An American history . ary titles and seats in the colonial parHament; but the grant lapsed. From Virginia probably came the first permanent set-tlers in the Carolinas. They took up land along the Chowan River. Thesesettlements were formed previous to 1663 ; they extended gradually along thenorth shore of Albemarle Sound, forming the germ of present North was also an early but unsuccessful attempt to establish a settlementon Cape Fear River. An expedition from New England prospected there, butabandoned the country previous to the grant of 1663. Other unsuccessfulattempts were mad
An American history . ary titles and seats in the colonial parHament; but the grant lapsed. From Virginia probably came the first permanent set-tlers in the Carolinas. They took up land along the Chowan River. Thesesettlements were formed previous to 1663 ; they extended gradually along thenorth shore of Albemarle Sound, forming the germ of present North was also an early but unsuccessful attempt to establish a settlementon Cape Fear River. An expedition from New England prospected there, butabandoned the country previous to the grant of 1663. Other unsuccessfulattempts were made by colonists from the Barbadoes. Sir John Yeamans isthe chief figure connecting South Carolina with the Barbadoes. He was thefirst governor of Carolina. In 1669 a fleet left England having aboard emi-grants to Carolina; it touched at the Barbadoes and at Bermuda. The firstpermanent settlement in South Carolina was made in April, 1670, on the AshleyRiver. From this settlement developed the present city of THE CAROLINA GRANT OF 1663 THE SECOND ADVANCE OF THE ENGLISH 85 at the bottom were to be leetmen, bound to the soil like theserfs of the Middle Ages. But all this was too reactionaryfor the end of the seventeenth century. The philosophersscheme gave way to a more democratic system in which acolonial legislature en-acted laws subject tothe veto of the pro-prietaries. 120. The Creation ofNew York. An oppor-tunity to create an-other great proprietarycolony arose in 1664when commercial rival-ries had brought Eng-land and Holland to theverge of war. Withhis usual adroitness,Charles II turned theEnglish war feeling tohis own account. Dis-patching a fleet andarmy to conquer theDutch colonies in America, he granted all those lands to hisbrother the Duke of York. It was in 1664 that the Englishappeared before New Amsterdam. The town was ill-preparedto resist and the townspeople forced the commandant, PeterStuyvesant, to surrender. It was renamed 121. New Jersey.
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