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Lord Charles, or ignore the confidential relations of three other
kinsmen of the same name with the Duke of York and the aging Catholic
Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria. Before he departed he received a gift of
2,000 (pounds) from the King and was made one of the eight lords
proprietors of the vast territory between Virginia and Florida, the
other leading proprietors being Lord John Berkeley, Albemarle,
Carteret, Clarendon and Shaftesbury.  The domain was to be divided into
48,000-acre tracts, each presided over by a Landgraf of ducal rank who
was to subdivide his domain into manors of 12,000 acres each.  Sir
William, who already owned tracts of land in the region, was made
temporary supervisor and authorized to appoint a governor of the
dissenter settlement soon to be known as Albemarle.  About a year after
Sir Wllilam's return, Lord John Berkeley was made joint overlord of New
Jersey, with Sir George Carteret as his partner. Two years before the
South Carolina settlement was made, Thomas Lord Culpeper and two or
three other favorites of the governing clique were granted