A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . ther from Virginia, and occupied land on the ChowanRiver and Albemarle Sound. With these came rough char-acters, who found life in Virginia growing too civilized fortheir taste. There also emigrated hither some Quakers andother dissenters, who had been persecuted for their faithin Virginia. The Lord Proprietaries.—In 1663, Charles II. grantedthe territory between Virginia and Florida to some friends who hadaided inhis resto-ration, in-cluding theDuke ofAlbemarle,the Earl ofClarendon,and grant included no
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . ther from Virginia, and occupied land on the ChowanRiver and Albemarle Sound. With these came rough char-acters, who found life in Virginia growing too civilized fortheir taste. There also emigrated hither some Quakers andother dissenters, who had been persecuted for their faithin Virginia. The Lord Proprietaries.—In 1663, Charles II. grantedthe territory between Virginia and Florida to some friends who hadaided inhis resto-ration, in-cluding theDuke ofAlbemarle,the Earl ofClarendon,and grant included not onlythe Carolinas, but Georgiaand part of Florida. West-ward it extended to thePacific Ocean. The char-ter was someyvhat similarto that which had beengranted to Lord Baltimore for Maryland, and decreed re-ligious liberty to all colonists. This liberality proved animportant aid to the growth of Settlements Formed.—In 1663 those settlers already inthe country were formed into a colony named years afterward some West India planters settled on. The Cakolinas and Georgia. NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. 123 Cape Fear River,^ their settlement being named Clarendon,in honor of Lord Clarendon. In 1670 two shiploads ofemigrants from England settled on the banks of the AshleyRiver, in the southern part of the province. After remain-ing there ten years they sought a new location on the pen-insula between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, calling theirsettlement Charlestown, after the king. This in time becameshortened to Charleston, Later Settlers.—The religious liberty existing in theprovince had the effect of bringing thither in 1707 a largenumber of Huguenots, fleeing from persecution in 1709 a still larger number of Germans, from the Pa-latinate, settled at a locality they called New-Bern, fromBern, in Switzerland. At a later date many Scotch-Irishand Scotch Highlanders sought the North Carolina varied settlers became engaged in tobacco
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