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Frankland (STATE OF in North Carolina)

STATE OF, in 1784 North Carolina ceded her W. lands to the United States. The inhabitants of East Tennessee, piqued at being thus disposed of, and alleging that no provision was made for their defense or the administration of justice, assembled in convention and took measures to form a new and independent State. Notwithstanding the fact that North Carolina, willing to compromise, repealed the act of cession the same year, the scheme was urged forward and at a second convention, Dec. 14, steps were taken toward the organization of a separate State under the name of Frankland. A provisional government was set up. John Sevier was chosen governor, and the machinery of an independent State was put in motion. Very soon rivalries and jealousies appeared, opposing parties arose and divided the people, and a third party favoring adherence to North Carolina led by Colonel Tipton, showed much increasing strength. Party spirit ran high. Frankland had two sets of officers, and civil war became imminent. Finally an armed collision between the men under Tipton and Sevier took place. The latter were defeated, arrested and taken to prison in irons. Frankland had received its deathblow. The assembly of North Carolina passed an act of oblivion, and offered pardon to all offenders, whereupon the troubles ceased.