Volume 14200 [This has been corrected from a typescript. Native American names and place names have been left as originally written. They often vary because no one had decided how they ought to be spelled officially. Names of individual colonists are left as originally spelled. The only exceptions come when there appears to be an error in typing or when the writer spells one name in different ways in the same letter. In that case the name is noted by [sic] but not changed. In most cases words such as color, favor, etc are spelled with a "u" colour, favour, etc. These have been noted with [sic] to indicate that this was the original spelling. Abbreviations such as leveled/level'd have been left as is. They are usually not noted by a [sic]. The word Honour is used often. This spelling is noted by [sic]. ] Copy of a Letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. Oglethorpe dated Charles Town 28th Septr. 1732. recd, in December. Sir; I have the favour [sic] of Yours of May the 15th. I rejoice that Your indefatigable Industry in Acts of Charity and benevolence to Mankind has met with Success. You are too good in the Sentiments You have conceived of me; neither my Capacity or Ability enables me to be very usefull [sic] to the Publick, [sic] but my Endeavours [sic] Shall never be wanting, in being observant & usefull [sic] to those of more extensive Knowledge and Abilitys [sic] to do good. It was with that view that I prevented the Lands in that part of the Province that the Trustees have obtained from being Surveyed and purchase till I knew the Success of the Corporation's Applications; which although I had no advice of I flatter'd my self would Succeed, from the Nobleness of the Intention and Ability of the Undertakers; Some few People had Surveyed small Quantitys [sic] of Lend on the South Side of Savannah River before my Proclamation issued, but I have granted them no Titles, but tell them I suppose upon Application to the Trustees, when Affairs are Settled they may obtain Grants from them and probably may have a Preference in Consideration of the Charge they have been at in the Survey they have made. I do believe it would have been of great Service to the Design if such a Person as Mr. St. Julian could have been prevailed upon to have taken the Direction of the first Transport, one who knows the Country and the manner of new Settling, and who has Capacity, Integrity, Honesty and Constitution, being Seasoned to the Climate, to undergo the fatigue that will attend it; for I assure You I know by Experience that Undertakings of this nature require the Management here of those who know the Climate and manner of Settling. I write this of my own head for Mr. St. Julian had no thought of being employed further, as he says himself, in any other manner than to assist them all he can when they arrive. I hope the first Transport wont be given to the Management of a Stranger to these parts and Settlements. This Town has been visited with a malignant Feaver, [sic] brought in from the Islands which in about two months carried off 130 whites besides a great Number of Blacks; I thought my Duty required my Presence in Town, and I have lost a Son and three Servants out of my Family, but my greatest Affliction is the loss of the best of wives just before by a fall from her Horse. The Distemper is almost over. There are Letters from Mr. Pury's Correspondent in London inform us that we may expect him with two hundred Souls from Switzerland in a very short time; We are likely to have great Quantity of Corn and Rice this year, which will be well for new Comers. I have ordered Correspondent by this opportunity to Subscribe L 50 towards your Undertaking, which the Trustees will please to accept, only as a Token of my good Wishes to the Design. A great Consideration is where You first design to Set down and build your Town, the Goodness of the Harbour [sic] and Land are chiefly to be considered, and I am advised that Alatamaha River is the best and the properest Place; You must by all means order your Ships and People directly there, and not to come a Shore here; a hundred Inconveniencys [sic] will ensue, and I think You should employ Agents here to build convenient Houses, and provide fresh Provision for them; all this will require a years time at least. So I don't Suppose You will make any Imbarkation [sic] till this time twelve months; I must likewise take the Liberty to advise You to send none but People used to Labour and of Sober Life end Conversation, for others will never be govern'd nor make good Settlers, for much hardship, Sickness and Labour will attend their first Settling, which will not be born by People used to Idleness or Luxury, and So far from being thankfull [sic] for the Bounty bestowed upon them, will be discontented and mutinous. In whatever the Society instructs me I can be serviceable to them in, I shall with pleasure obey, for I shall esteem it a great Honour [sic] to be thought yours and their Most humble and most Obedt, Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Deal to the Trustees dated 18th Novr. 1732. Gentlemen We Sailed from Gravesend on Thursday 17th Novr. about 9 in the morning falling Down with the Tide, but came to an Anchor at night between the Wore and the Downs the Pilot not chusing [sic]to venture over the Flats in the night time. We weigh'd Anchor again early this morning the Wind blowing very fresh at N.W.E. So that we got to Deal about 11 o'clock and the Wind being very fair to carry us through the Channel we stay only to take in fresh Provisions and send away our Dispatches. Before We Sailed we dismissed William Gainsford one of the Sawyers, he desiring it because his family is taken ill with the small Pox at home and Sent for him. All the Colony are very well except Sea Sickness which the Doctor and I have escaped hitherto. We take as much fresh Provision as we can Stow for the People at Deal; As Gainsford is taken off at L 4 Mr. Amatis is to he added at L 6 to the List. Dr. Cox and Mr. Fitzwalter have behaved remarkably well and all the rest are very orderly and patient. The Agreement with Mr. Amatis is that his Brother bring with him 2 Men and 4 Women who understand the whole of the Silk Business; and he is to have after the rate of L 10 p Head in Discharge of all Expences whatsoever from Turin to London and L 10 more to be paid to him for 4 lb. Silkworms Eggs and a Copper for boiling and a Machine for Winding, the whole amounting to L 80 to be paid in the manner settled with Mr. Simond vizt. L 60 in France and L 20 in London. As Soon as ever they arrive please to let them be sent in one of Mr. Simond's Ships where they will find Some People that can Speak French and CareShould be taken to keep them as private and let them stay as littleas possible in Town for those Persons Mr. Vernon mentioned will endeavour[sic] to Seduce them, and every body knows their Industry. When Mr. Nicholas Amatis arrives I would desire the Trustees to advise with him whatMeasures are farther proper to be taken and to excuse his Brother'sgoing away before his Arrival. I am Gentlemen Your most Obedient humble Servant. From on board the Anne 18th Novr. 1732 off of Deal. Dr. Herbert's Respects attend all the Society. Copy of a Letter from Mr. William Houstoun from Kingston in Jamaica to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 21st Decr. 1732. Sir I wrote to You from the Madera the 9th of Novr. that I was carrying from thence two Tubs full of Cuttings of Vines, I arrived with them here in good order yesternight, for most of them are budding and Some have put out. Shoots of an inch or two long which is something Surprizing [sic] considering that they were taken off just after they had exhausted themselves in the Production of Grapes and Leaves. I went this morning to wait upon Mr. Pratter the S. S. Company's Agent in this place, who has very kindly granted me Leave to go over in a Snow [scow?] which is to Sail in a few days for Carthagena. I have given one of the Tubs to him, which he is to plant out in a Garden he has near the Town, and the other I shall commit to the care of a friend, of my own, who has a Plantation a few miles off. So that when I am to Set out for Georgia I hope I Shall receive my own with Usury. My former Letter went by way of Lisbon, & lest You Should not have received it I shall repeat here that Messrs. Eider and Chalmbers have promised me to Send Cuttings to Mr. St. Julian by the first Ship that should go for Carolina; & that there is but one Cinnamon Tree in the Island of Madera. I shall endeavour [sic] to behave my self So as to give Satisfaction to You and the rest of the Honble. Trustees, and in the meantime beg Leave to assure You that I am Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant. On board the Ship Ann 8 of the Clock Jany. 13 1732/3 This Lte from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Honbl. Trustees Gentlemen. We just now discover the Cost of America and it proves to be the Land which lyes [sic] off Charles town We are now within nine Miles distant and can from the Deck with the naked Eye discover the Trees just above the Horrizon [sic] No disagreeable sight to those who for seven weeks have seen nothing but Sea and Sky We have had a very favourable [sic] Passage considering that we passed the Tropick [sic] of Cancer and Stood to the Southward till we came into 20 Degrees and then Stood back again to 32 where we now are By this means we lengthened our Navagation [sic] from England above a third which was done to avoid the fury of the North west Winds that generaly [sic] rage in the Winter season on the Coast of America We have lost none of our People except the Youngest Son of Richard Cannon aged Eight Months and the Youngest Sone of Robert Clarke Aged one Year and an [sic] half both of whome [sic] were very weakly when I came on Board and had indeed been half Starved thro' want before they left London as many others were who are recovered with Food and Care but these were so far gone that all our Efforts to Save them were in vain Doctor Herbert and all on Board are in perfect health except Mr. Scott who was bruised with a Fall in the Last Storm At present we are all in a hurry so must beg leave to refer you for a fuller account to my next Letters Wee [sic] intend to take in a pilot at this place for to conduct us to Port Royal where we shall hire Imbarkations [sic] to carry us to Georgia I am Gentlemen Your most obedient humble Servant James Oglethorpe I have seen the Governour [sic] who came to meet me on my Landing and the Speaker of the Assembly also came to pay his Compliments to the Trustees they have promised all assistance I am just going to return on board 2 of the Clock in the Morning Carthagena Jany. 25 1733 This Lre [sic] from Will: Houstoun [sic] to James Oglethorpe Esqr. Sir I had the Honour [sic] to write to you from Madera and afterwards from Jamaica in the last of which I informed you that I had brought to that Island two Tubbs full of Vines in good Condition and of the opportunity I had met with of coming to this plane I arrived here the 3d instant and am very well received at the Factory on account of one Gentleman who is my Relation and Some former acquaintance I had of the rest But the Governer [sic] of the place who is extreamly [sic] severe makes us all uneasy. The Ipecacuantia plants grows at a place called Hampex about a weekes [sic] Journey up the Countery [sic] I cannot possibly be allowed to go there my self but a Spanish Gentleman who sets out for that place to Morrow [sic] has engaged to send me down some some plants of it in potts [sic] and there are no less then three different persons there besides from each of which I have reason to expect it upon Letters I have procured to be wrote to them [sic] I shall also use my utmost endeavours to get the Seeds of the Trees that produce the Balsam called Capivi and of Tolu but these being still further up the Country are Consequently harder to be come at I shall as Soon as possible inform you of my Success and in the mean time beg leave to assure You that I am Sir Your most obedient and most humble Servant Will: Houstoun [sic] Copy of a Letter from the Govr., and Council of So. Carolina to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 26th Jany. 1732/3. Sir We can't omit the first opportunity of congratulating You upon your safe Arrival in this Province, wishing You all imaginable Success in your charitable and generous Undertaking in which we beg Leave to assure You any Assistance we can give shall not be wanting in promoting the Same. The General Assembly having come to the Resolution inclosed, We hope You will accept it as an Instance of our sincere Intentions to forward So good a Work and of our Attachment to a Person who has at all times so generously used his Endeavours [sic] to relieve the Poor and deliver them out of their Distress, in which You have hitherto been so successfull [sic] that we are persuaded this Undertaking can't fail under your prudent Conduct which we most heartily wish for. The Rangers and Scout Boats are ordered to attend You as soon as possible. Colonel Bull a Gentleman of this Board and who we esteem most capable to assist You in the Settling your new Colony is desired to deliver You this and to accompany You, and render You the best Services he is capable of, and is one whose Integrity You may very much depend on. We are with the greatest Regard and Esteem Sir Your most obedient and most humble Servants Jno. Fenwicke Tho. Waring J. Hammerton Robt. Johnson Thos: Broughton Az: Middleton A. Skene Fra. Yonge James Kinloch The Committee of His Majesty's Honble. Council appointed to confer with a Comittee [sic] of the Lower House, on His Excellency's Message relating to the Arrival of the Honble. James Oglethorpe Esqr. [Handwritten note on the typescript referring to this last paragraph: Not included but in original] Copy of a Letter from Mr, William Kilbury at Yamacraw Bluff to Mr. Francis Harbin dated 6th February 1732/3. Dear Friend We arrived at Port Royal Jany. 21st where we landed our People in perfect Health to Refresh them and prepare for their Passage to Georgia where the Town is to be built, the People arrived here the 1st of this Instant and I Landed here (from a Sloop of 70 Tuns which was hired to bring the dry Goods) the 3d of this Instant, As to giving You a particular Account of the Water it is out of my Power as yet not having a Man on board that knows the River nor how the Channel is; the Bluff where the Town is designed to be built has a fine fresh Water runs by it within 10 foot, where the Sloop can float too at an Hours flood; the Country promises to be very good and the Indians are very kind & the People of Carolina are very generous and have presented the Colony with upwards of 200 head of Cattle besides Hogs and Rice and every thing looks with an extraordinary good face. I have a great Satisfaction in my Coming having pleased my Master and likewise the People but with a great Deal of Pains hardly have time to write to You, I don't expect to be otherwise till I see You again which please God will be the latter end of the Year, In about a Week more I shall go down the River to Sound and likewise the Bar I have made the best as I could a Coming up which will be some help to my second Proceeding. My Service to your family and all friends. My Master is in good Health but indefatigably exposes himself to all cold and Hardship imaginable and extream [sic] kind more than ever I could expect. Pray let me hear from You all Opportuaitys, [sic] I conclude with the hearty Service and the well Wishes for the good Success of your Sincere Friend, &c. Dr, Herbert is well & Sends his Service to You and desires You will do the same to Mr, Verelst. And pray my Obedt. Service to Mr. Verelst. From the Camp near Savannah Feby. 10th 1932/3 [sic -- certainly this mistake is in the typescript] From James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Honble. Trustees Gentlemen I gave you an Account in my last of our arrival at Charles Town The Governour [sic] and Assembly have given us all possible encouragement Our people arrived at Beaufort on the 20th of January where I lodged them in Some new Barrachs [sic] built for the Soldiers whilst I went my self to view the Savannah River I fixed upon a healthy situation about ten miles from the Sea The River there formes [sic] a half Moon along the South side of which the Banks are about 40 foot high and upon the top a flat which they call a Bluff The plain high ground extends into the Country Five or Six Miles and along the River side about a Mile Ships that draw twelve foot water can ride within ten Yards of the Bank Upon the River side in the Center of this plain I have laid out the Town Over against it is an Island of very rich land fit for pasturage which I think should be Kept for the Trustees Cattle The River is prety [sic] wide the water fresh and from the Key of ye Town you See its whole course to the Sea with the Island of Tybe [sic] which forms the mouth of the River and the other way you may See the River for about Six miles up into the Country The Landskip [sic] is very agreeable the Stream being wide and bordered with high Woods on both sides The whole people arrived of the first of Febty. at Night their Tents were got up Till the 7th wee [sic] were taken up in unloading and making a Crean which I even then could not Get finished so took off the hands and set some to the Fortification and begun to fell ye Woods I marked out the Town and Common half of the former is allready [sic] cleared and the first House was begun Yesterday in the afternoon Not being able to get Negroes I have taken Ten of the independant [sic] Company to work for us for which I make them an allowance I send you a Coppy [sic] of the Resolutions of the Assembly and the Governour [sic] & Councill [sic] Letter to me which you may Judge whether it will not be proper to print. Mr. Whitaker has given us one Hundred head of Cattle Collonel [sic] Bull Mr. Barlow Mr. Julian and Mr. Woodward are come up to assist us with some of their own Servants Our people are all alive but ten are ill with the bloody Flux which I take to proceed from the cold and their not being accustomed to lye in Tents I am so taken up in looking after a hundred necessery [sic] things that I write now short but shall give you a more particular Account hereafter. A little Indian nation the only one within fifty miles is not only at amity but desire to be subject to the Trustees to have land given them and to breed their Children at our Schools Their Cheif [sic] and his beloved man who is the Second man in the Nation desire to be instrxicted in the Christian Religion. I am Gentlemen Your Most Obedt. humble Servant James Oglethorpe Copy of a Letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. Martyn dated 12th February 1732/3. Sir I have rec'd the favour [sic] of yours dated the 20th of October and the Duplicate of the 24th. I beg You will assure the Honble. [sic] Trustees of my most humble Respects, and that I will attach myself to render them and their laudable Undertaking all the Service in my Power. Mr. Oglethorpe arrived here with his People in good Health the 13th Decr. I ordered him a Pilot, and in ten hours he proceeded to Port Royal, where he arrived safe the 19th and I understand from thence, that after refreshing his People a little in our Barracks he with all Expedition proceeded to Yamacraw upon Savannah River about twelve miles from the Sea, where he designs to fix those he has brought with him. I do assure You that upon the first News I had of this Imbarkation [sic] I was not wanting in giving the necessary Orders for their Reception, and being assisted at Port Royal, altho' they were here almost as soon as we heard of their Design of Coming, not knowing whether Mr. Oglethorpe designed directly there or would touch here. I am informed he is mighty well Satisfyed [sic] with his Reception there and that he likes the Country, and that he should Say things Succeed beyond his Expectation; but I have not yet received a Letter from him since his being at Port Royal. Our General Assembly meeting 3 days after his Departure, I moved to them their assisting Mr. Oglethorpe in this generous Undertaking; both Houses immediately came to the following Resolution, that he should be furnished at the Public [sic] Expence [sic] with one hundred and four heads of breeding Cattle, 25 Hogs and 20 Barrels of good Rice; that Boats should be provided also at the Publick [sic] Charge to transport the People, Provisions and Goods from Port Royal to the Place where he designed to Settle, that the Scout Boat and 15 of our Rangers, who are Horsemen and always kept in Pay to discover the motions of the Indians, should attend Mr. Oglethorpe and obey his Commands, in order to protect the new Settlers from any Insults, which I think there is no manner of Danger of; and I have given the necessary Advice and Instructions to our Out Garrisons and the Indians in friendship with us, that they may befriend and assist them. I did propose the Subsisting them with Provisions for a twelve month, but the Charge has been so great already with the Puris burgers, who have also begun their Settlements, that the Assembly thought the Expence too large, & hope what they have done will be favourably [sic] accepted, as being adequate to the Circumstances of the Province which is but poor. I have likewise prevailed upon Colonel Bull a Member of the Council and a Gentleman of great Probity and Experience in the Affairs of this Province, the Nature of land and the method of Settling, and who is well acquainted with the manners of the Indians, to attend Mr. Oglethorpe at Georgia with our Compliments, and to offer him his Advice and Assistance; and had not our Assembly been sitting, I would have gone my self. I received the Trustees Commission, for the Honour [sic] of which I beg You will thank them; thereupon I published the inclosed Advertisemt. [sic] but our People are so poor I fear little will be got; I have received nothing as yet. I hope my Agent has paid the Trustees the L 50 I have ordered towards this good Work, to which I heartily wish all imaginable Success. I am Sir Your most humble Servt. P.S. Since the above I have had the pleasure of hearing from Mr. Oglethorpe who gives me an Accot. [sic] that his Undertaking goes on very Successfully. This letter from Thos. penn [sic] to James Oglethorpe Esqr. 6 March 1733-3 Esteemed Friend I reced. with much pleasure thy letter of the 31st of August by way of Maryland and by Lord Baltimore as well on its begining [sic] a Correspondence with a Gentleman I have so great a regard for as on Subject to me truly deserving the Notice and Assistance of all well disposed persons I reced. allso [sic] with thy Letter a Comision [sic] from the trustees of Georgia to my self which I esteem a particular mark of thy Regard and of those Gentlemans [sic] who with thee have the Satisfaction to think themselves engaged in a design to render to many poor unfortunate fellow subjects pappy [sic] what contribution I intend towards it should have Come by this Ship but wee [sic] having had a severe winter which fastned [sic] up our River and the ships in it from 17th November till the first of this Month has put a stop to much of our Merchants Trade So that I could not Get a Bill of Exchange and have since that time considered that no Corn is raised in Carolina (or at least very little) and the Inhabitance supplyed [sic] from this place and New York whether it might not be more serviceable to supply those who come first with Bread and flower from this from whene I could send a Smal [sic] Slope on purpose but if no other advice from Carolina which we soon hope for that will not be Serviceable I shall enclose thee a Bill for one Hundred pounds Serling from my self and think it my duty to procure what I can from others towards so good a work I send by this Ship to a friend of mine in London a Smal [sic] quantity of Potash made by a person I have got to teach it the Country people as soon as I have any -- Account of what quality it will prove and have settled him on some where he and some others are to worke [sic] all the Summer in order to get a large quantity from the different Sorts of wood that I may know which is the most proper for that purpose I give the Trouble of this because I am sensible of tby regard to the Brittish [sic] Colloney [sic] and that the Importation of any thing from them to England not interfering with the Manufactures at home must Consequently be much to tby Satisfaction I desire the to be assured that as I shall allways [sic] be ready to do any Service here to the Collony [sic] of Georgia every opportunity also shall he embraced to convince thee that I am with sincere regard Tby very affectionate friend Thos. penn [sic] Philadelphia March the 6th 1732/3. P.S. running over my Lre [sic] I find some mistakes which by the Captains intending to go to morrow are only interlined he not allowing me time to dispach [sic] all my tra [sic] on looking over the Commition [sic] I find the Sumes [sic] Collected are to be remitted to the Trustees and therefore I shall the above mentiond [sic] Sum. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees dated 12th March 1732/3. Gentlemen I have been obliged to make many expences [sic] here, the price given by the Assembly not being near sufficient. I was forced to buy a considerable Quantity of Provisions as also to make up the Arms which was burnt in the Fire and also the Tools many of which were so bad as to be useless, besides which I have thought it necessary to make several Expences [sic] in Gift to the Indians, for Intelligence, Rewards for taking Outlaws and Spies; all which with many other Articles of Expence [sic] You will receive as soon as we can get time to make out Copies of our Books. I have drawn upon You for L 400 part of which I have paid away and the rest I have by me. This province is much larger than we thought it, being 120 Miles from this River to the Alatamaha. [sic] This River has a very long Course and a great Trade is carried on by it to the Indians, there having above 12 Trading Boats passed by since I have been here. There are in Georgia on this Side the Mountains three considerable Nations of Indians, one called the Lower Creeks consisting of nine Towns or rather Cantons making about 1000 Men able to bear Arms; One of these is within half a mile of us and has concluded a Peace with us giving up their Right to All this part of the Country, and I have mark'd out the Lands which they have reserved to themselves. The King comes constantly to Church and is desirous to be instructed in the Christian Religion and has given to me his Nephew a Boy who is his next Heir to educate. The other two Nations are the Uchees and the Upper Creeks the first consisting of 200, the latter of 1100 men. We agree so well with the Indians that the Creeks and Uchees have referred a Difference to me to determine which otherwise would occasion a War, and one of them has informed me of a Silver mine on the River Side, the Earth of which being washed away the Ore lyes bare, of which he promised to bring me a Semple. Our People still lye in Tents there being only two Clapboard Houses built and three Saw'd Houses framed, our Crane our Battery of Cannon and Magazine finished, this is all we have been able to do by reason of the Smallness of our Number of which many have been sick and others unused to Labour [sic] though thank God they are now pretty well and we have not lost one Soul since our Arrival here. I desire some of You will be so kind as to frank the inclosed and send them as directed, being the Natural Thoughts of our whole Colony. I am Gentlemen Your most Obedt. Servant This Lre [sic] from Sam; Parker to the Honble. Trustees. Savanah Town March 12 1732/3 Hond. Sirs Your honours [sic] have been So good as to promise that those who came in the first Embarkation should have a friend or two sent after us whom we should recomend [sic] and myself being acquainted with two or three that I know have burthensome [sic] familyes [sic] for whom they can make no provision in future and finding that in all humane probebility [sic]they may have an opportunity of doing well here I do hereby recommend them as fit &. proper objects of Yor. [sic] Honrs.[sic] relief they Signifyed [sic] to me their intention of coming after me if I could give them suitable encouragement after my arrival here and having done that by Lres [sic] bearing equal date here with I expect they will two if not three of them attend your Honrs, thereupon their names are Isaac Spring of East Smithfeild [sic] Victualler William perry [sic] a plaisterer [sic] and house painter of St. paus's [sic] Shadwell Avery Ingenious and necessary man here and Benjamin Manning of Chelmsford in Essex Husband man being willing they should come as soon as possible I humbly hope if they attend your Honrs, upon the that they will he inrolled [sic] in the next Imbarkation [sic] abundance of our Collony [sic] Joyn [sic] with me in renewing our humble thanks for the feavours [sic] Reced from your Honrs, and its with great pleasure I acquaint your Honrs, that every occurreince [sic] seeminly [sic] promises a feavourable [sic] aspect and every way conduces to answer Your Honrs, good and Laudable Intentions to promote our wealfare [sic] in General that your Honrs. future proceeding in the same designs may succeed and prosper to Gods Glory Your Honrs. and Our Advantage is and shall be the hearty prayer of him who is Your Honrs. most Humble and obedient Servant Samel, parker [sic] Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton at Savannah to his Wife dated 12th March 1732/3. My Dearest I wrote to You on the 12th of Jany. last from Charles Town Bar which I hope came safe to hand. I had then the favour [sic] of Mr. Oglethorpe's Packet; And promised to write again when we should arrive at our Place of Settlement. We were just a week in our Passage from Charles Towm to Port Royal where we Landed and were Lodged at some new Barracks that are there intended for a new Fortification about 3 miles from Beaufort Town. At our Lending Hr. Oglethorpe ordered me to take all the Stores into my Care and to keep an Account of them. And in that Office I shall continue which takes up my whole time, in this Circumstance I could not so much as go to See the Town or Stir half a mile from the Place. But the Accot. I have from other People is enough for me to believe that the Houses there are all of Timber and very few have Glass Windows or Brick Chimneys. But notwithstanding that the People are very Gallant and generous & seem to live in a very plentifull [sic] manner. Some of our Company who went to the Town were entertained in a very elegant manner and every one found some body to entertain them in some Shape or other. Ve have five or six familys [sic] amongst us that are deserving a Gentleman's Conversation. We continued in those Barracks Ten days. Sailed from thence in Six large Boats, and the Country Scout Boat and the Garrison Boat with 12 Soldiers attending us. We had a very fair Wind and safe Passage being 2 days and then arrived at this piece then called Yamacraw and now Savannah. This Place is very high Ground being about 30 Yards upright from low Water mark, about 10 miles from the Sea, and I believe that Ships of 200 Tun will be able to come within 3 miles of us. It is impossible to give a true Description of the Place because we are in a Wood, but I cant forbear Saying it is a very pleasant one. We have about 100 Indians just by us, and a Trader with them that speaks English and sells almost every thing to them at what Rates he pleases. Mr. Oglethorpe has behaved towards them with so much good Conduct and prudent generosity, that tho' Some amonst [sic] them were ready to Grumble at our Coming yet he has both gain'd their Love & encreased [sic] their fearfull [sic] Apprehensions of us. They have always Parties out in hunting and they bring us Venison, for which Mr, Oglethorpe pays at a very moderate Rate. They seem to be sober judicious men. Straight and strong almost naked; But the King and the Chiefs wear Coats and Drawers and a piece of Cloth tied about their Legs like Boots. The Queen and her Daughters wear Common printed Calicoe, [sic] Jacket and Petticoat without any Head Cloaths. [sic] They maintain very little Distinction, at our first Landing, they came to hid us welcome and before them came a Man dancing in Antick [sic] Postures with a spread fan of which Feathers in each hand as a Token of friend ship, wch. were fix'd to small Rods about four foot long. Set from Top to Bottom with small Bells like Morrice [sic] Dancers which made a jingling whilst the King and others followed making a very uncouth Hollowing. [sic] When they came near, Mr. Oglethorpe walked about ten Steps from his Tent to meet them; then the man with his feathers came forward dancing and talking, which I am informed was repeating a Speech, the Acts of their Chief Warriours, [sic] and at times came close and moved his Pans over him & Strok'd him on every Side with them; this continued more than a Quarter of an Hour, Then the King & all the men came in a regular manner & Shook him by the hand; after that the Queen came and all the Women did the like. Then Mr. Oglethorpe conducted them to his Tent and made them Sit down; the next day he made them some Presents to make them Cloathing. [sic] This being the 1st of February and of our Landing here We began to pitch our Tents the same Evening, and Set four large Tents Sufficient to hold the greatest part, I lodged in one of them with one Mr. Overend who came out of Aldersgate Street and did live in Cox's Court, he is a married man, has lived well in the Marcery [sic] way, and has left his Wife in England. But since that the Stores wanting a pretty Deal of Care I lye in the Storehouse by myself. We have had very little Illness amongst us, having buried none, whilst the Switzers (we hear) have buried a great many; We are 20 miles from them. And the chief Reason I believe is that we are on a higher Ground and in dryer Air than they. We are plentifully provided with Victuals, and the Men have a Pint of strong Beer every night after work besides other frequent Refreshments, as Mr, Oglethorpe sees Occasion. Indeed he is both great & Good, and I am certain our Success is owing to his good Conduct only. There is no Room to doubt but that we shall be a flourishing People and hope to be a Thousand men before the Year is ended. We have had very great Assistance from the Gentlemen of Charles Town, have always some of them with us who bring us Workmen to help forward with our Works; they have assisted Mr. Oglethorpe in laying out most of the Lands already. We are according to a Plan directed to be drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe as I mentioned in my last building the Town, have got up three Houses, are Planting and Sowing, and have Sowed about ten Acres in all of different kinds of Seeds. The Houses are made of Timber of one Floor, only a Cock loft over it Sufficient to hold two Beds, the lower part will make one large Room and two small ones and stands in a piece of Ground which with the intended Garden is 20 Yards broad in front and 30 Yards long in depth. We shall have a fine Prospect when the Woods are clear. As to our Government we are divided into four Tythings each maintaining eleven Men able to bear Arms, of which one is Tythingman, I am one of them; And according with my Ten other men keep Guard every fourth night; Our Situation is indeed very pleasant, and tho' we want for nothing we have some Grumbletonians [sic] here also. I wish You had wrote [sic] to me by the Ship that followed us. She is just now arrived having been 11 weeks in her Passage, We made our Passage in eight weeks and Weather good enough to have made it in five weeks had we not gone so far to the Southward, which we did for the Safety of us all. I defer writing to any one else at present hoping to hear from You. You must needs think I long to hear how Affairs stand and how You do in Health, and how my little Boy does, whether he grows and how he reads; And think likewise. That as my Heart is immoveably [sic] fixed on the well doing of Miss Sophia and my Dear Jacky I long to hear from them and till then am betwixt Hope and Despair. You may Bring any furniture with You, and we may have two or more Apprentices; And the Trustees will send them to Us if our friends will procure them. But the Point will Be Settled when Mr. Oglethorpe returns to England. I shall want Thread or Cotton Stockings, Some good Checqued [sic] Linnen [sic] of a dark Blew and a strong Linnen [sic] for Waistcoats and Trowsers. [sic] Last Christmas Day was the hottest day I ever felt in my Life Being then in the Latitude of 19 Degrees. We have very heavy Rains sometimes But tho' it reins [sic] a whole Day and Night it makes no Dirt. [?] We are much pestered with a little Fly they call a Sand Fly. I have seen it in England about the Horse Dung. But every Insect here is stronger than in England. The Ants are half an inch long and they say will Bite desperately. As for Alligators I have seen several But they are By the Sides of Rivers, Our Town is too high Ground for them to Clamber up. we have killed one. I find the Camphire [sic] very good against the Stings of the Flies. I now Begin to Be something hardened against them. The Gentlemen of Charles Towm have given us 50 head of Cattle, We had some Hogs But they are run wild and left us. Pray present my humble Service as You think proper, I don't fear doing very well &c. Copy of a Letter from the Revd. Dr. Herbert from Carolina to Mr. Simond dated 27th March 1733. Sir I am extremely obliged to You for the favour [sic] of sending me my Letters and should be fond of an opportunity of returning it in any way that would be agreeable to You. I have been ill for some time and am but just now recovering, so have Thoughts of embarking for England in May Therefore what Letters You receive for me after this comes to hand I beg may be kept till You hear farther from Sir Your obliged and very humble Servant. Our Friend was well when I heard from him a few days ago, & goes on to his Wishes; but I was obliged to come Northward near two months ago on Accot. of my Health. This Letter from Sam; Eveleigh to the Honr. The Trustees South Carolina April 6 1733 Gentlemen About three weekes [sic] since did my self the honour [sic] to go down and Visit Mr. Oglethorpe what I here remaked [sic] I caused to be published in the Carolina Gazette and sent it to Mr. Samuel Baker Merct. in London and desired him to get it incerted [sic] in the London newspapers which suppose by this tine you have had the sight of there are several other things which the printer for want of room could not put in I carried down with me a great bundle of Asparagus and as Soon as he reced [sic] it he ordered it to he given the women with Child without reserving any for himself Theres about a 11 foot at high water on the Bar which I look upon to be of advantage to a young Settlement for in case of war no vessell [sic] of force can enter to disturbe [sic] them While I was there Mr. Oglethorpe gave Captains Commissions to two of the Chief Indian Warriors together with some presents at which they Seemed well Satisfy'd and promised to do him what service they could Excuse me Gentlemen if I take the Liberty to make one remark. Mr. Oglethorpe told me that by their Constitution they were to have no Negroes Amongst them which I think will be a great prejudice if not a means to Overset your Noble design for there is a vast Quantity of extraordinary fine Land which plentifully stored wiith large trees which I can't think can be felled by persons that are not used to Worke and they cant there live without Corn, besides it will be very difficult for White people to hoe and tend theyr [sic] corn in Corn [sic] in the Hot wether [sic]for I do assure you I think tis equally as hot as ever I felt it in Jamaica in the Sumer Months, which I compute to be from the Middle of May to the Middle of September. Mr. Oglethorpe once a week puts up a Turkey or Some other thing of Value to be Shot for by his men which has allready [sic] had good effect brining [sic] them acquainted with armes [sic] which some of then before were Ignorant of. He Sent me Down a Small Cask of Skins which I have shiped [sic] on Board the Volant Edmund Smyler and consigned to my friend Mr. Samuel Baker with some of my own who will enter them and deliver them to you which will save you some trouble and Charge When I was at Georgia I acquainted Mr. Oglethorpe that there was on the Island and on the Main next the Sea such vast quantities of live Oake [sic] trees as is not to he seen in any part of the World besides Sufficient to Build more Ships then the British Navy consists of which for its durableness and Crookedness of Growth suitable for all difficult Timbers is preferrable [sic] to English or any other Oake [sic] whatsoever as one Mr. Barry who was Bred in his Majesties Yard if alive can inform you He Married Bella Ash the Daughter of John Ash Ssqr. for-formerly of this province She's a Relation as I have been informed of the Lord Townsends and St. paul Methwen I wrote you this that you may know how to find her I design in three weekes time to Get Some Carpenters to cut Several pieces of these Teimbers [sic] and Send you Some for a Tryal. [sic] Since I wrote the above I I am informed the said was living within these three Years and was Forman of of his Majesties Yard of Deptford. I am Gentlemen Your very Humble Servant Sam: Eveleigh This Letter from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Honble. Trustees. Charles Town May 14 1733. Gentlemen I have but just time to let you know that we are at peace with all the Indian Nations that there is great hopes of one towns being Converted to the Christian Religion since they allready [sic] desire to be instructed in our Faith and their Chief man is with me We have reced [sic] the stores and men that came with Vanderplant as I advised you. in my last The James I left at Port Royal from whence she is to proceed up to the new town upon the Savannah River I have taken all the Masters Cargo and have agreed to give him One Hundred pounds Sterling to deliver it in his Ship at our Town for which I have drawn upon you I thought the getting a Ship up to the Town well worth the expence [sic] I have also drawn upon Mr. Symonds for one Hundred Ninety and Eight pounds of which fifty is upon my Account As these two Sums seem more perhaps that at this time you will have Cash to except I have desired Mr. Symonds to accept of any Bills that you shall not think fitt [sic] to pay and to pay them upon my account I have ordered him money for that purpose Doctor Cox is dead parker is ill of a Consumtion [sic] which he had contracted before he left England all the rest of our people are in perfect health we having not lost one Soul but Dr. Cox since our landing I have been in this town twelve days and have obtained from the Assembly Two Thousand pounds Currency Money for the assisting of our people this Year The Committe [sic] for Supply have voted 12000 pounds Currency for Supplying the Colony next Year and the Resolution will be reported after the Hollydays [sic] so I return till then to Georgia Some Merchants have proposed to hire the Liberty of trading with the Indians in our province That liberty I believe is well worth 2000 L Sterling a Year They Seem to think that one Thousand pound Sterling a Year is much as it is worth I shall do nothing in it but continue the Trade upon the footing it is now and will carry over all the proposals with me for your determination I have brought all our people to desire the prohibition of Negroes and Rum which goes much against the Grain of the traders in these Comodityes [sic] in this town But if either of them are allowed our whole design will be ruined The Inhabitants of this Town have allread [sic] Subscribed 1000 L currency of which they have paid me 500 L to bye [sic] Cattle ther [sic] will be great contributions all over the province. I found and seized an Irish Roman Chatholick who was the man mentioned by Herbin. Our Indians Stopt [sic] and the Scout boat took two others of the same nation and Religion who were sent by him with Intelligence from our Town to St. Augustine I retained their principal till the others were taken in the meantime fortifyed [sic] our town then shewed them our workes [sic] our Cannon and our Men under arms who being Strengthned [sic] by several Carolina people were pretty numerous I then I then sent them to Charles Town and told them they might give an Account to the Governour [sic] of Agustine [sic] of what they then Saw I am Gentlemen Your most Obedient Humble Servant James Oglethorpe I desire you would not apply for any men of war on our Station for they rather hurt than do Service wherever they come I sent you a cask of Seeds which was a present from the Indians some Bear Oyle [sic] and some druggs [sic] as the first fruits of this Country. This letter from Sam; Eveleigh to the Honble. the Trustees South Carolina May 18 1733 Gentlemen All the men of war Stationed here are nov a Cruising so that I am not able to Get any Carpenter to Cut the Timber as mentioned before by order of Mr. Oglethorpe. you have inclosed two of the Carolina Gazetts [sic] and have Shiped [sic] on Board the William Gaily Capt. Francis Baker one Smal [sic] Cask of Druggs [sic] and three Quart Bottles of Bears Qyle [sic] which will be delivered to you by my friend Mr. Sam: Baker Mr. Amythis took a Small House and Garden in this Towm in which he has planted a quantity of Virginia white Mulberry Trees nigh 3OOO of which grows very well theres about five Hundred orange Trees planted most of which growe [sic] and four Hundred and fiffty [sic] of the Vines you send are in a flourishing condition Besides a quantity of peach and other Fruit Trees all for the use of Georgia where they are to Be transplanted in due season some time since I carried Mr. Amythis over the River to my Brothers plantation where Grew som [sic] white Mulberrys and he doubts not of getting three Thousand Mulberry Cuttings from them. hes [sic] now very Busie [sic] feeding his Wormes some of which have worked themselves into Balls and he proposes a second Cropt [sic] and is in ewpectation of getting a quantity of Silk Not far from Savannah there is a large quantity of Choice Cedar and very nigh it Quantities of Red Barr which will be very usefull [sic] for Joyners [sic] and Cabinet makers Mr. Oglethorpe has made a tour ten miles back as far as black River now by him called Vernon in which Rivers as I am Informed by a Credible person are great Quantities of live Oake [sic] and other valuable Timber He has got twenty odd p. of Sawyers and his Building goes on Briskly I hope in a few Years will be a very flourishing Colony. I am Gentlemen Your very Humble Servant Samuel Eveleigh The Tea Seed is gown in Mr. Amythis's Garden and hope twill grow. This Letter from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Honble. the Trustees. Charles Town June 9th 1733. Gentlemen When I left your new town of Savannah there were then nine framed Houses finished the sides covered with feather edged Board and the tops with shingles besides the Smith forge and two other clapboard Houses the Fram'd Houses are 24 foot in length upon 16 foot in Breath They have one Story eight foot high with Garrets over them They are raised upon Loggs [sic] two foot above the Ground and are floored with Inch and half plank There was upon the place when I left it One Hundred and 60 heads of whome [sic] Seventy bare Arms there were two blockhouses Musket shell proof and very defensible with four port holes for Cannon and one piece of Cannon ready to be put into each There was a Battery of Six pieces of Cannon upon the Water side and a Guard house of 36 foot long upon 24 foot wide the sides covered with thick Slat and the top with bark there was also a larg [sic] Stout Crane four ground Saw pitts [sic] supported all round with Timber and one Hundred and forty yards on the East side of the Town was fortified with pallicadoes [sic] Seventeen foot long the Trees all round the Town within on Hundred Yards thereof was cleared Before I came away there were fifty head of Cattle the Gift of Jno. Whitaker and his friend and fifty head more the Gift of Mr. Odingsell and the people of Distow landed several of them being wild run away into the Woods the remainder were decided by lot amongts [sic] the people Every family in which there was a woman had a Milch Cow and every single man a Heifer or Steer I have left with them also 4 Horses and two Canoes which I left with them on account of the Trust with respect to the Indian affairs I had also two Companys of of Tomo-chi-chis men and gave at their desier [sic] a Commission to Tuskenca Istinnocecheby the name of the Captain of the first Militia Company of the Indian allies and at their desire also appointed Skee captain of the Second Militia Company of the Indian allies The two Conpanies consisted of Forty very Clever Men their pay is one Bushell [sic] of corn pr. month for each man while we employ them in War or hunting a Gun at their first listing and a Blanket p, Ann. We have concluded a peace with the lower Creeks who were the most Dangerous Enemy's to South Carolina and formerly friend to the French and Spaniards The maner [sic] in which I gained them to our Interest is to [sic] long now to relate. You will receive a pretty faithfull [sic] account of their conferrence [sic] with us in the Inclos'd [sic] Gazette Inclosed is also a coppy [sic] of ther [sic] Treaty concluded with them which if you approve of you will order to be engross'd and Sent over with your Seal The progress we have made and the Measures we have taken are so universally approved of that private people have not only contributed largely money labour of Slaves and Cattle but the Assembly have passed an Act the coppy [sic] which I have ordered to be sent to you for granting unto us 8000 lb. I have bought a Sloop with all her Rigging good and Cable Anchors Sails Boat &c for 50 L Sterling she cost her owner 200 L Sterling She mounts 6 Swivel Guns and is prime Sailor A Great deal will be saved by her in carrying things from this Town She will be usefull [sic] in fighting going up the River and piloting in of Shipping if occation [sic] shall happen The Assembly arose this day and I Shall set out tomorrow for Savannah. The Land in Georgia becoming to Grow valuable by reason of our Settlement several have applied to me for grants and those who have served the Collony [sic] and are willing to take them upon the Trustees terms I have promised to recommend to you for 5OO Acres of Land first Mr. Walter Agustine who has been long in this Country and behaved well in the Indian War he with four men is already settled upon a Lott Six miles distante [sic] the Town up the River he has built a house and Cleared Seven Acres of Land which he has planted with Indian Corn a little Barly and other Europian [sic] Grain which comes up finely for the next lot above him I promised to recommend Lieutenant Watts for the next above Mr. Fennygall and for the next lot behind them Mr. Reves all of them being Officers of his Majesties Independant [sic] company I have promised to recommend Mr. Bryan a very brave young man who himself with four of his Negroes worked for us gratus some Months I also promised to recommend Ensign Farrington and Capt: Thomas for Lotts upon the Sea Coast Besides these as I said before upon finding the land grew valuable others applyed [sic] to me for large tracts of Land from 3OOO to 12000 Acres each in order to monopolize the Country and Offered to give me considerable presants [sic] for to bring the Trustees into making these grants and to continue at their putting Negroes upon them I treated as you may think with contempt and had it not been necessary to carry things with great temper here I should kicked the proposers into the Bargain Upon this I have had intillegence [sic] that these same people are trumping up forfieted [sic] Titles and old pretentions [sic] to the lands in Georgia I give you notice of this that you may be prepared if any applycations [sic] are made I should advise also that you would get Lord Carteret to sign the conveyance of which the Attorney General perused the Draught and not mention one word of any claim till it is don You may Judg [sic] of the value of Your lands here by the price of those on Trenchs Island which lyes at the Mouth of the Savannah River on the Carolina side They were sold at 5 S an Acre Carolina money when I first landed here and about 10 days ago a large parcel of the same land was sold at 40 S an Acre I would also desire you not to Surprized [sic] into anything relating to the Indian Trade For if that matter is ill managed it may draw on a War but if it is well managed it will bring in 2000 L. Sterling a Year and secure the Indians in our Interest. As soon as I have divided the Lands held the Court of Records and put every thing in order which I hope to do in less than a Month I shall leave Georgia and set out for England I am Gentlemen Your most obedient himble [sic] servant James Oglethorpe Copy of a Letter from William BrownJohn and Thos. Gapen from the Downs to the Trustees dated 18th June 1733. Right Honble. and Honble. Gentlemen This morning we came to Anchor in the Downs in 6 fathom water the Wind Blowing very fresh at S. West; we are all in good Health free from Distempers, the Women were sick By the motion of the Ship But having Served them with Sage and Sugar they are now much Better. Mr. Sacheverel is not come on Board, John Barnes Samuel Dudly and Lewis Bowen came on Board at Gravesend, Robert Hainks was Seized with a violent fit of the Apoplex and fell down the Ladder but By speedy Application & Mr. Pensyre's Assistance By Bleeding him he is Recovered. We this day washed the Ship and afterwards read Prayers in very good Order; we then Broach'd the Barrel of strong Beer that Your Honours were pleased to send us. Every Mess Being Served in Proportion we drank the Healths of their Royal Majestys and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and all the Royal family, then the Healths of all our Honble. Benefactors and well Wishers to our Undertaking and the Healths of all the Honble. Trustees to whom we are all in general so much obliged and return our most hearty Thanks, and the Health of the Honble. James Oglethorpe Esqr. wishing a happy Sight of him. We are all in general pleased with the Capt. and he is very carefull [sic] and tender of us, the Provision gives an universal Content, We shall endeavour [sic] to write to your Honours By every opportunity of our Welfare, our utmost Endeavours [sic] shall Be to obey your Honrs. Directions, and we Beg Leave to Subscribe our Selves Your Honrs. Most humble & most Obed. Servants to Coraman. P.S. I am at a great Loss for the Paper and Pens Your Honors were please to promise me. Copy of a letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. Martyn dated 28th July 1733. Sir I am favor'd with yours of the 24th of Jany. last I should have answered it sooner but that I was willing to endeavour [sic] the doing some Service to the Design of Georgia before I wrote. I have employed my best Interest with the Assembly & people of this Province, to promote their contributing to the Support of the Undertaking; and it is with Pleasure I can acquaint You, that by Mr. Oglethorpe's Address and lively Representation of the Necessity of it, the General Assembly of this Province have exerted themselves almost beyond their Abilitys [sic] in assisting that Colony; what they have done will amount to about 2000 Sterl. without which Support I don't find they would have been able to Subsist; but I leave it to Mr. Oglethorpe to give the Trustees an Accot. of these Affairs; he is indefatigable in his Endeavours, [sic] and without his Industry, Prudence and Resolution I apprehend the Spirits of the People unused to such Hardships and fatigues, as must necessarily attend new Settlements, must have sunk under them; but his good Example enables them to Surmount all Difficultys, [sic] and I hope the Undertaking will Succeed if His Absence don't discourage & dispirit them. He is shortly expected in Charles Town in order to take the first opportunity of embarking for England. Nothing shall be wanting in me to render the Trustees all the Service in my Power to whom I beg You will make my most humble Respects agreable. [sic] I am Sir Your most humble and Obedient Servant Extract of a Letter from Govr. Johnson dated at Charles Town 27th July 1733. The General Assembly have contributed to the Georgians about L 2000 Sterling, which I hope will prove very agreable [sic] to the Honble. the Trustees, and will induce them to believe that the Assembly are desirous of giving them all the Assistance they are able. Besides this I should add that there are several private Subscriptions, I employed my best Interest with my Friends on this occasion, and I may without Vanity say that it had some weight. Mr. Oglethorpe talks of returning shortly to England. As he has been indefatigable in Settling the People, so I fear he'll be much wanted. Some Hardships must be undergone and I am fearfull [sic] lest the People should grow disorderly and incline to desert into our Settlements which I shall be all I can to prevent. If Provision is not made for them by this Province for another year, I am almost sure they must desert us for they came too late to plant any Corn this year. We cannot fathom the Design of sending forty Jews to Georgia, they will never I believe make Planters, and if not Supported by their Friends in England must Starve, for I am told they are not Subsisted by the Trustees. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah, to the Trustees dated 12th August 1733. Gentlemen I have not been able to write at length since I left Charles Town; when I returned hither from thence I found the People were grown very mutinous and impatient of Labour and Discipline, This Petulancy was owing chiefly to several of them having got into drinking of Rum, and to Some more artfull,[sic] who had a mind to buy the little things they had for liquor; And in order to bring that about. Stirred them up to desire that they might have all their Provisions delivered into their own hands, and then to have bought that Provision from them. Some of the Silly People desired their Provisions that they might be able to gratify their Palates by Selling a large Quantity of wholesome food for a little Rum Punch. I found that Gray who pretended to understand the Silk, had been one of the busiest in preaching up Mutiny, and whilst I was at Charles Town had in a bare faced manner insulted all Order and threatned [sic] the Chief People here, for which Mr. Scott a Justice of the Peace for this place whom he insulted in the Execution of his Office, ordered him to be Set in the Stocks. He complained to me when I came back again and told me that (amongst our People) he had a great many friends, and a great many Enemies who had Sworn his Destruction, and would have had me have brought them face to face to have sworn against each other, & told me that if I would not give him Satisfaction he desired Leave to go out of the Colony. I told him I would give him Leave provided he went away within twelve hours; which he accordingly did. There were two boys (for whose Passage the Trustees has paid) came in the same Ship with him. These he ask'd to take with him pretending they were his Servants. I told him that if he would pay the Passage for them and would give Security that he would not sell them he should have Leave for them also to go with him; he said he could not pay for them but would pay at Charles Town. Upon which I wrote to Mr. Chardon That if he did pay the Money to him and give him such Security he might then have leave to take the Boys. He never paid the money, but at Charles Town raised several lyes against this Colony and the People of it. Mr. Chardon for this ordered him to he prosecuted, on which he went out of the way. By Degrees I brought the People to Discipline, but could not revive the Spirit of Labour, Idleness and Drunkenness were Succeeded by Sickness. To remedy the first I sent away the Negroes who Sawed for us, for so long as they continued here our men were encouraged in Idleness by their working for them. To remedy Drunkenness I gave a moderate Allowance of Wine, prohibited Rum and Staved such as I could find in the Town. But found that the Indian Trading house about 1/2 a mile from us in spite of all my Prohibitions sold Rum to our People. I did not care to disoblige them because they are the only Interpreters we have to the Indians. However at present I must either Suppress them or our People must be destroyed, we having lost twenty People within a month since the Drinking of Rum was come into fashion; whereas we lost but one Person in five months whilst I was here end kept the People from excessive Drinking. Millidge our best Carpenter is dead of a burning Feaver [sic] which on his Deathbed he confessed he contracted at the Indian Trading House; he drank there Rum Punch on the Wednesday, on Thursday was taken ill of a burning Feaver [sic] and on the seventh day, the Crisis of that Distemper, dyed. Poor Overend who was recommended by Mr. Laroche is also dead with Rum; to which most of the rest owe their Deaths. But the Illness being once frequent became contegeous. [sic] It appeared chiefly in burning Fevers or else in bloody Fluxes attended by Convulsions and other terrible Symptoms. Dr. Cox being dead Jones look'd after the Sick. The Indian Root Diascordium, Rhubarb, Laudinum and all other implications usually used on that Occasion were of no Effect. Almost every one that was taken ill at first dyed. [sic] Jones himself fell sick and some of the Women (most handy about the Sick) dyed; So that we had neither Doctor, Surgeon nor Nurse, and about the 15th of July we had above 60 People sick, many of whose Lives we despaired of. At which time Capt. Hanton arrived here with some Jews and amongst them a Doctor of Pbysick [sic] who immediately undertook our People and refused to take any Pay for it; He proceeded by cold Baths, cooling Drinks and other cooling Applications. Since which the Sick have wonderfully recovered, and we have not lost one who would follow his Prescriptions. Next to the Blessing of God and this new Regimen I believe one of the greatest Occasions of the People's Recovery has been. That by my constant watching of them I have restrained the Drinking of Rum. I have been so taken up, what with tending the Sick, what with Viewing the Country, marking out Lands, getting Provisions and Treating with the Indians that I have not had time to write. I intended to have left this place long ago but the general Sickness of the People made me think. That if I abandoned them in that Condition it would throw them into Despair and make the distemper fatal; So that I thought it was better to neglect my own Affairs and take my chance of Standing the Sickness here, than by quitting the People at such a time expose them almost to certain Death. There are several People passed by here for Purysburgh to whom I gave what Assistance I could. Hetherington, Bishop, Fletcher, Pennyfather and Mr. Quincy the Minister are arrived with their Servants; I have been forced to lend them Provisions out of the Store, otherwise they must have Suffered for want. I have agreed with Mr. Macpherson Captain of the Rangers to build a Fort upon Hogstchee River, wch. I have named Argyll. It is already begun and in good forwardness and I have Supplied him from hence with Provision Cannon and Ammunition. Hetherington and Bishop with their Servants have undertook to build a Fort upon a Creek called Thunderbolt, upon which they are to begin to work on Tuesday next. And Ferguson Captain of the Carolina Scout Boat has undertaken to do the same at Skidowa [sic] Island. The two latter in Consideration of Lands and the former of two hundred pounds Curcy. So that by this means all the Passages to this Town both by Land & Water are covered. And by the Map which I shall soon Send You will see That by these Forts, if we can Set up another at Tybee, no small Bodys either of Spaniards or Indians can approach this place at all, nor any large one without a timely Discovery. On the 7th of July I held the first Court and administered the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration named the several Wards and Streets & put each family into Possession of an House Lot, on twenty one of which framed Houses are built; The other nineteen the Carpenters undertook to build for themselves. But alas five of them dyed within one week. The Lots of those who have no Children are put into the hands of other working men who are capable to assist in building the remaining Houses. One is a Soldier belonging to the Independent Company for whom I shall procure a Discharge; He is a sober hard working man. The other is Tibbitt who was sent by Capt. Coram. We proceed first on the houses of those who have Widows or Children here (that is to say). Millidge, who has left a Widow and five Children here, the eldest but eleven years old, and the Widow just ready to lye in of another. Goddard who with his Wife are both dead, has left two Children, the eldest [ ] years old, who I have put Apprentice to Fitzwalter the Gardiner, the youngest five years old whom I have put to Nurse to James Carwall and Ms Wife, to whom I give three pounds a year, whilst we allow Subsistance, and then five pounds a year. Little has left a Wife and one Child. Michael Jermain and John Mackay dyed without Wife or Children here. I send You inclosed the Proceedings of the Court on Overends Death, together with two Boxes containing his things. I believe his Lands and House here, which is built, is worth L 30 Sterling, or upwards, money having been offered for it but I would not dispose of it till I heard her Intentions. In the mean while tis let after the rate of 1 10 p. Ann. The L 2:4:4 being the Balance should be paid by You, for the Persons that are the Buyers will pay into the Store here what they are Charged with. I hope in about a month from this time I shall set out for England when I shall be able to give You a more full Accot. I am &c Copy of a Letter from Mr, Cochrane at Kingston in Jamaica to Mr. Philip Millar at Chelsea dated 11th Septr. 1733. Sir Understanding You to be a Gentleman with whom Mr. Wm. Houstoun kept a strict Correspondence and for whom You used to transact some Affairs, I thought proper to acquaint You that after a long and severe Illness he dyed [sic] here the 14th of last month, much and very deservedly regretted by all who knew him, and if he had lived a few years longer he would have proved an Honour [sic] to his Country. He left some Manuscripts of Botany which may be of Service to the Curious in that way, and as I find he was sent out by some Gentlemen on Purpose to make Discoveries I think fit that all the Observations which he has committed to writing ought to be sent to those Gentlemen with a few Collections he has made of dryed [sic] Plants, all which are now in my Possession and am resolved to transmit them to You after I have heard from his Cousin at Carthagena who is the only Relation he has in these parts, and 'tis fit he should be first consulted before I dispose of any of his Effects. I expect Advices from him about a month hence by the Return of a Vessel which this morning Sailed from this place to Carthagena, and then shall write You further. In the mean time I must desire You to acquaint my Lord Petre of his Death and that I have found a Mem. of his Lordships to him for some things to be sent from this Country, which I shall take particular Care and transmit his Lordship as soon as possible. Some of the things such as Trees growing cannot be sent till the Spring, but others shall be sent by the next opportunity wch. will be about three weeks hence, when I shall do myself the Honour [sic] to write to his Lordship, for whom I have a very great Esteem for the kindess [sic] I find he has shewn to my wortby deceased friend, for whose memory none can have a greater regard than Sir Your very humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah to the Trustees dated 17th Septr. 1733. Gentlemen I rec'd. the agreable [sic] News, of the Approbation Your Designs have met with from Parliament, by the Georgia Pink Capt. Daubus Commander. The People on hoard him are all arrived safe, Daniel Preston excepted who was washed overboard in a Storm. His Widow the Day after She landed was taken picking of the Pockets of a Drunken man of Eight shillings Sterling. The Man was put into the Stocks for being drunk, and a Bill was found by the Grand Jury against her for Felony; Upon her being examined before a Justice of Peace her Defence [sic] was that She was drunk and did not know that She took the Money, nor did intend to keep it. Upon Petition and proving that She was with Child, the Tryal [sic] before the Petty Jury was put off till her Delivery and in the mean while She was admitted to Bail. We have taken a Man that had Stole an [sic] Horse in Virginia; he was tried before the Court, pleaded guilty was condemned and sentenced to hard Labour during the Space of three Years at Argyll Port on Ogeeche River, was delivered to Capt. Mackpherson and sent away instantly. The Horse is ordered to be sent to the Owner in Virginia. In a former I gave You an Accot. of my having agreed with Capt. Mackpherson for him to build Fort Argyll for L 200 Currency. The Trees that fell into the River and were carried down by great Floods stop'd the Passage below the Fort in such a manner, as to prevent any possibility of getting up there by Water without immence [sic] Labour in cutting away the Trees. The Fort being about half finished when he represented this, I ordered him to begin another 10 miles lower and allowed him L 50 Currency for the Work already done. He has finished the New Fort, the Guns are mounted, the Houses built and six Familys Settled there besides the Garrison. Boats of fifteen Ton burthen have been there. I have Settled Mr. Bishop, Hetherington &c on a Point called Thunderbolt, which commands the Channel that comes up from St. Augustine to this Place; they have some Guns there and a Fort in pretty good forwardness. I have ordered 10 men to be settled upon the Island of Tybee which commands the other Passage from Augustine, and when that is fortified I take this place will be pretty safe. A Beacon upon Tybee for to direct Ships on their making Land is very necessary, I have therefore thought that You would not be displeased at my ordering one to be begun which I hope will be finished at an Expence [sic] which will be but small, if compared to the great Usefullness [sic] of it. Many of the new Comers, in spite of all I can do, drink very hard; so that I fear a Mortaility [sic] will soon happen amongst them. Our Peoples being unhealtby forced me to Stay here lest it might seem that I left them in distress and for fear of Sharing the Sickness; which some People construed the Consequence of the Climate into which I had brought them. The Place being now grown healthy, the Authority of the Court being well established, I shall so soon as the Port at Tybee is began, leave this place which I am in hopes will be in a few days. As it is very probable that I shall See You near as soon as this arrives I shall not enlarge but only mention, that I have been obliged to give pay to several of the People to engage them to work upon the Magazine and other Publick [sic] Buildings. I am Gentlemen Your most obedient humble Servant J I send You inclosed a Bill of parcels of Goods for which I had occasion and received from the Captain over and above what I received from You Besides the Powder mentioned in the Invoyce, [sic] he delivered to me four hundred weight, which he said came from You. I have received no Bill of Lading with the Ship which puts us very much in the dark. Robert More one of the new Comers, has left behind him Tools &c to the value of L 10. in pawn for a Guinea, which if You will pay to Wm. Andrews and forward the Tools &c. by him delivered. More will repay it in Work, being a very handy Man. I send You inclosed a List of those who have been born and died here; We have now four hundred People upon the Place. Warren on his Death bed desiring his Wife might have her Passage to England I have accordingly sent her with her Children. Her House here is preserved for her eldest Son and likewise her Stock of Cattle, She was very desirous to stay but her Health being bad and thinking She can only Recover in England She insisted upon my giving Leave to go back. She is an object of Compassion and believes that with some little assistance and countenance from You She can do very well in London. She has lost her Husband and two Children and had all her Goods burnt when the Guard House was fired. I find on further Enquiry that the four hundred weight of Gunpowder was put on hoard by Mr. Simond. I have taken it we having occasion for it. You will know whether it was put on hoard by You or him. I have allowed Capt. Daubuz [sic] a Reward as being the first Ship that came from Europe directly. As I have before informed You I have bought all other things as were necessary for the People at Charles Town. I have also taken some necessarys [sic]from Daubuz [sic] and other Ships that have come in here, and drawn upon You for the Amount. The Particulars of which I shall bring over with me. