Carolina: Polity Style: 1665-1731

24 Mar/3 Apr 1663	Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, and others are created the True and Absolute Lords Proprietors of a portion of territory in North America, which is erected into a province under the name of Carolina, in accordance with letters patent (charter) issued by command of the King of England on 24 Mar/3 Apr 1663 (South Carolina Laws 1736, 1:xxi-xxxii; North Carolina Colonial Records, 1:20-33)
23 Feb/5 Mar 1665	representatives of the Lords Proprietors, carrying commission and instructions for the Governor and Council, arrived to Albemarle, Carolina (Ye Countie of Albemarle, pp. 61-64)
23 Feb/5 Mar 1665 - 25 Feb/8 Mar 1731	Province of Carolina
17/27 Mar 1670	a governor for the territory "Southward and Westward of Cape Carteret" and first settlers arrived to southern part of the Province of Carolina (Shaftesbury Papers, pp. 165, 395; South Carolina Grand Council Journal 1671-1680, p. 34)
30 May/10 Jun 1721	due to "great Miscarriages and Neglects in the Government," the Province and Territory of South Carolina is provisionally placed into the "hands and immediate care" of the King of Great Britain and under the administration of a Governor-in-Chief in accordance with a commission of 16/27 Aug 1720, which was read and published at a public ceremony in Charleston on 30 May/10 Jun 1721 (South Carolina Governor and Council Journal 1721, p. 5) [1]
14/25 May 1729	an agreement for the surrender of title and interest of the Lords Proprietors in the Province of Carolina is approved in accordance with an act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain (House of Commons on 6/17 May 1729, House of Lords on 10/21 May 1729, received Royal Assent on 14/25 May 1729) (England—Great Britain—UK House of Commons Journal, 21:360-361; England—Great Britain—UK House of Lords Journal, 23:427, 437; South Carolina Laws 1736, 2:482-500) [2]
25 Jul/5 Aug 1729	the surrender of the Charter of Carolina is accomplished upon the issuing of a warrant for the payment of £17,500 by the Treasury Board to seven of the eight Lords Proprietors in pursuance of an act of 14/25 May 1729 [3][4]
15/26 Dec 1730	the Province of South Carolina is placed under the administration of a Governor and Council in accordance with letters patent (commission) issued by command of the King of Great Britain on 1/12 Jan 1730, which was read and published on 15/26 Dec 1730 in Charleston (South Carolina Council Journal, 1730-1734, No. 5, p. 9)
25 Feb/8 Mar 1731	the Province of North Carolina is placed under the administration of a Governor and Council in accordance with letters patent (commission) issued by command of the King of Great Britain on 15 Jan/10 Feb 1730, which was read and published on 25 Feb/8 Mar 1731 in Edenton (North Carolina Colonial Records, 3:66-73, 3:211-212)

The handwritten copy of the Council's journal erroneously dated the event as occurring on "Monday, the 29^th of May 1721" and the next sitting of the Council on "May 31^st 1721." The correct sequence was Monday, 30 May 1721, and Tuesday, 31 May 1721. North Carolina continued to be administered by the governors appointed by the Proprietaries to 1731.
Full title: An Act for establishing an Agreement with Seven of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, for the Surrender of their Title and Interest in that Province to His Majesty.
A Royal Warrant by the Queen, as Guardian of the Kingdom, for the payment of £17,500 "to Edward Bertie, of Gray's Inn, Samuel Horsey, of St. Martin's in the Fields, Henry Smith, of Caversham, Oxford, and Alexius Clayton" directed to the Lords of the Treasury is recorded in King's Warrant Book, 29:379-380, under #489 on 24 Jul/4 Aug 1729; the warrant from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury is dated 25 Jul/5 Aug 1729 (Great Britain Treasury Books Calendar 1729-1730, p. 267); the actual payment appears to have taken place on 30 Jul/10 Aug 1729 as evident from a notice in The Daily Journal, No. 2675, 4 Aug 1729, p. 1, col. 3: "The Lords Proprietors of South Carolina having signed at the Treasury a Deed of Conveyance and Surrender of their Rights and Title of that Province, to the Crown, the Sum of 20,000 l. was on Wednesday last issued out of the Exchequer, being the Purchase Money agreed for..."
Lord Carteret refused to sell his interests and continued to hold a one-eighth undivided share in the territory of North Carolina and South Carolina until 1744, when he gave up all claims to the remaining parts of the province in return for a large strip of land in North Carolina bordering on Virginia (North Carolina Colonial Records, 4:655-663)