-
Carolina Colony Founded
In 1663, King Charles II granted a group of supporters an enormous tract of land stretching from southern Virginia to northern Florida. The proprietors, who included several Barbados planters, called their colony Carolina, after the king. -
Pennsylvania is founded by Quaker William Penn
King Charles II owed Penn's father a debt of about $80,000, so Penn asked the king to repay the debt with land in America. A charter was granted, giving Penn the territory west of the Delaware River between New York and Maryland. The charter also gave him almost unlimited ruling power over it -
Dominion of New England Established
James II brought together Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Plymouth, New Jersey and New York into one large colony. The unpopular Edmund Andros was its governor -
Carolina's Rice Planters Take Control of Southern Section
Wealthy rice planters take the southern part of the colony from the original proprietors. -
Carolina Splits into North and South Carolina
-
King George II Grants James Oglethorpe chater to Form Georgia
Oglethorpe was a British general and member of Parliament who believed that he could stop Spanish designs on the area south of Charles Town while at the same time providing a fresh start for London's worthy poor, saving them from debtors' prisons. The trustees living in England were given complete control over Georgia politics, a condition the settlers soon found intolerable.
