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}}The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies of the British Empire. The monarch of Great Britain was represented by the Governor of South Carolina, until the colonies declared independence on July 4, 1776.

Etymology

"Carolina" is taken from the Latin word for "Charles" (Carolus), honoring King Charles II, and was first named in the 1663 Royal Charter granting to Edward, Earl of Clarendon; George, Duke of Albemarle; William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley, and Sir John Colleton the right to settle lands in the present-day U.S. states of North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.BOOK, Poore, Ben. Perley, Benjamin Perley Poore, 1877, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States, Volume II,weblink Washington, United States Government Publishing Office, Government Printing Office, 1382–1390, 958743486, Internet Archive,

History

File:Carolinacolony.png|thumb|left|The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south]]Charles Town was the first settlement, established in 1670.BOOK, McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719, 1897, Macmillan, 145, 9780722245941,weblink en, April 9, 2022, April 9, 2022,weblink live, BOOK, Gallay, Alan, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, 2008, Yale University Press, 978-0-300-13321-9, 40–42,weblink April 9, 2022, April 9, 2022,weblink live, King Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the lords proprietor; they planned for a Christian colony. Originally a single proprietary colony, the northern and southern sections grew apart over time, due partly to neglect by the legal heirs of the original lords proprietor. Dissent over the governance of the province led to the appointment of a deputy governor to administer the northern half of the Province of Carolina in 1691. The partition of the province into North and South Carolina became complete in 1712.BOOK, D.J. McCord, The Statutes at Large of South Carolina,weblink 6, 1839, A.S. Johnston, 978-5-87571-708-6, 616, The Yamasee War (1715–1717) ravaged the back-country of the province. Complaints that the proprietors had not done enough to protect the provincials against either the Indians or the neighboring Spanish, during Queen Anne's War (1702–1713), convinced many residents of the necessity of ending proprietary rule. A rebellion broke out against the proprietors in 1719. Acting on a petition of residents, King George I appointed the governor of South Carolina later in that year (the governors of North Carolina would continue to be appointed by the lords proprietor until 1729). After nearly a decade in which the British monarchy sought to locate and buy out the lords, both North and South Carolina became royal colonies in 1729.

Government

{{see also|List of colonial governors of South Carolina}}The Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas was founded c.1725, based in Charles Towne. List of Chief Justices:BOOK, The Statutes at Large of South Carolina,weblink 1, 1836, A.S. Johnston, 439, {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;text-align:left"!rowspan="2"|Incumbent!colspan="2"|Tenure!rowspan="2" width=50% |Notes!Took office!Left officeEdmund Bohun>|died in office of fever Nicholas Trott>|dismissed from office after uprising | not sure |died in office | not sure|removed from office due to paralysis URL=HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=DG78CB7SAPMC&Q=%22JAMES+GRAEME%22+ISABELLA+WRIGHT&PG=PA24 LAST2=WEBBER DATE=2012-03-21 ISBN=978-0-8063-4656-4 ACCESS-DATE=NOVEMBER 19, 2020 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20210612042323/HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=DG78CB7SAPMC&Q=%22JAMES+GRAEME%22+ISABELLA+WRIGHT&PG=PA24, live, URL=HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=UP3BCQAAQBAJ&Q=%22JAMES+GRAEME%22+SOUTH+CAROLINA&PG=PT201 LAST2=EASTMAN DATE=2015-05-04 ISBN=978-1-62585-407-0 ACCESS-DATE=NOVEMBER 19, 2020 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20210612043941/HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=UP3BCQAAQBAJ&Q=%22JAMES+GRAEME%22+SOUTH+CAROLINA&PG=PT201, live, Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice)>Charles Pinckney 17521753 ||died in office, London, England|||William Henry Drayton>|John Rutledge>|resigned and afterwards Chief Justice of the United States after 1791 no further Chief Justices were appointed.{{Historical populations|type= USA1704830000450006400094074125000124244150000EDITOR-FIRST=RICHARD TITLE=COLONIAL AMERICA TO 1763 PLACE=NEW YORK INFOBASE PUBLISHING>FACTS ON FILE PAGES=128–129 EDITOR-LAST=BALKIN TITLE=REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1763 TO 1800 PLACE=NEW YORK INFOBASE PUBLISHING>FACTS ON FILE 171 >ISBN=978-0816025282 UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU >PAGE=1168 ACCESS-DATE=MAY 11, 2020 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20221030174613/HTTPS://WWW2.CENSUS.GOV/PROD2/STATCOMP/DOCUMENTS/CT1970P2-13.PDF, live, }}

See also

• (Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life)
• Bibliography of South Carolina history

Notes

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References

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Further reading

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• Coclanis, Peter A., "Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 130–46.
• Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (1956)
• Edgar, Walter. South Carolina: A History, (1998) the standard scholarly history
• Edgar, Walter, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia, (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) {{ISBN|1-57003-598-9}}, the most comprehensive scholarly guide
• Feeser, Andrea. Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life (University of Georgia Press; 2013) 140 pages; scholarly study explains how the plant's popularity as a dye bound together local and transatlantic communities, slave and free, in the 18th century.
• Smith, Warren B. White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina (1961)
• Tuten, James H. Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom (University of South Carolina Press, 2010) 178 pp.
• Wallace, David Duncan. South Carolina: A Short History, 1520-1948 (1951) online standard scholarly history
• Wright, Louis B. South Carolina: A Bicentennial History' (1976) online, popular survey
• Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (1996)

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External links

• {{Internet Archive author|name=Province of South Carolina}}

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