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Record #:
13490
Abstract:
Some two million North Carolinians now live on land which was once the property of an English nobleman, John Lord Carteret, the first Earl of Granville - the largest individual landholder in North Carolina history.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 21 Issue 31, Jan 1954, p1-2, 12, map
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Record #:
21455
Abstract:
A look at the establishment in 1742 of the Granville District, an area of North Carolina that was created from the consolidation of Lord John Carteret's (later Earl Granville) land claims totaling to 1/8th of the royal Carolina grant. Information on the establishment of the Granville District just south of the Virginia-North Carolina border, on its administration by various land agents, its settlement, its eventual confiscation by the state of North Carolina during the American Revolution, and the heirs' attempts to recover it are included.
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