8. Of whom did Governor Dinwiddie ask aid? How did North Carolina respond to the call?
9. To what extent did the province prepare resistance?
10. What occurred at Winchester? How did this appointment affect the Virginians, and why? How did the effort of North Carolina to aid the Virginians terminate?
11. What was the result of the expedition against Fort Du Quesne?
12. What other occurrence is mentioned?
CHAPTER XIX.
GOVERNOR ARTHUR DOBBS.
A. D. 1754 TO 1765.
King George selected Major Arthur Dobbs, as Governor of North Carolina; and at New Bern, on November 1, 1754, he entered upon the discharge of his duties. He was a man of high temper, and very obstinate in support of his views, but devoted to whatever he believed his duty demanded. His greatest fault was filling public offices with members of his own family and a disposition to make jobs for his own benefit.
2. Governor Dobbs soon visited the new county of Rowan, which was established in 1753, and included in its area most of the western portion of North Carolina and a part of Tennessee. He found Presbyterians under Rev. Hugh McAden, and Baptists under Rev. Shubal Stearns, establishing churches and laying the foundations of towns in a region where, but a few years before, no white people were to be seen.