toltune 14204 1 (1) Col, Oglethorp to E. of Egmont Frederica 13 June I739 Hy Lord The favour of your Lordships of the I5 Fehy, gave me a great deal of pleasure, as every thing from Bjy Lord Egmont certainly would. I have not yet tewnrte heard what the Parliament has done. Your Lordship mentions Geraldinos Swaggering in London, which is more than the King his Masters Vice Soys and Generals do in our Eeighhourhood. The Govemour of Augustine is wonderful civil, hut I believe the reason is Patience perforce. We are as Civil hut will not trust them, nor permit any of their Boats, nor so much as one of their Men to come amongst us, but correspond by Sea from Charles Town. iff Sir Thntnafl is very much in the Eight o-t it to say that this A Province is the Key to Mexico, but I should think that a very good reason to an Englishman not to part with it. I hear that they are to have a great Eeinforcement at Augustine, and fanilies to Settle there. They receive the run-away Negroes, and have Strove to bribe our Indians from us, but ray Party among the Creeks, particularly those who were in England, Stick firmly to us, yet there are some Priests and others Sent up by the French and Spaniards with presents to bribe the mercenary Part, So that ray friends in the Nation have invited me to come up. They are to have a general meeting in July, where they either will renew their Assurances of Fidelity to the King or go into the 2 (1) Spanish Interest. Ify Friends have sent do%m to invite me to he there euid do not douht hut my presence will entirely settle them in an unani mous Resolution to Adhere to his Majesty. Ihere are I5OO Warriours KB belonging to this Nation, 3!heir meeting is to he at a Town of the Cowhetas, about 5OO miles from the Sea, where the Deputys from all the Nations 200 miles round meet, so that this Journey will he both expen- (2) sive and troublesome, and unless it is absolutely necessary, I woTjld willingly avoid it. This wotild have been an excellent occasion for introducing a Missionary, had I had a good one here. NB Mr. Norris seems very unwilling to leave Samnnah, and seems inclined to go to England if he is removed from thence. I have also NB received your Lordships Letter of 26 Feby. We have a Chapel almost built, and I shall give orders for a house, but things are grown so dear that I fear 40 L will not build so large a house as Mr. Mmnric Norris wants. I hope your Lordship will make my Service acceptable to Lady Egmont, the 2 Mr, is Archers, the 2 Mr. Towers's, Aldn. Heathcote, Mr. Digby, Lord Limerick, Mr, Vernon, Mr. Lapotre, Mr. Smith, Lord Tyrconnel, Doctor Bales, Sir Willm. Heathcote, Lord Shagtibrnig Shaftsbury, Mr. Laroche, and the rest of the Tnastees, and believe me to be My Lord Your Lordships most obedient humble servant The Rt. Honble. the Earl of Egmont. James Oglethorpe 3 (5) Mr. Hu^ Anderson to E. of Sgmont Charles Tovm I3 June 1739 My Lord Some three month Since I wrote your Lordship which I hope came safely to hand. It was the first time I presumed to meddle with Politicks or puhlick affairs and I am hopef\jll ray doing so will sppear to your Lordship the effect of necessity no choice Mjr Cenius enclines me to the Maturall and retired Scenes of life, Politicks Surmounts my Capacity; so are they without the aim of my Amhition. I can add nothing to ray former letter concerning the Puhlick affairs Save that the continuance of those measures and resolutions which takes from the Inhabitants the hopes of redress to their most material grievances Still further increases the misery poverty and HB dispersion of the yet remaining body. I do assure your Lordship that I personally respect Mr. Ogle thorpe and have alwise received civilities from him, Hor can I doubt from the Honour his Majesty has conferrd on: and the confidence the honble. Trustees have reposed in him, but that some great design for the benefit of the Nation is to be brought about by his means tho artf\illy Jt orouded from the ylyes of the vulgar, but I must Sensibly regret that the SB effecting it has proved so fatal to the first adventurers. SB As for my own private concerns. X^on finding my little Stock exhausted my family decreased, my servants useless and burthensome and all the atten^ts of industry and frugality unavailing; I retired in ^ (5) silence to this Corner of the World where Iseing invited to give a weekly lecture upon natural Philosophy, natural History Agriculture and Gardening, my Endeavours however unequal to such an Undertaking were acceptable, and Fourty Gentlemen were generously pleased to Subscribe three guineas each per Annum as a gratification, and accordingly honour me with their Attendance once each week in the Hew Council-house, others (6) who are not Subscribers take tickets for each ni^t at 2 Shill. Sterl. In what farther Shape I shall be usefidl to the Publick or my Self I cannot yet determine. I waited on the General before I engaged ny Self in this place and acquainted him of my design which he was pleased to ^prove of. and I did deliver unto his Excelly. a Memorial of such observations in relation to the Publick Garden, the Silk and Wine Mantifactures, as did occurr to me in the Course of my endeavours to serve the Eonble. Trtisteee in the appointment they were pleased to honour me with, and did then assure his Excellency as I now do your Lordship that I was most willing to serve the honble. Board in any thing within the Com pass of my power, and that only necessity could oblig me to retire from a Colony where I had fixed ny affections and expended my means. What further changes awaits my lot I Submitt to Providence but I flatter my Self that no change of plafie will exclude me from your Lordships Patronage, and if I mi^t presume to request the hour, of being recommended by you to Mr. Glen who comes over Governour of this Province, I mi^t expect favours from him on your Lordsps. Accoxmt which my merit could not intitle me to. I lived some years in his Neighbourhood in Scotland and I believe he is not altogether 5 ttnacquainted with w Character. My Lord Amidst the disappointments I have met with this comfort remains, That my most valuable possessions are Still my own and no wise affected thereby, I mean, A Spirit xmcapable of envy or despair, an Ambition in the lowest Stations of life to merit the approbation of the Virtuous and a mind gratefully Sensible of your Lordships favours. I am with great regard My Lord Yo\xr Lordships Most Obedt. and most humble Servant Hugh Anderson (9) Copy of a Letter from Col, Oglethorpe to the Accomptant to the Trustees for Greorgia dated at Frederica 15th of Jxme 1739* I have received frequent and confirmed Advices that the Spaniards are striving to bribe the Indians, and particularly the Creek Nation to differ with us, and the Disorder of the Traders is such as gives but too much room to render the Indians discontented, great Numbers of Vagrants being gone up without Licences either from Carolina or us. Chigilly and Malachee the Son of the great Brim, who was called Emperor of the Creeks by the Spaniards, insist upon my comi-og up to put all things in order, and have acquainted me that all the Chiefs of the Nation will come down to the Coueta Town to meet me, and hold the generall Assembly of the Indian Nations; where they will take such Meas'ures as will be necessary to hinder the Spaniards from corrupting atid raising Sedition 6 (9) amongst their People. As this Jo-orney thoti^ a very fatiguing and dangerous one is quite necessary to he taken, for if not, the Spaniards who have sent up great Presents to them will hrihe the Oorrtq)t part of the Fation, and if the honester part is not supported, will prohahly overcome them and force the whole Nation into a War with the English fomo Chachi and all the Indians adviee me to go tq). Ihe Coueta Town, where the Meeting is to he, is near 500 miles from hence it is in a strait line 300 Miles from the Sea. All the Towns of the Creek Nation, and of the Cousees end Talapousees, thou^ 3OO miles from the Oouetas will come down to the Meeting. The Choctaws (lO) also and the Chlckesaws will send thither their Deputies, so that 7,000 Men depend upon the Event of this Assemhly. The Creeks can fTirnish 1, 500 WarrioTirs, the Chickesaws 500 and the Choctaws 5*000. I am obliged to huy Horses and Presents to carry up to this Assemhly. (37) To the E. of Egmont Erederica in Georgia 5 July 1739 Hy Lord I received the pleasTire of your Lordships, and am not at all Siirprised that the same Spirit which woTild have had me assassinated here, sho\ild Spread false Beports. Your Lordship was vdry good and Just in your opinion of them, particularly upon their saying that I was obliged to keep out of the 7 (37) way of the Soldiers, a thing entirely false; The mutinous and disorderly Wretches who never knew what Discipline was, might hate them who ejcpected Service from them, hut, I helieve no one was ever better beloved by their officers, and the Majority of the men than I am, and Since Colonel Cochrans departure, there hath not been the least difference or uneasiness in the Regiment, I have wrote a long Letter to the Trustees, and as I am just Setting out for the Indian Ration must refer your Lordship to it. I hope you will make ny Service acceptable to Lady Bgmont, your good Family and Mr. Teiple, and that you will believe me to be My Lord Your Lordships The Et. Honble. Most Obedt. hum, Servt. The Earl of Egmont, James Oglethorpe (55) Mr, Oglethorps directions and allowances to Hen. Parker and John Lyndal relating to the Trustees Cattle. 