North+Carolina

__** North Caolina **__

**The Lord Ashley**
 * North Carolina was founded in 1653.
 * The first settlement was made by the Virginians, on the banks of Chowan and Roanoke rivers,in a district called Albemarle from the Duke of Albemarle.
 * was a colony of British America, controlled by the Lords Proprietors, a group of eight English noblemen led informally by member Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury founded the colony
 * The colonly was founded to provide a buffer for the southern frontier,and to use the land to grow and trade tobacco, indigo, and later cotton. It was split into two colonies, North and South Carolina, in the 1700s. [[image:images-4.jpg width="260" height="172" align="right"]]
 * **The Lord Ashley** from 1661 to 1672 was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II. A founder of the Whig party, he is probably best known as the patron of John Locke. Ashley took an interest in colonial ventures, and was one of the Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina; in 1669, Ashley and Locke collaborated in writing the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina.
 * Major economic activity of colony is cotton and tobaco. Crops where grown in tide water area.
 * Present day capital is Raleigh.
 * North Carolina was a proprietary and then obtained a royal charter in 1729 from King George II. Came under the direct, everday governmental controll on english monarchy.After agreeing to the first 12 amendments in 1789 North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the new constitution.