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Why did early settlers want land near the coast?

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Like those who settled in the Albemarle, these people hoped to profit by farming the colony's fertile land and by trading with the Native Americans. French, German, and Swiss people also settled in the middle Coastal Plain. Many French Huguenots had settled in Virginia. ... As a result, some Huguenots moved to Carolina.

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