01-27-2015, 08:07 AM
Mark, thanks for mentioning that.I realized that there was a typo on one of the forms, actually 2." BO1817" should be "BO1812", and "AR1976" should be "AR1776". Here is the meanings. "American Revolution 1776," "Battle of 1814", and as you guessed "ABE1865" refers to the year of his death. That makes 12 errors in that section since I posted it. I have no idea why they should be so heavy in that one section, except sometimes when my mind, being dyslectic, has to deal with numbers, it just freaks out. If I hadn't been so tired when I wrote this I probably would have doubled the forms.
dale
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Mel,
Oh no, I knew basically where it was, just not when it was. I did find new information I did not know. Which was: Franklin was originally a part of North Carolina who ceded it to Congress ( if the opposite of "pro" is "con", then is the opposite of "Congress" "Progress?") in an attempt to pay off war debts. The area which is very small is about the same area as Delaware. Although called the State of Franklin it was never an actual state. Your town mel was its final capitol, and I hear that my boy Davey Crockett is still ghosting around that area. After North Carolina's offer was not accepted by congress, it tried to repossess (kind of like Davy) the great non-State of Franklin. The people of Franklin did not think well of such an attempt and collectively told the government of North Carolina to kiss their ass. The people in Frankland (a secondary spelling which they changed to "Franklin" when trying to get Ben Franklin to help them out), actually did succeed from North Carolina.
"Carolina's governance led to the frontiersmen's calls to establish a separate, secure, and independent state. On August 23, 1784..."
It was all to no avail as the US Congress rejected any petition (kind of like the King above) asking that Franklin be made the 14 State of the Union. Frankland never got the two thirds votes necessary to become a State (unlike the Patriots they dd not have enough money to bribe their opposition). By 1789 North Carolina was back in control of the "territory," as the people of Franklin became so depressed and drunk, they no longer cared to try and govern themselves, choosing to "lie about the shack 'til the old mail train comes back, restin' in their sweet babies arms." However since the people of the former Franklin non-State were such a backwoods nuisance and played all kinds of terrible jokes* on the populace of North Carolina that North Carolina wanted nothing to do with them and so once again they ceded the area to the federal government (they were so anxious to get Franklin off their hands that this time they just gave it away for free). Franklin became the "Southwest Territory," which was the precursor to the State of Tennis-sea (or the "sea of tennis" if you prefer)." When I last talked to Davy, he said he approved whole heartedly, only saying that he was no fan of tennis as it gave him a crick in his neck.
And that's...the Rest of the Story
*For illustration, one of the most frequent pranks the good people of Franklin played on their neighbors of North Carolina was to put human excrement in a bag, and soak it with kerosene (which at that time was running around 2 dollars a gallon, which is kind of pricy if you only make 2$ in a month. Still it just showed the eagerness to have a little fun with their beloved neighbors). They would place the bag on the porch of their intended victim neighbor, set it afire, knock on the door and run. The master of the house would come to the door, see the fire and without thinking begin stomping in on it in order to put the fire out. After putting the fire out he would realize what had just happened and say something like "shit?!"
dale the hysterical Historian
dale
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Mel,
Oh no, I knew basically where it was, just not when it was. I did find new information I did not know. Which was: Franklin was originally a part of North Carolina who ceded it to Congress ( if the opposite of "pro" is "con", then is the opposite of "Congress" "Progress?") in an attempt to pay off war debts. The area which is very small is about the same area as Delaware. Although called the State of Franklin it was never an actual state. Your town mel was its final capitol, and I hear that my boy Davey Crockett is still ghosting around that area. After North Carolina's offer was not accepted by congress, it tried to repossess (kind of like Davy) the great non-State of Franklin. The people of Franklin did not think well of such an attempt and collectively told the government of North Carolina to kiss their ass. The people in Frankland (a secondary spelling which they changed to "Franklin" when trying to get Ben Franklin to help them out), actually did succeed from North Carolina.
"Carolina's governance led to the frontiersmen's calls to establish a separate, secure, and independent state. On August 23, 1784..."
It was all to no avail as the US Congress rejected any petition (kind of like the King above) asking that Franklin be made the 14 State of the Union. Frankland never got the two thirds votes necessary to become a State (unlike the Patriots they dd not have enough money to bribe their opposition). By 1789 North Carolina was back in control of the "territory," as the people of Franklin became so depressed and drunk, they no longer cared to try and govern themselves, choosing to "lie about the shack 'til the old mail train comes back, restin' in their sweet babies arms." However since the people of the former Franklin non-State were such a backwoods nuisance and played all kinds of terrible jokes* on the populace of North Carolina that North Carolina wanted nothing to do with them and so once again they ceded the area to the federal government (they were so anxious to get Franklin off their hands that this time they just gave it away for free). Franklin became the "Southwest Territory," which was the precursor to the State of Tennis-sea (or the "sea of tennis" if you prefer)." When I last talked to Davy, he said he approved whole heartedly, only saying that he was no fan of tennis as it gave him a crick in his neck.
And that's...the Rest of the Story
*For illustration, one of the most frequent pranks the good people of Franklin played on their neighbors of North Carolina was to put human excrement in a bag, and soak it with kerosene (which at that time was running around 2 dollars a gallon, which is kind of pricy if you only make 2$ in a month. Still it just showed the eagerness to have a little fun with their beloved neighbors). They would place the bag on the porch of their intended victim neighbor, set it afire, knock on the door and run. The master of the house would come to the door, see the fire and without thinking begin stomping in on it in order to put the fire out. After putting the fire out he would realize what had just happened and say something like "shit?!"
dale the hysterical Historian
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.