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees dated 27th Septr. 1733. Gentlemen I recommend to You the following Persons for Grants of Land herein Specified and desire the Grants may pass your Seal with the utmost Expedition. That is to say Five hundred Acres of Land to Patrick Mackay Esqr, of Cyder Hall in the County of Sutherland to him and to the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to the Heirs Male of the Body of Catherine Mackay Daughter of the said Patrick Mackay Esqr, And Five hundred Acres to James Bullock of Will Town in South Carolina and to the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to the Heirs Male of the Body of Jean Bullock Daur. of the said James Bullock, And Five hundred Acres to George Dunbar of the County of Inverness and to the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to Wm. DunBar Brother to the said George Dunbar. And also Five hundred Acres to a Person to be recommended by them or the majority of them and to the Heirs Male of his Body; to be bounded as expressed in a Plan herein inclosed. The same to he held as Gentlemen's Tenour [sic] with Power to erect a Town. 1st. They are to pay Ten shillings of lawful money of Great Britain for every hundred Acres to commence Ten Years after the Date To he paid within six months after the Day of Payment. 2d. To settle a Town within the Space of one year after the Date of the Grant consisting of forty men either free. Tenants or Servants. 3d. That a Number not less than forty shall continue within the said Province during the Term of Three Years from the Registering of the Grant and in five Years build forty Houses. 4th. That each of them shall clear and cultivate Twenty Acres for each Hundred within the Space of Ten Years and plant upon the same Two hundred white Mulberry Trees and maintain them and One hundred upon every other Ten Acres. 5th. That they shall not alienate any part of the said Five hundred Acres without License. 6th, That they shall not enter into a company to Manufacture Pot Ash, but each separately may Manufacture the same. 7th. That they shall not lodge, board or employ any Black or Negroe within the said Province of Georgia. 8th. If the Persons mentioned in the Grant shall dye without Issue Male or they or their Successors shall be guilty of Treason or Felony then the said Lands shall revert to the Trust as if the Grant had never heen. 9th. As they will he at great Charges in establishing the said Town and that these Persons are joined in a Partnership for that purpose and the Design will suffer of any of them should decease and their Successors refuse to carry on the Partnership They desire that their Heirs on Refusal of carrying on the same shall he obliged to sell and that the Trust will renew a Grant to the Purchaser in as ample manner as the first Grantee enjoyed. And that on decease of any of them the Widow may be intitled [sic] to the Mansion House and one equal half of the Land with its Improvements for her Life or of the Purchase Money in case of Sale. For the Encouragement of People to come over with them I desire there may he a Grant of Five hundred Acres in Trust as to Christie That they may he transferred at Five Acres p Family to such Persons as they shall think proper. I further desire they may have a Court of Record to consist of a Provost and three Bailiffs. The first Provost to he Patrick Mackay Esqr. and James Bullock and George Dunbar to be first and second Bailiffs, and the third to be such Person as they shall recommend. The Provoship [sic] to be one year and to descend annually to the Bailiffs according to their Seniority. The Court to be final in all matters of one hundred pounds and under and in all Crimes where the Sentence extendeth not to Life or Limb. I am Gentn. Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah to the Trustees dated 15th Novr, 1733. Gentlemen; I am now making up of all the Accots. in some parts of which I find a great deal of Perplexity Mr. Hughs being dead and I not being able to find out one of the Books which I left in his Custody. I have since of October drawn upon You for the inclosed Sums. The Expences [sic] have been very largely increased by the raising the Prices of Provisions in Carolina occasioned partly by our Demand and partly by the failure of this Year's Crop. Besides I was obliged for encouraging of the People to pay them for building the Storehouse &c. as also (several of our People being disabled by Sickness) to take in People of this Country for opening of Communications, sending Messages by Land and Water, giving Gratifications for fetching Intelligence from amongst the Spaniards, giving Rewards for taking of Thieves and Runaways. I shall be obliged to draw for farther Sums to pay the Negroes who were employed upon my first coming here for Sawing. The Maintenance of the Garden as a Nursery for Mulberry, Orange Trees, Vines &c at Charles Town has been also an Article of large Expence,[sic] but which I believe You will think very well bestowed, since a Sample of thorough fine Silk has been there made which shews what may be done in this Country. And we have gain'd one Year's Growth upon the Mulberry and Orange Trees which is inestimable in a new Settlement, I think every thing here is now so well Settled that I can leave it without Danger of the Colony's miscarrying. As I doubt not to See You soon & perhaps before this Letter I shall say no more but that I am Gentn. &c. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees without Date. But wrote about Decr. 1733. Gentlemen I cannot but congraulate [sic] You upon the great Success your Designs have met with being not only approved of by all America but so strongly supported by His Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain. Providence it self seems visible in all things to prosper Your Designs calculated for the Protection of the persecuted, the relief of the poor and the Benefit of mankind. A Year being above expired since I set out from England I believe You will be impatient to have a short Account of what has been done towards the Settlement of this Colony which seems to have been conducted to its present successful! Situation by the manifest Interposition of God. We landed here on the 1st of February last %d.th but 40 Persons able to bear Arms; notwithstanding our Weakness the Spaniards did not attack us. The Indians were most surprisingly inclined towards friend ship with Us, The People of Carolina assisted us with the Rangers and Scout Boat the Guards of that Province and sent up Cattle, Colonel Bull a man of extraordinary Abilities came up himself with a Number of his Negroe Servants, and not only instructed the People in the nature of the Seasons & the manner of Clearing, Building and Cultivating but laid out the Timber and made his Slaves work for us; We were some time before we could get any other Assistance from Carolina, The People refusing to hire out their Negroes though we offered Security for them; but God was pleased to provide for us by preserving in health our labouring [sic] hands so that We advanced considerably in our Works so long as our People continued sober and obedient. When I was obliged to go to Charles Town to meet the Assembly who generously gave L 8,000 Currency towards maintaining our People a second year, some of the People begun to be intemperate and then disobedient so that at my Return I hardly knew them. Their excessive Drinking was followed with Sickness which raged for some time most terribly amongst us but though Individuals suffered the Colony it self increased and flourished by your Supplying them continually with timely Succours [sic] from Europe and the accession of many People which the Reputation of this Undertaking drew from several parts of America to settle here insomuch That the Colony increased notwithstanding our Sickness, and were were very well supplyed [sic] with all necessarys [sic] for our Money from Charles Town, for we had also 20 pair of Sawyers from Carolina for hire and Colonel Bull and Mr. Brian came up again in the midst of the Sickness to assist us with 20 Slaves whose labour they gave as a free Gift to the Colony. Binding our People increase fast I enlarged our Quarters by new Settlements and covered this place to the Southward by building Port Argyle at about 20 miles distance. Mr. Bishop and his People were settled at Thunderbolt five miles to the South East and by that means guarded the most dangerous Water Passage from the Spaniards, about six miles farther to the Southward on another Water Passage is settled a Colony of 10 familes [sic] to keep open the Passage with Fort Argyle whilst by Land from that Port we marked a Road about 40 miles in length to Pallackucola [sic] Garrison in Carolina, in marking of which we found a River at about 12 miles from this place to which we gave the Name of Abercorn, it rises near the Ogeeche and divides this part of the Province from the Western Country. ThisRiver has great falls very convenient for Mills, At two miles distant from where it falls into the Savannah the Colony of Abercorn consisting of 10 families is settled, The Abercorn at its Conflux with the Savannah forms an Island about two miles in breadth, beyond which on Carolina Side stands Purysburgh so that this County if You think fit to make it such is on the West secured by the River Abercom on the North and North East it is bounded by the Savannah upon which there is this Town and four Out Settlements already made, on the East and South East it is bounded by Augustine Creek which is a branch of the Sea that divides it from Wilmington Island on which the Settlements of Thunderbolt and Skidowa [sic] lye [sic] & on the South it is divided from the rest of the main by the Ogeeche a River little inferiour [sic] to the Savannah which arises in the Apalatian [sic] Mountains, Within land at 3 miles distant from the Town upon two Hills are situated Hempsteadand Highgate two Villages of 10 familys each. Over against the Townlyes [sic] Huthinsons Island one of the most delightfull [sic] Spots of Ground I ever saw, about 3 miles in length and one wide; a great part of it is natural Meadow the rest covered with tall Trees many of which are Bays above four score foot high. In that Island on the farther Side which commands the Northern Branch of this Elver opposite to the Town there is a House built and an Overseer lodged with four Servants belonging to You with Orders to cut a Walk through the Wood in a strait Line the breadth of this Town which will serve as a Meadow for feeding of Cattle and give a beautifull [sic] Prospect of the other River. A Sloop loaded with Servants was forced in here through Stress of Weather and want of Victuals many of them were dead, 40 only remain'd as they were likewise ready to perish through Misery. I thought it an Act of Charity to buy them which I did giving L 5 a head. I gave one of them to each of the Widows which will render them able to cultivate their Lands and maintain their families. I let each of the Magistrates have one at prime Cost that they might not be behind hand in their Gardens and Plantations by reason of their spending much of their time in the publick [sic] Service. Of the rest I have allotted Mr. Lafond five to help him in building a Saw Mill, four to the Gardens and four to the Island. I have drawn L 200 on You being the Payment for them. We go on with building the Beacon at Tybee. The People who work upon it have two shillings p Diem and Blythman the Master Workman has the same Wages as he could have in Carolina. The Timber is already cut and squared and the Upper & Lower Floor framed. They reckon it will be finished in March. It is an Octogone [sic] of 90 feet high, 25 feet wide at bottom and 12 /2 feet wide at Top, Weather Boarded 26 feet high and the rest open. It is all framed here of the best of Light Wood and to be carried down and set upon the Point of Tybee; The Foundation will be secured with Cedar Piles. There are 50 Houses of framed Timber & covered with Shingles which are Tiles made of Wood and tarr'd over already built. Three Wards and an half are taken up and the People to whom they belong are all at present at work either at building their Houses or clearing their Lands so that before the Year is round there must be 120 Houses built in the Towm or their Lots forfeited. The Bricks You sent were partly employed in building the Smiths Forge, an Oven and a Well 20 feet deep which affords excellent Water, the rest in the Chimneys belonging to the Widows. The Orphans are fed and cloathed [sic] from the Publick [sic] Stores and the Care of them is intrusted [sic] to three of our best Persons Appointed for that Purpose. The Militia is exercised and commanded by Tything men and Constables. The Civil Government is in the Court appointed by the Grant under your Seal and Property as regularly recovered and Criminals punished as in any Court in Europe. Every man pleads his own Cause, The fact is tryed [sic] by the Jury and Sentence pronounced by the Court. We feed 259 Souls in Town, in Hempstead and Highgate in the four Colonys [sic] 184 besides Indians and Strangers. The Supplying such a Number of People besides Forts, publick [sic] Buildings, Boat hire, Sloops Wages, Indian Presents, Intelligence from amongst the Spaniards and several other necessary Expences [sic] make Charges amount high which has forced me to draw very largely upon You. I have not been able to settle the exact Expence [sic] of each Person some People having occasion for more or deserving better than others. The Death of Mr. Hughes who kept the Cash Book which we have not yet been able to find amongst his Papers puts us under great Difficulties in settling the Accompts. I have drawn two Bills of L 150 each payable to Mr. Chardon for Goods had of him. I lent to most of our People Money to enable them to set up in their different Callings, if you approve of it they may he charged to the Publick but if not I will take it on my own Account the Sums being small and the People able to repay them. The Creek Indians adhere firmly to Us, and those of them who guard the Southern Passages have informed me That a Spanish open Boat full of armed Men attempted to come through the narrow Passages between the Islands about 40 miles to the Southward of us; They would have spoke to them but the Spaniards refusing end fireing [sic] upon them They by their Ambushes secured the narrow Passages so well that the Spaniards was forced to put out to Sea. They say farther they believe the Spaniards have begun to Settle on this Side the Alatamaha and that the Boat which fired upon them belonged to that new Settlement. I cannot believe the Spaniards would venture it but at the same time will not be too secure, so set out to morrow for the Alatamaha to see the Truth of it and have sent to the Governor of Carolina to give him notice of what I have heard. I have staid till now expecting the Saltzburghers but hope You will excuse me staying any longer, if they do not come within seven days after my return from the Alatamaha. I shall then set out for England where I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing You. I am Gentn. Your most Obedient humble Servant I have also drawn on You L 288 for Goods delivered by Captain Yoakley being Blankets, planes &c. necessary for the Settlers & Indian Presents. I must recommend to You Mr. Beaufin for Grant of a Gentlemens Lot. Hr. Symond's Brother for another and Capt. Yorkley [sic] for a third being the first Capt. that came to this Port. Mr. LaPond who owes his Passage to Mr. Simond is at work for You upon the Mills. Extracted from Mr. Peter Flower's Letter from Purysburgh dated 7th Janry. 1733/4 There are already 6OO Persons in Georgia. Mr. Oglethorpe has dispensed several along our River which will render it more commodious and very agreable [sic] to Travellers. [sic] There are 10 Familys at Tyhee, where they are going to build a Tower of Wood of a prodigious height, that the Ships that are bound to Georgia may know the Bar they are to pass through to go up the River Savannah, a thing very necessary to a new Settlement. There are likewise 10 Familys [sic] at Thunderbolt, it is 6 miles up St. Augustine's Creek which is 4 miles below Savannah and it is but 4 miles from Savannah by Land. I suppose You are not unacquainted that the Principal Town in Georgia is Savannah; they have 10 Familys [sic] at Augutcby, it is 40 miles by Land behind Savannah and more than 80 by Water. There are 10 Families at Corn House Creek which is 8 miles below Purysburgh. At Cape Bluff they have begun to build a Village which will consist in 40 Houses, it is one of the prettiest Places in Georgia and is to be call'd Oglethorpe it is 10 miles below Purysburgh. (There are 10 Familys [sic] at Highgate it is 4 miles in the Country about Savannah. They talk of building another Village of 40 Houses above Purysburgh, all which is very agreable [sic] to us they are so many Barriers against the Enemy. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Chardon at Charles Town to Mr. Verelst dated 17th Janry. 1733/4 Sir I received your favour [sic] of the 17th Septr. last p Capt. Thomas with the Inclosed Invoyce [sic] of what was Shipp'd on board his Ship called the London Merchant. The Goods all came in very good Order and I shall take Care to send them as Occasions offer to Savannah in the same manner, Mr. Oglethorpe could not send the Sloop Heathcote for them since poor Kilbury was dead. (he Colony has lost a very brisk active man for he was constantly stirring & making some Discoveries of the Coast and Channel, and diligent in whatever he was employed in; I don't know what they will do for want of his Fellow, for they have now no body that they can trust to Send the Sloop round to this Port; he is very much regretted by Mr, Oglethorpe for I saw that he was much concerned He died the 8th of last month. Every thing goes forward to admiration & the first People seem now to work very quietly & with Courage, being sensible that the Interest they have there is not of little value, which will consequently give great Encouragement to those that come after. There was then forty odd Houses up thirty of them all boarded and shingled and one whole Chimney, hut that was fixed to the Revd. Mr. Quincy's Habitation; there is now three quite finished, and there is also a glorious large Oven which convinces all Travellers [sic] that there is no want of good Bread; they are also pretty forward with the Look out or lighthouse which is to be 90 feet high. Mr. Oglethorpe has agreed with Capt. Dejean of Purysburg for a pretty large Quantity of Bricks which they understand making very well for those that I saw there were extraordinary good. Capt. Wood and Yoakley are both safely arrived there and by this time I suppose are Discharged. Mr. Oglethorpe with Mr. Beaufain embarked at Georgia for Purysburg last week. We are daily expecting Capt. Fry and wish to have a good Sight of him. I am Sir Yr. very humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thos. Causton at Savannah to the Trustees. Janry. 1733/4 May it please Your Honrs. Mr. Oglethorpe having occasion to go to Abercorn River; He has commanded me to acquaint Your Honours That Capt, Lionell Wood Master of the good Ship Savannah arrived here on the 15th day of December, having conducted the Passengers, according to his Invoyce, [sic] very safely and in good Health except two Children who dyed [sic] in the Voyage. And has, upon a thorough Examination, behaved very well both in his Voyage & here, as well towards the Passengers in particular as the Colony in general. Hr. Oglethorpe has drawn Bills upon You for L 200 Sterling, which he paid for 40 Servants; and L 78 which is the Amount of the inclosed as bought of Capt. Wood. I beg leave to acquaint Your Honours That the People here are generally in good health. That Capt. Scott died here the 2d. Instant. To assure You of my diligent Obedience to all your Honour's Commands, and that I may Subscribe my self Your Honrs, Most Dutifull & Obedt, humble Servant Copy of a letter from Mr. Parker at Savannah to Mr. Verelst. Jany. 1733/4 Sir I am make use of Mr. Gordon's Departure to return You my hearty Thanks for all your favours, [sic] I shall retain a due Sense of them. I am now in Georgia where I have undertaken to make a Mill for Sawing of Wood & another for grinding of Wheat which will be finished in a few days. I have agreed with Mr. Oglethorpe who allows me L 60 Sterling a year, my Victuals and 5 P C p Ann. Profits of the first Saw Mill. If I had People to help me I could build several Mills, if we had half a dozen we could employ them all. I have resolved to build all my Mills upon the little Rivulets we have in Georgia, I am building a Mill which will he very strong and will move upwards of thirty Saws, my Reasons for building them on the Rivulets are several. First The continual Supply of Water which I can depend on night and day. Secondly Because we are not at the Charge and Trouble of bringing the Trees by Carriages, I have them cut &o\m and thrown in the Water then they come down with the Current from upwards of 4 or 5 Leagues distance into a Repository that I have made near the Mill. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Beaufain from Purysburgh to Mr. Simond dated 23d Janry. 1733/4. Dear Sir I have wrote [sic] two Letters to You since I arrived in Carolina one of which I left at Charles Town to be sent You by the first opportunity, I intended to make but a short Stay there for I was impatient to See Georgia and Purysburgh but my Illness detained me. I embarked (tho' not perfectly recovered) on board of a small scooner [sic] the 2d. Instant and having met with contrary Winds arrived only the 7th at Savannah. We entered the River at Tybee island without a Pilot, Mr. Oglethorpe had been so kind as to send one to meet us but the Weather being foggy he miss'd us at Sea. I had the pleasure to see your Ships the two Brothers and the Savannah at Anchor before the Town, The Commanders of them will give You an Accot. of the Coast and the fine River. I landed on the 7th at night, Mr. Oglethorpe received me in the most obliging manner and next day did me the favour [sic] to shew me the Towm, the Publick [sic] Garden and the Plantations, all which is Situated in the pleasantest part of the Country and laid out to the best advantage. As You have seen Accots. of the Particulars by Mr. Oglethorpe himself it would be Presumption in me to attempt one, I was Surprized [sic] at the Progress made already, it is carried on with good order and Dispatch; there is no Doubt but this Colony will soon be very considerable, it has the happiness to be Settled by Gentlemen who tho' Proprietors of the Country claim no other Share in it than that of procuring the Welfare of its Inhabitants; So generous an instance of Humanity must affect the People with the deepest Sense of Gratitude, and Mr. Oglethorpe's Example must give them Spirit to overcome all Difficulties. The settling of Georgia is what Mr. Oglethorpe has so entirely at heart that every Thought and Action of his is directed to that favourite [sic] Object; he is taken up when in Town with the Political and Civil part of the Administration, the business of Grants, the Settling and providing new Inhabitants, keeping a good order among the People, he enters into every particular and hears with the greatest Patience and good nature any one who applys [sic] to him. When Affairs are ordered in Town so that he may be absent for some time then he visits the Out Settlements, lays out new ones, examines the nature of the Soil, appoints proper Places for Forks, Mills and other publick [sic] Works, searches into Inlets of Rivers hitherto unknown, by means of which the Inland Navigation may be improved and even the great Rivers made to communicate with one another. I leave You to judge my dear Friend what Care Activity and Resolution is required to go through such a Multiplicity of Work. I have had the Satisfaction to attend Mr. Oglethorpe in one of the Country Expeditions, and to see him exert that generous Spirit which makes all this fatigue more delightful to him than the Pleasures which a man of his merit and Fortune might enjoy in England; Before I leave Savannah Town I must not forget to tell You who are concerned in the Navigation of the River that there is a fine Lighthouse making by Mr. Oglethorpe's Order to he erected upon a Point in Tybee Island. After having been five days at Savannah with Mr. Oglethorpe I waited on him in his Scout Boat to Purysburgh which is but 24 miles from Savannah Town by Water and much less by Land; we passed by a new Settlement upon Savannah River made by several Scotch Gentlemen of good Families, it is about 11 miles above the Town, there is a strong Timber Building for a Fort and there will be fix'd a Battery of Cannon to command the River, the Situation is very agreable;[sic] we might have reached Purysburgh in less than half a day, but Mr. Oglethorpe would visit some familys [sic] which he has settled upon Ahercorn River, the River is large and joyns [sic] the Savannah at about 6 miles below Purdyburgh, we found the People very busy, they were extremely pleased with the Honour [sic] Mr. Oglethorpe did them, we passed the Night in the Boat and next Evening proceeded to Purysburgh, Mr. Oglethorpe was received there with all the marks of Distinction and the Demonstrations of publick [sic] Joy the Town could afford; we Supp'd at the Colonel's where Mr. Oglethorpe took his Lodging, mine was at Capt. Lafittes. Next day we continued our way up the River, we made a Progress of 5 days lying at Bights either in the Boats or in the Woods, we had for 2 nights a very hard Frost, this way of Travelling [sic] I was an entire Stranger to, I believe it would disagree with most People, we saw upwards of Purysburgh no human Creature excepting an Indian Warrior who was coming down with his Family in a Canoe, he was mightily pleased to meet with Mr. Oglethorpe who has found means to keep a good Correspondence with the Indians of these parts, the Current of the River is very strong above Purysburgh, we went not only along the Savannah but turned into several fine Creeks or Lagunes [sic] they are called so here tho some of them are Rivers; we landed on all Places likely for Settlements, I had much ado to follow Mr. Oglethorpe for he walks the Wood like any Indian, the Georgia Side seems to be by much preferable to the other, there are more rising Spots of Ground fit for Habitations; that on the Carolina Side is low and overflown in Winter, it is good for Rice Land but there is too much of it, this puts me in mind of Mr. Parry's 48000 Acres. I have got the Governour's Warrant for running of them out and he is to be put in possession of 12000. I asked Mr, Oglethorpe's Advice, he told me that tho the Land below Purysburgh is better Situated he was for running it above that Town to avoid Disputes which might prejudice the Interest of Purysburgh in this Province, adding that as new Settlements are intended above Purysburgh on the Georgia Side, some of our Settlements the same way would be agreable [sic] to the Gentlemen in the Trust, we therefore concluded to take the 12000 Acres above Purysburgh and Mr. Oglethorpe is to send me a Surveyor for that purpose. Mr. Oglethorpe staid [sic] one day at Purysburgh at our Return and then went down again to Savannah. You have had, my dear Friend, so many Descriptions of Purysburgh already that it is needless to trouble You with one, I wish I could give You an agreable [sic] Account of the poor People's Condition, I know how Wellcome it would be to You who have always shewn so tender a Concern for them, the Truth is they are in great need of assistance, they have some from the Province who is very sensible of the Usefullness [sic] of this Colony, but the Country is in Debt and cannot raise new Funds, the Hardships and Difficulties attending new Settlements are such as require great helps, they are not wanting to themselves, they are an industrious and brave People; some notice taken of them at home would spirit them up and encrease [sic] their number so as to make this a strong fence against the Incursions of the French or Spanish Indians and even of the French or Spaniards themselves, this Colony may be no less usefull [sic] to Georgia if not more; it prevents their being Surprized [sic] from this Side, and in case of an Attack they are within Call in a manner of Savannah and may be there with Arms and Provisions in less than a day; they show'd their Readiness to assist their Neighbours [sic] last Summer when it was thought that the Spaniards were going to make an Attempt upon Georgia, as they had their Provisions given them by the Province they look'd upon them selves as a Garrison and thought they could not leave their Town to meet the Enemy at Savannah without the Governours [sic] order. They applyed [sic] to have a general Leave which the Governour [sic] gave them by telling them they were not restrained upon those Exigencies. Mr. Oglethorpe is a very good friend to Purysburgh, and where he is a friend he is a usefull [sic] one, he has promised to recommend that Colony to the Gentlemen in the Trust. I have great hopes that some way will be found for the Relief of the poor People. I have received a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe who does me the favor to let me know that he has recd a Grant from the Governour [sic] for the Lands below Onefurkee Creek; he is going to visit the Altamaha River. I have paid today L 60 Sterling to Mr. Dejean which the Major will repay. I long to hear from You and our Friends, to whom pray give my hearty Service. I am Dear Sir Yours &c. Extract of a letter dated at Purysburgh 26th Janry. 1733/4 Sir I have but very little to add to my last in which I acquainted You with the Agreement made between four Couples of our People to enter into the State of Matrimony which seems at present very well adapted to the Taste of the Young Men and Maidens of our Colony; Since there are now six Couples instead of four, all very fit for Propagation I am told that some of these Wives will hardly Stay the nine months out to Create a Progeny, whether by reason of the frutfullness of the Air or of some Tryal [sic] of Skill beforehand I do not determine. As We have no Parson to perform the Ceremony of the Marriage (being by the Grace of God rid of that base Mr. Bugnion) the above six Couples together went to Georgia for that Purpose. The Attendants were very numerous and the Major of our Fortress was at the Head of this nuptial Band for the better Security and good Order of the Voyage. They landed at Savannah Town and Mr. Oglethorpe received them in the most obliging manner and with much Generosity, he ordered presently a fine Hog to he killed for the Entertainment of the Company, Beer, Wine, Rum and Punch was very plentifull, [sic]they were all very merry and danc'd the whole Night long. The next day they went to Mr. Oglethorpe to take their Leave and thank him for all his Kindnesses, and as their Boats were passing the River they were Saluted from the Fort by a Volley of the great Guns. They all returned safe here; I cannot express how much our People were pleased with their Journey and how many times they blessd [sic] Mr. Oglethorpe. There is now two Couple more desiring to go to Savannah as the others did; Peter Roche designs to marry a young German Girl of 15 Years of Age, She is the prettiest Maid of our Colony; the other Couple is Francis Buche with the Widow Franks, but her first Husband being lost no longer than ten months ago She is to Stay according to the Laws of Carolina till one Year and one Day be over before She can take a second Husband; tis very likely the first has perished in the Forests, having heard of him in no manner at all. Every thing goes on very well in our Colony, our Gardens are plentifull, [sic] our Cattle encreases, [sic] our Lots in the Town are almost Cultivated and we are in hopes of a pretty good Harvest. Extract of a Letter from South Carolina dated 26th February 1733/4 We have here a very great Expectation of an Eruption with the Cherokee Indians, they have for some time behaved in a very insolent manner, but more particularly about fifteen days ago; there went a hundred of them to a Traders Store with their Arms and plundered his Store taking away every thing from him, and told the Trader if he was angry they would kill him. The Principal Actors in this Affair was [sic] those Indians that Sr. Alexander Cummings carried over lately to England; we find notwithstanding the good Treatment they met with there that they are more insolent than the others and say that we are all Slaves to the Great George, and all the Goods carried to their Nation are his and he sends them over as Presents to them, and therefore we impose on them by demanding any Consideration for the Goods. It would be tedious for You to read were I to relate their repeated Insolencies [sic] we have had from those Indians since their Return from Great Britain; and am sure it will be for the Service of this Province never to Suffer any more of them to go there; the Treaty of Alliance Settled between them and the Lords of Trade they now despise. We are under such Apprehensions from the Indians that the Assembly are now considering of two Forts to be erected immediately, one amongst the Cherokees and the other amongst the Creeks in order to put a Check to their Insolence as well as to secure our Trade, and without that be done a War with the Indians will be unavoidable; For the French have to the Southward at least Twelve thousand Indians that they may easily bring against us, without mentioning the great Numbers they have at Canada and up the River Mississippi; These to the Southward are the Nations called the Choctaws & Blewmonths who they may march from their Settlements to Charles Town in Twenty days. 'Tis true we have two new Settlements making to the Southward on Savannah River, that is the Swiss Settlement under the Conduct of Mr. Purry and the other called Georgia under Mr. Oglethorpe; but these tho' in time may he good Frontiers, at present will he of little Service in case of an Indian War because those Strangers would make but a poor Stand in our Indian method of fighting. The Swiss Settlemt. goes on very well and the People very industrious, the others are not so laborious. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees dated 26th February 1733/4 Gentlemen I recommend to You Mr. Joseph Watson of Grantham in Lincolnshire for a Grant of Land herein Specifyed [sic] and that the Grant may pass your Seal with the utmost Expedition That is to say Five hundred Acres of Land to the said Mr. Joseph Watson and to the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to the Heirs Male of the Body of Susannah Watson Daughter of the said Joseph Watson and that his Widow on his Decease shall be intitled [sic] to the Mansion House and to one third of the Land during her Life. The same to he held as Gentleman's Tenour [sic] and bounded by the Trust Lands, dividing the same Tract from the Lands of John Musgrove Gent, and by the Trust Lands divided from the Indian Creek. On the following Conditions. 1st. To Pay Ten shillings of lawfull [sic] money of England for every hundred Acres to Commence Ten Years after the Date of the Grant, to be paid within six days after the Day of Payment. 2d. To Settle himself with four white Men Servants upwards of eighteen Years of Age each upon the said Lands and to continue with the same Number of four men in the said Province for the Space of three Years from the Date of the Grant. 3d. To clear and cultivate for each hundred Twenty Acres within the Space of Ten Years and Plant upon the same Two hundred white Mulberry Trees and maintain them, and one hundred upon every Ten Acres which he shall clear. 4th. Not to alienate any part of the said Five hundred Acres without Licence. [sic] 5th. Not to enter into a Company to Manufacture Pot Ash, but may Manufacture the same separately. 6th. Not to hire, lodge, hoard or employ any Black or Negroe or any Slave within the said Province of Georgia. 7th. If the said Joseph Watson shall dye [sic] without Issue Male, or himself or Successors shall be guilty of Treason or Felony then the said Lands shall revert to the Trust as if the Grant had never been made. I am Gentn. Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Issac Chardon at Charles Town to the Trustees dated l4th March 1733/4 Gentlemen You have here inclosed the News Papers which our little Country affords that Esqur. Oglethorpe desired me to send You, and is what You may expect so long as we can keep our Printer alive. Mr. Oglethorpe was sent for the 22d last month by the Publick [sic] to he consulted with on certain Indian Affairs, to Ward against the Incroachments [sic] of the French on the back of the Upper Creek Nation in the Province of Georgia, and to six certain Forts by the Assistance of the Publick [sic] as will tend to the Safety of this Province so well as that and being very much hurried while he was here and more so on the Arrival of Capt. Fry off our Bar with the Saltzburghers [sic] and other Passengers who were in good health, he set out again for Georgia the 11th instant without having any spare time to write to You; he told me that he should return again a fortnight hence, but there is now so much fresh Work cut out for him that I do not expect to see him until the latter End of next month. I am Gentn. Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe to the Trustees dated at Charles Town 2d April 1734 Gentlemen The Ship with the Saltzburghers [sic] came in sight and Mr. Van Beck landed here just as I was going to imbark [sic] for England. I found it necessary to go down to Georgia to place them there and make a Disposition for their Subsistence. I put on board them a Pilot and got Mr. Dunbar, a Gentleman of fashion, who is a very good Seaman and knows the Entrance of the Savannah River perfectly well, to go with them. I was. for haste, not able to write to You, because I sat out instantly and arrived at Savannah on the l4th of March. I settled the Saltzburghers [sic] in the Situation which they desired, though it occasions an additional Expence [sic] we being obliged to buy Horses to carry up their Provision by Land for they are six miles from the great River, and the Ebenezer is so choaked [sic] up with old Trees that Boats cannot go till they are removed. I therefore hired a Packhorseman and have ordered him Ten Horses to attend them. I have bought a Sow, a Cow, two Fowls, Ducks and Geese for each of them, which will be delivered as soon as they can be got up. The Commissary is a good natured Man, the Ministers are very devout and the eldest is a very wise Man; the whole are a religious, industrious and cheerfull [sic]People and in all probability will succeed very well. The Assistance the Assembly voted us last year of L 8000 Currency is not yet paid so that our Colonys [sic] daily Expenses obliged me to draw upon You for the Supply of them. The Money is to be raised upon the Duty on Rum, which is a very good Fund and You by that means may be reimplaced. [sic] The above Expenses together with the Saltzburghers[sic] and other Expenses occasioned by the vast Increase of our People, and the Price of Rice rising from between 30 and 4O shillings p hundred weight, which it was last Year, to L 3. and L 3:2:6 which it is this Year, and all other Provisions proportionably together with the Ship Load of Servants which I bought, who must otherwise have perished and who are now grown very usefull [sic] to the Colony; has occasioned my Drawing for the inclosed Sums upon You. The Orders for a Man of War to cruise off the Georgia Station are come, but we are in very little Apprehension of the Spaniards we being much more able to dislodge them from Augustine than they us from Savannah; but the French are much to he apprehended from the Westward, and several Soldiers pretending themselves to he Deserters, whom I take for Spies, have come into Carolina over Land from the Mississippi. They have lately attacked the Chickaaaws and almost extirpated the Notchees and Foxees, Nations in friendship with Carolina. Before I came here they had encroached into the Upper Creeks Country, where they had built a Fort called Albamuse and were going to build another in the Lower Creeks when I arrived, but such Measures have been taken that they did not venture to do it; And the Creeks have resolved not to let them encroach any further. The People of Carolina are of opinion that the French will strive by force to settle amongst the Creeks; the Post which they did intend to fortify being of that consequence that they think, if the French are once well established there, Carolina will he lost upon the very first War. They would fain have had me built a Fort there, and the Creek Indians (fearing to he overpowered by the French) have applied to the same purposep [sic] though they would never admit of a Fort and Garrison from Carolina. The Expence [sic] being very great though the Necessity is much greater, I have not concluded any thing with them being very cautious of imbarking in new Expences; [sic] those which are absolutely necessary for the Subsistence of the People being already so great. I am Gentn. Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of an anonimous [sic] Letter from Savannah to Lord Percival dated 6th April 1734. Lord I know I need make no Apology your known Zeal for the Christian Religion is sufficient for me. I have my Lord from my Birth in a peculiar manner acknowledged the Divine Providence over me and parti cularly in the settling the Colony of Georgia. The great God therein hath Blessed my Labours [sic] to whom I am desirous to dedicate the first Fruits of them. I have no Children nor am like to have and on failure of Issue I have after my Death given my Town Lot Garden Lot and Farm Lot with the House Warehouses Buildings and Appurtenances whatsoever in the said Town of Savannah now of the Value of L 25 Sterling Ann, towards the Maintenance of a Missionary to be recommended by Your Lordship and Your Successors & approved of by the Trustees for the Colony whose only Business shell he the Conversion of the Indians in this Province to the Christian Religion. I beg Your Lordship will take care to see the same confirmed at home by those Honble. Gentlemen. My Lord the Indians near us are desirous of Instruction which they have hitherto refused to receive; there is nothing wanting to their Conversion hut one who speaks and understands well their Language to explain to them the Mysterys of the Christian Religion, for as to the Morals of Christianity they understand and assent to it and indeed by strict Justice and good Usage Mr. Oglethorpe has so endear'd them to him that they are ready to hear and receive any thing he shall propose. They seem to be Masters of true Eloquence making allowance for what they suffer through the badness of Interpreters. Many of their Speeches are equal to those we admire in Greek and Roman Writings; They generally in Set Speeches use Similies and Metaphors. I beg Leave my Lord to mention one spoken by their Chief Tomo Chachi to Mr. Oglethorpe Sr. says he here is a little Present, giving him a Buffloe [sic] Skin painted on the inside, with the Head and Feathers of an Eagle. That the Eagle signifyed [sic] Speed the Buffloe [sic] Strength That the English were so swift as the Bird and strong as the Beast since like the first they flew from the utmost parts of the Earth over the great Seas and like the second nothing could withstand them That the Feathers of an Eagle were soft and signifyed [sic] Love the Buffloe [sic] Warmth signifyed [sic] Protection; therefore he hoped we wovuld love and protect them. I beg Leave my Lord to take notice that this Province will with Pains and Care produce both Wine and Silk and deserves his Majestys [sic] particular regard. They are very loyal and on all publick [sic] Occasions drinking their Majestys [sic] healths, I have ordered a Copy of a Poem made by a Georgian (the Perusal of which I hope will be agreable [sic] to Your Lordship) to be delivered to You. I am Your Lordship's Most Obedient dutiful end very humble Servant Copy of a better from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina 7th May 1734. Sir According to my promise I shall endeavour [sic] to give You as full an Account of all those Occurrences which shall happen in this Province that I think to he most material end which I believe will be most acceptable to You; and that I may not omit any thing material I shall do it by way of Journal. 7th May. This Day came to Town Mr. Thos. Brown from the Cautabas [sic] and informed me that the Sinnacas [sic] had fallen upon that nation and killed two Persons, but that a parcel of Cautabas to the Number of 20 in the Woods discovered 26 Indians whom they supposed to be French, Surprised them killed 13 and brought as many entire Scalps into their Nation with the Loss of only one Man. 9th. I sent to Georgia by Mrs. Musgrove some Date Stones and Cottaquinteda seeds and desired Mr. Causton to put them into the Ground immediately, and acquainted him that the Cottaquinteda came up like a Water Melon and that the Leaves resemble one the other. About the same time came to Town Saml. Brown and other Indian Traders from the Cherokees who say those Indians were very insolent & threaten'd to take away the Lives end Effects of the Traders as will appear by the following Account Mr. Beane has given me in Writing (vizt.) about the 1st of September the little Warrior who is the Governour's [sic] friend came to my house and told me that he had much ado to Save the white mens Lives for at the meeting at J. Oree the Consultation was held the whole night and 'twas to kill all the white Men that was there, and that a Runner was to go all over the Nation where any white Men was and kill them; In the morning he came home drest [sic] in his Leather Shirt and the other Warrior called Major Fitch took notice and ask'd him what was the matter, and he said nothing for he believed there would he no meeting that day; the Major told him to go and talk to them and he would stay another day; Accordingly the little Warrior went and ask'd them where he should go to get Powder and Bullets for that he had been every Path but could find none but amongst the English and told them further if they were upon that Design he would dye [sic] along with them, Febry. the 6th the little Warrior came to my house again and told me that 'twas good for the white men meaning the Traders to Stay down among the English and not to come up here for one or two years and then their young men would know what the Want of Goods was, for You white People will not believe the Danger till You feel it and if You white People will stay below I think it is very good and then they will want me to go down & bring up the white People again and then that will be the time for me to talk with them; When the Warriors heard that the Indians had taken away Horsfords Goods he said this is the beginning of my Peoples bad thoughts, for my part I shall not see it for I will go to the English and live with them I and all my Children and to morrow I shall go, to which I made him answer that he must not go and leave all the white men so he was contented to stay and see all the white men go out of the Valley. I then went to the Town house and desired the beloved men to persuade him to stay, at another time they said the Governour [sic] was a Rogue for stopping the Path and that they would go down in a body without his leave. 13th May. Came to Town Goodall and several other Creek Traders who say that those Indians are very peaceable and quiet with them; and with them came down two of the men that belonged to Capt. Pointsets Sloop that sailed hence in September last for Moville and gives an Account that as soon as the Vessel arrived at Masackt at the mouth of the said River she was Seized and confiscated one half to the King the other half to the Governour [sic] and the Capt. fined a 1,000 Livres and 'tis here believed that the two Vessells [sic] that lately Sailed from hence to that place will meet the same fate which News is very agreable [sic] to the Indian Traders and many others no way concerned therein, it being a Trade that would have been attended with very mischevious [sic] Consequences to this Province and this Disappointment will put a Stop to this Trade and probably be a means to Extend our Trade to the Choctaws which will be a great Advantage not only to Trade but to this Province by bringing those Indians into our Interest which might have been affected some time since had not Capt. Glover obstructed it, induced thereunto by some private Views. The Governour [sic] did design to prorogue the Assembly to a further day but upon this News from the Cherokees he ordered them to meet and they are now setting. 16th May. Yesterday arrived Capt. Paul Capt. Greg from Leith with 67 Passengers and a Vessel from Dublin with Servants. I am Sir Your most humble Servt. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Quincy to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Boston New England 20th June 1734 Sir I hope this may congratulate You on your safe Arrival in England after the many Hardships You have undergone for the Sake of doing Good. I know not indeed whether I ought to call them Hardships when I consider the real Pleasure You took in them; though I am certain any one less actuated by a Temper, benevolent end charitable, would have esteemed them so. I delivered your Letter to the Govr. on my first coming here. His Excellency told me that it was the only one he has had the Honour [sic] to receive from You, though You mentioned two more that had teen sent. I find by Conversation that Dr. Cook has very much lost his Interest in this Country; His Character from wise and knowing Men is not the most agreable. [sic] They say that under high Pretences [sic] of acting for the Publick [sic] Good, he has acquired a Popularity amongst the common People and by that means been enabled to carry a considerable Party at Elections and so model the Assembly and Council much to his own Mind. This indeed is an Instance that he is no mean Politician; but many that were his friends begin now to think that he has not so sincerely intended the Publick [sic] Good as he would have them believe. And indeed the Consequence of his Management has shewed that however sincere his Designs may have been, his Schemes have not effected the most happy Ends; The Country labours [sic] under very great Discouragements through his Means. The violent Opposition he has made to the express Orders of the King, to allow the Governor a fix'd Salary; has occasioned great Disgust in England, and to this is attributed the Frowns they have met with from the English Government, their present Discouragements in Trade and fear of greater. But I am unawares got into a Subject by no means within my Province, and beg Pardon for having dwelt so long upon it. The Town of Boston is mightily increased in Buildings and In habitants since I was here in the Year [ ] 19. They reckon no less than 20,000 People in it. Their Militia consists of 6OO Horse and 7 or 8000 foot which are frequently drawn out to Exercise. Their Civil Government is complained of by some as too rigid and severe, restraining Men in what they call their lawful Liberties, frequenting of Taverns and keeping unseasonable Hours (for no Inhabitant of the Town must be found at a Tavern past 11 o Clock without incurring a Penalty and the House fined 40. c) but certainly their Laws in these Respects as in many others particularly against Swearing, Gaming, Profanation of Sabbath's &c. are wholsome [sic] and good; and though it may happen that an Officer having more Zeal than Discretion may sometimes rather exceed his Com mission, yet the happy Effect of these wholsome [sic] Restraints are very visible for Vice is hereby much discountenanced and those who will be bad are obliged at least not to appear so, and thus exemplary Impiety is greatly prevented. There are no People more vilely misrepresented with Regard to their Religious Character than the People of New England, if we will believe common Report of them they are the greatest hypocrites in the World who under specious Pretences [sic] of more than ordinary Sanctity will commit the vilest Frauds and do the most base and injurious Actions. But these Reflections are very false and groundless especially when thrown upon the whole Body of the People. It must be own'd that some few such there have been and no Doubt are at present, not only amongst them but every other Religious Party who so far mistaking the true Nature of Religion lay the Stress of it chiefly on speculative Opinions and mere outward Profession and may therefore he very bad men; but to do the People of New England Justice there is amongst them a great deal of sober Piety free from Superstition and Enthusiasm. I am now I thank God pretty well recovered of my Indisposition and intend to set out with all possible Expedition for Georgia and hope to he there before this can arrive in England. Since your Departure from Charles Town I am informed there is a Vessel arrived there from Leith in Scotland with 7 Gentlemen and about 60 inferiour [sic] Persons, Servants and Dependants [sic] with Design to settle in Georgia. My Friend writes me Word that some People there have endeavoured [sic] to dissuade them from going further but that he believes he shall prevail with 6 of the Gentlemen with their Servants &c. to go up. I heartily wish You Sir all imaginable Happiness and Satisfaction in your Return to your Native Country amidst the just Applauses of your Friends, and above all I wish You that calm Satisfaction & inward Pleasure which is the sure Reward of virtuous and good Actions and is infinitely preferable to Popular Applause; and am with the greatest Respect and Regard Sir Your most Obliged and most Obedt. humble Servt Charles Town 22d July 1734 Sir Since the Writing of this I have been disuaded [sic] by my Friends from undertaking so long a Journey by Land as from Boston to Philadelphia this hot Season of the year; and therefore have took the opportunity of a Vessel belonging to my Relations bound to Charles Town where I am now arrived after a short and pleasant Passage of 15 Days. Mr. Van Reek arrived in Boston a few days before I came away, I had the Pleasure of seeing him there and we Sailed out of the Harbour [sic] at the same time, I hope he is now arrived in London. The Governor of New England has promised to propose to the Council and Assembly to Send a Sloop with Saw'd Boards and Provisions for the Use of our New Colony. I have heard that they are at present in pretty good health at Georgia & go on very well. I am Sir Your most humble Servt. Copy of a Letter from Patrick Mackay to Mr. Causton dated at Charles Town 8th of July 1734 Sir An Express from Captain Mcpherson for his Excellency Governor Johnson delivered me yours of first of July. I judged on receipt of yours that he had comed [sic] from you for his Excellency and therefore waited of him to hear the News it being reported in Town that you had taken 30 Spaniards prisoners. But his Excellency told me he had only a Letter from Captain Mcpherson with advice of the Chactaws [sic] Indians Arrivall [sic] in Georgia with some of the Chiefs of the upper Creeks. Tho it would he very inconvenient for me to be sooner with you as towards the latter end of this Month, yet I should endeavour [sic] to be With you sometime this week, but that his Excellency with some of his Counsell [sic] are of opinion that the Chactaws [sic] Should come here I am not my self averse to their coming here for this reason, that as the Chactaws [sic] have never been in any of our British Settlements before therefore they should see the best appearance we can make; that they may give a better report of us than they can do from Seeing our Infant Colony only; His Excellency therefore desires that if you Join in Opinion with him, the Scout Boat may be sent down wth. them the upper Creeks and Jones, or that, if they Choose to travel by Land you send them by Purrisburgh. [sic] I shall take care of them while here and return with them to Savannah where Ide [sic] have us enter into treaties with them and you should make them the proper presents on that occasion. If you join with me in Opinion pray send them down and let me know if you have in the Store Such things as are proper to be offered them as presents when they return, that if you have them not I may carry them from here, which I should be Satisfied to have your Directions about. But if you should be of a different Opinion pray cause keep them in diversion there untill [sic] I am got Clear here, which will take me at least fourteen days yet, for tomorrow I go to buy 30 or 40 horses into the Country and as I can't tell where to find them it may consume more time than I can presently foresee but how soon I have got the Horses bought I shall be after ordering them up over Land to the Patachocolas [sic] Ready to leave this place in a few days, for I have got all the presents ready wither you keep them there or that they come here I shall endeavour [sic] to perswade [sic] them to return with me to the Creek Nations. If the Indians come here It will have this advantage that not only they shall entertain better Notions of the British in General but it will cause as much of the Presents which this Province will he at the Expence off if they come here. Pray tell Tommy Jones not to apply to Carolina for a Licence [sic] to trade with the Chactaws [sic] if he comes here let him see me first & I shall Satisfie [sic] him in what he shall desire. Tell him to Acknowledge to those of this Province that shall ask the questions that it was by Mr. Oglethorpes possitive [sic] orders he undertook that Voyage for which he had a Promise of that Trade for 3 or 4 years, which tell him to insist upon if any Occasion is for his So doing. I am with Esteem Sir Your very humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Martin Bolzius to Mr. Vernon dated at Ebenezer 13th July 1734. Most Honoured [sic] Sir The many favours [sic] and benefits You have laid upon me and all your Saltzburghers have occasioned my Writing to You, and I hope your generous good nature will excuse it when these humble Lines cause any hindrance in the urgency of your Affairs. For that would render us worthy of blame if we did not let You understand that we account ourselves happy in your favour [sic] and tender Care of us, and our Prayers are daily for your Health and Welfare. We have it already cast in our minds to bring to our father in Heaven many Sacrifices of Thanksgiving, so soon as we are informed You have finished your Sea Voyage in good Health and Prosperity. God reward You a thousand times for all your Goodness presented to us in the former time and let all your good Counsels and weighty Affairs redound to the publick [sic] Good & Welfare of many poor People. We will make it the future business of our Life by the Grace and Assistance of the Holy Ghost to be no ways behind in Gratitude towards God and all our Benefactors. I cannot but let you know by this, that through your fatherly Care and Order Mr. Causton has sent for the Saltzburghers [sic] very sufficient Provisions and gives us most daily several Testimonies of his tender Regard to us, which is as we see and hear very tedious to the People at Abercorn & Savannah; wherefore they spread out very much Lies and ill things from your Saltzburghers, vizt. they were all given to Laziness, Drunkenness and several Disorders and were for sill that not worthy of so many benefits. I and all Persons which are much conversant with this People are obliged to report well of them, that they dwell in the fear of God, practise [sic] Soberness and other Christian Virtues, and labour so earnestly that some of them have by the much Troubles end heavy Works Sickness and Death upon themselves. Five men and two Wives are deceased and some have been till now deadly sick. Therefore seeing that we do not find a great Abatement in our Congregation, we pray You will after your beloved kindness be carefull [sic] that more Saltzburghers [sic] come to our place so soon as it is possible; because a greater number of hands will ease their burden and very difficult works. Until this time they are constrain'd to do several Works which hinder them very often in building their own Houses and tilling the Ground. They have put in the Ground some Indian Pease, [sic] Corn and other Seed which they received from Mr. Causton in abundance, but no more as the said Pease [sic] and some English Beans and Cucumbers grow up; I believe the seasonable time of Sowing was past or the Seed is superannuated. As for mine and Mr. Gronau's healths, thanks be to God they continue as heretofore; and of our Livelihood we have no reason to complain. The Indians haunt us and tell us several Words of their Language which we note and learn by heart. So soon as we can quit the business, which is without our Vocation, we will do our utmost Endeavours [sic] to learn the said Language after which we have a hearty Desire and Delict. We wish earnestly that some family might dwell among us in Ebenezer, and rest in hopes our Wishes shall be by your and Mr. Caustons Care successfull.[sic] I have no more to add then that my Colleague Mr. Gronau gives his humble Respects to You, and so with my heartiest and best wishes I close up this and am evermore with the greatest Respect, Most Honoured Sir, Your most humble Servt. P.S. Mr. Rolf gave me the inclosed Letter to send it to You and desires that You, Sir, grant him Leave and Licence [sic] to return to Germany, by reason he cannot work in the Ground after the testimony of all your Saltzburghers. [sic] Copy of a Letter from Mrs. Musgrove to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah 17th July 1734. Honoured [sic] Sir I make hold to acquaint You that Thos. Jones is returned from the Choctaws and according to your Honours [sic] Desire he has brought the Choctaws down and they have received great favours [sic] from Col. Bull and Mr. Causton and all the rest of the Colony, and a great deal of Respect shewed them which they are wonderfully pleased at, and when they came down Mr. Jones brought with him some of the Heads of the Tallooposes [sic] which is called the Upper Creeks; The Dog King of Uphalais [sic] Chauawey [sic] by name went with Mr. Jones up to the Choctaws to make peace, and he is mighty glad that he and Mr. Jones did persuade them to come down which is more than ever Carolina could do to get them down before; and the Choctaws are so glad that some white People whom they call'd their Masters has taken such Care of them as to send for them and they was very glad of the opportunity to come for they lived very poor before and now they are in good hopes to live as well as the other Indians do, for they had nor have no Trade with the French and their Skins lye [sic] by them and rot. When Mr. Thos. Jones came to them at first there was Thirty Towns only that had the notice, before Mr. Jones came away all they gave their Consents for their Coming, but Notice was still sent on farther; and they say that they like the English better than the French, and that they will stand by the English as long as they have one left alive. There was [sic] some of the Caupehauches [sic] and the Hulbaumors [sic] came with them. The Choctaws are all amazed to see the Creeks drink as they do, and they think the Creeks are saucy to the white People. The Choctaw King thinks they are obliged to the white People and thinks they cannot do enough for the white People especially the English, and since they have been here there has not one of them been disguised in Liquor or any ways saucy upon any Account, they have been here 21 Days for Mr. Causton thought it proper to send for Col. Bull and that was the Reason of their being Detained so long here. Govr. Johnson has sent for them to come to Carolina but Thomas Jones was not willing they should go to Carolina for fear of disobliging your Honour, [sic] and as he was sent for them for the Colony he did not Care they should go any where else. Your Honour's Hame is spread very much amongst them and they say that when your Honour [sic] comes back to Georgia they will be bound to raise a thousand or two at your Honour's [sic] Command if desired, and they design to leave the French entirely and then they will come down and pay their Respects to You, and to Govr. Johnson if your Honour [sic] desires they should go to Carolina but not without your Honour's [sic] Consent. Mr. Thos. Jones does insist of the Trade amongst the Choctaws as your Honour [sic] did promise him, and the Choctaws have so very great Respect and Value for Mr. Jones that they had rather have him to trade among them than any body else because he ventured his Life to bring them down to the English. Honoured [sic] Sir, There has been a great Dispute about the Lot that You was [sic] pleased to give the Grant of to Thomas Jones, and since You have given it to Mr. Parker Gent, and since to me. Jones is returned home he finds he had lost it so there has been a Court Business about it, for Mr. Jones does insist upon that very Lot or else none; and the Court has considered upon it and was so good as to give it to him again. The Colony is in good health and I hope your Honour [sic] and all your family is in good health and my Husband is the same, and I beg your Hononr [sic] will take great Care of him he being in a strange place and not able to take Care of himself and to send him home as soon as possible. Capt. Mackay is not gone up as yet to the Creeks nor I do not know when he will. The Indians has [sic] expected him these three months ago, the Talloopose King has made great Complaints of the French building Forts amongst them and they did not know where or who to go to so they came to see if the English would protect them. I remain with my Duty to your Honour,[sic] and wishing your Honour [sic] Health and all the Happiness that this World can afford Your Honour's [sic] Most humble and most Obedient Servant to Command. