Talk:State of Franklin

American Civil War

I read in one of the Civil War books that the State of Franklin wanted to succeed from the Confederacy, or that there was a significant movement to such. I cannot find verification of this. It had almost no slaves and thus had no reason to succeed from the Union. Jdblick (talk) 17:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC) Jdblick 12:49, 18 November 2007 (EST)

As I have read, Upper East Tennessee mountain family farms worked by families and neighbors were the agricultural economic base; plantation economy and slavery did not take root; UET had the first Abolitionist newspaper in America and was a hub of the Underground Railroad; one of the few UET plantation owners (Ross) had a change of heart and gave freedom papers to hundreds of his slaves years before the Civil War; UET voted against secession from the Union; and Knoxville was a major Union Army HQ in the last years of the unCivil War. Tennessee raised about equal numbers of volunteers for the Union as for the Confederacy. Many who did fight for the Confederacy did so to resist what they saw as a Northern invasion. Families were divided; some took an attitude of a pox on both belligerents. It was complicated. But that was long after the State of Franklin offcially ceased to exist, but the attitude of fierce independence that marked the Overmountain Men lived on in tradition. -- Naaman Brown (talk) 19:39, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

You do realize that you are answering someone who hasn't edited here in almost nine years, right? GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 00:05, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Payment?

Quote: In April 1784, the state of North Carolina voted "to give Congress the 29,000,000 acres ... to help offset its war debts.

I'm curious how this would have helped the federal government in any way. How could they have profited from this territory? Maikel (talk) 13:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Population?

How many settlers actually lived in this area at the time of the putative state/republic? I know that frontier settlement in the US often proceeded to organize things like legislatures, counties, courts and what passed for administration in a minimal-government society, and quickly, even with low populations, but still. They must have had SOME head of demographic steam to be doing all that and also warring against the Cherokee people successfully. Like all the Native American peoples at this time, the latter weren't numerically huge either, but they were no slouches at government, military skills and organization, or at building an advanced agrarian base for a settled society. All of which to say, if anyone is in a near term position to do the research, some quick lines about the numbers of Franklinites, or total settlers in the claimed regions, and for that matter of Cherokee in the area, would benefit the article. Random noter (talk) 01:31, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Eastern border.

I live near the NC/TN border. I was taught that the Eastern border of Franklin, was the Eastern Continental Divide. So Franklin also would have had portions of many on the current NC counties as well.I have never suggested anything here, so I hope this is where I should go. https://www.ashecountyrealestate.com/blog/state-of-franklin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Provinces

47.134.162.120 (talk) 23:17, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

"Holston Constition"

I think reference to this may be an error, and that the author of the cited source misspelled "Houston Constitution", which was a rejected constitution of Franklin that was proposed by Rev. Sam Houston at the 1785 convention where the delegates chose their permanent constitution, which I do not think was ever given a name.

The Big Cheese (OFFICIAL) (talk) 21:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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