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First recorded settlement in NC
Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558
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6. The year in which the English settled their North Carolina cannot be positively fixed, for this information is lacking in such papers and books as are to be found in this city [Havana]. But its establishment must have occurred in the reign of the Most Serene King Charles I, and consequently before the year 1649, in which his Majesty lamentably died. 34. [Bolton note: The first definite settlement in North Carolina recorded was made by colonists from Virginia in 1653 at Albemarle, on Chowan River.]
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