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Sir John Colleton (1608–1666) served Charles I during the English Civil War. He rose through the Royalist ranks during the conflict, but later had his holdings seized when the Cavaliers were finally defeated by Parliamentary forces. Following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Colleton was one of eight individuals Charles II rewarded for supporting his efforts to regain the throne of England. In 1663, he granted Colleton and the other seven individuals, called Lords Proprietors, the land called Carolina, named in honor of his father, Charles I. Events March 18 - Sissinios formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia May 14 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ...
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Divine, Robert A. America: Past and Present. 6th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2003.
Colleton and Modyford suggested that the proprietors appoint persons to treat with the petitioners, and bring them to accept the right to make by-laws only, and to elect such officials as, for example, the county of Exeter had, while general laws should be made by the inhabitants of the whole province of Carolina.
Colleton was a man of resolution, capable of arbitrary measures and made bold by his consciousness of the support of the proprietors.
Then Colleton, “in some passion,” produced a letter from the proprietors in which, apparently because of their desire to secure the acceptance of the revision of 1682, they repudiated the edition of 1669 as an imperfect copy.
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