Here then was builded the second and more enduring Charles Town--Charleston, as we call it now, in South Carolina.
Colonists came fast to this Carolina lying south.

Barbados sent many; England, Scotland, and Ireland contributed a share; there came Huguenots from France, and a certain number of Germans.

In ten years after the first settling the population numbered twelve hundred, and this presently doubled and went on to increase.

The early times were taken up with the wrestle with the forest, with the Indians, with Spanish alarms, with incompetent governors, with the Lords Proprietaries' Fundamental Constitutions, and with the restrictions which English Navigation Laws imposed upon English colonies.

What grains and vegetables and tobacco they could grow, what cattle and swine they could breed and export, preoccupied the minds of these pioneer farmers.