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Figure 7. — Wine bottles of Frederick Jones and Richard Burbydge, from Pit B. For scale see figure [9. 



concerning Colonel Cary's rebellion.- 1 Almost a 

 year to the day later, he is recorded as applying at a 

 council meeting for the return of salt carried from 

 his house ostensibly for "Supporting y e Garrisons." 

 In July 1712 Jones acquired an additional 490 acres 

 in North Carolina. 25 All of this evidence points to 

 his being well settled in his new home by 1712. 



The colony of North Carolina developed more slowly 

 than did Virginia. The first permanent English 

 settlement in North Carolina was on the Chowan 

 River in about 1653, with the population being- 

 drawn from Virginia. In 1663 the settled area north 

 of Albemarle Sound became Albemarle County, when 

 Charles II granted the territory to eight proprietors, 



23 Ibid., p. 787. 

 2i Ibid., p. 866. 

 25 Ibid., p. 864. 



in whose families it remained until an act of Parlia- 

 ment in 1729 established an agreement with seven of 

 them (the eighth refused to sell) and thus turned the 

 territory into a royal colony. Consequently, when 

 Jones moved south, North Carolina was still in its 

 infancy, a haven for piracy and beset by private feuds 

 and troublesome Indians. In the years 1711-1712 

 occurred an Indian uprising of proportions com- 

 parable to those that had threatened the life of 

 Virginia Colony 90 years before It was this mas- 

 sacre of 1712 and its effeel on the Jones family that 

 occasioned the foregoing apparent digression into lin- 

 early history of North Carolina. 

 The war with the Tuscarora Indians had begun in 



2 » Hugh T. Lefler and Albert K. Newsome, The History 

 of a South ' Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of 



North Carolina I 19 A), pp. 56-60. 



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