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Chardon to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town 1st August 1734. Sir I have since my last unto the Honble. Trustees of the 6th last month rec'd Advice from Mr. Thomas Causton that Thomas Jones who went to the Choctaw Nation arrived at Georgia on the 1st July last with one of the Chief men amongst them and six other Warriors representg. [sic] five Towns, and with them came several of the Upper Creeks who were never there before that greatly assisted Mr. Jones in this Affair. The Choctaws seemed very much rejoyced [sic] at their good fortune in falling under your Protection and they made very heavy Complaints of their ill Usage by the French who Starved them for want of Trade and Surrounded them with their Forts. Mr. Causton received them very graciously and in the best manner he could suitable to the Occasion, well knowing what benefit it would he to the British Interest and therefore did not spare to make them such Presents as were most necessary, the greatest part of which he purchased at Musgroves. The Honble. Col. Bull was there at the time and furnished him with his best Advice, the Indians are since all returned. I Suppose the Col. will give You a more just and particular Detail thereof. They are all in good Health at Georgia for we have had good Seasons and daily fresh Showers of Rain which has very much contributed to the making o'ur Summer so moderate as it has been. I hope that You are very hearty end in good health. You have my best Wishes for a Continuance thereof. I am Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant 2d. August. I rec'd a Letter from Mr. Causton this day with an Accot. of some Spaniards & Indians coming to drown the Settlemts. but I refer You to our Gazette for the Particulars Copy of a Letter from Govr. Penn to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Philadelphia 4th August 1734. Esteemed Friend I had the pleasure of receiving thy Letter from Charles Town dated the 12th of April but I have not seen any thing of the two Letters thou mentions. The Account thou gives of Georgia seems to forebode its Success and indeed from the great pains thou hast taken there can he no room to doubt it unless the Climate should disagree with the People. I wish You may find the Prohibition of Rum not disserviceable [sic] most of the Colonies on the Continent are indeed in the use of it to a very great Excess, but I am from frequent Observation well assured that the moderate use of it mixed with Water in the very hottest Weather is very necessary. The Sloop thou mentions did not arrive here till lately when I ordered some Flour, Bread and Butter, of which lest Mr. Van Reck told me there was great Scarcity, to be Shipped to the Care of Isaac Chardon and that it may be known whether the Account sent You is right I enclose thee a Copy of the Invoice. If I can be of any use to the Colony here my Endeavours [sic] shall never be wanting, or to thy self of which I had some hopes of assuring thee here, pray lay thy Commands on Thy very affectionate Friend Copy of a Letter from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina 5th August 1734. Sir By our Gazette of Saturday last I am informed that four Spaniards and Seven Indians were met with on St. Simons by our friendly Indians who enquiring what business they had there declared it was on the Crown's Affairs in Search of Settlements; from whence I am apprehensive that their Design was to Settle and infort [sic] themselves at the mouth of the Alatamaha River and You may remember that I was fearfull [sic] before You went hence that the Spaniards would do some such thing. You may also remember that I told You that I have been informed that the French about 14 Years ago had a Design of settling that River which was discovered by Sr. Martin Bladen when he was in France. If the Spaniards or French should make a Settlement and erect a Fort there they soon would erect a Fort up at the Forks so called because the Oakmulgy [sic] and Ocony [sic] Rivers meet at that place where the name of that River is altered to that of Alatamaha. If the Spaniards should get that place and infort [sic] themselves it would intirely [sic] put a Stop to all our Trade with the Creeks, Chickesaws or Choctaws both from Carolina and Georgia, for I am informed 'tis but 35 miles from the Forke [sic] (to which place its navigable for Pettiauguas) up to the fording place in the lower Path on the Ocony [sic] and Oakmulgy [sic] Rivers at which most of our Traders pass to go to the Creeks. For the above Reasons I think it adviseable [sic] that Orders be immediately given to build a good Fort at the mouth of that River, and according to my former Proposals I will immediately build a Fort at the Forks and place in it Seven Soldiers and mount Eight Guns two on each Flanker and keep it constantly provided with Arms, Ammunition and Provisions; the Fort shall he built as strong and good but not so large as Fort Moore on Savannah River at my own Cost and Charges. I propose that Mr. Musgrove shall he concern'd 1/3d part therein and I have in my Eye a very proper Person who is a sober carefull [sic] man and has been a long time acquainted with the Indian Trade and leaders to be concerned another third & my self the other third, all which I shall do on this Condition that we have the Sole Trade of that River both above and below it with the Indians, the Creek, Chickesaw and other Traders for 3 or 5 Years. If the Trustees agree to my Proposals I have ordered Mr. Samuel Baker the Bearer hereof to send me eight great Guns about one hundred and quarter each being of the Size or weight of those I think are at Fort Moore and I will engage in the same immediately as soon as I receive your Directions. I have desired Mr. Baker to discourse with You on this Subject and to agree with the Trustees, which Agreement I shall stand to but must observe that I think five years to be as short a time as can be expected considering the Charge we shall be at and I don't doubt but that the Trade shall be carried on with more Satisfaction to the Indians and greater Security to Carolina & Georgia and hope You'll not expect any thing for Licences [sic] since the Trustees will be at no Charge for this Fort. I have prevailed with most of the Merchants of this place except those concerned in the Negroe [sic] Trade to write home to their Correspondents in London to joyn [sic] together in a Petition to the King in Council and to pray that Orders may he sent over to His Excellency to pass a Law to prohibit the Importation of Negroes for three Years which I think is highly nay absolutely necessary; Here is lately arrived in less than a months time three Ships from Guinea with upwards of Six hundred and fifty Negroes and there is several other Vessels more expected and I do believe the Number that may arrive will be very considerable because the Vessels that went last year to the West Indies from Guinea made generally speaking looseing [sic] Voyages and those that came here made profitable ones. I take notice both from the English Prints & those from the Northward that the Negroes at the Jerseys have attempted an Insurrection and we have abundant more reason to fear on that Accot. when we have ten Negroes to their one. Here is a Gentleman lately arrived from the North Side of Jamaica in order to buy a Settlemt. and remove himself end family upon that every Account, he tells me they are there very apprehensive of a General Rising. The Planters of this Country are very considerably in Debt and should such a Law be permitted they would soon extricate themselves out of it. Mr. Day, Clifford and several others have sold and are about selling their Plantations and design to carry off their Negroes to Cape Hear, to which place abundance of our Planters are already gone and I am sensible that the Reason of their so doing is chiefly owing to the Quantity of Negroes that have been imported. I lately moved this Affair to the Governor who seemed mightily pleased therewith & thought it was the best thing that could be done for the Good of this Province. I have talk'd with some of the Council on the same Head and they are of the same Opinion and do earnestly entreat You that You would use your best endeavours [sic] that an Instruction to that purpose may be immediately sent over from the King to His Governour [sic] and I doubt not but it would here pass notwithstanding the Opposition that may be made against it by the Negroe [sic] Factors and their friends. Three Days since arrived Capt. Craigg from London and has brought an Accot. that a Person Supposed to be Humes had printed Articles and delivered them to the Lords against the Governor; and I am told by a Person that has seen them that severa1 of them are false and that an Answer may easily be made wherein he levels his Artillery solely against him and that in it are several malicious Insinuations. I am afraid to add least I should tire You so conclude Sir Your most obliged humble Servant Copy of a Letter from William Dalmas to Mr. Oglethorpe - dated at Skideway August 23d 1734. Sr. At your Departure from this place You was so good as to procure me a Servant which I have not yet received, nor indeed can hear any thing for certain off, I think it my Duty to acquaint You with it, it being a very great Hardship upon me in my weak Condition to be without one. I most humbly begg [sic] that you would be so good as to give Directions that he may be Procured or some other in his Stead, all our Settlement is in tollerable [sic] good Health but have been a little alarm'd with a Report of 50 or 60 Spaniards and Spanish Indians being seen in a boat on our Frontiers to the Southward, which made me assist and give directions to our People in erecting a Square Redoubt upon our Point with an Intrenchmt. on the inside, and a fotsee [sic] without, we have 4 Swivell [sic] and a Carriage Gun Mounted which both commands the River and the Approaches to our Hutts, so that if any thing should happen I do not in the least doubt but we shall be able to stand a good Argument against a far Superior Number; I cant [sic] help but take Notice that we were but Six to carry on the aforesaid work the rest refusing to do any thing without being paid for it. You may assure your self that I shall make it my Chief Study to deserve the Favours [sic] that you have already bestow'd upon me and begg [sic] that You would believe me with the Utermost Gratitude to be. Sr. Your most humble Most Obedient and Devoted Servant. Copy of a letter from William Bateman to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at the Savannah September 3d 1734. Honoured [sic] Sir I made bold to write to you from Charles Towne [sic] South Carolina, I there took the Liberty to acquaint you of whet the People of that Town spoke concerning Georgia. I at the same time told you I hoped and did not doubt but I should he able to give you a quite different Description of Georgia than what those People strove so much to make not only me but ever Person believe concerning this Place, there could he no description of any Place (without the Malice of Hell itself) he made so dismall [sic] as the People of that Towne [sic] endeavour [sic] to make of Georgia. Tho' in short a Person may soon see through their Artifice and that is fear only of the Great Progress that has already been made in Georgia in so short a Space of time will greatly Damage their Trade, and Force them to be more Industrious and more Diligent than what they really are at Present; for of all the Places I have ever yet been at I never see the Inhabitants, so Indolent, so Proud nor so malicious as themselves. I arrived here on Wednesday the 28th of last Month(I thank God in good Health as is at present the whole Colony) when instead of finding what I heard at Charles Town, I found more Ground Cleared, more Houses Built and in a more Regular Manner than it was Possible for me to Conceive or Believe, more especially when I Consider the short Space of time it has been entred [sic] on, and that the Majority of the People were not before Used to any hard Labour. They tell me that all America never could Boast the like before and I have reason to believe, And that Philadelphia was 10 or 12 Years before it could boast of such a Town as Georgia at Present. As for a further Description of the Place your Honour [sic] has had it by far better hands than my self. It stands on a High Hill which they call here a Bluff Situate on a fine River. The Soil as far as I am Capable of discerning, Extraordinary good, and see no doubt but in a short time All the Worthy Gentlemen the Trustees will have the Pleasure of seeing their Laudable and Generous Undertakings Answer greater and sooner than they could reasonably expect. Which God Almighty of his infinite goodness Grant. I delivered the Letter your Honour [sic] was Pleased to favour [sic] me with to Mr. Causton the Gentleman that Acts in Mr. Oglethorpe's Absence. I had one also from Mr. Leigh which I delivered also. He never made mention to me about the Contents of them But has Used me very Courteous and Civill. [sic] my Man run away from me at Charles Town, so Mr. Causton says I can have but a Private Lot at Present, and which will indeed be enough now I am without a Servant, I chose a Country Lot and am going to settle at a Place call'd Hampstead about four Miles out of Town. If there should be any little Place Your Honour [sic] should think me Capable of in Savannah, I hope and Trust Your Honour [sic] will think of me, and hope you will always think me as I really am. Sr. Your Most Obedient Most Dutifull [sic] and Most Obliged Servant. Copy of a letter from Isaac King Clarke to the Trustees dated at Savannah 3d. of September 1734. Gentlemen I hope your Honours [sic] will excuse the freedom I have taken in writing, which is to inform you that several matters relating to my self are so disagreeable that I hope your Honours [sic] will consider of an Amend ment. I an Obliged to Attend the Guard upon all able occasions, to mount Guard, to do day Duty, to releive [sic] Guard &c. and those days I am upon Duty, there are so many Complaints made against me to Mr. Causton (for not attending the Sick) that it is intollerable. [sic] It was agreed that a House should be built for my Attendance on the Sick for one Whole Year, and ever since I have been here I have been in a Hutt [sic] which is so exposed that I have nothing left but what is rotten and spoil'd. I have mentioned the Building several times to Mr. Causton whose answer was generally this, or to the life effect, Vizt. We have so many things to be done for the Publick [sic] that it can't be gone about. Or that he expects Sawyers from Charles Town and then he will see What is to be done, ever since my arrival here, either my self Wife, or Servant have been ill occasion'd by laying Well; the ill consequencies [sic] of which we daily find, and according to a Moderate Estimate, with vqhat Monies I have Received and the Injuries I have sustain'd 280 Pounds this Currency will not excuse me. It was ordered that Mr. Watkins of Abercorne should not Practice here in Town, that I might reap such small Advantages as might accrue by such Persons as came on their own Accompt as I had the Fatiegue [sic] of the Town. here is now no less than seven or eight Professors to Pbysick, all which assume a Prerogative very much to my Detriment without any Contradiction from Mr. Causton, there are besides these many Complaints too tedious for Your Honours perusal. I hope Gentlemen you will take into Consideration my Present Condition. Tis a great Hardship to he Subject to the Guard and tax'd with Omission of Duty. Tis a Greater Hardship to be Exposed to the Injuries of the Weather in which not only (that which is most dear) Health is Concern'd, but what I brought with me here is rotten and spoil'd, both of which will render me incapable of any Performance I am by agreement to do. 'Tis a Hardship that others should he suffered to incroach [sic] on that which might tend to my future Support, for I am to have no Pecuniary Satisfaction for my trouble, exclusive of a House which is not to this day begun. Honoble. Gentlemen my Request is this, that an Amendment may be made to what preceeds, [sic] or that you wou'd grant leave for my return to England; if what I Object against cannot be Obtained I will willingly resign my right to any thing here and if I have done any thing worthy of Merrit [sic] to the Colony, 'tis at your Honours [sic] Service. I humbly beg Pardon for my Prolixity and hope your Honours [sic]will excuse this trouble given You. Gentlemen. I Remain with the Utmost Respect, Your Honours [sic] much Obliged, and Most Obedient Servant. Copy of a better from Messrs. Jennys and Baker to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town 6th of September 1734. Sir: This Accompanys [sic] our better to the Trustees, with our several Accounts and Advice of our having drawn on them for L 238:9.8. for particulars of which we referr [sic] you to those Gentlemen. We have this day settled with Collonel [sic] Parris for the Duty of Rum, for the two first Quarters ending the 1st of June, particulars of which we have also transmitted the Trustees. The Cherokees not having yet made any Submission to this Government for their several Insults to our Traders, no one is yet Permitted to carry any goods to that Nation; who being attack'd from several Quarters, and in want of Amunition [sic] will we suppose very shortly apply to us for a Supply, & desire a Trade with us. Mr. Wiggan in June last inform'd Us that the Creeks expected a beloved Man from your Colony, that Captain Mackay would be very kindly received in tha.t Nation, and that Silk Colours [sic] would be a very acceptable Present to the several Chief Towns; our P. Jenys told him that you had Ordered fifteen to be made, which he said were not enough, that there would be an Occasion of at least Eighteen on which we gave directions for that Number, knowing[sic] t'was your design, that each Principal Town should have one; You have by this time heard of the Success Jones met with among the Creek towns; which we Congratulate you on, and doubt not but your Colony will by Prudent Management draw them from the French; The French Soldiers at the Albama Fort are poorly paid, and very inclinable to desert, but of this no doubt Captain Mackay, will after he has been some time in the upper Creeks give the Trustees, a full and Perfect Accot. By our last from him, we conclude he's now on his Journey. He found much difficulty to get Men and Horses, which much retarded him and if a Cherokee Trader had not dyed [sic] in our Settlements on his Road to Town, who had some good Horses at Goose-creek, which on his Death were for Sale and which Mackay afterwards bought; We believe he would have been Unprovided to this Day; and those though he bought them as they were apprais'd exceeded Your Price; but of this, He himself has (we believe) advised you (as he promised Us) he should. It gives Us the Utmost Concern to advise you, that Captain Phips, with whom he had agreed to send your Cannoe [sic] was on Accompt of the Crankness [sic] of his Ship, Obliged to disappoint Us, and since you Sailed, there has not been a Vessel capable of carrying her; We have used our best Endeavour to send her, and to no Purpose offered twenty Guineas for the Freight of her; she is so long that very few Vessells [sic] that use this Trade can carry her. We are Sir Your Most Obedient Humble Servants. Copy of a Letter from Jenys and Baker to the Trustees dated at Charles Town 6th of September 1734. Honoble. [sic] Sirs The Honourable [sic] James Oglethorpe Esqr. before he left this Province Empowered and Authoriz'd us to receive for Acco; of the Honourable [sic] Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the Duty of 3d p. Gallon on Rum, Granted for the Speedier relief of his Majestys [sic] Subjects of Georgia, by an Act of the General Assembly of this Province; And Pursuant hereto we have Received from the Publick [sic] Treasurer an. Accot. of the Dutys [sic] for two Quarters, ending the first of June last amounting to the Sum of L 921:19.9. for which we shall Credit the Trustees for Acco; of the Independent Company, pursuant to the Direction of Mr. Oglethorpe, by whose Order we have Open'd an Account for the said Company; and shall out of the Duty on Rum, duely [sic] Pay such Orders, Mr. Causton shall draw on Us for the Use of that Company, according to the written Order given Us the 3d of May last by Hr. Oglethorpe by whose Orders, and Mr. Caustons, we have already laid out, and paid the Sum of 987:19.8. as by the Accompt of particulars inclosed. We have Pursuant to Mr. Oglethorpe's Orders paid Captain Patrick Mackay L 620 for Purchasing of Horses for the Colony of Georgia, and delivered to him, Sixteen Colours [sic] being Presents for the Creek Towns which are three more than Mr. Oglethorpe had any Accot. of, but Mr. Wiggan a Principal Trader among those Indians, assured Us there was that Number of Chief Towns, and we having received directions to get a Flagg [sic] for the several Towns, order'd that Number to he made, the Cost of which together with Tick for Tents, you find in the Inclosed Acconpt. We have also paid Captain Mackay L 599. which he also has laid out in Horses having been Obliged to purchase more and at an higher Price than Mr. Oglethorpe Calculated; of which he Promised to send a Particular Accot. by the Amoretta; for what we have Supplyed [sic] him with; hisReceipt is inclosed, being L 1219. For the Amount of your Accot. Current herewith sent we drew on you the 5th Instant, in favour [sic] of Messrs. Paul Fisher and Thomas Jenys for L 238.9.8. a L 600 Advance Pursuant to Mr. Oglethorpe's Order. By Our last Advice the Colony of Georgia was in good Health; Captain Mackay is we Suppose now in the Road to the Creeks, who have for some time been expecting a beloved Man with Presents from your Colony. We shall be very glad to receive your Commands, and Proud to serve your Hew Settle ment. He are, Honble. Sirs Your Most Obedient Humhle Servants Copy of a Letter from John West to Mr, Oglethorpe dated at Savannah October the 12th 1734. Sr. I have made bold to trouble your Honour [sic] with this Letter to acquaint you that we are all in a good State of Health, we have not buried three of our People for these several Months past the People was [sic] all in General very much Rejoyced [sic] to hear that your Honour [sic] was safe arrived in England the most of our People are very Industrious and goes on very well with their Building and Cultivating their Lands and as to my own part I have my health here better than ever I had in England and so says a many more. I know not how to Express my self with Gratitude enough to your Honour [sic] and the rest of the Honourable and worthy Gentlemen the Trustees for the great favour [sic] Done me to send me here where I enjoy both Peace and Plenty: Our Guard House is finished and is very tight, there is a strong Fort Built round it and thirteen Guns mounted before it we have had no Ship arrived here since your Honour left Us but we are in Expectation Every Say tho' we want for nothing but to see some of Our Miserable Country Men Come and Enjoy their freedom and Rest of the Comforts we now InJoy, [sic] this is all at Present from your Honours [sic] humble and most Obedient Servant. John West. Copy of a Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at the Savannah October 17th 1734. My Lords and Gentlemen. Mrs. Causton and I talking the other Day We both agreed in our opinion that Madder would grow well in this Province. Especially in our Swamps or moist Lands, of which we have Enough. As I am resolved to try whether Madder will grow here I humbly beg that your Honourable [sic] Board would be pleased to procure me the Root or Seed from Holland and to Order that Care may be had it may be sound, well Pack'd and taken care off in the Passage. I have about an Acre fit and will be ready for it against its Arrival, and if it Succeeds shall find more Land for that Purpose. I will also try a small Spot of Ground for Hemp and Flax. I have about Two Acres ready for Vines, Mulberries and Olives. I only want the Seeds and Plants which Mr. Amatis tells me he will not be ready to deliver me this Year. I have put few Lime Seeds to try if they will produce here tho' I have no very great hopes of them. As for Oranges Mr. Eveleigh of Charles Town has promised me to help me with many, which together with the Help of other Friends hope to raise up a Nursery of 1000 Trees to Plant in my 45 Acres which I have reason to think may as well Produce as those in Carolina especially in Charles Tora where a good tree Produces about L 5. Sterling p. Ann. I find the People here backward in Planting, which far from Discouraging me Prompts me to go forward in hopes of Reaping the Benefit of my Industry by Profit (tho' not Immediately) and the Approbation of Mankind & especially your Honourable [sic] Board who as Fathers are pleased to see that Adopted Sons are Industrious, and it may be that my Example may Induce and Prompt Drones to rouse themselves and Improve the Blessing that God has put into their hands. Most of the People here have been sadly afflicted with a sort of an Itch and Boils, I thought it might Perhaps be Occasioned, or at least Increased by eating Salt Beef without Greens or Roots I have therefore Sowed and Planted about two Acres of Cabbage Seeds and Cabbage Plants, Salett, Onion, Turnep, [sic] Carrots, Spinage, [sic] Leeks &c. That any Family in the Colony may be Supply'd therewith at a reasonable price, the Seeds from your Store proving bad I have been Obliged to write to Old Savannah Town, Port Royal, and Charles Towne for fresh Seeds and even to Philadelphia. I cannot help Observing Mr. Eveleigh was very well Pleased with my Garden and found it to be the best Private Garden in the Colony. Tho' but a Wood three Months since I have many Seeds coming up, and a House built thereon by my Servants where they Live, and are at hand to guard the same from Thieves of which we have too many here, as it is but three Quarters of a Mile from the Town. It is a Pleasure to walk there and give proper and Suitable Directions. I beg your Honourable [sic] Board's Assistance to my poor Family in London in such a Manner as may bring them quickly here, for tho' with the blessing of God I may do well and proper yet at present it's not in my Power to help them. Every thing being taken from me I am Obliged to Hire Lots of others, the Rent thereof a Gardners wages and Paling five Acres draws all the Money and Credit I can at present raise, but I hope it may not be long before I do reap some small Profit however in the Mean time they may be great Sufferers. I dread to receive Letters from them, if your Honble. Board would Please to Advance them any Money Sufficient to Enable them to come to me I will readily Pay it to whom you Please to Order, a few Servants with them would be of great Service to me which I most Humbly Leave to your Generous Consideration, I am now Preparing Staves, Hoops, Red Bays and Yallow Wood (or rather Green Yallow Wood) for Charles Town and London. I hope to be the first Merchant Adventurer from this Province of its Produce tho' with a trifle. Mr. Eveleigh being lately come here from Charles Town for a Large Demand he had on Mr. Watson the Indian Trader the same was agreed to be put to the Abitration [sic] of Mr. Followfeild and my self which we Determin'd in two days to the Seeming Satisfaction of both Partys. My Family may be heard off at Mrs. Hornsin Love Court Love Lane Aldermanbury London. I begin to have small consignments on my Accot. from Charles Town but the Credit is very short, and Money very scarce here. My Lords & Gentlemen. Your Most Obliged Most Devoted & Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at Savannah October 17th 1734. My Lords and Genelemen. [sic] I have taken the Freedom (this Day) to write you on my Private Affairs. I shall now begin on the Publick. [sic] My Study is Continually how and which way I can Promote the good of the Colony. and Considering the Present Circumstances of the Inhabitants I most Humbly Lay at your feet the following Proposal. That I am Inform'd [sic] by Mr. Foord the Depty. Surveyor who has made great Discoveries on this Coast, that he has found where one of the largest Men of War could come not far from this Town at Low Water, much more easier might --- A large Pink such as were Employ'd by the South Sea Company for the Greenland Trade. Such large Vessells [sic] require, but few Men, and Draws but little Water by reason of the manner of their being built. Such being Freighted by your Honourable [sic] Board might carry a greater Number of Passengers and Proper English Goods &c. of little Value and Cumbersome easier than commonly is done by Ships bound for this Place or Carolina and as for Returns they might carry the largest Mast, a great Quantity of our best Timber at a Cheaper freight than any other Ships to pay from 40/to L 3.5. p ton. as from Carolina it would not be worth while for us to send White Oak, Cedar, Cypress or Live Oak. and hardly to afford for Red Bays, Laurel or Green Yallow Wood. but its my Humble Oppinion [sic] that your Honourable Board cou'd afford us Freight in such large Vessells [sic] at 20/to 25 or 30 p Ton and Loose nothing by it. but rather get a Profit thereby, if Dispatched Immediately. By this Means it would be a great Encouragment [sic] for Us to Clear our Lands, Seeing that the Clearing of them would be over paid by the Nett [sic] Produce of the Timber. One thing more I have to Propose is this that most I may say all the People here wants Servants especially to Cut their Timber and Clear their Land. If your Honourable [sic] Board or any of your Friends would Supply us with a certain Number of them (for a Servitude for four Years) delivered free to Us of all Charges but to Pay for each at the rate of Four Pounds Sterling Annum to be paid Monthly or Quarterly to prevent Arrears, this would be more easy to the People than buying Servants at L 10. Sterling ready Money down this would Enable the Free holders to go on briskly in clearing their Lands and Cultivating the same for it does not yet appear to me what great Improvement One Man by himself can do in such a Forrest as this is. And its out of their Power to buy any Servants. The Profit gain'd by these Servants might Enable your Honourable [sic] Board to Transport hither many Distress'd Families in England. Suppose 2500 Servants were they brought to this Colony, I take it that their Passage &c. in large Ships as I have mentioned would not amount to above L 12500. sterl. and to gain L 4. Sterling p Annum on each, (except Deaths &c) would produce 16 Sterl. on each Servant and thereby Amount to L 40,000 sterl., or clear of all Charges 27500. Net proceed. 1st. This would be a large Sum gaind [sic] either by private Persons in Case your Honourable [sic] board did not think to be concern'd therein. 2ndly. And be very Advantageous to Vagabonds, Idle Vagrants Sec. who would be put in a way to live in Plenty and with Expectation of Lands after their Servitudes. 3dly. This Project would greatly Contribute to the Ease and Quietness Security of House Keepers &c. in Great Britain by draining the Land of so many Idle Vagabonds. 4hly. It would be of vast Service to the People here in Cultivating their Lands &c. 5hly. It would be to the whole Kingdom of Great Britain for as much as if this Province Succeeds in dying Stuffs. Vines, Olives and Silk and Pot Ashes (which last some is making) the Less Demand there will be from Foreigners who takes few or None of the produce or Manufacture of Great Britain. Whereas as this Colony Increases in Number of People and Riches will have all their wants from Europe Supply'd by Great Britain even those very People who were before a burthen [sic] to the Nation. I most Humbly and respectively beg Pardon for the Freedom I take for which I C3.n give no other reason than the Earnest desire I have to see this Colony flourish and Prosper. I wish that as in our Humane Bodies, God placed every one for the Use of the whole, that all of Us would have the same Regard for its Usefullness [sic] and with the same Union as every one Member of Humane Bodies, Acts for the Support and Benefit of the whole, however (Tho' others there be and too many) that are unconcern'd at their own or the Publick [sic] Welfare. I will by all possible means Act for the Interest end Benefit of both, and Leave the Issue and Success to God. I am most respectively My Lords & Gentlemen Your Most Obliged and Devoted Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh To Mr. Oglethorpe Dated at Charles Town October the 19th 1734. Sir The Inclosed Letter was designed You by Captn. Taylor who Sailed So suddingly [sic] that I could not gett [sic] it on Board since which I have been informed of Several Persons that came indebtted [sic] into this Province That have paid their Original debts (being Considerable Sums) and which they (in reason) could not be Expected to do had they tarried inEngland. On Thursday- the third of this Instant I went on Board in a Canoe, at Six of the Clock in the Morning with a fair Gale of wind and Stopping for the Tide at Bear Bluff Otter Island and Port Royal about Seven hours, I arrived in the Mouth of Savannah River about Six of the Clock on Fryday [sic] Evening being the Shortest that has yet ever been made that I can hear of But loosing [sic] our way it was next morning before we could get to Savannah Where I was very handsomely received & treated by Mr. Causton and the Other Gentlemen of that place being Invited Every day to dinner by one or the other when I first came ashore, they told me that when ever I saw a Chimney house I may depend that it did belong to a Widow and seeing some Gentlemen at a distance with laced Hatts [sic] on I ask't who they were They told me they were Scotch men for that no other wore laced Hatts [sic] (but the Gentlemen of that Nation) on that Bluff. I found a great Alteration Every way for the better from what it was when I was last there. There are about four score Houses built and forty more going forward besides Several Additions makeing [sic] to their former Ones Muir is building a two Storey [sic] house Joyning [sic] to his former one and Mr. West (they Say) designs to build a House. A single House letts [sic] out for fifteen pounds Sterl. pr. Annum, and one five Acre Lott for five Pounds of the Like money. While I was there was the Quarter Session's when appeared a Great many Gentlemen being Summond [sic] as Grand jury Men from all parts of the Settlement. to whom Mr. Gauston gave a very handsome Charge & then proceeded to business Where Causes were Try'd (and in my Judgment) very impartially without the Jargon or the Confused Quirks of the Lawyers and without any Cost or Charges. and Yet (in my Opinion) consonant to reason and Equity which I take to be the foundation of all Laws. It's true there were some Persons Who did Complain, but that is Common with Such who have lost their Causes. Mr. Causton has there a great deal of Business, and is very much fateagued [sic] from Morning till Hight by the Impertinances [sic] of some people, and who seem to Exclaim against him (tho' I Believe without a Cause.) The Irish Convicts give him a great deal of Disturbance, They are constantly playing their Roguish Tricks, stealing from their Masters and Carrying the Goods to some others, which gives him double trouble, for he punishes both the Theif [sic] and the Receiver, Tis the General Vogue; That the buying of those Convicts, was the worst Action you did whilst there, and the Opinion is as Generel, [sic] That you did it with a good design, Watson has been drunk almost ever Since You went away. I was credibly informed that he has been so three Weeks Successively, but yet whilst I was there He kept himself Sober, Especialy [sic] in the Day time. He rails very much against You myself and the whole Province of Georgia, and Says He has seen the Ruin of two New Colonys, [sic] and doubts not but he shall see the third. He kept Sky drunk in his Store for a fortnight together, and when he went away publickly [sic] Said, that he had done his business for him, and he dyed Soon after. This came to the Ears of Stitchee who came to Yamacraw with a design to Kill him, but he made his Escape by breaking through the End of his Store, and he in his Rage killed Justice, Musgroves Slave and Still persists in his Resolution of Killing Watson (if he can find him). Mr, Causton has had a difficult Card to play, do believe he*d do Musgrove, my Self and Watson too Justice, but is resolved either by fair or foul means to drive Watson off the Bluff, For it will be of ill and very dangerous Consequence if he should be killed by the Indians. I carried down with me some Liquorish and Hopp Hoots and gave them to Mr. Amathist with directions to plant them as I had been advised, and the first Place I went to be with him, was the Publick [sic] Garden, But could not find that any of the Coffee Berries, Bate Stones, Colloquintida Seeds, which I sent down some time agoe had been planted. The Orange and Mulberry Trees, sent from Town, look very well and Mr. Amathist had Sowne [sic] all along the Fence next to the Town above Six foot deep with white Mulberry Seeds which came up very thick, and doubt not but there will be an hundred Thousand Trees if not more. I went also down to See the Brick makers, where I found made about One hundred thousand, and the Workmen toll me, that they doubt not, but by March they Shall have three hundred thousand, and they expect their Chimnies [sic] up to all their Houses by Christmas. The People their [sic] seem to be dissatisfied That they have not liberty of getting Hegroes. I could wish the Trustees would oblige them in this two Points, and as to the latter to limmit [sic] it to two to a family. I went down to Thunderbolt which I found to be a place very pleasantly Situated, and Where Mr. Ethrington and lacy had made very Considerable Improvements considering, the Time they had been there. They have built their Houses, Erected a good Fort and Guns Mounted thereon that Commanded the Creek also cleared fenced and planted a good Quantity of land with Corn, pease [sic] Rice &c and were clearing and fenceing more Land against next Year. I went with Mr. Lacy down to His House where he designed to Make Pottash, which I found to be in very good Order, The Hatts [sic] fixed and the Receivers under them, a Pump also that Conveyed water into the Fall's by a Spout; a Kettle to boil the Lixivium [sic] into A Consistancy, [sic] and an Oven to bake it in well fixed also. And he seems very Positive; That he Can make very good Pottash. He designs this or the next Week to begin his Work having a Quantity of Ashes by him, and has promised to send some down to me as Soon as it is made which I shall send to You Here I had a Sight of Skideway [sic] Where are ten Familys [sic] settled. But was informed they were discouraged from making Improvements, because they had no title to their Lands. This place is Eight Miles Distance from the Mouth of Wassan River against which lye's [sic] little Tybee, and has been lately Surveyed by Mr. Ford, Who told me that he could bring a Vessel into a Place of Security, thro [sic] a Channel where there was four foot and a half at Low Water; And there is one place between That and Thunderbolt where there was but three And an half Fathom at Low Water, But at High Water could bring up to Thunderbolt almost any Man of Warr [sic] Where the Vessell [sic] would be intirely [sic] land lockt [sic] Having Willmotton and other Islands to Secure it, and which place is Extraordinary fitt [sic] and Convenient for Creaning of Men of Warr; [sic] there being four fathom and an half Water, within Sixty foot from low Water Mark, the Bluff is right up and down, and in the Channel there is nine fathom. At the Savannah I met with Tom Jones Who told me that the Chacktaw [sic] were very well pleased with the presents made them by Mr. Causton and that he was in hopes of getting them Remove up to the Cohawhabee Hatchee or Petticak Hatches [sic] being forty and Six Miles from the Coosah River. He tells me that he was very credibly Informed, the the French were sending up Eighty or an hundred Men to the Albama Fort, with a design to build three Forts on the White Ground (as they call it) Having lately purchased that Land of the Indians. The Euchees have lost three of their Nation lately and two wounded, about nine Miles from the Parrachocle's fort, but by whom is Uncertain, Whether it be the Yamacraw or the Creeks. But there are nine men gone out from thence to make a discovery. We had this Week an Account, That the Cherrokes [sic] to the Number of Sixty were coming down and it's Supposed they may be now at Captn. Russells. The Scotch have built a Fort at Sterlings and have cleared (as I have been Informed) a good Quantity of Land at the places I have already mentioned Together with Fort Argyle Abicorne, Hampstead and other Settlements, and will in my Opinion Securely defend Savannah Town from any Surprize, [sic] Where I was informed were no less than Six or Seven hundred Persons. Coming back Homewards I toucht [sic] one Night at Port Royal to see Mr. McCoy Who has been Extreamly [sic] ill, but is at Present much better, and designs in a Short Time to proceed, But his Horses are at present very poor, four of which were drowned, as he went over The River, I Arrived upon Wednesday the Sixteenth Current. In the foregoing You have an Account of what Observations I made, whilst at Georgia Wherein I omitted to inform You that upon My Arrival there I found the people to be in good Health and so have been all the Summer. I heard Mr. Quincy preach two very good Sermons, but the Place was but indifferent. However are in Hopes of a New Church being built Speedily. I am Sensible That you may have had more perfect Accompts from som [sic] other People So that if you intend to Imprint what I have wrote. You may alter or omitt [sic] as you think fitt [sic] I confess I have been somewhat large But knowing your Affections to those people to be great is that which induced me to it, and hope will be acceptable. Yesterday arrived Captn. Sandwell from London, and Captn. Loyd appealed of the Barr, sent in his Lieutenant who informs us, That they were on board the James Captn. Yoakley off of Georgia who had Seventy Passengers on Board and Saw him go into the River. I am with due respects to the Trustees Sr. Your Most humble Servt. P.S. In my former Letter instead of being the Bohemia it Should have been the Abimany [sic] Bank. And about a Musquett Shott [sic] from Thunderbolt fort, is as fine a Spring of fresh Water, as I have tasted this long Time. Copy of a Letter from Isaac Chardon to the Trustees dated at Charles Town 24th October 1734. Gentlemen According to my last of the 28th of September I do herewith send you the Accounts of what has been disbursed for the Use of the Colony of Georgia for these last Six Months Ending the 24th September, the Ballance [sic] in my Favour [sic] Being L 1012.4.2. Sterling and I have agreeably thereto drawn upon you for that Sum Payable unto Messrs. Peter and J. C. Simonds a sett [sic] of Bills bearing date with the said Accounts which I hope you will he Pleased to Honour [sic] and Debit me therewith. I shall Be Obliged to draw upon you again in a few days for Moneys Disbursed since for Provissions [sic] &c. I have lately been Informed by Captain Mac'pherson of the Pelachocola Fort, that on the 28th of September upon Ogechee [sic] River was killed, three of the Uchee Indians, Two Women and one Man; this Murther [sic] is supposed to be committed by some of the Yamasees and Spaniards; Mr. Causton doubtless will inform you more particularly thereof when he Writes; I Expected to have sent you his Accounts of Disbursments by this Opportunity, but I suppose that he has not finished them yet. I am Gentlemen Your Very Humble Servant. Captain Yoakley arriv'd at Gentlemen the Colony last Week. Copy of a Letter from Isaac Chardon to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town 26th of October 1734. Sr. Of the 24th Instant I wrote to the rest of the Honourable [sic] Trustees, And at the same time I sent all the Accounts which I hope will prove right and Agreeable, the Ballance [sic] is in my Favour [sic] L 1012.4.2 Sterl. which I desire should be paid unto Mr. Peter J. C. Simond and Make no Doubt but my Draughts will meet with due Favour. [sic] All the News which I have now to Acquaint is that we have Again Settled and Fixed a Post Man, and as there is a great many Traders from hence to Georgia so well as those that resides there, Mr. Causton has thought proper to fix a Postage on the Letters for Encoragmt. to the Man and to make it the more easy for People to Convey their Letters, all Persons who have any to send Carrys [sic] them to the Box at the Georgia and Purrysbourgh Coffee House here. Captain McPherson informed me tha t on the 28th of September last upon Ogeechee River there was Kill'd three Uchee Indians two of them Women and one Man. He supposes them to he Yamasees and Spaniards that has committed those Hostilities for to revenge themselves of the like that the Uchees Served them in June Last pretty far to the Southward; McPherson was at Georgia when this Happened. I have Credited James Carwell one of the first men that came to Georgia to Encourge [sic] him, he bought his dry goods here in Town of whom he Pleased, and I paid for them the Value of L 205-0 our Currency and he has since made shift to Convert them all into Wett and Drank them up. he ought if he had the least Gratitude to have Drank my Health since that is all I could expect for my Money. As there is nothing further that Offers at present I beg leave to assure you that I am with the Utmost respect Possible. Your Most Obedient Servant. I just Now Received a Letter of the 21st from Mr. Causton who Confirms me of the safe Arrival of Captain Yoakley at Georgia with 60.ty Passengers for Purrysbourgh but there is no other News. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina October 30th 1734. Sr. In Obedience to their Lordships Commands transmitted to me by you, to Inquire what further Encouragmts. may be Necessary to engage the Inhabitants of this Province to apply their Industry to the Cultivation of Naval Stores of all kinds and likewise of such other Products as may be proper for this Soil and Climate, That do not Interfere with the Trade and Product of Great Britain, I have duely [sic] Considered thereof, and taken the Advice of such others as I thought Capable. Hemp./ The General Assembly of this Province did the last Sessions Pass a Law Whereby they gave unto Mr. Richard Hall One hundred Pounds Sterl. p Annum and sent him to Holland to Procure two Hundred Bushells [sic] of Henp Seed, and twenty Bushells [sic] of Flax Seed. But was so Unfortunate as to Ship the said Seeds on Board of Captain Paul, whoo stay'd so long in London and afterwards detained Nine Weeks in the Channell [sic] by Contrary Winds, that he did not arrive here 'till the 15th day of May, too late (as it was found by Experience) to plant the same. And it is generally Concluded that the Seed is Spoilt, But the Assembly Meets the next Month, when I shall Strenuously Recommend the Affair of Hemp to their Consideration, and to send to Philadelphia and New York to procure Seed for that Purpose. The said Mr. Hall is Obliged by the Law to Instruct our Planters to Manure, Cultivate and Manage Hemp till its fit for the Markett, [sic] for which he is extreamly [sic] well Qualified. The Law that now Subsists in Great Britain, That Allows a Bounty on the Importation of Hemp, expires in a few Years time and if the Parliament will continue the same for a longer Term of Years, it would mightily encourage our industrious Planters to Proceed thereon with Vigour. [sic] Flax./ Mr. Hall is of Opinion that Flax also wou/d do Extraordinary well in this Country, and if a Bounty was given thereon, it might much Encourage the Propagation thereof. Live Oak. Here are such vast Quantitys [sic] of Live Oak Timber Trees grow in this Province and in his Majestys [sic]Province of Georgia as is not easily to be conceived; Which Oak by reason of its durableness, crooked ness of growth Suitable to the Most difficult Timbers in Building of Men of Warr [sic], is Superior to any English Oak which is the Opinion of Men of good Understanding who I have conversed, particularly of one Berry who was lately Master when I was in England (if not now) of his Majestys [sic] Yards in Deptford who built a Ship thereof in this Province. Cypress. We have in this Province a vast Quantity of Cypress Timber, almost inexhaustible which is Extraordary good and durable, free from Knott's and very proper (as Men of Understanding do affirm) for Decking his Majestys [sic] Men of Warr, [sic] because of its durableness and Lightness when dry and Men of Judgment are of Oppinion, [sic] That it would make very good Masts for his Majestys largest Ships, some of them are five foot thick at the Bottom and carry a good thickness all along as far as eighty feet without Limb or Knott. There are a great many of those Trees that are thirty six Inches and upwards thorough, and seventy five feet Longits true they grow in Deep Swamps, and are very heavy when cutt [sic] down green, but being Squared and put upon Logg's [sic] a considerable way from the Ground, I am informed will grow very light and may be easily brought out of the Swamps in Flood time which is generally twice or more in a Year. This Timber (in my Opinion) deserves your Consideration. There's this great Advantage that attends both live Oak and Cypress, the former grows upon Continent and Islands near the Sea, the Latter in Swamps adjoyning [sic] to fresh Water Rivers, so that there will be but very little Occasion for Cartage. Cypress Plank I Presume to be the best for Lineing between Decks, because it will not Splinter as your Oak will, which Splinters in the time of Engagement does more Damage than the Bulletts: [sic] We have not that Quantity of white Oak in this Province as they have to the Northward but I am Informed it is superior in quality For Captain Austin Built a large Ship for Mr. Wragg about twenty Years since, and the Indian Warr [sic] Obliged them to send to Virginia and Rhode Island for Plank, and he informed me that what came from Virginia was better than that which came from Rhode Island, and some that he had cutt [sic] here was better than either, I do not mention Pitch, Tar and Turpentine because there's already a Bounty. Boards Plank. I have been Informed that the Swedes and other Northern Countrys have risen the Price of their Boards Plank &c. to almost Double to what they were Sixty Years since. But the Distance is so great from this to Great Britain and the freight Consequently so high that we can't pretent [sic] to goe [sic] thereon without encouraged by a Premium. Pot and Pearl Ashes Here is in this Province of Swedish Gentm. (who as I am Informed) has sent for a Person that understands the making of Pottash in Order to proceed thereon and there is now in Georgia a Person that has fixed his Work's in Order to make Pottash some of which will he Speedily sent Home to Mr. Oglethorpe, who Undoubtedly will Communicate the same to their Lordships and if the Duty of the said Commodity (as comeing [sic] from America) he taken off it will be a great Encouragement for many others to Proceed thereon, as also on Pearl Ashes which Mr. Hall is of Opponion [sic] may he easily made in this Province. Druggs. [sic] Here is a Design forming to introduce (if possible) several Valuable Druggs [sic] &c. from Natolia [sic] and Syria and other Places in the Streights; [sic] these two Provinces lye [sic] pretty near the Latitude of this Place for which reason those Commoditys [sic] may Probably be produced here; and if the Parliament won't Grant some Encouragement for the Importation thereof into Great Britain, it would quicken and forward the design. Silk is another Commodity which this Country does Produce (as appears by divers Samples which have been sent home) have been extra ordinary well approved off by Men of Good Understanding in that Commodity; divers Planters have lately Propagated a Considerable Quantity of White Mulberry Trees and I hope they will apply their Industry that way, and it would be a great Encouragement if the Parliament would take off the Duty on Importation thereof into Great Britain. The Advantages which Great Britain has by Experience found by a late Act, that gives us Liberty to Transport our Rice directly to any part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finister are so great (as may be plainly made appear) That I doubt not but that his Majesty and Parliament will Prolong the same; And if that Liberty were extended to the Dutch, French & Spanish islands and Continent in America., it would he an Additional Advantage to Great Britain. I beg leave to give my Oppinion [sic] That his Majestys [sic] Settlements on this Continent, particularly this Province and the Province of Georgia ought at this time to he Encouraged; because I am Informed That the French increase very fast at New Orleans and are extending their Limitts [sic] by Building Forts; so that his Majestys [sic] British Empire in America is more than one half Surrounded by the French from the Mouth of the River Messasippe [sic] to the Mouth of that of St. Lawrence: Nay further from Moveile to Cape Britton. Copy of a Letter from Captain Dunbar to Mr. Vernon dated 5th of November 1734. Our Voyage hither was retarded by a profound calme [sic] which continued from Thursday till this Morning when I thank God we were favour'd with a fair Wind end likely to continue. The Indian King, Queen and the others are well & chearfull (remembering their English Benefactors) except the Prince whose Cold continues, but was much easier last night than any Since he came on Board. The other Passengers seem pleas'd and are well except Sr. Francis Bathurst bad of an Old Wound in his Shin and Mrs. Fly who is a little mended. Messrs. Gordon end Vat Manage their People with so much Prudence and good Sence [sic] that every thing is as Orderly as cou'd he expected and I think my self extreamly [sic] happy in both. The only way I can hope to return in any Measure the Confidence you have repos'd in and the Honour [sic] done me is by a due care of the Indians and other Passengers, which I do assure you was it contrary to my Inclinations I'd Sacrifice them to the return I owe to so many Favours. [sic] When it Pleases God I Arrive at Georgia I'll Execute your other commands with my outmost Endeavours. [sic] I have the Honour [sic] to be. Your Most Obedient and Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina November 7th 1734. Sr. My lest to you was by Captain Sarjeant (Via Lancaster) wherein I gave you an Accompt of what was most Observable whilst I was in Georgia But therein omitted to acquaint you, That I was Informed by Mr. Causton, That a Spanish Officer and Souldiers [sic] had been mett [sic] in the Woods and do suppose they had been to View the Place where Fort Alatamaha was built (according to Custom) upon which Accompt I am Apprehensive, That they have a Design to built a Fort that way and in Order to Prevent them I am of Oppinion [sic] its Necessary, That a Fort should be Immediately built And that the Independant [sic] Company may he removed to that Place to garrison the Same. I am of Oppinion [sic] you ought to get Leave of his Majesty to Build the said Fort or Forts on the South side of that River; For should you Build it on the North Side (which is within the Limitts [sic] of Georgia) The Spaniards may build on the South side and thereby render the Forts almost Useless. Sr. dont [sic] you think it Advisable, That his Majesty should build a Fort on the North Side of the River St. Jeuan (which River is thirty Miles distance from St. Augustn. [sic] in Order to Ascertain the Southern Limitts [sic] of his American Empire. Captain Walker was drove in by stress of Weather behind the Island of St. Simon Where he Observed in a small space of Ground so much live Oak Timber as was sufficient to build five hundred Sail of Shipps [sic] (as he told me) And that too so near the Water side, that there was no need of Cartage a Quarter of a Mile. The Spaniards have of late Years built several fine Ships at the Savannah, and are now building more; And did they know (as Perhaps they do) the Value of the Live Oak Timber that grows in those parts I believe they would Struggle hard, for it, and could wish that his Majesty or the Trustees would send over two or three Persons of good Understanding to View and make report of the Quantity and Quality of that Timber which may be had in these two Provinces And I will at my own Cost and Charge Provide a Boat, Hands and Guide and other Necessarys to shew what Quantitys [sic] there are of said Timbers, and am Confident the Report I shall make will be very Surprizing. [sic] I had forgot to Acquaint you that Mr. Walker informed me, that whilst he was on the island of St. Simons he saw several fine Pine Trees (which would carry thirty Inches thorough) fitt [sic] for Masts. Yesterday I received the Acceptable favour [sic] of the twenty Seventh of July, and return you ray hearty thanks, for what Favours [sic] you have shewn me in respect to Sr. John Bruce hope, and in a particular manner for what Services you have done for this Province and the Governor. There's one thing I must Observe which (am afraid has not yet been thought of) which will take of a great Deal of the blame that may be laid to the Governors Charge, on Accompt of his passing the appropriation Law. When he arrived here as Kings Governor, he found the Province very much in Debt occasioned by Palmer's Expedition against St. Augustine and Collonel [sic] Glovers to the Creek Nation so that the Governour [sic] was under a sort of Necessity of Issueing [sic] out more Orders. The Taxes of this Province (as I formerly Observed) are very great, upon which Accompt it is. That several People are leaving it to goe [sic] to Cape Fear. Mr. Clifford and Mr. Dry have sold their Plantations, and have sent their Negroes away to Cape fear in Order to goe [sic] there. Mr. Wright, Mr. Eagle and some others have Advertised their Plantations to be sold for that Purpose, and divers others (I am told) will follow them and I am sensible that the Taxes and want of a sufficient Currency, are the Principal Reasons that has Induced them so to do. The Governour [sic] some time since received a Letter from Mr. Popple a copy of which he gave me and desired I would draw out my thoughts thereon, which accordingly I did, and last week gave it to him but he was so weak and Low, that he could not consider of it. (what Conditions end Amendments he may make thereto, I can't tell but you have inclosed a Copy thereof) Please to take Notice, that the last Paragraph may be made use of as Argument for continueing [sic] the Liberty Granted to Rice and the Extending of those Limits. I heartily wish you success in your Undertaking for the Good of Georgia and this Province and am, Sr. Your Most Obliged Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina November 20th 1734. Sr. I have severally [sic] times formerly been discoursing with some of Our Assembly Men; wherein I plainly shewed them the Dissadvantage [sic] that Accrues to Trade &c. to this Province by the Duty they have put on Skin at the Exportation and the Charge of the Lycense; [sic] By which means we can't Trade with the Cherokees & Cattabak's [sic] on such good Terms as those of Virginia do. Besides our Traders are Limitted [sic] to Towns, and their Pack-horsemen are not to Trade (which the Virginians do) notwithstanding, the Assembly lately mett [sic] and made a Law which was ratifyed [sic] last Saturday. (Inclosed [sic] you have a Copy thereof) wherein they have putt [sic] a Duty on all Skins and Furs (Light as well as heavy) of 6d p Skin; And an Addition of fifty one Pounds p Head Lycences [sic] which is a, Burthen [sic] too great for them to bear. I Endeavoured [sic] (whilst the Bill was passing) to shew them the Disadvantage it would be to this Province that it would drive the whole Trade to Virginia Cape Pare and Georgia, And for that reason no Law made in this Country could have any Effect there; I demonstrated that it would he fifty thousand Pounds or more out of this Provinces way and do believe it will he as much in the way of Georgia. This Government (whilst the Indians were down) purchased of them a Neck of Land, which you'll find Mark't with redd [sic] in Collo. [sic] Herberts Draught of the Cherrokee [sic] Nation Inclosed, they tell me its good Land; But it so happened there was not one Indian in Town that lived in those Parts so that the Purchase is thereby void. However Plausible the Introduction of this Act may appear Yet I do assure you the Design of it was levelled [sic] against me and other Persons concerned in the Trade And they did Expect to Ruin the Traders so that they may take the Indian Trade into a Company for I can assure you that the Cherokee Traders (for these ten Years past) have not cleared fifty Pounds Annum. There are six of those Indian Traders are resolved not to take out a Lycense. [sic] But will goe [sic] and take out their Goods at Savannah Town and so goe [sic] up to the Cherrokees [sic] and come down the So. side of Savannah River and this comes to desire you to apply to the Trustees, That I may have two hundred and fifty Acres of Land at Kinyan's Bluff, which is on the South Side of Savannah River aforesaid Six Miles above the Garrison; And that I may have the Liberty to Purchase of the Yamacraw Indians Twenty Acres of Land somewhere by Musgrove's, which I design to clear, build a House upon and make Gardens &c. for I do design to go thither and live I have already wrote to Mr, Causton to take on shore what Leather cones down the Savannah River, and on Monday next I shall send my Young Man to build a Press, carry Screws with him and pack my Leather there. And as Mr. Chardon says, there are some Vessells [sic] expected, which may come here, I will put them on Board (if bound for London) For I am Informed, that thereby I may save both Duty's as it wont be Landed. If you Comply with my request I desire you will signify the same to Mr. Jeffries, for by this Conveyance I have ordered him to charter a Vessell [sic] from Bristol end send her to Milford Haven and there take in what Servants and Passengers he can gett [sic] and two hundred Bushells [sic] of Malt, and See if the Old Brewer can make beer thereof; and I Propose to send down some more Hopp Roots to Georgia and will plant them in my own Garden, and desire you will speak to some Welch Gentleman in those parts to Assist in procuring Passengers and Servants. Since the Passing of that Act I have spent a great many thoughts how to Promote and Encourage Georgia. Some of which I shall Communicate to You. I have already spoke to a Hatter, Who has Promissed [sic] to goe [sic] down there, and I have Promised to Supply him with Beaver, and all other Necesssrys for his Trade. I shall also Endeavour [sic] to gett [sic] a Cooper, A Shooemaker, [sic] a Gold Smith and other Tradesmen and will supply them with what ever they shall went to carry on their Trades. I have a Scooner [sic] of about Seventy Tons, which I will employ to bring in their Rum, Sugar, Molasses &c. from the West Indies, and probably I may get another Sloop to goe [sic] to Pensilvania to bring Blower &c. from thence. There are two Men who lately came from No. Carolina, and by my Encouragment are now settled at a Town Ship up at the Congrees; [sic] they are both very carefull [sic] and Industrious Persons and they design in the Spring to goe [sic] back to North Carolina with two Men more. I promised to furnish them with as many Goods as will come to five or six hundred Pounds with which they propose to Purchase one Hundred Head of Cattle, and I will Endeavour [sic] to Persuade them to drive them to Kynians Bluff and there to have a Cowpen and Hogg Crawl, and from thence they can Easily drive them down to Georgia. I am at this Juncture considering of a Method to make the Ballance [sic] of Trade between this and that in the Favour [sic] of Georgia which doubt not shall Effect (please God to spare my life and Health) The greatest difficulty that will Occurr, [sic] is how to Load the Vessells [sic] back but if you can procure a Premium on Live Oak Timber, Pine and Cypress Board and Plank, I doubt not, but that it would be of vast Advantage and very much increase Navigation. Whilst I was at Georgia, Mr. Parker told me that he was building a Saw Mill, and Spoke with Something of an Assurance that it would do. I desire you will Order Mr. Causton to grant Lycences [sic] to the Traders and that you write him (to that Purpose) by the first Opportunity That they may be ready by the time the Traders come down (which will be in Aprill.[sic] The Governor has of late been very much indisposed; and is at Present in a Dangerous Condition, if he should die I will Endeavour [sic] to give you the first Account thereof for I will Perswade [sic] the Captain to put my Letter into the first Post he comes to and to keep the rest till he gets up to London. I am now to the 3d of December and have since the about wrote to Mr. Causton and given him an Accot. of what our Ingenious Assembly has been doing. I understand the Governor and Council were against Passing the late Act, but the Assembly were so Violent and the Governor so Sick, that it was Ratify'd on a Saturday Night after twelve a Clock and read twice that very day in both Houses. I spoke to Mr. Middleton last Week on this Affair who happened at that time to be out of Town. He told me had he been there, he should have opposed it And beleive [sic] (so soon as the Assembly sitts [sic] ) the Act will be repealed. If Mr. Jeffries sends me a Vessell [sic] to be here the latter End of May next You may have Liberty to putt [sic] any thing on Board, And I propose to be at Georgia about that Time and there to continue Two or three Months; I am still of the same Oppinion [sic] and will Promote your Darling Province of Georgia to the Utmost of my Power. I am, Sr. Your Most Obedient Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Patrick Mackay to the Trustees dated at Uchie Town 20th of November 1734. Honoble. Gentlemen I do not think it proper to Trouble you with a detail of what Stop'd me till now from going into the Creek Nation, but beg leave to referr [sic] You to Mr. Oglethorpe to whom I wrote of this date. But I am fond I can say we have enterr'd so far as to the Uchee Town on Our Journey and that I wait but for one fair Day to leave it again; in my first from Charles Town I told you that the Commissioner of the Indian Trade for that Province Express'd in way of Advice to the Creek Traders, against your Agent and what were the Sentiments of the Merchants and most of the Carolina Gentlemen; I in like Manner told you to what little Purpose I had Complain'd to the Governor, but that I expected a Letter from his Excellency to the Creek Traders declaring I had been Appointed Agent and to respect me as such, but as I left Charles Town his Excellency in a handsome Manner refused giving the Letter tho' I demanded it. And now I beg leave to Observe to you that it is to no Purpose (I fear) for you to appoint any Agent without you likewise Nominate a Commissioner to grant Lycences, [sic] for the Traders only respect the Province that gives the Lycence.[sic] Carolina now finding that by all Appearance they will loose [sic] the Trade to the Creek Nation, are become Indifferent how its regulated in the Nation, and by that Means they grant Lycences [sic] to every Person that Demands it, which may be attended with a Dangerouse [sic] consequence, if not timely adverted too; for if too many Traders are thrown into the Nation, of Necessity the one will Undersell the other, and then they will begin to Cheat, and play tricks with the Indians and by this Means ruin the Trade; and may be Incense the Indians to a Rupture. What will much Conduce to a Discord is the large Quantitys [sic] of Rum now Imported among the Indians, and winked, at by Carolina; since they find they are to loose [sic] the Benefit of their Trade, I advised as many as I saw of the Traders to carry no Rum into the Nation, but they plainly told me without the whole they neither could nor would. For say they if we have no Rum and our Neighhouring [sic] Traders have, the Indians of our Towns will lay out none of Our Skins, but will Travel if it was an Hundred Miles to the Traders Store that keeps the Rum. Yet all agree that Rum is a Pernicious Thing to be carryed [sic] into the Nation, for they say they never have discords with the Indians but when the Indians and Traders get Drunk; and that it is scarcely ^possible to Disoblige any Indian if Sober. This I hope you will take into Consideration and give timely Instructions for Next Year, before the Traders shall Renew their Lycences [sic]in Carolina. Tho' I had no particular Instructions about it. Yet I Ventured to renew the lycences [sic] to the two Traders in the Uchee Town, but took no Money from them as is the practice in the Neighbouring [sic] Province. In my last of the 10th of August I Promissed [sic] to send you a particular Accompt of the Horses I had bought for the Service of the Company and carrying the Presents into the Indian Nation. And now you will please to receive it, by which you will find the L 1219. I had of Jenys and Baker was exhausted to L 35:10. which how Expended I shall Accompt. I shall be glad to have your Orders how I shall dispose of what Horses the Company does not Require. In the mean time I beg leave to assure you that I am with Profound esteem and Respect. Honoble. Gentlemen Your Most Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Mackay to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Uchee Town 20th of November 1734. Sir When I wrote my last I should he able to perform what I had promissed [sic] in my first. Vizt. to be in the Nation, tho' not in the latter End of August yet of September. Yet I met with such unexpected Cross Accidents in Carrying the Horses from Carolina to this Place, as effectually Stop'd me till now. I sett [sic] out the 15th of August with the Horses, three Packhorsemen and a Servant I had bought at Charles Town; The first Night the Servant was taken down with Fever and Ague, And I was Obliged to leave him in Ponpon and have not seen nor heard of him since, the second day two of the Packhorsemen were taken so ill with a Fever that they could scarcely Sit on Horse Back, the third day all the three were taken ill; And I was Obliged to lye [sic] by two days there looking for their recovery, but they continued so Weak they were of little Use or help to me, so was Obliged to hire a Man to assist me to the Pallachocolas from Ashipoo [sic] River, But before I reached so far I was Obliged to Drop two of my Sick Men in the Path at least ten Miles from any Settlement, and lost some Horses in the Journey end others in July fearing Swamp by being weak handed. The 26th day of August, I got there with most of my Horses and Employed two of Captain McIntosh's Men, to tend them untill [sic] my Packhorse Men recovered, or that I return'd from Savannah with the Company; in the Mean time does the Pariagua. with the presents arrive, so stay'd two Days more to Unload and Secure her Cargoe, [sic] and then I set down the River in the Periagua. But when I arrived at Josephs Town I was truely [sic] Confounded to find my Carpenter and two other White Servants had dyed, all my Men either down of the fever or but so weakly Recovered the One could not help the Other; and told Lieutenant Parker lay ill in Savannah. And the Doctor Reduced so Week [sic] with Fevers that he could not attend the Man. This was so dull a Scene that I stayed but two Nights there. I went down to Savannah where I found both the Lieutenant and Surgeon much worse than I Expected, and the Lieutenants then notyfyed [sic] to me he would not if in Health goe [sic] into the Indian Nation and therefore desired I would look out for any other that would accept of the Commission. That very Night I was taken so ill my self with the fever that in less than three hours, as the Doctors told me thereafter, I was Delirious and Continued some days, the Delirium then ceased but the fever Continued till toward the end of September and left me Reduced to a Skelet. [sic] I was advised to goe [sic] to Port Royall for the Benefit of fresh Provissions [sic] and the Sea Air, and there I relapsed into the fever which held me twenty days more, and was reduced so low that Captain Masseys Surgeon (who attended me) dispair'd of my Recovery; however (it pleas'd God) that I got the better of the Fever (tho' then the Ague Attack'd me) that I pick'd up a Little and truely [sic] but little Strength, and left Beaufort the last Day of October and came to Savannah. This Season has been mighty Sickly all over the Province of Carolina, but few dyed in the Country, tho' I am told a good many in Charles Town. In one of my former Letters, I told that Daniel Savage flatly refused to go as Linguister [sic] which made me in my way to Charles Town in June last to Call at one John Bartons who Demanding L 35. p Month I refused expecting to get one Prestoe, but being disappointed of him likewise I wrote to Mr. Richard Woodward in July to plead with Savage again, whose answer, to which I beg leave to referr [sic] you will satisfy you that I was under a necessity of Complying with Mr. Barton. In the time I was at Beaufort, I sent twice for John Barton before he would condescend to come to me at last he did come, and finding I had Applyed [sic] to several others and could find none, he rose his Demand from L 35. to L 40. Currency, which I was Obliged to agree to, and now he goes Linguister: [sic] But tho' he has the Character of being the boldest Linguister [sic] in the Province of Carolina, Yet I shall keep him no longer then I've Delivered the talk to the Indians, and that I can find one on easier Terms. Before I left Josephstown Mr. Gray Indian trader in this Town who had the Over sight of the Horses and Charge of all the Goods, advised me, that the Horses instead of Improving continued still in so low Condition that he was afraid they'd scarcely some of them Travel into the Nation, which with Mr. Wiggans Advice (to carry with me but one half of the Company untill [sic] I delivered the talk to the lower Creeks and found thereafter how they relish'd things, or if they wou'd agree to build a House for me made me leave the Lieutenant and ten Men behind; If I find my talk acceptable, and that the Lower Creeks will agree to my Staying among them, I shall return the Horses for the Lieutenant and his Men and to carry up what I most now leave, I confer'd on my return from Port Royal with Mr. Causton about a Lieutenant and we differr'd in Opinion, I inclined for Mr. Burnside at Port Argyle and he recommended Mr. Loyer who once Served in the Store, and because Mr. Causton told me he could not be answerable, nor would he Allow any that had a Settlement, to leave it, I contented myself with Mr. Loyer, tho its my Oppinion [sic] he is one, no more of a Warlike Disposition than his Predecessor. He has six Months Pay appointed him, and Mr. Parker got the other Six Months. I shall expect fresh Orders before March Next, whether I shall Continue in the Nation and if I shall keep up the Company, for most of the Men I know are positive to leave the Service when the twelve Months are expired, but If they should I shall support the Company till further Orders. I hope the Trustees will appoint some Person as Commissioner to grant Lycences; [sic] otherways it's to no Purpose to send any Agent, for I find the Traders only respects the Province that Grants the lycense. [sic] Nothing now stops my setting off from here out the dayly [sic] Constant Rains, the first fair day we hope in God to Enter upon our Journey. In the mean time I beg leave to assure you that it is my Utmost desire to Approve myself. Sir Your Most Obliged and Most Humble Servant. P.S. having lost all my Servants this last Summer I took the Liberty to Leave two of the Company to take care of my House, if this gives Offence [sic] I shall not do it again. Copy of a Letter from Robert Millar to the Trustees dated at Kingston in Jamaica December the 10th 1734. May it please your Honours. [sic] I Embarked at Gravesend on the 19th of May According to the Orders I received from the Common Council to Proceed on my Voyage to Jamaica, Where I arrived on the 25th of July, I went next Morning to Doctor Cochran and Demanded the Observations made in Botany by Doctor William Houstoun together with the Collection of Dryed [sic] Plants which was left in his Hands, he told me he had sent them all hone already by one Mr. Houstoun Surgeon a relation of the Deceased Doctor William Houstoun and there was now nothing in his Possession but a Parcell [sic] of Books which he would only be Accomptable [sic] for to the Heirs and Executors of his Deceased Friend. I waited afterwards on Mr. Pratter the South Sea Companys [sic] Agent here who Immediately give me Liberty to go Passenger to any Place on the Continent Where we had Factorys, [sic] and at that Time he hired the very Vessell [sic] in which I came from England to go to Portobello, I Embraced that Opportunity and arrived there on the 30th of August, after a short stay at Portobello I went to Panama by way of the River Chayne, which goes up within six Leagues of that City, I had a Tedious Passage by reason of the great Current wch. always run's down into the North Sea; after my arrival at Panama I made a particular Enquiry into the Trees which Yeilds [sic] the Jesuits Bark and the Balsam Pine, which are the only two Druggs [sic] brought from thence. The former is a large Tree growing wild in the Mountains about 10 days Journey from Lima, There is three different sorts of it, one with a White Flower, The Second with a Purple and the (312) 3d with a Red Colour.