00' to 36 deg.

30', the present south boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
[Illustration: CAROLINA AS GRANTED BY King Charles II] There was at first no intention of dividing the territory, although, after Charleston was founded (1670), North Carolina and South Carolina sometimes had separate governors.

But in 1729 the proprietors sold Carolina to the King, and it was then divided into two distinct and separate royal provinces.
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New York.%--An event of far greater importance than the chartering of Carolina was the seizure of New Netherland.

After the conquest of New Sweden, in 1655, the possessions and claims of the Dutch in our country extended from the Connecticut River to the Delaware River, and from the Mohawk to Delaware Bay.