Hi Folks, I've been quite lately due to a computer crash. Today while looking for one of my Sloan ancestors I ran across a Woolsey tid-bit. A cousin sent me a document called "Petition of the Inhabitants of the Western Country" to the Honourable, The General Assembly of North Carolinia now sitting. The signer's are asking for statehood, I'm not sure if it is "the" document or one of probably several that led to the settlers to establish the State of Franklin in 1785. Anyway, one of the signers was JOHN WOOLSEY, probably John the III or IVth of Greene Co. The petition was published in "The Overmountain Men" - by Pat Alderman, The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee (no date). Covers the Battle of King's Mountain, Cumberland Decade, State of Franklin and the Southwest Territory Later, Frank Mitchell -- Apartado 11521, Zona 6 Panama, Republic of Panama Phone 011-507-261-9757 home: fmitchel@panama.phoenix.net Visit "The Sloan Connection" at http://www.panama.phoenix.net/~fmitchel/welcome.html