[sic] The Bark of the Trees differing as much in the Colour, [sic] as the Flower, but as the two first are not so good as the Latter they Export none else. The Balsam Fern is falsly [sic] called so, for most of that which is made Use of at Panama, and all which is Exported from thence is the Balsam of a Tree growing Wild on the Mountains in Niannagua [sic] which is of a much finer Colour [sic] and Consistence than what comes from Fern. Both these valuable Druggs [sic] might have been Cultivated in our Plantations long before now, had there been any Gentlemen of the least Curiosity in any of our Factions of Panama or Portobello; I have used the Utmost of my Endeavour [sic] to the Purchasing them and to perswade [sic] the Gentlemen of the factories to Use theirs. Several Spanish Gentlemen who goes to each of these Places Yearly have Promised # # # # [ ? ] to Procure for me some Seeds, Plants, and Specimens of both Trees, as also the Chief Factor of Panama has Promised to send them to Jamaica. During my stay on that side of the Continent I made a little Voyage to the Island of Tobago which is about 7 or eight leagues from Panama, where I found the Contrayerva, and with a great deal of Pleasure I now acquaint your Honours [sic] of having a Dozen of Plants alive at this Present of them, and in good Order. I have made as good a Collection of Specimens of Plants and Seeds as the Season of the Year and my Time would allow of, it being then Winter when I was there, all which I have sent to Mr. Millar at Chelsea, their being no Vessell [sic] at present going to Carolina from this Place, I thought it the much better way to send them directly to him that he might forward them for Georgia as he can never want an Opportunity from London. I would willingly have stayed longer both at Panama end Portobello to have examined these Fields more narrowly but the Rainy Season being sett [sic] in at both these Places I found I could do but little and then Considering the different Places your Honours has Ordered, me to go to and the shortness of time allotted me, I thought I had stayed my full Proportion of it there, so the Vessell [sic] in which I came being ready to Sail I was Obliged to make the best of my way down to Portobello, and the Road being so very bad with the Rains that had fallen, I returned the same way which I went up, we Embarked at Portobello on the 3d. of November; and arrived here on the 29th wherein I shall stay till an Opportunity Offers of going to Carthagena to enquire after the Ippicacuana [sic] and the Balsam Capivi. [sic] These Drugs being the Produce of that Country; I have reason to hope of being more Successful in this Voyage than I have been in my last. Concerning which This is all I thoughtWorth acquainting your Honours [sic] off.[sic] I am Honoble. Sirs Your Honours Most Devoted & Most Obedient Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at South Carolina December the 11th 1734. Sir Inclosed you have a Copy of one of my last Letters which I have transcribed, because I think it an Affair of very great Importance to Georgia. I still continue in my Resolution of making a Settlement there, by your Permission, I can't tell whether I shall goe [sic] my self (if not) I shall send my Son and Daughter, which Probably may be of more Advantage to Georgia being both Young may have Children to Strengthen that Province. I am now constantly applying my Thoughts how to promote Georgia. Whilst you were here I divers times have thought of communicating a Scheme to you, which would be very Profitable, And in Confidence that you will not discover it to any other Person to be Concerned therein without me, I shall make the same known to you, and am willing to be concerned therein with you a Thousand or fifteen hundred Pounds Sterling, and by that means may be introduced into this Country Several of the Druggs [sic] mention'd in my former Letter from the Streighfs. [sic] The Act of Parliament made in the fifteenth Year of King Charles the Seconds Reign, Entitled an Act for the Encouragement of Trade. - - - - Sexn. the Sixth Says That no Commodity of the Growth, Production or Manufactory of Europe shall be imported into any of his Majestys [sic] Plantations, Asia, Africa or America but what shall be first Imported into England. I Examined some time since Carcasses Book of rates and cannot find but we may bring directly to this Place from those parts in the Streights [sic] that lye [sic] in Assia [sic] and Africa, any of their Commoditys as Striped Cotton's [sic] Burdetts, Silks, Rhubarb, Senna, Scammony, Wormseed, Coloquintida, Gauls &ca. I cant tell what Wines they make in those Country's, but do believe some may be found very good and very Cheap which would turn here and other parts in the West Indies to a very good Account. I have been Informed that Cypress makes very good Wine, which Gordon Addition the 12 Page 245 Says is in Asia. I desire you'll consider of this Scheme and write me your Opinion thereon. I have read (I think) in Suetonius, That when the Roman's made a New Colony They Endowed it with several Immunity's and Priviledges,[sic] by which means they quickly grew to a formidable Body, and I hope the Trustees will follow their Example and give what Encouragement they can to Trade. This will be a great Encouragement to me and others to Settle your Colony. Marseilles is grown of late a very populous and rich City, and is one of the Principal Citys [sic] in Europe for Trade, the King of France has made it a free Port, open to Vessells [sic] of all Nations and for any Goods without any Duty (Tobacco, Salt and Gunpowder Excepted which are Prohibited (no Goods pay any Duty there Except Goods from the Levant and Barbary which Pay only two p cent and it is remarkable that the Port charges of a Ship of an hundred Tons amounts to little more than twenty Shillings Sterling. The Burthen this Province lies under on Accot. of Port Charges is very great and very pernicious to Trade. Here is a Ship now in this Province from Rhode Island of an hundred and fifty Tons, the Master assures me that this Port Charge there (in and out) cost him but three pounds this Currency, which is about twelve Shillings and six Pence Sterling. Mr. Hill loaded a small Vessell [sic] with four hundred Barrells [sic] of Rice and the Port Charges cost ninety one Pounds ten Shillings which is about thirteen Pounds Sterling. I have a Scooner now, I propose to send to Jamaica, which I shall order into Georgia and Land there some Sugar, Molasses &ca. If your Store has Occasion for any, Mr. Causton may have what he Pleases at the Price it is Sold at in Charles Town. Thomas Brown a Trader amongst the Cattabah's (formerly mentioned to you is now here, we have had some Talk about Moveing [sic] those Indians to the Okemulgah [sic] River, and he Believes it may he done.) having living a long time amongst, and being very well beloved by those Indians. I desire you will read the late Act Pass'd Here and Advise me whither he may not carry his Leather over to Kinyans Bluff for I am willing to bring that Trade to Georgia too. The People of New England carry on a very Valuable Trade from thence to No. Carolina, with Rum, Sugar, Molasses, and dry Goods for which they Import Pitch, Tar and Turpentine which helps to load their Vessells[sic] for Great Britain, Beef and Pork in great plenty, which they sell to the Fishermen, Wheat, Corn and Pease [sic] for their own Use, Tallow and Murtle Wax they make into Soap and Candles, which they Ship off again to the West Indies. They like wise import Hides, Feathers, and Deer Skins. In short they have a very great Trade (and as I have been Informed) there goes there every Year about Sixty or Seventy Sail of Vessells [sic] from fifty to eighton [sic] Tons. Our Wise Assembly did several Years since pass a Law by which they laid a large Duty upon Pitch, Tarr, Beef, and Pork (so large) That it amounts to a Prohibition, for wee [sic] have not had a Vessell [sic] from North Carolina since that Time. I am satisfyed [sic] we have not had fifty Barrells [sic] from thence since. I do Design to carry on that Trade from Georgia, and hope to make it answer for the Advantage of Hew England. Nay I think better, becsuse North Carolina is a great Deal nigher to Georgia than it is to Boston, and the Trade may be carried on the Winter Season which they cannot do in Boston. Sr. I cant tell how acceptable my Long Letters may he to a Gentleman that has so great Affairs of Importance on his Hands. I could Enlarge but shall at present Subscribe my self. Sr. Your Most Humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Christie to Mr. Oglethorpe dated December the 14th 1734. Most Worthy Sir. My last to you I hope came safe to hand. My Ill State of Health together with the Multiplicity of business which is greatly increased on my hands have Prevented me from writing so often as I might have done and I hope it may he Excused. Herewith you have the Journal of the Proceedings of our Court, Warrants and their Returns, Publick [sic] Orders Issued out, the Copy of our Lycences [sic] for Publick [sic] Houses with the List of those who takes most pains in Cultivating their Lands. I have often spoke to Mr. Jones to send you the Plan and keep a Journal of the Lands that he runs out which I could never obtain, indeed I don't wonder at it for I believe little has been Run out since your departure, till very lately. The People have greatly complain'd of late for want of knowing the Bounds of their Lotts, for want of which they have neglected fencing, so that most of the Crop that was Sowed last Summer have teen eat up by the Cows and Horses, another thing I must not forget to mention the Corn & Seeds that was in the Storehouse when you went away was given to the People, was musty Damaged or spoilt so that it never came up and it was so long and Late in the Year before they got fresh Seed that it baulk'd some, and others did not sow it till it was too late in the Year. I think If I had not Represented this you might have been too Severe in blaming your Peoples Neglect. And indeed we have some People who never were Masters of any Land and whose heads are turned no way but to the Alehouse and others are so Idle to think of nothing but selling and running away notwithstanding all which I have found Means to keep up Lands and Houses at a good Price and People lately begin now to fence in and set a Value upon them. So that I hope to advise you of some fine Improvements made this Year; it is certain that People being baulk'd as I said before in the Cultivation of their Lands did mostly turn upon Building and Improving their Lotts in Town. So that there is few Town Lotts but what are built or are building, the Town is greatly Encreased, [sic] so that Whereas at first I could hardly see any thing but Trees, I can now scarce see any Trees for Houses. The People are going some upon planting Corn, some on Silk, on Vineyard, some on Pitch and Tarr, [sic] others on Fruit Trees as Oranges, Limes, Olives, Figgs, [sic] and other Fruits, and Cotton also, according to their own Genius and Inclination, but a11 those Productions will be a Considerable time before they are brought to any Perfection and we shall be always Poor and Needy till we are able to make Exports of our Own, we don't want either Shipping or Provisions if we have but Money to Pay for them, for they pour in upon Us from all Places; those that seemed ready at first to starve us with had Provisions are ready now to undo Us with Superfluitys. [sic] This Place might easily he made a Mart between North America and England and the Antilles, and the Spanish West Indies, which might prove of a Prodigious Advantage to this Place and I dare say when once the Lighthouse is Finished this Trade will introduce itself but in the mean time it seems to me that nothing can keep Us alive but building a church & other Publick [sic] Buildings, the Raising of our Fortifications. The Indian Trade and the Fresh Embarkations of Money'd Men. We raise the Envy of the People of Carolina by whom we suffer many Aspersions and false Reports altho' we serve them for a Bulwark against the Indians, a Curb to their Negroes raise the price of their Marketts [sic] & the value of their Lands, and they get all our Money into the Bargain, they are settling on the River May and all about us, and with the advantage of their Negroes Report that we need not sow any Corn or Rice for they will always undersell us, I could wish the Trustees would Oblige all Persons to whom they give any Grants, to Transport their Persons and Effects directly to this Fort. And I hope on our side we shall in a little time find Loading back for the Ships that comes here without being Obliged to go the Tedious Tour to Carolina. I am fully persuaded that the Indian Trade and the Reserved Rents and Fines for Trust Lands will bring in the Trustees a Considerable Fund towards the support of this Colony and to Defray its charge, but I must acquaint you that the People at Purisburgh, Thunderbolt, and Port Argyle have been all Indian Traders since you have been gone, We have smartly forbid our People and Settlements as soon as we heard it, and indeed tho' they seem to like the Trade much, they readily Submitted to our Orders; I dont [sic] Question but the Trustees will Endeavour [sic] to Regulate and Secure that Trade to themselves as soon as possible. Watson has behaved very Ill since your Departure and hath Committed several Iregularities, has beat the Indians, presented a Gun at Mrs. Musgroves, proved very dissaffected [sic] to the Colony and unfit for a Trader. The Indian Skee Offering one day to break open his Storehouse in Order to kill him, Watson Escaped out backwards and they finding him gone, in their Mad Freak fell upon Justice Musgroves Slave and killed him. He is since gone up in the Country full of Malice. The Indians are full of Resentment against him and have Petitioned us that Mrs. Musgrove may have the Trade for whose sake they settled here or at least that some other Person be join'd with her. you [sic] will see the Proceedings of the Town Court and we have found it Absolutely Necessaiy to Order Mr. Watson to Confine himself in his House in Town till we know the Trustees and your Pleasure on that Head. I likewise send you herewith the Reception & talk of the Chaktaw [sic by which you'll see the Disposition of that Nation and how easily a Trade may be carried on with great Advantage between them and Us. I could have Wish'd that Captain Mackay might have been present that we might have had the opportunity to have introduced him. We writ [sic] to him to Charles Town on their Arrival but did not receive any Answer (till the Indians who were very earnest to return back) were going away instead of Coming, then he writ [sic] word that the Governour [sic] was desirous that the Indians might come down to Charles Town, but we neither could Encourage it nor would the Indians consent to it; Captain Mackay is since gone up into the Country hut has left part of his Men behind to bring up Provisions, Mr. Causton said he would fully Inform you of that Matter. As also the Expedition of our Men to the Southward and the reason of Thomas Jones bringing a Writ of Ejectment for his Lot which possess'd by Mr. Robert Parker, that Gentleman has been at a vast Expence [sic] in Endeavouring [sic] to Erect a Saw Mill which is not yet brought to work and is believed by Workmen will never answer. We are in great want of Boards by reason of so many Buildings that are on foot and Contracted for. We have finished the New Guard House mounted four Peices [sic] on New Large Carriages handsomly [sic] painted, besides five Peices [sic] fixt in a Platform and designed for a Salute, besides four others on the Old Carriages; I will in the next send you my Draught of it, We have like wise Paled all the strand in and now built the Stairs down the Bluff and Paled it in. which [sic] together with the Chimneys being almost all Finished give a good Grace to the Place. We have cut a Path through Hutchinsons Island fronting the Main Street by which we can see the River on the other side. We have like wise made a Path a Considerable way between the Town and Musgrove's Cowpen. Collonel [sic] Poull and Mr. Bryan having since your Departure Examined the Swamp between Hutchinson Island and Mr. Bryan on the Road going to Purysburgh finds that the Swamp is hard without any Appearance of over flowing, that it is not above two days ride from thence down to the River opposite to Hutchinson's Island, so that the Road might with some additional Contribution be brought down thither; the Cutting a Path betwen [sic] Purysburgh and Charles Town goes on end we have by a Subscription among our selves Established a Messenger for one Year between this place and Charles Town, which will by that Means Secure a Communication not easily cutt [sic] off. Christopher Ford the Surveyor has been to the Southward to discover the Coast and finds by the great depth of the Sound and the Bar with the Clearness of the Coast from Shoals he could bring any Men of Warr [sic] with Safety within a Mile and a half of Thunderbolt, I hope that in Case of a War the Trustees will Endeavour [sic] to have some of his Majestys [sic] Ships Stationed here. There is a way to go from this Town to the River Vernon without passing through any Swamps and as that River is large and Deep and the Land very good it seems a pass proper to be Secured by the first Settlers. Mr. Vanderplank hath not yet been able to get up the Peoples Cattle according to your last Instructions, so they are by this time almost turn'd wild and instead thereof Mr. Causton now buys Beef of the Indians or Mrs. Musgrove. so that we have little hopes of Seeing them any more. Its true we have now Compleated [sic] a very large Cowpen containing near 45 Acres about a Mile from the Town on a Pine Barren, but little or no Cattle to put in it. The Publick [sic] Gardens have been hitherto of very little Use to the Town and Seems rather a Private Property end those People that have had the most need of it have had the least Benefit. Mr. Amatis arrived here the first of October last and has Sowed some Thousand Mulberry Trees which comes up very well and those that were there before as well as the rest of the Trees that Remain were likewise pruned & flourish very well, Mr. Amatis and Mr. Fitzwalter have had some differences together concerning their Authority which we have had some difficulty to Reconcile. The People at Purysburgh have several Italians there and Endeavour [sic] to be beforehand with Us in the Silk Manufacture. Collonel [sic] Pury with his People are all safe arrived before this Town the [ ] as likewise did Captain Yoakley who remains here still but is almost ready to Depart, the Two other Ships are Sailed for Lisbon these 14 Days. Mr. Montagut and his wife are in good Health he hath Built a Storehouse Adjoining to your House and is retailing his goods for ready Money himself. We make here very good Bricks in which Manufacture they seem every day to Improve. I have introduced a Fishing Trade by which means we begin to be Supply'd with greet Quantitys [sic] of Fish, Variety of which as well as Fouls our Rivers abounds. I have set up a Brewhouse which seems to be the only way to bring the People off from Drinking Spirituous Liquors. You have Inclosed an Accompt of the Death and Marriages of several People here as likewise those who left any Wills or Substance behind them, all the rest dying Insolvent, The Trustees will be able to send you the Orphans Accot. in a very little time and as the Constables are made Admistrator to the People in their Respective Wards for which they are to give Security to be Accountable to the Court I have no Effects at all in my hands. Mr. Bowen upon having raised his Frame and given Security, had leave to go to Charles Town where it is Computed he Carryed [sic] above L 500. Currency in Order to Buy Goods for this Place but Unfortunately died there about Septr. last at the House of David Allen who Administred [sic] to L 300. Currency little of which I am afraid we shall be able to Recover, his effects amounting to here about L 40. Sterling. Ambrose Vicary died the Second April last without a Will, but believe he left a Wife at Topsham in the West of England, his Effects amount to about L 38:17:0 Sterl. they have both of them made Improvements towards building their Lotts which we have Ordered to be built and Finished by those Workmen Indebted to the Estates as you will see by the Inclosed Petition. Mr. Lewis Bowen made no Will but by the Inclosed Copy of a Letter found in his Chest we do suppose that he has made a Will in England. The Unfortunate Mr. Wise, his Effects was Sold Except Papers and Manuscripts remaining in a Trunk in the Store and those things mentioned to be left with your Honours [sic] remain in the Storehouse 'till farther Orders, the amount of his Effects Sold was about L 20. Sterling no doubt great many were Stolen by that Villain that murdered him which we never could find out; The manner of this Murder was thus, which you have no doubt been Acquainted with, he Lay over in the island a Considerable time in a very weak Condition and kept his Bed he Used to call for some water in the Morning to wash himself and White Used to Assist him in Combing out his Hair in which he took a great deal of Pride & Used to lay his head Leaning out of the Bed to have it easier done, Alice Reley by the Direction and Influence of White brought a Pail of Water which she sat down by his Bed side. White came in also Pretending to Assist him in Combing his Hair, he usually Wore a Hand kerchief about his Neck, and while he was learning over the Bed Side instead of Combing his Hair, White took hold by that Handkerchief, which he twisted 'till he was almost Suffocated, Alice Reley at the same time took hold of the Pole of his head and Plunged his Face into the Pail of Water and he being very weak it Soon Dispatched him. As to the rest I referr to the Proceedings of the Court. I am so Afflicted with the Rhumatism in my right side and right Arm that I am not able to write & am Obliged to have Mr. Dobree to assist me, whose capacity and Ability in Business makes him very Usefull[sic] to this Colony and I do Assure your Honours worthy of your Consideration of some Publick [sic] Employment here. I return your Honour [sic] many thanks for Conferring on me the Honoble. Office of Recorder of the Town of Savannah, but my Present Indisposition renders me Incapable to Attend Publick [sic] Business, I most Earnestly Entreat your Honrs, would Dispose of that Place to some more able Person. I shall always rely on your Honours [sic] Favour [sic] & Protection & will remain Your Honours [sic] Most Faithfull & Obedient Servt. Mr. Eveleigh desires Leave to set up a Store a little above Old Savannah Town a little of this Side the River as likewise Licences [sic] for all his Traders. We shall Endeavour [sic] not to discourage him but cannot do any thing of ourselves without further Instructions which we beg may be dispatched as soon as Possible, he Offers to bring down all his Skins & Ship them off at this Place and as the People of Charles Town have laid a Considerable Tax on the Indian Trade, this will be the only time to push the thing on to Advantage for this Province. Pp. 327 through 329 - Copy of a Letter (written in French) from Mr. Samuel Montaigut to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah 17th Decr. 1734. [the letter in French is not included] Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker to the Trustees without Date. Dec. 1734 Gentlemen As Benevolence, Charity and the good of mankind are the Motives You act by in so laudable an Undertaking as the Settling the Colony of Georgia; You'll sooner forgive what the same Influence obliges me now to inform You off, should You differ from my Way of Thinking. I offer no Harm should whatever I advise be rejected. Mr. Oglethorpe, that with the thinking part of mankind will for ever be had in a gratefull [sic] Remembrance of the People here that were Witnesses of this generous Actions, indefatigable Pains and Industry, is now with us no more. We feel the Wants and I daily hear the Cry of the Multitude for being without a worthy Head, which doubtless will be soon supplyed [sic] out of your laudable Body. I am informed that Orders are come over to allow no more than a Years Provision to those Passengers by Yoakley, Daubus and Wood. Gentn. I profess I have neither spoke about it to those People, nor am I myself affected, nor no body knows of Writing but I can't help setting their Case before You in the Light it appears to me. First several of these and most of the first forty that are alive have been employed in the Publick [sic] Works. They have had no opportunity of getting their Lands in proper order for Culture but at the same time I must needs say the Land it self comes far short of the Praises bestowed upon it which was the inducement that brought over the honest People, and must needs think they can't be made amends but by receiving yet one or two Years Provision longer. They have had some of their Seed out of the Stores both English and Carolina, I can't account how it happened but it produced nothing or next to nothing. They have had the same a second time which did like the former, some the third time & they have had their Labour for their Pains or their Crops consumed by Squirrels. Should such People as these be cut off from your Provisions? God forbid. I am sure when You was [sic] at so much Pains and Charge to send them hith [sic] You won't suffer them to perish, which they must inevitably do if they are shut out of the Store. The Settlements at Abercorn and Skidoway [sic] for want of their Lands being run out to know where to clear and plant have had nothing to do but to bemoan themselves, so could not possibly have any Provisions coming up. The former Place was but the last week run out by the Surveyor; but whether Skidoway [sic] be yet done I am a Stranger to, but have heard very lately great Complaints for want of its being allotted. Another thing that I think pleads strongly for them is their so often attending at Court, I have heard some return 10 Days out of 30. It must needs be when the Recorder has told me he has granted 30 Warrants in a day. When at Purysburg (to its Praise be it spoken) only one Warrant has been served since its first Settling. I have offered my self to take Pains and endeavour [sic] to make up Differences but that method is not approved of. I am sorry there should be such a Spirit among these People. The People from the Out Settlements have been obliged to give their Attendance frequently at the Loss of 3 or 4 Days Work at their own Expence [sic] and not so much as a Bed to lye [sic] on, the Publick [sic] Houses having none to spare, so are exposed to the Inclemency of the Weather; They complain heavily and with too much Reason. I am sorry it's not in my Power to redress the several Grievances Sprung up since the Departure of Mr. Oglethorpe. I shall point out to You wherein they consist and leave them to your better Consideration to give proper Orders for their Amendmt. I am at my Works up the Country, have time to consider things and I should think my self inexcusable in being silent and keeping You in Ignorance, when by your Prudence things may be amended. What Thanks I shall get from those at Savannah You may imagine, but I think it my Duty to do what Good I can to those that deserve it; which is a sufficient Recompence to me. 1. The too frequent Courts which are a great hardship upon the People as I observed before but especially to those of the Out Settlements since they are so often adjourned, those of Abercorn were summoned to attend the Court on Saturday last; They went down on Friday to be ready, then the Court was adjourned in the Afternoon while next Wednesday. The poor People, the Tide not serving, were obliged to come away in the night and so with Hunger and rowing returned on Sunday morning. They return next Wednesday and expect most of the Week to be lost. Besides the Loss of their time they are from their familys [sic] at their own Expence [sic] which they can ill afford. 2. The Punishments come next into Consideration which in a new Colony in my humble opinion ought to be used very tenderly and as seldom as possible, but at Savannah they are frequent and shocking even to disgust the Neighbouring [sic] Provinces. I have seen a Woman sit in the Stocks for 3 hours when it rain'd hard (and the only Dairy Wife we have to Supply the Colony with Butter) a Servant of Musgroves, and tho' She interceded for her She was taken out of the Stocks and carried on board a Sloop & ducked. In ducking her they bruised her so against the Vessel She Was lame for 2 or 3 months after; The Crime had Mr. Oglethorpe been here had not been taken Notice of. One poor Gentleman with the Terrors and Frights of Whipping, Stocks &c. went distracted in the Town through the Terror. He went away but died before He reach'd Port Royal. He was one that had been a good Benefactor. 3. There is such an Alteration of People especially amongst them that have to do with the Store, Mr. Oglethorpe himself would not know them. He has been Witness of their Poverty but now no Signs remain, they never appear without their Ruffles and their Houses are well furnished with Plenty of every thing to Profuseness. 4. We have about 30 or 40 Free Masons they have a fine Supper every Saturday night and often 2 or 3 week besides; where such an Expence [sic] can be born I am at a Loss to know. One night amongst other Disorders they went to the Guard cut the Capt. down the Head and disarm'd the rest carrying the Arms away. When they came to reflect on it on the morrow, to make things up they call'd a Lodge at night and admitted Gough the Capt. a Free Mason, so I suppose the thing dropt. I might go on to other Particulars hut have already said enough to fill You with Indignation at what passes at Savannah, if I have time to spare I can go up to Purysburgh and spend a day or two with Mr. Beaufin and other good Company agreably [sic] but Savannah is not a Place at Present I take Pleasure in. I wrote to Mr. Oglethorpe which I hope he communicated to Your Honourable Board. I hope I shall have the Honour of an Answer to Worthy Gentn. Your obedient humble Servt. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker to Mr. Hucks dated at Mill Bluff 24th December 1734. Sir As You are the Gentleman among the Trustees that Sir Robert Walpole was so kind in so affectionate a manner to recommend me to, makes me take the Liberty now to address to You; as he was acquainted with my former Condition of Life induced him in so particular a manner to recommend me. As I don't question hut the Letter is yet regularly in the Office I could desire it mi^t he once more read over if any Regard will he paid to that great Man's Recommendation. As I have formerly upon my own foundation as a Merchant employed almost as many People as is in the Colony, I thought some little Regard or Difference would have been shewn, so indeed it was while Mr. Oglethorpe staid and I expected he would have given some Directions accordingly, but Instead of that I have found worse Usage than any body else. Mr. Oglethorpe gave me a Lot for a House &c which I inclosed and built a large Work Shop, Saw Pitts &c. at a very great Expence [sic] for my Workmen about the Mill, which since has been regularly taken away by our Court to gratify one that went up to the Indian Nation, so I am dispossess'd without any Equivalent so that the Publick [sic] is served at a private Man's Expence. [sic] Mr. Oglethorpe gave me if confirmed by the Trust a Trust Lot mark'd K in the Draft of the Town Plat in the large Book which in a Letter that I desired might be delivered to him to remind him upon his Arrival, which Letter Mr. Brownfield had orders to lay before the Board. I should be glad to be confirmed in it and hope the Terms will be made very easy to me. I had Liberty before Witness from Mr. Oglethorpe to erect my Mill Work either in the Salts or up the River where I pleased for my own Convenience; where I have pitch'd upon is remote from any Settlemt. the nearest is two miles by Land above Abercorn end three miles in a direct Line from Purysburgh. I hope the Gentlemen will allow me a large Scope of Land in Consideration of my large family of Eleven Children besides what I may possibly have should my Wife be induced to come over which is her Desire, and as soon as I can make her a suitable Reception will be as agreeable to me, and likewise in Consideration of the Usefullness [sic] of my Undertaking which now I have the pleasure to tell You which please to inform the Gentlemen is at Work and I hope in a few days to cut eight hundred or a thousand foot of Timber a day, and when I make an Addition hope more than to double it; after furnishing the Demand at Savannah and the other Settlements & Purysburgh I hope to Ship off large Quantitys [sic] for the Sugar Islands besides I expect to furnish London with Thousands of foot for flooring of the finest clear Stuff that ever was imported; One Branch of my Business was the Norway Trade so that I pretend to understand it as well as any body. I expect in my Grant a Liberty to have one or two Negroe [sic] Servants for every 50 Acres, the Charge of white Labourers [sic] being so extravagantly dear there is no such thing as bearing it. As also, as I have several Children, a Power as in England to make my Will to leave what it may please God to bless me with as I shall see fit as an Encouragement to the more Dutifull. [sic] Mr. Oglethorpe might probably speak about two hogsheads of Rum he was told by a Person that happen'd to be in my House when I received the Letter, they was sent up without my knowledge & I immediately went out and acquainted Mr. Causton and Mr. West of them before they came on Shore, one Hogshead I took for my own Use and Workmen the other I sold to Musgroves Store. As to my bearing Arms, while I had Sons they would not permit it while they could do it for me, the Duty was never neglected. Another Objection Mr. Oglethorpe had was the Revd. Mr. Dering coming up to officiate for Mr. Quincy I had a little acquaintance with him at Charles Town and being destitute of an House to go to (the Saltzburghers [sic] having Mr. Quincy's) he was at my house while he staid in Town but I knew nothing of his Coming neither had he any Invitation from me further than taking him in for 3 weeks while he Staid without the least thing allowed him from the Store not so much as a Bottle of Wine. One thing I will say, none of the Ministers behaved better nor gave more Satisfaction to the People than he did while he staid. I have troubled You with these three things which dwelt mightily upon Mr. Oglethorpe before he went away that he wrote me an angry Letter from Charles town and did not therein use me well being innocent of either but as I have now represented them. My Coming over into these particular Parts at first was the good opinion I had of the laudable Undertaking, hoping it might be in my Power likewise of doing a great deal of Good here among the Persons sent over; but all that is now frustrated any other place would do as well for me. I have large Offers made me from both North and South Carolina if I am inclinable to move, but if I am well used I confess I like my present Situation very well. I was recommended to Mr. Heathcote by Mr. Trasford your Relation, please to give my humble Service to them and also to Mr. Vernon. And if You will be so good to give my Duty to the Right Honble. Sir Robert Walpole and Sir Charles Turner my Relation You will much oblige me. If You can procure freight cheap as no Doubt but You may please to send me Twenty Hogsheads of your best Beer, I will make a Return to your Satisfaction and if You will spare so much time to give me two or three Lines in answer by the first Ship to Charles Town directed for me at Mr. Richard Hills Merchant You will exceedingly oblige me. I am with much Respect Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant One thing I forgot to incert [sic] but it being so material it will be the Ruin of all the Business in these parts if not carefully rectified, That is the Care of Letters, none is wrote for England that can be happen'd on but what are opened and often secreted as also Letters from thence. I don't doubt but I have had several served so my self and perhaps some with Bills which I can't yet learn. Letters for these parts should not long be detained in the Office if directed thither but forwarded by the first Ship to Charles Town to be sent hither with a Schedule of the Number and who they are directed for, without coming to the Store to be fix'd upon the door that every one may demand their own. Some Letters have been delivered dated 9 months before which is a prodigious Hindrance & would destroy all Negotiation. I have several Indians that come & visit me for the Sake of Rice and they bring me their Skins, which not to offend the present Orders I am obliged to turn away and so they go and sell them at Purysburgh, It might be L 40 or L 50 Sterling in my way, and why should not I and the rest that venture our selves among them make the proper Advantages but see it go to Carolina; please to let me have your Opinion of this for my own Satisfaction as well as others. You will think me long and troublesome but being Christmas Eve my People desired Leave to go out this morning to provide them selves a Dinner though we have good Beef, Pork, Cheese Flour &c. They are now come home and have brought 3 1/2 Couple of Ducks, 1 pari [sic] of Doves, one Turkey and a fine Buck together with a fine young Pig, but the latter they had at Abercorn. We are not alltogether destitute of Provisions when we have time to seek for it especially Turkeys and Venison, Ducks &c. in plenty but very shy. I have one thing to crave that nothing from Letter may be communicated to the Publick [sic] with my Name unless upon absolute Occasion and then I shall not disown any thing I have advanced. I have sent also a Copy of the Letter delivered to Mr. Oglethorpe after his Arrival which Mr. Brownfield advised his Master had ordered to be laid before the Board. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Jose West to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah December the 30th 1734. Honoured [sic] Sr. I make bold to Trouble you with this with my Heart full of Gratitude and Thankfullness for your dismissing me of so Troublesome and Chargeable Office. I do assure your Honour [sic] I have not spared my time nor Substance in keeping the Peace and Credit of the Colony and have Endeavoured [sic] to behave my self in such a Manner that I have the Good Will of almost all that have any Knowledge of me. The People in General seemed at first to be very Uneasy at my Quitting the Bench, but I told them it was own desire to be Discharged and now I believe they will be very well Satisfyed. [sic] The People in General are pushing forward their Buildings & Cultivating their Lands, and we was all in General in great rejoiceing [sic] on your Honours [sic] Birth Day and every one seemed to Express a deal of Satisfaction on it. The Indians arrived here all in good Health and Express a deal of Satisfaction on their Reception in England, & now I doubt not but we shall he very easy. Quiet and Industrious People & shall answer the Ends of your great Pains & Care that you have taken for Us; so I Conclude Hoping this will find your Honour and all the Honourable [sic] Trustees in good Health as I and all my Family are at Present I thank God, my Wife is brought to Bed with a Son on the 28th of this Instant. I am Your Honours [sic] Dutifull [sic] and faithfull [sic] Servant till Death. I should he very glad of Leave to Come for England for a small time in Order to settle some Affairs and to get some of my Country Men for Servants for me, I know them to he some of the best in all England for Country Work; Here is a great deal more I could Inform you of but Mr. Causton and Mr. Christie both have told me they shall Write in Large to you of all Transactions that have happened here. The People are all in General very Healthy and Well. Copy of a Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at Savannah. January the 15th 1734/5. Lords and Gentlemen; I take the Freedom to Inform your Honoble. Board of some matters relating to this Province which may not have been writ by any Person from hence, but before I begin, I beg leave humbly to Represent the great Damage I suffered & still am like to suffer by Mr. Caustons Advertizent. [sic] in the Carolina Gazette wherein it looks as my Design in Comeing [sic] here was with an Intent to Defraud my Creditors. The Discredit and ill Character of Persons thus Advertized [sic] is a Barbarous way of Murthering [sic] a Man in his Reputation, the Loss of which is one of the greatest Losses a Person can suffer in this World. I Challenge all the World to prove my Intent was to Cheat my Creditors and to this very day neither Mr. Causton nor any other have been able to prove any thing like it against me, all the Amends that is made me is that your Honourable [sic] Board has been writ to by the Magistracy in a more Favourable [sic] Manner, but as to the Loss of my Reputation PublickLy [sic] Esposed[sic] 'twill never be in Mr. Caustons Power to make me Amends. I have been chosen Arbitrator in several. Affairs here, and some of the greatest Consequence, I am generally Foreman of the Jury. The Body of Free Masons has accepted me as a Brother, I have been Employed to Assist the Recorder and to his Satisfaction have Performed what time would Permitt. [sic] I am now Assisting Mr. Causton in the Publick [sic] Store in Stating the Accounts in the Manner he would have them and which I find in a very Confused Manner Ex; troublesome & difficult to State, and Adjust. Was I so great a Knave it would not be Prudent to have any thing to do with me Especially if Reflected on the Advertisement in the Carolina Gazette which spreads thro' all America. These Disappointments & ill Usage at my first Coming might have Prevented me from Improving Lands were. [here?] Whereas I have quite the reverse Paled in the finest Garden of any in the Province and tho' it is Inferior to the Publick [sic]in some Things it Surpasses in others (though it Consists but of five Acres) by the Help of an Old Servant of mine a Gardener & some Indented Servants & Hired Men. I am now ready to take in Mulberry Trees and Vines &c. when Mr. Amatis will please to lett[sic] me have them. I have already Sowed & Planted Cotton Seeds about 200 N.B. I am Preparing to Plant or Sow Logwood & other Foreign Plants & Seeds. Oranges Do. 3OOO Annis Seeds 3OO Hemp Quar. of an Acre Rape Ditto Some few Olives and Limes, besides Cabbages Onions, Sallet [sic] and other Garden Seeds of which this Collony [sic] is in great want; and is very Necessary to eat with Salt Meat which is all we eat here, & am Fencing a Cowpen of ten Acres fit to keep Cattle near the Town which I design to feed with Grains, Young Canes &c. which will be very advantageous to the whole Town who seldom or ever see the Cattle, and therefore can have no benefit of the Milk which is Extreamly [sic] scarce and deer [sic] here. As soon as I can get Men I will Employ ten Acres more for the Benefit of Hopp Poles and Staves to send to Charles Town: It is a great Uneasiness to me that none have the Industry and Courage here to make something of their Timber which might bend, besides the Clearing their Lands provide them with several Necessarys from Carolina. Our People are not to he brought over from Drinking Tea and Punch by Violence, I have an Order to draw them off from it Persuaded Mr. Christie & another with whom I have Concerned to Brew good Small Beer for ten Shillings p Barrell, [sic] which is as good as most I have tasted in London for that Price. And for Tea I have planted a great deal of Sage which grows very well here and which will save a great deal of Money to such as have little or None to spare, & indeed not enough for the Necessarys [sic] of Life. I have Perswaded [sic] a Friend to Undertake a Trade to Savannah Town the Chief place for the Indian Trade and to bring down in return Skins, and such Provisions as are Cheaper than from Port Royal. Finding the Measenger [sic] making his Journey to Charles Town and back to consist of 15. or 20 days. I have hired a Passage Boat to go, and back irom Charles Town every week by which means we may have an answer in less than seven days. Altho' most People mind only their Private Advantage. My thoughts are Continually here to find something for the Publick [sic] Good, in doing of which I hope I shall receive no Discredit. I reffer [sic] what I shall farther Write to another Sheet and now beg leave to Subscribe my self with due Respect. Your Honours [sic] Most Humble Servant. Copy of Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at Savannah January the 15th 1734/5. My Lords & Gentlemen. I beg leave to add to the Inclosed four Pages that Mr. Parkers Saw Mill near this Town and Musgrove's Cowpen goes on Successfully and will fully make him amends for the great Charges he has been at in Erecting the same, God Grant the like Success to all that Undertakes Such Publick [sic] Affairs. I design by Captain Dunbar to Consign your Honoble. Board some of this Country Produce. I am sorry to find we have no Money here, People never were so short of Money as they are now, they can't Pay 5 Shillings without a Warrant and when one is granted they are Obliged to make it without Payment, a Currency is very much wanted here for at this time we may almost say that all Payments are Stopped from one Freeholder to another, but if Hogs or Fowls arrive here from Carolina, they are generally bought up for Ready Money, by which means all the Cash is drained from hence by the Carolina Planters, a small Boat Load will generally Carry off 2 or L 300. Currency from hence and take little or nothing at ail from Us. I hope your Honourable [sic] Board will take our Case into Consideration and if a War breaks out Enable Us to make a good Defence [sic] in Case of an Attack. As it is likely we may have a Share in the Indian Trade, I beg your Honourable [sic] Board will not forget me in that Employment and if Possible to help and assist my Family to come over to me, the Charges &C. I would readily Pay here. As to Religious Affairs here, I am Sorry to Observe that out of all the Inhabitants not above thirty most commonly assist at divine Service and of late seldom or ever can we see there our Chief. Mr. Gordons Proceedings Seems to Please the People his courteous & good Nature are Virtues which Often gain the good Esteem and Respect of all Mankind, and was at Church of Sunday last, when another was Absent that for some Reasons might have been there. We have some Stones which by the Owners are thought to be of great Value and something like Iron Oar [sic] upon the Surface of the Ground but none here can resolve what it is nor have not time or Courage enough to Dig Low and Deep to find out more. I beg Pardon for writing this Letter in a great Hurry and remain most respectively. My Lords & Gentlemen. Your Most Humble Servant. Butter is Sold here at 12d Sterl. p lb. which is an Extravagant price for Salt Butter. I wish a Small Cargo would arrive from Ireland. [It is unclear whether the following is an extension of the letter from Mr. Dobree or a separate letter which in the original was not cited as such. Both end with a form of the the standard "your most humble servant" however the following has no formal salutation.] Besides Logwood our Dyers I wish I could have Madder Seeds from England or Holland. Mr. Causton is of Oppinion [sic] that it would do well in our Swamps here. I beg that your Honourable [sic] Board would please to add any other Foreign Seeds that you might have fit for this Climate with which I will Endeavour [sic] to make the best Use I can. I Wish I could get Ten or Twenty Pounds of Clover Seeds and as much of Lucerne, our Cattle wants greatly good Feeding which had they near the Town we should not have them run away to such remote places as can't he found which in Case of a Warr [sic] would he of Evil Consequence to this Province. Before I Conclude I heg leave to Inform your Honourable [sic] Board that Provissions [sic] have been Stopt [sic] to the few Servants I have tho' bought but about three Months who never have had above Six Months Provission [sic] all the time they have been in this Province; My own Provission [sic] were Stopt [sic] after three or four Months 'till at last speaking to some Purpose to Mr. Causton he was pleased to have the same Continued 'till the 12. Months were Expired. My Servants Provissions [sic] are still stop'd from them tho' I can hardly find Money enough to keep them. As to my Effects Seized here wrongfully without Law. Court of Justice, or Jury, I have tamely Submitted to every thing that has been required of me but I find (as I thought at first) that my Creditors are not pleased with those who have had the Management of Disposing the Goods receiving the Money and Rendring [sic] Accots. I have paid in three Months whereas they will not be paid in Twelve and well for them If they are paid in that Time, they Repent (and with a, great deal of reason) that ever they gave full Power to Mr. Causton to do what he did tho' out of 12 Persons that I ow'd in Charles Town not above two or three desired him to Use me as he did and I may say that to this very day he has little Comfort for what he did, but I would rather think that he has the Remorse now of having ruined an Inocent [sic] Man. Inocent [sic] I call my self since I came here with no other Intent than finding I could neither get Accots. nor Remittances for the great Quantitys [sic] of Goods I had sent here to Mr. Lynch nor from Mr. Harris whom I sent afterwds. to call the former to an Accompt, and could any body blame me after acquainting most of my Creditors in Charles Town and they Perswading [sic] me to come here in Order to call those to reason whom no letters could Persuade so to do. why might not I come here as well as any others: in short I am not willing to tire your Honours [sic] Patience, Mr. Recorder has writ without my Soliciting the same to Mr. Oglethorpe to Favour me with his Interest to your Honourable [sic] Board for a Publick [sic] Employ. I desire no Honour [sic] or Title only some Place or other wherein I may he usefull [sic] in the way of Trading which I am vain to think I Understand as well as any without Excepting one in this Province. Mr. Causton Asks often my Advice which I always give him Bona Fida. [sic] Though when I think on the harm he has done me I think I Act the part of a Superior Soul than his who Lately told me that he had rather 40 or 50 should suffer than he. far from my Sentiments, for the Publick [sic] Good for which I would Freely Sacrifice my Private Interest? to Conclude I wish he may appear in his Accompts to your Honourable [sic] Board as Honest a Man as I am now looked upon by the People in this Town and Colony; I am with all due respects though in great Haste. Your Honours [sic] most Obedient Humble Servant. Jos. Fitzwalters Acct. of The Publick [sic] Garden Savannah 16 Jan. 1734/5 Hond. Sir After my most humble Duty is presented to your Honour, [sic] and the rest of the Honble. Trust my Masters; This is to acquaint Your Honours [sic] That I have not been wanting of Doing what lay in my Power for the Service of the (torn) Colony by night or day even to the very Risque [sic] of my Life, which I have done three times since Your Honour [sic] left the Place; when I send my Journal by Captain Dunbar will inform your Honour [sic] farther. By Mr. Causton's Desire I went with a Boat and four Servants to below Augustine Creek, and brought Mr. Gordon & Spouse, with Indian King, Queen, & Chiefs with Mr. Musgrove, and were Saluted with thirteen peices [sic] of Cannon by Mr. Causton's Order, who gladly received them; and the Inhabitants of the Township expressed themselves with a great deal of Joy of their safe arrival; and the Indians in General were glad to see us. The Garden I have made great Improvements in, most (torn) of the Tree Stumps I have rooted up; Planted the front wall (torn) with Trees of Oranges six feet high, which will bear Fruit some (torn) this Year; and all in general thrive: Some Orange Trees this last Season Shott [sic] in the nursery four feet, and the least shott [sic] two feet, I have a thousand of them. Of Mulberry Plants I have Eight thousand, some of them this last Season shott [sic] fairly fifteen feet, and this Season will be capable of feeding abundance of the Worms. The Olive trees like the Soil & Situation; for I have some of them Shott [sic] six feet this Season; I have mett [sic] with some Cotton Seeds from Guinea, which from it I have raised a (torn) thousand Plants, some of which have Shott eight feet in height (torn) and the second Season will come to their bringing forth Fruit in (torn) Abundance, so that I shall be able to send a large Quantity of (torn) Cotton to the Trustees Use; As for the Kitchin [sic] Garden every thing thrive as well as ever in Europe; and as for Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Tards, Beans, Pease, [sic] Eyegrass, Clover, Trofoile, Cinque foile & Lucerne Seeds, I have never seen finer than this Country produce; Hemp and Flax will do as well here as in any part of Europe, Rice I have had very good; Indian Corn and Pease [sic] in great Plenty; The last Seeds as came received Damage by the Pettiaugua [sic] receiving Damage coming over the Sound. Mr. Amatis hath been here and at Purysburgh since the beginning of September, and is not for Planting any thing of Kitchin [sic] Stuff at all in the Garden; which I always apprehended was to be carried on; both by your Honour and Trust, and likewise Botany. But Mr. Amatis is more for the merchant than any thing else; For several Hogsheads of Rum and Wine, Barrels of Flour hath landed and sold here to may knowledge; and have taken the Servants out of the Garden both to Crane them up, and carry himself & goods several times to Purysburgh; and was for displacing me out of the garden, who had gone thro' the Heat and Burdon of all the Improvements in it. Mr. Causton out of his wise Judgment would not a,6h.ere to him. Since Wise's Death I have had the management of the Servants over the Island, and was the chief Instrument of finding out that cruel and barbarous Murder. The Vistoe [sic] from the Town to the other side of the Island, Is cutt [sic] through and looks extream [sic] pleasant. The Road from the Town to the westward of five acre Lott going to Musgroves Cow penn [sic] is made good. Mr. Gordon brought word from your Honour [sic] That the said Servants should go to Mr. Vanderplanks Management to the Crane, and what else he should put them to; which said Servants I delivered to him. I thank God our Town is in very good health, and increases mightily; For that Place which was nothing but Pine Trees when we came, is become almost as many Houses; and though Williamsburgh (which is the Metropolis of Virginia) hath been settled near a hundred years yet we Exceed them in number of Houses; though not our Buildings quite so magnificent. In a word I take Our Settlement to be the Promised Land; It's Lands Rich and Fertile, Its Trees large and good for Building both for (torn) Land and Sea, Various sorts of Gums and them as good as come from East Indies, various sorts of Druggs, [sic] Flowering Shrubbs [sic] and Plants of various kinds. Fruits wild of different Species and very good, & when Cultivated will be much finer. Clays of different kinds, both for the moulder and Potter, Mines of different Species, Stones of various Colours [sic] and them transparent, fine Springs and some of them minerall, [sic] fine Rivers and them Plenty, who afford us Multitudes of Fish & the best in the World, Salmon Trout Sturgeons (of which I caught one weir'd upwards of 300 wt. (torn) Mullets, Bass &c. Our Woods afford us great Plenty of Deer, and bear (torn) Boar whose meat is extream [sic] good. Turkeys in great Plenty (torn) I have Shott [sic] 6 of a day & them very large, some weighing 25 lb. (torn) each. Wood Pidgeons [sic] innumerable, and of other sorts of Fowls abundance too tedious to mention. Our Rivers afford us abundance of water Fowls, as for Goose, Ducks, Mallad, [sic] Teals and Widgeons; I have been one of the four that have shott [sic] 13 dozen in one day. Abundance of the Inhabitants have cultivated their Land, have had very good Crops both in Town, and Settlements. Cattle thrive better then in Carolina. I hope in a little time to make my Town Lott be as good as thirty pounds Sterling year. I should be very much obliged to your Honour, [sic] & the rest of there Honble. Trustees, to Order me the Payment of my Salary that I agreed with your Honour [sic] for, and whatever yr. Honours [sic] think fitt [sic] for the boy Goddard my apprentice. I have had of Mr. Causton about 20 10 stg pound and money I could Convert to a good Use in Improving my Estate. Sir I hope that the things that I sent by Captain Daubuz, Captain Wood, Captain Yoakley, and Captain Fry, arrived Safe to the Trustees hands; I shall always make it my Business every opportunity to send something of the Produce of Georgia to their Honours. This Season there was not an Acorn or Walnutt seen; But as soon as there is any, I will send some Bushells. [sic] I am Sir Yr. Honour's [sic]& [ ] of the Honble. Trustees Most Obedient & Most Dutifull [sic] Servant. Jos. Fitzwalter. Georgia, Savannah Janry. the 16th 1734/5 Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated at Savannah January the l6th 1734. [the date is 1735 (1734/5)unless this letter is badly out of place] May it please Your Honours [sic] It has been my greatest Concern, That I have not Been able to discharge my Duty of writing as I ought; Neither have I any thing to plead for excuse but my Constant application to all the necessary affairs of the Province here And if it Shall appear, that my Endeavour [sic] for the Publick [sic] good have Succeeded and was necessary, I shall hope for your favour. [sic] I shall send by Captn. Dunbar my Cash Accounts to Christinas last, and a Transcript of the Register which I have hitherto kept. A journal of the Stores is also near finished and will he sent. As I would use my Utmost Endeavours punctually to execute Commands, I found it necessary to hire Assistance in Matters of Account before Orders for it came to my hands. We have had throughout the Whole Province the particular Blessing of God with regard to our healths, when our Neighhours of Carolina were generally afflicted with almost universall [sic] Sickness (for the most part intermitting Fevers) of which many Died. The Overseer to Mr. Jeny's Negroes died here on the 13th of May and Mr. Van Reck left us on the 20th. Mr. Mugridge had Orders from Mr. Jeny's [sic] to take Care of his Negroes, and he went to Ebenezer, But having other Business to Mind, soon returned, and in this Case, I strenuously urged the care of them to Mr. Bunyan and Mr. Clark Subject to the ministers Advise. The Negroes soon grew disatisfied [sic] and one of them Murdred [sic] one of Ms Fellow Negro's, And Mr. Jenys soon after sent for them away. When Mr. John Van Reck went, Mr. Bolzius went with him to Charles Town, and on his return desired, That one Frederick Reinlander and Family, should Settle with the Saltzburghers [sic] (being of the same Communion) He is accordingly with them; He has lived some time in Philadelphia and Carolina, and understands planting. I went to that place on Saturday Evening, and return'd on the Sunday following to See how the work went forward and took Mr. Jones with me. I found that most of the Negroes time had been Spent in making a Road to Abercorn, having laid seven Bridges. That they had fruitlessly planted, on the most barren Ground. I blamed Clark for not advising better but he Say's they were obstinate. Some ill designing people took an Opportunity to make them uneasy, with their Scituation, [sic] and they much desired to be removed. I perswaded [sic] them That tho' the Land in the Town did not seem to answer the present purpose of planting It would soon Enrich itself, and for their Immediate use They might plant on any good Land they could find near them; They have got ready (by joint labour [sic]) for this Season of planting above 20 acres: Bunyan goes on with their Buildings and has finished two of their Houses, besides one double house; I pay him as he goes on being first Surveyed by Mr. Jones. Augustine found a water passage to Ebenezer and Conducted the Scout Boat within three miles of the Town The Entrance of that River is 6 miles beyond Corn house Creek, and about 24 Miles from thence to Ebenezer. The good people were very much rejoced [sic] to see him here. But Augustine could not undertake to Clear the way to the Town for the 50 L Currency which Mr. Oglethorpe was pleased to Order; so that I have paid him nothing on that head. Dr. Zwifter was lost for twelve days, when I heard it I sent some Indians to find him; They brough [sic] him safe home, and he is very well The people at Abercorn, are in good health. Piercy Hill (Faded) has Rivetts Lot and she is Removed to this town (fadedj La Fond married her Daughter and he went to Charles Town to serve the Governor and Died. Widow Box after her husbands death much desired to return to England But I promised her some assistance here; and did her some little Kindnesses; In a little time she alterd [sic] her mind and married Mr. Young the Wheelwright. Mr. Autrobus having buried his Wife has married the Widow of Joseph Taylor The rest of the people are also in good health, they planted last Year about ten acres of which Mr. Hogles had the greatest Share; He is indeed a very Industrious man. Mr. Watkins some time since ask'd my Opinion about an Agreement in writing which he had made for the Lease of a Lott in town; I told him. That indeed The people (for Improvement Sake) might Lease their Lands for Seven Years, But that lycence [sic] for Leasing was not to be understood, to alter the Intentions of the Trustees With respect to the Settlements for if the outsetlers [sic] should, under that Pretence, [sic] remove from their place of Settlement, The remaining body would be thereby weakened and exposed to Danger. Because I am mentioning Occurrences in this part of the Province I must not Omitt [sic] Mentioning That Mr. Rohert Parker Senior has fixt his Mill about 8 Miles up this Creek where is a Bluff of about 12 feet high and Plenty of Pine, and within 3 Miles of Abercorn by Land. When I knew it I advised Mr. Jones to go and See it, who told him he must not meddle with the Timber without Lycence, [sic] And I suppose he has petitioned Your Honours [sic] for such Lycence. [sic] I believe he has been at great Charges and is in Debt about it. It has begun to work But whether it will answer his Ends, is I find a question. He has make [sic] some Demands upon me. As appears by the Inclosed which I could not Comply with. And indeed his Demands for workmens provissions [sic] have been so very large. That I have been forc't to Stop; Till Your Honours [sic] pleasure be known. The Independant Company having been on (faded) the Store Accot. for Six Months went for the Uchee (faded) Town about the Tenth of November, But the Captn. when he (faded) went from thence left his Lieutenant and eight of his men behind him. I have perswaded [sic] them to work for their Victualls,[sic] and leave their Pay untouched, with which State, they Seem well Satisfied. I often told Mr. Mackay That I had no Instructions to provide for his Company And that he must Answer for it If not approved of. Robert Parker Junior having married the Widow Sale gave up his Commission and Mr. Loyer is made Lieutenant. Mr. Thomas Jones with 19 Indians arrived here on the first of July some Creeks and some Chactaws[sic] The Names as Inclosed, upon their Arrival I order'd the people under Arms, and we welcomed them to this place in the best manner we could. And having provided them provisions, desired them to tarry about l4 days and we would give them a talk. I dispacht [sic] a Letter to Colonel Bull and another to Captn. Mackey at Charles Town desiring their Company at the time appointed. Colonell [sic] Bull came without receiving my Letter and Mr. Mackay sent the Inclosed answer. The Chactaws [sic] seemed exceeding well pleased with the presents a particular of which is for the most part sett down in the Enclosed List which was Settled by Colonel Bull advise. These are much better polisht [sic] than the Creeks, and the Chief men seemed to be endowed with many Commendable qualifications. Mr. Paul Hamilton of Edisto with two other Gentlemen, arrived here and after a Stay of 2 Days returned. I endeavoured [sic] to shew him the Respect due to a Benefactor. And at his Return home sent the Cattle by way of present to the within mentioned, which favour [sic] we acknowledged in writing; I though I could not better represent his Request to you. Than by Sending his own Letter to which If your Honours [sic] will be pleased to direct an Answer I will carefully Send it to him. Captn. Tuscany the Beloved Indian died here about the later End of may [sic] and Captn. Skee died the beginning of September. Watson the Trader as Soon as Mr. Oglethorpe went hence, gave himself to drinking, and was so Seldom Sober That it was hard to Guess if he was not Mad. He would be naked with the Indians, Drunk with them, lye [sic] down with them and sometimes pretended to baptize them. He made Skee his Cheif [sic]Companion and he seemed to apprehend some some Danger from him. Therefore wanted to make him his particular friend. They were drinking every day together in this mad way for about a Month. Skee got the flux and went to the Cowpen and died when Skee was thus Ill Watson made Publick [sic] Talk That he had done Skee's business, and that he would die. This way of behaviour was generally lookt [sic] on as drunken Talk. But when Skee was dead and the same talk not only continued but persisted in I took an Opportunity one day in the Store to Reprove him, and tell him of the dangers of such Speeches; I said, That if such talk should come to the Indians Knowledge it would he a difficult matter to perswade [sic] them to the Contrary. he answered Skee was dead And he was alive, and that they had both of them the like Distemper. I then went farther and told him perhaps (as misfortunes of the World were Various) he had lately turned his Thoughts on Something which made to great an Impresion on his Mind, At which, the poor man wept and I did not chuse [sic] to say any more. Sometime before Skees Death, Musgrove and Watson quarrelled [sic] and she could not be perswaded [sic] from bringing an Action against him for calling her Witch The Cause was try'd August 13th and 6s 8d for Damages given against him as you will See by the Recorders Report. On the 24th another Action was tryed [sic] for an assault whereby he was charged, with Endeavouring [sic] to Shoot Mrs. Musgrove And it appeared very plain that he had shot her If she had not over Power'd him in her own defence [sic] and took it from him and broke it. A Verdict went against him for five pounds Sterling Damages and he was Order'd to be boun [sic] for his good behaviour. [sic] The next day he was tryed [sic] on an Indictment prefixed against him by the Grand jury for Beating Esteechee the Indian and defrauding him of his goods. Which upon Tiyal appeared to be true and he was found guilty and ordered to pay 13s 4d Sterling fine and make the Indians satisfaction for their Goods. On which Occasion I Publickly [sic] reprimanded him; and gave him Cautions of the great danger of Such proceedings. I then Spoke to the Indians and desired That Esteeche would forgive Watson and pass it by, for that he had now been Tryed [sic] found Guilty & fined, He would he paid for his goods and Care Should he taken. That he would do so no more. You will see by Mr. Recorders Report, That this was a Trifling Assault. However, It appeared afterwards very plain. That Esteeche and all the Indians had received so strong a hatred against him That Esteeche said his Heart would never he straight towards him. Tallahummee Spoke next, and said I desire all the beloved men here present will take notice of what I say we brought our Wifes [sic] and our Children here and thought to have traded with Musgrove, That the Esquire promist [sic] it. That when he went he left his talk with Mr. Causton That if any thing happen'd to them, it should he redressed; some time since I was out Striping of Bark, and Watson came and presented a Gun at me, I was going to arise but Considered of it. That we thought to he here and to he Civil and kind to one another but we find the Contrary by Watson. And I dont [sic] know what to make of it. I asked them if they had any Complaints to make. He answered we all desire That another Man may trade with us, or that Musgrove may trade by herself. There was present Tallahummee, Skee, Esteeche, Tallafoleecha, Whitustee, and Eronake, who all joined in that desire Mr. Eveleigh, by a Letter acquainted me. That he heard Watson had differed with Musgrove; That he had received no Skins since Mr. Oglethorpe went. That there was a Considerable Balance due to him, that he had given James Muir a Letter of Attorney to Settle the Account and demand the money. But had Subjected him to my Advise. In pursuance of this Muir applied to Watson and Watson perswaded [sic] him to bring an Action against for a jury to divide it. I could not approve of this till I knew how Eveleigh was prepared to make his Case good. Therefore chose to try other amicable Methods. The Recorder and I went to Musgroves for this purpose and soon found, That this Enquiry would he the unravling [sic] of all Watsons behaviour. [sic] That under pretence [sic] of managing the Trade he had bought and Sold without Musgroves knowledge, and was carrying the Trade into another Channell; [sic] which was con trary to the Agreement with Eveleigh and the express words of the Articles between Musgrove and Watson. I ask't him to give me his Objections to the Accot. in writing but he refused it. I acquainted Mr. Eveleigh of the Matter and desired some Body would Come to make good his Charge. I judged. That as Watsons Case seemed to be In Respect of Eveleigh Demand, The Indians Complaint, and Musgroves Uneasiness; It would be well If he could be perswaded [sic] to withdraw from the Stores; Let his affairs be managed by another person to be approved of by both and a perfect Inventory to be taken; to this he Consented, But having changed his Mind he went frequently away and lock't up the Store; Mrs. Musgrove one day found only the Servant there and she turn'd him out of doors, lockt [sic] it and took the Key her self with intent (no doubt) of keeping Sole Possession; But he soon found means to regain it and then for several Days refused to open the door to any one. He was one day lockt in, when the Indians came to weigh their Skills. They found that Watson was in the Stores and would not open the door, therefore they endeavoured [sic] to break it open. Mrs. Musgrove begged of him to Escape for if the Indians got in she feared that they would murder him. Accordingly Watson got out another way and came to Town. The Indians broke in, but finding Watson gone, their anger was rather Increased and Esteeche killed Musgroves Slave (Justice) that night. This Murder justly alarmed us And having advised With Mr. Christie, Mr. West, Mr. Vanderplank and Mr. Jones We Concluded, Thiat Esteeche, where ever he was Seen, either in the Town and Settlements, should be immediately put awey in the most gentle manner that could be and he being then in Town Mr. Vanderplank was ordered to Conduct him to the Indian Line, He has kept away from the Town ever since. Watson Was much frighted at his proceeding. I told him, twas absolutely necessary for him to Secure his own person. But if he did not, I should be obliged to it, for the Publick [sic] Safety I particularly advised him to withdraw out of the Province for some time perswading [sic] him, that perhaps this Affair might pass over Or at least that some instructions from Your Honours [sic] might be had, and that he might not be hurt in his private property, advised him to authorize some Body to manage for him. But by ill Advise, he soon seemed to forgett [sic] it, and took an Opportunity to Report that I advised him to go out of the Colony, Only, that he might be plundred [sic] of what he had. And Urged, we need not be afraid of Indians since we had sufficient Hostages in England. As I have nothing So much at heart, as the Publick Safety; my Duty to your Honour [sic] obliged me to have a particular Watch upon him and his Associates, And at the same time as much as I could forbear doing any thing, that might seem to Confirm the Report he had Spread. I therefore urged Mr. Eveleigh to finish his own Account (& arbritration) and assist Mrs. Musgrove as to the partnership. Mr. Eveleigh arrived here, and they Agreed That Mr. Fallowfield and Mr. Dobree should be Arbitrators. Then Watson found the Award would not please him, he raised Eeflections [sic] on both the Arbitrators and I much doubt (to this time) if shall be able to get any Determination made in that manner. I waited these Determinations near three Months, but finding, that he continued his drunken humours. [sic] And that the publick [sic] Danger rather encreased, [sic] for his own Report of Killing Skee, I found had reached Tallahummnees Ears, And there was nothing to hope for, but the Immediate Confinement of Watson to Secure his Life. A Charge was drawn up against him for Misdemeanors, which I chose to have found by a Grand jury; upon this he was tryed [sic] November the 21st and found Guilty in these words, Guilty of publishing severall [sic] unguarded Expressions contained in the Charge, but believing him to be Lunatick, [sic] recomended him to the mercy of the Trustees. I hereupon Committed him Close prisoner to such lodgings as he should chuse [sic] in the Town. He offered Bail, and I would have took it (vizt. Mr. Quinsey) if the security would have been bound. That he should not go out of the Town Mr. Recorders Report shews the Nature of the Charge, and Your Honnours [sic] Commands in this matter is much wanted. Till now I had maintained the Publick peace with some Ease, and though somebody must he more or less the sufferer by every Persecution, yet the Determinations of the Court have been always obey'd with great Readiness I shall Use my Utmost Endeavrs. to have all necessary Order kept. Especially in every thing which regards the Indians, But an Opinion is now Started, That it is very cruel to Imprison any one for fear of an Indian, and our new Polititians [sic] think. It is more for the Interest of the Province to Let an angry Madman go out of it (tho' he were Inclined to say all the Reprochfull [sic] things he Could) Than gently to Confine him to his own House. As to this matter Mr. Gordon told me. That he did not choose to alter what had been adjuged [sic] in Court, But if he pleased, he could Admitt [sic] him to Bail which I denied. Captain Yoakley, having on a Sudden taken a Resolution to go for England am obliged to Deferr [sic] further Accounts to my next, which is almost finished and will cone by Captn. Dunbar who will Set out from Hence for London in five Weeks, He will take all his Loading here, Mr. Lacey, Mr. Vanderplank, and Self, having hired some of the poor people at Purrisburgh [sic] who were in a very low Condition and we have got about 700 Barrels Pitch and Tarr [sic] for him, which we beg leave to Consign to your Honours [sic] as the first Export of the Growth of this Province. I am as in Duty bound May it please your Honours [sic] Your Most dutifull [sic] Servt. