Statistics for occurrence #1 of “North Carolina” in entry fanning-edmund of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...783, and from 1786 to 1805 was governor of Prince Edward's Island.
He rose to the rank of general in the British army in 1808.
Fanning was an able jurist, and always regretted his later career in North Carolina .
He was greatly influenced by his father-in-law.
He died in London, Feb. 28, 1818.
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