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The remaining one-eighth share of the province was retained by members of the Carteret family until 1776, part of the Province of North Carolina known as the Granville District. [7] In 1755 Benjamin Franklin, the Postmaster-General for the American colonies, appointed James Davis as the first postmaster of North Carolina colony at New Bern. [8]
It would later split in 1712, helping form the Province of North Carolina. North Carolina is named after King Charles I of England, who first formed the English colony. It would become a royal colony of the British Empire in 1729. In 1776, the colony would declare independence from Great Britain.
North Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee. The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712. The North American Carolina province ...
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted on March 1, 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida. It replaced the Charter of Carolina and the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina (1665).
Deputy governors of North Carolina, 1691–1712. Thomas Jarvis 1691–1694. Thomas Harvey 1694–1699. Henderson Walker 1699–1704 (acting) Robert Daniell 1704–1705. Thomas Cary 1705–1706. William Glover 1706–1708 (acting) Thomas Cary 1708–1711.
Carolana. Map of Carolana. 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 original charter claimed the land from Albemarle Sound in present-day North ...
Restoration colony. A restoration colony was one of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the later half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration. The grants marked the resumption of English colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus.
Carolina, English America. Spouse (s) Limp. Margaret Berringer. Occupation. colonial administrator. Sir John Yeamans, 1st Baronet (bapt. 28 February 1611 – 1674) was an English colonial administrator and planter who served as Governor of Carolina from 1672 to 1674. Contemporary descriptions of Yeamans described him as "a pirate ashore."