State of Franklin Petitioners
1787
1787
Names below are from North Carolina State Records, Vol. 22, pp. 705-714. These residents of the State of Franklin petitioned for release from all obiligations, taxations, and duties to the North Carolina state government, which was still claiming and attempting to govern this area. The State of Franklin stretched from Shelby's Station (Bristol), east to Sycamore Shoals (Elizabethton), southwest to White's Fort (Knoxville), and southeast to Ft. Loudoun (Little Tennessee River).
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| James Adams | Adword Adward | Joseph Alexander | John Armstrong |
| Micajah Adams | Anthony Agee | Robert Allison | Lanty Armstrong |
| John Adkins | Daniel Agee | John Anderson | Owen Atkin |
| William Adkins | Archibald Alexander | James Arbutton | Benjamin Aze? |
| William Backnell | Samuel Beard | George Birdwell | John Bradford |
| Charles Bacon | James W. Begses? | Joseph Birdwell | David Brown |
| Thomas Bailey | John Bell | George Black | William Brown |
| William Bailey | Thomas Bell | John Black | William Browning |
| Robert Battie | Allen Ballew | Joseph Blair | Benjamin Brumley |
| Walker Barren | Thomas Bennett | Samuel Hoffman? | Henry Brumley |
| Thomas Bates | William Berry | Michael Borders | Thomas Brumley |
| Aaron Bean | John Billingsley | Sterling Bowman | Haley Buckner |
| Hugh Beard | Benjamin Birdwell | William Boyd | Presley Buckner |
| William Cage | Moses Cavitt | William Cocke | John Cottrell |
| Thomas Call | John Chester | Adam Combs | Jacob Cox |
| David Carr | William Childress | Henry Combs | Samuel Cox |
| John Carson | John Chisholm | William Combs | John A. Craft |
| William Carson | Green Choate | Willima Combs, Jr. | William Craige |
| Alexander Cartwright | George Christian | John Comay | Simeon Crane |
| Matthew Caruthers | Gilbert Christian | James Cooper | Donald Cramer |
| Francis Castle | Robert Christian | William Cooper | Christopher Cross |
| Alexander Cavitt | Oton Clark | William Copeland | Edward Crunt |
| James Crunt |
| Isaac Davis | George Davies | Thomas Dickson | Richard Dunn |
| James Davis | William Davies | Miller Doggett | William Dunn |
| Thomas Davis | John Dean | Craven Dunear | John Dunsen |
| William Davidson | Daniel Denny, Jr. | Joseph Dunn |
| Henry Earnest | Stephen Easley | William Easter | James English |
| Peter Easley | Thomas Easley | Thomas Easterling | Josiah Epperson |
| Robert Easley | Henry Easter | Andrew English | David Erwin/Arwin? |
| Adam Ferguson | John Fouts | Peter Finn | John French |
| William Ferguson | Peter Fouts | William Francis | Thomas Fryer |
| Martha Gahee | Carmack George | Benjamin Gist | William Goad |
| Patrick Gahee | John Gibson | Joseph Gist | William Goings |
| John Galbreath | Reuben Gibson | William Gist | Shiffle Goodloe |
| Richard Gammon | Roger Gibson | Gabriel Goad | Absolem Greer |
| Joseph Garrison | Samuel Gilbertson | John Goad, Jr. | John Greer |
| Hugh Gentry | Willliam Gillehan | Adam Guthrie |
| Shadrach Haile | Nicholas Hayes | Ralph Hogan | Bassett Hunt |
| Shadrach Haile, Jr. | Robert Hayes | William Hogan | John Hunt |
| Joseph Hamilton | Samuel Hayes | Henry Hokimer | John Hunt, Jr. |
| Henry H. Hammer | James Hays | Jesse Holland | Jonathan Hunt |
| James Hammer | Henry Hickey | William Holland | Lewis Hunt |
| Joshua Hampton | William Hennage | Robert Hood | Reuben Hunt |
| William Hannah | James Henry | Leonard Hopkins | James Huston |
| George Hayes | Benjamin Hensler | William Howard | John Huston |
| James Hayes | Austin Hewtower | Timothy Huff | William Huston |
| Nathaniel Hayes | William Hill | Francis Hughes | Joseph Huston |
| James Jack | Samuel Jameson | William Jinkens | Francis Johnson |
| Andrew Jackson | John Jarrett | Ephraim Jobe | John Johnson |
| William Jackson | David Jewell | Jacob Jobe | Thomas Johnson |
