Question: where did the carolina lords proprietors recruit colonies

title: Lords Proprietor
text: Albemarle : in trust for Henry Somerset , 3rd Duke of Beaufort and his brother , then Lord Charles Somerset Clarendon : James Bertie ( 1674 -- 1735 ) Berkeley : Joseph Blake of the province of South Carolina Craven : William Craven , 3rd Baron Craven ( 1700 -- 1739 ) Carteret : John Carteret , Baron Carteret ( 1690 -- 1763 ) , governor of the kingdom of Ireland , who retained his interest * William Berkeley : Henry Bertie ( 1675 -- 1735 ) and Mary Danson , widow , of St Andrews Holborn , and Elizabeth Moor , widow , of London Colleton : Sir John Colleton of Exmouth , Devon Shaftesbury : † in trust for John Cotton of East Barnet , Middlesex † Some of these 1729 interests had been acquired not by inheritance but by purchase . * The Carteret interest continued until Independence when the Crown paid compensation for the Carteret loss .