The country, unsettled yet, lapsed into the Carolina from which so tentatively it had been parted.

Over its spaces the Indian still roved, the tall forests still lifted their green crowns, and no axe was heard nor any English voice.
In the decade that followed, the Lords Proprietors of Carolina ceased to be Lords Proprietors.

Their government had been, save at exceptional moments, confused, oppressive, now absent-minded, and now mistaken and arbitrary.

They had meant very well, but their knowledge was not exact, and now virtual revolution in South Carolina assisted their demise.
After lengthy negotiations, at last, in 1729, all except Lord Granville surrendered to the Crown, for a considerable sum, their rights and interests.

Carolina, South and North, thereupon became royal colonies.
In England there dwelled a man named James Edward Oglethorpe, son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe of Godalming in Surrey.