A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . 5. How long did the Dutch retain possession of Delaware? IG. What furtheraccount of the colony can you give ? V8 COLONIAL HISTORY. NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. I. The earliest at-tempts to settle XorthCarolina, as l)ef(jro de-scribed, were made byparties of English emi-grants, sent ont by SirWalter Raleigh, in 1585and 1587. The wholeregion extending fromAlbemarle Sonnd to theSt. Johns River in Flori-da, and designated asCarolina, was granted, in1630, to
A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . 5. How long did the Dutch retain possession of Delaware? IG. What furtheraccount of the colony can you give ? V8 COLONIAL HISTORY. NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. I. The earliest at-tempts to settle XorthCarolina, as l)ef(jro de-scribed, were made byparties of English emi-grants, sent ont by SirWalter Raleigh, in 1585and 1587. The wholeregion extending fromAlbemarle Sonnd to theSt. Johns River in Flori-da, and designated asCarolina, was granted, in1630, to Sir RobertHeath ; bnt as he madeno attempts at coloniza-tion, or at least none thatwere snccessfal, the grantwas subsequently declar-ed forfeited. II. In 16G3 this same territory was granted by Charles Lord Clarendon and seven other noblemen of to this, in or about 1650, a number of emigrantsfrom Virginia had made a settlement upon the Chowan River,near the present village of Edenton, which was afterwardcalled The Albemarle County Colony. After the grant toClarendon and his associates had been made, it was discover-. NoRTn AND South Carolixa.—I. Questions.—1. When and by whom were thefirst attempts made to settle North Carolina ? 2. What grant was made in 1630?3. Why was it aftt^rward declared forfeited ? II. 4. What grant was made in 16G;3? 5. When, where, and by whom was NorthCarolina settled ? 6. Describe the Chowan River? (See map, p. 79.) 7. How isEdenton situated? (See same map.) 8. Whieh colony was called the Albe-marle County Colony ? NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. 79 ed that the settlement upon the Chowan was outside of thenorthern boundary of the province: a new grant was thereforegiven, by which the limits of Carolina were extended fromVirginia to the middle of Florida.
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