. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . d ship carried the young princess, Charlotte, toEngland. The new county was named Mecklenburg inhonor of the queen who had come from old Mecklenburg,in Germany, and to do her still more honor, they called theirtown Charlotte. It must have been very pleasant to the kingto think how loyal to the mother country and the royal fam-ily were the people of Mecklenburg and its Queen City ofCharlotte, in St. Georges Parish, in the Colony of NorthCarolina. It was his own fault if he afterwards had causeto change his mind abou
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 . d ship carried the young princess, Charlotte, toEngland. The new county was named Mecklenburg inhonor of the queen who had come from old Mecklenburg,in Germany, and to do her still more honor, they called theirtown Charlotte. It must have been very pleasant to the kingto think how loyal to the mother country and the royal fam-ily were the people of Mecklenburg and its Queen City ofCharlotte, in St. Georges Parish, in the Colony of NorthCarolina. It was his own fault if he afterwards had causeto change his mind about them. The year 1761 was memorable in the history of the and France had been fighting on land and on some of the land fighting had been done in ilic war the /Vmericans learned that they could hghtas well as or better than the English soldiers could in this\\]\(] fnrc^l-land. In the year 1762, (he war was finished andthe Treaty of I\iris was signed. ])y that treaty the Frenchpraclically ^axc np Xortli America to the r)ritis]i. and Spain r. C H A PR L o T ~r e: F^RiNCE3S OF M ECKI .t M B U R G. Later Queen of England by marriage to Georj^e ;r> Cha rlotte. Queen Cily, by^ ^ ~^ i^ORMATlON O^ THE COUNTY. 29 gave England part of Florida in return for Havana, in colonists observed another thing in the war, and thatwas that they were not so dependent as before upon the pro^tection of the mother country, now that the French armiesdid not threaten them. They began tO talk more independ-ently. In England, there was at that time, and is now, anEstablished Church supported by taxes levied on the peo-ple. This was the Church of England, or what is now knownin America as the Protestant Episcopal Church. At home, itsbishops and other clergy had the right to levy church taxesor tithes, and this system was put into operation in the Amer-ican colonies. The next year after the passage of the act cre-ating Me
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