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The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1989). online; Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607–1689. (LSU, 1949) online; Edgar, Walter B. ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) online.
The early province of Carolana was the land forming the southern English colonies, spanning from 31° to 36° north latitude. [1] In 1629, King Charles I of England granted the territory to his attorney general Sir Robert Heath . [ 2 ]
The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the Thirteen Colonies in America of the British Empire.
On 8 January 1730 [28] an agreement between the two colonies said for the border "to begin 30 miles (48 km) southwest of the Cape Fear River, and to be run at that parallel distance the whole course of said river;" The next June Governor Robert Johnson of South Carolina said the border should start 30 miles (48 km) southwest of the source of ...
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Only Florida reached that level, and seven of the thirteen Southern states spent under $31,000 per 1,000 children. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] Conditions were marginally better in newer growing areas, such as in Texas and central Florida, with the deepest poverty in South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
The line was extended in 1779 and 1780 to the point at which it would first cross the Cumberland River. From there, the state of Virginia hired Thomas Walker to survey the line to the Mississippi River. Walker did not do a perfect job due to dense virgin forest, mountainous terrain, and rough riverbeds. In 1821 the state of Tennessee did a ...
Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-6694-8. Russell, David Lee, The America Revolution in the Southern Colonies, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7864-4339-0; Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia, 1775–1783.