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On October 31, 1662, Sir Robert Harley wrote to his brother that he had had the pleasure of an encounter with George Monck, duke of Albemarle, one of the most powerful men in England. Harley reported that Albemarle along “with some others” had embarked on a new colonization project and were in the process of taking out a patent from the monarch for land between Virginia and Spanish Florida. Armed with favorable reports on the prospects for the territory in question, the duke and his associates were ready to commence colonization.
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On Sir William Berkeley’s earlier activities and intermittent interest in the future North Carolina as an appendage of Virginia, see Warren M. Billings, “Sir William Berkeley and the Carolina Proprietary,” North Carolina Historical Review, 72 (1995), 329–42 at 329.
For the connection between Albemarle and Ashley, see, e.g., George Monk to Sir A.A. Cooper, June 4, 1659, in W.D. Christie, ed., Memoirs, Letters, and Speeches of Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Chancellor, from his Birth to the Restoration (London, 1869), pp. 132–33.
Edward, earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford: in which is included A Continuation of his History of the Grand Rebellion, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1857), II, p. 463.
Ronald Hutton, Charles II.: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 157–60, 214–15.
Paul E. Kopperman, “Profile of Failure: the Carolana Project, 1629–1640,” North Carolina Historical Review, 59 (1982), 1–23.
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Roper, L.H. (2004). Prologue. In: Conceiving Carolina. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973474_2
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