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trade.  And there was even greater resentment in 1674 when the people
learned that Lord Culpeper was to become a Virginia Lord Baltimore.
Would the tobacco settlements definitely become a stratified and
submissive social order (1)?
 
 
During the same years, the great lords proprietors were trying to apply
their Landgraf system in Carolina; but every report from pioneers on
the
Albemarle Sound and the Cape Fear River warned that no success was
possible except upon the principle of homesteads for all, the rights of
self-government and religious freedom.  John Locke insisted that such
concessions must be granted, and Clarendon, who denied all religious
freedom in England, agreed that Quakers, and Baptists and New England
Puritans might have all they asked if they would buy lands and pay quit
rents in their new domain.  The first Governor of the Charles Town
settlement was a stern Puritan; and later a loyal Quaker occupied the
same high station.  For thirty years after the beginnings in the
Albemarle region and on the peninsular between the Ashley and the
Cooper rivers, the religious and political groups living on the lands
 
 
1. Hening: 
Statutes
, II, 518 and 534