Carolana
Carolana was an American colony projected by Daniel Coxe, an English physician and land speculator.
By 1698 Coxe had acquired title to the Sir Robert Heath grant of 1629, under which he claimed the region in the rear of the Carolina settlements and including the lower Mississippi Valley.[1] The expedition which was sent out to plant the colony landed at Charleston, South Carolina. But, one ship sailed up the Mississippi River for 100 miles; turning back when Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville informed the captain, on September 15, 1699, that the French already occupied the region. (See Louisiana (New France).) Coxe reasserted his claim to the territory, but his colony never materialized.
See also
Sources
- Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
- David E. Lambert (2010). The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia. Peter Lang. pp. 87–99. ISBN 978-1-4331-0759-7. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
Notes
- ↑ Hunter, Michael. "Coxe, Daniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37319. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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