Chronology of North Carolina: Showing When the Most Remarkable Events Connected with Her History Took Place, from the Year 1584 to the Present Time, with Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint)

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The North Carolinians are indebted, for the discov ery and first effort to colonize their State, to the zeal and enterprise of Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the leading statesmen, and the most accomplished gentleman of his day. Endowed with a daring and fertile genius, and an ambition that looked beyond the intrigues of Euro pean courts, Raleigh made himself familiar with the accounts of navigators and adventurers who had visited the shores of this Western World and to plant a colony and build up a great State became, with him, a darling object. To carry out his designs, he obtained from Queen Elizabeth (march, 1584) a grant for such lands as he should discover, not in the possession of any Christian prince or people.

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