CHAPTER IX.-FROM 1673 TO 1685.

Sir John Yeamans returns to Barbadoes; Governor West's parliament in South Carolina; Governor Cartright; culture of the vine; peace with the States General; New Jersey; Indian war; jealousies in England of the trade of the colonies: instructions to colonial governors; insurrection in Virginia; affairs in the county of Albemarle; governor Eastchurch; president Miller; Culpepper's insurrection; manifesto; new system of colonial administration; lord Carlisle sent to enforce it in Jamaica; his ineffectual attempt; Culpepper's mission to England; Miller arrested there, tried and acquitted; governor Harvey; settlement of the present town of Charleston; New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts; Lasalle sails up the Mississippi; Spaniards invade the Bahama islands; logwood cutters; Henry Wilkinson, governor of North Carolina; Pennsylvania charter; migration thereto; proprietor's arrival; Lasalle floats down the Mississippi to the gulf of Mexico; lord Cardross leads a colony to Port Royal; Governor Sothel; collection of duties resisted in Massachusetts; quo warranto against the charter; judgment for the king; Kirk appointed governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Plymouth; Lord Effingham, governor of Virginia; parliament of Carolina raises the value of foreign coins; act approved, but afterwards disapproved; demise of Charles II.; notice of European settlements in America.

CHAPTER X.-FROM 1685 TO 1697.

King James continues the attack on the chartered rights of America; Dudley appointed President of New England; 'the Spaniards attack lord Cardross's colony; quo warranto against the charter of Carolina; of New Jersey; New Jersey annexed

to the government of New England; printing presses disallowed in New York; general assembly abolished; Sir Edmund Andross; government of Rhode Island assumed in the king's hands; Huguenots migrate to Boston; many of them proceed to the southern provinces; insurrection of the blacks in Virginia; quo warranto against the province of Maryland; government of Connecticut assumed in the king's hands; Sir Robert Holmes sent to suppress pirates; Monsieur de Lasalle leads a French colony to the northern shore of the gulf of Mexico; vainly seeks for the Mississippi; travels by land towards Canada; is murdered; insurrection in North Carolina; governor Sothel imprisoned; Andross, governor of New England, New York and New Jersey; discontents in New England; clergy advise resistance; King James's abdication; insurrection in New England; charter résumed; Rhode Island follows the example; discontent in New York; Leisler possesses himself of the fort for the prince of Orange; Governor Slaughter, Governor Ludwell; Bishop of London's commissary; irruptions from Canada; French privateers; Sir William Phips attacks and takes Port Royal; fruitless attempt on Quebec and Montreal; first emission of American paper money; French emigrants transported at the royal expense to America; Doctor Cox lays his claim to Carolana before the king; his description of the country; Seth Sothel appears in Charleston; assumes the government; lords proprietors establish a government in the Bahama islands; St. Kitts; French irruptions from Canada; new charter of Massachusetts; governor Phips; Connecticut and Rhode Island; fort William Henry; general post office; governor Harvey; Cherokees solicit the aid of the English against the Esaws and Congarees; Locke's system abrogated; great storm; government of Pennsylvania taken into the king and queen's hands; restored to the proprietor; irruption of the French; commodore Wheeler's expedition;

governor Archdale; his arrival and conduct in North Carolina; goes to South Carolina; rice; commodore Wilmot's expedition; French hostilities; small pox rages in Pamplico; gover nor Harvey; lords commissioners of trade and plantations; parliamentary restrictions; pamphlets on taxing the colonies; Pointiz plunders Carthagena; admiral Morse's expedition; peace with France.

CHAPTER XI.-FROM 1698 TO 1702.

Misunderstanding in respect to American boundaries; Scotch colony at Darien; it gives umbrage to the French and Spaniards; proclamation for the removal of the Scotch; president Walker; change in the general court; captain Kidd; rear admiral Benlow's expedition; first permanent settlement of Louisiana; parliamentary restrictions; British governors ordered to cultivate a good understanding with the French; pirates infest the coast of Carolina; statute relating to pirates; a church of England's missionary resides in North Carolina; state of the colony; society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts incorporated; king James dies; Louis XIV. supports the pretender; rupture with France; governor Moore, of South Carolina marches against St. Augustine; is unsuccessful, and returns; paper currency in South Carolina; notice of European settlements on the continent, and French and English in the West Indies..

