North Carolina The first 100 years

The Jamestown Colony A B C D E

The first settlers come to North Carolina The first settlers came to North Carolina via Jamestown. As the land around Jamestown was taken, settlers had to go to the frontier or the outskirts to find prime land to settle. That brought them to North Carolina.

The Heath Patent The land from Florida to the Albemarle Sound (31 degrees to 36 degrees North latitude) that was given to Sir Robert Heath from King Charles I in No colony was planted on the land and so the land was taken away from Heath in 1663.

Nathaniel Batts is the first recorded settler in North Carolina History In 1655, Nathaniel Batts bought land at the mouth of the Roanoke River on the west side of the Albemarle sound.

The Lord’s Proprietors In 1663, King Charles II (who became King in 1661) gave eight of his supporters the land that was the old Heath Patent (The land from Florida to the Albemarle Sound). The Lord’s Proprietors ruled this land until the Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670)Duke of Albemarle the Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674)Earl of Clarendon Lord John Berkeley (1607–1678)John Berkeley the Earl of Craven (1608–1697)Earl of Craven Sir George Carteret (c.1610–1680)George Carteret Sir William Berkeley (1606–1677)William Berkeley Sir John Colleton (1608–1666)John Colleton the Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683).Earl of Shaftesbury

The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina In 1669 the Lords Proprietors laid the blueprint for North Carolina’s government with the FCC.

Culpeper’s Rebellion An uprising in 1677 in Carolina over the enforcement of the Navigation Acts, laws that required the American colonies to use English ships only to transport goods. In 1677 a band of 40 men surrounded the “acting” governor, Thomas Miller’s house and arrested him, seized the customs records, and set up their own government. Miller later escaped and fled to England. Eventually order was restored by the Proprietors and little was changed or done about the rebellion.

North Carolina’s first towns In 1706, Bath became North Carolina’s first town. In 1710, New Bern became North Carolina’s second town.

North Carolina’s first towns In 1722, Beaufort became North Carolina’s third town. In 1722, Edenton became North Carolina’s fourth town

Cary’s Rebellion An uprising in 1711 in Carolina. The reasons behind Cary’s Rebellion were; 1.The Anglican church was the recognized official church in the English colonies yet there were more and more “dissenters”,” or Non-Anglicans (Quakers, and Presbyterians) in the Carolina Assembly. This angered the Anglicans, for this reason the Vestry Acts were passed. 2.Over the amount of representation in the colony’s Assembly between Albemarle county and Bath county. Bath county had considerably less representation in the Assembly and wanted more. Many of the rebels were from Bath county. Albemarle Bath

Carolina is Split In 1712, the colony of Carolina was split into North Carolina and South Carolina because the area of Albemarle and Charleston had both grown so much and there was so much distance between the them.

The Tuscarora War In 1711, war broke out between Bath county settlers coming from Europe and the Tuscarora Indians, primarily over land. As the European settlers were encroaching on and taking Indian land, the Tuscarora fought back. With the help of South Carolina, North Carolina defeated the Tuscarora and the majority of the Tuscarora left N.C. for New York in Baron Christoph Von Graffenried’s drawing, The Death of John Lawson, depicts Von Graffenried, his servant, and John Lawson being held captive by Tuscarora Indians shortly before Lawson’s death. Drawing by Baron Christoph Von Graffenried.

After the defeat of the Tuscarora Indians, new settlers continued to settle along the Neuse, Trent and Pamlico rivers and began to move further south to the Cape Fear River area. By the 1730’s, the entire coast of North Carolina was dotted with new English and European settlements. The Settling of Cape Fear Cape Fear

The Golden Age of Piracy From , New World piracy was at its height and Atlantic Shipping was a dangerous venture with pirates like Blackbeard lurking.

Royal Colony In 1729, the King of England, King George II bought 7 of the 8 Lords Proprietor’s shares of the colony and made North Carolina a Royal Colony, directly under his rule and no longer ruled by the Lords Proprietors. Write this

The Granville District The only Proprietor to keep his share was Sir George Carteret, known as Earl Granville. His portion of North Carolina became known as the Granville District. Sir George Carteret (c.1610–1680)George Carteret

Settling the Piedmont Settlers began making their way into the Piedmont of North Carolina in the 1740’s via the Great Wagon Road, a road that began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made its way south through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and into North Carolina north of Salem (now Winston-Salem), through Salisbury and Charlotte before continuing into South Carolina.