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Those who prefer to stay dry can enjoy a pleasant circular walk down to the church at Burrington.
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The river Teme, which flows a couple of miles to the north, is a hit with wild swimmers, who head to Burrington Bridge and swim around the meanders.
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In 1730 Burrington was instructed to report on the condition of the company's trade in North Carolina. 2
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In 1730 it was, according to Burrington, still the same.
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Edgecombe was formed from Craven, in 1733, by Governor Burrington and his council, and this action was confirmed by the Legislature which met in Edenton in 1741.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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About 1730 Governor Burrington succeeded in turning immigrants in that direction.
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Burrington, the first royal governor, however, was instructed to endeavor to get a law passed "for the restraining of any inhuman severity which by ill masters or their overseers may be used towards their Christian servants and their slaves, and that provision be made therein that the wilful killing of Indians and negroes may be punished with death, and that a fit penalty be imposed for the maiming of them."
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In 1730 Governor Burrington wrote that the whites in the colony were "full 30,000, and the negroes about 6000."
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Then he was appointed by the Governor and Council, and a law, which Burrington pronounces an old one, in the Revisal of 1715,4
The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894
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So far as the Assembly was concerned the administrations of Eden, Pollock, Reed, and Burrington (first term) were quiet enough; but it was otherwise with that of Sir Richard Everard.
The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894
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