1. Early Settlement Attempts
Chapter 5 Section 1
Early Settlement Attempts

2. Section 1 Sir Robert Heath 31 Degrees and 36 Degrees North Lattitude
English Civil War
The Restoration
Lords Proprietors

3. Section 1 Lords Proprietors Explored Carolina - Capt William Hilton
Charles Town
Cape Fear River - NC - Failed within 3 years
Indian Hostility
Lack of Support from LP’s

4. Section 1 Charles Town Colony Anthony Ashley Cooper $100,000 each
Quitrent
Must settle in order to make $$$$

5. Section 1 The First Settlers 1665-1666 London
Bubonic Plague - 100,000 fatalities - The Great Fire of London
100 Men, Women and Children
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
Form of Government - Freedom Religious Views
Nobility System

6. Section 1 Headright System
Each male got so much land depending on # of persons in family
Establishing the First Settlement
Carolina, Port Royal and the Albemarle - Joseph West
England - Ireland - Barbados - Carolina
John Yeamans - Governor

7. Section 1 Expedition Bermuda
William Sayle - 1st official Governor of Carolina
Governor of Bermuda - 80 years old - failing health - stubborn
Port Royal Area
Kiawah Indians
Decided not to settle here

8. Section 1 Expedition Charles Town harbor Up Ashley River
Albemarle Point April 1670

9. Section 1 A Difficult First Year Crops
Fears - crops, attacks (wild animals, Indians, other European Nations) - Starvation
Climate
Diseases
smallpox, measles, diarrhea, typhus, typhoid, and dysentery, Malaria

10. Section 1 Difficult First Year
Diseases - yellow fever, tuberculosis and scarlet fever
Indians
Friendly at first
Europeans mistreated, cheated, enslaved
Land misunderstanding

11. Section 1 Charles Town Colony grew haphazardly
houses - sticks and mud - later wattle and daub
Palisade for protection
Poor planning
Rivalry - English and Barbadians

12. Section 1 Sayles dies Joseph West became governor
John Yeamans arrives - New governor

13. Section 1 Moving Charles Town Poor Design
Moved to Oyster Point page 126
More Symmetrical

14. Review Who was the first “owner” of Carolina?
Who were the LP’s and what was the objective of the LP’s?
What two events in England led people to want to move to the New World?
What document came over with the first settlers of Carolina?
What did that document declare?
What fears made colonizing Carolina rough for the first year?
What was the land misunderstanding?
What were the problems with Charles Town at Albemarle Point?
When Charles Town moved what were some improvements?
Where did they move Charles Town to?