CAPE FEAR • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Cape Fear

... commodities as instructed by the King. Calling an Assembly, he convinced the representatives to agree to reduce the amount of tobacco planted, and to increase the amount of corn. He also sent ships into the Chesapeake and southward to Cape Fear to trade for corn with the Indians to make up the deficit left by the negligent planters. But most important of all, Harvey put into effect the long-dreamed-of plan to secure the entire area between the James and the York by building a palisade between Archer's Hope ...

— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn