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The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in...

This is a list of the colonial governors of North Carolina. Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh (1587–1590)...

unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. Lane's colony was troubled...

The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Seventy-five people have held the office since its inception...

"The Royal Colony Governors". Carolana.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019. Robinson, Blackwell P. (1963). The Five Royal Governors of North Carolina 1729-1775...

to the appointment of a royal governor for South Carolina in that same year. North Carolina would become a royal colony in 1729. Bibliography of South...

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and North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one of the Thirteen Colonies. The Halifax Resolves resolution adopted by North Carolina...

British colony, the Province of North Carolina was under the leadership of a royal governor. A Governor's Council was created to advise the governor, and...

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...

The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen...

list of colonial governors of South Carolina from 1670 to 1775. Until the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775, South Carolina was a colony of Great...

corrupt. With the arrival of Royal Governor William Tryon in 1765, volatile conditions in North Carolina increasingly worsened. Many of the officers were...

the Roanoke Colony (in modern eastern North Carolina) by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 1580s. The founder of the Jamestown colony was the Virginia Company...

served as the first governor of North Carolina from 24 January until 8 September in 1712, when he died in office. He governed during a time of tremendous...

the Province of North Carolina. North Carolina is named after King Charles I of England, who first formed the English colony. It would become a royal...

The Carolinas, also known simply as Carolina, are the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina considered collectively. They are bordered by Virginia...

Charles II of England granted a royal charter to eight lords proprietor to establish the colony of Carolina in North America. Under the terms of the charter...

A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...

bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century...