To become binding, colonial legal documents had to be signed and sealed. This partially ratified indenture between the Lords Proprietors never took effect because only six of the Proprietors agreed to it. The space for Sir Peter Colleton's signature and seal is blank. The eighth Proprietor, Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, was in that colony. If ratified, this 1674 agreement would have required each proprietor to supply 100 pounds sterling per year for supplies for their Carolina colony.
Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Standards
- 4.1.P Explain the development of political institutions and social characteristics that defined the British colonial regions.
- 8.1.CE Analyze the factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.
- This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the geographic and human factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system. This indicator was also written to encourage inquiry into South Carolina’s distinct social and economic system as influenced by British Barbados.
