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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
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to the government of New England; printing presses disallow - ed in New York; general assembly abolished; Sir Edmund An- dross; 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 Vir- ginia; quo warranto against the province of Maryland; go- vernment of Connecticut assumed in the king's hands; Sir Ro- bert 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 to- wards Canada; is murdered; insurrection in North Carolina; go- vernor Sothel imprisoned; Andross, governor of New England, New York and New Jersey; discontents in New England; clergy advise resistance; King James's abdication; insurrec- tion in New England; charter resumed; Rhode Island follows the example; discontent in New York; Leisler possesses him- self 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 Mont- real; first emission of American paper money; French emi- grants transported at the royal expense to America; Doctor Cox lays his claim to Carolana before the king; his descrip- tion of the country; Seth Sothel appears in Charleston; as- sumes the government; lords proprietors establish a govern- ment 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 difice; governor Harvey; Cherokees solicit the aid of the English against the Esaws and Congarees; Locke's system abrogated; great storm; government of Pennsylvania taken int > the king and queen's hands; restored to the proprietor; irruption of the French; commodore Wheeler's expedition;
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governor Archdale; his arrival and conduct in NorthCarolina ; goes to South Carolina; rice; commodore Wilmot's expedi- tion; 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 1693 TO 1709.
Misunderstanding in respect to American boundaries; Scotch colony at Darien; it gives umbrage to the French and Span- iards; 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 or- dered to cultivate a good understanding with the French; pi- rates 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 fo- reign parts incorporated; king James dies; Louis XIV. sup- - ports the pretender; rupture with France; governor Moore, of South Carolina marches against St. Augustine; is unsuc- cessful, and returns; paper currency in South Carolina; no- tice 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
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England, by law, in the province: act passed for that pur- pose: 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 de- fence of his countrymen: sickens and dies: Porter's unsuccess- ful 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' commis- sioners of trade and plantations: who report against the lords proprietors: recommend a quo warranto against the charter: irruptions from Carolina: colonel Church's expedition: gover- nor Daniel: he procures an act, establishing the Church of England in North Carolina: queen Anne's proclamation in re- spect 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 sup- ports Carey : Glover's message: Quaker members : missionaries: their reports: French Huguenots: statute regulating the val- ue of foreign coins: Palatines: Swiss emigrants: baron de Graaffenreidt: Newbern: fends and dissentions missionaries: governor Hyde: behaviour of Carey: assembly have a new
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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 1792.
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
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suppressed: meeting of the legislature: revisal of the laws: emission of paper money: resolves of the assembly: repro- bated by the council: assembly dissolved by proclamation: lords proprietors insist on payment in sterling money: wes- tern country: project of a western land company: transporta- tion of convicts: lands allotted to Tuscaroras: pirates: Ed- ward Teach: he comes to North Carolina: surrenders himself to governor Eden, with his associates: they go to sea: bring in a French ship: obtain her condemnation: vex the people in Pamplico: application to governor Spotswood for relief: he sends a naval force: Teach is attacked and killed: his compa- nions surrender: are carried to Virginia: tried, convicted, and executed: disturbances in North Carolina: Moseley and Moore seize the records of the colony: Governor Eden commits them : they are tried, fined, &c .: governor Eden and C. J. Knight, accused of having favored Teach: exculpated: revolution in Carolina: governor Johnston deposed: a new government es- tablished: James Moore, governor: Pensacola, taken and re- taken: governor and council in North Carolina, declare their attachment and fidelity to the lords proprietors: meeting of the legislature: Edenton: scire facias against the charter of Car- olina: Francis Nicholson comes to Charleston, as governor for the king: end of proprietary government there: calls a legis- lature: they recognize their immediate dependence on the crown: instructions to governors of Carolina and Florida: peace with the Indians: Pensacola restored to the Spaniards: New Orleans: French attempt to hem in the English, between the mountains and the sea: governor Bennett: St. Lucia and St. Vincent: governor Eden dies.
CHAPTER XV .- FROM 1722 TO 1799.
