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When the Lords Proprietors of Carolina surrendered their sovereignty to the Crown, one of them, John Carteret, earl Granville, reserved to himself property rights in his share of the land. His portion was marked off in 1744, wholly within the province of North Carolina; it contained half of the present state. Meanwhile, in 1737, warrants for 1,200,000 acres in North Carolina were granted to Henry McCulloh (d. 1779) and associates on condition that they would settle 6,000 Protestants and pay stipulated quitrents. The grants were issued in 1745, and the grantees were allowed until 1756 to fulfill the contract. The Cherokee War caused the time limit to be set forward to 1760 and again postponed. Finally, in 1762, a compromise settlement was reached with the Crown.
McCulloh discovered that his grant was laid out on land claimed by Lord Granville, then lord president of the Privy Council, although it was not part of the original Granville district as surveyed in 1744. He contended that Granville's agents in North Carolina had persuaded Governor Johnston to extend the area across the Pamlico River to include the acreage granted to McCulloh.
Documents concerning the attempt by John Carteret, earl Granville, lord proprietor of Carolina, to settle a dispute with Henry McCulloh arising out of conflicting land claims.
This collection contains the correspondence compiled by Joshua Sharpe, solicitor to the Privy Council, who was employed by Granville to act as his lawyer in the dispute. It includes letters Granville received from McCulloh and letters to Sharpe from McCulloh's son, Henry Eustace McCulloh.
Purchased, 1919
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