382 POPULATION. 



1GG3 Charles II. of England grants the country to certain English 

 noblemen, stjded the Absolute Lords and Proprietors of Carolina. 



1670 The proprietors, at an expenditure of £12,000, send out two small 

 vessels, under Capt. Wm.'Sajde, to Beaufort. This colony removes 

 the next year to Ashley river, and a few years later occupy the 

 present site of Charleston, and form the first permanent white 

 settlement in South Carolina. 



The proprietors offer to all immigrants lands at £20 per one 

 thousand acres ; Avhere cash could not be paid, an annual rent of 

 one penny per acre was required. For the first five years every 

 freeman was offered one hundred acres, and every servant fifty 

 acres, at an annual rent not exceeding half penny per acre. 



1671 The proprietors grant land to a colony from the Barbadoes, 

 under Sir John Yeamans. 



1674 The ^proprietors furnish two small vessels to remove a Dutch 



colony from Nova Belgia (New York) to John's island, whence 



they spread into the surrounding country. 

 1679 Charles II. provides at his own expense two small vessels to 



transport foreign Protestants, chiefly French Huguenots, to 



Charleston. 

 1696 Members of a Congregational church, with Mr. Joseph Lord, 



their pastor, remove in a body from Dorchester, Massachusetts, 



to the neighborhood of Charleston. 

 1701 According to Dr. Hewitt, the population of South Carolina 



is seven thousand. It consists of a medley from many countries, 



and of different faiths. There are Cavaliers and Puritans from 



England, Dissenters from Scotland, Dutchmen from New York, 



French Huguenots, and Africans. 

 1712 The Assembly of South Carolina offer £1-1 to the " owners and 



importers " of each healthy male British servant, between the ages 



of twelve and thirty years, " not a criminal." 

 1715 Five hundred Irish immigrate at their own expense to occupy 



the lands from which Yemassee the Indians have been driven, 



but finding them laid out in liaronies for the Lords Proprietors, 



most of them remove to the North. 



1718 The Lords Proprietors, having advanced £18,000 to' the settlers, 

 refuse to furnish additional supplies, and when asked for cattle, 



' reply that " they wished not to encourage graziers, but planters." 



1719 The proprietors sell their right and interest in the soil and gov- 

 ernment of Carolina to the king, for £17,500, and an additional 

 £5,000 for the quit rents, over due by the colonists. 



172-4 According to Dr. Hewitt, the population is thirty-two thousand. 



