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Spaniards thought NC and SC were divided now

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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7. Great numbers of British subjects were attracted by reports of the advantages promised by the country. Consequently this province was extended southward as far as 33°, and was divided into North and South Carolina in the year 1665, when the latter was founded*[Arredondo note * Nicolas de Fer, in his Descripciin Geographica de la America.] under the name of South Carolina. 36.
8. However this may be, it does not take away from or add to our contention. Since South Carolina 37. [Bolton note: That is, Charleston is near 33°. Arredondo uses the names Charleston and South Carolina interchangeably.] is in 33° and San Felipe in Santa Elena is in 32° 30', the point of the argument and of this work is not contradicted by the fact that the English may have founded the two Carolinas mentioned a year sooner or later. For in any case it is proved that the country from 36° 30', inclusive, in which Cape Santa Maria is situated, to Santa Elena, in 32° 30', was usurped by the English, notwithstanding that it was not yet settled by the Spaniards, for the reason that Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon and Pedro Menendez Marques had explored it as far as the aforesaid latitude of Santa Maria, and that in the year 1573 the latter wrote a diary and itinerary of its coasts, which no other nation whatsoever reached until eleven years afterward, when Walter Raleigh settled it under the name of Virginia, as has been seen in Chapter III, paragraph 1.

[Bolton note: It was in 1663 that the first Carolina patent was granted to eight proprietors (Cooper, Clarendon, Craven, Albemarle, Carteret, Lord Berkeley, Colleton, and Sir William Berkeley). Their grant embraced the area between 36° and 31°. Two years later the grant was extended on the north to 36°-30' and on the south to 29°. Charleston, for some time the southernmost settlement, is near 33°. The Carolinas were not technically separated till 1713, when each was given a governor. However, they had been practically distinct settlements from the first.]