Question: Colonel Joseph Hardin, Sr., he was an Assemblyman (Provincial Congressman) for the North Carolina Colony, following the peace with Britain, Hardin was a co-founder and second what, for the State of Franklin; and was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today eastern Tennessee, United States?
Sentence (from "State of Franklin"): Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence.
Relevant evidence: No