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Samuel Cole WilliamsUnited States - Tennessee - Genealogy Books |
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Samuel Cole Williams has the following 4 genealogy books:
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HISTORY OF THE LOST STATE OF FRANKLIN
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| This scarce work should be of interest to all researchers with early Tennessee ancestors inasmuch as it covers that hiatus period prior to statehood when the settlement in eastern Tennessee was under quasi-independent rule. During the decade of the 1780s one of the thorniest issues facing the new nation was the disposition of territorial lands held along the frontier by some of the original thirteen states. By the time the Constitution had been ratified in 1788, this issue had largely been resolved in favor of the federal government, and states like Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina had agreed to cede their western lands to the national government. The question of the western lands was not sorted out without some conflict, however, because many of the inhabitants of the western territories distrusted the motivations of their parent state legislatures, which, for the most part, reflected the interests of the eastern establishment and not those of the pioneering Germans and Scotch-Irish on the frontier. 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. Prior to the adoption of the Constitution, Sevier and his associates had assembled all the apparatus of a functioning self-government for Franklin, including a court system. Ultimately, when the North Carolina legislature voted to cede its western lands to the federal government in 1788, the government of Franklin was compelled to disband, and its territory was reorganized as part of eastern Tennessee. Samuel Williams History of the Lost State of Franklin is a masterly account of this separatist movement that portrays the figures on both sides and their motivations, chronicles the various meetings of the various legislative assemblies concerned with the movement for a separate government in the west, clarifies the role of the Spanish government in fostering the separatist cause, and discusses the way of life and people of Franklin and the survival of the "spirit of Franklin" among eastern Tennesseeans. A full sixty pages of the work, moreover, are devoted to biographical sketches of John Sevier (who would become the first governor of Tennessee), Arthur Campbell, and scores of other personalities who took part in the Franklin episode. In addition, researchers will find at the back of the volume a list of the names of all the signatories to the 1784 petition for a free Franklin and a complete index to the volume. - United States - Tennessee - |
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HISTORY OF THE LOST STATE OF FRANKLIN
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| Formed shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War, the State of Franklin “was without doubt the most pronounced and significant manifestation of the spirit of separation which gave deep concern to the national leaders. No other movement for separate statehood reached, even approximately, the stage attained by Franklin, that of a de facto government, waging war, negotiating treaties and functioning for a term of years in the three great departments that mark an American State, the legislative, executive, and judicial.” Genealogical and biographical information is included here as well. The author has preserved the names of minor participants in the struggle, for or against separate statehood. Of the leaders, a fuller account is given. For some of these, even, this is a rescue of their names and deeds from near-oblivion. This work examines the figures on both sides and their motivations, chronicles the various meetings of the various legislative assemblies concerned with the movement for a separate government in the west, clarifies the role of the Spanish government in fostering the separatist cause, and discusses the way of life and people of Franklin and the survival of the spirit of Franklin among eastern Tennesseans. - United States - Tennessee - |
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HISTORY OF THE LOST STATE OF FRANKLIN Revised ed.
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| This scarce work should be of interest to all researchers with early Tennessee ancestors inasmuch as it covers that hiatus period prior to statehood when the settlement in eastern Tennessee was under quasi-independent rule. During the decade of the 1780s one of the thorniest issues facing the new nation was the disposition of territorial lands held along the frontier by some of the original thirteen states. By the time the Constitution had been ratified in 1788, this issue had largely been resolved in favor of the federal government, and states like Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina had agreed to cede their western lands to the national government. The question of the western lands was not sorted out without some conflict, however, because many of the inhabitants of the western territories distrusted the motivations of their parent state legislatures, which, for the most part, reflected the interests of the eastern establishment and not those of the pioneering Germans and Scotch-Irish on the frontier. 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. Prior to the adoption of the Constitution, Sevier and his associates had assembled all the apparatus of a functioning self-government for Franklin, including a court system. Ultimately, when the North Carolina legislature voted to cede its western lands to the federal government in 1788, the government of Franklin was compelled to disband, and its territory was reorganized as part of eastern Tennessee. Samuel Williams History of the Lost State of Franklin is a masterly account of this separatist movement that portrays the figures on both sides and their motivations, chronicles the various meetings of the various legislative assemblies concerned with the movement for a separate government in the west, clarifies the role of the Spanish government in fostering the separatist cause, and discusses the way of life and people of Franklin and the survival of the "spirit of Franklin" among eastern Tennesseeans. A full sixty pages of the work, moreover, are devoted to biographical sketches of John Sevier (who would become the first governor of Tennessee), Arthur Campbell, and scores of other personalities who took part in the Franklin episode. In addition, researchers will find at the back of the volume a list of the names of all the signatories to the 1784 petition for a free Franklin and a complete index to the volume. - United States - Tennessee - |
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THE ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE INTO THE UNION
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| Early settlers of the lands destined to become the state of Tennessee proved themselves to be independent thinkers whose actions previewed the coming break with Britain. As early as 1772 the residents worried the British by forming the Watauga Association-a move that an official of the crown called “a dangerous example to the people of America.” The author maintains “no other people in any part of the American West, prior to the admission of their states into the Union, had such tutelage and experience in self-government as had those of the Tennessee country.” Yet, he explains, “no state in American annals met with as determined opposition to its admission as Tennessee.” In this fascinating booklet, Williams details the background, proceedings in Congress, and the manifest partisanship behind the disparity in treatment experienced by the sixteenth state. - United States - Tennessee - |
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