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Article: The first free state project: the brief, tumultuous history of Franklin.
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- December 1, 2004
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Never heard of the state of Franklin? Its existence was brief, from 1784 to about 1788, though as with such still-existing post-Revolution states as Maine and Vermont, self-rule had been the norm there for years beforehand. In 1769 Virginians began settling the Watauga River in what is now the northeastern tip of Tennessee. Three years tater the Articles of the Watauga Association bound these settlements together for mutual defense and negotiation with the surrounding Cherokee. When a survey revealed Watauga Association lands to be within North Carolina's claim west of the Appalachian Mountains, the settlers petitioned to join the state, pledging to assist in the ...
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... ... now Johnson City and became a leader in the “Watauga Association,” which assumed executive, legislative, and ... form of frontier government for the settlement. In 1783 North Carolina recognized the community as Davidson County and accepted ...
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