President Pollock: Carteret precinct: missionary: president ·
Pollock dies: president Reed: road from Bath to Newbern:
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emission of paper money: court houses: Bertie precinct: Cape Fear settlement: Vermont: legislature: governor Barrington: his instructions and powers: officers of government: re- ceipts and expenditures: Chowan Indians: chief justice and associates: governor Burrington goes to Cape Fear: land granted in the county of Bath: governor Everard: state of the. colony: surveyor general of the customs, for the southern dis- trict of North America: expenses: requisites to save land: demise of George I .: meeting of the legislature: house of commons recommend the purchase of Carolina: northern boundary line run: last legislature: emission of paper money: Hyde precinct separated from Beaufort: Tyrrel precinct: Woodstock: New Hanover precinct: statute authorizing the the purchase of Carolina, by the king: seven lords proprietors sell their shares: lord Carteret retains his: end of proprietary overnment: a view of the British provinces on the continent.
END OF VOLUME I.
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APPENDIX.
NORTH CAROLINA, SS.
AT a Council, held at the house of Frederick Jones, Esq. May 27th, 1719: Present, the honorable Charles Eden. Esq. governor, captain general and admiral; Thomas Pollock, William Reed, Ira Foster, Frederick Jones, and Richard Sanderson, Esquires, lords proprietors' deputies.
IN pursuance of an order of council, dated April 4th, 1719, Tobias Knight, esq. secretary of this pro- vince, and a member of the council, attended this board, to make answer to the several depositions, and other evidences, mentioned in the aforesaid order; which said depositions and evidences were read, in the following words: Copies of several depositions, and other evidences, given before the court of admi- ralty, constituted by commission under the great seal, for hearing and determining cases of piracy, for the colony of Virginia, the 12th March, for the trial of James Blake, alias Jemmy, and other pirates, late of the crew of Edward Teache. Hezekiah Hand, late master of the sloop Adventure, commanded by Ed- ward 'Teache, being sworn and examined, deposed, that he was on board the said sloop Adventure, at the taking of two French ships, in the month of August last past, and that all the prisoners at the bar were on board the said sloop, and bore arms under Teache at
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the time of the said piracy; that Teache plundered one of the ships of some cocoa, and brought the other in with him to North Carolina, having first put her crew on board the ship first mentioned; that, soon after Teache arrived at Ocracock inlet, he went in a pirogue, with some of the prisoners, by names James Blake, Richard Stiles, James White and Thomas Gates, to Mr. Tobias Knight, secretary of North Carolina, carrying with him a present of chocolate, loaf sugar and sweetments, being a part of what was taken on board the French ships above mentioned, and that, upon Teache's return from Mr. Knight's, he, the deponent, saw divers goods brought in the pirogue, which Teache said he bought in the country, but the deponent afterwards hearing that one William Bell had been robbed, and understanding, as well by common report as by discourse with the said Bell, of what kind of goods he had been robbed, the deponent knew them to be the same which Teache had brought on board his sloop, but durst not discover to the said Bell who had robbed him. The four prisoners being asked whether they knew of the robbery of Bell's pirogue, acknowledged, that, some time in September, they went from Ocracock, in a pirogue, with Edward Teiche, to the house of Tobias Knight, secretary of North Carolina, and carried in the said pirogue three or four kegs of sweetmeats, some loaf sugar, a bag of chocolate, and some boxes. the contents of which they did not know; that they got to the said Knight's house about twelve or one o'clock in the night, and carried up the kegs and boxes aforesaid, which were all left there, except one keg of sweetmeats, which was carried back in the pirogue ; that the said Knight
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was then at home, and the said Teache staid with him until about an hour before the break of day, and then departed; that, about three miles from the said Knight's house, at a place called Chester's landing, they saw a pirogue lying near the shore, upon which Teache ordered them to row up towards her, saying he would go ashore, to Chester's house, but when he came up with the said pirogue, (in which were a white man, a boy and an Indian.) Teache asked them for a dram, and immediately jumped aboard of the pirogue, and after some dispute, plundered her, carrying away with him some money, one cask of pipes, a cask of rum or brandy, some linen, and other things, and then the said Teache commanded the said prisoners to row away for Ocracock inlet, instead of going ashore at Chester's, as he first gave out he intended.
