The history of Georgia Author:Charles Colcock Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Grant To The Lords Proprietors Of Carolina. — Early Posts South or The Savannah Rtver. — Spanish Mining Operations In The Apa- Latcy Mountains. —... more » Margravate Of Azilia. — Governor Moore's Expedition. — Mission Of Sir Alexander Cuming. — Sale And SurRender By The Lords Proprietors. The claim of Great Britain to the coast of North America lying between the fifty-sixth and twenty-eighth degrees of north latitude rests upon the discovery of Sebastian Cabot, who, under a commission from and at the charge of the king of England, visited and sailed along that portion of the western continent. After the discovery of Florida by Juan Ponce de Leon, Spain does not appear to have attempted any conquest of that region until the expeditions of Narvaez in 1527 and of De Soto in 1539. By neither of these were. any permanent settlements effected. The earliest grant of the lower portion of this territory was made by his majesty King Charles I., in the fifth year of his reign, to Sir Robert Heath, his attorney-general. In that patent it is called Carolina Florida, and the designated limits extended from the river Matheo in the thirtieth degree to the river Passa Magna in the thirty-sixth degree of north latitude. There is good reason for believing that actual possession was taken under this patent, and that considerable sums were expended by the proprietor and those claiming under him in the effort to colonize. Whether this grant was subsequently surrendered, or whether it was vacated and declared null for non user or other cause, we are not definitely informed. Certain it is that King Charles II., in the exercise of his royal pleasure, deemed it proper to make to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina two grants of the same lands, with some slight modifications of boundaries. The last ...« less