11. In the early portion of the eighteenth century the whole Atlantic coast of America was more or less infested by these buccaneers. In some quarters they congregated in great numbers, and made expeditions in which they laid cities under contribution, and endangered all legitimate commerce in the new world. They were as cruel desperadoes as have been seen in any age of the world's history. After long and costly effort by the English and other governments, they were driven from the seas. QUESTIONS. 1. What reservation was given to the Indians? 2. Who became Governor in 1713? How had Governor Eden been instructed by the Lords Proprietors? Where did he live? 3. What occurred in 1715? 4. Who was sent to aid the people of South Carolina? 5. At whose house did the Legislature meet? What noted man was Speaker of the House? Give some description of Edward Moseley. 6. What famous pirate was ravaging the coast about this time? 7. Of what had Governor Eden been charged? 8. Who was sent to capture the pirate? Describe the battle. 9. How did the engagement result? 10. What disposition was made of the captives? 11. What is said of the Atlantic coast during this period? CHAPTER XVII. GOVERNOR GABRIEL JOHNSTON. A. D. 1722 TO 1748. Upon the death of Governor Eden in 1722, Colonel Thomas Pollock, as President of His Majesty's Council for North Carolina, assumed the place of Governor, but he died in a short while and was succeeded by William Reed. That year Bertie precinct was erected west of Chowan River, and court houses were, for the first time, ordered to be built. Not only the General Assembly, but courts and all public affairs, up to this time, had been held in private houses. 2. North Carolina then comprised three counties. These were Albemarle, Bath and Clarendon. Albemarle contained Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan and Bertie precincts. Bath and Clarendon, though counties, were not subdivided at this time. 1724. 3. The Lords Proprietors, as the last evidence of their lack of wisdom and interest in the province they had so long cursed with their misrule, sent over George Burrington. After the creation of the counties of Bath and Clarendon the representative of the Lords Proprietors was called "Governor of North Carolina." 4. Governor Burrington's character was very bad; he had been indicted and punished in the Old Bailey, in London, for beating an old woman, and was, all his life, drunken and quarrelsome. Yet such a man came over to be the guardian of a people who knew not when they were to be tomahawked by the savages or driven into further exile by the zealots who were disturbed at the nature of their religious belief. 1725.