The correct answer is: "They were able to secure free land and pay lower taxes".
The settlements established in the Albermarle region, where first permanent English settlements in the current territory of North Carolina. Most of the newcomers in the region, where settlers migrating South from Virginia.
For example, the first settler on the region was George Durant that purchased land for the Indians in 1663. Some people followed him because it was not regulated that the settlers arriving in the regionhad to obtain grants from the Assembly of Virginia, to establish themselves on those territories, until 1665.