Carolina’s governor John Archdale, on sailing for…
1696 CE to 1707 CE
Carolina’s governor John Archdale, on sailing for England in October 1696, names Joseph Blake his deputy governor.
Archdale will never return to Carolina, and will die in England 1717.
Henderson Walker is in 1699 appointed Deputy Governor of North Carolina.
A devout Anglican, he pushes through reforms that establish the Church of England as the official religion of the state and passing the Vestry Act, which imposes a tax on residents, no matter their faith, to support the official church.
During his tenure, Queen Anne assumes the throne, which requires a renewal of the oaths by colonial officers.
Quakers, as a tenet of their faith, do not swear oaths but had previously proven their loyalty by affirming it.
This practice is disallowed and all Quakers lose their positions.
Over the next decade, the distinction between the Quaker party and the Church party will grow more entrenched.
Groups
Commodities
Subjects
Regions
Northern North America
View →Subregions
