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rget the world, till rent-day drew near, and quit-rents might be 1666. demanded. Chalmers, 520. Such was the origin of fixed settlements in North Carolina. The child of ecclesiastical oppression was swathed in independence. But not New England and Virginia only turned their eyes to the southern part of our republic. Several planters of Barbadoes, dissatisfied with their condition, and desiring to establish a colony under their 1663. own exclusive direction, despatched a vessel to Sept. 29 to Dec. 4. to examine the country. What other report could be made by the careful leaders of the expedition, than that the climate was agreeable, and the soil of various qualities; that game abounded; that the natives were ready to promise peace? The account is reprinted in Lawson, 65—73. Martin, 180, &c, less perfectly. They purchased of the Indians a tract of land thirty-two miles square, on Cape Fear River, near the neglected settlement of the New Englanders, and their employers beg