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ublished 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 Viper, Jacob Lobb captain, lying at anchor off Brunswick, seizes two merchant vessels, the Dobbs and Patience, from Philadelphia, showing clearance papers without stamps. Five hundred and eighty men under Col. Hugh Waddell, having secured the clearance papers from the collector of the port, proceed from Wilmington to Brunswick, and compel the release of the two vessels......Feb. 21, 1766 George A. Selwyn obtains from the crown large grants of land in Mecklenburg county, but the people prevent their surv