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Arthur Dobbs was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on April 2, 1689. A longtime bureaucrat in the British government, Dobbs held numerous posts from survey-general of Ireland to royal governor of North Carolina (1754-65). He died in North Carolina on March 28, 1765.

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