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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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having power to accept the grant under the Articles of Federation, assumed no Jurisdiction over it.
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During the short interval between the passages of these two acts by the N.C. Legislature, John Sevier, of Virginia, claiming that Tennessee was in a state of "political orphanage" established the independent State of Franklin, or as some call it, the State of Frankland, or Frank, or Free land. The settlers adopted a constitution, established courts and elected a legislature, with Sevier as Governor.
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From 1784 to the close of 1788 there was a conflict between Sevier's government and the authorities of NC; but, under the leadership of Colonel John Tipton, NC, finally prevailed, and Sevier was arrested, and taken to Morganton, NC, for trial, from which place he was allowed to escape. Colonel Robert Love and his brother Thomas, while siding with Tipton and the NC authorities, acted as peacemakers between the rival factions, and succeeded in preventing bloodshed and possibly warfare. His conduct on this occasion, more than any other act of his life, entitles him to be remembered. For at that time there was a strong movement among the settles along the Mississippi and west of the Blue Ridge to form an independent government, as the subsequent conspiracy and trial of Aaron Burr showed, and if these peaceful offices of the Love brothers had not been successful, Tennessee might have been formed into an independent State, owing no allegiance to the Union, and under the influence of France or Spain. The same danger existed as to Kentucky. The Federal Government was weak at that time, and if these differences had not been composed as they were, the results might have been far reaching and calamitous. But Robert Love and Thomas Love had resided a considerable time near Watauga and the Red Banks of Chucky, although they were subsequently citizens of NC; and they knew that the grievances of these remote settlers were real, and that John Sevier was their leader and a man of great force and daring. They knew, too, that Tipton, the representative of NC, was a personal enemy of Sevier's and that if the Tipton forces should come into violent collision with the Sevier Forces, the former would be overcome. Consequently, they did what they could to bring a peaceful solution about of the troubles between them. They promised Sevier to have the Legislature of NC, enact such Legislation as would save him and his followers from the consequences of their acts of resistance to her authority. This Robert Love did, as is evidenced by the acts of oblivion.
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In November 1799, NC, again ceded the territory to Congress having adopted the Constitution of the US, the previous year; and in 1790 it was made "The Territory South of the Ohio", with Wm. Blount as Governor.
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In 1796 the Territory was admitted into the Union as Tennessee and John Sevier was elected its first Governor. William Blount was one of its first U.S. senators. James Robertson, one of the first settlers of Watauga, was Governor, subsequently, and one of the wises and most patriotic citizens of Tennessee.
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Fort Loudon was established at the head of navigation on the Tennessee River by British in 1756. It was 30 miles south of the present site of Knoxville. It was captured by the Indians in 1760, and all the garrison, which had surrendered, was massacred near what is
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