Description of the English Province of Carolana (sic), by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Lousiane

This book includes a map ("A Map of Carolana (sic),") delineating land claimed by Dr. Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), one of the New Jersey proprietors and a private patentee of Carolina. Coxe, a physician to King Charles II and Queen Anne of England, developed a scheme to establish an extensive English colony west of the Carolinas and was assisted in his various claims by his son Daniel (1673-1739). In 1722 the younger Coxe first published thiswork which contains memoirs of traders and explorers collected by his father and set forth what is believed to be the first printed plan for a political consideration of the North American colonies. Apparently to avoid conflict with established settlements, Coxe claimed only the country west of the settled portion of Carolina.

In October 1698 Coxe and several other proprietors detached an expedition from England to settle a British colony on the lower Mississippi River. The following year a ship under the command of Captain Lewis Banks encountered Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, who informed Banks he was in French territory. Bienville claimed that a large fleet of French warships waited a short distance upriver and ordered the British to leave. Fooled by Bienville's bluff, Banks turned his ship around and sailed back down the river. The point in the river is still known as English Turn.