... servants servants indentured Albemarle Sound Bath County Saint Augustine South Carolina Weyanoke River Cape Fear English colonies Proprietary governance North Carolina history Proprietary charters New World South Carolina Georgia Bahamas Constitutions Carolina is a fair and spacious...

... to the former Pequot lands between the English colonies of Connecticut and Massachusetts as well as among their Indian allies, all of whom had played a part in the Pequots' overthrow. The decision of John Winthrop, Jr. to establish his new plantation in the heart of the former Pequot country heightened...

... concentrates on western Europe and the English colonies in America. As it argues, expropriation was a common legal practice in many societies in which individuals had rights to land. It was generally accepted that land could be taken from them, with compensation, when the community, however defined, needed...