. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . N ^ ^\ ^ V s u a:;o. ^ EDUCATION BEFORE 180O. 73 was hampered by the dissensions in the county, caused bythe court house controversy, land troubles and June, 1773, Governor Martin issued a proclamation giv-ing notice that the king had disallowed the charter. The onlyapparent reason was that the college, being in a Presbyterianstronghold, would tend .to encourage dissenters from the es-tablished Church of England. The school continued forsome time without a charter, though the patronage was notencourag
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . N ^ ^\ ^ V s u a:;o. ^ EDUCATION BEFORE 180O. 73 was hampered by the dissensions in the county, caused bythe court house controversy, land troubles and June, 1773, Governor Martin issued a proclamation giv-ing notice that the king had disallowed the charter. The onlyapparent reason was that the college, being in a Presbyterianstronghold, would tend .to encourage dissenters from the es-tablished Church of England. The school continued forsome time without a charter, though the patronage was notencouraging. In 1773, Martin Phifer endeavored to get a new charterfor the Charlotte school under the title of Queens his effort was unsuccessful, the people of the townin the next year began a school under that name as successorto Queens College, which had been abandoned. ThomasPolk, Abraham Alexander and others, persevered in theface of repeated disaster in their desire to have a high gradeschool in Charlotte. John McEwen was given a diploma byQueens Museum in 1776, but about that time t
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