[1] He first travelled from England to North America in 1664 as an agent of his brother-in-law, Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

After the Lords Proprietors commissioned him governor of Carolina in August 1694, Archdale appointed Thomas Harvey to act as deputy governor for North Carolina, and set out for Charles Towne.

[2] According to Appleton's Cyclopedia, Governor Archdale "was sagacious, prudent, and moderate, and under his administration the province made great progress in internal improvements.

[5] Archdale was elected to Parliament from the constituency of Wycombe in 1698, but he would not take his seat due to his refusal to take the required oath.

See Hewatt's Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia (London, 1779); Holmes's Annals of America (Cambridge, 1829); and Bancroft's History of the United States (New York, 1884).