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John [James] Burnside to the Trustees dated at Savannah January the l6th 1734/5. Gentlemen. 'Tis above twelve Months since I Arrive in this Province and have done as much as in me not so much for my own but for the Service thereof in return for the great favours [sic] reced. from your Honours, [sic] but having no Servants not being bred to Labour nor having any Experience in Country Affairs they not Agreeing with my Genius, renders Life a Burthen [sic] to me and also deprives me of any hopes (by my Land) of making Provissions. [sic] There has been no Instructor of Youth here since Mr. Waterland went to Carolina, 'tis a Business I had eight Years Experience in, 4 Years an Apprentice and 4 a Freeman, the People in General like my Performance, so beg your Honours [sic] will not only for my Benefit, but theirs, Grant me the Priviledge [sic] of Practiseing [sic] in Town and in so doing you will lay fresh Obligations on the Province in General but in a particular Manner on Gent. Your Honours [sic] most Obliged Obedient Humble Servant. N.B. I am Settled at Fort Argyle near 100 Miles from Town by Water at which Place I have Built a House and Clear'd Near two Acres of Land. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward Jenkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah January the 20th 1734/5. Sir Mr. Willibee our Fellow Trust of the Orphans is dead, the Magistrates have not as yet chosen another, Mr. Causton seem to intimate that he will receive orders from the Trustees before he nominate another, we have taken care to Cloth [sic] the Children according to your Honours [sic] order, but we thought the Cloaths [sic] was to he a Gift from the Trustees. But Mr. Causton says we must pay for it, out of the Orphans Effects. But shall not Consent to pay for it before I hear from your Honours [sic] or the Board, we have taken care to make the most of what ye Orphans have, we have let Goddards House and Land to Mr. Christie for eighteen pounds pr. year. Mr. Christie wants it for 10 years, But I told him it was not in our power to grant it without Consent from the Trust, so we stay for the finishing of the Lease untill [sic] we have an answer. Milliges House we have let to young Robt. Parker who Marryed [sic] the widow Sale for fourteen pounds pr. year Mr. West have agreed that we should have Little's Child under our care and agrees to give twelve pounds pr. year for the Childs House the Child lives with Mrs. Mercer which from the Mothers Death have Taken a Great Deal of Care of. We Gain a Great deal of ill will by forcing People to pay for the Orphans Goods we sold, we are now taking out executions against all in General that have not paid. Poor Mrs.Royle.is dead & have left two fine Boys under our Care but no effects to maintain them. what gives me the greatest uneasiness Concerning the Orphans is That they are not taken as Good care of as I would wish Altho we see them often and is not Backward of telling of any one that buses them, I am sorry I can't help but say the Women turns out but very badly, which makes the Orphans lives miserable. Mr. Amatis told me a fortnight ago of taking the two London [The typescript says London. Hand written above the name seems to be Tondee] Children from him he seemed to be very uneasy & told me he was Going for London I yesterday asked him where he depended on our taking the Children he said, he would have me stay till he Come Back from Charles Town, I know he have [sic] been very uneasy of late but can't Say for what. I wish there was some honest man Chosen for our Partner to take of some of our trouble Had I known of Mr. Yoakley's Going directly from hear [sic] to London we would have sent the whole account of the Orphans but If I live propose to do it By Captain Dunbar So remain Your Honrs, most Obedient and humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward Jenkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Georgia January the 20th 1734. [likely 1734/5 unless out of place] Sir I did not think to have given your Honour an account how White was taken that Murdered Mr. Wise myself but thought Mr. Christie or Mr. Causton had done it. but I understand they have not the truth of it is as follows. Mr. Henry Parker & his Brother, William was at work at my Lot to pay me for what work I had done for him as we was working one of my men said yonder Goes a man very fast. I looked and saw the man and said I believe its White that Broke out of Prison If it is him Let us go and take him, the two Parkers agreed not knowing where it was he or no left the men at work all the Weapons we had was two hooks & an axe we was at work with, I desired one of them to be about 10 yards at my right hand and the other at my left keeping that distance without Speaking a word And as soon as we Came to him I would seaze [sic] him and if he offered to rebell [sic] they should kill him immediately, so we persued [sic] him tell we cameinto about twenty yards of him At first sight of us was much surprised.I told him your Name is White its in vain to Attempt and immediately I seized him he fell on his knees & with many Blows on his Breast baged [sic] his Life so I took him by one side of the Collar and Mr. Henry by the other, and William walked behind we held him very fast for we had often heard that the Servant bid defiance to ten men to take him. As we was Leading him to Town, we asked him where he had been and where he was going he said he had been looking for some house out of town to get some Provisions but could not find any one. And he then was looking after the the woman, he thought he left her a little to the right hand where we then was. As we was Leading him along he would often beat his breast and beggd [sic] his life, we told him if we let him Go he must perish in the woods he said he would be joyfull [sic] to perish in the woods rather than dye [sic] on the Gallows we told him if any thing could turn to his safety it would be if he knew of any other Villainy that the Irish Servts. or any one else had been done or was inventing. He then Earnestly declared before God that some of the Irish. Servts. was at him to Contrive to break open the Store, and for fear of his Speaking of it they had taken away his Life and if their oaths must be taken he did not doubt but they would serve many others the same, we could get nothing more from him but carry'd him into town he was had immediately to the Gallows and declared to the last he was not Guilty of the murder & by all appearance died a Roman. the woman was Hanged yesterday, and denyd [sic] the murder of Wise, & the most that she had to answer for was her being so wicked to Confess a thing she was not Guilty of, by which means she imagined was the Death of White she seemed to be of the same Principle as White was. So remain Your Honours [sic] most Obedient and humble Servant to Command. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward Jenkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah January the 20th 1734/5 Sir I hope you will excuse me in giving an Account of one thing more relating to my self. I believe I was once an Instrumt. of Saving Mr. Watson's Life, and perhaps of a great many others. Mr. Causton, Mr. West, Mr. Christie, Mr. Vanderplank, Mr. Jones and my self mett [sic] at Mr. Christie's to Consult what method to take to find out the reason of the discontent the Indians seemed to be under, we doubted it might turn to be of a dangerous Consequence so the Magistrates Picked upon me to go to the Indians with a Linguister [sic] which was Bartlets wife I went home and & Sent for Bartlets wife & Told her I would be her friend if she would he Just In being Linguist for the Indians to me. I Gave her a Bottle of Rum to Carry with her, & Charged her Say nothing tell I came but drink with them. when I came she was with Husteche which was the Indian I wanted, the rest was gone up the River, with Skins because Watson should not have them so after I had Showed a good deal of friendship to the Indian, I asked him how Mr. Watson and he agreed he said his heart and Watsons was one, but it was easy to gett [sic] the Contrary. I told him he need not be afraid to discover, his uneasiness to me, for he should have as much justice done him as any of our own People, he thought some Minutes, at Last said his heart nor none of Indians was Strait towards Watson nor never would & that Watson should have no more Skins from any of them & that Watson got drunk with their Rum and then would beat them & in a great Passion showed me some signs of his Blows, I perswaded [sic] him to he easy & he should see we would vindicate this Rights and Priviliges [sic] as much as our own. so at Last seemed to be well Satisfied that he had discovered his Mind, so I acquainted Mr. Causton what I had done, he sent by Mrs. Musgrove which in great measure abated their discontent. they came into Court and discovered much to the same purpose what they did to me. These Letters are much to the same purpose as I sent to Charles Town a Fortnight ago in Order to he carried for London, I wish you may he able to make sence [sic] of what I have wrote [sic] I had not three hours warning of Yoakley's going direct for London but thought he was to go to Lisbon in my Last Packet I sent my good friend Mr. Holland a Letter but fear I now have not time. In that desired his interest Concerning the Licence [sic] but I seem to be fully perswaded [sic] I need no ones But your Honours. So remain with. My Duty to the Honourable [sic] Board of Trustees. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Martyn dated South Carolina January 20 1734/5 Sir. Your kind favour [sic] of the 23d of Octor. Captain Dunbar, in due time came safe to my Hands. I am very glad that any thing that I have done for Georgia or Mr. Oglethorpe is acceptable to the Trustees. I do assure you when first I heard of the Trustees design of Settling Georgia I thought it was So humane and might prove so Beneficial to Great Brittain [sic] and this Place That it gave me a great Satisfaction. And in Order to Advance that Colony, I have Spent a great many thoughts some of which I have Communicated to Mr. Oglethorpe which probably you may have Seen, and Should be glad to hear they have been of any Service to that Colony. There are two or three things which I think worthy of the Consideration of the Trustees (Vizt) That they admit of Negroes coming into that Province So it be but a Limitted [sic] Number, For without Negroes you can't have there any produce Sufficient to load Vessels And with out that no Trade can be carry'd on there to Satisfaction. It can't be Supposed That the Trustees know the Circumstances of this Country so well as those who have lived several Years in it. And we are all here generally of Opinion, That Georgia can never he a place of any great Consequence without Negroes. There are Some few in this Province Who have no great Affection for Georgia. And I have seen them rejoyce [sic] in this very article that there are no Negroes to he allowed there. I am very much against too great a Number of Negroes and am of Opinion Wee [sic] have to many in this Province as you may observe if you have read one of my Letter's to Mr. Oglethorpe on that Head / But then on the other hand there may too few; The Golden Mein [sic] ought to he Observed. It would in my Opinion tend very much to the Advantage of Georgia If the Trustees would put the Government of that Place under a good regulation. I have Several Times heard That the Fundemental Constitution drawn up by Mr. Lock, [John Locke] and Sent hither by the Lords Proprietors about forty years since to be a very good One, and should very much rejoyce [sic] Should I live to see a good Constitution of Government in that place, and should be very proud Should I be in the least Accessary thereto. In Severall [sic] of my Letters to Mr. Oglethorpe I have desired that he would gett [sic] a Bounty upon Lumber, which would be of great Advantage to Georgia. And tho' you may not be able to get it for the Main in general You may for that Province Several Reasons may be urged vizt. That it is a young Colony, therefore Ought to be Encouraged And Assisted / As was the Custome [sic] of the Romans. That it is a Frontier, both to the French & Spaniards, (The former of which is grown powerfull [sic] and formidable) That if the French Should take that Place & this it would very much indanger, [sic] Severell [sic] of his Majestys New Colonys. His Majesty does not Value the Charge of Materials in building his Men of Warrs And that live Oak Timbers are Allowed by all the Workmen of good understanding That I have conversed with, to be preferable to any English Oak whatever. The French (as I am informed) had a Design of Settling Alatamaha River, about fourteen years Agoe [sic] which was discovered p Mr. Bladen whilst he was in France. did the French and Spaniards know how valuable that Province is on Account of the live Oak timber. They would have long Since Settled it, which / probably might have proved of very bad Consequence to Great Brittain. [sic] Theres A great deal of Timber, and other Lumber Imported into England for building his Majestys [sic] Ships of Warr,[sic] and Merchant men, from Hamburg, Dantzwick &ca. which is paid for Chiefly in Gold Silver or Bills of Exchange from Amsterdam; Which if brought from America would be paid for in the Linnen [sic] or Wollen [sic] Manufactory, and other European Goods, and this likewise would very much Increase our Navigation and thereby raise Men to Man his Majestys [sic] Ships. I could wish you could prevail with Mr. Oglethorpe to come over again his presence is certainly very Necessary. That he may Finish what he has so well began. There are several things reported in Town to have been transacted at Georgia which I don't like, I am very certain his presence is wanted. I beg the favour [sic] that you'll excuse the Liberty that I have taken, and that you'll make my best of Services Acceptable to the Trustees, I am with my Utmost Respects Sir Your most obliged humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Tailfer and others to Mr. Peter Gordon dated at Savannah 21st Janry. 1734/5. Sir We take this opportunity of laying the following particulars before You. We having obtained Grants for Land from the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia, and according to those Grants having engaged Servants and brought them at our own Expences [sic] into the Colony expected to have the same Encouragement as other Settlers; such as Provisions for our Selves and Servants for one Year, Tools for building our Houses and for clearing and cultivating the Ground, Nails and other necessary Iron Work, Arms and Ammunition &c. But when We arrived here, contrary to our Expectation, We could receive none of them. We had a very discouraging Character of this place given us at Charles Town, upon which Account some of us came here to view it, and then Mr. Causton told us that he had orders not to give us any thing but he would allow us Credit for Twelve months Provisions, yet when we brought up our Servants and Goods it was with a great Deal of Difficulty we could procure three months Provisions and a few other things, and not even those without paying for them. We beg the favour [sic] You would join with us to represent those things to the Trustees, and we humbly presume that being in all fifty two in Number and all our Servants able young Men except two or three Women, we were a considerable Addition of Strength to the Colony and indeed we should have been much more in Number if it were not for the Loss we sustained by the Desertion of our Servants before we left North Britain, and at Portsmouth by a Misfortune which befell our Ship where we were obliged to lay her on ground so that several of our Servants had an opportunity of leaving us. We beg Leave to remark one thing more, that being settled at a great Distance from this Town to the Southward it is a very great inconvenience for us to procure from time to time such things as we stand in need of; and likewise that our People have been very industrious in building a Fort which we think is as capable to defend us in case of an Attack from an Enemy as any we have yet seen in this Country; and although it has been a considerable Hindrance to the clearing of our Ground, yet we believe that proportionable to the time of our Settling there is as much Ground cleared as any where else in the Province; and indeed we thought it necessary to put our selves in some Posture of Defence in the first place. We would willingly persuade our selves that the Honble. Trustees upon knowing the preceding Circumstances will grant us the same Encouragemt. [sic] they do to any other Person. We hope You will he so good as to excuse this Trouble from Sir Your most Obedient Humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Captn. Dunbar to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah January the 23d 1734/5. Hond. Sir I would have troubled you on my Arrival the 2? past with an Accot. of the State of the Passengers who (except Tranhowi and was then perfectly recovered) were well man Woman & Child the Saltzburgers [sic] particularly still cheerfull and pious Laborious Sober people, the Indians behaved with their accustomed Modesty and I have reason to believe they as well as all the other Passengrs. are Satisfied with their Treatment while on board, but delayed it till my return from the Southern parts of this Province where on my Arrivall [sic] there appeared some need of Sending. The State of Affairs were that some time before a Body of Spanish Indians passed Ogetchy [sic] River and kill'd 9 Outchees nigh Pallachocolas. A Brigantine off Tybee sent her Boat on shire [sic] & got of Chetwin Fizard [sic] one of the Pilots under Pretence [sic] to come into the river, and immediately stood to Sea. and the Master of a Bristoll [sic] Ship then in the River affirmed that he had seen a Negro one of the men that carried off the Pilots at the Havanna. The Scout boat was on her Cruise some weeks longer than Ordinary & feared that she was fallen into bad hands. Thus the Affairs stood when in Obedience to the Trustees Commands and by the Magistrates Authority I set out on the 8th ult. with eleven white men and four Indians Mr. Johns as Constsble one of the Number as was Mr. Bailie who would not beungon [sic] was by the Magistrates named Constable for the Expedition and to Succeed Mr. Johns and he me in the command of the men in Case of Accidents. TomoChechi told me that if his presence was not so much wanted at home he'd go in person with a Sufficient number of his men in the round Canoes and would on that Occasion if he was sure there was any disturbers of our peace in the Province but Hellispelly [sic] Humpetchee [sic] and Stimeletchee [sic] insisted on going wth. a Servant of Mr. Musgroves as interpreter, and during our voyage behaved with utmost discretion and forwardness. The 8th we passed Thunderbolt where these Gentlemen have Cleared and fenced so much Land that without Misfortunes prevent they'll be able to Sell a Considerable Quantity of provisions, they have made every great advances in their Potash Manufactury [sic] have loaded of a Sloop with Pipe Steves since I have been here, have three Houses finished and tolerably well fortifyed. [sic] We left Skidowey [sic] the 9th where they have made a much greater Progress both in their Houses and lands than I expected they are very regular in their watch so that by night or day no boat can pass undiscovered and have a battery of the carrage [sic] Guns and four Swivels in good order: two mile South of this Settlement the Scout boat lays when at home where they have a very commanding prospect and can put to Sea at any time of tide we came at noon to[rot in?]Possem were we hunted if we could find any people that could not give Satisfying cause for their being there but found none from this we passed Ogetcby [sic] sound to Bare island where we encamped for that night without Seeing any extraordinary the 10th we continued our voyage along the Island of Ossaba to Sappaho [sic] where we found fresh marks of fire but hunting as formerly with the same success the 11th we were at St. Catherina [sic] were we found fire end hunted as formerly the twelfth we past Doboie [sic] Sound to St. Simons without any thing remarkable nor here tho we hunted carefully did wee [sic] see any marks of people having been lately on the Island the 13th we went to Jekel [sic] Island Searched it as in other places with the same success and returned to St. Symons the same night where we left two of the Indians during our absence at their earnest request to hunt for Deer not having hitherto spent any time that way the 14th we went to Fort King George and in the way Landed on Barnwell Bluff where we found Surveyors lines and in Mr. John's opinion had been lately run out from thence the 15th we went to Sappalo [sic] by a Creek which runs of Close to were [sic] the Garrison was and formerly supposed to run only into the woods but observing the tide of flood set in that way to the River, I resolved to attempt it and came in one tide from thence to Sappalo [sic] missing Doboie [sic] Sound which otherways [sic] is the work of three and is a safe way for Pettiauguas on this island we found all as we left it the 16th we came to St. Catherina [sic] where we were weather bound till the 18th when we passed Bara Island to All Honey we hunted this island with our usual Success without Seeing any marks of people having been there lately as we passed Rotin [?] Possum we discovered a fire where we found some of the Savannah Indians they could give us no intelligence, and we proceeded the same night to Skidoway [sic] where we had the agreeable news that the Scout boat was returned and had made the Extraordinary stay on Accot. of building a Canoe the 19th we arrived here and were likewise agreeably informed that the Pilote [sic] whom we thought carried away was returned the Ship having been drove of the Coast and at last put into Charles Town. I had on my return Mr. Chardons permition [sic] to load here Pitch or Tar on freight for London theres likewise 20 hogsheads of Skins belonging to Mr. Eveleigh so that tho I go tomorrow to Carolina to Purchase some rice on freight or other ways I hope to be fully loaded with the Products of Georgia on my return if Mr. Simmons Affaires will permitt [sic] I think of Seeing the Saltzburgers [sic] at their Settlement, visit Abercorn pass over land to Port Argyle see the Scots Settlement and return by Skidoway again. Mr. Forsals boat was bought here when I was gon [sic] to the Southward for the people of Augustine The vessell [sic] which you may remember, was launched when you was at Charlestown mounted with sixteen Guns was likewise sold to them Torance that belonged to the Scout Boat is there and we are told much in favour, [sic] tho Wallace and others taken at the same time are Confined. When I can give you a more parll. account of the affaires of the Town I'11 likewise trouble you. I would have sent seeds or plants to My Lord Islay Captn.Yoakley but his going to Londin [sic] is owing to a Misfortunat [sic] accident here with the Collector of Port royal being intended for Lisbon till yesterday and is to sail with the first fair wind. At my return to London if you can Imploy [sic] me to the least advantage to any of your friends in the way you Spoke of at London it will give me Infinite joy Since I can never hope of returning in any other way than by my wishes the many the many obligations I lay under to you. I am Honble. Sir Your most obedient and most Obliged Servant. Tomo Chachi Tonohowi Hellispelle and Humpetchee are with me this Morning and often in their passage and since remember you Tomo Chachi desires me to acquaint you that your Picture is gon [sic] to the Nation Tonohowi watch is very much abased but I carry'd it to Charles Town & will have it mended, pardon this Scribling [sic] Yoakley being just going. (395) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Mouse to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah January 23d 1734/5. Hond. Sir You being well acquainted with our Settlement at Skidoway, [sic] I have made bold to inform your Honour, [sic] of the Improvement belonging to my own Lott, which I call the House Lott, it is pailed [sic] out, and I have two large hutts [sic] built thereon, one is twenty four by Sixteen and is sett all round with Large upwright[sic] Loggs, [sic] the other is twenty one by fourteen with Clap boards only; which I propose as a Store House with a yard and Conveniencys [sic] for Breed, where I keep ny Fowls, of which I have about thirty, besides what I have Sold which came Cheifly [sic] from the Fowls which your Honour [sic] was pleased to give me, but I have not had altogether such good Luck with my Sow, she has had two Litters of Pigs the first Died being nine, and the last litter, five only two living, which are large thriving Piggs. [sic] The Cows and Calves which we had are all run into the woods, and can't bring them up having so few hands, that Pretend they cannot Spare time to Hunt for them and theirs. I am now to Inform your Honour [sic] that the Ground brings forth Plenty of Callavances,[sic] Potatoes, and Indian Corn and will I don't doubt Produce many other things which I intend to Try, I hope your Honour [sic] will not forgett [sic] to send over some new Settlers for our Island, It being very hard for a man (who has a Large family) to watch continually every third or fourth night and for refusing one Night, I have been tied Necks and Heels by Mr. Dalmas out Tythingman I am very sorry I should deserve to be served in that manner, but his being Tything Men over so few people as we are at present, he has more times to do a Service for said place than he has, but must Submitt [sic] to an Officer in Power, I am informed that it is in his power to Tye [sic] me Neck and halls when he pleases which I submit to if deserved, but If a Man is to be governed by an Officer who will Reign Arbitrary it is very hard to Submitt [sic] to and if it is to be so I most Humbly beg your Honr. please to permitt [sic] me and my Family to Proceed for England, alltho I like Skidowey [sic] better than any place I have seen in the Colony. I realy declare that I think it hard to be used as a Common Soldier, as I like my Place of Settlement so well, and to leave the same after I have taken so much Pains for my familys [sic] Sake is still more hard to me. I take the freedom to acquaint your Honour, that I do not mention out of Vanity but I do assure you I have made the most Improvements on my Lott [sic] of anyone in the Settlement, am very unwilling to trouble your Honour [sic] with what Improvements others have made, not Doubting but you and the Honble. Trustees will he informed therein as to our Land which is belonging to us is lately run out the 17th December. I understand by Mr. Causton That the Honble. Trustees have thought fitt [sic] to Allow the People of Skidowey [sic] another year Provisions for which Great favour [sic] your Honours [sic]have mine and my Familys [sic] Humble Thanks. My Spouse is in Daily Expectation of being brought to Bed and is now in Savannah where she intends to lye [sic] in, she and my Family joins with me in humble Thanks to your Honr. and the rest of the Honble. Trustees for all favours [sic] and am Honoured [sic] Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Musgrove to Mr. Oglethorpe Dated at Savannah January the 24th 1734/5. Sir This with my Duty and my Wife's to your Honour [sic] & the Rest of the Honble. Trustees, & having this opportunity I make bold to trouble yor. Honour with this to Accquaint you that we are all safely Arrived and in good health, and I bless God found my family all well. Toonahowi [sic] has been ill but now he is upon a Mending hand & I hope he will do very well; I hope this will find your Honour [sic] & the Trustees in good Health as we are at this present. Mr. Wattson who was my Partner when I came for England I do not Like, Nor cannot Approve of his way of Proceedings; for I find since I came home to Georgia, by Mr. Wattson's proceedings & Abuseing [sic] of the Indians, I have lost my man servant Justice, & he one Day Locked the door and would not Lett [sic] the Indians in with their skins that they Brought with them that they might have them weighed, & they waited with a great Deal of patience till at last their patience was quite tired & very much vexed, & broke open the Door and was resolved to be revenged; and as soon as my Wife heard that the Door was broke Open she run to the window and told Mr. Wattson, & Desired him to gett [sic] away or Else he would be kill'd, & because they could not find him Stechee knocked my boy Justice on ye head directly & killed him, he having the Misfortune of being in the way. Mr. Causton is & has been very good to the Indians and they all praise and Value him, & all the Rest of the Indians was affraid [sic] they should be blamed upon the acct of the Murder, but Mr. Causton was so very good & Pacified them all; so they are very easy & none to be blamed but Stechee who Committed the murder: Mr. Causton will write your Honr. the whole Acct. of it. The Looseing [sic] of my man Justice who was so good a Servt. to me is a great Loss & Dissappointment [sic] in my Affairs and Mr. Wattson being continually Drunk I cannot bring him to Accot. for what has been sold out of the Store since the Commencement of the Partnership nor will he account with Mr. Eveleigh at any rate what ever, he makes his Brags he killed Captain Skee by Drinking of Rum & If Capt. Skee's brother should know it, Mr. Wattson the Risque [sic] of his life which will bring a Scandsll [sic] and trouble upon this Colony but we all do our Endeavour [sic] to keep it from him, & for what I promised to the Honble. Trustees, I will use my utmost Endeavour [sic] to Perform to keep peace Tranquility Love & Unity amongst them on both sides and as for Mr. Wattson's proceedings I am Oblidged [sic] to break Partnership with him wch. I have done allready [sic] for my own security, And Mr. Wattson he does insist on Partnership for four years & that it is as he says according to your Honours Promise and since he behaves himself in the manner as he does I think it not proper to be concerned with him any further for if I am I believe it will be my ruin for the Magistrates are oblidged [sic] to keep him in Custody' upon the Acct. of his Behaviour. [sic] By the loss of my boy Justice I am Oblidged [sic] to be at home & planting comeing on I have nobody to assist me which hinders me from going up to the Nation my Self but the king Tomo Chachi has sent [ ? ] for the upper Creeks and the lower to Come Down to him to Lett [sic] them Know that he is safely Arrived & also to tell them of the talk with his Majesty King George said to him & the rest I Remain with my Duty & my wife's to your Honr. & the Honble. Trustees from Your Humble most Obedient and Dutyfull Servant to Command. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Elisha. Dobree to the Trustees Dated at Savannah January 27th 1734/5. My Lords and Gentlemen I humbly beg your Pardon for the Freedom I have taken in Opening my Thoughts to your honble. Board. My Earnest desire for the good of the Colony has perhaps carried my Freedom Too farr [sic] but I hope you'll easily overlook this And favour [sic] me with your Countenance and Protection. I herewith send some Letters which I wrote to your honr. Board some time since & which I would now write over again & Digest em in Less compass. but the Settleing [sic] your stores account taking almost my whole time & gives me no small trouble through the Confused stated they are in, and the improvement of my Garden (5 Acres Lot) taking up the remainder of the time; I beg youll [sic] Excuse my Sending you Such Imperfect Letters. As to my Garden I have with all the Endeavours [sic] I possibly could make use off got seeds from Sundry places & am now Daily Expecting more from Augustine Savannah Town, New York, Philadelphia Lisbon & Eew England. As we have no Fresh Beef nor Pork out of the Store. Eating so much salt meat heats the Blood and Causes the Scurvy I have sowed a vast Quantity of Greens & have now fine Sallet [sic] Peas & Cabbage Plants & almost ready to Eat. Turnips from Carolina, are sold this Day at 2:2d Sterling p Bushell. Good Cabages would readily Sell for 6d. &8d peice [sic] but none good to be had at any rate few are come from Hew York but mostly Spoiled. These are Trifles hardly worth mentioning but Perhaps youll [sic] Not take it Ill to be Informd [sic] of such affairs tho Never sotrifling. While I thus Consult the health and the desire of the people I am considering which way I might improve the garden to some proper usefull [sic] future Benifit [sic] to my Self, & for that End I am now going to Sow The following seeds Almonds, Currants, Raisins Lime Lemmons [sic] & other foreigh [sic] Seeds I have already put in Orange, Cotton, Clive &c I have Poppys [sic] which grow up very fine Some people tells me they are valuable in Physick [sic] for which reason I shall take care to make the best of ym. [sic] I Design to Plant or sow this week a sort of Beans which grate grows about 12 or 15 foot high & Produce Extraordinary Large beans of Wonderfull Size scarse [sic] and hard to be mett [sic] with. I beg leave to Desire you Hon. & Board to Supply me with Physical Herbs & Plants of wch. I will with the Blessing of God for my Private Interest make the best use I can & for my Character Supply other Freeholders with the Produce. I am sorry that I have reason to Inform your Honble. Board that the Workmen at Tybee are allmost [sic] Continually Drunk & that the Light house is not like to be Quickly built: of Course it must go on slow enough & no ways answer the Cost of that Dear peice [sic] of Building.' The freeholders of this town are many of them Building on all the whole front of their Town Lot which if an Accidental! Fire should happen might Occasion greatly to the Burning of whole Wards at once. For the sake of the town & the Stores Leather Bucketts [sic] would be very Usefill [sic] & might always be kept ready in the Store. Mellassee from Charlestown have been lately sold here by Mr. Houston at 2: 6d p Gallon & at the rate I See them in the London Invoice it would save some money to send them there they are 1. 6d p Gall. at Charlestown. Your Honble. Board will I dare say Encourage any thing that may Tend to the Wellfare [sic] and Establishiment [sic] of this Colony and make it a Province Renown'd upon Earth as well as a Barrier to the English Settlement on the American Main; we doubt it not & we are now flattering our Selves that At this very time you are procuring us Some Publick [sic] Good from the Parliament. Mr. Musgrove is very Ill & Like to Die I should gladly Accept of some of his Trade were your Honnrs. pleased to grant me Lycence [sic] for the same. I am told Mr. Eveligh of Charles Towb dessigns [sic]to Settle here which I wish may prove true he being a Publick [sic] Spirit a good Nature & an Encourager of Industry. I might write some Reflection on some of our great men here in Endeavouring [sic] to Engross all the trade (that is not their business to Trade) & on their Absenting from Church Especialy [sic] one for Some Months past but tis Dangerous to medle [sic] with Edge Tools or men in Power. Mr. Gordon hath hitherto gain'd the Approbation of ye People. It were well if all Judges of Provinces & men in Power there to whom the Government of the People is Commited [sic] would Endeavour [sic] to Copy after ourr Late Kings & Queens in their Fatherly Endevours [sic] more to gain the Love and Affection of the people than in Riged [sic] Tyranical way of Government in Using their Subjects more like Slaves than Christians Freemen. I am most Respectfully Your Lordship & Honours [sic] Most Obedient Most humble & Devoted Servant Had I but few Strong servants I would Endeavour [sic] to Send a Sloop Load of White Oak to Irland:[sic] its [sic] plenty Enough here as is Live Oak. All Sorts of Greens have been So Scarce here that for Want of then Onions have been Sold for Eight pence Sterling p pound but on the arrival of the New York Sloop they are fallen to half the price. Mutton is not Sold for Less than Eight p Pound & Seldom can get it. Fowls are the Chepest [sic] Fresh meat we have here. I give twenty Shillings Sterling p Acre for the Lotts I have hired near town tho it is an Extravagant price I Chuse [sic] to pay it rather than to have others free from rent further off mine being but about half a Mile from the town where I may Easily go three times pr. Day and Do other Bussiness.[sic] Copy of a Letter from Mr. Bolzius and Mr. Grenau to Mr. Newman Dated Ebenezer 6th February 1734/5. Sir Being assured that you have kindly receiv'd that Letter which we took the Liberty to Tc/rite to you the 10th December last we make more bold once again to trouble you in the midst of your weighty affairs by these humble Lines. Whereas you gave us in your last very oblidging [sic] Letter dated the 29th Octr. Sufficient marks of the Continuance of your and other great Benefactors favour [sic] towards Us and have Sent in the name of the Society Money two travelling [sic] Beds and other Necessary things for our Belief we should be the most ungratefull [sic] persons of the world if we did use these Benefits without Praiseing [sic] Almighty God and the praise worthy generosity of our great Favourers [sic] Tis our firm Resolution which is renewed now by these new Testimonies of Divine Blessings to employ all our care in beseeching God continually to rewrard them thousand times for all Benefits Bestowed hitherto upon us end our Flock and to grant in his grace to be answerable to their desires end extordinary [sic] Intentions We take the pleasure to acquaint You that the Saltzburghers [sic] under the Conduct of Mr. Vat have finished their Sea Voyage so happy and in so short a time that every One wonders at it Tis impossible to Express in words all manner of joy and Pleasures we have had in receiving them in Our Place Ebenezer We appointed them quickly Several Houses and Hutts builded already here, as well as possible we could. And they may live in these Houses and Huts of their Countrymen till they have prepared some acres to plant corn and other things next Spring. They told us with pleasure of mind that by the Particular Care of their Benefactors they have received at London as well as in the ship a great many kind nesses and Benefits and Confess themselves not only high Oblidged [sic] to them for the said and many more benefits promised for time to come but they are also firmly Resolved to make it their Easiness by the assistance of Holy Ghost to perform to the utmost of their power all that Shall become true Cristiens [sic] to answer the Expectations of the Trustees and Society Some of this good people ere affected with some infirmities which as we hope and wish in our Prayers will go off in short time One man died at Purrysbourg [sic] before he could be brought up to our Place of abode the Child that was Christened at Grayesend [sic] died likewise a few Days after their arrival. For the young Man that was Sent to our Service by the Providential Care and goodness of the Society we return our humble thanks assuring his Souls and body's welfare shall be our Special Business to make him through Gods Blessing Capable of being Servicable [sic] both to God and Men. We accept with, thankfullness [sic] the Salaries the Society are pleased to allow us for the Support of our Bodies more our relying upon the blessings of God who Can and as we hope will by fatherly Affection and Care Supply all our wants The bill of fifty pounds has been accepted by Mr. Montague & the Spanish Peices [sic] of Eight together with the half pence are come to our hands and we could wish that more half pence load been added in lieu of Silver. Copper money being extream [sic] usefull [sic] and Convenient in this Country For the English Books which the Society please to allow us by Mr. Quincy we return our humble thanks We know to take advantage of them and pray for many more I am in hopes you will not take it amiss in troublling [sic] You with an Account of the manner of the Saltzburgers [sic] Divine Worship. We are exceedingly glad to perform by Gods Direction Divine Offices among them Their love to the holy word of God is very great, and they shew by words and by Deeds that that was the Cheif [sic] & only reason of their leaving their Dative Country. They not only Come on Sunday three times to our assembles but their Zeal to edifying of their Souls is so ardent that at their desires we have appointed in the Evening about half an hour's time for Instructing them in Christian Duties and putting up with them to Almighty God our prayers in the Week Days after they come from their dally Labour and refreshments So that they may not loose the least time for preparing their ground And they Convince Us by their Sober Behaviour [sic] that they make very good use of the Gospel & they have heard And Endeavor to keep Strictly by assistance of the holy Ghost its precepts. They at all times Remember the great many Benefits they Constantly receive from their generous Benefactors in England particularly for having allow'd them Ministers preaching and administring [sic] to them the holy word of God and Holy Sacrements [sic] And being sensible of those great Blessings they lift up their hands and Hearts to God Almighty for the prosperity of their noble Benefactors. Their Children being now 12 in Number who Constantly come to School give us great hopes of following the foot Steps of their pious parents And in order that they may be very early instructed in the Principles of the Christian religion and other necessary Qualifications we both teach them every Bay over & above what they are taught by Mr. Orthmann who follows out directions Concerning them; wherein he employs at present his best Skill and we hope he will continue so hereafter. Some of the Children begin to be in years fit for assisting their Parents and upon that account we use our utmost Endeavour [sic] to promote their learning lest we weary you with our Scrible [sic] and for fear we Steal from you that him which you wholly imploy [sic] for the Care of the Pubiick [sic] we Conclude protesting that we beseech God to prosper the noble designs of the Society, and hope surely he will further mercifully grant a good Issue of all their Praise worthy Enterprises taken for promoting Christian knowledge. And so wishing you ell Happiness imaginable we take the leave and pleasure to Subscribe our Selves Kind Sir Your most humble Servants Mr. Vat presents to the Gentlemen of the Society his most humble Duty & Respect, not being as yet able to write to them himself by reason of his Infirmity upon his Eyes. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Martin Bolzius to Mr. Oglethorpe Dated Ebenezer February the 7th 1735. Most Honoured [sic] Sir Duty Oblidges [sic] me to render you my humble Submission and Respects by these lines I am not ignorant your mighty affairs give you very little leisure to read them over I did the same the 16 of July and 12 of December last which Letters I hope are come to your hands. Eleven people of our Small Company are dead wherefore I am exceeding glad together with the Saltzburghers that you was pleased after your Generosity to Send a new body of their persecuted Brethren under the Conduct of Mr. Vat which came safely on shore the 30th of December: What Goodness & benefits they have received by your order & the good Care of Mr. Dunbar, you will hear from Mr. Newman to whom I gave a Short account of it. I must return you thousand thanks for all your favours [sic] and concerns for my self & my Colleague as well as for our Flock beseeching you to believe we have such a sense of all your Favours[sic] that we want words to express it Sufficiently. What thanks & Prayers the people put up daily to almighty and Mercyfull [sic] God for you and other great Benefactors I need not to tell you since you ere ascertained of the Saltzburgers Godliness and tender Love to you Be pleasured to assure yourself the longer the more that they fear and love God very earnestly and endeavour [sic] as far as lies in their Power to till the Ground according to the Intent and will of their Benefactors Honour [sic] I cannot forbear to mention after my humble Duty that at present even So as formerly the English and other people as often as they come to our place talks very much from the Settlement of the Saltzburgers they call our Land pine barren where nothing else will grow but Indians pease [sic] and Potatoes Hence it is that the poor people are some times dissheartned [sic] by such talkings tho we do our utmost endeavour [sic] to encourage them by the holy word of God. Some acres about the river seeme [sic] to be good but there are few and some are covered newly with the high water of the River and Swamps. Notwithstanding they have worked hitherto in the Ground as much as possible they could for the great troubles they have till this time in fetching their provisions and other things from Savannah which by modest Computation is no less 44 English miles by water the people in some measure cleared the river Ebenezer in such manner that if the water is high they can come up with a Small boat to our town but if the water is low they can come no further then within four miles of the Town to the landing place. And the Currents of Savannah River from Abercorn Creek to the Mouth of Ebenezer River are so Strong that the people with a Smal [sic] boat carrying about one thousand pounds weight cannot perform the voyage down and up in less than 4 days time being oblidged [sic] to land at night in such places where they can have no accomodations [sic] for refreshing or resting themselves unless they make small Huts and lie in upon the ground which in Summer time weakens so much their bodys [sic] that they very frequently fall sick especially wanting proper Refreshments and in the winter and wet season they stiffer very much by the cold and rainy nights But the people is never out of patience It is a new testimonie [sic] of the tender Care of our Benefactors for our best that by their order Rolf and his Wife was oblidged [sic] to quit Ebenezer there is nobody in our Congregation that must not suffer several Importunities from them heretofore the order came Just at this time to Mr. Caustons Hands as the said Rolf was willing according to his open threatnings [sic]to kill treacherously two persons at Ebenezer of which Wickedness Mr. Causton was informed by my Letter to him. After the aforesaid good Order he is hindred [sic] to pursue his wicked Purpose. He was intented [sic] to go by Sea for Germany hut Since his Voyage was Stopped by my letter that I must send to Mr. Causton after my Duty & Mr. Causton's desire he Shew'd together with his Wife a great indignation against me with a scornfull [sic] meen.[sic] the Behaviour [sic] of the Saltzburgers towards God and men gives us a great Satisfaction wherefore I hope nobody should blame me for mine Eagerness to See many more Such people in our Congregation. My Dear Colleague Mr. Gronau Mr. Zwiffler and all Saltzburgers present you their most humble Respect and due Acknowledgment for all your Favours [sic] & Benefits; and so expecting your Commands to Do what may plesse you in all things I remain Most Honoured [sic] Sir Your most humble Servant Mr. Saml. Hill to Mr. Pine. Clarendon in Jamaica Jany. 10 1735 Mr. John Pine Sir/ I make no question but it may give you a small Surprize [sic] to see my name at the bottom of this Epistle, not having done my Self the pleasure of the same kind since arrival here, but if the length of this can be any Compensation for that Omission, then I shall stand fair for your forgiveness Having never any mention been made by my Sister of any Sickness, or Death, to have visited your family, I from thence have hope of your enjoying Still the same good health as when I left you, and if it would he any Satisfaction to you to know how it has fared with me since then in a Country so branded for Feavers, Belly-achs, [sic] and Mortality, I can (with Gratitude to our Common Preserver) acquaint you, that I have had as Continued a Share of health as I have been happy in at any time heretofore, except a little Giddiness in my head, from a fullness of Blood, by the lessening of which I have been relieved, but I keep to my accustomary [sic] Temperance, which is one of the best Preservatives in every Climate. Last year (having before taken notice of an Advertisement of Reasons for Settling Georgia) I wrote to my Sister to send them to me, for from my first hearing of that intention, I possess'd my Self with very favourable [sic] Impressions of the Undertaking from the temperature of its Latitude the fertility of its Soil, and the abundant plenty of food wch. the Woods and the waters cant fail to yeild, [sic] being never ransacked by a great number of Inhabitants, therefore perswaded [sic] my Self that it would very rationally answer the expectations of those who by their Industry are desirous of providing for their familys, [sic] or improving their fortunes, and might in few years become one of the most flourishing Colonys [sic] in our Western World, if the Settlers by their imprudence in defrauding, or ill treating the Neighbouring [sic] Indians (on one side) dont [sic] make them their Enemys [sic] (and which if they do they will never be safe till the others have an opportunity amply to take their Revenge.) as on the other side, if our Government dont fail to give them all necessary Support and Protection against the Spaniards at St. Augustine, and the Savage Indians inhabiting Florida, whom they may be very apt to Spirit up against a Colony which they cannot but look on with umbrage for this being our nearest Settlement to the Gulph, [sic] thro which all their wealth from their New World must pass, nothing to me seems more plain, than that by a Squadron of our Men of War to intercept and take every Said of their flota [sic] or Galeons, [sic] when they leave their Rendezvouz [sic] at the Havannah, [sic] without the fatal Circumstances that must unavoidably befall our blocking them up in their own Harbours; [sic] for here our Ships will lie in a Safe Port, without their Bottoms being eat out, our Sailors will retain their Healths and Vigour, [sic] by a plentifull [sic] Supply both of Fresh water and fresh Provisions, in a Salutary Clime, our light Vessell [sic] too (while Cruising about for intelligence of their approach) will prove a Security to that part of the Continent against Pirates or Privateers, by which means it will be allways [sic] in the Power of England to prescribe Laws to Spain, by keeping in all their hopes of money from thence, and without this they will never be able to carry any thing on to our prejudice, if this then be the case (and to me it seems as undeniable as that twice 2 makes 4) I shall not be Surprised to hear that the Spaniards by all Attempts either of Power or Subtlety, leaves nothing untried to give us all possible molestation to make us uneasy in it, if he may not have Strength to root us out, when it appears so much his interest to Compass it, as it will be ours to be maintained at all points in our Possession of it. And altho for prudential Reasons it might not be Judged necessary to publish this as one motive yt. [sic] might promote its Settlement, yet I cannot imagine that our Gentlemen at the Helm could possibly overlook an Advantage of so prodigious a nature, for if Gibraltar proves so uneasy a Thorn in the Spaniards Sides in Europe, This Georgia may be a Spear thro the very heart of him in America, on this acct. I read the other day in one of yr. News Papers that was transmitted hither, that Sr. Charles Wager had presented the Plan of a Fortification for it, and that her Majesty had approved on't. This with great pleasure I perused, as likewise that the produce hitherto so well answers to Expectation, and the people go on so Successfully -- One more advantage comes in mind as I am writing this, of our lying in wait for the Galeons [sic] as aforesaid, is, that the Northern Colonys [sic] would Supply the Fleet with Masts and Naval Stores, and any number of Seamen (should they be wanted) for so good an occasion, or Land men with small Arms for boarding, nothing giving greater Joy to them than the Gutting of a Galeon, and revenging the many injuries received by them. But to come a little nearer to my first purpose, I am to acquaint you that for Some time I have had an Inclination of Changing this Torrid Clime for one more temperate, on the Northern Continent, and this Colony in particular having inclined me to move thither could I have a Considerable inducement thereto, I would readily Set about it, and the advantage of the first Inhabitants of a Country who risque [sic] their lives and health against Intestine Foes; or Sickness of the Country, (and all new Countrys are more or less so, till the land is cleared of its Woody Incumbrances [sic] and the Air finds a free and uninterrupted passage) among other Encouragements should have their Choice of Land, as for the Commodious Situation for their Dwelling, so in its fertility in Manuring. Should I form a Satisfactory Encouragement determine to go thither I would carry a few hundred pounds along with me in Rum, Sugar, Molasses, or whatever else might he vendible there, and when Settled, I propose to trafick [sic] with my fellow Georgians for their Boards, Shingles, Stayes, Ox-bows, Truss-hoops, Flower, Biskett, [sic] Wine &c, to Ship to Jamaica; likewise I would provide them from London with tools for their Work, Cloathing [sic] for themselves. Furniture for their Houses, or other necessarys [sic] which they may have occasion for, end in Exchange take the in Silk, Pot-ashes &c that may he proper for an European Markett; [sic] as also with our friendly Indians for their Furrs [sic] and Hides &c. Having thus far let you into my present Scheme, and recollecting that you by a frequenting that end of the Town where the Gentlemen who have the direction of the lower Orbs Inhabit, that there was a very good probability some of the Trustees for Georgia might be known to you in Person, or might by the means of others easily become so, and Negotiate the manner of my Settling there, on better terms than the Group of those who go thither, as I Shall put the Trustees to no Expence [sic] in fitting me out, or in the furniture for my house when arrived there, and yet these will cost me no very Small matter. If there are any Posts of Profit, or Credit unsupplyed, [sic] One of them might be of Service by my not only being looked on as of some Consequence among them, but also on a supposition that a better Dwelling house Lands, with more conveniences or Priviledges [sic] are anex'd to such, for keeping up a good Decorum among them; To such a Post I may have some Pretence [sic] from being a Man of worth, when brought into a Comparison with most of the present Inhabitants; If any Enquiry should be made with regard to my Person or Character, your Self or any other of my Friends I depend will not be wanting in giving me a true one, and that I am in no doubt of its being Satisfactory; by gaining an acquaintance with one of the Trustees Clerks, or other Officer in that Direction, you may possibly Come at a more Effectual or Expeditious method of dispatch, and by Chatting together over a Glass of Wine you may be let also into the Knowledge of Some things that may he of use for me to be acquainted with, any Small expence [sic] of this kind, or little fear I would readily Reimbuse [sic] you in, and will write to my Sister accordingly. I am not unapprized [sic] that it may prove a very Forlorn uncomfortable life for want of suitable Conversation, which I have always been accostomed [sic] to, but that I must endeavour [sic] to supply with Books. As to the Article of servants I should be glad to have some information (Negroes being with right Judgment prohibited) for I am both too Old for much Bodily Labour, and too unskilled in the making a Bed or boiling the Pot. I suppose in this Case of mine, the Trustees will give some Instrument in writing directed to the Governing Power for a ready admittance, and Recital likewise to what Possessions and Priviledges, [sic] otherwise no man would care to leave his present Settlement, for one that is uncertain, or that can give him any delays. Therefore shall expect somewhat of that kind to be sent me, or without such kind of assurance shall Continue as I am. I imagine it needless to trouble you with any thing farther on this Subject, my Conclusive Request will be, to intreat you will be so good as to do this Friendly Office for me, and to give it all the dispatch that your own Affairs (and the nature of This) will admitt [sic] of, because, if it were possible I might set out before the Wintery, or windy weather should come on, wch. we look for in August, and to that end shall bring my Concerns here into as Close a Compass as may be, that they mayn't be a Cause of delay herein. Its no matter whether you let my Sister know whats on foot, till we see whats like to be the Issue. I should be glad of an Occasion to requite the favour [sic] I now ask; if any there either is, or may be, pray lay your Commands on Sir Yr. very humble Servt. Saml. Hill Pray my due respects to all friends If my good Old Friend Mr. Phil. Overton has (or can make) an acquaintance with any of the Gentlemen concerned, I perswade [sic] my Self of his readiness to do me a Service, therefore may please to consult him in it, if necessary. Pray let me hear from you as soon as possible if but a line or two, for much may be said in a few words; The Cover of your letter Directed To the Honble. Heny, Dawkins Esqr. in Clarendon (Jamaica) and the enclosed For Saml. Hill. If there is any Plans lately taken of this particular Colony, /& the Country contiguous only (for I have already 2 or 3 maps of Hew America in General) with relation to the Situation of the Towns as intended, the Roads laid out, The Rivers Mouth, with its forts &c, for its defence [sic] or any thing of this kind to give me a farther insight as the number of people already gone, and if healthy. Pray fold them up as a Packett [sic] and dispatch them by the first Ship directed as aforesaid. I am not without thoughts of Planting a Vineyard, if our Young friendly Indians (or other Servts.) are to he hired, and I find the Soil and Climate indulgent to the Grape, both for Wine, and the Raison [sic] kind. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Martyn dated at South Carolina February the 8th 1734/5. Sir I referr [sic] you to the forgoing as Copy of my Last Since which Several other Seasons have Occurred to me which I shall communicate to you to move the Parliament to grant a Bounty on Lumber from Georgia I would have the Trustees or such of them as are Members of Parliament offer to the House that in Case they'l [sic] grant a premium on Lumber That they would make a Law. That the Men and Women in Georgia their Outward Apparell [sic] Should be all of the British Wollen [sic] Manufactory and No Silk's Chince [sic] or Callico [sic] Should be there worne [sic] by Either Six [sic] And if the Parliament dont [sic] agree hereto do beleive [sic] Such a Law to be necessary and that neither Silver or Gold Should be worn or Tea Drunk for I do assure you they are Somewhat Profuse in these Punctilios. I am Confirmed by divers hands that Wassam is a Noble Port capable of receiving any Man of Warr [sic] that Usualy [sic] come into any part of America and with the greatest Security, And in Case of Warr [sic] with Spain an Extraordinary place for Our Men of Warr [sic] to Hide in Order to intercept the Spanish plate Fleet and for that Reason will be vast Consequence to the British Nation. Its very probable the Province of Georgia may in Time be of vast Consequence to the British Nation nobody can as yet tell what Riches there may be in the Bowells [sic] of the Earth within that Colony, what Silver what Gold and other Metals what Diamonds and other precious Stones may be therein I expect down from the Cherrekee [sic] Mountains some samples of Mettalls [sic] in June next which I have promised Mr. Oglethorpe to send him home. I was informed some years since by a Creditable person that the Richest Mines of Gold in New Mexico, lay in the Latde. of 36 and 37 right opposite to California, but that the Indians that possessed that Country were always at Warr [sic] with the Spaniards, so that they gott [sic] but little of it. Now the Cherokee Mountains being in the same Latitude, It's probable they may contain the same ore. The Province of Georgia lies very Convenient for a Trade to the Havanaah [sic] and St. Augustine, And in time it's Probable these may frome thence be carryed [sic] on a very profitable Trade, and that there may be Introduced Large Qtys. of the Wollen and other English Manufactories and the Silver in return thereof will all Center in Great Britain. I submitt [sic] what I have above offered to your better Judgment and am Sir Your most Obliged humble Servant P.S. Georgia, can never be a place of any Consequence unless the Trustees consent to alter the Conditions of their Grants, and make them agreable [sic] to his Majestys [sic] Grants to the People. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Vat to Mr. Newman Dated Ebenezer the 10 February 1734/5. Honourd [sic] Sr. I don't doubt but before this cometh to your hands you'll have heard of our safe arrival in Georgia and our Landing at Savannah Town, which was on Saturday the 28th December last. I Should before this time have given you an Account thereof, but having got a great Cold in my head and eyes ever Since we cast the Lead for Sounding at Sea, I could hardly read or write any thing, besides being oblidged sic] to attend the loading and unloading our Baggage and provisions for one quarter of a year; So that I must refer my Self for farther particulars to the Letters now to be written by the Revd. Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau to James Oglethorpe Esqr., to James Vernon Esqr., more particularly to the Reverend Mr. Feigenhaggen and to yourself; the Substance whereof they have made me acquainted with, as being of the same opinion with them relating to the Soil of this place, and the great difficulties the people lie under in bringing up their provisions from Savannah Town, and other matters concerning the present Settlement of the Saltzburgers. [sic] On the Eleventh of January we left Savannah Town and got on Board three Pettiawguas, [sic] the Smallest of them with the Sick being gone directly for the landing Place at 4 Miles distance from this Town over Purrysbourg [sic] and Ebenezer River; we came with the two Larger Pettiauguas [sic] the 12th to Abercorn, and the 13th of the same Month by Land being 12 or l4 miles to this town of Ebenezer; at the Sight thereof We were Confirmd [sic] of what every body (excepting Mr. Causton and Mr. Jones the Land Surveyor) had told us of the barrenness of this part of this province, being Chiefly Pine Barren a Sandy white Ground not above one fifth or at most one tenth part of tolerable Mould Cane-land or Swamps, which Swamps Seeming to be good are coverd [sic] with a black Mould about one or two Inches deep, but under It appears a white Sand like Salt; so that every one that cometh hither Saith, The People will never be able to get a livelihood in this Place, be they never So Industrious & Laborious. For upon a rainy day the black mould being washed off, nothing but white sand is Seen in large places like paths in a Walk; So that the poor Saltzburgers [sic] were exceedingly Struck down and dishearten'd, and beg'd that according to the permission given them by Mr. Causton for looking out for Some good Ground and for working it Jointly till he and Mr. Jones Should come to Sett [sic] out their Lotts they might Seek out some such Spott [sic] At their return they reported to have seen some good Spots of Ground near the Mouth of Ebenezer River and Savannah River Upon this Mr. Bolzius and my Self went by water the 24th of January to the Red Bluff, and the Indian Hutt [sic] this last being about 9 Miles distant by Land from this town or in a Strait line 6 miles and metting [sic] in our passage hither in Ebenezer River the Small Pettiaugua [sic] loaden[sic] with part of our Baggage and provisions from Abercorn I order'd it to go down and to unload its cargoe [sic] on the Indian Hutt and coming thither we found that there was on the north side of that Indian Hut up to the Red Bluff and along the South Side of Ebenezer River about two miles High land on the declivity whereof large Oak trees and others as also large Tines of 3 4 Inches diameter but at the tope of the High land were pine barren and Judged that were the lotts [sic] there so order'd that one Chain were given on the River Side and three upwards the people would have one Moitie [sic] good land and the other Moitie [sic] pine barren with which the people would be exceedingly well pleased the next day we went to Abercorn and meeting there by Chance Mr. Christie the Recorder we acquainted him with our Expedition And he carried me in his boat the 26th to Savannah Town in order to See the power given by the Trustees for Georgia to Mr. Gordon Mr. Causton Mr. Parker and Mr. Christie jointly for Setting out 2500 Acres of Land for our Ssltsburgers [sic] those Writings giving them power to Sett [sic] out Such lands were and in what manner they should think fit Mr, Christie proposed my presenting a Petition to the said four Gentlemen but Mr. Causton and Mr. Parker were of opinion (Mr. Gordon being absent) Mr. Causton and Mr. Jones should go with me to view the lands at Ebenezer and then Indian Hut and should make their report thereof to the other Gentlemen, Accordingly Mr. Jones and Mr. Causton came with me the 29th Abercorn and the 30 to Ebenezer Town after dinner vie design'd to go by Land to the Indian Hut, but missing our way thither we came again to abercorn [sic] the 31st. Mr. Causton designing to return to Savannah Town I desired him to give me his directions for my acting with the people Since he did not intend to go to the Indian Hutt [sic] for want of a knowing guide He told me the people Should Pitch upon some spot of ground near Ebenezer town and Clear it and work it Jointly till such time as the pleasure of the Trustees Should be known for which purpose he would write to them, then I proposed to him the permitting the New Settlers under my Care to build a Hut on the Indian Hut Land for working there Jointly, but he roundly refused complying with my request. I return'd that day to Ebenezer Town and some days afterwards I heard Mr. Causton and Mr. Jones had been the 1st Instant in the Indian Hut and were gone thence the 2d in the morning early the 3d I went by Land to the Indian Hutt and orderd [sic] such Baggage &ca as was deposited there to be brought up to the Landing place with the Small Pettiaugua,[sic] and the Small Boat the former of which was some time five days in going from Abercorn to the Landing Place which might have been avoided if we had proper Carriages and Horses to be Convey'd by Land about 12 or l4 miles, and this transport Could not be compleated [sic] before the fifth though we have not as yet had all our Provisions for one quarter of the Store house in Savannah Town. And the people are oblidged [sic] to bring their baggage and Small Tools and Casks upon their backs from the Landing place and the heavy Casks in the Small Boat by water which v/ill require 8 or 10 days more provided Water in the Kiver Ebenezer doth no fall. The Inhabitants of this Province generally Compute the distance 20 Miles fron Savannah Town to Abercorn Creek thence 6 Miles to Purrysbourg;[sic] 10 Miles to the Indian Hut 4 Miles to the Fed Bluff or Mouth of Ebenezer River; 7 miles to the lauding place and thence 12 Miles to Ebenezer Town In all 59 miles by water The town of Abercorn lieth [sic] 2 miles from the River Savannah, indeed our Saltsburgers [sic] with a Small boat go down from the Landing place to Savannah Town in one day but cannot Come up in less than three days And that Boat Cannot Carry above one thousand pounds weight and 4 men neither can it Come hither from the landing in Summer or at low waters by reason of some trees Bushes and Sands in the River by which the people must lose a great deal of time and Labour however were the Soil of this place tolerable good these difficulties might be over-looked but as it is the opinion of every Body even Some of the best planters in this Country and the province adjoining It's humbly hop'd the Trustees for Georgia will take the low dejected Condition of these poor people into their Consideration and grant them the favour [sic] of Removing hence to the Indian Hut or the Red Bluff or to Some other place higher on Savannah River more likely of being thereby enabled to get a livelihood. For should they be oblidged [sic] to remain here in this place according to the promises made to them in Germany the Society or the trustees for Georgia will find them selves under necessity of Subsisting of them with provisions as long as any of them Shall be living and it's to be fear'd many of them will die for grief no less than eleven having died of the first transport since they came into this province and two of the last Transport Vizt. Sebastian Glantz the 13th January at Purysbourg [sic] and the Child born on board the prince of Wales whilst the Ship was in The Thames died here 23d of January last and Some of the first and last transport are now Sick hut we are in hopes by Mr. Zwifler's Care some will do well again as some others are recover'd of there [sic] Illness and here I cannot but Observe that indeed 6 pounds of Salt Beef per week for a man and 5 pounds for a Woman and as much for two Children above 2 and under 12 years of age is sufficient yet 2 lb. of Rice 2 lb. of flower and 2 lb. of Corn or pease [sic] pr. Week pr. head is not sufficient as not being thereby enabled to bake bread which is the main Support of Health and Life neither Is the allowance of 4 lb. of Cheese and 2 lb. of Butter pr. Quartr. pr. Head Sufficient if they actually had Garden Rotts [Lotts?]or Eatables. It's our humble opinion that should the Trustees for Georgia think fit to Settle the people of the new and last Transport on the land near the Indian Hut the town to be built there might go by the name of Ebenezer and would not discourage other Saltzburghers in Germany to come there and Settle but as long as these remain here none are like to be invited either by the first or last transport. On the 6th of this month the Revd. Mr. Bolzius proposed by a fine Speech to the people of the last transport to work jointly on a peice [sic] of land to be pitch'd upon near this town though attended with many difficulties some of Such as were present Seemd [sic] to Come heartly [sic] into it and such as are gone to Savannah for Some provisions are to be Consulted at their return and then we Shall pitch upon some place for that purpose. My next Shall give you an account thereof and of Such other Ocurrences [sic] as may happen. I am with great Submission Honorerd [sic] Sr. Your most Obedient and most humble Servt. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Elisha Dobree to the Trustees Dated Savannah February the 10th 1734/5 My Lords and Gentlemen Vines being the Quickest Growth & Produce of any Trees that can be planted in this Province and the Produce of them being very Considerable I beg leave in the Name of the Freeholders as well as my Self to desire that a Sufficient Quantity of Slipps [sic] &c of Vines may be delivered us against the next Season had I enough ready I would plant now at least Ten Acres. Mr. Amatis told me the other day that the Vines he had in Charles Town had not proved Successful! So I find but Little good can be Expecting from them, I have planted Some few wild Vines at all Hazard. The Quickest way to make this Province flourish is no doubt to rise a produce and Such as will amount to Large Sums fit to be Exported. Vines when once produced will be a Settled Income to be depended on for our Selves and Posterity The Land here is fit for it and the Summer full hot to Ripen the Fruit. We are fully persuaded you neither Expect nor desire any Amends for what you do for us And we hope That as you have began a good work you will go throuh the Same And Compleat [sic] a glorious Undertaking To Make People Happy who before were Misserable [sic] & might have Continued so Had not Your Honourable Board Stretch'd out your hands to pull us out of the Water when we were Sinking. I am most Respectfully Lords and Gentlemen Your Host Obedient & Devoted Servant. Although we are a poor Colony we have had of Late great many Marriages and Balls till 2 or 3 the morning an Excess which in my humble Oppinion [sic] deserves no Encouragement or Countenance from men in Power. I continue to plant Cotton which we call Annual Cotton from the Carolina Seed was I but Supply'd with proper Seeds and plants I doubt not but with the Blessing of God I would soon make a fine Garden I wish could get the Seeds of Sevill [sic] Oranges from Portugall,[sic] Lemmons and Olives I am afraid cannot without your Assistance. Ships often arrive at Charles Town from there. I have hired 41 Acres near this Town Vizt. 1 -- 5 Acres Lot Mr. Hughes deceased of Mr. Christie 1 -- 5 Ditto Mr. West of Ditto 4 Acres Mr. Jos. Stanley these two Lots (West and Stanley) makes a Square and Mr. Hughes is next to them The first Lot I have vastly Improved the other Two I am now Improving. having Leese [sic] for the three for seven years I most humbly beg the said Leases may he Alowed [sic] good by your Honble. Board and I wish it were for more than Seven Years. I Shall not desire as I know of any Such Favour [sic] for any more Lotts. The next improvments [sic] I make Shall he on a 45 Acres Lot. [There is no information concerning the correspondent for this next letter] February 13th Considering Seriously the Health, of this Colony and the many diseases that attends it Especially the Scurvy and Ill humour [sic] occassioned by the Extream [sic] heat in the Summer I am fully persuaded that Eating intirely [sic] Salt Provisions here is Certainly prodigiously hurtfull [sic] to our healths Especially at this time when we have no Greens or Roots to Eat with it As for Rice few Eat it but Servants or the poorest People. I am therefore pushing forward my design to Serve the whole Colony with Cabage [sic] &c. I have now about 100,000 Plants which with the Uttmost [sic] trouble and Industry I have at last Procured. Cotton I will greatly go upon, but for Vines I must beg your Assistance against next Season tis certain one of the best Presents you can make us and I flatter my self you will in this Article Quickly give orders to prepare the same for us in time for coming here. I have always in View the Welfare and Benefit of the Colony, this Induces me to be thus troublesome to your Honble. Board which I hope your Goodness will Excuse. I am always My Lords and Gentlemen Your most Obedient Devoted Servant Copy of a Letter from Tomo Chachi Nico of Yamacraw to the Trustees Dated Savannah February the 24 1734/5. Gentlemen By the Return of Capt. Dunbar I take this Opportunity to acquaint You that we Arrived safe at Savannah on the 28th of December last we have all had our health during the whole voyage Except Tooanahowi whom whom we fear'd would have dyed and tho he is now much better yet is Very weak and infirm we have received all our Goods and were very kindly Used by the Capt. which we shall Endeavour [sic] to return by our love as well to the Capt. as to all the white People who Now are or shall hereafter be known to Us. I Purpose to go with the Capt. to Tybee and there take my leave of him and Drink Your Honours [sic] healths. When I Came home I found Some of my people had Misbehaved & that Istichee had kill'd Musgroves Slave Justice I have talked with Mr. Causton about it and when the heads of the Nation Come down will determin [sic] what to do in the matter in the mean time I have advised that Mr. Watson should be Close kept. After this Determination I shall Acquaint Your Honours [sic] more Particularly of the Matter. The Savannah Indians are Now with me and they have now Chose [sic] Idaquo to be there [sic] King (during the minority of Pimique the late Kings Son) I desir'd Mr. Causton to Receive him as Such and he waited with the rest of his Nation and have delivered him some Skins which they desire Your Honours [sic] to accept as a token of there Gratitude and love, they are Sensible that your Honos. have Much better things but as they are few in Number hope the few Skins will be acceptable. Idaquo with all his people are Agreed to Joyn [sic] Me in building on Pipe makers blough [sic] and we Intend to live together. It will be a great Pleasure to me to write to your Honours [sic] on all Occasions with hopes that Your Honours [sic] will Always beleive [sic] me with great Truth to be Gentlemen Your very Humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Houstoun to Mr. Peter Gordon dated at Savannah 1st March 1734/5. Sir I recd. yours of the 15th ult, only a day or two ago, I am sorry You are going to Britain so soon; in my opinion You would have done your Business much better if you had Stayed some time longer in this Country when You had been Witness to more of the Management. Since You have resolved to go I wish You all happiness and prosperity. I do not expect to have the pleasure of seeing You in this Country again, I send You inclosed a note of such things as occur to me which I would have done sooner but I delayed till Mr. Millisham should return from Carolina to get his Assistance who is very capable and much Shagrined [sic] and upon very good Grounds. Millisham is not yet come up, there is an Affair happened within these few days worse than all Capt. Watson or some body else, I may say an Enemy to the Colony has said to Musgrove that in his Absence Mr. Causton had agreed with Mrs. Musgrove to give him the Indian Trade for wch. he was to give her L 1,000 Sterl. Some People say also Musgrove is jealous of his Wife with Mr. Causton however this be he has often been heard say that he would shoot Mr. Causton and kill his wife. Yesterday there was a Story in town that an Indian had painted himself and was heard say he would go to the Woods to lay in wait for Mr. Causton and would not return till he had shot him; I believe some Settlers in the Colony have been the Contrivers of this, so much are they disobliged at Mr. Causton they would run the risk of Sacrificeing [sic] all to be revenged of him. Musgrove is much disobliged for he said so to me. Mr. West and I are doing our Endeavours [sic] to pacify him which I pray God we may succeed in; This day they both dine with me please to let me know your Correspondent at Charles Town & your Direction at London and I will write to You from time to time. Capt. Dunbar is much in Mr. Causton's Interest and has endeavoured [sic] to make up Differences betwixt him and me end the rest of our Countrymen; we were altogether & seemingly did it which we thought absolutely necessary for Peace so let not Dunbar or any body here or at home know any thing of my Writing to You, for Dunbar asked me if I was to send You by him a Note of Complaints I told him I would send You none by him or any body else which he approved of; not thinking of your going over I promised to write by him to the Trustees to have my Lands run near Savannah Town and to give him a Power of Attorney to get me a Trustees Lot in Town I beg your Assistance with the Trustees in both these Affairs if I do not get a Lot near Town the Ground I desire is what Capt. Scott was to have which being vacant I think I shall not have Justice done me if I be refused it. I think the Trustees may give me the Lot in the Square where the publick [sic] Mill stands for a Lot for a publick [sic] House; in some more remote part of the Town will answer that purpose as well and not at all answer my purpose or business. And if I get it I shall build an House Upon it to beautify the Town as much as their House will do. If You would get Messrs. Jenys and Eveleigh to mention me in their Letters to the Trustees it would do me Service and perhaps your Designs no Prejudice. By my next I shall send You Copies of my Letters to the Trustees and Mr. Oglethorpe by Dunbar. I send You inclosed a Letter to my Lord Percival which I beg You will put under Cover and Seal and Direct it I not knowing his Direction being I hear created an Earl. If You do not wait for Capt. Dunbar's Ship please not to deliver it till his Arrival that the Trustees Letters may be delivered at the same time. I send You a Letter to Dr. Houstoun G who procured all your Countrymen Grants which please to Seal & deliver, he will do You and all his Countrymen Service if it be in his Power; I have wrote him no Complaints for he is very hot and would resent our Treatment in a different manner. If all our Treatment were known it would do the Colony Prejudice by hindering other People to come over which I do not incline yet to do till I see if the Trustees will grant me my Desires; if not I design and am fully determined to leave the Colony and settle at Port Royal. I am endeavouring [sic] to bring the Port Royal and Santilina [sic] People to buy their Goods here, if they can be brought to that it will be the best Support of any thing to the Colony; several of the Planters have promised and if I had the Store and Trustees Countenance Mr. Montaigut has I would not doubt of getting 3/4 if not more of all the Rice of these Islands shipped here next year, but he will never do it for being frequently at Purysburgh they cannot get Goods his Store being always shut in his Absence. I hear some People have wrote [sic] to the Trustees that I sell Rum. I own I sell it and till the Recorder and People in the Store sold it I sold none; but seeing them make a Trade of it I thought I had as good reason to make Bread as any body else for that is the Commodity brings the most ready Money of any. I am positive it will never be in the Trustees Power to hinder the Drinking of Rum, People being very sickly last yea.r when Mr, Oglethorpe was here and hindered the Drinking of it, and this year very healthy they all are convinced it is owing to the Rum and the discharging of it makes Rum to be sold at 30. which could be sold at 12. Gallon being most New England Rum sold here & mixed by the Pettiaugua men, and if no Settler in this Colony were to Sell it the Pettiaugua men would bring it from Charles Town and Sell it privately and I do not think it can be prevented for if it should be seen on board their Boats they pretend they are carrying it to Purysburgh and other parts of Carolina up the River. The Prohibition of Rum carrys [sic] more Money out of the Colony and makes us depend more upon Carolina than any thing else for the Rum is not only bought in Carolina with ready money but the Molasses and Muscovado Sugar and all the rest of West Indian Goods; if we had a freedom of Trade we would have them directly our selves from the West Indies and a Market opened for our Staves Hoops and some Boards &c. These Restrictions will either make People go out of the Colony or be troublesome to the Trustees and their Agents, for if the Colony ever thrives People who can live independent of the Trustees Store must settle here and will not so easily submit to hardships and restricting Laws as those who have their Provisions given them. Those People who have had. them is as mutinous now as any, what Service lyes [sic] in my power to do You I assure You none shall be more willing or ready. I shall do my Endeavours [sic] if possible to lett [sic] your House but I am afraid I shall not get a Tenant for it till more People arrive for I believe there is near twenty houses in Town empty and soon will be more. I think if You had ordered the House to be partitioned and a Floor above and a little Kitchen built it would have answered the Expence [sic] for the House is well situated for any Business, and having a Chimney if any House letts [sic] it must, if it had those Conveniences. I wish You would let me know how many Cattle You have and what Brand You would have put upon them. I have not yet learn'd the first Appraisement of Dobree and Harris's Effects but is possible shall this week Harris being now returned to Town. Col. Prioles having wrote about his Negroe, [sic] he was sent down last Week. Your Resolution of going to Britain I observe gives some Uneasiness here; so soon as I got your letter I made your Resolutions known on purpose to give People opportunity to write to You which I believe several will do this week. It will be a great Encouragement to the Colony if the Trustees give power to grant Licences [sic] here for Traders to the Indians; if they send over any Goods for to furnish the Traders with I shou'd wish to be Storekeeper for I incline to turn my self entirely in Merchant Business. I am sure I shall quite weary You in reading this long Letter, therefore I must conclude in offering my humble Duty to Mrs. Gordon and wishing You and her every thing You wish or desire and a good and prosperous Voyage. I do design (if the Trustees don't do me Justice in granting my Desires) to go to England next Harvent [sic] & prevent any more of my friends or Countrymen being deceived as I have been. When You arrive in England I shall expect to hear frequently from You with all your News and how Affairs go at the Trustees Office, and what Turn Affairs take there and any Projects that is set on foot for the Colony; I am of opinion we shall never he happy till a Trustee comes over to put us once more to Rights. If You would do me the favour [sic] in case You meet with an honest clever young Man who writes a good Hand Master of Figures and Bookkeeping and knows something of Merchants Business to engage him for some years for me and give him what Wages You think proper I will perform youe Agreement and be singularly obliged to You to send him over to me. I do not doubt abundance such are out of Business about London and would be glad of this occasion. I am Dear Sir Your most humble and Obedient Servant I wrote to Mr. Robert Pringle to pay You some money please to take Payment of the Rent for your House and for my razors which I received but the Fellow has not done me Justice in grinding them. Since Writing the above this Afternoon there has been a Design discovered of the Irish Transport Servants. The Story is a Scotch Girl deposes that one Cox a Taylor came to her and desired her to tell Dr. Sims's Daughter that Mr. Vanderplank's Man who was in Prison for some Say's bygone to tell Sims's Daughter who was his Mistress that this night he was to be at Liberty; the Girl ask'd how, he said he and 40 or 50 more was in concert to born the Town this night, kill all the white Men, save the Women, and Musgrove with several Indians were to Join them; upon which the Town was alarmed, several of us sat up all night, nothing appeared but I do not at all doubt but there was something designed. Cox told all in the Plot wore a red Ribbon about their Arm which he and several others taken up had upon their Arm when taken; The whole Affair is not yet discovered but I hope will. I do believe we shall never he safe while these Villains are amongst us. Musgrove and all his family and the whole Indians were up at Pipemaker Bluff yesterday; This day Mrs. Musgrove and Tomo Chechi came to town who deny any such design, however we shall know more to morrow Musgrove Being to appear himself to morrow to answer to the Charge. James Kuir came to me this day & asked if I was to let your House, he said he could not give the Key without your Orders in writing for he had your Orders to the contrary. Ross has laid the Floor and wants he says some more Boards to compleat [sic] it. I was obliged this day to hire a Man for your Guard which I fancy You will approve of. I find this Difference amongst us is like to be of had Consequence to the Colony by encouraging these Transport Villains to Mutiny, so it is absolutely necessary we join ail together and dissemble our Displeasure till the Trustees redress us; so I pray You say nothing of my Writing to You to any body. Adieu. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker junr. to Mr. Gordon dated at Savannah 2d March 1734/5. Sir I am credibly informed that You are about embarking for Englgnd; I must confess You take the most prudent way. Letters may be intercepted, but where a Persons self is the Messenger that Undertaking is the most likely to Succeed. I am sure our present Bayliff [sic] Causton takes the surest Methods for the Destruction of this Infant Colonywhich is now almost ineviteble unless some speedy Way he found out to relieve us. I have been these three months interceeding [sic] with Mr. Christie to take my wife's Administration but could not get it done before yesterday and what Papers I have got from him I doubt will be of no Use from the many Blunders with which they abound, which should ought be undertaken towards recovering of the Suit I am fearfull [sic] it may be to my Disadvantage, I am not the only Person in this Colony that have [sic] Demands upon Mr. Causton nor yet the only one whose Credit he has blasted and whose Ruin he has most industriously sought, I believe I once before told You that he accepted a Note of mine for 43. and afterwards gave it out of his hands with an Execution when he had about L 30 in his hands. Poor Mugrage was sent Prisoner to the Log House yesterday for demanding what was due to him from the Store House. On the Backside this You will find my Complaints of Damages Sustain'd wch, I have twice laid before the Trust who I hope will consider my Sufferings and make me a suitable Redress, 14 Days before You left us I went up to my Fathers Mill and began to clear Land and built a large convenient Hutt for the Reception of my Wife and Family; but Mr. Causton Jones and Capt. Dunbar coming up to see the Mill, the two former told me that if I offered to settle there they would chop or burn down my Hutt and oppose me to the utmost; they being so positive against all I could alledge [sic] I again removed my Servants and Household Goods for Savannah, I think it is very hard seeing I have been here these 12 months and been 6 months in possession of the Honble, Trustees Grant to Mr. Wm. Sale. for 500 Acres, and though I have offered Mr. Jones 5 Guineas above the Common Rate to run out my Land I can't get it done; So I thought I might settle any where, where the Land was not run out as my Father had some months ago written to the Trust that I had already taken my Land there upon Account of his Mill. I hope Sir You will do me what Service You can with the Honble. Trustees in faithfully representing to them the Hardships I labour under. Mr. Woodward of Fort Royal has offered to send me up L 50. upon Bills on You which should He deceive me I shall be utterly ruined unless something what most unexpected happens. Therefore I desire Sir You would give me Leave to Draw on You or procure me the same from any Merchant in Charles Town and I will send down my Bills on my Brother Mr. Webb Druggist in Cheapside which I am sure will meet with an Honourable [sic] Discharge. I heartily wish You and Mrs. Gordon a good Voyage, a safe and speedy Return; but before You leave America beg an Answer to this Epistle, So beg Leave to Subscribe my self Your most humble Servt. The underwritten Goods are what Mr. Causton took into the Store after Mr. Sales Death upon an Agreemt. of allowing 25 p. Ct. on the Prime Cost and this on the Honble. Trustees Credit, which now they have lain in the Store these 6 months He would turn into my Hands again to my entire Loss which I can very ill afford. Lost By a Plow with the Iron Work of Two --------------L 9:-:- One pair of Chain Harness ------------------------------ 3:-:- Tapestry agreed for at 4 Guineas; He refuses to pay me but Two ----------------------------- 2:2:- Being forced to let out my Men at 18d p Day p man By the Negligence of Mr. Jones am thereby a Loser Six Shillings p Day for Six months ----------------------------------- 43:4:- p a Years Provision which I was hinder'd raising by being turn'd off my Land by Mr. Causton and Jones when I was in a fair way for raising it -------------------------------- 54:0:- A Horse Bought for the Indian Nation drowned crossing Savannah River ------------------------ 7:2:10 A Deduction of 3 months from my Pay as Lieutenant of Capt. Mackay's Compa. ------------------ 6:-:- This is what I most earnestly desire You would endeavour to serve me in with the Trust From Your humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Quincy to Mr. Gordon dated at Savannah 3d March 1734/5. Dear Sir I should have wrote to You much sooner but that I had some Thoughts of coming down to Charles Town as I intimated in my last. I have now laid that Design aside for some weighty Reasons nor indeed am I at present able to undergo the Fatigue of the Passage Being lately Siezed [sic]with a violent Disorder in my Face occasioned by the Tooth Ach. [sic] I hear by Mr. Houstoun that You intend very Speedily for England and am in some fear least You should he gone before this gets to Charles Town. I entirely agree with You that it is highly necessary to set the Proceedings of our present Ruler in their true Light, but I am really afraid that Matters are run to so high a Pitch that it is now too late to prevent the Ruin of the Colony. We had on Sunday last an Affair that threw us into great Confusion, Vanderplank and some other of the Officers were called out of Church and made acquainted that there were 40 or 50 white Persons and as many Indians with Musgrove at the Head of them that were entered into a Design to burn the Town and destroy the People, at least some of them. The Alarum [sic] Bell was rung. Search was made for the Conspirators and some of them were found who wore a Mark to distinguish themselves vizt. a Red string about the right Wrist; They were chiefly Irish Transports, none of the Freeholders were concerned. There are several, of them indeed discontented enough but I hope none that would enter into such wicked Measures as to bring a general Destruction upon the whole Colony; many of them I believe You are sensible are Persons of worth and it would be well worth the while to endeavour [sic] to make them easy; but this is far from being the Care of our imperious Magistrate who does things rather to encrease [sic] & provoke than soften and appease the discontented. As for Musgrove he is for some Cause or another very much enraged with Causton, some say he is jealous of him with his Wife, others that he is afraid Causton should get the Indian Trade from him, and some that during Musgrove's Absence His Wife has made with L 1,600 Curcy. the chief of which was in Silver and Gold and that he suspects that Causton has got her Money. Whatever be the Cause I know not but it is like to fall very heavy upon Watson who is accused of the whole Crime of provoking Musgrove by telling false Stories of Causton to him. He is threatned [sic] to be sent home in Irons to the Trustees which indeed I could almost wish, I mean that he should be sent home for there would be then hopes that no Injustice would be done him. I am very certain that he is maliciously accused in this last Affair for he is not by any means the chief Tormentor of Musgrove; Mr. Parker and some other Persons of Probity being present while Musgrove was with him and heard every Word between them, However here is fresh matter against Watson, Cotes, Watkins and some others who are to be tryed [sic] as Conspirators against the Colony & indeed Mr. Parker Himself is deemed one of the Conspirators, but it seems his Youth and Inexperience are to excuse him from Punishment. The other Persons vizt. Cotes and Watkins are to be excused for some Reasons or another and the whole is to be laid upon Watson. It is suprising that a Man should have so much implacable malice, that no methods are left untried to compass his Destruction. For my part if nothing else could be alledged [sic] against Causton but his inhuman Treatment of that unhappy Man it gives me such a Horror and Detestation of his Actions that I could never more brook him. My Letters p Yoakley to Mr. Copping sufficiently relate the whole Affair and I hope will come safe to hand and then little more need be said. But least they should miscarry I have sent You Copys [sic] of the most material of them and beg You to take Care of them because I have not transcribed them. I am so much indisposed that I cannot say any more, on which Accot, I hope You will excuse my bad Writing. I shall he glad to hear from You before You depart, and am Dear Sir Your most affectionate humble Servant My humble Service to Mrs. Gordon, and lest I should not have an Opportunity to write again I heartily wish You Sir and your good Lady a prosperous Voyage and all Happiness. The Things You left at my House I will he accomptable [sic] for to any one You shall appoint. When you come to England if You will he so good as to visit Mr. Copping You will know whether my Letters p Yoakley ever came to hand. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated Savannah March the 10th 1734/5. May it Please Your Honours [sic] In my last of January the 16th I proposed to Complete many other Occurrences by Captain Dunbar and particularly Omitted (for want of time) on Accot. of what had passed on Mr. Sale's Death; But there being an Accident, Intervened; I thought it necessary (withot. Delay) to lay before Your Honours [sic]following Account of the State of that Family as also of an Intended Contrivance to Destroy this Colony. Upon the Death of Mr. Sale his Widow resolved to go to England & dissposed [sic] of his Effects; Mr. West bought some Furniture & the 4 Servants; She employed him to Sell the Grant of Land to Mr. Houstoun one of the Scots Gentlemen. Collonel [sic] Bull being then here, Mr. Houstoun advised with him and me about it. I lookt [sic] on the Grant, and told them That tho the Trustees had Covenanted to grant to the Widow, in that Manner, she could mak [sic] no Conveyance without their lycence [sic] and as Mr. Houstoun had already a Grant of Lands It would be for the Interest of both partys [sic]to join in a proper Application to them; Both Mr. West and Houstoun agreed to this; And also upon Condition of Yor. Honours Approbation for 12.L Sterling as purchase Money. But this agreement was soon set aside; for it seems, Mrs. Sale did not intend to part with her Grant; and her Orders to Mr. West was only in Relation to the Town Lot This Misunderstanding brought her to me. She Complained of being in Danger of loosing her Grant; that she was afraid West was not able to pay her for the 4 Servants, And that she had good Assurances of making 100 L Sterling of her Grant in England. I talkt [sic] to West on this Matter, and told him, that I supposed he had bought those Servants only with Intent to Serve Mrs. Sale because In my Judgement, they could not be much serviceable to him. That as she had hopes of making a good Advantage of her Grant in England, by offering it to The Trustees; It would be much to her Disadvantage to part with them, because. In them, lay the most immediate Value of the Grant, And it would. be a great Service to her, if he would give up that Bargian. Especially considering that the Servants (tho of an Orderly Disposition) were much against being sold. To this he very readily and thankfully agreed, And I promised Mrs. Sale, That if she went for England, I would take Care of them for her. and employ them in the Trustees Services and wait Such Orders as she should make; She also Complained, that her husband had laid out a great deal of money in working Tools and Goods which they could not Sell; and laid Claim, (That as Mr. Oglethorpe had promised the Store Should take in the Negro Cloth). The Tools might be taken also; In which Case I considered, That as she was going to England & leave this place. It would not be Disagreeable to Your Honours, [sic] If I endeavoured [sic] to make every thing as agreeable to her as I could. And therefore, took all she said left into the Store, and paid her for them. As your Honours [sic] will more particularly see by the Accot, Inclosed. She soon after Changed her mind with respect to her going to England, and Married Robert Parker junior who upon that Marriage gave up his Commission and preferred Idleness and luxury above the Service of his Country. I proposed to him. That as his Servants would now become Serviceable to him, and that his Ploughs and Cart Geer [sic] and other things (which Yor. Honours [sic] will observe to be deducted out of the Account, whereof, we have great plenty in the Store already, without any immediate prospect of being used;) would be usefull [sic] to him in a proper time; Or at least he might dispose of them to a much better advantage He thanked me for this advise, [sic] and Offered his Harnesses and Ploughs to Mr, Houstoun, but they not agreeing he resolved to send them altogether to Charles Town. And I got them ready to deliver to the Boatman, but I insisted that as I had acted in all that affair on my own Opinion and more particularly being a ballance [sic] due in favour [sic] of the Store, that the Boatman should either return me the Goods again or pay the Ballance [sic] out of what he should sell the Goods for; But this made him very Angry and Spoke many unbecoming things. As my whole behaviour [sic] in this was in the first place to serve the Widow in the best Manner I could and after the Marriage to do what has been necessary from time to time by Supplying them with every thing, that with any Colour [sic] of Season they have askt; [sic] I was not a little Surprised, to have the enclosed come to my hands a Duplicate of which, (if Mr. Parker Says truth) is transmitted to Your Honours. But if on the other hand, he has only wrote it in an angry Mood, and upon after thought, has not realy [sic] sent it, I thought I could not take a better Oportunity,[sic] to lay before Your Honours, [sic] the Opinion of this young Spark with such Ansers [sic] to it, as I am ready to justifie [sic] by written and living Witnesses. Twas the Discovery of a Dangerous Design; That brought this to me I had received Information, That Watson and this Parker had sent for Musgrove and had perswaded [sic] him, to be jealous and bear an ill Mind to me. That he had repeated many Notorious and Villanious [sic] things which yor. Honours [sic] will see by Musgroves and Camon's Affidavitts. [sic] That several of the Transport Servants, had Stole and hid several Loaded Guns & Ammunition in the Woods & were found; That when I was gone to Skidoway [sic] on Sunday the 2d Instant, Vanderplank having received Information That a Design was laid for Destroying the Town; And that those who wore a Red string on their Wrist were concerned in it. And that Musgrove was to head some Indians to join the white; He Rung the alarm Bell and Apprehended One John Cox a Taylor from Carolina, Peircy [sic] Hill, and Edward Cruise, Vanderplank*s Transport Servant who had all of them Red strings on their Wrist as a Token of the Design agreeable to the Informations. As I was coming home Mr. Fitzwater coming to meet me, told me what had happened & I beleive, [sic] if they had not been so hasty in ringing the Alarm more discovery might have been made. Besides with Submission to Yor. Honours [sic] Commands when ever you shall please to declare in that matter. No Alarm is to be given to the people (in the Day time) without a warrant from the Magistrates then at hand, in the Town. When I had considered of the whole Conspiracy I was of the Opinion That very Probably some Villanious [sic] Fellows might be employed to do Mischief and when done, lay it on Musgrove and the Indians. On Monday March the 3d which Your Honours [sic] will observe is the date of Parker's Letter he came to me about an Administration to Mr. Sale and I took that Opportunity (Mr. Henry Parker being present) to Reprove him for joining with Watson in the Storeys told to Musgrove, That it was very Ungenerous, when I had done so many things in favour [sic] of him & Family and perhaps had exceeded my Orders; And further beleived [sic] it would be ill taken by your Honors [sic], because as Mr. Oglethorpe had favoured [sic] him with a Commission. They no Doubt expected; he should render them in a particular Manner, a Due observance of Such Regulations, they think fitt [sic] to make in the Province, and to shew a proper Respect to those they think fit to Entrust. He owned he had been with Watson on Such an Occasion, and that he thought Watson was very unjustly dealt by. On the Discovery of this Conspiracy It was agreed by all the Magistrates here that Warrants should be Issued to Search Watson, Parker, Coates, Watkins Peiba, and King Clark (These Six being daily in Consultation frequently guilty of Ill Language, and were Seldom Seperate [sic]) with endeavour [sic] to find out further Lights into the Design. But it Was too Late, for Qatson had not a paper of any sort about him, except one Letter wch. he said was to Mr. Gordon, (by which you will see the Encouragement he has lately taken and how ready he his to Embroil the Opinions of Ungarded people. And more particularly That he supposes himself to be tryed [sic] for his Life before he is Charged with any other Crime than Creating a jealousy in Musgrove. But that and what he had told Cannon was much alike; for Musgrove does not beleive [sic] him. At Parkers the two Letters was [sic] found, are mentioned in Jones's Affidavitt. [sic] At Watkins Coats, Peiba & King Clark nothing was found. Now as to that part of Mr. Parkers Letter which Setts forth his Damage so far as the same concerns me I beg leave to say, if it be Compared with the Account now Enclosed, and what is before mentioned. Tour Honnours [sic] will easily see he ha.s been no Sufferer on my Account. As to that part which Concerns the Surveyors I do assure you, tis groundless; That he has not made any use of his own Originall [sic] Town Lott which he well knows; Neither has he medled [sic] with Mr. Sale's five Acre Lott (tho begun in Sales lifetime) Neither has he been in any Settled mind concerning his Land by his Wife's Grant; Sometimes agreeing (to Orders) for the Land near Thunderbolt according to the Priority of Landing & Grants; At other times absolutely refusing all Lands accept at Skidoway, [sic] and since that resolved to have it where his Father has thought fit to Erect a Mill and no where else; Tis true, he did tell me One day That he had taken possession of Land which he liked and would keep it. And tho I did not much heed it, I thought it necessary to accompany Mr. Dunbar to See his Fathers Mill because of many reports that had been raised about it. We went as Visitors and Mr. Jones with us We saw the Mill and am Convins't that the Shortest way to make it answer a proper end, is to pull it down and new build it from the bottom in another manner, we saw it work, and it saw'd half a foot in half an hour. I have desired Mr. Jones to give your Honours [sic] his Opinion in the matter, as also the uses which that stream might be Capable of with respect to Mill's (in Case) your Honours [sic] should be inclinable to Indulge Mr. Parker or any one else in Such Schemes. This River is from the opening into Savannah near Abercorn Upwards of 30 Miles to another opening into Savannah within 3 Miles of the River leading to Ebenezer And is a much better & easier water Passage to Ebenezer then going up the Savannah where the Current is very Strong on the Side of the Main are many Bluffs of very good Land. When we were there, the Young Gentleman shewed us his Hut which he was building, I made no answer to that But Mr. Jones I beleive [sic] did tell him That if he thought he did not intend to get lycence [sic] he would pull it down at which he was displeased & Said he would go to England. I advised him not to be angry for if Mr. Jones pulled it now down, he did but his duty, and I thought that to take things by Force was the wrong way to obtain a Lycence. [sic] There was nothing else materially passed, but that the Father and we were very friendly, he askt [sic] Something of the Store which I agreed to. He sent for them the next day with a very obliging Letter, and I sent them (vizt.) the day of As per his Accouint. As to the other Reflections levell'd at me I answer'd if I had at any time refused a reasonable request he might think me Narrow. But the Truth is he has been Idle enough to Stay at home and Sell their Cloaths [sic] and Eat and Drink till they are so much in debt, that they can't tell what to do. As to the goods Sold in the Store every thing on your Honours [sic] Account is always sold at Prime Cost with about 10 P Cent for Charge of Landing porterage and waist [sic] as will appear by the Store accos. now entred and Attested by the Magistrates agreeable to Your Honours [sic] Order. As to Rum. There has not been one drop in the Store since Mr. Oglethorpe's going hence. And I have desired Mr. Henry Parker and Mr. Christie to Examine Robt. Parker about it. What I have allready [sic] said & what the Enclosed Affidavits Contain is the best Account I can at present give; But as many other things are likely to be known in a Short time, I shall beg leave to Referr [sic] to my next, and only tell you that Peircy Hill was Indicted by a Grand jury & found Guilty of High Misdemeanors and Misprison of Treason. And the Grand jury have made the Enclosed presentments. I can't forbear Saying twas very Satisfactory to me, That the Grand Jury which is Composed of the peace Officers and Gentlemen So readily and of their ova mere motion and thought, presenting Robt. Parker for publishing false Storeys. [sic] In that the Publick Store Creditt [sic] was at a stand, and questioned by every body. We shall not proceed against Watson nor Parker till your Honours [sic] Orders arrive both with respect to Watson in my last Letter, and both of them in this. We shall punish the three people under Prosecution with shiping [sic] fine or Imprisonment Aside Shew as much favour [sic] as we can to Hill. We are very quiet, and make no doubt have disapointed [sic] our Enemys [sic] designs. Your Honours [sic] will observe (no doubt) that Watson in his Letter to Mr. Gordon mentions a Sending of Mugridge to Gaol by the Courts Committment. [sic] The Case was thus Houstoun had brought an Action agt. Mugridg some time since Mugridg had kept out of the way till Houstoun was gone to Charlestown Mugridg then comes and Claimed a Nonsuit, which I granted; When Houstoun came again he renewed his Action and Mugridg had not appeared to it. At this Court he was a Tythingman in waiting; and I sent for him and orderd [sic] him to appear the next day; He told the Court that he would not Appear at all; And that as he had obtained a Nonsuit it should be tryed [sic] elsewhere he persisted in Contempt of the Court, and I Committed him. In One hour's time Bail was offered And he was discharged. Tis true that Mugridge did some silly things, too bad to be born with; But I never was nor shall be afraid to do my Duty And when I embrace the first Tokens of submission I think I do my Duty best. I always know I have Your Honours [sic] Rules to observe and no one else; And in all my Actions shall Endeavour [sic] to manifest my Gratitude so long as I have Life. And am with, my best Endeavours [sic] Your Honours most Dutifull Servt. P.S. a Complaint haveing [sic] been made about Selling Rum I took the enclosed Examination which I suppose Mr. Christie will answer. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John West to Mr. Gordon dated at Savannah 10th March 1734/5. Sir I am informed that You are going for England very soon which gives me and my Wife a great Deal of Concern that we must lose your good Company so soon and to think we must still remain under our old Government. I fear that the Inhabitants will rise and destroy one another, here has been a bloody Design since You have been gone found out which I doubt not but by this time You have heard the Story. I beg of You if You go for England that You would be so good as to entreat the Trustees in my behalf to give me Liberty to come to England next Spring or as soon as Opportunity shall permit me after that time for I would not do any thing that should be contrary to their Will if I knew it. I beg You will give my Duty to Esqr. Oglethorpe and the Revd. Mr. Smith and all the rest of the Honble. Trustees and I heartily thank them for all the favours [sic] that I have received from them, and I beg You will be pleased to tell them that I shall not think no Pains nor no Cost too much that is in my Power to do for the Credit, Good and Peace of the Colony which I have hitherto endeavoured to keep and maintain. One of my Reasons that I want to come to England for is to get me some Servants of my own Country; I want also to Settle many Affairs with my Relations in Bristol. I fear that You put Confidence in one man here that will not prove as faithfull [sic] as You may expect, he came to me to give him the best Information I could of the Grievance of the People which I did but after he told me that he should not send it and seemed to speak Slighting of You; There is no body so great as Mr. Causton and he. I should be glad to hear from You before You go and if possible to send some Letters by You to England. Pray give my Love and Service to Your Spouse and my Wife's also. From Your humble Servant end faithfull [sic] Friend to Command, Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Gordon dated at Savannah 10th March 1734/5. Sir Before I rec'd. your favour [sic] of the 20th ult. I had resolved on applying to You and had drawn a foul Draft of a Letter ready to transcribe wherein I beg'd your directing Mr. Abercromby the King's Soll. General or Mr. Whiteker to plead my Cause in Case Mr. Causton's Malice brings any fresh Trouble on me, believing he is purposed to destroy me; My Apprehensions are justly enlarged since your Departure, for on Friday last Mr. Vanderplank with a Guard served two Warrants on me Siezing [sic] all my Papers &c. the Copys of them I have often sent to Mr. Vanderplank for and the Copys of the Warrants but cannot get them nor do I know their Contents; I think Sedition is expressed in one of them. After searching they nail'd up my fore Door and Window and kept a Centinell [sic] at my hack Door with Orders to Suffer no Person to come near nor speak to me at any Distance unless he heard our Discourse; nor may I use Pen, Ink or Paper, only my Servant Maid is permitted to go out and in. I have sent my Case to my Wife with Orders to lay it before the Honble. Trustees, it being unavoidably very long I have not an opportunity to send You a Copy of it and writing but indifferently my self I employed Mr. Watkins a Surgeon to write it, who being taken notice of by Mr. Causton's Spys [sic] for coming to me was likewise taken into Custody; from my House they took from me my Copy to You of my Letter, from Mr. Parker the Copys [sic] of two Letters gone to the Trustees one informing the Trust that Rum, during the time of pretending to Stave all that could be found, was commonly sold in their Honours [sic] Store by Gold and Compa. and the other reflecting on the Ill Payment of the Store Debts, which is all they found (tho' they search'd sundry Houses and Persons after a very indecent manner) except a Petition and Duplicate to the Bayliffs [sic] and Recorder of Savannah, that Mr. Causton would perform his Promises the last Court day to deliver up what Affidavits he had received against some Officers of the Town, from whom the Life of himself and all his family were in danger; which Mr. Watkins was writing when Mr. Vanderplank entered my Apartment as they all do acknowledge. I really expect Mr. Causton will put me out of this World by foul Practise [sic] and have therefore enjoyn'd [sic] Mr. Watkins, if please God I dye [sic] during these Commotions, to use diligent Ways of discovering the Cause of my Death as he shall Judge needfull. [sic] Mr. Watkins complains of receiving so many Injurys and Abuses that it was with the greatest Difficulty he would comply to assist me in giving You this Account which undone I must have languished in this almost dark Goal and perish without Belief, or the World know any part of my Story; I beg You as You tender the Life of an innocent injured Man do what in You lyes [sic] to prevent my Sufferings before your Return, ease some of my Griefs and let me have the Laws of my Nation to condemn or acquit me. I desire no favour [sic] but an impartial Tryal [sic] and some body Skill'd in the Law to plead my Cause that I may not be quibbled out of my fortune nor Life by a Cast of White Chappel [sic] Sollicitors. [sic] I return You Thanks for your kind Letter to me and wish You may return safe and quick to see this People peaceable and prosperous, rescued from the unlimited Tyranny they now groan under which is what offers from Your obliged humble Servant to Command Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Tailfer to the Trustees dated Savannah March the 15 1734/5/ Honoured [sic] Sirs Having obtained a Grant from you for five Hundred Acres of Land in the province of Georgia I came here Cheifly [sic] with a design to Settle upon it but having had the misfortune of losing nine of my Servants a few Days before we embarked and four more at Portsmouth (where we were oblidged t[sic] o lay our Ship aground in order to refit her being pretty much damaged by an unlucky Accident which happen'd there) I am rendered incapable to persue [sic] that Design untill [sic] I get more Servants over, having only three Men a Boy and Woman Servt. left Upon which account I have rented a House in this town and Practise [sic] my business here as Physician and Surgeon. However I should have imployed [sic] my Servants in Cleaning and Cultivating my Land if I could have got it at any reasonable distance from this Town but the land assigned us lying on the South Side of Oheechy [sic] River Thirty miles from the Mouth of the River & about Seventy miles from this place being so remote it would have been needless for me endeavour [sic] to do any thing to the purpose with three men. Indeed some of our Company who had a Sufficient number of Servants have Settled there & made great improvements considering the time having Built a very Strong Fort as well as Cleared a Considerable space of Land, As I am now in a manner Settled in this Town (which I would fain flatter my Self may be of some advantage to the place there being no other here regularly bred either to Physick [sic] or Chirurgery [sic]) I beg you would be so good as to allow me my Land as near the Town as possible in any vacant place for I expect more Servants over very soon which will enable me to Settle and Clear it. I likewise beg you would Grant me a Lease of one of your own Lots upon the Same Conditions as you do to others and if you think proper to do it I shall build a good House upon it and make what other improvements are Necessary. I am with all due Respect Honoured [sic] Sirs Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of a better from Mr. Patrick Tailfer, Mr. Patrick Houstoun and others to the Trustees dated at Savannah March the 15s 1734/5. Honoured Sirs We beg leave to lay the following particulars before you when we obtained Grants from you for land in the Province of Georgia we never in the least doubted but we Should have the Same privileges and encouragement that other People had. We expected as soon as we arrived here to have received provisions for our Servants for twelve months. Tools for building and Clearing the Land Nailes [sic] for our Houses and other necessary Ironwork, Arms and ammunition &c but contrary to our Expectation we were refused every thing we hope you will Consider that with a view of having those things we Laid out our money in purchasing what necessary goods we Should want here in procuring our Servants, paying for their Freight and our own (which amounted to a good deal of money for we were obliged to Freight a whole Ship) and that we put the Honourable [sic] Trustees to no Expence [sic] in sending us here. The Land alloted [sic] us is very remote from this place being at least Seventy Miles Distance which obliged part of us to Settle in this Town in order to Supply the others who have settled upon their Land with provisions and other necessaries from time to time, as well as upon the account of our own business. It was impossible for us as we laboured [sic] under such difficulties to do what we otherwise should have done but however those that are Settled in the Country, have made at least as great improvements as any before them especially considering the time of their Settlement; they have cleared a Considerable Tract of Land, Built their Houses and likewise a very Strong Fort which may be of great advantage to this place as well as to themselves; but it is of no use without Arms and Ammunition they having only two Swivel Guns and ten muskets which they received from Mr. Causton to he paid for out of our goods, for being Strangers in this Country and not knowing where to purchase provisions and Several other Necessaries, we were oblidged [sic] to apply to the Store but could not get any any thing from thence till we lodged the Chief part of our Goods there. We hope your Honours [sic] will take those things into consideration and grant us the same advantages as others. We likewise hope you'll allow us the remaining part of our Land next to the Town of any not yet taken up. We are with all Due respect Honoured [sic] Sirs Your most obedient humble Servant P.S. We had almost forgot to mention one thing which is likewise a great incumbrance upon those who are settled at Okecchy [sic] that the Indians in passing backwards and forwards commonly demand provisions and frequently Stay there Eight or ten Days and being always allowed them at Thunderbolt and Port Argyle, they imagine it to be the same here and would take it very ill if they were refused. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Christie to the Trustees dated at Savannah. 19th March 1734/5. Gentlemen I think it Indispensable my Duty to inform you That Whilst I was at my own house a Sunday Evening the 2d of March Inst. To my great Surprize [sic]I heard the Alarm Bell (Mr. Causton being then at Thunderbolt) I immediately arm'd my Self and made to the Guard House where I found Mr. Vanderplank who said he had discover'd a plot to Surpize [sic]the Town and kill the people and he beleived [sic] Musgrove and the Indians were concerned in it. without Speaking any thing more he took a party of men and went down with them to Musgroves House. It seems since to Learn of them whether any thing was in it hut they were all out of Town. He left Mr. Carwell at the Guard house who at my request mar shall'd the Freeholders as fast as they came & drew them up regularly so that in a Quarter of an Hours time there was near 50 Men in Arms in the mean time I used all the Diligence I could to learn out how this Plot was to be Executed and by whom and upon Enquiry found Elisabeth Gray knew Something of it I there upon took her to my house & began an Examination before Sevll [sic] of the best people in Town. Found by her Examination that a Red String was to he a Sign or token and immediately sent out persons to make a discovery of any that wore it but found none but the Prisoners hereafter named. I dispatched Mr. Fitzwalter to desire Mr. Causton home and another Person to Mr. Parker who was likewise out of Town. Mr. Vanderplank soon returned from Mr. Musgroves finding nobody at home and upon hearing Mrs. Gray Examined read in my house, seemd [sic] very angry with the Examiner went out in an abrupt manner and cryed [sic] out in the Street he found what the Plot was we were agoing to hang his man. I was going on with further Examinations but night coming on and being informed of Mr. Caustons coming home Staid to advise with him in this uncertain Posture of things We went to Mr. Vanderplank Requested that two Compleat [sic]Tythings of able men might be upon Guard that Night, That three or four of the Cannon might be Immediately Charged and drawn out to Flank the Strand on each side and things put into a posture of Defence [sic]Especially a good Guard about our Magazine. It is with a great deal of Pleasure I can tell your Honnours what a vast number of freeholders appeared in the Defence [sic]of the place And with what Spirit and Alertness they were ready to Execute any orders that Should have Appeared Necessary. My Self with a great Number of Gentlemen and the better Sort of people being Compleatly [sic] armed form'd a Resolution to Patrole [sic] the Town all that Night as Vollunteers. [sic] Mr. Causton soon came home and Joyn'd us. We were Considerably Employed to See if all the Servants were at home and a Bed and if not sent them to the Guard house Especially the Irish Transports who if any Mischief had been on Foot we had no great Oppinion [sic] of Especially Since Mr. Lacy (tho very dark) had made his way through the wood to us that Night in pursuit of two of his Servants who were that Evening run a way, a Maid Servant of his who had discovered it and who was of design to go away with them having been found with a Red String on her Arm the Mark or Sign mentioned in those affidavits Sent to your Honours [sic] Inclosed in Mr. Causton's Letter to which I crave leave to Refer' All was very quiet that light and the next morning We Sate and made further Enquiry took further Affidavits and Continued the Necessary Orders. It was upon the Information of James McDonnald and the Affidavits Of Cannon and Musgrove which you had enclosed in 14r. Causton's together with our own knowledge of Several discontented Persons that had Continually resorted to Watsons that we Judged it for the Saftey [sic] of the Province to make out a Warrant to Search for papers there but seems by some unaccountable means we found afterwards by Mr. Douglas his neighbour [sic] who has nothing hut a thin Deal Partition between him and Watson that our Resolution was carried to him before the Constable came there and no doubt of it but to all the Others I can only Say if Mr. Vanderplank had communicated his cause of alarm to me I should have advised him to have made proper Search and taken measures for discovery before the Alarm bell had been rung And according to the best of my Judgement The Plot if ever it was Form'd Seems to have had Birth either at Watsons or Mugredges house where Generally a parcell [sic] of People in bad Circumstances resort a Little time will discover more of which Your Honnours [sic] shall have Notice. Tomochachi and his people Appears no way concerned in it and Seem'd very Surprised at the Alarm Guns Testified their Fidelity and was Concerned they had been named in it Mr. Musgrove as well as they desired we would assure your Honnours [sic] of their Fidelity but it is certain That Some of the Indians Especially one Sallote and Some others which are not of the Savannah Indians but a Sort of Strollers seems to envy him very much Its well if they have no design on his life they say he has sold them to the English for the presents he has received & and what he tells them of the Granduer [sic] and people of our Nation is a Lye [sic] to keep them in Awe and indeed I must Say I could wish Tomochachi and his wife would Communicate some of his presents to his people I beleive it would take of a great deal of their Envy to him. Tomochachi was with us this day and told us that Sallotte took a brand of Fire and went to Strike the Queen but narrowlly missed her that the Scattering People Seem'd to be displeased with him and Apokutche says he makes himself greater than he Should be. We have assured Tomo Chachi [sic] of our Protection and if he found himself any ways in Danger to reside at Yamacraw near us where we should do every thing requisit [sic] for his Safety. If any thing of Mischief Should come forth I am of Oppinion [sic] it must be of that Side with the Spaniards or French Instigation. We have had no News of Capt. Mackay but beleive [sic] he is Safe. We Expect 100 of the Upper Creak [sic] Nation who they now say are coming down to See us and we Shall take Care to receive them in the best and most Formidable manner we can. Inclosed is the Presentments of the Grand Jury of the Tenth of March upon which Peircy Hill John Cox and Edward Cruise have been since Tryd [sic] and found Guilty they have already received 60 Lashes each by the hands of the Common Hangman and are to receive 60 more unless any one of them Shall make an ample Discovery Our orders relating to the Rest of the Presentments Shall be transmitted to your Honnours [sic] in my next As to what relates to Watson and Parker reffer [sic] to Mr. Caustons Letter and Shall expect your Honnrs. Directions on that head. There was an Information pretended to be sent to your Honnrs. by one Robert Parker Junior Letters wherein he says it is Notoriously known that Rum was Sold out of the Store House in the Name of Gould & Compa. Mr. Henry Parker Bayliff [sic] and my self were desirous to Inform your Honnrs. of the truth of it and to that End sent for Mr. Parker but instead of coming sent the Inclosed Letter by which you'll See the disposition of that Gentleman we then sent an Officer who brought him to us he refused to give us any Accot. of that matter and gave us the same answer as before he had done in his Letter, he refused likewise to Attend the Court as Juryman Tho he had at the Same time two Twon [sic no doubt meant as town]Lotts for which we Fined him and now he has thought fit to Attend. Mr. Gordon has been some time at Charles Town where he went in order to Dispose of Some Goods he brought with him from England and it was Strongly Rumourd [sic] that he had a design to return back but I am Inform'd this day that we are not likely to See him again. The Land the Saltsburgers [sic] are upon turns out very Sandy and Barren it is now too Late to remove them for this Season and Shall first Expect Your Honnours [sic] directions therein. Allice Riley [sic] was hanged Some Months agoe [sic] within Six weeks after her being brought to bed persuant [sic] to her Sentence of the 11th Day of May Last and the Child is since dead. I continue my former Request to your Honnours [sic] and remain Your Honnours [sic] Most Faithfull [sic] & Obedient Servant The Indians talk mentioned in one of Mr. Causton's Letters having Seen'd crave leave to Referr [sic] thereto. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Hetherington to Mr. Oglethorpe dated Thunderbolt March the 22d; 1734/5. Honoured [sic] Sir I Receivd [sic] your Welcome letter from Mr. Johnny Brownfield on the 28th of December last and have according to my Instructions Sent John Godly home by Capt. Dunbar he has proved an Excellent good Servant till the news came he was to go for England he then went directly to Savannah and would not come to Thunderbolt any more but Stayed till the Ship Saild [sic] wch. was upwards of tint two Months although Causton and Mr. Gordon persuaded him all that lay in their power and at last threatned [sic] him with Punishment if he did not return it was all one he minded them not and I was Unwilling he Should receive any Correction as I intended he should go home but I beleive [sic] he was Encouraged by mother Penrose for she kept him in her Employ the whole time I am sure nobody else would give him Encouragement and as for troubling my head with her is what I did not Care for She Still remain ing Conqueror over the whole place I received the Swiss end his Wife and in return they are very willing to work and are laborious people, but the men has had some old Strain in his right Arm & Cannot work so hard as his wife my Spouse in particular returns your Honnour [sic] many thanks for the great Care you had for her in Sending A maid for now She don't work alltogether [sic] so hard her self nor Inded [sic] can She. She now being very big with Child and within two months of her time and likewise desired me to inform Your Honour [sic] that if you had been here she would have made bold to Ask't you for a gossip being in a fair way of having the pleasure of the first Child at Thunderbolt our Settlement is much alterd [sic] for the better since your Honoor [sic] was there for Now we can Almost go Ahunting [sic] there is so much Land Cleared I have got about twenty Acres to my own Share and All fenced in with a strong fence. I beleive [sic] Mr. Lacy his brother and Mr. Bishop have each of them almost as much so that if our lands had proved but good we might Expect an immence [sic] Crop this year but your Honour [sic] knows its most of it pine barren Except a little Oak and Hickery [sic] towards Skidaway [sic] which is about ten acres and that fell to Mr. Lacy's share our Settlement is Certainly a beautifull [sic] place and the pleasantest in all Georgia and has not wanted for any Industry to make it so. it has been Exceeding hard upon me this last year being obliged to build so much And Clear lands at the Same time I having but two Servants left. My Old frenchman being dead I realy [sic] did work beyond what I thought I could but no person can tell what they may do till they are put to the trial and I am very glad that I was for it agrees mighty well with my health and Use has made it intirely [sic] agreeable to me. we finished our Hexicon [sic] Ever Since the 23d of September last but not built any more then Every one a house and where the Other Should be have filld [sic] the vacant places up with pallesades [sic] and So Strong and Commodious it is that we Value not all the force of Augustine. I have likewise built me another little House the demensions [sic] of the first forty in Savannah which I call my farm with a yard of 200 foot Square paild [sic] in about a quarter of a mile from the fort and a pretty Garden behind it my Cowpen adjoining to it the reason that invited me to it was I found out a fine Spring that comes from under A rock which is a sort of an Iron Stone and that is likewise fenced into my yard, the water is farr better then [sic] the Spring your Honour [sic] is acquainted with. My rural life I like so well and the Inclinations I have to the place that I am as well satisfied as if I had five hundred a year in England I only wish to have another Year over our heads then we Shall begin to live and have every thing in plenty of our Own produce I bought ten head of Cattle which I thought was pretty well at first but had the Misfortune to loose [sic] seven of them soon after which was a great loss for a young farmer but hope I shall retreive [sic] it again I return your many thanks that you was so good as not to draw upon me for the last favour [sic] I received when it became due for if you had I know not what I should have done having met with so many Losses the first year but I would have sold all I had in the world but it Should have been answered it being so kind and generous an action but as your Honour [sic] has been so good us to Stay so long must beg a little longer time I haveing [sic] a Chargeable time coming on and God knows how our Crop may turn out. If I had more Servants I did intend to Settle another plantation this year and Mr. Jones would be so good as to run our Our other lands out we having no more then one hundred & twenty five acres apeice [sic] as yet and to Clear any more of it for planting would be so much Labour lost it being entirely pine as we may want timber that may be of Service by and by. I cheifly [sic] bend my mind to planting, & Cultivating of lands & had I more assistance should be a very great Proficient that way I can't afford to run upon any Projects as yet, having so few hands if I was I should not get bread for my Family and Planting must be the first thing that is taken Care on. I have given your Honour [sic] as good an Accompt of my Affairs as possible I can and Exactly as they Stand hoping every body will do the Same I had like to have forgot to acquaint you when we had finished our Fort and mounted our great guns which are in Number Eight. The Indians who are often with us asked what we made such Strong defence [sic] for we told them in Case the Spaniards Shod. interupt [sic] us. they answered if wee was afraid of that they would at any time go and fetch all the Spanish Indians Sculps [sic] to us we thankt [sic] them and Said no if they did us no hurt we Should do no harm to them They was very well Satisfied and wanted much to deal with them for Skins but we referrd [sic] it and would not meddle with the trade. Excepting your Honour is so good as to give your Consent I would do nothing Contrary to your Inclinations to gain the Riches of the Indies so much I value your Honours [sic] favour [sic] and Esteem & a line from your Honours hand would be the greatest present I could receive upon Earth. My Spouse Joyns [sic] with Self her Duty to you hopeing [sic] God will Continue your health and prolong your Days for the good of his people is the Sincere desier [sic] of Your Honour's most Humble and Obedient Servant P.S. We have taken up Provisions upon Credit from Mr. Causton till an answer comes from your honour [sic] to know wether you with the rest of the Honourable [sic] Trustees will allow us a Second years provisions hoping it won't be refused as it hath been allowed to all the out Settlements Except ours and Should Thunderbolt be Excempted [sic] from any benefits that Other Out Settlements receives I beleive it would be the breaking of Hearts. Likewise hope your Honnour [sic] will give me your Interest in haveing [sic] the same privilidge [sic] granted to me as my Neigbours [sic] has alread [sic] received which is in Case of Mortality I should die without heirs as in all likelyhood [sic] I shall not that I or my Spouse may by will Nominate any one person to be our Successor to the lands granted to me and in case we Should have a female Child it may desend [sic] to her I being one of the first Grantees hope it will not be denied as it hath been granted to other of a later date. Copy of a Letter from Capt. Patrick Mackay to the Trustees dated at Coweta March the 28 1734/5. Honourable Gentlemen My Last was dated the November last from the Uchie Town on Savannah river whereof I now send a Copy. This accompanies a Journall [sic] of my procedure and actions since I left Savannah untill [sic] this day that I am preparing to proceed for the upper Creek nation. I have nothing to Say in Addition to the Journal but what follows. Tho' I have been but a Little time here I remark'd that the Chief men of the Indians behave with greater Civility and Seem to respect us. yea all the traders more with in this 20 days then they did before and I impute it altogether to ye description these Indians Mr. Oglethorpe carryed [sic] over gave on their return here to them of the grandeur and Power of the British Nation. Its incredible how much they are overawd [sic] by the Silly place in posession [sic] of the French calld [sic] fort Thoulouse [sic] and by St. Marks which lyes [sic] about a Short days Journey from the entry of the Chatauchie [sic] River but the Spaniards give it the name of Appalachicola [sic] River. by all the Intelligence I could get St. Marks has but 20 men in it and there is only thirty in Fort Thoulouse [sic] call'd by the Indians Albama. [sic] So I inferr [sic] from this sudden Change and their being so much overawd [sic] by these little Forts that the Indians are governd [sic] more by the principles of fear as love. I find they are a sullen morose people of few words, very ambiguous in answering Questions, mighty deceitfull [sic] and covetous nor are they naturally so brave as some say as their manner of Fighting declares. Its true they are so intoxicated with the principle of revenge that they delight in going constantly to warr [sic] against those that Injure them or rather they hunt enemies as they do any other prey with this difference only, that when by Surprise a gang of 20 or 30 kills one of their enemies they run day and night tho they know of no enemies nigh them till they think they are out of danger or reach of the Enemy and that is never under a 100 or 200 miles. they are Self Conceited people and very apt to think Europeans are affraid [sic] of ym.