6 Jiane 1739 16 July Orders Bailiff Henry Parker is to take care of and ixizx diliver into the fence made for that purpose the Steers belonging to the Trustees that were bought of Bellinger and Clay, and to take care of them till the year comes round, keying them within the said Pence at the Rate of 3 Shillings 2, Head for branding, he is also to hunt up and brand and 8 (55) tak care of all the other Steers and Bulls helonging to th.e Tnistees at the rate of 5 Shillings head, which he is to he paid in Case he either hunts them himself, or is present and assisting to those who hunt them up, and keep them in the said Fence for the year. But if John lyndall the Pindar without any assistance from Mr. Parker, hunts up any branded Steers or hulls which are alreaiSy branded for the Trustees, or any unhranded Steers or Bulls and brands them for the Trustees, they not being of the Stock of Clays Cattle, then the Said John lyndall is to deliver the said Bulls or Oxen into the charge of Mr. Parker within the abovesaid Fence, and is to be allowed 5 Shillings head from the Tmstees and Mr. Parker is to take care of the said Bulls and Oxen and keep them in the Said Fence, and to be allowed 3 Shillings head for the irw said Bulls and Oxen for the taking care of them during the whole year and keeping them in the said Fence. The said Pindar is to keep a Book of Eegister & Mr. Mercer late Pindar is to give a Copy of his Book, and in the Same the Pindar is to enter all the Cattle belonging to the Town and receive the usual fee, and the standing orders entered in Court are to be therein ptirsued to prevent the Clandestine killing and Stealing of Cattle, by which the S Pindar is to receive 4 head for each beast or each Cow and Calf ths-t (56) belongs to the People, and nothing under two years old is to be reckoned a Beast. And the Pindar is to have one Shilling for Cutting, and one Shilling for branding, and in case the Person shall not pay the Same, then the Pindar is to apply to a Magistrate who is to give him Warrant to distrain upon the Calves for the Same. And for each Beast or Cow and Calf as above belonging to the Trustees which the Pindar 9 (56) shall hring up, he shall receive 5 Shillings and 1 Shilling for cutting, and one Shilling for "branding. And for the Cattle which stay up all Winter, the Pindar is to receive nothing. And the Pindar is to deli ver the Cattle to ye Owners in some Pen or inclosed Place within the Sown or Common. And with respect to those who will joyn and go out with the Pindar and hunt tp their Cattle, they must come to some reasonable agreement with the Pindar, since he being at a Constant charge in hunt ing, ought to have a profit sufficient to defray that charge, and also they giving their assistance and lessening his trouble, do deserve an allowance therefore. And as the whole Province with all therein is granted to the Triist by Charter, all the unmarked Cattle do of right belong unto them. But adl Calves following Cows shall be deemed to belong to ye Cow they follow and be marked with the mark of ye owner of the said Cow. Also if any YoTUig Cattle unbranded and under two years old shall follow a Cow, the said young Cattle shall be deemed to belong to the owner of the said Cow and branded accordingly, but all other unbranded Cattle should be taken up by the Pindar and marked for the (Trustees. Copy H. Moore (59) Mr. Oglethorpe to the (Trustees Savannah l6 July 1739 Oentlemen 10 (59 I send yon "by Mr, Ausponnger abont twenty ponnds wei^t of Silk, we hoped for five times the quantity, hnt for want of Room we made use of the house where the Sick People used to he, and the infection had such an Effect (as Camus tells me) that it occasioned a Sickness amongst the Worms, which destroyed a great many. Some of the Silk was wound last year, hut most this, I hope we shall ha/ve better Success next. Several applications will he made to you for Lands, hut I hope you will make no new grants whatever till we can get those already granted, in Some manner cultivated. There is one Talfeur an Apothecary Surgeon who gives Physick, and one Williams of whom I wrote to you formerly, a Merchant who quitted planting to Sell Enm, To these Two almost all the Town is in debt for Physick and Rum and they have raised a Strong Spirit to desire that Lands may he alienable, and then they would take the Lands for the debts, monopolize the Coinitry and Settle it with Hegroes, They have a vast deal of Art, and if they think they cannot carry this, they would apply for any other Alteration since they hope thereby to bring confusion, and you cannot imagine how mux:h tmeasiness I have had here. I hope therefore you will make no altera tions. I desire you would send over an appointment to the Magistrates of the Town Court of Savannah for the time being to proceed to put the Rum Act in Execution. There is lately a Considerable Trade Started up here and Mr. Pallowfield Collector of Savannah, and Mr. Grant Naval Officer and Searcher at St. Simons, vigilantly acquainted me that they had dis covered that there were some Spanish Sugars inported here (60) which I 11 (60) m thiak OTJght to pay a duty to the King. I ordered the two Officers to write to you, and f hope jou will order proper Lawyers to he consulted and Send us advice what to do. The French and Spaniards have used their utmost endeavours to raise Disturhances amongst otir Indians, and the not deciding clearly in the Act relating to them has given such insolence to the Carolina Traders that the Indians have declared, if I do not come up to them they will take Arms and do themselves Justice and have ordered a general assembly of all the Kations to meet me, I Set out this night and am Gentlemen Your most obedient Humble Servant James Oglethorpe To The Honble. The Trustees* (67) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Bolzius to Mr. Ywvwa Vernon dx Dated at Ebenezer July 19th 1739 Most Honoured Sir, As your honour was pleased heretofore to bestow many Favours upon me and my Flock, for which I return you most humble thanks, so I doubt not but you will take my writing to you in the same good Part, as You was always generously inclined to do formerly. I have taken the Liberty some time ago to lay before Your honour by the Eevd. Mr. Ziegenhagen the Charges of a House for xay Ministry, and since he wrote me Word, that you 12 (67) did not dislike it l)ut had a mind to recommend it to the Hononrshle trustees I make now hold to acquaint you humhly, that a very good, and for obtaining the Ends of my Ministry very convenient House is now hxiilt, & I have the Satisfaction of Seeing now hy sweet Eacperience what Difference he between a Dwelling House and a Hutt, where I was forced to live for the space of 3 Years to many Disappointments of my Health & Ministerial Office. The Charges of this Building amount hitler than I could imagine before. Viz. to I> 82. 12. but I make bold to assure Your Honour, that Ministers of the Saltzburgers after my Departure (68) will have the Benefit of this Hotxse longer than hundred Years. Our Carpenters and other Saltzburgers have done their Work so faithfully, as I could wish and bring before the Throne of Grace many thanksgiving Sacrifices for having gained that way some Money for biaying Hecessaries, for them selves and families, therefore look upon their Wages as Benefactions bestowed upon them. General Oglethoipe was so generous as to lend me some money and gave me liberty to take out of the Store at Savannah some Provisions and other things for my Carpenters, which was a good means to pay a part of their Wages, and I am very willing to repay it very thankfully as soon as I am able to do it by Hind Benefactors. The Honble. Trustees have been so generous as to bear the Charges of Mr. Grownas House, for which Goodness he has returned himself most humble Thanks in a Letter to Mr. Verelst. this encourages ay Hope, their Honours will not take it amiss if I beseech them most humbly for some assistance more towards the btxilding of my House than they have botintifully Allowed allready. I have wrote a Letter to Mr. Verelst a fortni^t ago but did not mention any thing of 13 (68) my Hoxisef teing mo fimisliod at this tirae. Therefore I crave Yo'or Homoiirs goodness to reconunend. the Uecessity and Charges of njr House to the Honble. Trustees, which will he (69) of such a Weight and happy Effect that it will make me rejoyce and thankfull to God and Benefactors. If merciful God is graciously pleased to preserve my life I shall endeavour my self to the utmost of ny strength to spend all the rest of my Life in this House to the Honour of God, and to answer the Prase worthy henefa.otions of my Dear Superiours, which the aime at hy maintaining me in the Congregation of the Saltzhurgers And as every one of my beloved Hearers is exceeding glad to see now a good House built for my Congregation*s Use, so they do joyn with me in Prayers to beseech the Almighty for rewarding you, and them for such a great favour, I eag)ect cheaxfully from their and Your innate Goodness in Respect to the charges of my House. His Excellency General Oglethorpe honoured Yes terday our Town by His Presence and did like my House veiy well, and was generously inclined to recommend it to their Honours, tne Trustees in his next letter, being now for the Welfare of the Colony gone up to the Indian Nations in the Motmtains. He was mighty kind to our In habitants, especially to our Orphan House and has Paid out of his Pocket L *40 for the Benefit of the Orphan House in lieu of those Sola Bills, which the Honble. Trustees have sent over to be signed by Col: Stephens and Bailiff Parker, which they execused them selves to do for some Reasons, which they will, I believe, write themselves to the Trustees. His Excellency Genl. (70) Oglethorpe was much troubled by a great many Groundless Complaints of our Schoolmaster Ortman and his Wife which he took the Trouble almost half a Day to inquire into. His (70) Wife was allways exceeding troutlesome ly her Scandalous Behaviour to ny Congregation, and since Necessity for Stoping Wickedness in the Bud, obliged me to forbid her the holy OJable till she would make satisfac tion by leading a better Life, it occasioned the Schoolmaster to grive me arid ny Fellow labourer very much hy Oppositions, slanderings and false Imputations before the Magistrates at Savannah as well as before General Oglethorpe, but to their own Shame and Confusion