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"): It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
Relevant evidence: No