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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: p/iet.-iries against the opinion of Locke, who wished to pat all sects on the same footing. Any seven freemen, however, might form a church or religious society, to 167; be recognized and tolerated, provided its members admitted the rightfulness of oaths?a provision which excluded Quakers. By another provision, " every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves, of what opinion and religion soever." This complicated scheme, including and even exagger- March i ating some of the worst features of the feudal system, was intended, so the preamble declared, " to avoid the erecting of a numerous democracy," and to establish a government " agreeable to monarchy." Already, before its formal ratification, three vessels, fitted out with emigrants, at an expense to the proprietaries of,12,000, had sailed from England under the command of William Sayle, a mili- tary officer, who, some twenty years before, had been engaged in attempts to plant a colony in the Bahamas, and who had been more recently employed by the proprietaries of Carolina in exploring the coasts of their province. Joseph West went with this company as commercial agent for the proprietaries, authorized to supply the settlers with provisions and tools, and to receive in payment peltry, beeswax, and agricultural produce generally?a speculation which imposed in the end a heavy loss on the proprietaries. This new settlement was to be known as the county of Carteret. Every settler was to be entitled to a hundred and fifty acres of land. The vessels of this expedition, touching at Barbadoos on their way, came to anchor in the harbor of Port Royal, on whose shores were yet visible some traces of the fort erected by the Huguenots a hundred years before. The name of this fort was preserve...