A very informative book regarding the State of Franklin is by Samuel Cole Williams, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, History of the Lost State of Franklin. There were 200 signers of the petition asking NC to make Franklin a state. One of the signers was my great-great-great-great grandfather, William Boyd. I haven't read the history of Franklin in several years, but I was thinking it existed for five years. I need to check into this further. Thanks, Carol Hall Putnam County, TN