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two Carolines, arose to hasten the demise of royal authority.
The problem was not a new one. As early as 1736 the King
had ordered the establishment of a line to divide the two
provinces. At his direction, commissioners, jointly appointed
by the legislatures of both provinces, had begun the line at
the northeast end of Long Bay, with orders to continue it in
a northwestwardly direction to the thirty-fifth degree north
latitude, and then westward to the "South Seas." After com-
pleting only sixty-four miles, however, the colonial authori-
ties agreed that the eastern and northeastern frontiers of
the Catawbas and Cherokee Indian lands should be considered
the boundary until further extension could be effected. By
1763. however, the line had only been continued westward as
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far as the Salisbury and Charleston road.
In 1768, South Carolina Governor Charles Grenville
Montague had conferred with former Governor William Tryon of
North Carolina concerning the prospects for drafting a per-
manent boundary line. Tryon was greatly opposed to the sug-
gestion and condemned it as being "ruinous to the province."
Despite his objections to the home government, Tryon was over-
ruled and Montague, being ourrently in favor at the Court,
received approval of the line he had suggested. Such was
^Martin, A History of North Carolina, II, 26j Sikes,
The Transition of North Carolina Prom Colony to Commonwealth,
P. . ;
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McCarty, Jerry L. The Provincial Congress of North Carolina 1774-1776, thesis, January 1970; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131213/m1/16/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .