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Confusion re date of Fort King George
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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This territory [between the San Juan River and Santa Catharina] the English of Carolina began unlawfully to settle in the year 1718 with the fort at San Simón, Tamaja, or Bocas de Talaxe, 79. [Bolton note: Fort King George was built at Tamaja in 1721. Three years earlier Benavides was warned that the English were fortifying Santa Catalina Island. Barcia, Ensayo CronoUgico, 340-343. See Note 59.] treated of in this chapter. They also abandoned it in the year 1727, leaving it depopulated until the formation of the Company of New Georgia…
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