There has been discontent among Carolina's settlers,…

There has been discontent among Carolina's settlers, mostly immigrants from Barbados, with the Lords Proprietors during the first decade of the colony.

Charles Town is the principal seat of government for the entire province.

The northern and southern sections of the proprietary colony operate more or less independently, however, due to their remoteness from each other.

The Charles Town settlement has grown by 1680, joined by others from England, Barbados, and Virginia, and relocated to its current peninsular location.

It is the center for further expansion and the southernmost point of English settlement during the late seventeenth century.

Periodic assaults from Spain and France, who still contested England's claims to the region, are combined with resistance from natives, as well as pirate raids.

While the earliest settlers primarily come from England, colonial Charleston is also home to a mixture of ethnic and religious groups.

French, Scottish, Irish, and Germans have migrated to the developing seacoast town, representing numerous Protestant denominations, as well as Roman Catholicism and Judaism.