After a fortnight's existence the attitude of the Indians became so menacing that the settlement broke up and was abandoned.
The Greenville Constitutional Convention.
In November, 1785, the convention to provide a permanent constitution for the state met at Greenville.

There was already much discontent with the Franklin Government.

The differences between its adherents and those of the old North Carolina Government were accentuated by bitter faction fights among the rivals for popular leadership, backed by their families and followers.

Bad feeling showed itself at this convention, the rivalry between Sevier and Tipton being pronounced.

Tipton was one of the mountain leaders, second in influence only to Sevier, and his bitter personal enemy.