What should be the standardized place name for state of Franklin? In what is now northeast Tennessee

LegacyUser

What should be the standardized place name for state of Franklin? In what is now northeast Tennessee from 1784 to 1790 was the state of Franklin. Familysearch does not have a standard place name for Franklin, but some people were born when it existed.

Similarly, what should be the standardized place name for May Day community which existed from 1771 in what is now Washington county Tennessee?

Brett .

@sla29970 sla29970​ 

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FYI

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Something in support of the "May Day" community in "Tennessee".

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Watauga Association of Genealogists

Northeast Tennessee

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May Day, Tennessee, one of the oldest communities in Washington County, is located on the north side of the Nolichucky River in the 4th Civil District. This community is the site where Colonel Jacob Brown established the Nolichucky Settlement in 1771. It was also the location where, in 1788, John Sevier was arrested at the home of Ruth Gordon Brown (widow of Colonel Jacob Brown) and taken by the Tiptonites to Morganton, North Carolina, to be tried for treason. The grave of Colonel Jacob Brown, who died in 1785, is located in the community and is one of the oldest marked graves west of the Allegheny Mountains.

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http://www.wagsnetn.org/member-log-in-2/members-only-2/may-day/

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I hope this helps.

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Brett

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LegacyUser

Just so. Early births in May Day were before Tennessee, and before the United States, but not exactly part of British Colonial America either because the settlements west of the Appalachians were extra-legal. So what is the standardized place?