"Ross A. Finlayson" <raf@tiki-lounge.com> wrote,
>As far as I know, no state has ever seceeded from the United States of America
The state of Franklin was formed from western lands of North Carolina
that were to be sold to pay for part of the revolutionary war. North
Caroline agreed to give up the lands, but then later retracted the
offer. The citizens of that land tried to become ratified as the
state of Franklin to join the United States of America as their 14th
state. After they were voted down, they tried to secede from the
union and join the United States of Mexico and Spain as a territory
of those lands. There was a battle in which North Carolina and the
U.S.A. reclaimed the lands. It later became part of the State of
Tennessee, and the leader of Franklin, John Sevier, became the first
Governor of Tennessee.
http://www.tipton-haynes.org/tiphist2.html
http://www.civil-liberties.com/factoids/franklin.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~edwards/frank.html
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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