Virginia, growing fast, at last sent her children into this region.

In 1653 the Assembly enacted: "Upon the petition of Roger Green, clarke, on the behalfe of himselfe and inhabitants of Nansemund river, It is ordered by this present Grand Assembly that tenn thousand acres of land be granted unto one hundred such persons who shall first seate on Moratuck or Roanoke river and the land lying upon the south side of Choan river and the ranches thereof, Provided that such seaters settle advantageously for security and be sufficiently furnished with amunition and strength...." Green and his men, well furnished presumably with firelocks, bullets, and powder-horns, went into this hinterland.

At intervals there followed other hardy folk.

Quakers, subject to persecution in old Virginia, fled into these wilds.

The name Carolina grew to mean backwoods, frontiersman's land.