In a message dated 03/11/2000 8:24:26 PM Central Standard Time, nwortma@ns.net writes: << http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm >> I found this in the footnotes: FOOTNOTES 1 The Colonial Records of North Carolina Edited by William L. Saunders Vol. I - 1662 to 1712. Raleigh. P. M. Hale Printer to the state. pp. 20-33 1886. Back 2 Sir Robert Heath was attorney-general to Charles I, and Bancroft says: "There is room to believe that, in 1639, permanent plantations were planned and perhaps attempted by his assign," but the patent was declared void in 1663, because the purposes for which it had been granted had never been fulfilled. See patent to sir Robert Heath, p. 69. Julia Cooper