The Province of Carolina is a tale of two separate regions settled by very different Englishmen, as such, the subjects in this history of Carolina range from kings and the philosopher John Locke, to indentured servants and the enslaved. Taking place in England, Virginia, Spanish Florida, Barbados, and most certainly what today would be North and South Carolina.The history of Carolina in the period was shaped several times by pirates and runaways, rebellions and wars. All would set the stage for the eventual split of Carolina into North and South.

The tale of the Province of Carolana is a story full of more myths and dreams than realities. A story full of twists and turns in England, Virginia and Barbados. Carolana led the way to Carolina, but caused intrigue in Florida, Louisiana and strangely put to bed over land in the Mohawk Valley of New York.

Spanish Florida is nearly abandoned until clandestine information of the English settlement of Jamestown is spirited away to Spain. The Floridanos were now to hunt down the English, and extend Spanish influence up the coast, to areas where they had previously been violently ejected.

Pocahontas’ peace falls apart and two devastating wars follow. As the Powhatan struggle to maintain their way of life and territory in the face of massive population loss. The colony of Virginia is booming. The Paramount Chiefdom is pressed to a breaking point, the effect of which has consequences echoing through time to the modern day.

Chief Powhatan and the settlers of Jamestown find themselves in a conflict only Pocahontas can end. The peace that follows however, will create greater challenges for the Powhatan that are only realized in hindsight. The Peace of Pocahontas will not hold for long.

The Great Chief Powhatan reigned over a Paramount Chiefdom of perhaps 22,000 people. Then suddenly a group of strangers arrive and settle within Powhatan’s domain, they have desirable goods to trade, but are otherwise a difficult bunch to assimilate. This is the story of Pocahontas, John Smith and Jamestown, as can best be told from the point of view of Chief Powhatan the Great Werowances of Werowances, often overshadowed by his misunderstood daughter.

In the land of Tsenacomoco, a young man named Wahunsenacawh inherits six chiefdoms, he and his brothers will go on to create the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom, consisting of 30 or more villages, each with its own traditions and folk-ways.

With the English Empire on the rise the Spanish consolidate their holdings in Florida and prepare for the worst, but the largest threat will prove to come from mother nature and the neighboring Natives. All of this is happening as the founding generation of Saint Augustine passes on.