Defining North Carolina

In 1724, Charles Johnson referred to America as "A Commonwealth of Pyrates." Even three centuries later, we still endeavor to live up to that reputation. Edward Moseley, born in the civilized world of seventeenth-century London, set the standard for America's criminal behavior - even as he literally defined the state of North Carolina. Edward Moseley - not the typical immigrant to America - fell into Carolina's corrupt "Family" political syndicate, most of whom came from the island of Barbados - a "bedeviled" Caribbean sugar factory where the inhabitants practiced the most brutal slavery. His South Carolina in-laws had been forged in that devilish island "beyond the lines of amity" - very much the antithesis of the civilized Europe Moseley knew in London. In that ancient European city, as the orphaned son of a wealthy but defeated Tory family suffering from political defeat in the Glorious Revolution, he attended the coveted Royal Mathematical Academy. Moseley learned mathematics of such learned men as Sir Isaac Newton and the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed. England - as Barbados - unfortunately lacked in the greatly-coveted commodity of real estate - the key to freeholdship, public office, and power! America, presumed an untouched wilderness, by contrast, possessed boundless acres of land, spreading for thousands of miles in every cardinal direction. That treasure had only to be cleansed of heathen natives who knew nothing of the Anglican God or land ownership. Vast American estates offered privileged gentlemen and educated mathematicians like Moseley the chance for real power - a restoration of their Stuart Tory glory! America would then beckon to them - a glowing treasure that downtrodden English freeholders like Edward Moseley craved! Conservative outcasts like Moseley abused the people, land, and the law! Educated in the use of the sextant and astrolabe, they engaging in crude criminal methods found unacceptable at home in England. While initially, America existed merely as a "breadbasket" for the slaving Barbadians of his adopted Carolina Family, it offered Edward Moseley so much more - a chance to realize immense real wealth and to restore his politically conservative English family's empire! We remember Moseley for his maps, but that was not all that he did! Edward Moseley dreamed of making conservatives great again in America and no laws would stop him!