History of the Lost State of Franklin

by Samuel Cole Williams

Book Overview

This scarce work should be of interest to all researchers with early Tennessee ancestors inasmuch as it covers the controversial period prior to statehood when the settlement in eastern Tennessee was under quasi-independent rule. One such controversy involved the creation in 1784 by John Sevier and others of a separate, self-governing territorial unit from lands in western North Carolina known as the State of Franklin. Samuel Williams' History of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806347406
• ISBN13: 9780806347400
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"