{"id":2574,"date":"2026-02-05T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:20:18","slug":"request-to-colonel-john-tipton-to-surrender-1788-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/request-to-colonel-john-tipton-to-surrender-1788-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Request to Colonel John Tipton to Surrender, 1788"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>From The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XXII, p. 714<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON COUNTY<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">State of Franklin, February 27, 1788<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a Council of the Officers to Secure the Rights of the Citizens in this State, and from Motives to Establish Peace and Good Order&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">It is our request to Colonel John Tipton, that he and the party now in his house surrender themselves to the discretion of the people of Franklin within thirty minutes from the arrival of the flag of truce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">John Sevier, C. Genl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Honored by Colonel Conway. To Colonel John Tipton and the party in his house.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XXII, p. 714 HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON COUNTY State of Franklin, February 27, 1788 In a Council of the Officers to Secure the Rights of the Citizens in this State, and from Motives to Establish Peace and Good Order&#8211; It is our request to Colonel John Tipton, that he and the party now in his house surrender themselves to the discretion of the people of Franklin within thirty minutes from the arrival of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/request-to-colonel-john-tipton-to-surrender-1788-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-statehood-history","category-tngenweb-project-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}