since the man is grown by his Wife's Wicked Contrivances and Insinuations obstinat and disobedient, he is a great Burthen to us and not at all usefull to our School Tdiich oy Duty obliges me to acquaint Tr. Honour with He could not be used in any measure to instruct our Children in the English fongue which was heretofore a Great Six disappointment to us. notwithstanding he pretended strongly to be a English Schoolmaster but his wrong Proimnciation & great many mistakes in spelling, reading and writing occasioned Genl. Oglethorpe to order me not to give him leave to teach any Child English. (71) I dare not trouble you any longer by my writing in Your Weighty Affairs, but committ You & all Your praise wortly Undertakens to the Grave & Conduct of merciful God, being with the greatest Respect and hearty Salutations from me, Mr. Gronau, our Families and whole Congre gation. Your Honours Most Obedient &c. 15 (83) Copy of the Proceedings of the Assembled Estates of I,, g, all the Lower Creek Nation held on Saturday the Eleventh Day of August Anno Domini 1739* By Powers from His most sacred Majesty George the Second hy the Grace of God King of Great Britain, Prance and Ireland dca. General James Oglethorpe being Appointed Commissioner, was present in behalf of His Majesty and opened the Assembly by a Speech. There were also present at the said Assembly of Estates the Mico or Zing of the Coweta Town Chichely Ninia Mico of the a said Town, Malachi Mico Son of Brim late Effiperottr of the Creek Nation and the Chief men and Waxriours of the Coweta Town. The Mico or chief King of the Oussitas, and Scisheligo Mico next to the Zing of the Cussitas, Isheigo third Chief Man of the Cussitas, and the other Chief Men and Warriours of the said Town, and also Ochachaphoone one of the Chief Men of the Town of Palachuchulas, Kelatte Chief War Captain, and other chief Men and Warriours being Deputys sent with fxill Powers to Conclude all things for the said Town, Tawmawme Mico of the TJsawles with several other Chief Men and Warriours being Deputys sent with fxill Power to Conclude all things for the said Town, Matalecheho War Captain of the Echelees with several other Chief (84-) Men and Warrioxirs, being Deputy sent with fxill Powers to conclude all things for the said Town. Neathacklo chief Man of Oosachees with several other chief Men and Warriours, being Deputys sent with fxill Power to conclude all things for the said Toxra. Occullaveche chief Man of the Ohehaws with several other Chief Men and Warrioxirs being Deputys with full Powers to conclude all things for the said Toxtfn. Hewanawge Thalacho chief Man of the Oxmxilges xidth several other Ciiief Men and 16 (84) Warrioijrs teing D^utys sent with full Powers to conclude all things for the said Town. The Mico or chief King of the Occonys with several chief Men and Warriours having full Powers to Conclude all things for the said Town. Meathaclo second Chief Man of the Swagles with several other chief Hen and Warriours being Deputys sent with full Powers to conclude all things for the said Town. The said Estates being Solemnly held and opened at the great Sqxiare in the Town of the Gowetas, and Adjourned from thence to the Town of Cussitas and the Deputys having Drank black Drink together according to the Ancient custom of their Eation being a Religious form Transmitted down by their Ancestors. The whole Estates declared by a general Consent, without one Negative that they Adherred in their Ancient, Love to the Zing of great Britain and to their Agreements made in the Year 1733 with the Trustees for Establishg. the Colony of Georgia in America, a Counterpart of which Agreement, was then Delivered to each Town, (85) and the Deputys of the Several Towns produced the same and further Declared tlW3.t all the Dominions erritores and Lands from the River Savannah to the River St. Johns and all the Islands between the said Rivers, and from the River Saint Johns to the Bay of Appalache within which is all the Appalache Old Pislds, and from the said Bay of .^)palache to the Mountains doth by Ancient Right belong to the Creek Nation, and they have maintained Possession of the said Ri^t against all Opposers by War, and can show the heaps of Bones of their Enemies slain by them in Defence of the said Lands. And the said Estates fxirther Declared that the Greek Nation hath for Ages had the Protection of the Zings, and Qpeens of ^gland, and have gone to War by Commission's from the Governours appointed by the said Zings and 17 (85) Qaeens of England and that the Spaniards nor no other Nation have a Eight to any of the said Land, and that they will not suffer them nor any other Person, Excepting the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to settle upon the said Lands And they do acfetiow ledge the Grant they have already made to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America all the Lands upon the Savannah Eiver as far as the River Ogeeche and all the Lands along the Sea coast as far as the River St. John's and as high as the Tide flows (86) and all the Islands as far as the said Eiver particularly the Islands of Frederica, Cumberland and Amelia to which they have given the Rames of His Majestys Family out of gratitxide to Him. But they Declare that they Did and do reserve to the Creek Nation all the Land from Pipe makers Bluff to Savannah, and the Islands of Saint Cathrines, Osseban, and Sappalo and they farther Declare that the said Lands are held by the Creek Nation as Tennants in Common. And the said Commissioner Doth declare that the En^ish shall not enlarge or take vp any other Lands except those granted as above by the Creek Indian Nation to the Trustees, and doth Promise and Covenant that He will Punish any person that shall Intrude upon the said Lands which the Creek Nation hath reserved as above Given under my Hand and Seal this 21st Day of August at the Coweta Town 1739* James Oglethorpe 18 (87) By James Oglethorpe Esqr. General and Conmander in Chief of all His Majestys Torces in South Carolina & Georgia &ca. (L.S.) To all His Majesty's Subjects whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that you are not to take up or settle any Lands beyond the afforesaid Limits settled by me with the Creek Nation, at there Estates held 11th Day of August 1739. as You shall Answer the same at Yotir Peril Given under my Hand and Seal this 21st Day of August 1739. James Oglethorpe This is a true and Authentick Act made in the Square at Coweta Town and in the Square at the Cussita Town and Translated ty a sworn Intei^reter in the Presence of the affore mentioned Indians and under mentioned Britons & of me X Lieut: Geo: Dunbar Ensign Jno. Leman Adjutant H: Mkay Eneas M'intosh Esqr. Brother to ye Laird of Mintosh John Guthbert Esqr. of Drachers Thos. Eyre Esqr. Anthony Willy Esqr. Which 1 do certify Thos. Marriott Mr. Bob; Mpherson Bror; to Thos. M'pherson Esqr, of Dobradie Mr. Jno. M:intosh son of Jno M'intosh of Holmes Mr. James McQueen Son of Jas. McQueen of Corribrou^. Mr. Keneth Bailie sone of John Bailie of Ballrobart Mr. John Me into^ Mr. George fihrtiMlBgg Cuthbert Thos, Marriott Of the Country of Inverness North Britain 19 (88) Savanaah,ss. Before us the Baylifs & Recorder of ye Town & Country aforesaid Appeard Jno. Cuthhert Esqr. of Drachies, Thos. Eyre Esqr., Anthony Willy Esq.r. Mr. Eoht. Me pherson Bro; to Thos. Me pherson of Dallrgidea Esqr. Mr. Jno. Me Eintosh son of Jno. Me Kintosh of Holmes Mr. James MoQueen son of Jas. McQaeen of Corrihrou^ Mr. Kenneth Bailie son of Jno. Bailie of Ballrohart Mr. Jno. Me Kintosh and Mr. Thos. Marriott, & "being duely Sworn Do Sererally depose that they were present at a Generali Assembly held hy the Honhle. James Oglethorpe 20th the Estates of the Creek Nation on the 11th of August last past in the Sown of Cowetas & Cussitaws & Do Further declare that the substance of the several sheets of paper here to Annex*d do Contain a True and Authentick Awr. of what then passd & was Agreed on According as the Interpreter Informd them John Cuthbert Sworn this 29th Day of Sep. 1739* Thos. Eyre Before us A: Willy Henry Parker Rob: MPherson R: Gilbert Jno. Mackintosh Thos. Christie Jas. Mackqueen Savannahss. Before us the Baylifs Kenneth Baillie and Recorder of the Town John Mackintosh & Country aforesaid, Thos. Marriott Appeared Mr. Thomas Wiggins and being duely Sworn Deposed that he was Present at -Hie said 20 (88) Places aforementioned as iirinnf (89) Interpreter Betwixt the Honhle. Genl. Oglethorpe & the Chief of the Creek Nation above Mentioned and that the substance of the Sevl. Sheets of paper hereunto Annexd is a True & faithfull Interpretation of what passd & was Agreed on at the times & places above Specified Ihos. Wiggins. Sworn this 29 of Seprs 1739 Before us Henry Parker E: Gilbert Thos. Christie Appeard before me the underwritten Persons & made oath that the Above Writting is true & that they were Present thereat Sworn this 12th dgy Geo! Dtmbar of October 1739* Jno* Leman Tho, Christie u (93) Lajibence Eices affidavit of oppression reed, from Mr. fho. Jones, received June 17^1. Georgia, Savanah 22. Aug. 1739 Laurence Eice maketh Oath, tha.t having lately Served the Eonble. 