Why did Andrew and others migrate to NC circa 1745-55? As an answer to an inquiry in the Hite/Fairfax lawsuit, the incentive for the early settlers of "Old" Frederick County, Virginia to move to the Carolinas was stated as follows: "These defendants say in answer they do not believe they were but on the contrary a backwarding of the Settlement thereof as reason will say it must necessarily be for any rational man will be easily convinced tis easier for him to procure ten Shillings a hundred to pay into his Majesty' Treasury (in the Carolinas) than to pay three pounds a hundred (in Virginia) and afterward be forced to pay the same which is daily experienced in this back part and not only so but after they have got some fees to settle pretend the Land is secure and then raise its prices extravagantly whereas on the contrary were not his Majesty's Land laid under such inconveniencies there would not pass such numbers the fruitful and healthy part of Virginia to such King's Land in a sickly and unfruitful Carolina for these defendants have lived so handy to the road leading from Pennsylvania to Carolina thro' this back parts of Virginia where numbers of families daily almost do pass to go there and have asked them why they go there & not stay where the Land is good & their answer is for the most part where they go they have Kings Land at ten Shillings per hundred but here the Land is too dear being all to be bought of what they commonly call Hucksters.
