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Fort^ and gave it the Name of Port Royals in 32 Degrees, 
bordering on Virginia^ now North Carolina, where the 
firft Settlement was made by any European Nation. 
The Civil War raging in France, Ribaufs Soldiers 
mutinied for want of Supplies •, the Natives, it is true, 
were very kind to them out of Hatred to the Spaniards ■, 
but they could not furnilh them with many NecelTaries that 
they wanted ; and the Admiral was fo engaged in Po- 
litics at home, that he had not leifure to provide for 
the Wants of his Colony, ioRibaut, having made fome 
Difcoveries, in the North-eaft Part of Florida, returned 
to France ; and in his Return his Company were reduced 
to fuch Extremity, that they killed and eat one of their 
own Men, and probably would have done fo by others, 
had they not accidentally met with an Englijh Ship ; the 
Mafter of which furnifhed them with fome Provifions. 
A Peace being concluded two Years after in France, be- 
tween the Papifts and the Proteflants, Coligny, who was 
then in favour at Court, procured other Ships to be fent 
to this Country, which was now called Carolina, from 
Fort Charles, as that was from the French King. 
The Command of thofe Ships and Men on board, was 
given to Lewis Laudoner, who was ordered to carry on the 
Settlement. Pie arrived here the 20th of June, 1564, 
with three Ships, and was kindly received by the In- 
habitants j but could find no Gold or Silver, though he 
fpent much Labour and Time about them. His Pro- 
vifions being almoft all gone, and the Natives either un- 
willing or unable to furnifh him with more, Laudoner 
refolved to return alfo to France and as he was pre- 
paring to depart, Jean Rihaut arrived with three 
Ships, which had fo good an Effedl on the Indians, that 
they feemed to be as welcome to them as to the French : 
The Kings of Homoloa, Servaratri, Almacam, Malica, and 
Cajlri, waited upon Ribaut to congratulate his Arrival, 
and promifed to condud him to the Apalachian Mountains, 
which part Carolina from Virginia. The French con- 
ceived great Hopes from this Settlement, but all vanifh- 
ed on the Arrival of the Spaniards, who with a Squadron 
of Ships and Land Forces drove the French out of their 
Forts, killed Ribaut and fix hundred Men, after having 
given them Quarter, and obliged Laudoner, with a few 
of his Countrymen who remained alive, to return to 
France. 
The French King was lefs moved with this Outrage 
committed on his Subjeds, becaufe they were Proteit- 
ants ; and indeed, ’tis thought, Coligny intended by 
this Settlement to fecure a Retreat for himfelf and his 
Brethren of the reformed Religion in cafe they were con- 
quered in Frayice. Peter Melanda commanded the Spa- 
niards, who dillodged the and fo provoked the 
Indians, by his Cruelty and Injuflice, that they were 
very ready to revenge therafelves when Opportunity 
offered, as it did not long after. For C'ecpxAvcxdeGorgues, a 
French Gentleman, at his own Coft, fitted out three 
flout Ships, and with two hundred and eighty Men failed 
to Carolina, where he took the Fort, and put the Spa- 
niards therein all to the Sword. They had built two other 
Forts, which he eafily reduced, and fervcd the Garrifons 
as he did that of Fort Charles ; he demolifhed them, and 
was affifted by the Kings of Homoloa and Servaratri. The 
French travelled into the Dominions of the Great King 
of Apalacha, near the Mountains, where they converted 
many Indians to Chriflianity. Thefe Indians were more 
civil than thofe to the Northward, their King’s Domini- 
ons larger, and their Manners, in a great Meafure, re- 
fembled thofe of the Mexicans, from whom they were 
thought to be defcended. We do not find that Monfieur 
de Gorgues made any Settlement here, or that the Spani- 
ards endeavoured to recover the Country, which from 
the Year 1567 lay deferred by all European Nations ’till 
the Reign of King Charles II. of England. 
In the Year 1622 feveral Englijh Families flying from 
the Maffacres of the Indians in Virginia and New Eng- 
land, were driven upon thefe Coafts and fettled in the 
Province of Malica near, the Head of the River of May, 
where they became a kind of Miffionaries among the 
Malicans and Apalachites. The King of the Country is 
faid to have iken baptized ; and in the Year 1653, 
Mr. Brigjiock, an Englijhman, went to Apalacha, where 
he was honourably entertained by his Countrymen, who 
were there before him, and from his Relation of the 
Country ours is taken. 
