An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . AVANNA-a IN 177 8. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA. HE Encrlish were not so eager to settlethe regions now called Carolina as theyhad been those of Virginia and NewEngland. It will be remembered thatthe Spanish claim to that part of theAtlantic coast north of Florida wasstill good as far as Albemarle Sound ;and the first intruders on its soil hadlearned by fatal experience
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . AVANNA-a IN 177 8. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA. HE Encrlish were not so eager to settlethe regions now called Carolina as theyhad been those of Virginia and NewEngland. It will be remembered thatthe Spanish claim to that part of theAtlantic coast north of Florida wasstill good as far as Albemarle Sound ;and the first intruders on its soil hadlearned by fatal experience that hisCatholic majesty was not disposed topermit encroachments on his territorywithout at least an attempt to resist them. If we except a few set-lie,rs at Mansemond river, on the borders of Virginia, and some New 2b 2 293. 294 THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA. England emigrants, who had purchased from the Indians a districtaround Cape Fear, no Englishman had, as late as the year 1630,made any effort to settle south of Virginia. In that year Sir RobertHeath obtained a patent; but being unable to fulfil the conditims, itwas declared forfeited. The first productive grant of this territory was given by Charles the 24th of March, 1663, and included under the name of Caro-lina the whole coast from the 36th degree north to the river San Ma-theo. Among the patentees were Monk, duke of Albemarle, LordClarendon, Lord Ashley Cooper, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury,Lord Berkeley, and his brother Sir William, governor of , a prudent and popular man, was the first were made at Albemarle and Cape Fear, while the emi-grants enjoyed political and personal immunities greater than thoseof the neighbouring colonies. In 1665 a new patent was obtained,extending their territory to the Pacif
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