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Jul 24, 2014 · By the time the British took over Dutch Nieuw Nederland in 1664, six towns existed in what would become Kings County. The oldest, Gravesend, was founded by an Englishwoman, Lady Deborah Moody, in ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Updated: Aug 18, 2023 / 10:33 AM EDT. CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — When West Virginia became a state in 1863, the county map didn’t look quite like it does today. Based on a county map of Virginia and West Virginia from 1863 by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, West Virginia originally had only 48 counties, and the “thumb” portion of West ...
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Dec 22, 2015 · 11. Much later, West Virginia broke off from Virginia as a result of the Civil War. Earlier than that, Maine became "independent" from Massachusetts as part of the Missouri Compromise. But during and after the Revolution, Virginia claimed Kentucky as its "backland." In 1795, it relinquished this claim to let Kentucky split off to become the ...
- Prior to the signing of the Constitution, most of the 13 colonies ceded all territorial claims to the Congressional Government in exchange for it...
- For a corollary explanation to Oldcat's answer , try reading The Division of Territory in Society by Ed Stephan. It's a very interesting read, e...
- Kentucky was admitted on June 1, 1792, not 1795. It was a part of Virginia until it became a separate state. In that respect, it differed from Ten...
- How Franklin Came to Be
- The Rise of Franklin
- Going It Alone
- Beginning of The End
- The Battle of Franklin
- Fall of The State of Franklin
- Franklin's Legacy
- Historical Events and Fast Facts
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The costs of fighting the Revolutionary Warleft the Continental Congress facing a staggering debt. In April 1784, the legislature of North Carolina voted to give Congress some 29 million acres of land — about twice the size of Rhode Island — located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River to help pay its share of the war debt. H...
A delegation from Franklin officially submitted its petition for statehood to Congress on May 16, 1785. Unlike the statehood approval processestablished by the U.S. Constitution, the Articles of Confederation in effect at the time required that new petitions for statehood be approved by the legislatures of two-thirds of the existing states. While s...
With its petition for statehood defeated and still unable to agree with North Carolina over several issues, including taxation and protection, Franklin began operating as an unrecognized, independent republic. In December 1785, Franklin’s de-facto legislature adopted its own constitution, known as the Holston Constitution, which closely tracked tha...
The ties that held Franklin’s unofficial statehood together began to unravel in 1787. In late 1786, North Carolina offered to waive all back taxes owed to it by Franklin’s citizens if the “state” agreed to reunite with its government. While Franklin’s voters rejected the offer in early 1787, several influential citizens who felt disenchanted by the...
Despite the objections of North Carolina, the “Franklinites” continued to expand to the west by forcibly seizing land from the Indigenous populations. Led by the Chickamauga and Chickasaw tribes, the Indigenous peoples fought back, conducting their own raids on Franklin’s settlements. A part of the larger Chickamauga Cherokee Wars, the bloody back-...
The final nail in Franklin’s coffin was driven in March 1788 when the Chickamauga, Chickasaw, and several other tribes joined in coordinated attacks on frontier settlements in Franklin. Desperate to raise a viable army, Governor Sevier arranged for a loan from the government of Spain. However, the agreement required Franklin to be placed under Span...
While Franklin’s existence as an independent state lasted less than five years, its failed rebellion contributed to the framers' decision to include a clause in the U.S. Constitutionregarding the formation of new states. The “New States” clause in Article IV, Section 3, stipulates that while new states “may be admitted by the Congress into this Uni...
April 1784: North Carolina cedes parts of its western frontier to the federal government as repayment of its Revolutionary War debt.August 1784: Franklin proclaims itself as the 14th independent stateand secedes from North Carolina.May 16, 1785: Petition for Franklin statehood sent to U.S. Congress.December 1785: Franklin adopts its own constitution, similar to that of North Carolina.Hamilton, Chuck. "Chickamauga Cherokee Wars — Part 1 of 9." The Chattanoogan, 1 August 2012."Selected North Carolina Topics." NCPedia, Institute of Museum and Library Services."Tennessee Historical Quarterly." Tennessee Historical Society, Winter 2018, Nashville, TN.Toomey, Michael. "John Sevier (1745-1815)." John Locke Foundation, 2016, Raleigh, NC.Sep 22, 2017 · Perhaps that was why, when Grenville was late in returning, Lane decided to pull out when Sir Francis Drake stopped by in the spring. Grenville’s relief fleet arrived just a few weeks later, and he was surprised to find the island deserted. Unwilling to abandon the fort, be left 15 soldiers there to winter over before sailing again for home.
When did North Carolina become known as North Carolina and acquire its modern shape? We must go back to Jan. 24, 1712, when Edward Hyde became the first governor of what became known as North Carolina, or more specifically, he was the first official governor under the Lords Proprietors. Carolina was then divided into two parts: North Carolina ...
Stacker compiled a list of the warmest and coldest Februaries in each county's history using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information.
