 In the 17th century, Franciscan friars in Spanish Florida built missions along Apalachee Bay.In 1670 English settlers from Barbados founded Charles Town (Charleston), capital of the new Province of Carolina.Traders from Carolina went to Muscogee settlements to exchange flintlocks, gunpowder, axes, glass beads, cloth and West Indian rum for white-tailed deer pelts for the English leather industry, and Indian slaves for Caribbean sugar plantations.