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1690–1763 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person.
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Reports of the joint committee on propositions and grievances from December 1793, 83 images. They respond to Timothy Riggs, John Skinner as executor of Richard Skinner, Richard Brown and Paul Anthony, among others. Topics run from bankruptcy, billiards and embezzlement to militia pensions, war widows, Granville land grants and enslaved people.
Petitions and memorials on real and confiscated property sent to the General Assembly in its December 1793 to January 1794 session, 53 images. Petitioners include James Gammill, William Thornton, Dr. Jeremiah Nelson, Francis McCorkel and James Fletcher. Granville grants, Cherokee and Chickasaw lands, estates and enslaved people figure in the papers.
A land grant of 1762 made to Daniel Booth in Orange County, issued through the land office of John Carteret, Earl Granville, whose district covered northern colonial North Carolina. A single item in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 76-z.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
John Carteret (1690 to 1763), the British statesman who inherited the title Earl Granville in 1744, and the land grants issued in his North Carolina proprietary are Stewart E. Dunaway's subject. The Granville District, a strip about sixty miles wide along the Virginia line, took in nearly half the colony's land after 1729. Privately published in 2013; 243 pages with maps, facsimiles, a genealogical table, a bibliography and an index.
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