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Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913
Documentary Source Book of American History 16061913 Author:William MacDonald General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: Charters United States History / General History / United States / General Law / Public Contract Political Science / Government / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: T... more »his is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: No. 17. First Charter of Carolina March 24/April 3, 1662/3 The region later known as Carolina had been included in the original Virginia grant of 1606; but no permanent settlements had been made, and on the revocation of the third Virginia charter, in 1624, the territory became subject to the disposal of the Crown. In 1629, Sir Robert Heath, then attorney-general, received from Charles I. a grant of the region south of Virginia, between 31 and 36 north latitude, under the name of Carolana; but no use was made of the grant, and no further attempt was made to develop the country until the grant of a charter to Clarendon and his associates, in March, 1662/3. An order in council of Aug. 12/22, 1663, declared the Heath patent void for non-user; but claims under it continued to be urged until 1768, when the descendants of Daniel Coxe, of New Jersey, to whom the patent had been transferred in 1696, received from the Crown a grant of 100,000 acres of land in New York in satisfaction of their claim. References. -- Text in Statutes at Large of South Carolina (Cooper's ed., 1836), I., 22-31. The Heath grant is in Colonial Records of North Carolina, I., 1 -- 13. For the documentary sources see, beside the Records, Carroll's Historical Collections of South Carolina; Sainsbury's Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, V., VI. On the early history of South Carolina, Mc...« less