Old Virginia and her neighbours

land ;THE CAROLINA FRONTIER. 297but he was arrested and sent to England tobe tried for treason. For lack of accessible evidencelie seems to have been released without trial,and thereupon he made his way to the West Indies^where history loses sight of him. With his disappearancefrom North Carolina tranquillity seemedfor the moment restored ;were at hand.but more terrible scenesIn spite of all the turmoil the little colonyhad received new settlers, and had begun to expanduntil North Carolina was no longer synonymouswith Albemarle. In the first decade of theeighteenth century, numbers of Huguenots settledin the neighbourhood of Bath, where the TawRiver widens into an arm of Pamlico.o T T ~ /-, . . , Expansionbound ; and parties ot bwiss, with many of thenorthr^(• ^ T-»i • 1 T-» 1 •ern colony;(jrermans from the Jahenish Palatinate, arrival ofunder the lead of Baron de Graffenried,founded the town of New Berne, where the TrentRiver flows into the Neuse. The increase ofpopulation in Albemarle, moreover, had carriedthe frontier from the Chowan to the Roanoke.All this entailed some real and still more prospectivedisplacement of native tribes, and somekind of mild remonstrance, after the well-knownIndian fashion, was to be expected. It was believedby many persons at the time that Carey, onthe occasion of his flight to the wildernessbetween the Roanoke and Taw chargesrivers, solicited aid from the Indians, Careyandand that his Quaker friend, John Porter,had gone as emissary to the Tuscaroras, " promisinggreat rewards to incite them to cut o£E all