This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution.
The Province of North Carolina,originally known as Albemarle Province,was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776.(p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monarch of Great Britain was represented by the Governor of North Carolina,until the colonies declared independence on July 4,1776.
The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South on January 24,1712.
Thomas Jarvis was the Deputy Governor of the Carolina Province from 1691 to 1694.
William Stoughton was a New England Puritan magistrate and administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was in charge of what have come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials,first as the Chief Justice of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692,and then as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693. In these trials he controversially accepted spectral evidence. Unlike some of the other magistrates,he never admitted to the possibility that his acceptance of such evidence was in error.
A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary".
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted on March 1,1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina,which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida. It replaced the Charter of Carolina and the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina (1665). The date March 1,1669 was the date that proprietors confirmed the Constitutions and sent them to the Colony,but later on two other versions were introduced in 1682 and in 1698. Moreover,the proprietors suspended the Constitutions in 1690. Despite the claims of proprietors on the valid version of the Constitution,the colonists officially recognized the July 21,1669 version,claiming that six proprietors had sealed the Constitutions as "the unalterable form and rule of Government forever" on that date. The earliest draft of this version in manuscript is believed to be the one found at Columbia,South Carolina archives.
Merry Hill is a rural unincorporated community located in Merry Hill Township in Bertie County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. This area is composed of mostly farm land. Within the town there is one school,Lawrence Academy (Private),which was founded in 1968 and is located on Avoca Farm Road. In the middle of the town is the post office,with the zip code 27957. Avoca Incorporated is a large company,located where the original Avoca Plantation existed,that profits from botanical extraction. Salmon Creek twists and turns through the wooded area of Merry Hill and opens up to the Albemarle Sound. This is known as the Mouth of Salmon Creek. There is currently a golf course called Scotch Hall Preserve in Merry Hill,built in 2009,that overlooks the Mouth of Salmon Creek and reaches out into the Albemarle Sound. The course was designed by retired professional golfer Arnold Palmer.
Cary's Rebellion was an uprising against the Deputy Governor of North-Carolina in 1711 led by Thomas Cary,who refused to give up his governorship to Edward Hyde. The rebellion was a part of a long-standing tension between religious and political groups in northern Carolina,generally divided between the Quaker party,of which Cary was a part,and the Church of England party,to which Hyde belonged.
Edward Hyde was a British colonial administrator who served as the first governor of North Carolina from 24 January until 8 September in 1712,when he died in office. He governed during a time of tremendous turmoil,including an internal revolt known as Cary's Rebellion and an American Indian conflict called the Tuscarora War.
Philip Cottington Ludwell was an English-born planter and politician in colonial Virginia who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council,the first of three generations of men with the same name to do so,and briefly served as speaker of the House of Burgesses. In addition to operating plantations in Virginia using enslaved labor,Ludwell also served as the first governor of the Carolinas,during the colony's transition from proprietary rule to royal colony.
Culpeper's Rebellion was a popular uprising in 1677 provoked by the enforcement of the Navigation Acts. It was led by settler John Culpeper against the ruling Lords Proprietor in Albemarle County,Carolina,near what is now Elizabeth City,North Carolina. The uprising met with only limited success,but Culpeper himself was acquitted of rebellion and became a hero,and the Lords Proprietor subsequently made efforts to strengthen the colony's government.
Robert Quary (1644–1712) was a governor of the English proprietary Province of Carolina during 1685. He would later serve on the provincial councils of several other colonies.
Thomas Harvey (1668–1699) was the Deputy Governor of North Carolina from 1694 to 1699.
John Harvey was the governor of Albemarle Sound,in The Carolinas,in 1679.
The Revolution of 1719 was a bloodless military coup in the Province of South Carolina which resulted in the overthrow of the Lords Proprietors and the installation of Colonel James Moore,Jr. as the colony's de facto ruler,a post he held until 1721.
John Gibbs was an American noble. He led Gibbs Rebellion in 1690 following the Governorship of Seth Sothel.
