Tench Coxe’s ownership of “Carolana” from 1795-1819 came under the heading, “Speculation Lands.” In 1796, after he’d bought his first 100,000 acres from the Rutherford Land Company, he soon tried to ...
In 1795, Tench Coxe, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (pictured here around 1800 in a portrait by Jeremiah Paul) bought 4 million acres in Western North Carolina from the Rutherford ...
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