I had something like this occurring in my Rise and Fall of the Amerikaner Republics TL:
In 1612, following the death of Queen Elizabeth, Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp and son of Lady Catherine Grey, succeeded to the English thrown as Edward VII of England with the support of the English Parliament and in accordance with the wills of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, having been officially recognized by Elizabeth as her heir the year prior. In recognition of his succession, Edward handed out a charter to found the town of Beauchamp in Queensland near the ruins of Fort Saint James that had been destroyed in an attack by Native Americans three years prior with the fort itself being rebuilt in good measure. While the Queensland Company had dissolved following the attack on Fort Saint James, Edward envisioned the colony as his future legacy and entrusted its success to John Rolfe, Earl of Tobaguey (the earldom and its estate being named after tobacco due to Rolfe having earned it for successfully developing a strain that could be cultivated in Queensland).
With the precedence set by the ennoblement of John Rolfe as the first English noble of the New World, Edward VII established in the new colonial charter a process whereby landed estates would be attached to members of the colonial nobility as either landgraves or as cassiques, which would grant the colonial nobles the ability to have a say in the colonial government centered in Beauchamp. The offer of nobility in Queensland was mostly offered to the younger sons of English nobles who would otherwise risk not inheriting a title. Despite the offer of ennoblement though, many second and third sons of the English gentry passed on the offer. Yet, there were enough enticed by the potential to make a living off of the cultivation of tobacco that the venture would eventually prove to be a success. However, the grants did require that the new landgraves and cassiques would bring over tenant farmers to settle in the colony as Rolfe and Edward realized that settlers were required for the colony to grow. Due largely in part to the profits made off of tobacco, many Englishmen did choose to be tenant farmers and indentured servants on the estates. Even so, most of the English that did journey to Queensland in order to make a fortune were men.
In 1620, the first Africans arrived in the Queensland colony having been brought there by a Dutch merchant vessel. Similarly to the English tenant farmers that were hired to work for a certain term on the landed estates of the Queensland gentry, these Africans were hired to work alongside the English tenant farmers as indentured servants. Due to the large gender imbalance in the colony and the fact that many of the Africans that arrived in the colony were women, several of the English tenant farmers and indentured servants took the African women as wives. Over the next seven years, this process continued as the ratio of Englishmen to Englishwomen remained largely unequal. As a result, many of the colony’s lower class began to become mixed race as only those with money could afford to bring an Englishwoman over from the motherland. Incidentally, there were also many among the lower class that also followed after the Earl of Tobaguey in taking a Native American as a wife. As a result of the level of racial mixing, Queensland differentiated itself from the puritanical settlements of New England, which was mostly settled by established families who built a community around their churches.
However, by the 1640s, the process of hiring Africans as indentured servants had largely stopped with the transition to the idea of purchasing Africans as permanent slaves to work on the estates of the Queensland gentry. Nevertheless, due to the initially high rate of intermarriage, racial relations developed distinctly in Queensland with both the descendants of the first African indentured servants and the mixed race descendants of Englishmen and African women eventually purchasing slaves themselves to work on their smaller estates. As a result, Queensland developed a caste system similar to that which appeared in the Spanish colonies with motherborn being those Englishmen born in England, criolls being white descendants of Englishmen, mulattos being the general term for those of mixed-race backgrounds (further divided up into quadroons [1/4th black], octaroons [1/8th black], and sedecaroons [1/16th black], after which descendants were legally criolls), coloured (free people of color), Native Americans, and then, at the bottom of the caste system, enslaved persons. Though the distinction between the motherborn and the criolls slowly began to disappear as the population of criolls increased.
Even with the caste system, it was not uncommon for persons within the mulatto caste to become cassiques and thereby gain a voice in the colonial government under the second Queensland charter, as some of the original English cassiques had had offspring with some of the original African women that had arrived to work as indentured servants. While many of the cassiques that had done this hadn’t taken the women as their wives, they did still recognize their offspring and see that they would either inherit land in their wills or petition the colonial government to grant their bastard children titles. In fact, in 1671, it was Guilford Mabry, a wealthy octaroon cassique, who received a colonial charter from King Henry X for his company to begin settlement of New Caledonia as a proprietary colony along the lines of Queensland and thereafter founded the town of Somerset [1] between the rivers Guilford [2] and Williams [3].
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Guilford Mabry, founder of the New Caledonia colony
[1] Charleston, named Somerset after the Duchy originally granted to William's great-grandfather, Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, brother-in-law to Henry VIII and uncle to Edward VI.
[2] Ashley River
[3] Cooper River