A breakaway government carved from North Carolina's western land cession, seeking admission as the fourteenth state of the Union.
Never recognized by Congress; North Carolina reasserted control by 1788, and the territory was later folded into the Southwest Territory and then the state of Tennessee (1796).
The definitive modern scholarly history of the breakaway State of Franklin, 1784-1788, verified via Open Library.
Places Franklin's secession within the broader pattern of frontier breakaway movements in the early American republic (broad context).