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Port-Royal Petition Highlights Frontiers Hardships and Land Claims
The 1733 Port-Royal petition asks King Charles II’s ministers to ease land access for settlers on the South Carolina frontier facing Indian and Spanish threats. It alleges vast tracts were gobbled by patentees, leaving residents landless and at risk, urging royal relief and reconsideration of land grants. A council copy requests further inquiry and a report to Britain, with witnesses detailing years of invasions, murders, and dispossession while few locals hold royal bounties or real lands.
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John Moon
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William Ferguson
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Thomas Parmenter
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Thomas Burton
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