21 (93) Trustees for ests.Mishing the Said Province, in their Crarison et the Town of Augusta, \mder the comand of Lieut. Eichsrd Kent, he ohtain*d a certificate of Said Service from the Said Comander; That the Said Certificate was directed to Mr. Tho. Jones Store keeper for the Said Trustees, and intitled him, this deponent, to receive of the Said Tho. Jones the clear & neat Sum of 4.15.0 Sterl. That on or about the 20th of July last, he, this deponent, appl7*d to the Said Thomas Jones for payment, who making Some Scmiples about it, and not giving a direct answer. He, this deponent urged that he was in great necessity, and was obliged to return to his wife and children in Philadelphia, to effect which he beleived he Sho\ild be obliged to go by the way of Hew York for want of other passage, which would be a double voyage, and consequently more expensive; But notwithstanding all the arguments which this Deponent co\ild use, altho drawn from justice and necessity, the Said Jones 8nswer*d he had no money, and co\ild not pay it. That this deponent Some time after meeting with the Said Jones at Mr. %tons house at Savannah, he this deponent acquainted the Said Jones, that he had offer*d the Said certificate to Several people for Sale at a dis count, and that they had refused to have any thing to do with it: and in further discourse acquainted him, that he, this deponent) was willing to lose the odd money, and wo\ild assign over the Said certificate to any One on the receipt of 4 L Sterl. And this deponent further Saith, that the Said Thomas Jones did at that time answer, that he would have nothing to do with it, but added, that if he, this deponent, wo\ild call \;q>on him in the afternoon, he would enquire if any one of his acquain tance had any ready money by them (or words to that effect). And this 22 (93) deponent further Saith, that he (9^) did not go to the Said Iho. Jones according to his appointment, hut went to hdm the next morning, when the Said Jones proposed to him one Mr. Harris at the Puhlick Store jcfexs as a proper person to treat with concerning the Said Certificate, adding, he did not know hut he mi^t have Some money hy him, and further Said he had aciiuainted the Said Harris of what he, this deponent, had before declared he was willing to allow for prompt payment. And this deponent as further Saith, that he accordingly went to the Said Harris, who/aci this deponent is credibly informed, is a Covenant Servant to the Said Thomas Jones, and this deponent asked the Said Harris if Mr. Jones had ^oke to hitn about his affair? that the Said Harris answer'd yes, and Seem*d desirous to he in private in what he Said or did with this deponent. That this deponent then deliver'd his Said certificate to the Said Harris, and the Said Harris having given him this deponent a Sola hill for 5 1 Sterl., he, this deponent return'd him the Said Harris 20 Shillings as change, whereby he receiv'd the neat Sum of 4 t Sterlg. & no more in full Satisfaction for the value of the Said certificate. And this deponent further Saith, that having received the Said 4 L, he, this deponent, offer'd to assign the Said certificate hy endorsing his name thereon, hut the Said Harris answer'd that he would take the Said certificate then as it was, and tell him another time in what manner it Should he assign'd. And this deponent Saith, that the next day he went again to the Said Harris to transfer the Said certi ficate, at which time the Said Harris prodticed a p^er writing which contained a form for Such assignment, and told him, this deponent, that he must write a Copy thereof on the hack of Said Certificate, which he 23 (9^) this deponent accordingly did, and Sign'd his name thereto. And this deponent further Saith, that he has often Seen the Said Tho. Jones write, and he verily heleives that the Said paper writing containing a form for the Said assignment, wes the hand writing of the Said Tho. Jones. (94) And lastly, this deponent Saith, tiaat from the manner wherein the Said Thomas Jones exprest himself in recommending the Said Harris, as a proper person for this deponent to treat with, and the caution the Said Harris used in paying the money as aforesaid, and receiving the Assignment, he this deponent verily heleives that the value paid hy the Said Harris for the Said certificate to him this deponent as aforesaid, was the proper money of the Said Thomas Jones, and contrived on imrpose to oppress him, this deponent, and draw from him an abatement of his just due for prompt Payment. Laurence Bice Sworn this 22 day of August 1739 Before me Heniy Parker (99) Port Augusta in Georgia Sep. l4. 1739 On the 5 of this Instant his Excellency James Oglethoipe, Arrived here; This Fort is upon the Eiver Savannah, 250 miles from the Sea; There is a little Town protected hy it. Inhabited hy English: It was begun hy the General in his first Voyage to Georgia, and now there 24 (99) are Several Traders Settled, with large Warehoioses of goods, and a great trade drove to the Indian Nation. His first Days were Spent in hearing and deciding several Differences among the People, making proper Regulations, and granting Lands to several People who desired to settle. On the 6th Phony Mingo, King of the Chickesaws, waited on the General. On the 7th a King of the Cherokee Indians arrived, with several Warriors and other Attendants, making in all thirty three Indians, to wait on the General. The small Pox and Rum being in the Winter both carried xsp into the Nation by the txnlicensed Traders have made terrible havock, near 1000 Warriors and hxinters are dead. The Indians Loudly complained they were poisoned with Rum, and some of their Towns have sent up to the French. The General immediately orderd the Trtistees Laws to be more effectually put in Execution against Rum, On the 13th arrived an Express from Savannah, with an Acct. that a Master of a Sloop brou^t advice, that the Govr, of Rhode Island had granted Commissions for fitting out Privateers against the Spaniards: The General immediately dispatched Ensign Leman Express to Charles Town, and himself sat out with the Utmost Expedition for Frederica, which is about 400 miles from this place. (123) Coll. Oglethorpes State of Georgia 11 Oct, 1739 Reed. 13 March 1739/40 Introductory Discourse to the State of the Colony of Georgia 25 (123) This may he filled from Coll.Stephens*! return. The Province of Georgia lyes from the most Northern Stream of D. M the Eiver Savennah (the mouth of which is in the Latitude of 32.00) along the Sea Coast to the most Southern Stream of the Alatamaha (the D. M Southermost mouth of which is in 3O.3O and Westward from the Heads of the said Eivers respectively in direct Lines to the South Seas. This Province was part of South Carolina, the Eastern part and Southern part inhabited by the Creek Indians, the Northern by the Gherokees and Chickesaws, the Western by the Choctaws, Bluemouths, Sibbolas, and other Indian Nations to the South Seas. The Creek Indians acknowledged the King of England for their Sovereign, yet made War with the People of Carolina to Obtain Satisfaction for Injuries done by their Pedling Traders. The War concluded by a Peace, which Obliged the People of Carolina not to Settle beyond the Eiver Savannah and no English man was Settled within this District, when the first Colony of Georgia arrived. The Country was then all Covered with Woods. Mr. Oglethorpe agreed with the Creek Indians, and purchased of them the Limits mentioned in the Treaty. The Townji of Savannah was laid out and Built in \dd.ch there are * Houses, Ships of 2. or 3OO. Tons can come to the Town, where the Worm does not Eat, and the Eiver is Navigable for large Boats, as D. M fax as the Toxirn of Augusta, which lyes in the Latitude of 3305 is by Water 222 Miles distant from Savannah, small Boats (by Water) can go 300 Miles further to the Cherokees. There is already a considerable Trade in the Eiver, which Increases as the Settlements Increase. There is in this Town a Courthouse, a Jayle, a Storehouse, A house for the Trustees servants, a Wharfe or Bridge, a publick Garden of Ten Acres Cleared, fenced & planted with Mi Mulberry Trees Oranges, Olives, 26 (124) *!EMs may be filled from Coll.Stephenss rettirn. NB. the Ntimber has not been return'd Since 25 Augst. 1738 when there were 260 acres planted Tines, Peaches &c* which have this Year by the Care of the Italian Gardeners recovered the ill-treatment they met with, during my Absence, though above 100,000 Mulberry !I?rees were intirely destroyed in the ITursery before my Arrival a Guard house and some other Publick btiildings. Eie frustees Servants wind Silk, and tho as yet but a small Quantity, it will Increase considerably as the Mulberry Trees grow. There is a Potter who Undertakes to make China, as soon as he can make proper Furnaces. Some of the Jews have planted a little Vineyard, the Grapes are very Fine, they this Year cleared & fenced * Acres which they Plant this Year and do not Dotibt to make a Quantity of Wine in four Years time, the Eiver three miles, there is an Indian Town, and at Six miles distance are several considerable Plantations, And at 15 Miles distance is a little Village called Abercorn. Above that on the Carolina Side is the Town of Purysburgh 25 Miles from Savannah, and on the Georgia Side 15 Miles from Purysburgh, is the Town of Ebenezer, which thrives very much. There is a very good House for each of the Ministers, and an Orphan house, they have a great deal of Cattle and Corn so that they Sell Provisions at Savannah For they raise more than they can Consume. 