Frank land, Sir Charles Henry

(1716-1768), collector of the port of Boston from 1741 to 1757, is noted on account of his romantic connection with Agnes Surriage, a maid at a Ma achusetts tavern, who afterward became Lady Frank land. He was a man of great wealth, and lived in a state of luxury unusual in colonial times, Frank land, or Franklin, the name given to a State a umed to be organized by the inhabitants of what is now Tenne ee, in 1784, in revolt from the control of North Carolina, A Constitution was framed and ratified by popular vote, a legislature and a governor, John Sevier, were elected, and civil war with the older parts of North Carolina seemed imminent. But the party favorable to the old government suppre ed the State government of Frank land in 1788, and the ce ion of the lands to the United States, in 1790, quieted the disturbance. 268