By Joe Garonzik
1663年,英国国王查尔斯二世割让卡罗来纳安东尼阿什利Cooper和谁在结束克伦威尔革命和返回查尔斯二世继承王位曾支持斯图亚特其他七个业主。尽管沃尔特·罗利爵士和传奇弗吉尼亚州的16世纪攻击敢,是谁安装的主主的前1653年,整整十年建立的北卡罗莱纳州的沿雅宝声音最古老的结算一组弗吉尼亚州的。
国王在1691年把卡罗莱纳州,虽然North Carolina would not receive its own governor for another 20 years. British, Huguenot, German and Swiss populated the North Carolina tidewater during the first half of the 18th-century. New Bern, established primarily by Germanic immigrants under the impetus of Christopher de Graffenried, would become the largest city in the colony. Large numbers of Scots Highlanders and Scots-Irish, many by way of the Great Wagon Road through Pennsylvania and into the Shenandoah Valley, populated the western part of the colony. Eighteenth-century North Carolina was also noteworthy for its large Quaker population and for Wachovia, a Moravian settlement in Forsyth County.