30 Miles above the Ebenezer on the Carolina Side is Pallichocolas, near which Mr. Elliot has a Cowpen with I8OO head of Cattle, and there are many other Cowpens in the neighbourhood from thence xg)wards for 30 or 40 Miles, so that a great Quantity of Beef may be Yearly bought there, drove doTO to Savannah Killed & Salted for Ejjport. Th Tallow & Hides will be of great use also to the Town of Savannah, where there are Butchers who have already began to buy Cattle, in order to drive them over, and Kill and Salt (125) Them for the 27 (125) SMjjpin^, Five miles afeove Palichocolas on the Georgia Side lies the Uchee Town, or Moxmt Pleasant to which about one hundred Indians belong, but few of them stay now in the Town, they chasing rather to Live disperst. All the Lands from Ebenezer to the Eiver of Briars belong to those Indians, who will not part with the same Therefore it cannot be Planted. At 110 Miles above Mount Pleasant on the Carolina Side, is Silver Bluoarj where there is another Settlement of Uchee Indians, on both Sides the Eiver axe Fields of Corn planted by them. JO Miles above *where there are 2 or 3 Families Silver Bluff is New Windsor,* on the Georgia Side lies the Town of on the Carolina Side & a small Augusta, just below the Falls. This was laid out by the Trvistees Fort 7 miles above New orders in the Year 1735/6 which has Throve prodigiously. There are Windsor several Warehouses thorou^ly well Furnished with Goods for the Indian Trade, they this Year raised above 6000 Bushels of Corn There are Five large Boats which belong to different Inhabitants of the Town, which can Carry about 9 or 10,000 weight of Deerskins each. They exported last Tear about 100,000 weight of Deer Skins from this Town, Hither all the Indian Traders %d.th their Servants resort in the Spring. This June there were above 2000 Horses and the Traders, Packhorsemen. Servants, Townsmen, and others depending upon that Business, made about 600 all White men, who live by their Trade in the Indian Nations, carrying upon Packhorses all kinds of English Goods, for which the Indians pay Deer Skins, Beaver and other Furs. Each Indian hunter is reckon'd to get 3OO Wei^t of Deer Skins in a Year. This is a very advantageous Trade to England, since it is mostly paid for in Woolen Goods and Iron. Above the Town to the North West and on the Georgia Side of the Eiver, the Cherokees live in (12 6) The Valleys of the Apelatian Mountains, They 28 (126) were about 5000 Warriours, but have lost a Thouseud by Eum last Year. The French are xJtx striving to get this Nation from us, which if they do, Carolina must be Supported by / a vast Niimber of Troops, or Lost, but as long as we keep the Town of Augusta, our Party in the Oherokees can be so easily Purnished with Arms Ammunition & Necessaries that the Prench will not be able to Gain any ground there. The Creek Indians live to the Ifestward of this Town, their chief Town is the Cowetas 200 Miles from Augusta and 120 from the nearest Prench Port, the lower Creeks consist of about a Thousand, and the upper Creeks of about 700 Warriours, upon the Edge of whose Country the Prench Port of Albamus lies. They are sincerely Attached to his Majesties Interest, and they emress /o^^EZKsz the greatest Gratitude upon all Occasions, for the kind Reception the Trustees gave to their Chiefs when in England, and for the Justice with which the Nation is Treated here. They are ready to assist us against either Prench or Spaniards. They received me with the greatest Hospitality, and Obey all Orders as punctually as any Regular Troops can do. Beyond the Creeks lye the brave Chickesaws, who Inhabit near the Missisippi River and Possess the banks of it. These have resisted both the Bribes and Arms of the Prench, and Traders sent up by us Live amongst them. Ten Towns of the Choctaws also Trade with us. At Augusta the Trustees have a Port where the Maintain a little Garrison of 15 Men besides Officers, and the reason that drew the Traders to Settle the Town of Augusta, was the Safety they received from this Port, it stands upon a high Ground upon the Side of the River Savannah, which is there l40 Yards wide and very Deep. Here I drank Wine made of Wild Grapes, it was of a Pale Colour, but had much of the Taste and Sharpness 29 (126) of Rhemish Wine. The people raise Some Wheat for their own Use which is very good. (12?) Finding the great Value of the Town of Augusta, I had a Road markd out hy Mr, Cuthhert with the Rangers, thro the Woods from thence to Old Bhenezer, and the Cherokee Indians have mark'd out one from thence to their Nation, so that Horsemen now can Ride from the Toim of Savannah to the Nation of the Cherokees, all on the Georgia Side of the River hut there are some had places which ought to he Cause wayed and made good, and which I have not yet had means to do This Road begins to he freqpaented and will every day he more so; and hy it the Cherokee Indians can at ahy time come down to our Assistance. At Old Ihenezer beside the Saw-Mill there are some Plantations of German Families, as also a Cow Pen, where the Trust have a great number of Cattle, and I hope with Care that they will amount to 6 or 700 Head hy next Year hut they were very much Neglected, there not being Horses nor Men Sufficient to drive up the Wild Cattle. This is the Situation of the Settlements upon the River, at the mouth of which the Island of lichee with the Lighthouse which is of the greatest Use to all Ships that fall in with this part of America, hut from Savannah Southward there are several Plantations (besides the Villages of Han^sted & Highgate) which are Settled hy such of the In habitants of the Town, as being able to Purchase Calttle, have Peti tioned for Leases of Land, and are Settled upon the Lands hy my per mission, until the Tr\istees pleasure he known concerning the Leases. The Terms they propose are, the Lease to he for 21 Years renewable every Seven Years upon paying one Years purchase of the in^roved Value, The first Seven Years to he Free and no Fine paid for the first Henewal. 30 ik (127) (Tbll. Stephens will write more particularly on this Head. 5!hese Set tlements extend as far as the narrow Passages near Ogechee, upon which Eiver lies Port Argyll in a Situation that Commands all the Provinces. The next is Darien, where the Scotch are Settled, they have this Year raised plenty (128) of Corn, have got into driving of Cattle, Supply the Eegiment and Shipping with Fresh Beef (they "bought Droves of Cattle "by the Assistance of the Trustees in Carolina, and Killed and Sold the Oxen for as much as the whole Drove coat and so got the Cows clear) and they have a great many good Sawyers who make an advantageous Trade of Lumber the Buildings are mostly Hutts, but tight and warm, and they have a little Port below the Town of Darien There is the Town of Frederica on the Island of St. Simons, where there is a Port & Storehouses belonging to the Trust, many good Buildings in the Town, several of which are Brick, there is a Meadow in ye Neighbourhood that is Ditched in of 320 Acres, off which there is good Hay made. Ihe people have this Year not planted much, they being cheifly Tradesmen, who make more by Working or Selling to the Can^, than they can by Planting. Near the Cang) the Country is very well Cultiyated, and great In^jrovements made, several Lands not far distant from thence, having been gt granted in small Lots to the Soldiers, many of whom are married, and those are the most In dustrious and willing to Plant, most of the rest are desirous of Wives but there are not Women enough in the Country, and indeed it would be very necessary for the Support of the Place that they had Wives. There are several little Villages upon the Island of St. Simons, and several very handsome Houses "built by the Officers of the Eegiment, and there has been Pot-herbs, Pulse and Fruit produced upon the Island, sufficient 31 (128) to Supply both the Town and Garrison, but Corn, Beer and Meat they ha,ve as yet from Blsewhere as It is true our People of Frederica have begun this Year to Brew some Beer and also to Malt, and the Soldiers wives ^in Cotton, which they Knitt into Stockings. Between this Island and Jekyll is Jekyll Sound, a very fine Harbour & the best Entrance (129) the English have to the Southward of Virginia. This is an excellent Station for Ships to Cruize upon the Spaniards it Commands their whole homeward bound Trade, which must come thro the Gulph of Florida, and D. M near Saint Simons, the Entry lies in 3I.IO the place is Barred, upon the Bar there is Water sufficient every TJrde to carry in Twenty Gun Ships And taking ye best Opportunity 40 Gun Ships, nay the Pilot on board Capt. Burrish acquainted me that a Sixty Gxin Ship provided she was Listened and proper Weather chosen, might be carried in to Befit. A great conveniency to a Squadron in this place is, that they can be Supplied from the Darien with fresh Beef at a moderate price (as they are Drovers they can buy cheap from the Stocks of Cattle in Carolina and Virginia, distant from the Sea) in which Quantities soever shall be wanting, and from the other parts of the Settlements with Pork. Upon Jekyll Island there is but very little good Land; not above 3 or 400 Acres, the rest being Sandy Sea Beach. Mr. Horton has his Lot upon this Island, and has made great Is^rovements. Kiere should be Batteries of Canon to Command this Harbotir but I had neither Artillery from the 0rd~ nance nor money for Fortifications, yet at my own Expence I began a Battery which Mr. Thomas made so expencive and tedious that the kings orders not to Fortify, came before it was finished. To the Southward of Jekyll lies the Island of Cumberland Ih and the Fort of St. Andrews 32 (129) Sittiated upon a fine coiamanding Ground. SPhe Soldiers who have Wives have had Lots granted them, which they have Improved very much, particularly they have made a little Village called Ballimavee, there is about 24 families with good Hutts built, and all have cleared and Planted; beyond St. Andrews is the beautifull Island of Amelia, where there are Orange Trees wild in the Woods. Upon this Island is (I30) Stationed the Trusts highland Servants and their Boats, they have a very good Plantation & have raised Corn enou^ this Year to Support them Selves, there is a little Port with a Sergeants Guard. Upon these Islands I left a Stud of the Tr\ists horses and Mares when I went last for England, and the Colts bred out of them are very good. Beyond this Island lies St. Georges which was Qaitted by Agreement with the Spaniards, and beyond that is St. Johns and the Spanish Out Guards, between 40 and 50 Miles distance from that Out Guard is Augustine. We are now fully acquainted with the Country and what it will produce. The Inland part is Hilly till it arises into Mountains, mostly covered with Timber, Pine, Walnut, Oak end Beach; great part of this is open Groves, very Grassy and little Vallies covered with Canes, which feed Cattle to a large Size, the Land that has been Cultivated, bears Indian Corn, Potatoes, Peas, Wheat, Earley and Eye with great Increase. There are Quarries of Marble & other Stones and a pretty many Agats in the Eiver, as