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?

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Tennessee State Route 107: State Route 107 (SR 107) is a 78.77 mi state highway in eastern Tennessee, United States.  It begins at an intersection with Round Mountain Road south of Del Rio and ends at the North Carolina state line east of Unicoi, where it becomes NC 226.

Horn in the West: Horn in the West, by Kermit Hunter, is an outdoor drama produced every summer since 1952 in the Daniel Boone Amphitheatre in Boone, North Carolina.  The show, the oldest revolutionary war drama in the United States, was about the life and times of the first White people to settle the mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.  It covers a time period during the American Revolution between the Battle of Alamance in 1771 and the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780.  The story follows the family of Dr. Geoffrey Stuart, a British loyalist, who is forced to flee the lower colony due to the actions of his son during the Battle of Alamance.  Led into the mountain country by frontiersman Daniel Boone, Stuart must come to terms with his own loyalties, which are divided between his country and his son.

Joseph Hardin, Sr.: Colonel Joseph Hardin, Sr. (April 18, 1734 – July 4, 1801) Hardin was an Assemblyman (Provincial Congressman) for the North Carolina Colony.  During the War for Independence, as a member of the militia from Tryon County, Hardin fought the Cherokee allies of Britain along the western frontier and was a signatory of the Tryon Resolves.  Later in the war, having taken his family over the Appalachian Mountains to the Washington District for safety against the advance of the Red Coats out of South Carolina, Hardin joined the Overmountain Men.  He saw action at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill and the decisive Battle of Kings Mountain.  Following the peace with Britain, Hardin was a co-founder and second Speaker of the House for the State of Franklin; and an Assemblyman in the Southwest Territory before its statehood as Tennessee.

Tryon County, North Carolina: Tryon County is a former county which was located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.  It was formed in 1768 from the part of Mecklenburg County west of the Catawba River, although the legislative act that created it did not become effective until April 10, 1769.  Due to inaccurate and delayed surveying, Tryon County encompassed a large area of northwestern South Carolina.  It was named for William Tryon, governor of the North Carolina Colony from 1765 to 1771.

Roanoke River: The Roanoke River ( ) is a river in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States, 410 mi long.  A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.  An important river throughout the history of the United States, it was the site of early settlement in the Virginia Colony and the Carolina Colony.  An 81 mi section of its lower course in Virginia between the Leesville Lake and Kerr Lake is known as the Staunton River, pronounced , as is the Shenandoah Valley city of that name.  It is impounded along much of its middle course to form a chain of reservoirs.

Hardin County, Tennessee: Hardin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 26,026.  The county seat is Savannah.  The county was founded in November 1819 and named posthumously for Col. Joseph Hardin, a Revolutionary War soldier and a legislative representative for the Province of North Carolina; the State of Franklin; and the Southwest Territory.

State of Franklin: The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today eastern Tennessee, United States.  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.  It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.

University of Tennessee Medical Center: The University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) is an academic medical center located in Knoxville, Tennessee and serves as a referral center for Eastern Tennessee and regions in Kentucky and North Carolina.  The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (UTGSM) oversees residency and medical student education at UTMC.  In addition to being a Level I Trauma Center, UTMC is recognized as a center for primary stroke, biomedical imaging, adult & children transplantation, pediatric dialysis, and renal failure.  In 2010, UTMC opened Eastern Tennessee's first dedicated heart hospital.

South Carolina Code of Laws: The English Royal Charter of March 1663 that handed the eight Lords' Proprietors of Carolina the land composing of modern-day North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia spurred an actual colonizing expedition and the drafting of a founding constitution.  In 1670 Proprietor Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper and famed philosopher John Locke combined to realize the first revised colonial constitution accepted by the body Proprietorship.  The importance to legal history of this first constitution is that it actually banned legal practice as a profession and sought to simplify legal dictates so that under educated nobles could run the colony effectively.  The 1670 constitution banned legal commentary and established eight administrative courts whose aristocratic members composed part of a Grand Council that would prepare legislation produced in the colony's parliament.  The journal of the Grand Council would, due to that body's power, become the first legislative record of the Carolina colony but also contains judicial rulings and executive actions undertaken due to the Council's fiat.  Chief Justice Nicholas Trott compiled the first comprehensive record of parliamentary statutes in 1712 which covered all the preceding years from 1682, with the majority being English common law statutes that could still apply in a vastly different environment.  The collection of South Carolina colonial and state laws released by Judge John Grimke in 1790 includes the record from before Trott's time in office up until the formation of the United States.

Cowee–West's Mill Historic District: The Cowee–West's Mill Historic District encompasses an area of Macon County, North Carolina, which has historic significance predating the arrival of European settlers, and extending into the 20th century.  It is located about 6 mi north of Franklin, the county seat, along either side of Cowee Creek as it flows toward the Little Tennessee River.  The district includes the archaeological site and platform mound of the Cherokee town of Cowee, a major settlement until the time of the American Revolutionary War.  In the first half of the 19th century the area was developed as a mining community centered on a mill operated by the West family, and after the American Civil War it became one of a small number of rural African-American communities in western North Carolina.  The core of the West's Mill area is centered on the junctions of SR 1350, SR 1341, SR 1340, and West's Mill Road, and North Carolina Route 28 is the major road passing through the district.  Its northern and southern bounds are roughly where the valley floor gives way to hills on either side of Cowee Creek, ending in the west at Hall Mountain and in the east at the mouth of Caler Creek.

Supporting paragraphs: Joseph Hardin, Sr. State of Franklin
Answer: Speaker of the House