Samuel Wear was one of the founders of an unrecognized and autonomous territory in which year ?
Samuel Wear:  He was one of the founders of the "Lost State of Franklin", and a drafter of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee. State of Franklin:  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.
1784