Sir John Yeamans, who had taken charge of the expedition when it left Barbadoes, withdrew from its management when it reached Bermuda, and inserted the name of Colonel Wm. Sayle as Governor in the blank commission which he had from the Lords Proprietors. A contemporary writer describes this, the first Governor of South Carolina, as “of Bermuda, a Puritan and Non-Conformist, whose religious bigotry, advanced age and failing health promised badly for the discharge of the task before him.” Governor Sayle died within the year and the colonists selected Joseph West as his successor. When the news of Sayle’s death reached England, the Lords Proprietors again appointed Sir John Yeamans Governor, in which position he served most unsatisfactorily to the Proprietors until his death in 1674. The settlers of Charles Town had not been two years on the western bank of the Ashley before they recognized the unfitness of its location, and settlements were soon made on the peninsula called Oyster Point, two miles away, and in sight of the sea. These settlements increased, and in 1680 the public offices were removed to the present site of Charleston. In spite of religious dissensions between Churchmen and Dissenters and the opposition to law and order natural to the many adventurers and _enfans perdus_ who flocked to Carolina as to other colonies, and despite wars with the Indians in 1712 and 1715, commerce and population rapidly increased. In 1680, when the new town became the seat of government, there were as many as sixteen vessels discharging and loading cargo at one time. [Illustration: PLAN OF CHARLESTON. FROM A SURVEY OF EDWARD CRISP IN 1704. A--Granville bastion. B--Craven ” C--Carteret ” D--Colleton ” E--Ashley ” F--Blake’s ” G--Half Moon. H--Draw-bridge _in the line_. I--Johnsons _covered half moon_. K--Draw-bridge _in half moon_. L--Palisades. M--Lt.-Col. Rhetts bridge. N--Kea L. Smiths bridge. O--Ministers house. P--English Church. Q--French ” R--Independent Church. S--Ana-Baptist ” T--Quaker Meeting House. V--Court of Guard. W--First rice patch _in Carolina_. 1--Pasquero and Garrets house. 2--Landsacks house. 3--Jno. Crofskeys house. 4--Cheveliers house. 5--Geo. Logan house. 6--Poinsett house. 7--Elicott house. 8--Starling house. 9--M. Boone house. 10--Tradds house. 11--Nat. Law house. 12--Landgrave Smith house. 13--Col. Rhetts house. 14--Ben Skenking house. 15--Sindery house. ] John Locke, who had written the _Fundamental Constitutions_ for the colony, was a Socinian, but doubtless by instruction from seven of the Lords Proprietors,--Lord Shaftesbury, the eighth, was a Deist,--the philosopher declared that the Church of England was “the only true and Orthodox and the national religion of the King’s Dominions.”