[sic] They have a Notion that if they do any mischief or harm to a white man the name the give to a European. It's the only means to obtain a present. They have no manner of Notion of gratitude, in a word I cant [sic] observe they are governd [sic] by any vertuous [sic] principle Having Considerd [sic] the Indians in this light I thought proper to have spoke to them in the manner I did and I now find I have not been deceived in my opinion for If I was to demand all their terri tories, they have not a Countenance to deny me tho I beleive [sic] any thing they yeild [sic] is against their Inclination. Its my Opinion that 500 Men with what Indians could be raised in this Nation if Brittain [sic] was engaged in a warr [sic] with France and Spain would put Brittain [sic] in possesion of all Florida and to the Missisippi [sic] River and that these 500 Men garrisond in augustine [sic] and Moville [sic] and Cowsa [sic] Rivers among the Chactaw [sic] Indians I say its my Oppinion [sic] it would not only gain but preserve all the Indians Inhabiting that part of this Continent to the British Interest but be an effectuall [sic] Security to the Southern Settlements of the British Empire on the American main against those potent PowersAnd I must think that if Brittain [sic] overlooks these Settlements particularly that of the French it may in time prove of dangerous Consequence to Carolina and Georgia. By the advices I had last month from Carolina I understood that Brittain [sic] must inevitably be engagd [sic] in a Warr [sic] with France & Spain this Spring as that would be a favourable [sic] Occation [sic] and that I know not but the Goverment [sic] might think proper to lay hold of it. I dont [sic] think it impertinent in informe [sic] you in case the notion of want of provisions should prove a difficulty that this Nation could Spare 4 or 5 months provisions for 500 men without incomoding [sic] themselves in the least, by buying up the corn fairly from the Indians who likewise have plenty of Hogs and I believe 100 Cows and Steers could be bought up among them besides a few Carolina Cattle. Hunters could very soon kill what Cattle they pleased in the Apalachie [sic] fields where there are thousands to be had Salt the beef there and transport it to the Chatanchie [sic] River wch. is Scarcly [sic] 20 Miles from these Fields. But this I mention only to Show there is no danger of want of provisions in this Nation for 500 Men for the time I mentioned if Such a thing Should ever be attempted I would advise to embark the men so as the might be in the month of September or Ocober [sic] in the River Alatamaha [sic] which is but 8 Days easy march from this nation. These months are reckond [sic] the healthyest [sic] for Europeans to come into this Climate because the Violent heats being over they may he Seasond [sic] a little before they return. And moreover I take this part of the Country as it is hilly and lyes [sic] high to be much healthier than the Sea. Coast which Commonly Lyes [sic] Low and marshy. Even Strangers are Seldom or ever troubled with Fevers and Ague in this place and I am inform'd by the traders that if they should (as Sometimes they are) be Catch'd by the fever and ague in the Settlement it rarely continues a month by them in this Nation. Any other motive that Should invite Brittain [sic] to be at a little expence [sic] is the enlarging the consumpt of her manufactures which such an addition as the Florida & Chactaw [sic] Indians would crest and the Chactaws [sic] have allready [sic] essay'd and do Still Show a forwardness for entering into a treaty of friendship and Commerce with us which has allarmed [sic]the French at Movile [sic] mightly. [sic] the Chactaws (I am told by the Dog King who was the person Thomas Jones imployd [sic] to Carry some of them down to Georgia when they were quarreld [sic] after they return'd home, by the Governour [sic] of Moville [sic] for going there) Said we have Since we made peace with the Creeks had favourable [sic] reports of the English and we see'd the Creeks who are in Frendship [sic] with them Supply'd with all manner of necessarys [sic] for them selves, women and Children which we want, we have now been long in frendship [sic] with you and yet wee injoy [sic] no Such benefits if you Supply us with all these things they do the Creeks we will not go to the English and if you do not we a free people mayn't we go to whom we please. Upon this large Presents were made them and farr [sic] Larger promisses that they would next year be Supply'd with all Such things as the Creeks had from the English, however they reinforced the two Chactaw [sic] garrisons and keep the body of the Nation at home by promise and threats excepting a few on the Frontiers who come to trade with. Thomas Jones. And now the French talk of building a New fort on the Frontiers to prevent any Communication twixt us and them. I Could not only prevent this new Fort being built but I could soon be master of fort Tholouse [sic] which would open a Communication with the Chactaws [sic] but as I know not how such a thing would be taken at Court before actuall [sic] warr [sic] is declared I choose to waits further orders or that I finde [sic] the French begin to act offenceively, [sic] which in the meantime (if I waits to receive it) gives them the advantage of giving the first blow and if I wait till the French discoverd [sic] a disposition to disturb us in this nation, I don't know what could be done with 24 Men but to fly before them in the woods. For as the French have the remains of a party among the Creeks if we were Seen to fly once our friends would be discouraged to declair [sic] for us and would be overawd [sic] by them their Creek friends and the Chactaws and if we pretended to stand we would be but cut to peices [sic] before we could have releif [sic] from Georgia or Carolina. Indeed had I an [sic] 100 men here it would give the Indians a Countenance to Join us and we could keep the Enemy in in play till we were Reinforced. TheDoctor is a very acceptable person among the Indians. I find he allready [sic] has cured Severall [sic] of Some Distempers as it is call'd here andof Several other Illnesses. The young man behaves exceeding well and I believe knows his bussiness [sic] as much as any one in these parts of the World. Yea I gott [sic] him Condesend [sic] to cure our horses of wounds bruises &c by which Severail [sic] has been saved. I send herein a Catalogue of medicines for the Company which can be Supply'd from thence cheaper as from Carolina and if you approve of his Serving the Indians the Quantity must be enlarged. I am to have an interview with Chercholeigie at Palachocola how soon I have dispatcht [sic] this Express, who goes for Information from Savannah if conform to my last advices Brittain [sic] has declared war against France and Spain that I may act acordingly [sic] here. I shall write my next how soon I have had a Publick Conference with the Chief men of the Upper Creek Nation till then I shall take the Liberty to say that I am with great Esteem Honourable Gentlemen Your most Devoted & most humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Causton To Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah March 24 1734/5. Sir In my Letter to the Trustees of January l6th Your Honnour [sic] will observe That I declare (till then) I had maintained the Publick peace wth. some ease. . . . And Indeed the People's behaviour [sic] in general has been very Commendable. But when Mr. Gordon unhappily took part with Watson and Discoverd [sic] to the people that he had different Sentiments from me They soon Concluded That as he was First Bayliff [sic]it was in his power to order everything and every one that had Beef when they wanted Pork was countenanced by him with a great deal of Compassion and Complaisance. When I told him of Watsons Case and how gently I had used him he told me That he thought it was not very gentle Usage to Imprison a man for the Sake of an Indian. And tho' Self preservation, Humanity and all the reasonable Obligations in Nature confirm your Honnours [sic] Orders with regard to the Indians Yet I am Told by Mr. Quincey and Some few others That, tho' (in Such things) I may act according to my Instructions I ought to Gratifye [sic] the People and think that you are not Infallible this Gentleman has often Changed his mind in this affair. One day he came to me and told me That Watson was a very Villain and a madman So that I ask't him wherein he thought you had Erred. He told me That most people were of the Opinion we Should one day Repent our Civilitys [sic] to the Indians. But tho' as to that matter he would not pretend to direct yet he thought it would be more prudent to Send Watson away. I told him I had power to Imprison him But none to Discharge him And that I had much rather bear the Reflections here which I might at a proper time Correct; than give him an Opportunity to Spread his Malitious [sic] poison where I should never have it in my Power to apply a Remedy. He urged it as an Extrordinary [sic] Case wherein I might and ought to Deviate from your Sentiments or my Orders. Mr. Coats is a great Sollicitour [sic] and an Asserter of Watson's Greivances, [sic] for which he has had many Reprimands. De Perbe the jew will be nibling but is as yet Sly enough to avoid a Punishment, Watkins the Surgeon Is his Secretary Robert Parker Senior & Robert Parker Junior, Wright, and King Clark are Councellous [sic] in their towns and they all think themselves Eminent Politians [sic] and Scorn to be advised or Submit to Rule. The two Parkers absolutely refuse to serve on jurys [sic] or appear in arms Saying they are Gentlemen and it is beneath them to Serve in an inferiour [sic] Court. And the Old Gentleman with an air of Complaisance [sic] That he Should be unwilling to act Contrary to the Rules of any place But his friends in England would blame him. As to the Old Gentlemen his Talk was some time Since I told him I would fine him and he immediately declared he would quitt [sic] his Town Lott which prevented his being troubled any more on that head. And upon this Occasion it was that Tommy Jones being resolved to Claim his right to the Same Town Lott the Court gave way to the Presention [sic] which your Honnour [sic] will See by the Court Proceedings. As to the Young Gentleman, he has been brought As prisoner to his Arms by his Officer very frequently and has been twice fined and Levied on for non Attendance on Jurys. I am sometimes Informed of their Transactions and I knew of the Scheme to make Musgrove uneasy more than a Week before Musgrove discoverd [sic]it and was in a fair way to have made a more usefull [sic] Discovery. I fear Watson will have reason to find his pretended friends a Real Burthen. Your Honnour [sic] will easily beleive [sic] that when I committed him to Goal t'was intended not only to preserve him from the Indians Resentments But also from Dangerous Company but the Military Gentlemen are too apt to think that the Orders of the Magistrates are to be executed as they think fit and untill [sic] some of your advice come it is very Difficient [sic] for the Magistrates to help it. The Court having in the best manner they could Required the Grand Jury to present among other things Tipling Houses without Licence [sic] they presented Cheesewright on a Suspition [sic] of Carrying on Such Practices, And and tho this was their own Presentment the Officers Neglected their Searches. I was one night going to Musgroves to Remove some people who I know was there after the Guard pretended to have been; about 12 of the Clock at Night and coming home I heard a noise at Cheesewrights I went to Coats who was than [sic] on Duty to tell him to Enquire the meaning of it he brought me word That five or Six men were drinking and were going. but I found that he had told Cheesewright I had been Listening under the window and had Sent him So that the next day Mr. Cheesewright came to my house to Insult me. Mary Simeon, who came with Mr. Papott and was bound by Your Honnours [sic] Orders to Arther Oyle Edgecombe has been Transferred (without Leave for money to James Muir, I reprimanded Edgecombe for pretending to Sell what he did not buy and that if any thing happened amiss to the Girl I would place her out & then Muir would expect his money again. Muir in a Short time Dislikt [sic] the Girl and Sold her again to Willson. Upon which I orderd [sic] That Willson should recover his money of Muir and the Girl should be put to Some Housewifely Mistress I desired the Trustees of Orphans to look out for a Mistress. But Wilson found means to hire her to Cheesewright as a Servant and so was to be Repaid his money. I had received frequent Accounts of ill Practices and of the Girl's misusage but not willing to Credit every Storey [sic] had recomended [sic] it to the Guard without any Success. One night going my self into an open Hutt of Cheeseqrights in Search of a Fellow who had been ill behaved and could not be taken, I found the Fellow this Girl and three other men on several beds in one Room. I examined Cheesewright the next day about this matter taking Mr. Christie and Coats with me to Cheesewrights [sic] House, when it was with great Difficulty that I got Coats to take the Girl and Convey her to the Trustees of the Orphans, However the Girl is Removed and is at Service with Mr. Fallowfield who is now a married man. The Order Against Retailing Liquors landing of Rum Forestalling and unlawfull [sic] Assembling of Servants are wholly neglected and Unless the Magistrates are both Witnesses and Judges nothing is done. Twas by an absolute Charge upon the Consciences of the Grand jury that I got Penrose and Hodges to be convicted of Retailing Liquor without Licence. [sic] This I Pursued (after a first Conviction and fines Levied) to a Second when Mr. Hodges Submitted to Order in a very handsome manner. But altho' I have reason to Beleive [sic] many carry on that trade, I have no Presentments of that kind or Proofs to Convict them. I once seized a Pipe of Rum my self at Hodgeses which had been landed at the Crane at Noon Day. Another time Dennis Fowler one of the Trustees Servants (placed under Vanderplank) was accused before me of lying with Carwall's Wench in his Masters Yard before a great Boy in the time of Divine Service; I Orderd him to be whipt [sic] and (the Officer) declared that the Honestest Fellow in the Province was going to be whipt. If any person is committed to Gaol they lett [sic] them out and if they apprehend any one either by Night or Day they discharge them at pleasure without Consulting or Reporting it to the Magistrates. As Capt. Dunbar will be able to give your Honnour [sic] a particular Account of things of this nature I shall hope for your advice or presence here. And beg leave to Assure you that tho this idle way of Behaviour [sic] is Sufficient to vex me, I have allways [sic] maintained the Authority of a Magistrate without the Breach of private friendship. I could say a great Deal on this head but as I have perswaded [sic] the Constables to Exercise a Ward every Sunday after Evening Service I hope my next will give a better Account. The Red String Conspiracy, which I mentioned to the Trustees proves to have risen at the Widow Bowlings House wliere Mugridge Tibbitt and some others (too much in Debt) had distinguisht [sic] themselves by a Red String on their wrists as a Signall [sic] of a Drunken Resolution to desert the Colony upon pretence that they have no Tittle [sic] to Shew for their lands. I Judged it better not to take any direct notice of that and to tell the people (as occasion offered) That any one might have an Extract of their Title at any time; And I beleive [sic] by the Prosecutions against Cox, Cruise and Hill And letting the people know the damage of Conspiracys [sic] they are pretty well Convinc't that they have escaped a Scowering. I shall take Care to have an Eye upon these Sort of Gehtlemen [sic] and not fail to Charge them (who have made no Improvements) with what the Trustees have expended on them, when ever they shall attempt to Desert their fellow Advanturers. [sic] With Respect to the Reflections which some people here have so little reason and so foolish as to publish by writing and Speaking I have not Spared to Read them Some Paragraphs in Woods Institutes whereby they may see the Punishments they are Liable to Libells [sic] and false tales And indeed it will not be proper (allways) [sic] to pass it by. As I would not be willing to lengthen any one Letter longer than I am Sure of making a fair Transcript in proper time I beg leave to Refer your Honour [sic] to my next for further Accts. which is now my mighty Employ. Be pleased to give your favourable [sic] Correction to any thing here amiss. As not intended to Reflect on any one But is particularly adressed [sic]to you (who having been an Eye witness to many of our failings) in hopes that by your Advice and Interposition Affairs may pass on Something smoother. I am Sir Your most Dutifull [sic] and most humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Patrick Mackey to An Anonimous [sic] Person dated Coweta March the 27th 1735. Sir I had yours of the 10th January nigh a Month ago advising me of the Arrival of the Indians from Brittain, [sic] and that the Trustees had sent presents for the Cheif [sic] men of the Creeks. I have had all the Cheif [sic] men of the Lower Creeks Assembled in this town. last week to hear the talk I had to deliver them from Mr. Oglethorpe. I took occasion to tell them then that the King of Brittain [sic] and his greatly Beloved men had sent Presents afresh to them by Tomochachi [sic] as a further Indication of their Esteem and friendship for them, that when I had. delivered the talk to the upper Creeks, I would return from them prepared to Accompany them to deliver them the new talk and presents that are waiting there. I found the Indian sent here by Tomochachi [sic] inclined to have their own private friends Carried down, and not the Leading men for which reason I forbid him to Invite any without my knowledge, as the Trustees are at so great Charges to gain the friendship of the Indians, Its [sic] just to think the presents should he bestowed on the most deserving and of most Interest and power among them here, as I dont doubt but you will be of Opinion with me in this I hope you'll Cause take care that none of these presents he Lavished away by Tomochachi [sic] who I hear has them in his Custody, but take them under your own Charge till the Cheif [sic] men go down your Senceable [sic] that if there is no presents for these Indians I carry down at your desire it will put the Trust to a Needless Expence. [sic] The young Prince you mentioned in your Letter and who was Son of the late Emperor Brem dyed [sic] at Silver Bluff on Savannah River about a month ago. the other Twin Brother is but a worthless drunken fellow? and Intirely [sic] in the French Interest, you'll use this Express with Civility because he is to Continue in this Station by Direction of Mr. Oglethorpe for should he be male treated [maltreated?] I shall have difficulty to find any other so proper to Carry on a Correspondence in Case of Danger. By all the Intelligence I have here of late the Spaniards talk of Settling and Building a Fort at the Appalatche [sic] Old Fields, I have Imployed [sic] proper heeds to prevent this, and as its possible some of the Spaniards may suffer, they will be apt to resent it on your Colony therefore its my Opinion you put the out Settlements on their Guar'd and Tomo Chachi [sic] of it that he may order Some of his Indians to Scout about the Alatamaha [sic] and likewise Order Captain Ferguson to keep a sharp look out that he may not be Surprised. I here [sic] the French have Reinforced Albama [sic] Fort and talk of Building a new fort to Cut of the Chuctaws [sic] from any Communication with us, this I'le [sic] endeavour [sic] to prevent If possible and would Effectually if I understood Brittain [sic] had declared barr.[sic] therefore you'll advise me by this Express of the last Accots. you had from Brittain [sic] relative to peace or Warr [sic] and if you should understand Warr is Declared after this Express leaves Savannah, you should advise me thereof by Express, for Sho'd I know it sooner than the French, I may have it my power to Surprize [sic]their Fort; belt if they have earlyier [sic] Accounts of it they will fortify them selves in that Place; and be Reinforced with Such Numbers of men as that it will be a difficulty to gett [sic] them Removed by which mean as they have allready [sic] a party among the Indians they will sooner awe the whole of the nation that we may be in danger of Losseing [sic] our Interest in them therefore I think as early advise [sic] may prevent this it deserves the Expence [sic] of any Express you can easily be Supplied by Captn. Mackpherson [sic] in any if Requisite. I am with much Esteem Your Most humble Servant P.S. Please send by my Express 4 pair of hand Cuffs with small Pad locks. I find a great many Sawcy Villians in this Country that dont [sic] incline to Submitt [sic] to any Government, and their is an Absolute Necessity to make Examples of some for the Terror of others. I shall Expect this Express shall return before I leave therefore let me know how many of the Chief men of the Indians you'll have me Carry down. Let the Express Have Indian Corn for his Horse. Please forward the Pacquet [sic] Directed for the Honourable [sic] Trustees, and as its possible my Express may loose his Horse by being at so great a Distance from him it would do well that you would order Mr. Musgrove or some other to Pylott [sic] him to town. It will be a disappointmt. [sic] if after you have Dispatched him he should loose [sic] many days in Search of his horse. Copy of a Letter from Captn. Patrick Mackay to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Coweta March the 29: 1735. Sir I gave you the trouble of a long Epistle from the Uchie Town in November last Since which time I have been imployed [sic] till now in the manner my Journall [sic] Setts forth. If in any thing I have behaved my self unworthy of the trust you were pleased to repose in me nothing could give me greater pain or more Satisfaction then to tell me wherein that by quickly rectifying my mistakes or neglects I might demonstrate how Cheerfully I would hew down any thing to Merits the Honourable [sic] Trustees approbation of a person called poor Freind of Mr. Oglethorpe's (the common appellation given me in derisione [sic] in Carolina) and which I hope you'll give me the Liberty to value my self always upon while I don't act any thing unworthy of my Patron. Since I wrote my Letter to the Honourable [sic] Trustees I had an Interview with Cherekeileigie first in the Palachocola Square which Continued from 9 the forenoon to 2 afternoon and the remaining part of the Evening in Mr. Wiggines house. Its Impossible to Committ [sic] the whole that passed to writeing. [sic] I hope you'll Judge it sufficient I tell here that I impeached him of Treachery and Fallshood [sic] towards my master and his Subjects and that he never observed any premisses he had given of good behaviour [sic] on the Contrary betrayed us allways [sic] to the Spaniards. I told him the great King and his greatly Beloved men the Esqr. bid me tell him that they would give him this opportunity once for all of repenting of his former misbehaviours [sic] and an offer of entring [sic] into (as the rest of the Creek nation had done) and ratyfying [sic] the treaty of Freindship [sic] and Commerce with the King my Master But if he thought to Continue the Deceitfull [sic] Men he hitherto had been I would find it out and perhaps pay him a visit at his house when he least Expected it. Cherekeileigie is the Crafyest [sic] most Cunning And the boldest Spoken Indian I have had as yet Occasion to Converse with He told me with great Impudence a great many false Stories and I as Confidently told him I beleived [sic] them to be so. What Say's he do you discredit what I say I am a Mico and Mico's Scorn to Spake Lyes [sic] I am not affraid [sic] to tell truth I once was in Freindship [sic] with the English when I gave Proofs of my being a man I have Fought with them against the Tuskeroraes Its true I was Concern'd in the Yamasee Warrs[sic] against Carolina but I was not the Occasion of breaking the peace at that time yea I was averse unto it because I lived as happily as any white men in those days in my own house I wore as good apparel and rode as good a Horse as most of them but once I was engaged in the warrs [sic] I did the English all the harm I could and thereafter tho I did not personally disturb them my men did, but of late years I take your Kings talk with a Straight Heart. I have not been there 10 or 11 years at Augustine but they send for me and presents to me with a talk I hear what they say they desire the Liberty to Settle and rebuild a fort at the appalachies [sic]they and the french [sic] (but I beleive [sic] he mistakes Spaniards of Pensawla [sic] for the French) have run out Large Quantitys [sic] of Land last year & Said they would Settle it this year by the time Watermellons were ripe I told them (Says he) that I beleived [sic] the Creek nation would not give their Consent and that they had better let it alone. You desire (Says he) that I Should return to my own Town if I do so then they will Settle where I am therefore I do better to Continue at the forks where I can be a Spy on all the Actions of the Spaniards which I will Communicate to any beloved men your great King Shall Send here. You forbid us to go to the Spaniards and French why does your own Kings Subjects trade with them & think to hinder us who are free People. Your King allways [sic] threatens to demolish Augustine and Conquer the French att [sic] Moville and the Cutt Cheek King, (meaning the Governour [sic] of augustine [sic] ) threatens to destroy Charlestown and the King of Moville Says he will destroy both but I Shall never see the day that the one Shall Conquer the Other. amongst many other things I said in return to this I answer'd to the last part of what he Said particularly that if the Spaniards or we were at warr [sic] he was mightly [sic] mistaken. I desir'd him to ask of these of his Country who had been in Brittain [sic] if they thought the Town they Saw Could Spare as many men Ships and great Guns with Ammunition as would demollish [sic] Augustine Fort which had but 400 or 500 men at most in it and 50 or 60 Guns I dont know (says he) what power or force your King may have there but I have seen Several attempts made in vein by Carolina upon it and the Spaniards Say that your King has but a Small Island in a Word I beleive [sic] that Fort is impregnable. A great deal more to this purpose passed needless to Notice here hut he Concluded with a Promise of acting friendly towards us and keeping me always advised of the actions of the Spaniards. But it is my Oppinion [sic] he will Endeavour [sic] to deceive both parties; as for me I shall allways [sic] Consider the man as a rogue and employ him accordingly. I gave him and his Brother 2 blanketts [sic] and 2 Shirts which I had of Thomas Wiggines and promissed [sic] him if he would behave himself with fidelity as friend the great King would take Notice of him. Some days after I deliverd [sic] the Talk and presents Luckho, [sic] Mico of the Uchesses a faithfull [sic] friends of ours by report came and told me that a great many had gone from the lower Towns to Augustine they never will (Says Luckho [sic]) forbear goeing [sic] that way while the path is white but if it be made bloody they'le [sic] allways [sic] Stay at home I want to be revenged of the Spaniards for killing my Brother out of whose Scull [sic] they drink at Augustine. I am resolved to make that path Bloody and this will keep our mad young People at home and if they are not hindred [sic] in this manner they never will he got Stoped from going there. I told him he might do as his heart inclined for my part I neither would advise or diswade [sic] him. I find Lickho [sic] keept [sic] this design Secret and is with 25 men gone to warr, [sic] but the ocher Indians Suspect him much where is gone, and Seems much concernd [sic] for the Consequence that this will create enemys [sic] below as well as above them. I have advised Mr. Causton of this that he may put the Out Settlements Capt. Mcpherson and Ferguson on their guard, in case the Spaniards Should think proper to disturb them, I have reasons to beleive [sic] I could easily get Albamas [sic] Fort oversett [sic] if I knew the war was declared for that reason I send this Express to Mr. Causton to Know the State of Europe by last advices with respect to peace or warr [sic] that I may act accordingly here. Till I have the pleasure to write my next I beg leave to declaire [sic] that I am Sincerely with profound Esteem Honourable Sir Your most Oblidged [sic] & most faithfull [sic] humble Servant. P.S. Tomorrow I goe [sic] for the upper Nation. I forgot hitherto to tell that if the Company now here is to Subsist or Designed to range, as I think they must. Carabines [sic] should be provided for them, for the common Musketts [sic] are too heavy and unfit for Horses Carriage. If I am to Continue in this Service I beg the favour [sic] a Saddle with Curb bridle breast plate & Crupper may be sent me made very Strong on purpose. These Sadies calld [sic] Kings hunters answer best Here with Shammy or Coarse Velvet Seat because leather burns up very soon. I had two Saddles broke in the riding thourough [sic] bad Swamps allready, [sic] & now I have but a very Indifferent Saddle. I beg pardon for this presumption & I hope when you Consider I have no acquaintences [sic] in London that would Serve me faithfully in this you'11 easily forgive me; I shall pay the Value to Mr. Causton I beg to know if my bill has been duly Honoured [sic] for I have had no advices from Brittain [sic] ever Since I had wrote them in May last which makes me Suspect my Letters are Miscarry'd, & for that reason I beg to be Excused for Sending this under your Cover. Cherckeileigie told me St. Marks was a punchion [sic] fort & had 3 Guns & 30 men and that their was no Settlement on this river below him. Copy of a Letter from James Abercromby Esqr. to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town March 29th 1735. Sir Having this opportunity by Captn. Dunbar I can't let it pass without paying my Compliments, which may have nothing to Recommend them but the Distance from whence they come. The Affairs of this Province have had no great Alteration Since your Departure. Our last Sessions of Assembly ended Yesterday, by a Prorogation (not usual with us) for three Weeks It was occasioned by the lower house having thrown out the Tax Bill upon 2000 L being added to the Estimate for the Cheif [sic] Justices Arrears Salary by the Council, which Addition the lower House wont admitt of, in no respect whatever, this was put into the Estimate upon the lower House taking no Notice of a Message sent them concerning the Judges Salary. This point must be given up by one Side or other before we can have a Tax raised. The Affairs in North Carolina are just upon the point of Confusion Partys Estimate for the Cheif [sic] Justices pro and Con the Governor already Sprung the Quit rent Law Bill of a very Extraordinary Nature as my Letters from thence inform me thrown out by the Council; in this Bill forty odd Landings were appointed for His Majestys [sic] Receiver General to receive the Quitrents, in Various Commodities, such as Pitch, Tar, Green Mirtie Wax, and other Species; what has set them at Variance is the Blank Patents for Lands, the Cape Fear first Settlers hold by, or pretend to do. And such are Mr. More Mosley, and Swans, who are become now opposers to the Governor because he wont Confirm them. In this Bill they made Wacathaw Neck part of their Province and would now Tax the Inhabitants there, which has obliged the Governor to appoint Commissioners on both Sides to Settle the Boundaries; from this Province are appointed Mr. Skeene and my Self, and recommended by the Assembly Mr, Waities, who they are from North Carolina I can't yet tell. We Set out next Week for Cape Fear I am afraid we shall find it hard to bring them into our Way of thinking as it will also be for them to bring us to theirs If they they take it in their way they must have all our Indians and some are of Opinion Savannah Town it self, our Conference will however produce an Explanation from home of both Instructions. Before I Conclude I must beg the favour, [sic] if upon talking with Mr, Horace W [ ] & over Carolina Matters, You would be so good as hint to him the great Disadvantage the Officers lay under here Vizt. the Cheif [sic] Justices Secretary and my self by our Salarys [sic] not being yet Settled. Tho he has promis'd it a great while and has done it to the Gentlemen of North Carolina, and to none here but Mr. St. John; this Affair My Lord Cathcart and Mr. Drummond have push'd to him, but have hitherto had only promises. As You have Done me the Honour [sic] to Concert me for the Trustees in this Province Mr. Walpole may he the More induced to Consider me in that Service, If an Opportunity should come in Your way to give us a push in this Affair we Should all of us be obliged to you, and particularly now more than myself who shall always think my Self happy under Your Countenance. I am Sir Your Most Obedient and Most humble Servant. P.S. Our Governor now seems to mend very fast. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated Savannah April 2:1735. May it Please Your Honours [sic] The Store Account of all Goods Received, Issued and Remaining is now finisht [sic] and the Transcripts are making to be laid before Your Honours. [sic] I am now Setling [sic] with every One that is Debtor or Creditor with the Store to the 25th of March last, and hope to send their Respective Accounts by Captn. Thomson; who loads here. Your Honours [sic] Orders, with Respect to the future Support of the People shall be punctually obey'd; And as it has ever been my Choice to take advice in all matters, where my Orders are not Express, so I shall be particularly Carefull [sic]to advise with Mr. Christie and Mr. Vanderplank when any such Occasion offers. The people being now Chiefly discharged from the Store Provisions I Judged it would he agreeable to your Honours [sic] Intentions to keep Pro visions in Store That the people may he supplied either for money or Credit at the Prime Cost, and accordingly a Barrel of Pork which Costs 10 Currency is charged 11 reckoning at the Sate of 10 ? Cent for freight, Craneage, [sic] waist and all Charges. These people who Choose Sawing and Labour [sic] pay for their goods imediately [sic] And those who go to planting have Credit till the Harvest be in, or Your Honours [sic] Pleasure he known. There are a great many People in good earnest at planting now and Industry shows itself more every day to these I deliver also Corn Peas and Potatoes for seed which they are to return in Specie when the Harvest is in; I beleive [sic] 500 Acres will he planted before this Month is ended of which I will send Particulars. I have been askt what Bounty would he allowed at the Store for such Provisions as the people would furnish the Store with (being of Growth of Georgia) But having no Orders for this Year I desire your Honours [sic] Directions what I shall say in that matter. I thought it my Duty to give the Utmost Encouragement to Planting, and beleive [sic] the good Effects will he seen. I Received the Ten Tons of Strong Beer, which I have disposed of at 50 Sterling p hhd. the byer [sic] keeping the Cask. The People are to Apt to Run in Debt at the Ale houses (tho they pay 6d p Quart for Beer. The Magistrates have made an Order to prevent such Creditt, [sic] and would Regulate the price of Beer & other Liquors if your Honours [sic] thought Proper. The People continue their Healths in a most happy manner enjoying every thing that can make them happy. And now every thing seems to move again in Peace Friendship and Industry. (Watsons party only excepted) who Still maintain their Caballs [sic] in full Assurance of Mr. Gordon's promises which I Choose to wink at. The Saltzburgers [sic] are very Industrious. They have already fenced and planted 100 Acres of Land with Corn, Pease, [sic] and Potatoes; They have been much dissatisfied about their Land, and I have had much Difficulty to persuade them to be Easy Their Prejudice is so strongly raised, that nothing but seeing the Produce will Convince them what they have planted is Cheifly [sic] on the Sides of the Rivers where the Oaks grow. And I dont [sic] doubt but they will hove good Crops. The Surveyor will soon lay out the 2500 Acres which we have agreed shall be sent (in a Plan) for your Honours [sic] Approbation before the Lotts are disposed off. Mr. Vatt very much desired to have his people Settled on a Red Bluff which is near the Entrance of the River Ebenezer, and gave us a Reason, the Barreness [sic] of the Soil where the Town now Stands the Danger of Starving the People for want of Produce and the ill Reputation the Country would gain, if the people should write to their friends, that they were Seated in a Barren soil. This Bluff is about 8 Miles from the Town. In talking to Mr. Vatt and the Ministers I have represented to them the many hardships, the whole Province suffered from Evil disposed Tongues. That it was every ones Duty to the Trustees to Manifest to the world, that they were resolved to be Contented and depend upon their Orders, and firmly to beleive [sic] That if the People did their Endeavours [sic] all unavoidable Disapointmts. [sic] would be made Easy. That I was very Sensible too many Melitious [sic] People endeavoured [sic] to raise uneassinesses [sic] among, them on many Accots. and beged they would take Care that the People might not he Ensnared. That if they would forbear giving too much Creditt [sic] they would find that the Sume [sic] of their Argument is to Alter the Trustees Schemes of Setling [sic] the Province Vizt. . . . Want of Negroes and Setling [sic] every One by himself where he pleases with many other Arguments to that End. That on the other Hand to give Encouragement to any Ones Opinion who have no right to give it, would be of Dangerous Consequence. And it would he almost Impossible to Support a People to any good Purpose where Prejudice prevailed. I beged and Insisted, that they would give the People the greatest Encouragement; forbid the belief of all Tittle Tattle; and Assure them That as God Allmighty [sic] had now put them under the Protection of the Trustees, their Industry would allways [sic] meet with just Encouragement That as to the Land, twas plainly Malitious, [sic] to call it Barren, when the Valleys were so many and the Runs of Water so Conveniently intermixt, [sic] with Such Large Tracts of Young Canes, making large amends for the little Hills; And in a small time, would be fine Pasture Meadows to Support a large Stock of Cattle & thereby furnish Manure (by Penning) for the Hills; and make them fruitfull [sic] Corn fields And that this Mixture was so Advantageous for the whole that every Free holder might have a Proportionable Share. Besides the planting above mentioned they will plant Rice in the moist Ground. The Produce of which at the price I now pay for Bread kind will alone Supply them all with bread kind for the next Year. The Abercorn People show great Industry in planting (except Watkins) who is never there. Robert Parker Senior has now left his Mill (being much in Debt) And finding that it is not able to Answer his ends, gives out, that he built it by your Honours [sic] Order, And that Your Honours [sic] Must Discharge the Workmen. Augustine by the Assistance of a Millwright is building a saw Mill on his own land; Sir Francis Bathurst his Lady and Children are in good health and very well pleased with their Scituation, [sic] his two Eldest Daughters are married and he has buried two of his Servants. By Assistance of Peircy his son in Law he has planted and fenced 8 Acres and built him Convenient Covering. Musgrove is wholly at the Cowpen, we are daily in Expectation of Mr. Evileigh, when I Suppose all their Matter With Watson will be settled. The Indians are at Pipemakers Bluff and have built a very pretty Town being joined by the Savannah Indians. They all behave exceeding well. According to the Advices of Captn. Mackay a Coppy [sic] of which is Enclosed Tomochaci, Umpicki Hillispelli, Santutche Tallakumme Toanohowi and another Lad are gone to the Southward and have promised to Return in a Month. Tomochaci had sent Santutche to the Nation to Invite the Cheifs [sic] of the Towns, to receive your Honours [sic] Presents And they were to be here the beginning of this Month. Santuche was a little disatisfied because Captn. Maclcay had prevented their coming. I wrote Captn. Mackay the Enclosed answer and sent him the Enclosed List of the names of such Persons who Tomochachi desired to come And I suppose they will be here next Month. The People at Fort Argile are in good health Edgcomb is made Lieutenant (by the Captn.) Teesdale Finley and Jones are entered into the Scout Service Calvert and Roth are the only people there that minds Planting. The Scotch Gentlemen on that River are very Industrious and very healthy have built a good Fort, have planted about 100 Acres of Corn and Peas and very probably will Clear as much more for Turnips at the Season I have lent them 4 Small Cannon and Small Arms for all their People. As I am now informed Mr. Gordon is Sailed for England, with design to give some unjust Reflections. I beg leave to Say, That when he Arrived, I received him as one I wisht [sic] for, I mean a Person capable of Assisting me with hopes that he would Save me the Trouble of Acting (on every Occasion) in the Office of a Magistrate, and I communicated to him. Such parts of Your Honour's [sic] Orders to me as concerned the publick [sic] Administration. I expected he would have enforct [sic] the former Orders which till then had been peaceably Submitted to; But to my great Surprize [sic] encouraged Complaint and Raised Discord, as if he came with some great Comission; [sic] And there is not one Material thing done, but he has Endeavoured [sic] to Expose it. As there have been Various Instanaces of this his procedings [sic] It is impossible to Speak to any particular Unless he would have entered on any One Argument, And I should have given him my Reasons, and have most Dutyfully Submitted to Your Honours [sic] Orders. But this it is he has made a Voyage to Georgia Staid here about a Month, Encouraged Complaints aginst [sic] the Administrators of Justice helped to Vilifye,[sic] Ridicule and Oppose all former Management hearing one side without the other And then left us. Without letting us know his Sentiments, (or Staying) whereby to prevent those thing which he pretended to Complain of. I hope Your Honours [sic] will not be Offended if (with great Submission) I say. That this Treatment by Mr. Gordon, has given Me so great Uneasiness that I had rather Choose the most Ordinary Servitude Than Execute a Publick [sic] Office on Such Terms. I Rely on Your Honours [sic] goodness. Shall patiently expect, and readily Submitt [sic] to All your Honours [sic] Orders And all Occasions endeavour [sic] to be with the Greatest Industry Your Most Dutifull [sic] and most Obedient Servant. Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Fenwicke to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town the 3d April 1735. Honble. Sir I have had the Honour [sic] to receive your favours [sic] of the 28th of October Ulto.; Which as it is but very lately since it came to my hands you'll excuse my not answering it sooner. the Zeal with which you ere pleased to say I have Acted in your Colonys [sic] behalf, has never come up to what I have allways [sic] wisht [sic] I lay in my Power to do. Encouraged therein by the good Example of your Unwearied Endeavours [sic] and Application for the Mutual Advantage of this Province as well as that of Georgia; but more particularly by representing at home in a just manner the Situation and Circumstance of Our Affairs here, which we are bound in Duty Gratefully to Acknowledge. My Interest shall not be wanting in having the Scout Boat and Rangers at Georgia continued; well knowing the Security and Encouragement they are of to those out Setlements [sic] there has been some thoughts in the Assembly of reducing those on this side Savannah River to Ease the great Expence [sic] we are at, but the Government has Concluded they Shall also be continued at least for this Year, under the Apprehentions of Warr; We have agreed (tho the Act not past yet) to raise in this tax the Sum Stipulated with them in leiu [sic] of your Setling [sic] a Garrison in the Upper Creeks tho we have no advice as yet of its being done, nor Even of their Arrival there altho that Affair has been many months in Agitation, I could have Wisht [sic] Mackay had been furnished at the beginning with an Experienced good officer under him; The French Captn. at the Albamah [sic] Fort by his Letter to our Governor is alarm'd at the New's [sic] & Threatens he will repell [sic] by force any Attempts we shall make of Setling [sic] a Garrison nigh that of theirs wch. Letter the Governor Sent to Mackay before he went from Palachocolas; however we are under no great apprehension of any thing they can do on that head, provided Mackay plays his Cards well with the Creek Indians who have but a mean opinion of the French and their Fort insomuch that they not long ago Surrounded the Fort in Arms, and Obliged them to deliver up one of their men, that by some means had killed an Indian Woman which man they burnt before their faces; so that as we have lately had a good Accot. that that Fort and Garrison is Capable of making but very little Defence, [sic] it is to be hoped The Trustees have it now in their thoughts (in Case of Warr [sic]) Imediately [sic] to dismantle and reduce the same, which I dare say we shall not be backward in giving our Assistance to You'll no doubt have a more particular Accot. of matters from your Officers at Savannah than I am able to give you wherefore I must beg leave to referr [sic] them thereto as well as to Several things Mr. Eveleigh tels me he has advised you of So have only farther to Assure you of my readiness to Execute my Commands you think me Capable of and that I shall always be proud when I have an Opportunity to demonstrate how much I am Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant Wife desires to join with me in her Compliments to you. The Governor has been dangerously Ill but now on the mending hand. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Carolina April the 3d: 1735. Sir I could not possibly get down but four Peices [sic] of those live Oak timbers mentioned in my last which I have put on board the Prince of Wales. Captn. Dunbar and Consigned them to Messrs. Peter Symonds and Company as also a barrel of Ashes, which I lately Received from Mr. Welsh Houstoun Markt [sic] 10 and have desired the said Symonds to deliver it to you. I have by this Opportunity wrote [sic] them a Letter which Suppose they will communicate to you It relates Cheifly [sic] to live Oak I should be glad you could prevail with Sir Jacob Akeworth to report in favour [sic] of that Timber to the Lords of the Admiralty. Captn, Dunbar dined with me some days since, When after Dinner we Drank the Health of the Royal Family, the Trustees, Yours and Sir Jacob Akeworths He told me that a School fellow of mine at your House (who is Recorder of Hazellmore) drank my health, and we drank his also, I should be glad to know his Name. I am of Opinion That on the report of Sir Jacob Akeworth to the Lords of the Admiralty on live Oak Timbers, depends the Success thereof in a great Measure, and that if it be given in our favour [sic] Mr. Symonds may easily contract with the Admiralty for a quantity to Advantage I do assure you it is my Opinion that it will be of great advantage to England and Georgia and about which I spent many hours in inquireing [sic] and thinking thereof, some time since here was a Captn. of a Vessell [sic]that had been two Voyages from Piscataqua to Marseilles with Ships Timbers, Oak Pine &ca. and assured me, that he had a good freight and that the Merchant gott [sic] money besides; I took from him Minutes of those things which were necessary, and doubt not but it will turn to a better Accot, from Georgia because live Oak Timbers are in great Esteem there and are certainly much preferable to any Oak whatsoever. I desire you discourse Mr. Benja. Barry (whose name I have formerly mentioned) his Report of what he knows of his own knowledge may probably much avail with Sir Jacob. Yesterday I sent down to Georgia my Young man Wm. Buttler, and with him went two white Men, One of them is very well acquainted with live Oak Timber and after they have Cut some sparrs Oars &ca. Sufficient to load my Schooner back therewith to Jamaica They have Orders to cutt [sic] some few live Oak Timber. I am almost Impatient of Receiving Some Letters from you in Answer to a great many I have wrote [sic] you ever Since the begining [sic] of June last and if by them I find Encouragegement, He send more Strength And cutt [sic] sufficient to load one or two of Mr. Symonds's Vessells if he desires it. I design the letter End of this Month for Georgia and to Carry with me (if I can) Mr. Midleton the Pilate [sic] who was with Captain Gaiscoigne during all his Surveys and in the first place were forced to Survey the Inlett [sic] and the River of Warsaw as likewise to see to Pitch upon a Commodious place there for cutting of live Oak Timbers. Our Assembly met here the fourteenth day of Jany. and drew a bill and Sent it to the upper House for suspending the Indian traiding [sic] Law they past last Sessions; but the upper house making an alteration in the Tax Law, which was in favour [sic] of the Cheif [sic] Justice the Lower House Unanimously rejected it, for they would not admitt the Upper house to make any Alteration in a money Bill which may appear Strange Unless you Consider That the Kings Instructions to the Govr. Say, That you shall not admitt your Assembly to have any more privilidges [sic] than the Parliament of Great Britain, so that Implys [sic] they may have as much. I find by some Letters from Mr. Jeffreys That the Maligne [sic] Party both here and in England are Employing the Utmost Venome [sic] against the Governor, there are two matters which they make an handle of which I suppose was represented home by the Cheif [sic] Justice; The one is the Affair of Mr. Hazle, on which (Mr. Jefferies) who has been a very great looser [sic] p him Seems to Exclaim. They have infused into his head that the Governor was the Occasion they could not gett ye. money of him, which is very false, for I am well assured the Governor did not in the least interferr [sic] in that Affair The other is about passing the Law for Assistant Judges a Law (in my Opinion) as Reasonable as any Law in this Province. The Cheif [sic] Justice (as I am Informed) has Complained against the Assistant Judges taking away some of his Fees. I have Inquired of them all and they Say they never gott [sic] one farthing but gave their Attentions for the good of the Province without any other reward, than a Satisfaction of doing good to Mankind. They have also Represented as Ime [sic] Informed That they are both Ignorant and unlearned And I do assure you that they are Men of good sense tolerable Learning and Honesty and for these Reasons I would sooner Submitt [sic] my life and Estate to any one of them all than to the Chief Justice and if Humes himself would but tell you, what He told me before he went from hence would inform you he was a Man not fitt [sic] for Such a post and I am Satisfied this is the Opinion almost of Every Lawyer in this Place (Except Graham) Another thing is, I find by Mr. Jeffries they lay the blame of Captn. Gordons Death to the Govr, which I think is very unjust for if the Governor had not taken any notice of the Judge of the Admiraltys [sic] Request Mr. Whitaker would have sent home to the Lords of the Admiralty a grevious [sic] Complaint against him, and having done it He is Still to blame and what could the Poor Gentlemen do in this Case; It is here disputed whether the Admiralty's Jurisdiction did Extend to this Case. if So Mr, Whitaker is most to blame for he at least should know the Extent of his Authority. I am Sir Your most humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Paul Jenys Esqr. to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Charles Town April the 4th:1735. Sir The repeated Instances you have given since your Arrival in England of your Attachment to the Interest of this Colony the Assistance which on every Occasion youve [sic] given our Agent, and the Unwearied Pains you've taken to Sett [sic] the Affairs of this Province in a True Light merret [sic] the particular thanks of Every one who desires the Prosperity of this Country and I may Venture to assure you, that the Present Assembly will have a great Regard to what you recommend. Captain Mackay has been some time in the Upper Creeks but in what Town he designs to Erect a Fort or what Progress he has made in that Undertaking we have not yet hard, tis probable that this will Create some Jelousy [sic] in the French Settlement, The Governor of new Orleans discovers a Great concern on Account of some Trade, that has been carried On between the Choctaws and some of our Traders, and complains of some Attempts made by the English to withdraw that Nation from the French Interest; He seems to be much Alarmed at the Advice he has received Concerning those Indians I presume His Excellency has Communicated to you the Substance of what Genl. Bienuile has writ on this Head, The Visit which the Chocktaws paid to your Colony & the Presents which were there made them, and the Assurances they then gave of Cultivating a Trade and Friendship with your People, will give further Umbrage to the French Governor, but we hope he attended with no Injury to your Settlement a Garrison well Establish'd in the Upper Creeks will (we conceive) be some Awe to the French & Security to the Traders, and your Colony, and the sooner this is well affected the better, as 'tis like to Creat [sic] some Jealousy, & we hope Captain Mackay will with the Uttmost [sic] Expedition pursue your Instructions and erect a Fort in some Place; Pursuant to the Engagement which the General Assembly made with you in Behalf of the Honble. Traders, and which was after wards Confirm'd by a Law passed for that Purpose; the General Assembly will in the Tax Act for the year 1734 raise the Sum of L 2320; towards defraying part of the Charges of the Garrison to be Settled in the Upper Creeks, and the further Sum of L 1680 for the Reinforcement of the Rangers now in Georgia under the Command of Captn. Macpherson; Both of these Sums were in the Estimate of the Tax Bill for the Afforesaid Year, but this Bill on a third reading was rejected in the Commons House of Assembly the 27th past, as this is an Affair of unusual nature I shall give you a short Account of it; without entering into the debate or mentioning more than the Reason why the Bill was rejected; I would observe (tho I beleive [sic] you took Notice of it when here) that all Bills are read alternerly [sic] three Several times in each House of Assembly and not According to the Custom of the Parliament in Great Britain The Tax Bill had passed The Lower House a Second Reading, and was sent to the Council with the Estimate of the Year Closed, and on a Second Reading in that House An Addition was by them made of the Sum of L 2100, and the Bill sent to the Lower House Alterd [sic] agreeable to the Additional Sum upon this the Lower House of Assembly rejected the Bill on a third Beading, and alledged [sic] for this Procedure, that the Sole right of Taxing the Inhabitants is in their Representatives upon this the Governor after giving his Assent to three Acts prorogued the Assembly to the 15th Instant. Upon The Meeting of the Assembly a Tax Bill will be immediately brought in and soon dispatched if the Council do not retard it by Insisting on their right to Alter And Amend a Money Bill which (I find) will not on any Consideration be Submitted to by the House of Representatives The fatal Consequences of a Difference on this Subject gives me great Concern, and the more as it will immediately Affect all of our Garrisons, Scouts & Rangers who will on this Account be kept out of their pay and be distressed to the last Degree. A few Days past Captain Ferguson came to Town to discharge him self from the Service of the Publick, but I beleive [sic] the Scout Boat & Rangers will be Continued another Year in Georgia. Ive made use of all my Interest with the Members of our House for that purpose, and hope to Succeed a Majority will come into it unless I am deceived, and the Sooner as I have Assured them that the Trustees are like to obtain some Grant from the Parliament in Order to settle the Western Frontier and that then this Expence [sic] will be at an End. The Parliament being now Sitting I am in Expectation that the Representation of that Province will be recommended by the Ministry to their Consideration and as Georgia will receive more immediate Advantages from the Success of it I make no doubt but You and all of the Trustees will use your Utmost Efforts to Accomplish the Grand Design (which I may justly Say) is of your own Forming Nothing will be more agreeable to me then to hear of your Success in this Important affair which I hope you'll not forgett [sic] to advise me of. I shall not trouble you with any of the News of Georgia, but leave that to Captain Dunbar who is Capable of giving you a very full Account, Tis with much Pleasure and Satisfaction that I can now Inform you that I've Shipt [sic] your Cannoe [sic] on board the Prince of Wales and being Committed to the Care and Charge of Captain Dunbar I make no doubt but twill Accidents excepted come safe to Hand I never met with so many Disappointments nor so much Difficulty in my Life as to convey the Craft to England and had it not been Mr. Oglethorpes [sic] the Commander of the Prince of Wales would not have taken the Charge thereof for any Money. Ive Inclosed to your Adress [sic] the last Quarterly Accounts of the Georgia Duty on Rum hope you'll lay it before The Honourable [sic] Trustees at their first Meeting; We've duly paid all of Mr. Caustons Draughts an Accot. of which we shall shortly transmitt [sic] to the Trustees they amount to much more than the Duty of Rum and for the Ballance [sic] (we Suppose) Mr. Causton will give us a Bill on the Trustees, whose Commands we shall be very proud to Execute on every Occasion. If the Trustees have not empowered any Person to receive what is Granted them towards the Charges of Erecting and Maintaining the Garrison in the Upper Creeks we shall be ready (if they please to empower us) to receive it when raised and to pay it as they shall Direct. Mr. Manigrall is appointed Publick [sic] Treasurer in the Room of Colonel Parris. I am Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Paul Ametis to the Magistrates of Georgia dated at Savannah 5th April 1735. Gentlemen I am obliged (tho' contrary to my Inclination) to write these few Lines with an Intent to defend my Character against the wicked Designs of Mr. Fitzwalter who certainly has no other View by bringing me into Court than to cover and hide his Mismanagement & great Faults in relation to the Trustees Garden, He might easily have prevented what I have done against him had he done his Duty ever since Mr. Oglethorpe's Departure, but it seems he did not believe that another Superior to him was appointed by Mr. Oglethorpe to overlook his Proceedings and every thing else relating to the Publick [sic] Garden. I do declare and maintain the same that my whole View and Intentions have been no other than to do Justice and my Duty to the Trustees according to my Promise to them long since. I have very good Reasons for turning out Mr. Fitzwalter from the Garden, which I will shortly give the Trustees in Person. I have the Satisfaction to find that I have entirely in the strictest manner obeyed and performed the Orders Mr, Oglethorpe gave me several times before Govr. Johnson and several other Persons of Distinction, vizt. The Revd. Mr. Quincy, Capt. Mackay, Capt. Dunbar and Mr. Vanderplank. I further declare that Mr. Fitzwalter has insulted me in the Garden and acted contrary to my Orders and given away several Plants and Trees out of the Publick Garden without the Trustees Leave or mine. I therefore oppose his having any thing to do there till the Trustees have received my Complaint and their further Orders arrived here which I expect in a short time to end this Dispute. I have wrote [sic] to them twice relating to their Servants being taken away from their Employ in the Garden in my Absence, and that I stay in this Town with no other View than to perform my Duty to them and take due Care of their Interest, which 'tis evident I have more at Heart than my Rival Mr. Fitzwalter. Copy as read in Court. Copy of An Anonimous Letter Dated Savannah April the 10th 1735. Sir Your favour [sic] of the 27th March came safe and very Welcome to my hands. I heartily Congratulate you on your good health, and prospect of Success in Affairs of the province. The presents sent by the Trustees of which I advertized [sic] you in my last I have Orders to Dispose of to the Creek Ration as Tomochachi shall advice. Nevertheless, I understand it as you do, I Mean to such as have the Most Interest, and since you have the Opportunity to Advice in this Affair, it would Certainly be very proper to Advice Senteche who is the Messenger from Tomochachi to Invite those down here whom you discover to have that Interest. I have taken the Inclosed List from Tomochachis Own Mouth, which I thought proper to Send you whereby you will see who he means and Judge of it in a proper manner. I have also Enclosed the Quantity and quality of the presents, which are all in my Custody and (pursuant to my Orders) will be delivered to none but the heads of the Creek Nation. We have no Account of a Warr [sic] (with regard to Brittain [sic] at present). But every one seems to beleive [sic] it unavoidable. I shall take particular Care to give you Intelligence of what comes to knowledge, have given the necessary Caution to the out Settlements and have procured some Indians to Cruise towards the Alatamaha. I send you also the Hand Cuffs as desired, our Colony are all in very Good Health. Hames of the Chief Indians to he Invited from the Creek Nation to Receive presents. Chekelly al Saawny bones -- head man of the Coweta Town Himolatche -- Twin brother to Saphia Son to the Emperor Brem Iseiche -- King of the Cursetees Teechee Choweche al Carr -- head man of Do. Toowhihituche -- King of Chehaw Phohehaw Cheif [sic] -- Warriour of Do. Tallapholechee -- brother to Tasany who died here of the Wosctehee Town A Woolleg -- King of Do. Hopoheebeche -- King of the Hitchtaws Imetalshow -- Head Warrior of Do. Topuseko -- King of the Palachocalae Tomeeha -- Head Warrior Do. Helathe -- Cheif [sic] man Islechami -- King of the Hokomas Yawchace -- his Brother Cheif [sic] Warriour [sic] King of the Sowkalaw Town Izawyewas -- Cheif [sic] Warriour[sic] Tamahumme -- King of the Enfantes Ellich -- Cheif [sic] man live at Ewchee Town These must consult together: Alatchee -- Head man at the Tukebotchee Town another head man as he likes Dick Hornabee -- King of the Tallasees another as he likes Hupoihaache -- at the Obhaws and Such as he likes From the several town Each one: Chahawe -- Dog King of the Enfautes his Brother Copy of a Letter from Sir Francis Bathurst to the Trustees dated at Bathurst's Bluff 15th April 1735. May it please Your Honours[sic] This waits on You humbly to beg the favour [sic] of Your Honours [sic] to give me 2 or 3 Servants for I have lost 2 of mine, one dyed [sic] in about a month and odd Lays after I landed here of the Scurvy and Dropsy; the other about Weeks ago of a Dropsy and an Ulcer in his Leg. I vastly like the Country and would be heartily glad to continue here if possible I could have Servants; the Death of them 2 is a hundred L lost to me, it now being Planting time and People are hard to be got here. I wish all People were of my mind and then I am sure the Colony would soon be peopled; so hoping your Honours [sic] will grant me my Request I beg Leave in all Humility to Subscribe my self Your Honours [sic] Most Dutifull [sic] humble and Obedient Servant I don't hear but that the Colony is in good health & all very quiet, my poor little Son does the Work of a Man and is vastly delighted with the Country. Copy of a Letter from Hr. Thomas Causton and others to the Indian Traders dated at Savannah April the l6th 1735. Gentlemen Being Inform'd by Mr. Barker that you are Indian Traders within this Province and are Apprehensive of some Interuption [sic] or Disturbance in the Same. We shall take the first Opportunity of Aquainting [sic] the Trustees of this matter and in the mean time let you know That the Trustees have here appoininted [sic] a Court of Records and whatever power Except from them Shall presume to give you any disturbance or Molestation within this Province You may depend upon us of a Legal Protection and we shall allways [sic] be ready to Serve you to the Utmost of our Power we are Your humble Servants Copy of a Letter from Hr. John West to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah April the 18th 1735. Honoured [sic] Sir I have made bold to trouble you with this, to heartely [sic] thank you and the Honble. Trustees for the great favour [sic] you was pleased to bestow on me in letting me come for England and with a kind offer of paying my Passage to and from England I shall have Occasion to stay but a Small time in England I purpose comeing [sic] with Captn. Tomson I am now Settling my Affairs. I shall leave 3 men in my Shop to carry on my business while I am away. I am like to have abundance of Letters to your Honour [sic] and the Best of the Honourable [sic] Trustees Mr. Vanderplank; sends his Journall [sic] by me and Mr. Fitzwalter. I am making a Collection of Curiositys [sic] to bring with me. I beleive [sic] Captain Tomson will gett [sic] his Loading here And I hope to putt [sic] my self an 100 d barrels of Rice aboard of her their will be about 400 d Barrells [sic] of Pitch and Tarr [sic] made hear [sic] also on board the same and about 20 or 30 Hogsheads of Skins, the Pitch and Tarr belongs to Mr. Lacy at Thunderbolt, Mr. Causton and Mr. Vanderplank and the Skins to Mr. Eveleigh I hope your Honour [sic] will be so good as to petition the Honourable [sic] Trustees for 500d Acres of Land I should be glad of that which was Captain Scott's between the town and Thunderbolt I have wrote to my Father, and Brother, to gett [sic] me as many Servants as they can against I come to England which If I can Emberke [sic] from Bristoll. [sic] I am very sorry for Mr. Gordon that he did not stay longer with us before he went away the people are all at present Very quiet and very Industrious I have and will go and see what Land Every man have Cleared and what Improvements is made on itt [sic] in Town and Country (56O) and bring your Honnour [sic] as particular account of itt [sic] as possible I can I beleive [sic] I shall sail in May so I hope that your Honour [sic] will be satisfied till I see you the people in generall [sic] seems to be greatly pleased att [sic] my going for England but not so well pleased at Mr. Gordon going so soon from them and nott [sic] to let them know of itt [sic] I hope to be able to give a trew [sic] reeportt [sic] of Most transactions here from your Honnour's [sic] Humble Servant to Command Copy of a letter from Mr. Samuel Marcer to the Trustees dated at Savannah 25th April 1735. May it please Your Honours [sic] I have made hold to write to You hoping that You will excuse me for I am very sorry that the first Letter that I send to Your Honours should he a Coimplaint, [sic] and this is at present to let You know the great many Grievances that we lay under. In the first place Esqr. Oglethorpe when he was here was so good as to grant to me a licence [sic] for Selling of liquors, and since I am informed has been consented to by the whole Trust; for which I return the whole Trust a thousand thanks for their Goodness and shall always acknowledge it as a great favour [sic] and shall always he very willing to obey any Commands that the Trust shall think proper. I might have begun Selling liquors when the Esqr. left Georgia, but after he was gone Seeing so many People Retail liquors that had no Sight so to do made me forbear a long time and longer a great deal than I would have done, thinking that those things might he suppressed; and I have often times spoke to the Magistrates of this place and particularly to Mr. Causton thinking that they would suppress them, but I found all was in vain and to no manner of purpose, for instead of encouraging those Houses that had a Eight to Sell Liquors, did always encourage those that had no Eight; and their Seasons for so doing are these. In the first place the Trust have thought proper to Debar us from Selling of Rum or any other Distill'd Liquors which I do assure Your Honours [sic] I never have sold any nor never will except I have the Consent of the Trust. And because they can get Punch at those Houses that have no Licence [sic] they always encourage them, which I think is very hard; for if ever any Gentlemen come to see the Place, Mr. Causton instead of encouraging those whom the Trust had thought proper to grant Licences [sic] to for Selling of Liquors, always went with them to Mr. Penrose who hath no Right to sell any Liquors. And those Persons having ready money always, wch. cannot always he expected of those that live in Town, has been a very great hardship to us and we have suffered very much by it and shall do more except Your Honours [sic] will be so good as to think of some method to Suppress those things. I did not begin to sell any Liquor until Christmas last seeing so little Encouragement for it but then was willing to take a Tryal [sic] to see what I could do but can find no Encouragement for carrying on the Business at present therefore I have rather chose to forbear selling of Liquors by the Advice of some friends until such times as I might acquaint your Honour's [sic] of the Proceedings that ere now carried on in this Town, for I do believe there are hardly Twenty houses in the Town but what sell Rum and other Liquors; end those Persons whose Business it is to see that Your Honours [sic] Commands are obeyed, are the furthest from it; even so far that Mr. Christie our Recorder sells Rum as well as other Liquors by Retail even by Quarterus, [sic] and not only he but several others. There is one Mr. James Gould whom Mr. Causton employs to write in the Stores that sells Rum and also other Liquors which Mr. Causton is very well acquainted with, as also one Mr. Houstoun and one Mr. Jenkins and several others, too many to speak of at present. But Mr. Gould Selling has been of very bad Consequence to those that had Licence, [sic] for those People that were at Work for the Publick [sic] we must give Credit to until such times as they could have their Money paid, and when they have come to receive their Money then had they most part of it, if not all, to pay to Mr. Gould and other Persons for Rum; So that it is very herd for us to get our Money. And these Persons selling of Rum such as Mr. Christie and Mr. Gould have made a great many more Sell, more a great Deal than I believe would have done; for the People say that if Mr, Christie who is the Recorder, and Mr. Gould who is in the Stores, sell Rum; why may not they? And a great many People do believe that Your Honours [sic] never gave any such Orders that Rum should not he sold in this place, and their Reason for it is because those People do sell it. And I say that Rum is now sold as plenty as any other Liquor and as openly, and those People that sell it get all the ready money for so long as the People can get Rum they never will buy any other Liquor; and when they have got no Money then they will come to the Publick [sic] Houses to get Credit, and we must give Credit or our Liquor must perish on our hands and then we must suffer very much, for Beer and Wine will not keep in the Summer here there being so much Thunder and Lightning. I hope that your Honours [sic] will be so good as to take these tilings into Consideration and not to let me suffer for I have been at great Charge in Building and making Room for Lodgings and getting a great many other things on purpose to carry on the Business in a handsome and decent way and to entertain Travellers [sic] in a handsome manner; so that I hope Your Honours [sic] will not let me suffer but grant that I may sell as other People do and not be under the Penalty of L 50, Sterling, or that Your Honours [sic] will be pleased to think of some methods to Suppress those that do sell Rum, and whatever way your Honours [sic] shall think most proper I shall always he ready to obey Your Honours [sic] Commands. Mr. Penrose has continued to sell Rum and other Liquors ever since the Esqr. left this place without Licence, [sic] he hath been fined a second time for it but doth not mind it & continues to do the same as before and says that he will still continue. There is another thing I shall beg Leave to acquaint Your Honours [sic] with and that is about our Lands; when the Esqr. left this place Mr. Jones our Surveyor promised him that our Lands should be run out and that every Man should know his land but we never had any run out yet nor do not know when we shall which is very hard upon a great many People, for several Peoples five Acres Lots lay so much covered with Water and in such swampy wet Ground that it is impossible for them to be cleared as yet to be fit for any person to get their Bread on; and here are a great many Persons that had they their forty five Acres run out would have been clearing their lands and before this time would have had a good deal of land planted which would have been of great Service to the Colony but as things are now a great many People are forced to get to any Sort of Work in the Town to keep them from Starving, which is a very great Hardship to them and makes them very uneasy. I am very sorry that my first should be a Complaint but I hope Your Honours [sic] will excuse me for I waited a long time expecting to see some Alteration for the better but found none, but every thing to go worse and worse which made me that I could bear no longer without giving your Honours [sic] an Accot. As for the Place I like it exceeding well and hope through God Almightys [sic] Blessing and the great Care that Your Honours [sic] have for this place to see this Colony in as flourishy. [sic] a Condition as any part of America. This is all at present only begging that Your Honours [sic] will he so good as to send me a Line or two of your Advice and what way Your Honours [sic] would have me to proceed. I beg Leave to Subscribe my self Your Honours [sic] Most humble and Obedt. Servant to Commend Copy of a Letter from Leiutenant [sic] Governor Broughton to Mr. Causton dated at the Council Chamber Aprill [sic] the 28th 1735. Sir The General Assembly having Agreed that the Garrison at Port Prince George commonly called the Palachocula Garrison Should be Dismissed they being unwilling to make any further Provision for the same and as Mr. Oglethorpe did propose when here to place a few Men in the said Port in Case this Province Should think fitt [sic] to quitt [sic] the same I now advise you thereof and have Order'd Captain Mackintosh who will be the Bearer to Deliver to you or your Order all the Great Guns Small Arms Ammunition Tooles and other things Belonging to that Port and also the Canoe he taking a Receipt for the same in Order to be returned for the use of this Government. I am Sir Your humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Lieut, Govr. Broughton to Capt. Patrick Mackay dated Council Chamber 29th. April 1735. Sir We send You herewith the Extract of a Letter from the Govr. of St. Augustine to His Excellency whch. we desire You will carefully peruse, and make all possible Enquiry what Grounds there are for the Complaints he makes against the Captains or Traders therein mentioned; And by the first opportunity give us a full Account of the same. We also desire You will use the best Application for preventing any Transactions that may tend towards a Breach of the Articles of Friendship Settled between the two Provinces, it being highly necessary to maintain a good Correspondence with them, especially at this time when we remain under an Uncertainty what Share the Court of England may have in the Troubles nov/ Subsisting in Europe. We are Yours &c. Extract of a Letter from the Govr. of St, Augustine to His Excellency Robert Johnson Esqr. Govr, of So. Carolina dated 27th April 1735. I communicate to Your Excellency what has been wrote to me about the two Captains or Traders that live among the Nations of the Cowetasas [sic] and Talapouches, [sic] who incite the Indians to come molest and kill the Subjects of my Sovereign. This has been a very strange piece of News to me, being assur'd their Catholick [sic] and Britainick [sic] Majesties are in Peace and Tranquility with each other, and to see that two private Persons by their Interest & Power accompany'd by an odious Malice encourage the Indians to break it. I have been assured that they have sent three Partys [sic] with Orders to take Prisoners and kill all the Spaniards they shall meet or Indians that inhabit the lower part of our Government which is very certain, since I have also been informed by one of the Chiefs of the said nation; so that I would take it very kindly of your Excellency to take all the necessary and convenient measures to give me Satisfaction in order that the Disturbers of the Peace may be punished as they deserve, or else I shall be obliged to take the most expedient Resolutions; And I also communicate to your Excellency and the Noble and Honble. Council to which I write on this Occasion, that I would inform the King my Master that in those Provinces they don't religiously keep the Conditions of Peace that have been establish'd.I hope that the Conduct and Justice of Your Excellency will remedy as soon as You can such a necessary Urgency and wont permit that the Excusses [sic] of the said Captains may go unpunished. I am well assured of the Equity and Justice of your Excellency &c. Copy of a Letter from Don Francisco del Moral Sanchez Govr, of St. Augustine to Lieut. Govr. Broughton dated at St. Augustine in Florida 13th May 1735. Sir The Bearer here of Joseph Delorme will inform your Excellency of the said Accident that happened yesterday at the Fort of St. Francis De Pupo on the bank of Picalata River, where one of the three Parties of Indians I mentioned in my last, sent by your Traders among the Cowetas and Talapouchees, has killed the Master Gunner of the said Fort; which Insult I cannot bear nor excuse the Chastisement they deserve, for such Temerity is insupportable and ought not to he permitted; Since the two Crowns are in Peace. Therefore I hope your Excellency will take proper Measures to remedy such an Enormity, and that the Promoters thereof will receive their due Punishment; otherwise I shall my self be obliged and inexcusable should I not punish so audacious and surprizing [sic] an Action, especially since these Provinces enjoyed great Tranquillity till your Traders incited by Malice had not troubled the Spaniards and the Indians who are under our Protection. I hope your Excellency will Support the Union and good Correspondence that has all along Subsisted between us, by obliging the said Traders to appear before your Excellency and also their Accomplices; And I am persuaded a Punishmt. [sic] condign to their Offence [sic] will be inflicted on them. I am very sincerely Your Excellencys [sic] Most humble & Obedt. Servt, Copy of a letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah l6th May 1735. Honoured [sic] Sir My last to You was from Charles Town by Capt. Knox wherein I gave You an Accot. of the heath of our good Governor Mr. Johnson. He was the first Vessel after and he promised me to forward that Letter to You as soon as he arrived by the first Post, and to keep the rest of his Letters till the next. This I did that You might have the first Account. The 6th Instant I left Charles Town Capt. Colcock Master, and in 23 hours after we got off that Bar we arrived at this Bluff; the same Evening I got in Company with Capt. Thomson the Bearer hereof, who complaining for want of a full Load I agreed with him to fill him up with Live Oak Timber, and ordered some men that I had then working at Thunderbolt to go to Tybee and hire 8 or 10 men more for that purpose; I agreed wth. them or most of them at 3 p day besides Provisions which I reckon will be full 4 so that I don't think to get any thing by this Agreement. Two or three days after Capt. Thomson, Colcock, Millar and my self went down to Survey the Inlet at Wassaw and the convenience in the insides for entertaining Ships of War, which we found to be very agreable [sic] and capable of receiving a great Number of His Majesty's Men of War, as Capt. Thomson can better inform You. But when we came to try the Channel we found at dead Low Water but 16 1/2 foot contrary to what Lacy, Causton and Ford assured me again & again which gave me a very great Disatisfaction [sic] & disappointed my very great Expectations. I am informed there is a much better Channel close by little Tybee, I have agreed with Millar to go down and sound it, and what Report he makes I shall advise You with. The People here are grown much more industrious than when I was here last, Arthur Johnson has cleared and planted 15 Acres, 5 wth. Rice and 10 with Corn; and I am told the Corn is very good notwithstanding we have had a great deal of dry Weather. Sterling informs me that he has 70 Acres of Corn planted at his Bluff and good Quantities at other Places, but its a General Observation that the most industrious People are fixed and settled on the worst Land. I found the People very much divided here like Court and Country in England. The Magistrates and the better Sort as I take it of one Side, The Populacy, if I may so call them, with a few of the better Sort on the other, I find if any Person wants any thing of Mr. Causton and he refuses them, though it be unreasonable and contrary to his Instructions, they presently turn Grumbletonians and side and herd with one another, as in the Corporal Body if there is a Wound in the Leg all the malignant humours [sic] will incredibly fly to that place. If a Person has a Tryal [sic] with another the Loser immediately exclaims, nay I observed when I was last here that after a Tryal [sic] both Parties were Dissatisfied and both reflected chiefly on Mr. Causton; for as he is the chief Magistrate all the Reproaches seem to be levelled at him. I must needs say there are a great many things here that want to be rectified and that your Presence or some other Person of weight and Ability is absolutely necessary here. I shall not enter into the Detail of those things but leave that to Mr. West and Capt. Thomson, the latter having made very just Observations during his Stay here. Mr. Causton has his Faults as all Men have, but must assure You 'tis the Common Vogue that he was the most capable of such an Office than any Man in the Province when You went off; But he has too much business to Act in both Capacities as Magistrate and Storekeeper, You cannot imagine what Uneasiness the Irish Convicts give him, there was no less than five of these whipped one morning when I first came here for Theft and Running away; and some of them very severely, I thought too severe. And yet they are so incorrigible that fair and foul means will not reclaim them. I must he free to acquaint You that after a very strict Enquiry I find that the poor People at Ebenezer are very industrious; but the Land there is so very poor that they cannot reap any Advantage thereby. I hear they want to he removed 6 miles farther, and I think it will be a piece of Justice in the Trustees and of great Service to the Colony if they grant their Request. When I went up to See Sir Francis Bathurst Mr. Augustine told me that the Cattle You had put on Argyle Island were very fat and well. Right opposite to his Landing is another Island by which Title >tis distinguished I cannot tell which to outward Appearance I believe to be extraordinary good for Rice and Cattle. I am Sir Your most Obliged Servant Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Urlsporger to Mr. Henry Newman dated at Augsburg 19 May 1735 Dear Sir Upon my Commissions given to the Commissary Mr. Van Reck, who is at present in Ratisbone, [sic] he sent me the followg. answer, dated the 17th Instant. I. Concerning the Saxon Envoy Mr. Van Schoenberg This Gentlemen hath often advised the Carinthians who are here to give a Memorial to the Imperial Embassy in behalf of their Wives and Children left behind them, which out of to great fear they never would do wherefore I offered my self not only to draw up a Memorial as Lettr, A. Sheweth and get it Signed by the Carinthians but also to deliver it for them, with which His Excellency was well pleased, and promises himself a good Effect thereof. As to the maintaining of the Carinthians, who are very poor, and have no work to get their Living by, it is thought proper not to maintain them out of the Emigrants Cash, for fear they should grow idle, and have a mind to Stay here, but if they would go to Georgia, the Saxon Envoy would procure them a Considerable Viaticum of money. II. Concerning the Electoral Brunswick Envoy Mr, Von Hugo. a) In respect to the Carinthian Wives and Children left behind, he is of Opinion with the Electoral Saxon Envoy; and promises to Second my Memorial with a forcible Representation by word of mouth. b) He, as well as the Electoral Brunswick Envoy at Vienna, Mr. Van Erff, [sic] hath got a Rescript from Court concerning the Bohemian Brethren according to which he will do his utmost Endeavours [sic] for their Best, and send the Bohemian Memorial to Vienna. c) In Case the Envoy Mr. Van Reck should die, he will be very glad to correspond with you Sir, as well in affairs concern ing Religion as that of Georgia; likewise. d) His Excellency vdll have an Opportunity to send your letters along with the Kings Packet to London. III, Concerning the Envoy from Holland Mr. Galliers (1st) He assures us that in the Bohemian affair he intirely [sic] concurs with the rest of the Envoys, and that by the last post he had sent to the High and Mighty States General a very forcible and moving Representation in favour [sic] of Bohemian Brethren, which he does not doubt will have a good Effect. He together with some other Envoys, does not only think it proper, but highly necessary that the Bohemian Memorial he printed and published in England without delay, because it is Intended to do the same in Holland, Their High Mightinesses assure the Trustees and the Society of their Assistance in this affair and would by the Help of the King of England, endeavour [sic] that when as is expected a Peace to he concluded with France a particular Article may he incerted [sic] in favour [sic] of the Bohemian Brethren the Crisis of the present time being so favourable [sic] that either one must make an advantage of it, or by neglecting such an Opportunity, renounce his Right almost for ever. (2) As to the March of the Georgian Transport thro [sic] Holland it would he very acceptable to their High Mightinesses if the Honble. Society or the Trustees would give Notice of it to Mr. Dayrolles, [sic] which would contribute very much to a more easy and speady [sic] Journey for us This week God willing 1 shall take an Opportunity to Speak with the Electoral Brandenbourgh,[sic] Danish Swedish and other Protestant Envoys. If any thing shall be done in the Bohemian Affair, the Envoys here are of Opinion that the Grievances and the Redressing thereof be represented to the Emperor in a particular Audience. The Privy Counsellor, Mr, Goebel assures me that in the Berchtolagaden [sic] District are Still above 100 Emigrants & expects to hear, within a Fortnight of the time fixed for their departure. Letter A High and well horn Free Lords of the Empire: Gracious Lords Your Excellency's praise worthy Clemency & Commiseration towards all miserable people causes us also in our Affliction most humbly to seek our Refuge by you. For whereas we have; for the Sake of Liberty of Conscience, left our Country Effects Wives and Children, lived here for awhile and now are obliged to proceed on our Pilgrimage into other Protestant Country's wch. is very hard as well for our Wives and Children as for us. We most humbly beg your Excellencies's graciously to consider our miserable Condition and to grant that our Wives and Children may follow us, and that we may get some of our Effects left behind us to bring us to our Journeys end. which act of Compassion the most gracious God will reward and hear our Prayers for your Excellencies's Welfare. In hopes of your Excellencies's granting us our Desire, we remain with all Submission Your Excellencies's Most humble and most Obedient Emigrants from Carinthia. Extract of a Letter from Ratisbonne dated 17th May 1735. The Dollar you sent me, to which I have beg'd another from the Emigrants Cash, which makes in all 3 Guilders shall Certainly be delivered by the first Opportunity the hands of Lerchner the good Saltzburger now in prison at Raabin Hungaria to whom I sent awhile ago some Guiders. I have also procured 8 Guilders for honest Simon Sigel from K. who is likewise at the same place in prison, and as it is Said, for his life time, which he hath received, just in the time when he was in the greatest misery and as he himself mentions was ready to starve of Cold for want of Cloths so that nobody could well know him. I knew him because by his Letter, from K. he was the first that told me of the powerfull [sic] finger of God which happened at the said place of which more might be said. I pity him with all my heart. God send him Strength and Comfort, and give him Grace for his faithfullness.[sic] I have heard good news from Holland, concerning the Emigrants in Cadsand; Those who are there still, thank God and do not desire to go from thence. Several of them have bought themselves necessaries. They have now a Church of their own, and got a House for their Minister Mr. Fisher, God give his Blessing to his word in their Souls! Many are very well placed in Hannoverian Countries, some return; the Artists are gone to Nurnberg. Just now the Carinthians were with me and signed a Memorial concerning their Wives and Children which tomorrow will be delivered to the Imperial and Austrian Embassy God grant it a happy Effect! Mr. Van Reck will tell you more. Here follows a Specification of the Age Names &ca. as far as I could be informed by those that are here especially of those who are married Several. are gone to Anspatch to work. In Ratisbonne it is impossible that so many Emigrants can get work, however, as much as possible, A farther Specification of the Names Age and families of the Emigrants from Carinthla and their Relations Prom the Jurisdiction Riberstein. I) Frantz Santer a Masr. Linnen Weaver j6 years old his Wife Reigetta of the same Age; They have 4 Children. 1 Maria 14 years 2 Matthias 10 years 3 Ursula 7 years 4 Eva 3 years II) Nicolaus Neidhart a master Taylor 42 years his Wife Marla 26 years & 4 Children, 1 Matthias 8 years 2 Simon 16 years 3 Balthaser 3 years 4 Caspar 1 year III) Christian Steinscher a Bricklayer, 52 years his wife Margaret 43 years & one Child-- 1 Elizebeth 6 years From the same Jurisdiction Riberstein three Single Women namely 1) Magdelena Anna Weinin 25 yrs. 2) Maria Sublin 21 yrs. 3)Cath. Sieblin 16 yrs. From the Jurisdiction Muhlstadt I) Matthias Egarter a Countryman 34 years, his Wife Susanna 2? yrs. and one Child 1 Christiana 6 years II) Gregory Rochler a Countryman 32 years his Wife Lucia 27 years and one Child 1 Maria 1 year III) Clement Leidler a Countryman 48 His Wife [ name? ] 44 years and 2 Children 1 Maria 13 years 2 Maria 6 years [both names given as Maria] IV) Simon Moses a Master Linnen Weaver & Bricklayer 43 his Wife Maria 39 years & 3 Children. 1st Maria 18 yers. 2d Christian 12 yrs. 3 Afra. 6 yrs. V) Johan Unterwald a Countryman 49 years Ms wife Maria 47 years and 5 Children whose names are yet unknown VI) Bartholomew Globischeig a Countryman 49 years his wife Christina 45 years & 7 Children whose names are yet unknown the Farther [father?] Being at Anspach at work. VII) Johan Eggar a Countryman 53 years, whose Wife and Children never owned themselves Protestants. The wives and Children are yet in Carinthia as I have Signified in my former Letter. Dear Sir. I expect an answer upon this as well as my former Letters as Soon as possible. Because they contain weighty Affairs. I remember very well that upon the Desire of the Society, I have promised to give a further Account of the Demarches and Views of Count Zinz; But Because it cannot Be done now, it Shall perhaps Be done in my next. Since 3 weeks ago things have happened wch, are not to he allowed, I recommend mend the Saltzburgers in Eben Ezer and remain. Your most humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Saml. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah 28th May 1735. Honoured [sic] Sir Last Saturday Capt. Thomson and I went to Purysburgh where we were handsomely received as we had been at Georgia. That Town doth not make the Appearance as Georgia because it is much lower and a Swamp of dead water runs through the middle. The People appear to he very industrious and have their Gardens pretty well improved with diverse Necessarys of Life, there seems to he amongst them a sort of Emulation for Industry. Every Town Lot contains one Acre of Land, by far too much; As Georgia (excuse the Liberty) has too little, I was in several of their Gardens, in one belonging to a German or Dutchman I with Pleasure observed a larger Spot of Land planted with Flax which was better they told me than they usually had in their Country notwithstanding it had had but very little Rain from the time of its being Sowed till I was there. The old Man told me he could dress it fit for the Spinner, which his Wife could do; and that there was a weaver among them that could make it into Cloth, I also observed in that same Garden a good Patch of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Buck Wheat, Indian Corn, Rice and Potatoes; all which appeared to me to be pretty good considering the Dryness of the Season. I was in another Garden with Mr. Bellinger where was a small piece of Rice wch. he thought better than any he had seen in Carolina. On Monday there was a Review when there appeared under Arms about 120 Men besides Officers, who were very gay or at least gayer than I could have expected. There were several Persons absent. Some at their Plantations, Some one way and Some another. I was there told they could make about 250 Effective Hen, They exercised tolerably well according as I am capable of judging. I was informed that a great number as well Officers as Centinells [sic] had been in the English, Dutch, French end German Service. I found there were Men there almost of all European Nations, as English, French, Dutch, High German, Prussians, Russians, Switzers, Savoyards and Italians. Several of them proposed the propagating of Silk particularly Monsr. Albergoti by Birth an Itelian, [sic] who told me that he understood the Management of Worms and Silk very well, and I have promised to send him a Quantity of Mulberry Trees. This placeif it thrives, as I hope it will, will be of very great Advantage to this Colony, for whatsoever they produce must be Shipped off from hence & what Supply they want will be furnished from Georgia. Right opposite to Purysburgh is another fine Island belonging to this Province furnished with great Quantities of Birch and Beech, a Wood or Timber as I am informed the most proper to make Pot Ashes. And the Land very good both for Rice and Corn especially the former. I find in falling of live Oak Timber upon Tybee a great many Trees are rotten decayed and good for nothing, and the sooner those Trees are cut down the sooner others will grow in their Room. And I have been informed by Col. Bull & others that notwithstanding Live Oak is very hard it is of a very quick Growth. I am Sir Your most Obedt. Servt. Copy of a Letter from Capt. Patrick Mackey to Mr. Jones Dated at Coweta 28th May 1735. Mr. Jones I found on my Arrival here the Trade of this nation in very great Disorder, which I imputed to the Numbers licenced [sic] to trade, and which as governed could not afford a Living for some Traders which was the Reason they were guilty of unfair Practices. I have regulated the Trade a little, and reduced the Number of Traders; And that You may not disappoint yourself, I am sorry I must tell You that You are not in the Number of those continued; Therefore You are to withdraw your self and Effects with all convenient Diligence from this Nation. I am Your humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Christie to the Trustees dated at Savannah May the 28th 1735. Gentlemen & most Honoured [sic] Sirs I have perused your Honours [sic] Letter of the 15th of May wrote by Mr. Herman Verelst your Accomptant. [sic] We think our Selves trice happy at your Honours [sic] Consumate [sic] Prudence. Wisdom in not determinateing [sic] any thing without giving us an Opportunity of defending our Selves. As to what immediately regard self I beg leave to Answer that neither my self or Agent have ever dealt in Rum but on the Contrary it is notoriously known by my Example have led a Sober and regular Life always paying regard to your Honours [sic] Orders. Especially those against Rum & have been most Instrumentall [sic] in decreasing the Consumption of it in this Colony. As to my taking a Shilling for a Warrant and a Shilling for a return it is entirely Groundless Noble Jones is Absent but I hope the Enclosed Certificate will be lookt [sic] upon as Sufficient. It will appear upon the Records that it was not above 10 days before I had the Honour to receive your letter That one Morgan of Charles Town had enterd [sic] severell [sic] Barrels of Cyder [sic] which on the Landing was discovered to be Rum when Mr. Causton and my self received the Information we were then holding a Court and sent for Morgan to answer the Information and to shew Cause wby it should not be Condemned upon Examination of the Matter the Information appeared to be true and Morgan could now show Cause. Captain Macpherson appeared in Court and said he had bought the Rum for the use of his people but that being Examined into appeared to be since the Landing & to serve only as a Skreen.[sic] We proceeded to Judgement & gave directions to Coats and Gapan the Constable and acting Tythingman then attending the Court to Stave it Immediately but there appearing a dilatoriness in the Officers & Guard and a number of People getting together & Murmuring the Officers seemed Affraid [sic] to Execute Our Orders upon which we rose up took Such an Axe and Staved the Hum our Selves. I have now above Ten pounds Sterling to Pay for persons Assisting me in writeing [sic] the Affairs purely relating to Office and the Publick [sic] and I shall crave leave to lett some other person Inform your Honours [sic] of the Trouble in it but at the same time beg to return your Honours [sic] my humble and Unfeigned thanks for the many favours [sic] received and particularly this last of two Servants and another years Provision which was indeed a great Indulgence and more than we load reason to Expect. I can assure your Honours the Orders concerning Tipling have been Strictly put in Execution And we have found a great deal of Ease and Benefit by it so that I hope we Shall have no Occasion to Informe [sic] your honrs. against any one in particular notwithstanding we shall observe your Honrs. Instruction on that head. Gentlemen I beg leave further to Explain what I said in a Letter of Mine to your Honours concerning people thinking of Selling their Lands and running away which I presume was Intelligable [sic] verifyed [sic] by the Red String plot which was soon after discovered when it appeared that a Certain number of Freeholders as well as Servants wore Red Strings being persons who had got them selves into desperate Circumstances were underhand making over to others their Lotts and were designed to make off Some of which were Mugridge Cannon Horn and Edwd. Johnson. Gentlemen We Could do no more than by our Publick [sic] Orders and private directions to declare against the one and the other as an Actual forfieture [sic] and they were far from receiving any Encouragement from us for by our diligence we defeated and prevented both the one and the other I have Enclosed a Copy of a Warrant lodged in the Hands of Captain Ferguson whereby you will see our Sentiment in that Affair. I can assure the Trustees the Improvements the people in General made last year in their Houses and this year in their Lands considering the heats of the Summer Season and as a new Settlement have never yet teen paralled [sic] by any people under the Sun so that altho we have had some drones amongst us we have much the greater number good industrious people and I should he sorry to be Understood when I Complain'd of a few to mean the whole Colony of Georgia much more that any other sett of People whatsoever should sett [sic] us an Example. I can with pleasure acquaint your Honours [sic] That the Colony seems to he better settled than ever in peace, Order, discipline and Industry. Tipling and Extravagance has by our Orders & Example greatly declined and Religion been promoted. We have now every thing pleasant and Agreeable for life and when in my Letter to your Honours [sic] I spoke of mony'd people I meant that the place was now Convenient & fitt [sic] to Entertain people of the best of Circumstances & we seem now to have overcome all those difficultys [sic] Incident to new Settlements. I have sett [sic] up a Brewhouse of Beer & good wholesome drink is brewd both strong and small which seems to take so well that a great many working people Instead of Spiritous Liquors have taken to Beer and I humbly beg your Honours [sic] protection therein. We have had few people dye [sic] this Summer and Consider we begin now to be very Numerous the heats great the Country and Air must be said to be very fine & wholesome. Jones has been by our Influence much more diligent this year in running out our Lands and several Industrious people in this Town have gott [sic] up the Cattle and the publick [sic] have now the Benefit and Enjoyment of them. Your Honours Orders to me relating to Willm. Little the Infant have been Obeyed and the Guardianship given to the Mercers. I could Wish your Honours [sic] would give me leave to Settle Improvements in Town and my own Lott [sic] for life to such persons as you should Approve of and grant me 500d Acres on the River Vernon on the Usual Conditions. I should by that means be able in a more conspicous [sic] manner to Convince your Honours [sic] how much I had at heart the Welfare and Service of the Colony and remain your Honours [sic] Most faithfull.[sic] And Obliged humble Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Howes to the Trustees Dated at Savannah 30th May 1735. Gentlemen I make bold to let your Honours [sic] know the Nature of my Case, hoping that your Goodness will excuse me. I have tended as Parish Church Clerk and performed all the parts of the said Office from Aprril [sic] 1734, Six months we had no Minister, which in his Absence I have read Prayers on a Sabbath Day, visited the Sick, buryed [sic] the Dead and tended on several Persons which lay under Sentence of Death, which has took me up some time. Likewise I and my Brother did work 10 Weeks for the first People when I was in my best Health and without receiving any Satisfaction for the same. Wherefore I humbly hope that your Honours [sic] will take into Consideration, I having a large family and none to help me, find it difficult to Support them. The Honble. Mr. Oglethorpe did promise that I should have Twelve months Provision for a Servant and did leave Word with Mr. Causton to let me have it, but he has denyed it unto me, so that I am in great Want still for a Servant to Assist me in Clearing my Land and helping me to do other Work; But I humbly hope your Honours [sic] will consider of it, and Your Petitioner will ever pray &c. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Sami. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah 30th May 1735. Honoured [sic] Sir Yesterday morning I went up to Augustine's Plantation and from thence paid my Respects to Sir Francis Bathurst who lives in a small House 20 foot long and 12 broad divided into two parts. One is a Bed Room and the other a Dining Room; the Sides, Ends and Coverings of Clapboard, it may he in some measure water tight hut I am certain it cannot be wind tight; he seems to be tolerably well contented. When I came there he was just going to Breakfast, he invited me and I partook of part thereof, there was a large Dish of Cat Fish and Perch fry'd caught the Evening before by his Son, and a good piece of cold Pork. I carried with me two Bottles of Punch and two Bottles of Red Wine, the former we drank after Breakfast the latter I left with him and in the last Glass we drank his Cousin*s Health my Lord Bathurst. He has planted eight Acres of Corn and if the Season proves good I believe he will have a good Produce therefrom, 'tis now in the Weeds but Mr. Causton has promised to send him two of the Trustees Servants to help him out. Augustine and others on the Bluff give a good Character of the old Gentle man and tell me that his Wife and Son work in the Fields themselves. It is great pity he has not where with all to buy him some Cows, Calves and Hogs which would contribute very much to their more comfortable Living; his Plantation has a pleasant Situation and would be more agreable [sic] if the Trees were fallen round it, but that he cannot do yet having but one Servant. This place hath a very great Conveniency for Cattle if what Augustine informs me be true, Augustine Creek goes up one Side I believe 8 or 10 miles and he says there is another Creek So that a Fence from Creek to Creek which may be about one mile and half or Two miles would inclose many thousands of Acres, in which are a vast Quantity of Cane Savannahs. In one place Augustine assured me there was no less than one Thousand Acres of choice Land, and I do believe that if the Trustees would buy 1 or 200 Cows and Calves and put them upon it under the Care of a diligent carefull [sic] Man it would be in 2 or 5 years time of vast Service to this Town & Province. About 10 o'clock Augustine being very hot he and I went up his Creek in a Canoe to the place where they design to build a Saw Mill, for which they have made a good Progress; And it would have been much better had they not been hinder'd by Sickness. He has a Partner named Layson who seems to he a discreet Man, he told me that he had been concern'd in making Mills in Pensilvania these 20 Years. I am all together unacquainted with the Nature of Mill Work. He told me how he designed to perform it which to me appeared feasible but I am afraid the Charges will he too great for their Pockets. There are abundance of choice Pines round the Place. Prom Augustine up to the place where the Mill is to he is four Miles, and I observed as we went up several Bluffs fit for Settlements and the Creek in two or three places divided which I believe leads up to more; and in our Passage up I took Notice of a vast Quantity of Grapes, some of which hung down to the water. I returned on foot to Augustines House passing through several Cane Savannahs and Gullies, and on our right hand I observed one that was very large and spacious, a great part of which as he informed me is at Spring Tide covered with Water which undoubtedly is extraordinary good for Rice and may be planted for ever and will never fall, it being extraordinary rich; and will never fail of a Crop because it will never want Water. I am Sir Your most Obedt. Servant Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Vat to Mr. Newman dated at Ebenezer 30th May 1735. Honoured [sic] Sir Inclosed is a Copy of a Letter I had the Honour [sic] of writing to You the 10th of Febry. last wch. I suppose to be in your Hands long before 343 (515) this time, Few Days afterwards I was so ill and brought so low that on the 15th of February v/hen Hr. Causton Mr. Jones and Capt. Dunbar were here I could hardly stand upon my Legs which Weakness continued for several weeks; But upon taking proper Medicines of Mr. Zwiftler and recovering some Strength although the Defluction upon my Eyes held on, I resolved about Easter to leave this place and return to England. Which Resolution however I since altered upon a Rumour of some motions of the Indians in the Spanish Interest, & I am thinking of continuing here till I hear of the final Resolution of the Trustees for Georgia concerng. the present Settlement of the Saltzburghers; for should the People be obliged to Settle in this barren place I could not but with the greatest Grief behold the Misery that must inevitably attend them. The Experiments we have made this Spring evidently confirm the opinion and the dismal Accounts given by every Body concerning Pine Barren Lands; for all the Seeds we had from the Trustees were Sowed in due time and most of them came forth plentifully to the great Joy of the People, but there being no Substance in the Ground of Sand hardly any of them are coming to any Seed. The Kidney and Sandwich Beans will scarcely yield one pint for Sowing next Spring, and the Indian Com which the People have planted here and there every week since the beginning of Febry. last gives but a very small Prospect there being only here and there a fine Plant coming up; Yet Mr. Causton, who together with several Persons hath been here thrice within these three months, magnifieth [sic] a small Spot of Ground of about 20 feet square in the midst of an inclosure of half an Acre near Guhwandel's house where some Cattle stood for some months & thence concludes that by a small Stock of Cattle this Soil may be improved so as to produce plentifully hereafter, and crieth this place up as the best Land in all the Province. It even seems by his Actings that he is fully bent upon the Continuance of the Settlement in this place, for on the 14th of Febry. last he sent hither two Men for Sawing of Boards for finishing the Six Houses ordered by Mr. Oglethorpe to be built here; one of them, vizt. Mr. Bolzius's being finished; Two others, vizt. the Storehouse and the Schoolmasters joining together are so wretchedly slight, that by making one single Step both Houses shake so as to be in danger of falling to the Ground, and upon any Rain I am forced to shift my Bed in one of the Rooms therein occupied by my self and three Families besides; And the Frames of the Three others now Standing naked are so bad that I wonder how any one will be prevail'd on to occupy them when they shall be covered and boarded. These Sawyers have Sawed no more than 159 Boards & have left off working, but Mr. Causton says he will send other Sawyers to finish the said Houses. Upon the Return of some of our Men from Savannah, the Women resolved to clear some Ground by themselves for Gardens; Thie Single Men took thereby Occasion to do the like, and then on the 3d of March the Men began jointly to clear a Spot of Ground which has been since fenced in and planted with Indian Corn and Pease. [sic] On the 8th of March hearing of some Disturbances at Savannah We began the building of a Block watch House 28 feet in length and 18 feet in breadth, which is now made use of as a Church and School as also as a Warehouse. And we afterwards built a Bridge over the River in this Town & another Bridge over a small Swamp in going hence to the Landing place in order to bring thence our Provisions partly upon our Backs or by a small Waggon, [sic] whilst the Waters are so low that no Boat could be of any Service since the l6th of April last to this time; And this is like to he so all this Slimmer. On the 15th of Aprril [sic] last I went to Savannah and prevail'd with Mr. Causton to Send us Provisions for Six months; He agreed with Mr. Mamour to bring part of them in his Pettiaugua. to the Landing, but Mamour could come no higher than within two miles of the mouth of Ebenezer River; From thence we carried them in our own small Boat to the Landing. As about 40 Bushels of Indian Corn were Scattered loose in the Pettiaugua, and some Hogs and Pigs lyeing [sic] among it which our People cannot eat for its Hastiness; And as there were Six Inches of a Cask of Wine, of 26 Inches deep sent by another Boat, wanting; I desired Mr. Causton to buy a proper Boat for our carrying our own Provisions. That Pettiaugua employed 12 days in coming from Savannah Town to the mouth of our River, and one Mr. Guthry has since made Two Trips in five days each with part of our Provisions from Savannah Town to our landing place for which he is to have L 40 Currency, and Mamour L 30 besides the Wages of five Men at 18d a day each. This shews that the Charges of Carrying down or bringing up any thing will for ever keep our People in a very low State, even were the Soil as good as some People would have it. And I cannot see how the poor People will get any thing for procuring Linnen & Shoes, of which they are now in great want; not to mention many other Necessaries as Earthen ware and other Utensils for the Kitchen. I could wish the Society had given Orders for one Hand Saw to each Freeholder instead of having but 8 for all; also some large Coppers for boiling of Beer, the River Water being very bad especially in Summer. We indeed were lately upon Searching for a Vein of Water and fixing a Rice Cask, found a very fine and strong Spring, but in this great Drowth [sic] it runs so very small that it is apprehended it will soon he dried up. It is very observable that hitherto all our Child bearing Women are delivered of their Children before their full Growth, and that most of the women died; And the former happen'd to Mrs. Smith an English Woman who lately miscarried in this Town. So that such of our woomen as are now pregnant are in deadly Apprehensions that the present Soil is pernicious both to the Growth of Children and Seeds. The list of such as died since we have been here is as follows. January 23. Margaretha Schoppacher 26. Christian Steiner February 13. Maris Hueber April 2. Margaretha Gsetwandel 4. Maria Schoppacher 8. Anna Schwaigger 16. Ruprecht Schoppacher 30. Hans Madreuter. As the Bread kind Provisions of 6 pounds a week p Head will not admit baking of Bread, it is Supposed the Want of Bread is of no small Detriment to the health of our people who were used thereto from their tender Years. We have no Ovens but some of us bake Bread in our large Iron Pots which is very tedious, as well as our grinding of Corn with small Iron Hand Mills almost good for nothing. Some Mill Stones of a middling Size would be very usefull,[sic] as also some fishing Tackle for catching Fish. As Sebastian Glautz who died at Purysburh without a Will and no Relations here left some small matter, I desire to know the pleasure of the Trustees concerning his Effects, Mr. Bolzius being of opinion for dividing them to the poorer Sort of his Congregation which may be attended with some Difficulties; But lay opinion is for Selling them to the highest Bidder and for lodging the Produce thereof in Mr. Bolzius's Hands. Capt. Dunbar has I doubt not by this time given You an Accot, of our Voyage and of the Situation of this place, and I hope a faithful Representation of the Nature of the Soil thereof. As in the Account of the Stores put on board the Prince of Wales mention is made of a Box of Medecines [sic] Shipped by Mr. Newman, but as we could find no such Box we Suppose a Trunk of Medecines [sic] B C No. 5 which Mr. Zwiftler has rec'd is meant thereby. The Barrel of Molasses was so slight that it was broke at Sea, and though we shifted the Molasses into another Cask yet we Saved only 54 Quarts thereof when we received it here. Captain Thomson as also Mr. West will doubtless give You a falthfull [sic] Account of the Barrenness of this place as having both been here. And I submit it to the Consideration of the Society whether in Case the People are moved hence to a better Soil; They will be so kind as to send the following Particulars vizt. Some Sand Hour Glasses, Tin Funnels, Pewter Quarts, Pints and half Pints for measuring Wine and Beer, Bushels, half Bushels, Pecks &c for measuring Corn &c, diverse Sorts of Ropes, some small Scales of about 18 Inches Diameter and Brass weights. Gold Scales & weights for weighing small things, diverse Sorts of Iron Wires, one middling Sized Bell for ringing to Church and public Work, some Joyners Glew, [sic] Flannels for night Wastecoats, [sic] some great Guns for Alarm & Defence, [sic] Blacksmiths Tools, some Coopers Tools for making of Pails and Casks, and large Bellows, Tin Plates, Sieves of several Sizes and Turners Tools. But every thing is to he pack'd up, for the Sailors broke 3 of the 4 Lanthorns [sic] sent on hoard the Prince of Wales and they took several of the Beddings Blankets which we could never see again. When I was last at Savannah I went several times to Mr. Spangenbergs Five Acres Lot to See his Men who seem to he very industrious at Work. I could wish the Soil of Ogeechee which is designed for Count Zinzendorff may he as good as that within Two miles of Savannah Town, for I look upon the beginning of a Settlement as upon the foundation of Houses, unless these he Solid in them selves the Superstructure must in course he affected; And that a Soil to he made good by Dung is an Under taking too precarious for poor Husbandmen and not so easily to he done as some Persons would persuade others who know the Consequences thereof by Experience. And it is no small Discouragement to our Saltzburghers that they do not yet know their respective Lots, altho in the printed Accounts published in Germany they had Promises of having immediately at their Arrival here their Portions of Land assigned to them. And in this the Reputation of the Revd. Mr. Senior Urlsperger and some of the chief Magistrates at Augsburgh is highly concerned, for it was upon their Publickly [sic] appearing in the Affair that these innocent People ventured their All in leaving their Services in good Families; And the Roman Catholicks [sic] of that Town will not he wanting in Insults for sending People into such a Desert, where in two Years they cannot reap the Corn or Seed they Sowed. Some People here indeed lay the fault upon the unseasonable Coming of the first Saltzburghers into this Country and upon their not knowing the manner of Sowing and Planting therein; Likewise upon the extraordinary Heat of this Spring almost without any Rain. Next Year perhaps the Fault will he laid upon the rainy Season, but I am fully persuaded and convinced that the real Cause of its not producing is in the foundation of the Soil as being Sandy without any Cohesion of Particles. This seems to he the Reason that Pine Trees wholly consumed and burnt leave no manner of Ashes but only Sandy Particles; and Pine Trees cut and thrown down and lying on the Ground one year are generally decayed and rotten as if they had been Twenty years before on the Ground. As to the Cattle they do indeed at present look very well but it is quite the reverse in the heat of the Summer and dead of the Winter being obliged to range a great Way off for getting their Subsistance [sic] in Swamps or Cane Lands, the Grass being too rank and sour. The old Saltzburghers did not see their Cattle all last Winter, and of 30 heeds of Cattle given them last Year they have now but 5 Cows that casted their Calves this Spring, the others being either wild or lost. At the latter End of February last Hr. Causton sent 12 Hogs to Abercorn for the Hew Saltzburghers, one of them died in bringing it hither, two of them broke loose from the Ropes and are lost; And after having kept the others several weeks in a Sty Three of them like wise run away and have not since been seen. Mr. Causton has given Us Six Bushels and an half of rough Rice for Sowing in some of our swamps which are now quite dry. We are very glad of trying every Thing and are now preparing a proper Place for that purpose; But I apprehend that the Success thereof will be no better than with the Indian Corn. For it is to be observed that in Carolina the Negroes are the only proper Planters thereof ere made use of, and that whenever white People are employed in that way of working they die like Flies, as being unable to endure the Waters in such Swamps, much less the Heat of the greatest part of the Day in Summer; the clearing of such Swamps being more difficult and laborious than the dry Land be it never so much over run with large or small Wood of any kind; and considering that these People were born and bred in high and rocky Lands which are as different from the nature of those here as the Day is from the night. Some knowing People say, It would be better to Shoot the People at once than to put them into such a Way of Planting. Hr. Bolslus has taken a Memorandum of such Demands as some of our People have to make in the Archbishoprick [sic] of Saltzburgh or of some of their Countrymen who are gone into Prussia. The Attempt of getting them in is, as I humbly conceive, a Work to be recommended by the Crown of Great Britain; Moreover should the Trustees think fit to remove hence these industrious and worthy People, I should notwithstanding the Indisposition upon my Eyes be inclined to assist them in a new Settlement till next Spring; And in that Case I hope the Society will give proper Instructions for my Support, for I receive from the Stores no more than any other Men; unless when I am at Savannah Mr. Causton and his Lady overheap [sic] me with Goodness and Civility and I am constantly troublesome to them. I am Honoured [sic] Sir Your most Obedient and most humble Servant Fra. Piercy's [sic] letter to the Revc. Mr. Forester Georgia. 1 June 1735 Honourable [sic] Lord, and Worthy Sir Having now an opportunity to let your Lordship and you Mr. Forester hear from me and from Georgia I hope my letter shall find both you and my Lord and Lady in good health, as I thank God I am at this present. I have sent my Lord Some tea which grows here in the Collony,[sic] and which the Indians call Casseny [sic] Tea: it is very wholsom [sic] and good to Cure the gout, and my Lord being Subject to it I have some for his Lordship to try if it do him any good, and he please to send to me by any Ship that Comes to Georgia or to Charlestown, I will send his Lordship as much as he pleased for his own use, for it is very wholsom [sic] for any body else as well as those that have the gout, and the Indian king told me himself that it is the only cure for it he ever could meet with and that he had tryed [sic] many ways but none could do but this. How I came to know this, was my Wife and Sr. Francis Bathurst and his Lady were walking, and Sr. Francis being lame, the King asked him what was the matter, Sr. Francis answerd [sic] that he and all his Forefathers had the gout: so then the King told him that this Casseny Tea was the only thing for it and the wholsomest [sic] That any body could drink for the preserving their health, and Sr. Francis declares it is the only thing he ever tryed: now all the Gentry of the Town drink it frequently, and I find that it does me more good than when I drank Rum: For now I am marry'd, instead of drinking Rum in a morning, I drink tea with my Wife, and by the advice of my Wife and Father and Mother in Law, (Sr. Francis and my Lady) I have left of drinking quite, and I thank God live very happy and loving with my wife, and all the Gentry in the town respect me very well, and more on account of marrying Sr. Francis Bathurst's daughter. I may thank you Mr. Forester for this, and so I do, for I want for nothing I thank God; So now I hope that God has pleased to place me in the mouth of Fortune, and as for my Unkle [sic] he was very good to me in money and goods and advancing my Fortune considerably more than I thought he would. I am with Sr. Francis at present till his house is built, for the Builders and Brick makers cannot make and build fast enough for the Inhabitance of the place, people coming from all parts of America as well as from England. Trading and planting goes on very fast, and the Town of Savannah is so large, that from fourty [sic]houses there are now almost four hundred, besides hutts [sic] for the town is a mile long and so much wide and it is almost built. There is a great deal of Silk made and the name of it fills the Colloney [sic] so full that if it goes on so for 7 years it will be the largest City or town in all the Continent of America. The Product of the Country is at present some Silk and Pitch and tar, and corn and pease [sic] and Cattle for we have more than two thousand head already. Our Oranges come on finely but as for our vines they are Scorched so much by the dry weather, that there will be no wine made this year at all; but I hope in two or three years more to send you Something of my own raising; for I have got planted this year Some Coffee & coco Nutts [sic] that they say is the right Chocalet, [sic] and Nisick Nutts, [sic] and lignum vita, & more Sorts of things, & ginger, besides more of the East & West India Kinds of things for we have almost every thing of that kind, but we have not got the Nutmeg tree, & we want to get that if we could for the heat v/ill bring them as well here as where they grow. Now I come to give you a true Account of how many towns there are in the Colony besides the City of Savannah as we call it here. Here is a place at the mouth of the Sea call'd Tybee, then we go up the River to fort Arguile, [sic] Thunderbolt and come to the City of Savannah. Go still up the river & the next is Hampton Court where the Indian Kings Palace is and his Cowpen; west (torn) Battery, Abercorn, Mill bluff, Ebenezer, Purysburgh, Pallychacolas & Skidway [sic] So we have in all 15 Towns in Georgia but Savannah is the head town among them all. I beg you wont expose my bad writing an Spelling, and one thing is very Scarce and that is pens Ink paper and Sealing wax. This from your ever dutyfull [sic] servant to command. I Still remember frippon. [sic] Francis Percy or Poor Frank NB. Purysturg belongs not to our Colony and he has omited [sic] Hempstead and High Gate. Copy of an anonimous [sic] Letter to The Earl of Egmont dated at Savannah in Georgia 5th June 1735. My Lord Your generous Endeavours [sic] for the publick [sic] Good and the many Christian Virtues that adorn Your Person are two great Reasons for laying at Your Lordships feet in the most humble manner the Grievances of the Colony. 1st. That the Storekeeper and Superintendent should at the same time be a Chief Bayliff [sic] prevents Redress in the Court of J ustice for any reasonable Complaint relenting to the Store or Publick Works. 2dly. That his Power is so great in relation to Publick [sic] Works and other Affairs that he may bypass the Jury and others. It is the opinion even of his Friends that one of those Employs is enough to take up all his time and that both is more than he can manage. 3d. That if the Jury does not bring a Verdict pleasing to him they are called Traitors &c. If it he in Actions of Debts on Account, that the Party who lose the Cause may appeal to Chancery of which he is Judge and can do there without a Jury, So that if a Cause goes contrary to his Will by Common Law it is needless to the Person who gets the Cause since the same Judge as Chancellor may alter the Sentence as he pleases. 4th. That he being a Lawyer he tells the Jury the Law is so and so, none of them being Lawyers or understanding in the Law know not whether he says true or no; and no other Lawyer being allowed to oppose Arguments, he has certainly great Advantages in Causes wherein he is Prosecutor & Judge. There is one thing we very much desire to know how many Jury Men may be Challenged without giving ary Reason for it, and how many with strong Reasons for so doing? Another We also desire to know whether we may not appeal to Your Honours [sic] in all Cases? It has been said on the Bench that we must Suffer first before we can Appeal, that is bear the Punishment, Fine or pay a Debt before we can appeal; If so what Recompence for a Corporal Punishment or for a Debt paid to a Person who is a Stranger and does not reside here. 5th. That in difficult Cases often a special Jury is called, the Majority of which are Free Masons which have often been challenged, but as no other Reasons could be alledged [sic] against them but their being Free Masons the Court has overuled the Objection. 6th. That Peoples Houses are searched and their Papers examined to see if any complain to the Honble. Trustees. That it is dangerous to write from hence and one of the greatest Difficulties to know how to Send a letter safe to any Friend in England or to receive any from thence without Danger of being opened, which the People here think a great Hardship; And the more since they know if a certain Person here finds they write any thing that displeases him they are sure of his Frowns, and their Ruin if he can pick a Hole in their Coat for he is noted for Severities and Revenge to the uttermost, but not for one Sole generous good Action. From an evil Tree no good Fruit can be expected. The intended Tryal [sic] of Lieut. Parson of Port Royal was thus, but he hearing of it made his Escape. The Hangman to be his Judge, 12 Transport Servants Jurymen, and then toss'd in a Blanket and by force his Papers taken from him. Which some People say was Executing Justice without a legal Court or a legal Jury and on one of his Majesty's Officers. The Tryal [sic] of Savy of Carolina. The Saying now he was glad that he had an opportunity to Punish a Carolinean. The Punishment was to be Pillory'd. The Jury desired his Sentence might be moderated which alter'd immediately the Severity designed. The Carolineans, tho they do not care for Savy, are greatly affronted at those Words. Objections against the Administration of a certain Bayliff <&c. The Tybee Affair has cost already near i) 1,500 Sterling and hardly any thing to he seen for it to the Amazement of the Freeholders here; & shews how carefull [sic] and saving the Publick [sic] Money ought for the future to he taken Care off. The Stinking Meat bury'd, the other Provisions wasted and damaged. His Accots. of the Receipts and Issuing of the Provisions from the Store ought to he thoroughly examined, and he obliged to produce his Vouchers for the same. Tis a matter of great Concern and deserves to he enquired into, those that know how they stand might say more than I do; A thorough Examination will shew whether he deserves the Character of a just Steward. I shall pass over whipping and ducking those that have ask'd him for Money and other Faults leaving that to others. I shall only add that Could his Chief Clerk in the Store has for a long time openly sold Rum in Defiance of the Trustees Orders; and that he has fined Mr. Amatis for Selling a small matter more than he knew what to do with, and has countenanced the said Gould in that Trade. And that he himself has sold on his private Account Goods in the Store at a considerable Profit to the poor People who had worked for the Publick;[sic] & when he accompted [sic] with them paid himself first, Mr. Gould next, 3dly those that owed him and then if there was any thing left it was paid to the poor People or to their other Creditors. From his Behaviour [sic] to the Freeholders many entertain the opinion that he Acts without Orders in many things, Others that they are to be deprived of the British Liberties and therefore they intend for Great Britain. There has been so much, damaged Provisions in the Store that it is a Shame on the Colony; now that Corn and Pease [sic] are wanted for planting the Freeholders have asked for, and they have been told that of one of them there is none in the Store and the other is not fit to plant with. See the Damage to the Colony by such Neglect and Carelessness. People complain sadly, and indeed not without Reason. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Paul Amatis to the Trustees dated at Savannah 6th June 1735. Honoured [sic] Sirs I had the Honour to write to You last January by Capt. Yoakley with a bundle of Silk made here, and in February I wrote by Charles Town. Hearing that Capt. Yoakley is safely arrived I doubt not but he has delivered the Silk Letter to Your Honours, [sic] and I hope also that mine p Charles Town is also come to Your Hands. Finding therefore no Answer though I had great Season to expect it I am much concerned and very uneasy to find my self thus disappointed, and the rather because I had wrote Your Honours [sic] that I wouldld have gone from hence to London this month if I had not Your Orders to prevent the same. Accordingly I was preparing to go with Capt. Thomson but Mr. Montacute, Mr. Eveleigh, Mr, Dobree and several others of my Friends have advised me to Stay lest with the Complaints that I have to make against the Proceedings of certain Persons in the Colony might occasion some Disorders and Broils in this place, and also lest in my Absence Your Garden might greatly Suffer now it is in a thriving way; I have therefore resolved to Sacrifice my private Interest than to act in any ways wheiein it might in the least appear that the publick [sic] Good might suffer. Altho most of those that know me know that I have at all times prefer'd the publick [sic] to my private Interest; My Intent is now to stay with Patience till a Trustee or some other Person fit to Govern this Colony comes over, to him I will Surrender the Garden or follow such Orders as he shall think convenient to lay on me. I think with humble Submission that I may venture to acquaint You with the following Particulars. That I having a small Quantity of Rum for my Provision and finding it was more than I could spend and being as I thought on my Departure for London, I thought it was no Crime to dispose of what I did not want Seeing it was publickly [sic] Sold by many others who never were disquieted or fined on that Account. The 19th last month Mr. Causton fined me L 7. Currency for Selling a few Gallons of Rum, I paid the Fine very freely not being willing by an ill Example to dispute the same. But for me to pay it and no others there seems Partiality; and since the Fine goes for the Benefit of the Colony I shall be the more easy since the Province reaps the Benefit of it, but to what Account it is applyed [sic] is yet unknown to us. The following Persons are known publickly [sic] to Sell Rum, and still continue except Mr. Christie who immediately left off. Mr. Edward Jenkins, Mr. John Ambrose, Mr. John Fallowfield, Mr. Patrick Houstoun, Mr. James Gould Chief Clerk of your Publick [sic] Store, Mr. Christie, All the publick [sic] Houses, the Masters of Pettiauguas [sic] and several others. The Reason some of the above Gentlemen do not pay a Fine is because they are intimate to Mr. Causton. I don't Say because they are Free Masons. Since my Arrival in this Colony I have seen many things transacted contrary to the Interest of the Trustees and the Colony, and my Intent in representg. the same is to prevent for the future that the Interest of both may not suffer; And as I have the Hounour [sic] to be employed in Your Service I think it is my Duty and I should be much to blame if I should sit quietly and see Your Interest and the whole Colony at Stake and not inform Your Honourable [sic] Board thereof. These are my Reasons and I hope I shall not incur your Displeasure in so doing, but if I should I have the Satisfaction that in this I have done nothing but my Duty. I conceive (with humble Submission) that Your Honourable [sic] Board will not approve altogether what has been done. As to my Person I cannot avoid Complaining at the Proceedings against me considering the Confidence reposed in me by your Honourable [sic] Board with the Direction of the Silk Undertaking, the Chief and almost the only Article for which this Colony was Settled & which Thanks be to God is brought so forward as to give great and reasonable hopes that in some Years the Province will produce as good if not better Silk than Piedmont and that in vast Quantitys [sic] as may more fully appear by a Manuscript of mine which I am now preparing for London. I doubt not in the least but that some of my Enemies (though I have but few here) may have spread false Reports against me as they have against others but I doubt not in the least to justify my Conduct when it will not be in their Power to justify theirs. The Honble. Mr. Oglethorpe was pleased to tell me that there should be Merchandizes lodged in the Trustees Store with an Intent to Sell them at first Cost, and 5 P Cent Interest to the Freeholders in order to ease them In their Infancy and enable them to continue here with Comfort & Satisfaction, but now it is otherwise. The Store is fill'd up with Goods sold for the private Benefit and Advantage of Mr. Causton who sells the same to the poor Freeholders at such extravagant Rates as 40 to 50 p Cent Profit, by which means they greatly suffer and he gets abundance of Money; Especially from the Men who are employed in the Publick [sic] Works. Those People have been chiefly paid in Goods as much as they could well take and if any thing was still due to them Mr. Gould was to he paid preferable to any of their Creditors. I cannot believe that Mr. Causton will easily pass his Account of Provisions and shew Vouchers for the same; it is well known that many Barrels of Meat have been buried in the Ground, the Stench being so great that it was not prudent to keep them any longer above Ground; And as for other Provisions great has been the Damage thereon from the Carelessness & Indolence of those who might have taken better Care, and I cannot think the loss can be computed less than L 200 Sterling. I am very free in discovering and giving Your Honours [sic] the Trouble of this Information which I think I am bound in Duty so to do; But if I should find hereafter that I am wrong and such Proceedings of mine disagreeable I shall immediately leave off, for in doing this I run the Risque [sic] of incurring the Displeasure & Revenge of those who are my open and bitter Enemies. The Affection I have for this Colony and its Inhabitants induces me to wish them all manner of happiness and Prosperity, assuring them that it will be a particular Satisfaction & a great Delight in me at all times to do them the best Services I can. Mr. Causton by Your Orders (as he tells me) has taken away since the End of Novr. lest from the Garden Six of the Servants, there was then but four left one is run away on board one of the Men of War at Charles Town either Capt. Auson or Capt. Lloyd and Sailed for England. Another is gone since last week but where we do not know, he went with diverse other Servants belonging to the Freeholders of this Town. I have been obliged to be at great Charges to defray the Expenses of your Garden as your Honours [sic] may see by my Accompt. I have always endeavoured [sic] to do the best I could to bring that Garden to that Perfection that You might with Season expect. I beg You will be pleased to send more Servants, I suppose your Intentions are to have nothing wanting to promote the Benefit of that Garden; On my part nothing shall be wanting on that head, having greatly the Interest and the Power of doing Good to the Freeholders in all my Actions. I have been obliged to hire some few Servants, but for the future I think with humble Submission it would be most for your Interest to Send me some more of your own from England; All which I humbly submit to Your Great Wisdom, and am most respectfully Honoured [sic] Sirs Your most devoted humble and Obedient Servant