This was the settlement in Carolina of Albemarle, back country to Virginia, gatherer thence of many that were hardy and sound, many that were unfortunate, and many that were shiftless and untamed.

An uncouth nurse of a turbulent democracy was Albemarle.
Cape Fear, far down the deeply frayed coast, seemed a proper place to which to send a colony.

The intrusive Massachusetts men were gone.

But "gentlemen and merchants" of Barbados were interested.

It is a far cry from Barbados to the Carolina shore, but so is it a far cry from England.