They rewarded Locke with the first patent of Carolina nobility, which carried with it a grant of forty-eight thousand acres.

For forty years they clung to the fundamental constitutions, notwithstanding repeated rejections of them by the colonists.
The fund of 1669 was used in planting what proved a permanent settlement of English and Barbadians on the shores of Charleston Harbor.

Thereafter the Lords Proprietors relapsed into passiveness, commissioning a new governor now and then and occasionally scolding the colonists for disobedience.

The progress of settlement was allowed to take what course it might.
The fundamental constitutions recognized the institution of negro slavery, and some of the first Barbadians may have carried slaves with them to Carolina.

But in the early decades Indian trading, lumbering and miscellaneous farming were the only means of livelihood, none of which gave distinct occasion for employing negroes.