to declare independence from North Carolina? Just 3 years after they won the Revolutionary War against the British?
April of 1783, NC gave up land between the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River to Congress. They couldn't afford to protect it and the families who continued to move farther and farther into Indian territory. The 5,000 or so settlers who lived there voiced their concerns about the cession. Congress had many debts from the war, and could use land to pay it off. The settlers had no intentions of becoming France or Spain citizens.
North Carolina renounced its cession, and started a government to handle the area. The settlers didn't trust North Carolina, and wanted control their livelihoods. They had their own government before from 1772 to 1777. On August 23, 1784, about 50 frontier leaders from counties Washington, Sullivan, Spencer and Greene met in Jonesborough. They declared independence from North Carolina.
They elected a governor, John Sevier, a warrior and great leader. They created a legislature, and wrote the Holston Constitution (which was heavily based off North Carolina's).
The constitution gave adult males the right to vote without property. Lawyers, ministers, and doctors could not be elected to office. They collected taxes and created an army to defend against Native Americans.
Several names were offered for the new state. The name Frankland was proposed since it was translatable as "the Land of the Free." Sevier asked permission of Ben Franklin...
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...klin's bid for statehood ended, but the legacy didn't end. North Carolina honored all property transactions, court decisions and marriages authorized by Franklin.
North Carolina returned its western land to Congress, and on June 1, 1796 most of the land that was Franklin became Tennessee.
Tipton was elected Senator and Sevier was appointed Governor.
No Franklin landmarks have withstood the test of time.
Works Cited
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-franklin-declares-independence http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/state_of_franklin http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=509 http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/99/entry http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/franklin.pdf http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/people/john_sevier http://www.next1000.com/family/GRUBB/sullivan.tenn.html
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/State_of_Franklin
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