The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-29
THE NAME CAROLINA
Mr.. DAVIES TAKES ISSUE With BISHOP
FITZGERALD.
As 10 the Origin Of it, An English not a Span
ish Charles. Mr.. Monte Writes of the
Arder of the Churches.
To the Editor:

10 TIE ILUllOI.
In your issue of the 10Th instant
Bishop Fitzgerald, in his lecture, ~
Glance Before, Around and Ahead" is
reported as saying:
in 1854 was made the visit of tie
first white man to North Carolina. The
name Carolina is masculine in its Geri-
Walton. III honor Of Charles the Ninth.
This jars on us somewhat; the name
and the land arc beautiful enough for
feminine nomenclature Think of it
Carolina, Il bearded Spanilrd rather
than 4 beautiful omar This is one Of
the surprises of history TO some persons.
In the interest of What | believe to be
correct history, | make bold to say
and hope the Bishop will excuse the
liberty | take-that the statements as to
Carolina and Charles IN. are erroneous
In the Patent Of Charles L., Of Eng
land to Sir Robert Heath. 3Otl, October
1929. after specifying the metes and
bounds of the Province of Carolina, oc-
ours the following:
"know that we. Of our free grace
certain knowledge and meere motion.
doe thinke fit to erect the sayd Region
and Isles into Il Province, and by the
fumes of our power and kingly AU-
thority, for uS, our heires and successors
we doe erect and incorporate them into
| 4 province, and name the same Carolina.
or the province of Carolina, and the
aforesaid Isles, the Carolanus Isles, and
soc We Will that in III times hereafter
they shall be named" See the Colonial
Records of \. c., Vol. ], page I.
Carolina was so-called in the Kings
own honour. Carolus being the Latin
form Of Charles. The name Carolina
with the description and bounds Of the
province. were afterwards confined and
extended III the charters of 1868, and
1860 of Charles ii. to the Lords Pro
prietors of Carolina.
This is the first and, so far as his
writer knows, the only official and au-
thentic record Of the origin of the name
Carolina as applied to this State. 1t
IS held by some that the name originated
with the French and was given III honor
of their king, Charles IN. and this is no
doubt true, so far as it concerned their
little colonies at Port Royal III what
Was afterwards South Carolina. and in
Florida; but the name applied in those
instances only to the particular locality
or fort-"Arx Carolina-and had no
reference to the vast region afterwards
erected into the Province Of Carolina.
This subject has been ably treated by
Prof. Kemp T.. Battle in an interesting
article. \ quaint letter, of date May
DIST, 172S, printed in the Colonial
Records, vol. ,, page 1913, states that
the name. on the other hand, was in
honor Of Charles TX.
But Charles IN was surely not n
bearded Spaniard." as the Bishop would
seem to imply, and the name Of on
Stata Is nj 1paSf frpp from fha+ oc.o.;o
ton or faint. He was King Of France.
son of Henri IL of that kingdom. as it
then WAS. and Catherine de AIedici. and
his name and that Of his detestable
mother are rendered forever Infamous
by the hideous a~trocity of the ..massa |
ere of st. Bartholomew August 9th
1oI2. which was in great measure their
work. Let no such foul blot be in any
way associated with the fair name of
our State.
GRAHAM Dawes.
President Roanoke Colony Memoria
Association.
Newborn. y. c..
THE ADVENT OF DENOMINA-
TIONS.
To the Editor: We are under great
obligations to the learned Bishop Fitz-
gerald and also to the scholarly Or. Hut
ham for the light they have reflected !
on the early history of the churches III
Eastern Carolina.
10 our mind DR.. Hufham is correct
when he claims for the Quakcrs the
planting of the first church in Eastern |
oarollna. Next in precedence comes the
Eplscop2l church. while next in order |
stands the Baptist church. Following
in the order Of history. we nave the Pros,
byterians and Moravians running about