William Bell, of the precinct of Currituck, being sworn and examined, deposeth, that being on board his pirogue, at the landing of John Chester, on Pan- chicough river, in North Carolina, on the night of the 15th September last, a large pirogue passed by, stand ing up the river, that a little before break of day, the pirogue returned, and came on board the deponent; that a white man, who, he since understands, was Edward Teache, entered the deponent's pirogue, and asked him if he had any thing to drink, to which the deponent answered, it was so dark he could not well see to draw any, whereupon, the said Teache called for his sword, which was handed him from his own pirogue, and commanded the deponent to put his hands behind him, in order to be tied, swearing, damnation seize him, he would kill the deponent if he did not tell him truly where the money was; that
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the deponent asked him who he was and whence he came, to which the said Teache replied, he came from hell, where he would carry him presently; that the said deponent laid hold of the said Teache and struggled with him, upon which he called to his men to come on board to his assistance, and they came and laid hold of the deponent, his son and an Indian he had with him: that then the said Teache demanded his pistols, and the deponent telling him they were locked up in his chest, he was going to break it open; but the deponent intreated him not do so, saying he would unlock it, but though he permitted the deponent to open the chest, he would not suffer him to put his hands therein, but took his pistols out himself; that the said Teache having got the deponent's pirogue out into the middle of the river, rifled her, took away £66 10 in cash, one piece of crape, containing fifty- eight yards, a box of pipes, half a barrel of brandy. and several other goods, the particulars are mentioned in an account the deponent now delivered into court; that, particularly, the deponent was robbed of a silver cup, of a remarkable fashion, being made to screw in the middle, the 'upper part resembling a chalice the lower a tumbler, which cup, the deponent is informed. has been found on board Teache's sloop; that when the said Teache and his crew had taken what they thought fit from the deponent, they tossed his sails and oars overboard, and then rowed down the river; that . the said Teache, in beating the deponent, broke his sword about a quarter of a yard from the point, which broken piece of the sword the deponent found in the pirogue, and now produces in court; and this depo- nent verily believes Teache had intelligence of his
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having money, otherwise he would have passed by in returning from, as he did in going to, Mr. Knight's, without concerning himself with the pirogue: and the deponent further saith, that within two hours after he had been thus robbed, he went to complain to the governor of North Carolina, who sent him to Mr. Knight's, then chief justice, upon which the said Knight gave him the warrant of hue and crv, which he now produces in court, and that, notwithstanding the deponent did particularly describe the pirogue, and the men by whom he had been robbed, and did repeat, as near as he could, the language the white man used to the deponent, and declared that the other four were negroes, or white men disguised as such, and that the said pirogue had passed by the same night towards his house, or Bath town, yet the said Tobias Knight did not discover to the deponent that any such pirogue had been at his house, or that he knew of Teache's being in the country. There was pro- duced a letter from the before named Tobias Knight, directed to captain Edward Teache, on board the sloop Adventure, which letter was proved to have been found among Teache's papers, after his death, and by comparison of the hand with other papers, appears to be the writing of the said Tobias Knight, which said letter was read, and is as follows:
November 17, 1717.
MY FRIEND: If this finds you yet in harbour, I would have you make the best of your way up, as soon as possible your affairs will let you. I have something more to say to you than, at present I can write; the bearer will tell you the end of our Indian
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, war, and Ganet can tell you, in part, what I have to say to you; so I refer you, in some measure, to him. I really think these three men are heartily sorry at their difference with you, and will be very willing to ask your pardon. If I may advise, be friends again: it is better to, than falling out among yourselves. I expect the governor this night, or to-morrow, who, I believe, would be glad likewise to see you, before you go. I have not time to add, save my hearty re- spects to you, and am your real friend and servant.
T. KNIGHT.
After which, captain Ellis Brand, commander of his majesty's ship the Syren, declared, that, having received information of twenty barrels of sugar and two bags of cotton, lodged by Edward Teache at the house of Tobias Knight, he asked the said Knight for those goods, they being part of the cargo piratically taken from the French ship, and that the said Knight, with many asseverations, positively de- nied that any such goods were about his plantation; but yet the next day. when the said captain Brand urged the matter home to him, and told him of the proofs he could bring, as well by the persons con- cerned in landing the said goods, as by memoran- dums in Teache's pocket-book, he, the said Knight, owned the whole matter, and the piratical goods aforesaid were found in his barn, covered with fodder.
At a Court of Admiralty, continued and held at the Capital, the 13th day of March, 1718.
