<Li> Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet (1608--1666) </Li> <Li> Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621--1683). </Li> <P> The Lords Proprietor were anxious to secure Carolina against Spanish attacks from San Augustine in Florida, and to do so, they needed to attract more colonists . The Lords Proprietor offered English settlers inducements consisting of religious toleration, political representation in an assembly that had power over public taxes, exemption from quitrents and large grants of land . The Lords allowed settlers of any religion, except atheists . The Lords also had a generous headright system whereby they granted one hundred and fifty acres of land to each member of a family . They postponed collection of quitrents, amounting to half a pence per acre per year, until 1689 . An indentured male servant who served his term received his freedom dues from his master and a grant of one hundred acres from the Lords Proprietor . In order to attract planters with capital to invest, the Lords Proprietor also gave the owner and master the one hundred and fifty acre headright for every slave imported to the Colony . These incentives drew 6,600 colonists to the colony by 1700 compared with only 1,500 in the Spanish colony of Florida . Carolina attracted English settlers, French Protestants (Huguenots) and other colonists from Barbados and the West Indies . </P> <P> The first government in Carolina began in Albemarle County in 1664 when William Sayle was appointed as the governor . Proprietary authority was weaker near the Virginia border . The Lords Proprietor established a North Carolina with its own assembly and deputy governor . In 1712, the division of Carolina into North and South was completed with the elevation of the deputy governor to governor of North Carolina . </P>

Where did the carolina lords proprietors recruit colonies