While governor of North Carolina, Dobbs sought unsuccessfully to establish a permanent capital, to be called George City, near Tower Hill and the Neuse River.
In 1747 he returned to England and became involved with Arthur Dobbs and his attack on the HBC.
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About this time Arthur Dobbs began agitating to have the HBC move inland and find the northwest passage.
In 1744 Arthur Dobbs revived it in An Account of the Countries Adjoining Hudson's Bay.
In London he met Arthur Dobbs who was crusading against the HBC monopoly of the fur trade and their apparent reluctance to open up the northwest with interior forts.
Whereas Dobbs County and Tryon County, named for Martin's predecessors Arthur Dobbs and William Tryon, were abolished after American independence, Martin County was neither abolished nor renamed, a fact which has been attributed to the popularity of Alexander Martin, twice governor of the state (1782-1784, 1789-1792).
Moor and Middleton and the 1741-1742 expedition were under the scrutiny of Arthur Dobbs, an opponent of the HBC monopoly of the bay area.
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Loyda Johnson was a Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Essex who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone.