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Excerpt from Biographical History of North Carolina From Colonial Times to the Present, Vol. 5 In 1723 Colonel Maurice Moore determined on making the set tlement of the Cape Fear, and sought to interest his connections in South Carolina, as well as those in the Albemarle region, in this enterprise. Roger Moore and his family were among the first to move, and Mr. Allen agreed to join them in their new home. In 1725 he Obtained a grant for land on the Cape Fear adjoining the Orton plantation, Where Roger Moore built, and there later he made his residence, calling his plantation Lilliput. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.