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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)

g been declared by England against France, Fort Johnston on the south bank of Cape Fear is built......1745 Large accession to the settlement near Cross Creek is made by Scotch Highlanders exiled to America......1747 James Davis, at Newbern, issues the first newspaper in the State, the North Carolina Gazette......1749 Moravians purchase from Lord Granville 100,000 acres between the Dan and Yadkin, which they name Wachovia......1750 First edition of the laws of North Carolina by Samuel Swann, published by James Davis at Newbern......1752 Act passed to erect a school-house at Newbern......1764 A sloop-of-war, the Diligence, arrives in the Cape Fear River with stamped paper for use in the colony, Sept. 28, 1765. Colonels Ashe and Waddell, with an armed force, so terrify the captain that no attempt is made to land the paper, and seizing James Houston, stamp distributer, they compel him to take an oath not to distribute the stamped paper......1765 British ship-of-war Vip

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