Whereas it has appeared to this court, Mr. Tobias Knight, Secretary of North Carolina, hath given just
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cause to suspect his being privy to the piracies, com- mitted by Edward Teache and his crew, and hath received and concealed the articles by them pirati- cally taken, whereby he has become an accessory.
It is, therefore, the opinion of this court, that a copy of the evidences given to this court, so far as they relate to the said Tobias Knight's behaviour, be transmitted to the governor of North Carolina, to the end, he may cause the said Knight to be appre- hended and proceeded against, pursuant to the direc- tions of the act of parliament, for the more effectual suppression of piracy.
And then the said Tobias Knight did remonstrate to this board, in answer thereto, as followeth:
NORTH CAROLINA.
To the honorable Charles Eden, governor, and to the rest of the members of the honorable the council, now sitting:
The humble remonstrance of Tobias Knight, esq. secretary of this province, and a member of this board, in answer to the several depositions, and other pre- tended evidences, taken against him, at a court of admiralty, holden at the capital. in Virginia, on the 12th day of March, 1718. First, The said Tobias Knight doth aver for truth, and doubts not to make it evidently appear, that he is not, in anywise whatso- ever, guilty of the least of these crimes, which are so slyly, maliciously and falsely suggested and insinu- ated against him. by the said pretended evidence. The which to make more apparent to your honors, the said Tobias Knight doth pray your honors, first, to con- sider as to the evidences themselves; they being such as contradict themselves, or as not to be taken in any
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court of record, or elsewhere, against the said Tobias Knight. or any other white man; for, first, Hezekiah Hands, master of captain Teache's sloop Adventure, seems to swear positively, in his deposition, that the said Teache went from Ocracock inlet, on his return to this country, from his last voyage, with a present to the said Tobias Knight's house, when, by the same deposition, he acknowledgeth that to be out of the reach of his knowledge, he being all the time at the said inlet, which lies at above thirty leagues distance from his house; and, further, the said Tobias Knight doth pray your honors to observe, that the aforesaid Hezekiah Hands was, as he has been well informed, for some time before the giving of the said evidence, kept in prison, under the terrors of death, or a most severe prosecution, and that there doth apparently appear throughout the whole evidence, more of art, malice and design against the said Tobias Knight than truth. Secondly, As to the four next evidences pretended to be given against the said Tobias Knight, under the name and pretext of four of captain Teache's men, is utterly false, and such as the said Tobias Knight humbly conceives ought not to be taken against him, for that they are, though cunningly couched under the names of Christians, no other than four negro slaves, who, by the laws and customs of all America, ought not to be examined as evidence, neither is their evidence of any validity against any white person whatsoever; and, further, that the said negroes, at the time of their giving the pretended evi- dence aforesaid, as the said Tobias Knight is in- formed, were upon trial for their own lives, for the supposed piracies by them committed on board the said Teache, and that what they did then say was in
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hopes of obtaining money, though they were then condemned, and since executed, so that, had they been ever so lawful evidences, the said Tobias Knight is debarred from his right and benefit of an examination of them. Thirdly, as to the deposition ' of Wm. Bell, I shall only observe to your honors that there is nothing in it, that can affect the said Tobias Knight, save that it is therein cunningly suggested that Edward Teache was at the said Tobias Knight's house, the night in which he was robbed, which the said Tobias Knight has good reason to believe was rather an artful and malicious design of those that drew the said deposition; for, had it been true, it was impossible to have been within the reach of his know- ledge, and besides the said Bell, upon his examina- tion, the day after he was robbed, had in suspicion one Smith Uudy, Tetery Dick, and others, and hath since the date of that deposition, viz: on or about the 25th of April last past, declared, that he doth verily believe, that the said Teache was not at that time at the said Tobias Knight's house, for the truth of which, the said Tobias Knight doth humbly refer to the examination and deposition of Mr. Ed- mund Chamberlain. Fourthly, as to the pretended evidence of captain Ellis Brand, the said Tobias Knight doth humbly conceive the same ought not to affect him; for had it been true, it should, and ought to have, been upon oath, which it is not, though the said Tobias Knight doth, in the most solemn manner, aver that the said pretended evidence is every word false, and that the said Brand never did, at any time, speak one word. or mention to the said Knight, in any manner whatsoever, touching or concerning
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