. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... elands from the Indians, so that he was abso-lute owner of the unoccupied lands of thecolony. He thus had it in his power to relieve hisdistress by selling his claims, but in hisdeepest poverty he refused to part withPennsylvania, except upon terms whichwould secure to his people the full and per-fect enjoyment of the liberties he had guar-anteed them. He died in 1718, peacefullyand amid the sympathy of his countrymenin England, and the sorrow of those whomh
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... elands from the Indians, so that he was abso-lute owner of the unoccupied lands of thecolony. He thus had it in his power to relieve hisdistress by selling his claims, but in hisdeepest poverty he refused to part withPennsylvania, except upon terms whichwould secure to his people the full and per-fect enjoyment of the liberties he had guar-anteed them. He died in 1718, peacefullyand amid the sympathy of his countrymenin England, and the sorrow of those whomhe had befriended in his beloved Pennsyl-vania. By his pure life he won for the peo-ple of his faith the respect of all candid men,and by his fidelity to the principles he pro-fessed he became the benefactor of millionswho will ever count it a privilege to honorhis name. Penn left three sons, who were all minorsat the time of his death. They succeededto his rights as proprietary of Pennsylvania,and the government of the colony was ad-ministered for them by deputies until theRevolution, when their claims were pur-chased by the CHAPTER XVIIISettlement of the Carolinas Gradual Settlement of North Carolina from Virginia—Charles II. Grants Carolina to Clarendon ai>d Others— The **GraalModel —An Ideal Aristocracy Proposed for Carolina—The Authority of the Proprietaries Established in North Car*lina—Continued Settlement of that Region—Characteristics of the Early Settlers of North Carolina—The People Rejecfthe Grand Model—Hostility of England to the Colonial Commerce—Insurrection in North Carolina—Slothel Govemol—Settlement of South Carolina—Charleston Founded—^The Proprietary Constitutions Rejected by South Carolina—Rapid Growth of the Colony—Introduction of Slavery—Characteristics of the Early Settlers of South Carolina—EffortIto Enforce the Navigation Acts—Resistance of the People—The Proprietaries Abandon their Constitutions—Archda
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