as "Liberty of Conscience," representative government, and abundant land. Horne tried to attract landowners and indentured servants, pointing out that the proprietors awarded one hundred acres of land to servants at the conclusion of their term. In short, Horne portrayed the colony in the best possible light at a time when it basically consisted of two very small settlements (on the Albemarle and Cape Fear Rivers) in modern North Carolina.

Thomas Newe was among the earliest settlers who came to Charles Town (modern Charleston, South Carolina). He arrived from Barbados and wrote his father to describe life in Carolina. His description is also full of wonder at the possibilities afforded for English settlers. Though he describes the deaths of many settlers due to illness, he also claims that the colony can be the richest of any in the English Atlantic World. Still, Newe, who actually died (from the very diseases he described) less than six months after landing in Carolina, paints a more realistic picture of life in Carolina. He especially emphasizes the threat posed by the Indian peoples who lived in the colony and the constant possibility of attack by Spain, which controlled the colony of Florida to the south. Newe's account was not intended for publication. Rather, it consists of several letters to his father. While he may well have downplayed the difficulties he faced in order to avoid frightening his parents, his eyewitness account can be read as a good source for understanding the hopes, fears, and everyday life of Carolina's early colonists. Horne's description is a good indicator of the ways colonial promoters sought to appeal to the desires of English readers.