Conceived in Liberty Volume 2 - Ludwig von Mises Institute

and taxes ceased to be paid throughout the province of North Carolina. In
this way, an approach to anarchism came again to North Carolina and especially
to ever-individualistic Albemarle. Government only fully returned
in 1754, when the Crown finally decided in favor of the northern counties
and the old form of representation.
The 1740s and 1750s also saw the Ulster Scot influx into and settlement of
the western, Piedmont area of North Carolina, many of the Scots settling on
the Granville claim. Generally, the Scots were settler-farmers rather than
slave-owning plantation holders.
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