Province of South Carolina

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Province of South Carolina
Province of Great Britain
1712–1776
Colonial SC.png
Location of South Carolina in North America
Anthem
"God Save the King" [a]
Capital Charlestown
Area
 • Coordinates 34°N81°W / 34°N 81°W / 34; -81
Government
 • Type Proprietary colony
(1712-1729)
Crown colony
(1729-1776)
Monarch  
• 1712–1714
Anne
• 1714–1727
George I
• 1727–1760
George II
• 1760–1776
George III
Governor  
• 1712
Robert Gibbes (first)
• 1775–1776
Lord William Campbell (last)
Legislature General Assembly
• Upper house
Council
• Lower house
Assembly
Historical era Georgian era
• Partition of Carolina
24 January 1712
• Charter of Georgia
June 9, 1732
4 July 1776
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Blank.png Province of Carolina
South Carolina Blank.png
Today part ofUnited States
  • Alabama
  • Mississippi
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • North Carolina
  • Georgia

The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the Thirteen Colonies in America of the British Empire. The monarch of Great Britain was represented by the Governor of South Carolina, until the colonies declared independence on July 4, 1776.

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Etymology

"Carolina" is taken from the Latin word for "Charles" (Carolus), honoring King Charles I, and was first named in the 1663 Royal Charter granting to Edward, Earl of Clarendon; George, Duke of Albemarle; William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley, and Sir John Colleton the right to settle lands in the present-day U.S. states of North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. [2] [3]

History

The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south Carolinacolony.png
The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south

Charles Town was the first settlement, established in 1670. [4] [5] King Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the lords proprietor; they planned for a Christian colony. Originally a single proprietary colony, the northern and southern sections grew apart over time, due partly to neglect by the legal heirs of the original lords proprietor. Dissent over the governance of the province led to the appointment of a deputy governor to administer the northern half of the Province of Carolina in 1691. The partition of the province into North and South Carolina became complete in 1712. [6]

The Yamasee War (1715–1717) ravaged the back-country of the province. Complaints that the proprietors had not done enough to protect the provincials against either the Indians or the neighboring Spanish, during Queen Anne's War (1702–1713), convinced many residents of the necessity of ending proprietary rule. A rebellion broke out against the proprietors in 1719. Acting on a petition of residents, King George I appointed the governor of South Carolina later in that year (the governors of North Carolina would continue to be appointed by the lords proprietor until 1729). After nearly a decade in which the British monarchy sought to locate and buy out the lords, both North and South Carolina became royal colonies in 1729.

Government

The Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas was founded c.1725, based in Charles Towne. List of Chief Justices: [7]

IncumbentTenureNotes
Took officeLeft office
Edmund Bohun 16981699died in office of fever
Nicholas Trott c.17021718dismissed from office after uprising
Richard Alleyn1719not sure
Robert Wright17301739died in office
Thomas Dale17 Oct 1739November 1739not sure
Benjamin Whitaker7 Nov 17391749removed from office due to paralysis
James Graeme6 Jul 174929 August 1752 [8] died in office [9]
Charles Pinckney 17521753
Peter Leigh1753
James Michie1 Sep 175916 July 1760died in office, London, England
William Simpson24 Jan 1761
Charles Skinner1762
Thomas Knox Gordon13 May 1771
William Henry Drayton 13 Apr 1776
John Rutledge 16 Feb 17911795resigned and afterwards Chief Justice of the United States
after 1791 no further Chief Justices were appointed.
Historical population
YearPop.±%
172017,048—    
173030,000+76.0%
174045,000+50.0%
175064,000+42.2%
176094,074+47.0%
1769125,000+32.9%
1770124,244−0.6%
1775150,000+20.7%
Source: 1720–1760; [10] 1769–1775 [11] 1770–1775 [12]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There was no authorized version of the national anthem as the words were a matter of tradition; only the first verse was usually sung. [1] No statute had been enacted designating "God Save the King" as the official anthem. In the English tradition, such laws are not necessary; proclamation and usage are sufficient to make it the national anthem. "God Save the King" also served as the Royal anthem for certain royal colonies. The words King, he, him, his were replaced by Queen, she, her when the monarch was female.

References

  1. ↑ Berry, Ciara (January 15, 2016). "National Anthem". The Royal Family. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ "North Carolina State Library—North Carolina History". Statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ Poore, Ben. Perley, ed. (1877). The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States, Volume II. Washington: Government Printing Office. pp. 1382–1390. OCLC   958743486 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ↑ McCrady, Edward (1897). The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719. Macmillan. p. 145. ISBN   9780722245941. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  5. ↑ Gallay, Alan (2008). The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. Yale University Press. pp. 40–42. ISBN   978-0-300-13321-9. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
  6. ↑ D.J. McCord (1839). The Statutes at Large of South Carolina. Vol. 6. A.S. Johnston. p. 616. ISBN   978-5-87571-708-6.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  7. ↑ The Statutes at Large of South Carolina. Vol. 1. A.S. Johnston. 1836. p. 439.
  8. ↑ Salley, Alexander Samuel; Webber, Mabel L. (March 21, 2012). Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette 1732-1775/Death Notices in the South Carolina Gazette, 1766-1774. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN   978-0-8063-4656-4. Archived from the original on June 12, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Dorothy Middleton; Eastman, Margaret Middleton Rivers (May 4, 2015). St. Philip's Church of Charleston: An Early History of the Oldest Parish in South Carolina. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   978-1-62585-407-0. Archived from the original on June 12, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  10. ↑ Purvis, Thomas L. (1999). Balkin, Richard (ed.). Colonial America to 1763. New York: Facts on File. pp.  128–129. ISBN   978-0816025275.
  11. ↑ Purvis, Thomas L. (1995). Balkin, Richard (ed.). Revolutionary America 1763 to 1800. New York: Facts on File. p.  171. ISBN   978-0816025282.
  12. ↑ "Colonial and Pre-Federal Statistics" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. p. 1168. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 30, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2020.

Further reading

Preceded by
Southern part of the Province of Carolina
1663–1712
 Province of South Carolina
1712–1776		Succeeded by
State of South Carolina
1776–present
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