History of Spartanburg County [South Carolina] : Embracing an Account of Many Important Events & Biographical Sketches of Statesmen... and the Names of Many Others Worthy of Record in the History of

This scarce work should be of interest to all researchers with early Tennessee ancestors inasmuch as it covers the controversial period prior to statehood when the settlement in eastern Tennessee was under quasi-independent rule. 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. The Franklin episode, and all of its participants, is the subject of this volume.