FRANKLIN

or FRANK LAND, STATE OF, the name given in 1784 to — East Tenne ee, then in North Carolina, — by the settlers on their forming a sep a- — rate government for that district in — resentment of North Carolina’s action in ceding it to the national government. John Sevier was elected governor. A legislature was choseh, courts were. established, and judges and sheriffs « appointed. The settlers’ action caused ~ North Carolina to withdraw her ce ion — of the district and to suppre the new state. In 1789 the territory was again — ceded, with what is now Tenne ee to the federation of states. Tenne ee © was originally the Western Territory recognized as belonging to North Carolina. Its early settlers lived under the nominal jurisdiction of that state and province. The creation of the insurrectionary state of Franklin was a protest against the unsatisfactory conditions, (to the frontiersmen) of North Carolina’s transfer of her Western Territory to the United States. Sevier tried to induce the state to agree to the independence of Franklin and also sought Congre ’s approval without succe . On becoming federal territory the district came under the government of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio until 1796, when the State of Tenne ee was formed, with John Sevier as its first governor.