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| | WebRoots Library U.S. History States NC |
 | | In 1772 an effort was made to give Tarboro representation in the Legislature, but Henry Irwin, the applicant, was not allowed to take his seat because the assembly alleged, among other things, that the town did not have sixty families resident therein. |
| | It is forty-eight miles west by north from Washington, thirty-six south of Halifax, eighty-three northwest of Newbern, and sixty-eight east of Raleigh. |
| | North Carolina, called upon to furnish her quota in the struggle against the French and their Indian allies, responded nobly, but, as has happened from time immemorial, a small percentage from one cause or another will desert. |
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