alse Hoans & petrified Stone, of which I shall send home some Sandies. As You come near the Sea, the ground is more Level & Plat Lawrels, Cedars, Cyprus, Bays and Live Oaks, as well as Pine, are of the hei^t and Size of Timber Trees the Shrubs are Myrtle, prickle Pears and Sumach In the ^sland;^ the Orange Trees stand 33 (130) the Winter, and grow wild to the Southward, the Mxilherry Trees thrive prodigiously there is great Quantity of Honey in the hollow f. Trees, and the Vines grow wild; hy Ejcperience they find that the Grafting upon them Succeeds. The greatest Difficulties of the Colony I think are now over the Boundaries are known, as is the Climate and manner of Agricul ture So that more might he done now in One Year, than could before we arrived at that Knowledge he done in Seven (I3I) hut our People are Weak, they being Decreas'd hy vast Humhers having been Decoyed awsy to other Colonies, many having taken to Idleness upon Shutting the Store, went away hut those who remain raise Provisions of ye Bread xk kind sufficient to feed many more Mouths than are here, and if an Embarkation was to come in towards the end of next Summer it would he of great Service to us. Both the Saltzhurghers and Hi^alanders are very desirous of more of their Countrymen the Highlanders are willing to pay the passage of 50. The Silk and Wine will certainly Suceed if well followed, hut there are great Difficulties to get Humhers in a new Country into a new kind of Produce. Several hundred thousands of Mulheriy Plants have been given to Freeholders at different times, yet great H^xmhers were so Negligent that they took no Care of them. Numbers also were destroyed when they burned the Woods in Winter to kill the Vermin, for if the People then Neglect, the Fire catches into their Plantations upon the Weeds and Corn Stalks which scorches the young Trees and destroys them; though there have been such Ntimbers planted, yet very few are left amongst the Freeholders. This Year they will Plant again, Mr. Causton has some hundreds of Flourishing Trees. The French Protestants also have some, for they know the value of them and 34 (131) preserved them. There is more Trees of three Years stsnding in the Garden than in all the rest of the Province, hut yoiing Trees planted this Year there will he great lumbers; for as we give four Shillings a how pound for Silk halls, the people seeing/iiraxK much those get who have Trees and have Fed Silk Worms now Wish to have them Themselves, and I fancy they will take care of them; Besides that many of the Idle Ones being gone out of the Province, the Eeminader set more into Lahoui. Coll. Stephens will send You an Account upon Oath of whet advance the Jews have made in Vineyards. The Idle Beports of N-umhers of Georgians begging in the Streets of Carolina are entirely false, there were between 30 and 40 Superntuneraries of my Regiment discharged for Crimes most of whom had been Try*d, condemned and whipped out (I32) for Felony, Desertion, or being in Foreign service and striving to Decoy the Men to the Spaniards, most^ of which Crimes merited Death, but by the mildness of the Courts Martial they were only Sentenced to Whippings, and being Turnd out Infamously. These men begged about Charles Town, and Contributions were raised to Maintain them there, some dissafected People, particularly for one Deane, who was Condemned for being a Papist, and having Own'd that he wo-uld help to Surprize and deliver one of the Frontier Garrisons to the Spaniards, This Crew had the Impudence in Charles Town Streets to abuse Mr. Csuiogan and some Officers of the Regiment and Deane declared that he was King James's man. Curs'd King George and all his Officers, and Swore that he hoped to be Knee deep in their Bloods. None since I came, left Georgia for mere want, nor I believe before I came; most that have worked upon their Lands have Corn, Peas and Potatoes enough to 35 (132) Subsist them, those who had not, or were hindered by Sickness, I gave Allowances to; several indeed went to Carolina in order to Live with more Idleness, several Pled thither from their Creditors, and went thro that Province into others. The greatest part of those who ran to Carolina, Bum being cheap (but Sixpence a Quart) drank excessively and are Dead. There have indeed vast Numbers left this Province, or been prevented from coming into it by the People of Charles Town, I beleive several Thousands, and yet we have still a fine Body of People here, one of whom is worth Three of those who Left us. You know that those the Trustees sent to this ColorQr on the Publick expence, were men Ruin'd in England, or Foreign Protestants, or Highlanders, the two latter being Accustomed to Labour were not afraid of it here, and Subsist comfort ably, Witness Ebenezer and the Darien, this Town was mostly Settled by the former, many of the Unfortunate poor turn'd out to be Industrious men, some of them have now Twenty head of Cattle, and have had this Tear Eighty or a hundred bushells of Corn, besides great Losses that (133) They have Sustained from the Idleness of their Neighbotirs, others whom Idleness perhaps in England had Ruin'd came hither hoping to Live in Idleness and avoid Labour, they Fled from Labour in Etirope, and when they Saw it Stare them in the Face in Georgia, they fled from it into Carolina, where they hoped to Live by Whipping of Negroes instead of Working: But now the humotir of Forsaking the Colony is over; and if ever the Trustees are able to Send another Embarkation of People (a proportion of Laborious Women is wanting.) I think a little Time will make this Province the most flotirishing of any in America. This Coloiy lies between the French & Spaniards and Caroline, and if there was not 36 (133) that Distance of an Intervening Province, it woTild he Impossible to prevent a Seneral Revolt of the Negroes. Prom Georgia we can with Ease invade the Spanish Florida and the French on the Missisippi. To Stan up the present Scituation of the Colony. The Trust is in Possession in Behalf of Ms Majesty, from the Garrison of the Okfushees in the tpper Creek Nation (which they Settled Six Years ago) down to the Gulph of Mexico hy the Appelachees, and from thence to Amelia. TMs Garrison is near 400 Miles from the Sea; and a mark of Possession within 40 Miles of the French Fort, and the Officer thst we have there, keeps up the English Interest with the Indians, and the French cannot Encroach ftn-ther without Hostilities. The Sea Coast lies from -Amelia to the mouth of the Savannah, and is upwards of a Degree and a half upon the Globe, but is confuted by the Boatmen who Row it, to be near 200 Miles by Water. From the mouth of the Svannah to Augusts is 236 Miles by water. In this Province which but Seven Years ago was all Forests, are four Towns and the ebovementioned Settlements; It is well watered, every part of it fit for Pasture, a great deal Stockd with Cattle. (134) great part of it very xxfls rich land fit for Agricultvire, end what is CMtivated produces Vines, Mulberrys. Orange and Olive Trees, Peaches, Figs and most kinds of Fruits, that grow in Europe or Asia; Potatoes, Cabbage, Carrots and all Pulse, Roots and Grain that grow in Europe, Cotton Indigo, Cockineal alloes, true Alices, Sassa fras, Snakeroot, Sumach, I^tle and many other Drugs that will not grow in England. The boundaries of the lands sold by the Indians who Inhabit the rest of the Province, ^1 I have sent home to You. The Indians in that part of the Province of Georgia inhabited by them, not only Support 37 (13^) s. themselves; hut send yearly to Europe above L 20,000 Sterling worth of Peer Skins aM Furs, and hy Instrticting them in other Valuable produce of their Cotintry, they will increase the Consuugition of Woolen Cloathing and pay in New Commodities, such as Wax, dying Drugs, Agats Ac. The part cultivated by Europeans, wants only Industry and a Number of people to produce in Quantities, what the few already here have rais*d samples of. Ignorant and Sanguine People who know nothing of E\xsiness, mi^t eacpect a Colony to grow to Perfection at once; but You who have seen and overcome the Difficulties under which this Enterprise has Labourd, know that the Success is greater than what One could reasonably have hoped. Spanish alarms. Factions, and Idleness amongst some here discouraged the Industrious The Jealousy and Rancour of otir Neighbo\irs, omitted no underhand opposition that coTild be given to the Settling Towns upon better Ports than that of Charles Town, The Enteiprize of the Trustees Succeeding so well and with so much Reputation in Europe, Envy raised a Spirit of Detraction against sucdti a society. Their UhdertaMng was too good to be Approved of by bad men, too brace for Cowards, and too Disinterested for a Selfish Age, therefore (135) Those who were hopeless of Sharing the Honour of the Action, detracted from the Merit of it. The Swiss and Popish Princes of Germany, fearing the Loss of their Stibjects, Joyn'd the Cry, and the Spanish Emissaries were glad of Fomenting tha.t Tenper, they wotild have persuaded, that so large a Province, the whole Front so full of Sea Ports and Islands, the Inland watered with Navigable Rivers, the Soil fruitfTill, and the Air healtl^ was a barren Spot of Land not worth the keeping, at the ZEE same time they made an Armament from Cuba at a vast eapence, to take Voltuae 1^204 37a (41) Oglethorpe Acct. of the Espences of the Colony from 22 Septlr. 