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WBM february 2011
Town Creek prevented further passage
up the river. Moore and the first set-tlers
believed the site to be far enough
inland to protect it from hurricanes
(they were wrong). They also believed
it to be far enough upriver to protect
it from pirates (wrong again). So, in
1726, a handful of settlers established
Brunswick Town and began to carve
out a life.
By the1730s, Brunswick Town
was the county seat of New Hanover
County and an official port of entry
into the colony of North Carolina,
two positions that made Brunswick
Town more important than many
towns in the colony. In 1734, Royal
Governor Gabriel Johnston, who lived
Royal Governor Arthur Dobbs, 1754–65,
moved the colonial capital to Brunswick
Town in 1758. Engraved by James
McArdell from a painting by William
Hoare.
in Brunswick Town, had a falling
out with several prominent families,
likely over shipping or land, and
moved the New Hanover County Seat
from Brunswick Town to a settle-ment
upriver called Newton (which,
in five years’ time, would be renamed
Wilmington). Newton was also a port
town, but the shoaling at the conflu-ence
of Town Creek and the Cape Fear
River prevented large ships from going
that far upriver. As a result, Brunswick