#160 The Official Founding of North Carolina

The History of the Americans

Jack Henneman

History

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In March 1663, after 97 years of failed attempts by first the Spanish and then the English to establish settlements in North Carolina, King Charles II granted eight aristocrats a vast territory extending from the coast of today’s North and South Carolina to the Pacific Ocean. These eight Lords Proprietor – George, Duke of Albemarle; Edward, Earl of Clarendon; William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir George Carteret; Sir William Berkeley, who was again the governor of Virginia; and Sir John Colleton – would almost unwittingly authorize in their new colony a remarkably free and democratic society of small farmers, rivaled only by Roger Williams’ Rhode Island in its respect for individual liberty.

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Selected references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the website)

Lindley S. Butler, A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era 1629-1729

Noeleen McIlvenna, A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713

George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Vol. 1

Charter of Carolina – March 24, 1663

Charter of Carolina – June 30, 1665

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 160. I'm your host, Jack Heneman,
0:13.0	and I'm recording this episode on August 23, 2024, in Austin, Texas. We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without intentional presentism.
0:27.5	As has been the case in the past, important emotional and chemical support for this episode was provided by Cuban creation cigar bar on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter.
0:40.3	So you might ask, why am I recording this in Austin?
0:43.8	Well, I wrote this episode over the last week, but only got back to Austin after more than a
0:48.3	month away yesterday afternoon, after the 510 mile drive from New Orleans, which capped off about 4,500 miles in the last
0:58.4	five weeks. See America, folks. It's awesome. It is again 1663. A lot is happening all at once in
1:07.5	English, North America, which is why we keep coming back to this long year.
1:12.8	In New England, Connecticut Colony has received as charter and is ratcheting up the pressure on New Haven Colony,
1:19.6	which will throw in the towel and merge with Connecticut in 1664.
1:25.8	The fugitive regicides, Whaley and Goff, have been hiding in Milford, New Haven Colony,
1:32.2	but the heat is on, and the next year they would move to the frontier town of Hadley, Massachusetts.
1:39.5	Meanwhile, Rhode Island and the Providence plantations would receive their charter from Charles II,
1:45.4	which gave full recognition to sole liberty, as Roger Williams had conceived of it.
1:52.1	Finally, on the banks of the Central Hudson, the Asopus Indians will launch a surprise attack
1:58.0	on the Dutch and English settlers, launching the second brutal Isopas War.
2:03.9	It would end shortly before the King's brother, James, Duke of York, would arrive at New
2:09.7	Amsterdam with a fleet of ships and take over New Netherland without a fight. He would name it
2:15.0	after himself. Finally, Charles II would issue a charter of Carolina
2:20.9	to eight proprietors, marking the founding of that territory as an English colony. All of these
2:28.8	moments were to one degree or another, the result of the Stuart restoration in 1660. When Charles II returned to the
2:37.8	throne when the revolutionary Commonwealth of England failed to establish effective governance
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