1738 to 20 Jxine I739 with his explsuptions. Sent 5th. July (42) Colli. Oglethorpe Explane.tion of this Acct. article hy Article. Sent therewith 5 J^y 1739 I write this as an e3qplans.tion of the Acct. Sent to the frustees: If there are any Articles which they do not think o-ught to le charged to the Trustees Acct. I hope you will let me know them, and their objec tions, that I may escplsin them. a The First is to Mr. Jones the Storekeeper at Savannah, h The Hext was to encourage the Soldiers to take up Lotts, and make a road to them, which at first they Seem*d unwilling to do. c I got John Barber to Settle at a place half way between Savannah & Frederica, and a a Settlement there would be of great Service in So wild a Country. d That paid Dr. Logie was for taking care of that boy during his passage hither. e The Towns people of Frederica cut a road of 6 miles without pay, & I gave them this to drink. f I Sent Capt. Sutherland express to Savannah and Charles town with letters to prevent any new demands being mad on the Trustees, and to publish their advertisment. g 1 also gave Something to the Sergeants and Soldiers to encourage them to plant. h The 9 Shillgs. pd. for making the St. Andrews Servts. cloaths and the 9 Shillings paid for for Shoes for them will be paid in their establishment here. 37b (42) i The Palisades at Frederica Port are necessary to be kept ap for keeping out hoggs &c. k) ) See note on c. L) m) I issued a great deal of the provisions Sc for the Service of the n.o) IPrust, therefore think it ou^t to hear a Share of the charges. P) ) See note on c 4) r See note on m, 8 Ihe Soldiers being ignorant of the Soil and Climate, I chose a Man to he Overseer, and instruct them in planting; and I thought it was an expence belonging to the Trustees, Since it was an Improvment of the Province. (43) An Acct, of Sundry Dishursments, made by Francis Moore, by my Order James Oglethorp 1738 a Septembr. 22 To Mr, Thomas Jones, for wch. he is to account. Pd, for bread & cheese given the Soldiers, whilst they were making a road from the Camp to their lotts . * # * C- 26 Gave to Jo. Barber who had Settled at Archers point between Savannah and Frederica.. 27 Paid Dr, Logie for Sundries Supplyd Jo, Teasdale, a Son of a Freeholder Sent over by the Trustees. 2 - - 37c (^3) OctoTsr. Kovljr. K k Gave to 1? Frederica Men who had cut a road from their town to the ..^7- 2 Paid Mr. Hird for "building a Hutt for the use of the Trustees Women Servants.......2 - - Paid for pipes for the Indians. " ^ 9 Paid Capt. Sutherland for his charges & going express to Savannah & Charles town with Letters.5 *" Paid in pt. for covering the Trustees Magazine at Frederica .... 4 - - 1 Paid Ensign Mace to he hy him paid for encouraging the Soldiers to take & clear land, one half for the Soldiers, & one half for the Serjeants.2 - - 11 Paid a Man for 9 days work, in helping to line the Trustees Servants cloaths of St. Andrews. 9 *" 15 Paid a boat to carry Mr. Jones's baggage from St. Simons to Frederica...310 *" 19 Paid for a pair of Shoes for an Indian Woman. 2 6 22 Paid Tho. Walker for 5 days work in mending the Trustees ^ palisadoes at Frederica. 15 *" Paid do. for a Saw given Jo. Barber when he Settled at Archers Point. 1^ - 23 Paid Tho. Sumner for 3 p^r of Small gates for the Fort of Frederica. 12 *" 37d (43) Z6 Paid for 6 pd. of Shot for the Indians. 2- 27 Paid for 2 Men and a ^ boat Sent to Darien on a Message. 8 - m Paid Fra. Helo for work in tmloading one of the Transports .... 6 - n Paid Will, Abbot for himself and Servt, in f\ill, for helping to unload the Transports. 1 7 B o Paid Edward Addison in full for do.^1 4 - p Paid for 2 hens & one cock to Eoberson, who went to Settle with Barber at Archers point. 42 Paid Sami, Davison for 14| days work at the Trustees Magazine at Frederica.... 19- q Paid for 2 Shifts for Mary Woodhouse, to encourage her to go and Settle wth. Mrs. Eoberson at Archers Point. 8 - r Paid Henry Eoberson & Edwd. Payne for one month's Service in unloading Ships & Stowing goods. 2 10 - s Decembr, 18 Paid Eichd, Oldner in pt. of Wages, being hired in order to teach & encourage the Soldiers to plant. 1 10 - 27 Paid for freight of 15 Ton of goods from Savanah Store. 7 10 - Carry'd over . . 41 18 0|^ 37e (44) a The boards from Dsrien were Sow*d ty the Trustees Servants. h The Magistrates of Frederica had been diligent in detecting of Rum, X made them this present. c Thomas Jones is a half Indian, who is the head of a Party of Men that understand the Woods very well, and came at the head of a Party of Men to assist the Colony, when the Spaniards threatned an Invasion in 1737. Mr. Causton wanting assistance, agreed pay him, & his Men, hut only paid part. I paid him this on accortnt of the remainder. d I tho\ight it necessary to fence in a cow pasture at Frederica, which is the only method to keep Cattel tame. e The JO to Mr. Jones the Storekeeper you will find in his Accts. f See note on h of the foregoing fol. g It was necessary to build a clapper ax or wooden foot bridge across a watry Savannah near a mile across, and till it was done, the people going to the Txa Fort were in rainy times oblidged to wade up to their knees. h Barbara Campert took care of the Store house at Frederica, and drest the victuals time there all the time of my being in England: and as no money was paid to the Store from Savannah, the debt remained till my arrival. i Mr. Grant was Sent express to Charlestown on the Spanish Allarm. k If the Trustees are not willing to pay the 10 paid to Mr. Bolzius for the Orphan house at Ibenezar, he is willing to repay the Same. 1 It was found necessary to have horses at Frederica, and the people 37f (44) did not know which way to f come at them: So I ho'u^t 5 Carolina, and the Issues of the 4 will appear in the hooks. m Capt, Eneas Mackintosh had 10 Rangers under his command, which I reduced: But as he hinfflelf was willing to assist in bringing in the IPrustees wild Cattel, which are generally hunted up in May, I continued him on. Six months longer than his men. n) The 58.1.2 for the Servants at Amelia, and the 3*6.0 for bonnets, ) p) is part, and to be placed to the Establishment of Amelia, as soon as our general Accts. are made out, 0 The Curriers Knife is repaid to the Store by the Tanners Acct. 1 The Canvas were necessary to be bought for the Service of each Settlement 37g (45) 1738-9 a January c Fetruy. d e f g March h Brought over.41 18 5 Paid Greo. Spencer the "bricklayer for work at Darien. 1 11 5 6 Paid for carrying 100 "bushels of corn to darien, & for "bringing 1400 foot of "boards from thence to Prederica .... 1 10 8 12 Gave to the magistrates of Frederica for their care and dilligence in detecting Eum. 1 1 6 19 Paid "by Mr. Pury to Tho. Jones One of the Trustees Cattel hunters on Acct. of his pay...15 -- 1 Paid in pt. for fencing in a Cow pasture .. 3* 17 Paid for a Genoa for the use of Frederica.10 10- 21 Paid for 4 "barrils of "beef for the Trustees Servts. at Amelia . . 6 - - Paid in full for fencing in a Cow pasture. 8-- Sent to Mr. Tho. Jones to purchasse provisions for the Chocktaw Indians and other Services.. ..30 24 Paid Sami. Davison in pt. for "building a Clapper across the Savannah ... 4 - - 25 Paid for 2 payr of Shoest for two of the Trustees Servants in St. Andrews "boat... 9- 1 Paid Samuel Davison in full, for making the Clapper across the Savannah... 2-- 2 Paid Barbara Caii5)ert a dutch woman in fxill for 2 years & ^ Service as Cook for the Trustees Servts. at Frederica endg. this dgy 10 37g (^5) 7 Paid to Mr. Jones, whicli he is to dishttrse on acct. of the SilkManofacttire... 30 - - i 8 AdTanc*d Hr. Patrick Grant on Acct, of a journey he made to (Siarles Town upon affairs of the Trustees, before my arrival note. 5 ** ** Paid Isaac Young, to encourage him to break Oxen to the yoke rec^t. 84 8 Paid Tho. Salter for a chimney to the Watch houses in Savanah rec^t. 4 - - k 10 Paid Mr, Jones for the Eevd. Mr. Bolzius to assist the Orphan house at Ibenezar rec^t. 10 - - i 20 Paid in pt. for a large Canoa for the use of the Trustees Servts. at Darien, to bring Wood &c down the Eiver, rec^t, 13 April .. 3 * L April 1 Paid for 5 horses & mares (of which 1 died); they were bou^t in Carolina, & the rest were deliverd at Prederica recpt. 17 7 6 m 16 Paid Capt. Eneas Mackintosh for 6 months Service at Port Prince George, endg. 16 May next recpt... 18 15 - n Paid for Sundries bought & Supply'd the Trustees Servts. at Amelia ..58 i 2 37h (45) 7 Gave the Custom house Officers at Charlestown for instructions how to act wth. relation to the Customs in Georgia recpt. . 2 Paid do. for hooks, papers, & printed Instrucjfeions for the Custom house in Georgia, recpt. 4 Paid for a curriers Knife for the Tanner as recpt. I32 10 Paid for 66 honnets for the Trustees Servts. at Amelia. 36- (page cut at this point) (46) 1 See Note in the foregoing folio. a Of the 62 Indian Shirts 22 were issued out at Savannah, the rest here. h There is a natural meadow in this Country (call'd a Savannah) nearFrederica, which I had mowed, and between 20 & 3O loads of hay made reeked in order to teach the people the use of a meadow, and to keep the Cattel in winter. c There were 10 horses for the Pindar necessary to drive up the Cattel aViriMtiMrjtVaaJwjjtaaWKlA near Savannah, as well of the Trustees as of the poor people, whose Cattel Since Mr. Vandeplanks death have grown wild: 5y Computation they amount to above 5OO in the town division, most part of which were in danger of being lost, the Pindar not having horses to drive them up. These are besides the Cattel at the Cow pen at Ebenesar who all belong to the Trust, and by con5)utation amount to between 5 & 6OO. and besides 90 Steers, which were deliver'd about a year before my arrival, to Mr. Parkers charge, and for which he must account. 