It happened frequently that officers and attendants of the rival law courts met, as they pursued, their duties, and whenever they met they fought.
The post of sheriff--or sheriffs, for of course there were two--was filled by the biggest and heaviest man and the hardest hitter in the ranks of the warring factions.

A favorite game was raiding each other's courts and carrying off the records.

Frankland sent William Cocke, later the first senator from Tennessee, to Congress with a memorial, asking Congress to accept the territory North Carolina had offered and to receive it into the Union as a separate State.

Congress ignored the plea.

It began to appear that North Carolina would be victor in the end; and so there were defections among the Franklanders.