settlers had come from that part of Virginia now known as the County of Nansemond. … They had been joined by a number of Quakers and other sectaries, whom the spirit of intolerance had driven from New England, and some emigrants from Bermudas. … The other settlement of the English was at the mouth of Cape Fear river; … those who composed it had come thither from New England in 1659. Their attention was confined to rearing cattle. It cannot now be ascertained whether the assignees of Carolina ever surrendered the charter under which it was held, nor whether it was considered as having become vacated or obsolete by non-user, or by any other means." _F. X. Martin, History of North Carolina, volume 1, chapter 5 and 7._ AMERICA: A. D. 1629. The Royal Charter to the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay. See MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1623-1629, THE DORCHESTER COMPANY. AMERICA: A. D. 1629-1631. The Dutch occupation of the Delaware. See DELAWARE: A. D. 1629-1631. AMERICA: A. D. 1629-1632. English Conquest and brief occupation of New France. See CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1628-1632. AMERICA: A. D. 1632. The Charter to Lord Baltimore and the founding of Maryland. See MARYLAND: A. D. 1632, and A. D. 1633-1637. AMERICA: A. D. 1638. The planting of a Swedish Colony on the Delaware. See DELAWARE: A. D. 1638-1640. AMERICA: A. D. 1639-1700. The Buccaneers and their piratical warfare with Spain.