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3 unusual facts about William Sayle


Colonial period of South Carolina

In Bermuda, an 80-year-old Puritan Bermudian colonist, Colonel William Sayle, was named governor of Carolina.

Eleutheran Adventurers

The small group of Puritan settlers, led by a man named William Sayle, searched for a place in which they could freely practice their faith.

William Sayle

On the voyage to the Bahamas, a Captain Butler, one of the settlers from England, rebelled against the Articles and caused such trouble in the new settlement that William Sayle left the original settlement in north Eleuthera for the nearby island of St. George's Cay, now known as Spanish Wells.



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