CHAPTER XII.-FROM 1702 TO 1710.

Queen Anne declares war against France; Sir Nathaniel Johnston, appointed governor of Carolina; hostilities in the West Indies; lord Granville, the palatine, instructs gover nor Johnston to promote the establishment of the Church of N. CARO. 41

England, by law, in the province: act passed for that purpose: John Ashe sent to England to procure its repeal: gover nor attempts to prevent his departure: he goes to Virginia: the people of Albemarle send Edmund Porter on the same errand: the palatine receives those men coldly: Ashe prepares a defence of his countrymen: sickens and dies: Porter's unsuccessful efforts: corporation established in Charleston, with high ecclesiastical powers: colonists send new representations by Joseph Boon: petitions to the house of lords, from Carolina: the lords proprietors prayed to be heard by counsel, at the bar of the house: the lords address the queen, in favor of the people of Carolina: the matter referred to the lords' commissioners of trade and plantations: who report against the lords proprietors: recommend a quo warranto against the charter: irruptions from Carolina: colonel Church's expedition: governor Daniel: he procures an act, establishing the Church of England in North Carolina: queen Anne's proclamation in respect to foreign coins: parliamentary restrictions modified: bounty on naval stores: first American newspaper: bishop of London's commissary in Carolina: Indian treaty: Sir Nathaniel Johntson appoints Thomas Carey deputy governor, in North Carolina: act relating to oaths: lords proprietors disapprove of Thomas Carey: direct the council in North Carolina, to appoint a president, and commander in chief: president Glover: Carey possesses himself of the records and resumes the su preme power: Subercase's expedition: Lefebvre's unsuccessful attack on Charleston: earl of Craven palatine: election of two presidents and two councils, in North Carolina: assembly supports Carey: Glover's message: Quaker members: missionaries: their reports: French Huguenots: statute regulating the value of foreign coins: Palatines: Swiss emigrants: baron de Graaffenreidt: Newbern: feuds and dissentions missionaries: governor Hyde: behaviour of Carey: assembly have a new

insurrection: relief sought from Virginia: mediator, and con-
duct of governor Hyde and Carey: Quakers: Carey's party re-
pelled by the militia: he flies: attempts to gain the Indians to
his party: fails: goes to Virginia: he is arrested and sent
to England.

CHAPTER XIII.-FROM 1710 TO 1713.

General Nicholson takes Port Royal: general post office:
missionaries: Indian massacre: relief from South Carolina:
governor Spotswood: proceedings in Virginia, on the relief to
be sent to Carolina: misintelligence: dissolution of the as-
sembly: governor's representation: colonel Barnwell arrives,
with forces from South Carolina: attacks and defeats the
Indians capitulation granted to them reprobated: communica-
tions made to the lords proprietors on the Indian war: gover-
nor Hyde's instructions: officers of the provinces: Civil list:
meeting of the legislature: baron de Graaffenreidt paroled:
epidemic: governor Hyde dies; president Pollock: his first
communication to the lords proprietors: relief from Virginia:
Tom Blunt, a Tuscarora chief: preliminaries of peace: colonel
Moore marches with forces, from South Carolina: attacks and
conquers the Indians: South Carolina Indians move away with
prisoners: meeting of the legislature: Matchchapungos Indians:
emission of paper money: colonel Moore reduces the Match-
chapungos and Cores: incipient state of tranquility.

CHAPTER XIV-FROM 1713 TO 1722.

Peace of Utrecht: Pacto del assiento: Campeachy wood:
governor Eden: receipts at the treasury: civil list: lord
Craven, palatine: Yamassee Indians: massacre in South Caro-
lina: Matchchapungos hearing of it, endeavor to rise, but are