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Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Possessions (11547 words) |
 | Like Hong Kong, the colony was a Chinese window on the larger world and a good source of foreign currency. |
| Cuba, whose governors are at right, was one of the earliest Spanish colonies, and one of the last. |
| Governor Antonio de Otermin narrowly missed being killed and had to evacuate the territory. |
| Land, Agriculture-Mitchell (10475 words) |
| What was described as a valuable colony was given up because of the number of proprietors, disagreements and disputes among them, their inability to settle the matter of quitrents, or annual land use fees, in South Carolina, and their fear that they would lose the colony in case of invasion by Spain. |
| Both Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia and Moseley recommended to Carteret that his one-eighth part of Carolina be set up as a single district and that the northern boundary be the Virginia-North Carolina line, since that was the only boundary in the entire province that had been fixed. |
| The 1773 assembly reminded Henry Eustace McCulloh, the agent of the colony, that the Granville land office had been closed to the “inconvenience and grievance” of the settlers in the province; McCulloh was asked to use his utmost endeavors to induce the Crown to purchase the district. |
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