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In 1712, the two provinces became separate colonies, the colony of North Carolina (formerly Albemarle province) and the colony of South Carolina (formerly Clarendon province). [19] Carolina was the first of three colonies in North America settled by the English to have a comprehensive plan.
The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [2] (p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies.
The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south. Charles Town was the first settlement, established in 1670. [3] [4] King Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the lords proprietor; they planned for a Christian colony.
Map of the colonies with the proclamation line of 1763 shown in red. The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, [1] the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into North and South Carolina), and the Province of Georgia.
The Carolina province was divided into separate proprietary colonies, north and south in 1712, before both became royal colonies in 1729. Earlier, along the coast, the Roanoke Colony was established in 1585, re-established in 1587, and found abandoned in 1590.
[7] [8] There was a single government of the Carolinas based in Charleston until 1712, when a separate government (under the Lords Proprietors) was set up for North Carolina. In 1719, the Crown purchased the South Carolina colony from the absentee Lords Proprietors and appointed Royal Governors.
The Province of Carolina was split into North and South Carolina in 1712. Pushing back the Native Americans in the Yamasee War (1715–1717), colonists next overthrew the proprietors' rule in the Revolution of 1719, seeking more direct representation. In 1719, South Carolina became a crown colony.
In 1712 Carolina colony split into two separate provinces South and North Carolina. [38] By 1729 shares of only three original Proprietors remained in the hands of the families of their original owners and nearly fifty individuals owned or claimed to own the original eight shares.