PROPRIETARY COLONIES

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PROPRIETARY COLONIES
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Overview

• Definition
• Proprietary Colonies
• Maryland (1632)
• South Carolina (1663)
• North Carolina (1663)
• New York (1664)
• New Jersey (1664)
• Pennsylvania (1681)
• Georgia (1732)

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Southern Colonies
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Maryland (1632)

• Motives Religion Economics
• Proprietary Lord Baltimore
• Catholic
• Quit-Rents
• Toleration Act (1649)
• Economy Tobacco

Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore
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Southern Colonies
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Carolinas (1663)

• Motives Economic
• 8 Proprietors
• Settlement
• Barbados (West Indies)
• Economy
• South Carolina Rice, Indigo and Naval Stores
• North Carolina
• tobacco, furs, skins, cattle, lumber grain

Rice Plantation in South Carolina
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Anglo-Dutch Wars

• 1st War (1652-54)
• 2nd (1665-67)
• 3rd (1672-74)
• Treaty of Westminster (1674)

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Colonies Carved From the New Netherlands

• Middle Atlantic Colonies
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania

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New York (1664)

• Development
• Trading Ports on Hudson River
• New Amsterdam
• Economy Lumber, Timber Cattle

New Amsterdam Settlement
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New Jersey (1664)

• Complicated History
• Economy hemp, grain, hay, Indian Corn, cattle
  shipbuilding

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Pennsylvania (1681)

• Motives Religion
• Society of Friends/Quakers
• Unpopularity
• Egalitarianism Pacifists Refused to Take
  Oaths
• Settlement
• Economy Furs Skins Lumber Timber

William Penn
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Georgia (1732) I

• Motives
• Strategic Bulwark Against Spanish
  Aggression
• Philanthropic Asylum for Poor
• Proprietor General James Oglethorpe
• Settlement
• Assistance to Poor
• Rehabilitative Policies Ban on Rum Brandy
  Slavery Prohibited
• Cash Crops Silk Wine

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Spanish Florida
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Georgia II

• Changes in Settlement
• Economy Rice

General James Oglethorpe