2.  Roanoke (“The Lost Colony”) was the first English colony established in North Carolina (and in North America) in 1587.  In 1653, people from the Virginia colony came to North Carolina seeking better farmland and refuge from the oppression they endured in the Virginian colony.  These Virginians started the first permanent settlement in North Carolina.

3.  When the Roanoke colony was lost, King Charles I claimed the land that today is North and South Carolina.  In 1663 King Charles II put 8 noblemen, called “Lord’s Proprietors” in charge of the North Carolina territory.  These proprietors then sent governors to rule the colony.  The Lords Proprietors split Carolina into North and South.  In 1729 North Carolina became a Royal Colony.

4.  North Carolina was used mainly for naval supplies, tobacco and furs.  Colonists fed mainly on corn as it was easy to grow in North Carolina.

5.  North Carolina had very good farmland.  Slaves were brought from the West Indies and Africa.  Although North Carolina did have some slaves, the slave trade there was not huge because the islands on the coast (the Outer Banks Islands)

6.  The Lords Proprietors attempted to set up a Church of England, but the majority of the people in North Carolina were Quakers.

7.  Haberle, Susan E. The North Carolina Colony. Minnesota : Capstone Press, 2006.  "North Carolina." 8 Sep. 2010. Son of the South..