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1. 1 Chalmers's Annals, 313, 514, 515.
2. 1 Chalm. Annals, 519; 1 Holmes's Annals, 327, 328; Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, p. 152; 1 Williamson's North Carol. 87, 230; Carolina Charters, London, 4to.
3. 1 Holmes's Annals, 327, 328. - This charter, and the second charter, and the fundamental constitutions made by the Proprietaries is to be found in a small quarto printed in London without date, which is in Harvard College Library.
4. 1 Holmes's Annals, 328; 1 Hewatt's South Car. 42 to 47.
5. Carolina Charter, 4to. London.
6. 1 Chalm. Annals, 515.
7. 1 Chalm. Annals, 518, 553; Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, p. 152.
8. 1 Chalm. Annals, 521; 1 Williams's N. Car. 230, 231; 1 Holmes's Annals, 340; Carolina Charters, 4to. London.
9. 1 Williams's N. Car. 230, 237.
10. 1 Holmes's Annals, 340; 1 Chalm. Annals,521,522;1 Williams's N. Car. 230 to 254; Iredell's Laws of N. Car. Charter, p. l to 7.
11. 1 Chalm. Annals, 519, 520, 524, 525; 1 Williams's N. Car. 88, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 103, 114.
12. 1 Chalm. Annals, 521.
13. 1 Chalm. Annals, 526, 527; 1 Holmes's Annals, 350, 351, and note; Carolina Charters, 4to. London, p. 33.
14. 1 Hewatt's South Car. 42 to 47, 321, etc.; Carolina Charters, 4to. London, p. 33, etc.; 1 Chalm. Annals, 526; 1 Holmes's Annals, 350, 351; 1 Williams's N. Car. 104 to 111; Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, p. 154, 156; 1 Ramsay's South Car. 31, 32.
15. Carolina Chartera, 4to. p. 45, §70, p. 47, §80; 1 Hewatt's South Car. 321, etc.
16. 1 Ramsay's South Car. 39, 43, 88; 1 Hewatt's South Car. 45; 1 Chalmers's Annals, 527, 528, 529, 530, 532, 550; Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, 156, 157, 159; 1 Williams's N. Car. 122,143.
17. 1 Chalmers's Annals, 552.
18. 1 Chalmers's Annals, 549; 1 Holmes's Annals, 416.
19. Hewatt's South Carol. 45.
20. Dr. Ramsay treats these successive constitutions as of no authority whatsoever in the province, as a law or rule of government. But in a legal point of view the proposition is open to much doubt. 2 Ramsay's South Carol. 121 to 124.
21. 1 Williams's N. Car. 155.
22. Marsh. Colon. ch. 9, p. 246, 247; 1 Hewatt's South Carol. 212, 318.
23. 1 Williams's N. Car. 161, 162; 1 Ramsay's South Carol. 56, etc. 88, 95; 1 Hewatt's South Carol. 212, 318; I Holmes's Annals, 523, 525; Marsh. Colon. ch. 9, p. 246.
24. Marsh. Colon. ch. 9, p. 247.
25. Marsh. Colon. ch. 9, p. 247; 1 Holmes's Annals, 544.
26. 2 Hewatt's South Car. ch. 7, p. 1 et seq.; 1 Ramsay's South. Car. ch. 4, p. 95.
27. Grimke's South Carolina Laws (1712), p. 81, 98, 99, 100.
28. Id. Act of 1703. p. 4.
29. 1 Holmes's Annals, 489, 490, 491; 1 Hewatt's South Carol. 166 to 177.
30. 2 Ramsay's South Car. 130. - The descent of estates was not altered until 1791.
31. Iredell's North Car. Laws, 1715, p. 18,19.