or, usurps the government......1690
Sothel is compelled to relinquish the government on charge of malfeasance, and Philip Ludwell is appointed governor......1692
Fundamental constitutions abrogated by the lords proprietors......April, 1693
Act making all alien inhabitants freemen on petitioning the governor and swearing allegiance to the King, with liberty of conscience to all Christians except Papists......1696
Congregationalists from Dorchester, Mass., with their pastor, Rev. Joseph Lord, settle near the head of Ashley River......1696
Combined naval and land expedition from Carolina, under Governor Moore and Colonel Daniel, besieges St. Augustine.
Two Spanish vessels appearing in the harbor, Governor Moore raises the siege after burning the town......September, 1702
First issue of paper money in America made by Carolina to meet £ 6,000, expenses of the expedition against Florida......September, 1702
Carolina troops, under Governor Moore, make an expedition aga
tation of the term.
A list of those accredited to Charlestown, who graduated from Harvard College previous to 1701, may prove interesting.
(From Bartlett's Address, 1813.)
Comfort Starr, 1647,Nathaniel Cutler, 1663,
Samuel Nowell, 1653,Alexander Nowell, 1664,
Joshua Long, 1653 (?),Daniel Russell, 1669,
Thomas Greaves, 1656,Isaac Foster, 1671,
Zechariah Symmes, 1657,Samuel Phipps, 1671,
Zechariah Brigden, 1657,Nicholas Morton, 1686,
Benjamin Bunker, 1658,Nicholas Lynde, 1690,
Joseph Lord, 1691.
A personal examination of the town records shows that from the opening of this century, almost without exception thereafter, the inhabitants of Charlestown, in town meeting assembled, discussed the welfare of the school and voted the annual appropriation for the same.
Thus they were building, better, perhaps, than they knew, for upon foundations, similarly well laid, has risen, slowly but surely, the magnificent structure of our present school system.
March 1, 1702-3. ‘Vote