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In 1729, the king formally revoked Carolina's colonial charter and established both North Carolina and South Carolina as crown colonies. [30] In the 1730s, Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons.
South Carolina is named after King Charles I of England.Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. South Carolina was formed in 1712. By the end of the 16th century, the Spanish and French had left the area of South Carolina after several reconnaissance missions, expeditions and failed colonization attempts, notably the short-living French outpost of Charlesfort followed by ...
"The geographical origins of Negro slaves in Colonial South Carolina." in The Slave Trade & Migration (Routledge, 2019) pp. 134–148. Huw, David. Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730–1790 (2018) Johnson Jr., George Lloyd. The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800
The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudson River and Mohawk River valleys to the Great Lakes and North to the colonies of New France and claimed lands further west.
South Carolina: March 8, 1787: August 9, 1787: Ceded a swath, approximately 12 miles (19 km) wide (north–south), west from its northwestern tip to the Mississippi River, across extreme southwest North Carolina, northern Georgia, plus the southern edge of present-day Tennessee, along with the northern edge of present-day Alabama and Mississippi.
Colonial Georgia: A History. Scribner. ISBN 0-684-14555-3. Greene, Evarts Boutell. Provincial America, 1690-1740 (1905) ch 15 online pp 249-269 covers 1732 to 1763. Harrold, Frances. "Colonial Siblings: Georgia's Relationship with South Carolina During the Pre-Revolutionary Period." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73.4 (1989): 707-744. online
The two oldest public universities are also in the South: the University of North Carolina (1795) and the University of Georgia (1785). The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region (Virginia, Maryland, and, by some classifications, Delaware) and the lower South (Carolina, which eventually split into North and ...
1905 map showing colonial Georgia 1732–63 and surrounding area. In 1752, Georgia became a royal colony. Planters from South Carolina, wealthier than the original settlers of Georgia, migrated south and soon dominated the colony. They replicated the customs and institutions of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Planters had higher rates of ...