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Virginia was the first successful southern colony. While Puritan zeal was fueling New England's mercantile development, and Penn's Quaker experiment was turning the middle colonies into America's bread basket, the South was turning to cash crops.
In 1653, the first permanent settlement was created in the northeastern corner of present-day North Carolina. In 1663, Charles II of England granted the land called Carolina to eight Lords Proprietors, who controlled the Carolinas until 1729.
