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German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Two

TROUBLE IN ORANGE COUNTY While we read in the last post that settlers were lured to North Carolina with advertisements of inexpensive land and no taxes, the speculators had other ideas. The settlers came, cleared the land and made improvements: cabins, fences, pastures and fruit orchards. They raised rye, barley, oats, hemp and flax as […]

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