franklanders

Updated: April 30, 2025

His purposes were right, and small motives are not discernible in his record. He might reasonably urge that the Franklanders had only followed the example of North Carolina and the other American States in seceding from the parent body, and for similar causes, for the State's system of taxation had long borne heavily on the overhill men.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

Frankland sent William Cocke, later the first senator from Tennessee, to Congress with a memorial, asking Congress to accept the territory North Carolina had offered and to receive it into the Union as a separate State. Congress ignored the plea. It began to appear that North Carolina would be victor in the end; and so there were defections among the Franklanders.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground