Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

meant what they said, said what they meant

ah yes…the Earl….

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A while back I kind of kiddingly wrote a page about Fuzzy Patents:  A Fuzzy Patent … for lack of a coherent definition. may be conceived of as if a falling down drunk wrote the survey directions. The directions make no sense. And that fact makes it difficult to figure out and draw… in my case, to place a graphic representation on a map.  I blame it all on this Twit’s buffoonery…

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

In 1763 His Haughty and Highest Most Horse’s Ass assumed Room Temperature as Rush Limbaugh used to say.

In 1729, seven of the eight Lords Proprietors sold their shares to the Crown. Granville refused to sell and instead negotiated to keep his portion. In 1744, the British government officially set aside the northern strip of North Carolina for him.  Got that?  He personally owned the northern half of North Carolina.  As he stated at the time, “All your rent are go to me now you pissants.”  (I made that part up).   That did not end well as you might suspect…

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The takeaway, going forward after you read this post and the following one is that now you can at least understand (somewhat) why all those goofy deeds between the 1750s to about 1779 or so… are so damn painfully hard to figure out.  And no my friends it is not your inability to read.

John Haywood, the lesser

No portrait is available of John Haywood , the elder…lackey of the Earl’s personal lackey of NC

I reserve my right to add more insults as they might come to mind…

Marc

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