Source:Kroeger and McCants, 2005

Bibliographic Citation

Kroeger, Connee Lee (Brown), and Sheran Ann (Cooper) McCants, 2005. Petition Sundry Inhabitants South of French Broad, IN:North Carolina General Assembly Session Records, Nov-Dec 1789, Box 4, Folder 81 North Carolina State Archives, 109 E. Jones St. - Raleigh, N.C. 27601. Transcribed by the authors from Photocopied Document Received December 2003

Notes

From the transcribers forward:

The following set of documents include the names of many men who lived in Eastern Tennessee in 1789, names that might not be found in any other records. These men were living on Indian territory that had not been purchased by the United States. They were considered trespassers. Most of them had lived under the State of Franklin, but once that was disbanded, they belonged to no state, no nation. These petitions were written to the North Carolina Assembly, asking for help. Many of these people stayed around and eventually gained legal possession of their land almost 20 years later, but others gave up and left the area, not leaving any evidence behind in county and state records besides their names on these petitions...Every effort was made to transcribe names and narrative exactly as we saw it written. Words are spelled as in the documents, and dotted lines represent illegible writing.