Note 730 — Chapter V
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About 1743, John Lord Carteret (Earl of Granville) was allotted his eighth part of the land, all other rights being conveyed to the Crown. This strip of land was just below the Virginia line, and extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific. From notices in Hewat’s “South Carolina” in Carroll’s Collections, p. 360, and S. C. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. p. 284.