. The new eclectic history of the United States . er was to vote unless he owned fifty or moreacres of land; the tillers of the soil were to be serfs, and be-neath them were slaves. 136. The Model proved to be too grand for the woodsand marshes of the American wilderness. The farmers andlumbermen near Albemarle Sound, while awaiting the arrivalof their lords, struck out a plan of government better suited totheir needs; and the proprietors at last consented to its adop-tion, only reserving to themselves an annual rent of a half-penny per acre, and the right to appoint two governors, the onefor
. The new eclectic history of the United States . er was to vote unless he owned fifty or moreacres of land; the tillers of the soil were to be serfs, and be-neath them were slaves. 136. The Model proved to be too grand for the woodsand marshes of the American wilderness. The farmers andlumbermen near Albemarle Sound, while awaiting the arrivalof their lords, struck out a plan of government better suited totheir needs; and the proprietors at last consented to its adop-tion, only reserving to themselves an annual rent of a half-penny per acre, and the right to appoint two governors, the onefor the northern, the other for the southern,part of the territory. 137. North Carolina.—The Albemarle settlement, though withinthe original limits of Virginia, was now made the beginning ofNorth Carolina. Its first governor was William Drummond, aScotchman, who afterwards lost his life in Bacons Rebellion(§73). Its numbers were increased by emigrants from NewEngland, and by a colony of ship-builders from the Ber- SETTLEMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 83. mudas. A company fromBarbadoes settled on thesouth bank of the Cape FearRiver, and prospered so wellin exporting staves, shingles,and boards to the islandswhence they came, that in1666 they numbered eight-hundred souls. 138. The first settle-ment in South Carolinawas planted by the Settlers on Cape Fear River. proprietors themselves, who sent out three shiploads of emi-grants in 1670 at their own expense. A site was chosen at themouth of the Ashley and Cooper rivers; and in the midst ofancient forests, brightened in the spring by yellow jasmine, alittle village was begun which received the name Charleston inhonor of the king. 139. Trench Colonists.—The genial climate drew crowds ofsettlers. Among others were thousands of French Protestants,whose own land was made unbearable by persecution, while, 84 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
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