Such was the Situation of Things, and k had been 
abandoned by the French for near one, hundred Years, 
when King Charles the lid made a Grant thereof, 
bearing Date March 24, 1663, to Edward Fid ol Cla- 
rendon, then I .ord High Chancellor of England, Georgs 
Duke of Albemarle, William Lord Craven, John Lord 
Berkley, Anthony Lord AJhley, Sir George Carteret, Sir 
William Berkley, mdSir %hn Colliton, from the North- 
end of the Ifland called Luck IJland, which lies in the 
Southern Virginia Sea, and within 36 Degrees of North 
Latitude, and to the Weft, as far as the South-Seas, 
and fo foutherly as far as the River San Matheo, 
which borders on the Coaft of Florida, and is within 
37 Degrees of North Latitude, and fo Weft, in a 
diredl Line, as far as the South-Seas aforefaid, v/ith all 
Royal Filheries, Mines, Power of Life and Limb, and 
every thing neceffary in an abfolute Propriety, paying a 
Quit-Rent of tv/enty Marks yearly. Thefe Proprietors 
afterwards obtained another Grant, v/hich fomewhat va- 
ried the Bounds of the Province, by fixing its Northern 
Frontier at Caret och River in 36 Degrees 30 Minutes 
North Latitude, and extending it to the Latitude of 
29 Degrees to the South, within which Bounds both the 
Carolinas and the new Province of Georgia are included. 
The Plan of Government for this new Colony was 
ftruck out by that great Statefman, Anthony Earl of 
Shaftjhury, and digefted into Form by the famous 
Mr. John Lock ; fo that great Expedlations were railed 
by it. But without entering into a long Detail upon this 
Subjehl, it is fuflicient to fay, that how fair foever it might 
appear in Theory, it was found by Experience impoffible 
to carry it into Pradlice ; fothat after ftrugglingwith the 
Inconveniencies produced by it for about fixty Years, to 
thePrej'udice of thePlanters and Proprietors ; the onlyRe- 
medy that could at laft be found, was to get rid of this 
fine fpun Conftitution, in which it was pretended all the 
Errors in our own were cured, and to put the Province 
under the Protedion and into the Hands of his Majefty, 
which was accordingly done-, and this Remedy has an- 
fwered all the Ends that could be expeded from it in fo 
few Years. 
This Surrender was made by the Proprietors to Ed- 
ward Bertie, Samuel Horfy, Henry Smith and Ailexis 
Clayton, Efqrs. in Truft for the Crown. The Proprie- 
tors, in their own Right, or in Truft, were then Henry 
Duke of Beaufort, William Lord Craven, James Bertie, 
Efq-, Boddington Greville, Efq; Henry Bertie, Efq^ Mary 
Danfon, Elizabeth More, Sir John Colliton, John Cot- 
ton and Jofeph Blake, Efqrs. who were poffefied of 
Seven-Eighths of the Propriety of the Province, and 
fold it to the Crown for 1 7500 /. Each Proprietor, 
who had a whole Share, having 2500 /. The 011 1- 
ftanding Qiiit-Rents, and other Incomes, due to the 
Proprietors from the People of the Province amounting to 
fomewhat above 9000, alfo were fold to the Crown 
for 5000 1 . which was paid to the above-mentioned 
Proprietors after the Sale and Surrender had been con- 
firmed by a particular Ad of Parliament, in the Year 
1728, entitled. An All for ejlablijhing an Agreement with 
feven of the Lords Proprietors of Carohna, for furrender 
of their Title and Inter eft in that Province to his Ma- 
jefty. It will appear, by the following Claufe in the Ad 
of Parliament, that the remaining One-Eighth of the 
Propriety, and Arrears of Qiiit-Rents aforefaid, were 
referved to the Right Honourable John Lord Carteret, 
now Earl of Granville, “ Saving and referving always to 
“ the faid John Lord his Heirs, Executors, Ad- 
“ miniftrators, and Affigns, all fuch Eftate, Right, Ti- 
tie, kAc. to One-Eighth Part of the faid Province or 
“ Territories, and to One-Eighth Part of all Arrears, Cfc.” 
In confequence of the Powers granted to his Majefty 
by this Acft, he has ever fince appointed Governors of 
North and South Carolina, and there is a great Profped 
of its becoming a Purchafe highly beneficial to the 
Crown, which will, however, in a great meafure depend 
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