[Extract] Journal of the Board of Trade

[CO 391/61]

<Wednesday Janry. 31st.>

<North Carolina> Read an Order of Council dated the 25th of January 1753 approving a Representation of this Board proposing that Arthur Dobbs Esqr. may be appointed Governor of His Majesty’s Province of North Carolina in the room of Gabriel Johnston Esqr. deceased and directing this Board to prepare a Commission and Instructions accordingly.