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The settlers were mostly young folks who had fulfilled the terms of their indentured servitude in the Virginia colony and set off through the wilderness to the wild shores of the Albemarle Sound in the mid-17th century. This was before the charter for the Carolina colony had been granted to the Lords Proprietors, meaning that the settlement was out of reach of any authority in its first years. It tended to attract "rogues" ( at least as they were described by the wealthy planters and traders in Virginia) who preferred to live outside the reach of authority,

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