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GA and SC quarrelled over the FL boundary

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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The treaty of Paris ended the long contest between England and Spain over the debatable land of Georgia. But it served also to revive an old quarrel between Georgia and Carolina. Before the treaty was ratified the governor of South Carolina proceeded to grant to Carolinians large tracts of land south of the Altamaha. Governor Wright protested. Suddenly he had become a good Spaniard. Carolina's claim to the area on the ground of the grant to 29° was ridiculous, he said. That grant took in St. Augustine, Pensacola, and Mobile [and he might have added El Paso, Santa Fe" and Albuquerque], "and therefore Mr. Boone may just as well pretend a right to grant those places as any spot of land to the southward of the river Altamaha." Arredondo himself could scarcely have stated Spain's case better.1 [Note 1 For the controversy between Georgia and South Carolina over land grants after the treaty of 1763, see Charles Lee, Report of the Attorney General, 112-132; Letters of Hon. James Habersham, in Ga. Hist. Soe. Col., VI, 10-15 (Savannah, 1904).] The home Government took the Spanish view of the question—it was safe to do so now—and denied Carolina's claim.