| John Jameson | William Jewell | Nathan Jobe | Thomas Jones |
| William Jones |
| John Keller | Harmon Kennedy | Charles Kidwell | Herman King |
| Moses Keller | Moses Kennedy | John Kidwell | Thomas King |
| Anthony Kelley | Richard Kerr | Joshua Kidwell | Patrick Kirkpatrick |
| Moses Kelsey | Robert Kerr | George Kilpatrick |
| Joseph Lachlen, Sr. & Jr. | Jackel Light | Moses Long | Alexander Lowrey |
| John Lee. | John Light | Moses Looney | Joseph Lusk |
| Daniel Leming | William Light, Sr. & Jr. | John Lowe | John Lyon |
| William Magill | Thomas McCommas | Samuel McPherson | Anthony Moore |
| William Mehalm | William McCommas | William McPick | David Moore |
| George Martin | John McClelland | Christy Miers | Joseph Moore |
| William Massengill | Uriah McClelland | John Miers | Moses Moore |
| Jacob Meek | Redman McDaniel | Coonas Miller | William Moore |
| Edward Mercer | Archibald McHaugton | Robert Miller | Richard Morrell |
| Forrester Mercer | Thomas McKee | Thomas Miller | Abel Morgan |
| Nicholas Mercer | James McLern | James Milliken | James Morrison |
| David Merryon | Thomas McMackin | Thomas Milliken | John Morrison |
| Henry McCall | Nathan McMeno | James Mitchell | Patrick Morrison |
| Robert McCall | Samuel McMinn | John Mitchell | William Morrison |
| Adam McCommas | Peter McNamee | Humphrey Montgomery | William Morrow |
| James McCommas | James McPherson | Alexander Moore | Henry Mosely |
| Thomas Mosely | |||
| Dennis Murfree |
| Joseph Newberry | John Norman | Harman Nowell | Bartholomew Odeneal |
| Whaley Newby | John Norris | Peter Nowell | Robert Orr |
| Joseph N. Newport | Aaron Norton | Peter Nuless | Thomas Owens |
| William W. Newport | John Norton | William Owens |
| Joshua Padfield | James Patton | Alexander Pethrow | Alexander Potter |
| Robert Paine | Robert Patton | James Pickens | Gordon Potter |
| Charles Parker | William Peck | Thomas Pinckney | Nuness Potter |
| James Patterson | James Peterson | Phil. Grafford Pierce | Rouse Potter |
| John Prim | |||
| John Pryor |
| Charles Ramsey | Joseph Ray | Reuben Riggs | Martin Roller, Sr. & Jr. |
| David Rankin | Soloman Reed | Henry Richardson | Valentine Rose |
| Ashael Rawlings | David Reynolds | James Richardson | Phillip Rudolph |
| Daniel Rawlings | William Reynolds | Archibald Roane | Matthew Rue |
| Michael Rawlings | Dalton Ridge | David Robinson | Bryce Russell, Sr. & Jr. |
| Andrew Ray | Simon Ridge | Moses Robinson | Moses Russell |
| Benjamin Ray | Aaron Rider | Thomas Rodgers | Dudley Rutherford |
| Robert Sample | Richard Shipley | Jeremiah Smith | James Stinson |
| John Sawyer | Thomas Shipley | Joseph Smith | Alexander Street |
| John Shane | Reuben Simmons | Robert Smith | Joseph Street |
| James Shanks | William Sippard | Levy Springer | Stephen Strong |
| John Sellars | James Smart | Thomas Springer | William Stubblefield |
| William Shewmaker | Jacob Smelser | John Spurgin | James Stump |
| Conrad Shipley | George Smith | William Stacey | Henry Styers |
| Eli Shipley | James Smith | Adam Stokes | Phillip Suibb |
| Henry Sullivan |
| John Tadlock | Isaac Taylor | Isaac Thomas | John Tulley |
| Joshua Tadlock | Jeremiah Taylor | Thomas Thompson | Nathaniel Tulley |
| Lewis Tadlock | Joseph Taylor | Thomas Tipton | Samuel Vance |
| Thomas Tadlock | Stephen Taylor | Abraham Tittsworth | George Vincent |
| David Taylor | Thomas Taylor | Edward Tulley | Thomas Vincent |
| Benjamin Waldrop | James Wheeler | Joseph Winterbarger? | Thomas Woods |
| Isaiah Waldrop | Isaac White | Samuel Winterbarger? | William Woods |
| James Waldrop | John Williams | Elias Witt | John Woolsey |
| Joseph Waldrop | Thomas Williams | Nathaniel Witt | Anson Wright |
| James Watson | Charles Wilson | Thomas Witt | D. Wright? |
| Richard Webb | Joseph Wilson | Conrad Wolfe | |
| John Wear | William Wilson | Thomas Wolfe | |
| Mary Webster | Henry Winterbarger? | Richard Woods | John Yokley |
