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From the state marker“Royal governor, 1754-65. Scholar, engineer, and member of Irish Parliament. Promoted immigration to colony. Grave 2 mi. S.”
State historical marker: D-14: Arthur Dobbs 1689-1765
1689–1765 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Letter from Josias Dickson to Arthur Dobbs, royal governor of North Carolina, dated 12 April 1755, on two images. Dobbs arrived in 1754 with orders to ready the colony for war with France, and the letter bears on the colonial militia and on Orange County.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.
Alexander McCulloch wrote to Governor Arthur Dobbs on 19 December 1754, in the first months of Dobbs's term as royal governor. The letter runs to two images and concerns Orange County among other colonial business.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.
Undated letter from Alexander Mebane to royal governor Arthur Dobbs, on two images. It concerns the colonial militia in the years of the French and Indian War, and Orange County. Dobbs governed North Carolina from 1754 until his death in 1765.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.
Petition from the inhabitants of Orange County to Arthur Dobbs, royal governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1765. Undated, on two images, it belongs to the governor's colonial correspondence.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.
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