<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Today part of </Td> <Td> United States <Ul> <Li> Alabama </Li> <Li> North Carolina </Li> <Li> South Carolina </Li> <Li> Georgia </Li> <Li> Mississippi </Li> <Li> Tennessee </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Alabama </Li> <Li> North Carolina </Li> <Li> South Carolina </Li> <Li> Georgia </Li> <Li> Mississippi </Li> <Li> Tennessee </Li> </Ul> <P> The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America . Carolina was founded in what is modern - day North Carolina . Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, nominally included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana . </P> <P> Sir Robert Heath, attorney - general of King Charles I of England, was granted the Cape Fear region of America, incorporated as the Province of Carolana, in 1629 . The charter was unrealized and ruled invalid, and a new charter was issued to a group of eight English noblemen, the Lords Proprietors, on March 24, 1663 . It was not until 1663 that the province became officially known as "Carolina ." Charles II granted the land to the eight Lords Proprietors in return for their financial and political assistance in restoring him to the throne in 1660 . Charles II intended for the newly created province to serve as an English bulwark to contest lands claimed by Spanish Florida and prevent their northward expansion . Led informally by Anthony Ashley - Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs . </P>

Where was the original colony of carolina located