Source: The Governorship of Spanish Florida (ID122)
Author: TePaske, John J. (ID86)
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1723-01-01 - 1723-01-31
Carolina claimed Fort King George was on the frontier between English and Spanish territory
Early in 1723, however, these same officials suddenly became belligerent. In January, Lord Carteret, Earl of Granville and a proprietor of Carolina, wrote to Pozobueno explaining that the Board of Trade and Plantations had taken up the Spanish complaint and concluded that Fort King George was not located in Florida but on the Florida-Carolina frontier. When Pozobueno tried to counter with an argument based on the boundary line set by the Treaty of Madrid (1670), both Carteret and William Stanhope, British ambassador to Spain, were evasive and refused to order Barnwell’s withdrawal from the fort. [Note 77: Consejo 12/13/1723]
(Tepaske GSF)
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