of the across the Appalachian Mountains. He was granted permission by King William III to plant French Protestant refugees, Huguenots, from the French Revolution settle the area. Coxe's Son Colonel Daniel Coxe Jr. assembled a piece titled "A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane, as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Mississippi". Land Disputes The Anglo-Spanish War (1625-1630) created tension between the countries and their race to colonize the Americas. King Charles I took the throne in 1625, and unlike his predecessor King James I who was avoiding conflict with the Spanish, Charles I was actively vying for land in the Americas and supported expeditions. By 1629 Charles I had granted Heath the land of Carolana and wanted the expeditions for colonization to consist of only English people who were a part of the Church of England, no Protestants were allowed in these colonies. Carolana had several different proprietors over its lifetime, so many that there was confusion over who owned the patent. Failure The Carolana project ultimately failed, unlike other early colonial enterprises like Massachusetts Bay Colony and Colony of Virginia. The province failed due to lack of funds and resources, and because there were competing colonies, the Virginia Colony and Massachusetts Bay region, where most North American colonists would rather settle due to the stability of the colonies. It was difficult to get colonizers to want to move to the region due to their tendency to move from colony to colony, they rarely settled in one place long if the profits did not seem promising. During the time that England was trying to colonize the area, the Caribbean seemed like a more successful venture than Carolana. Religion was another factor in regards to the failure of Carolana, because many of the proposed colonists were to be French refugees, but the English government wanted only people devoted to the Church of England. References Pre-statehood history of North Carolina Pre-statehood history of South Carolina History of the Thirteen Colonies