. The student's American history . Revolution. Delaware was the first State to acceptthe Constitution and to enter the American Union. North and South Carolina (1663). 132. Charles II. grants < Carolina ; settlements in thatregion. — Charles I. by his grant of Maryland (1632) hadgreatly reduced the area of Virginia on the north; his sonCharles II. cut off a still larger slice from the original territory ^^^ of the Old Dominion. VIRGINIA ^^J In 1663 that lavish mon-arch issued a charter toLord Clarendon and sevenother court favorites, giv-ing them all the regionalons: the coast betwee
. The student's American history . Revolution. Delaware was the first State to acceptthe Constitution and to enter the American Union. North and South Carolina (1663). 132. Charles II. grants < Carolina ; settlements in thatregion. — Charles I. by his grant of Maryland (1632) hadgreatly reduced the area of Virginia on the north; his sonCharles II. cut off a still larger slice from the original territory ^^^ of the Old Dominion. VIRGINIA ^^J In 1663 that lavish mon-arch issued a charter toLord Clarendon and sevenother court favorites, giv-ing them all the regionalons: the coast betweenAlbemarle Sound and theSt. Johns river of ^* Westward thetract extended to the Pa-cific. The King namedthe province Carolina, inhonor of himself. Twoyears later (1665) Charles extended this grant half a degreefurther north, and, in open defiance of the claims of Spain,pushed the boundary on the south until it not only includedthe ancient Spanish city of St. Augustine (§ 23) but overlappedit by nearly seventy miles.^. e tSSS ItitW .J AND IKMNCU SKTTLEMENTS. Ill The Proprietors of this vast province might make all needfullaws, provided they received the approbation of a majorityof the freemen of the colony/ They might also grant suchreligious liberty as they thought lit and reasonable. Kmigrants from Virginia had already moved into this countryand settled (1653) on the Chowan River, or Albemarle (1665), Englishmen coming from the Barbadoes formeda settlement at Cape Fear, or the Clarendon district. WhenGeorge Fox (§ 95) pushed his way south across the GreatDismal Swamp (1672) and entered Carolina he received a wafmwelcome from certain Quakers who had fled there, and had builtcolonies on the Chowan * 133. << The Grand Model ; provisions respecting society,laws, religion. The proprietors of Carolina adopted (1669)a cumbrous and complex constitution, popularly known as theGrand Model. •^ It was to stand forever, and could not be
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