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the standing of the dispute when Governor Martin assumed
office in August, 1771.^
Within four months of his arrival in North Carolina,
Martin received his first instructions from the King regarding
the boundary. The instructions, while approving the completed
portion of the boundary, called for its extension not in a
due west course, but rather from a point some distance fur-
ther to the north,^
With characteristic loyalty, Governor Martin presented
the King's message to the Assembly, although his personal
feelings, as expressed in an earlier communique to the Earl
of Hillsborough, were in opposition to the plan. Martin,
relating a local feeling which was causing great alarm,
stated that under the King's plan the province would be "dis-
membered of a large tract of well-peopled, flourishing Coun-
try," which had long been recognized as belonging to North
Carolina. Beyond this, however, Martin saw himself as the
greatest sufferer under the plan which would greatly diminish
the payments arising to him from the granting of royal lands.
He complained to Lord Hillsborough that the portion of land
being taken was almost the "whole field of his profit" as
it was the part most in demand by new settlers.Regardless
• 28Slkes, The Transition of North Carolina From Colony
to CommonwealtHT""PP. 14-155 Saunders, Colonial Eecords, IX,
2^Saunders, Colonial Records, IX, 191.
3°Ibld.. p. 49.
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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/m1/17/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .