[68] Brickell, Op. Cit., 270.
[69] Acts of 1741, Ch. 24, Sec. 36.
[70] Ibid., Sec. 37.
[71] Ibid., Sec. 25.
[72] Earlier historians used the name Frankland (the land of the free), but letters from officials of the state indicate that it was named after Benjamin Franklin. See footnote p. 263, Vol. I, McMaster, John B., History of the United States.
[73] A copy of this constitution is now in the State Archives.
[74] Ramsey, J. G. M., Annals of Tennessee, 327.
[75] American Historical Magazine, I, 63.
[76] Phelan, James, History of Tennessee, 299.
[77] Scott, I, 437.