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| | Land, Agriculture-Mitchell |
 | | What was described as a valuable colony was given up because of the number of proprietors, disagreements and disputes among them, their inability to settle the matter of quitrents, or annual land use fees, in South Carolina, and their fear that they would lose the colony in case of invasion by Spain. |
 | | Both Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia and Moseley recommended to Carteret that his one-eighth part of Carolina be set up as a single district and that the northern boundary be the Virginia-North Carolina line, since that was the only boundary in the entire province that had been fixed. |
 | | In January 1808 John London, the Wilmington merchant and banker who represented the Granville heirs in the United States, recommended, and Key agreed, that the appeal should not be pressed because of the strong antagonism between the United States and England that led to the War of 1812. |
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