37i (^6) d One of the Servants at Darien, a very industrious young Man, was desirous of marrying a yo\ing Woman of the Hi^lsnds, who was Servt, to Mrs. Montaigut: By paying for this Servant and letting him marry her, I gained a family to Settle in the Province. A much less charge than the bringing over from England would be, and made a young pair as they thou^t happy. e It appearing to me that the people of Darien were not fit for any trade, & that by mere cultivating their lands, tho they were very industrious, they would not be able to pay the debts already due to the Trust and cloath themselves: But that they understood taking care of Cattel, which business they chiefly follow*d in Scotland, and the Country thereabout being very proper for Cattel, and that it would be very beneficial to this Province to have Cattel Slaughter*d at Darien for furnishing the Regiment and the Men of War wth, fresh meat; I therefore lent 200 Sterl, to the people of Darien, and therewith paid for a herd of Cattel, which was deliver'd to them, as you will find by the enclosed, and for which they have given Security, and already paid back Some part, f QJhe Men Sent over by the Trustees to build a Saw Mill, with the assis tance of Several other men finished the Same, And Mr, Causton having not paid them, no more than others, there was a great deal due to them, of which I have paid part, g I have paid Mr, Cuthbert and Six Cattel hunters, being necessary, as I mention'd in the Trustees letter, h The moneys paid to Roberson is on account of building the Chappel, 37S (^6) i One Crookshanks who had been a Stadki* Soldier in King Williams Am^y, and came into the Trustees Service when I first was here, & continued behaving very well, fell blind. I thonght the cheapest way was to give him half a crown week (instead of food) which is the kings allowance to Invalids, till Such time as I have the Trustees orders concerning him. k Fort Arguile being the middle way between the Daxien & Savannah, when I dismist the 25 Eangers that were there, I was obliged to keep on two. They have been of use, having Stopt Several runaway Servts. assisted the Passengers, and fxirnish'd the German Servants that are Settled there, with jadbc provision by hunting. As Soon as the German Servts. have got in their crop, I think to reduce those two rangers, & make a Saving. L See note on h. m See note on g. n) Thomas Jones the Ranger, is the Same mentioned in the foregoing folo, ) o) letter c p The Cedar Posts bought of Mr. Carteret is for fencing in the Store house, q Mr. Moore Mackintosh the keeper of the Store at Darien, has been frequently obliged to attend here, r See note on letter m. in the first folo. of this Acct. 37k (47) 1739 1 April a t c d e May Brotight Over , . , , 296 18 Ij 13 Paid to John Eeignier in full for a Canoa, he receiving 3 on the Same Acct, 20th. of last month, as 2. recpt. 9 - - 16 Paid for Paint &c for the Ministers house, and the ICrustees garden gate as recpt. 1 1 10 22 Paid for making 62 Indian Shirts. 2l4 29 Paid for mending the IJrastees Cart. 6- Ipcxii Paid 3 Men for making hay 1 day. 3 To Mr. Tho. Jones at Savannah, a Set of hills of exchange to purchasse Ten horses for the Trustees. 50 - - Paid Mr. Montaigut for a Servant marry*d to one of the Trustees Servants at Amelia.. 8-- 5 Paid for Cattel to he deliver*d to the People at Darien, wch. have heen deliver*d accordingly. 200 - - Paid Elisha Dohree one of the Trustees Clerks for Sallary recpt.. 2 - - Paid Samuel Smalwood Trtiatee Clerk on do. Acct. recpt. 2 - - Paid Ja. Smyther on acct. of the Trustees Saw mill at Ehenezar recpt. 30 - - g Paid Mr. Jo. Cuthhert & 6 Cattle hunters years Sally, endg, 18 December 1738 as rec^t... 43 10 37-L (^7) Paid Henry KEyers for Stmdry works for the Trustees as 2^ acct. & recpt. ................. ... 2 11 - h Paid Jo. Eoherson on acct. of hricks to he hy him delivd. et Frederica, rect...3 i Paid Mr. Moore Mackintosh of Darien, in order for him to pay a 5* 2, diem to Eoht Crookshanks grown blind in the Tr. Service .... .............. .. 10- l4 Paid making 4 Indian Shirts .................... 4- k 19 Paid Laghlan Mackintosh & Will. Francis 6 months pay each, as Hangers at Fort ATguile from 19 Oct. to 19 April 1739 .... 24 - - recpt. L Paid Jo. Eoherson for hricks to he deliverd hy him at Frederica 2. rec^t.3- - Paid 5010. Walker for Work at Frederica Magazine .......... 8- 28 Paid Will. Francis for catching 2 Servts. & delivg. Jf them to Savanah jayl 2. recpt.. ......... 4-- 6ave to Will. Francis the Post, he having been down here at Frederica a good while on e:^ences . ..1-- m 29 Paid Mr, Jo. Cuthhert & 6 Cattel hunters 3 months pay, from 18 43 10 - March to 18 June next as 2. recpt. ........... ... iacxx^xJOt n Paid Tho, Jones for his Service as Comandr. of a Party of Eaixgers from 1 Jany. to 1 June 1739 as recpt.. ..11 5** 37m (4?) 0 P q Fai-d Mr, Jo, Outhhert to "be "by him paid to 4 Men, who Served imder 53ao, Jones as Esiigers from 1 Jany, to this time in full reqpt.18 Paid Mr. James Carteret for Cedar Posts delivd. to the Trustees 2, recept.. Given Mr, Moore Mackintosh of Darien on Acct, of his charges in frequent journeys to Frederica t. Cuthbert to be by Mm pd. to 4 Men who assisted the Cattle hunters on foot in biasing a road from Augusta to the Uchee Town . . 5* 0.0 ExtroardinspTies Pd. making 6 Indian flags.3.10.0 Pd. Mr. Gray to bear his charges in bringing down a Party of CMckesaws.5* 0.0 Loans, that have no rela tion to the In dian journey Lent Mr. Ei. Kent to be Stop*d out of any money Ms Eelations Shall Send Mm out of England.20. 0.0 Lent Hen. Overstreet having a numerous family) of cMldren, and recomended by the People of ) Augusts: being a. loan to buy Six Cows, )32.0.0 whidi 8jre to be as Security till the money ) is paid.)12. 0.0 Due to Lieut. Willie of the Garison in the Indian Hation, of which Col. Oglethorpe paid 110 L by draft on the Trustees.< 149. 8.8 ( Due to Capt. Macpherson for Ms ) ( own & 19 Dangers Service under Ms ) ( Comand to the 29 Septbr. 1738 . . -)-400.5.9i'( I89.13l4 Due to Do., from thence to ) ( 16 Nov. 1738.)....( 61. 4.0 961. 6.7 NB. Cspt. Macpherson demands 240.2.6 more, which the Comissioners for Stating the Publick Accts. in Georgia wotild not allow or certifie to be due. Of the former Sum certified to be due Col. Oglethorpe paid Mm 61.4.0 38 c (I4l) o 4^O 4^uo 4^4>o CQ 0)o 4^ (P rH CtO ooo d 4^ rHO P4 rH 03 > faO Pi (4 ra ID rH fa CO dJo St ID >25O fi a) fa Ci ID> Heu) S o> 45fa jo oi Os 4^Ooo eg 4^d 'd CQ 0) o 4^ CO0 |5 4^u 0oo 4^o CD 'd M O w Pi o o* o oo oo o* C\) o 00 o* 00 oo ^ ^ w ^ NO oo rHo rH Oo rH egoo rH eg o v^ ego eg o \o o o o eg o eg eg o eg eg oo 0 CD 4^ CDduoo CO0) od HP Pi O 00 00o Os 38d (4 M ^ 43 rH 43 0 (Do ill} 8 43 o .to ^ PJ jd 43 . OB2 ^ K .43 W P|w ^ I ,43 O plpP H C O cd -H 0 O I-H d CQ <0 4^ r-4 e> P=i M w I GO I 43 4> fi O 43 ffi 0 0 ffi ffi ,0 H 43 0 0 (0 M O 0 ,0 H O Cd (d to o Ai to fH a> 43 ()0 4 f3 rH S. 2 ()0 6 &l Pico ^ . 4 rH 4^ P P O O ffi Ci 8 4> 1^ CO ^ PI ,4 o P pIp p p O 6 .H 6 o fH tg w 4 rH 0 ) M m c!3 0 I -p

P P j P P P Q o> o c} a . P P P rH O Q m O 8 O tP PO 4P8 H IB mmo> a> Ph ^ p *3 o VOooo CD 3 ^ooo* in CJ osoo VOoo o CTs O CD VO -pCS) o CD CS) oo oo VOoo o vr, oo rH CS) o r\ o VOooo 4> fH P V> ^ 43 P a VO P p O 42 rH O , Pi CSI CM VO cn CM CO CM o VO CM VO 00 _ -pkH CM CO VO vri VO CM 00 CQP H H 4-9 o 40 H 4QO CO 4-90 h3 OO CM Oo 4- top Pi Io 4 03 8 P 2 43 H 4 *2P CH H O ti 43 hH O P P to oo CO Os oo s00 Besides these Cspt, Willy has s conpeny in the Indien Nation; And a garison of 10 Men and a Lieut, at Augusta, 38 (135) what they called the harren Spot, which I5OO men did not da.re to Do, thoiagh the Coimtry was only Defended hy the Georgia Colony of Planters. They now give out that it is abandoned, yet to their Cost they may find that this abandoned Province will force them to take Shelter within the The H-umble Ietition of Thomas Bauston of the Town of Savannah in the said Colony of Georgia. Sheweth That your Petitioner with divers others arrived in the said Colony on the first day of February 1732. And on such Arrival was com manded by James Oglethorpe Esqr. to take the Charge of and deliver out (as occasion required) all your Honours Stores; in which Truet and Service he at all times behaved himself with an Implicit Obedience to the Commands of the said James Oglethorpe, and with such diligence 8,s shewed his earnest desire to be thought/ worthy of the Timst reposed in him. That your Petitioner endeavouring to shew his just acting therein set down in Writing the several parcells quantitys and qualities of Stores, in Books or other Memorials, which he from time to time received and delivered in the most exact manner, as the great fatigue of Business 39 (171) then Incumbent on your Petitioner to perform could with reason admit, having (for the most part) no body to assist him, and at the best, those who either could not write or were so negligent, that no dependance could be had on their Actions. And as the Books, Papers and Memorials which e3!press the deliverys and receipts of the said Stores are now remaining in yoiir Honours Magazine at Savannah or in the Possession of those persons lately Commissioned by yotnr Honours to receive them, yoTir Petitioner for more Certainty refers himself thereto. That the said James Oglethorpe judged it necessary to Settle a Town by the name of Savannah, and divers other Towns & Tillages (Vizt) Tybee, Skidowa, Thunderbolt, Fort Argyll, Han5)stead, Highgate, Abercom, Ibenezer Josephs Town, Westbrooke and Grantham; which said (172) several Settlements were (many of them) twenty or thirty Miles distant from the said Town of Savannah. That the said James Oglethorpe in the Month of March 1733. departed the said Colony, and after some stay in South Carolina did also in the Month of May 173^ embark for England; And before his depart\ire from Georgia, As well in divers expressions orders and Charges, as also by Letters and orders in Writing diiring his Stay at South Carolina, commit to yoTxr Petitioner the sole power of acting and persxiing (in his Absence) all necessary means and measures, as well for supporting the said Settlements under any difficulties which might happen, as also for preserving to them and others who might joyn the Colony their Peace Safety and lawfull properties. That yoTU* Petitioner being also one of the Bailiffs of the said 40 (172) Town of Savaimela, he knew that in Virtue cf such Office, it was his ^ty to join the rest of the Magistrates in the Administration of Justice when occasion required, and that being Yr. Honours Storekeeper he was to joyn. Issue the stipulated food and working Tools; But as your Petitioner did not in due time (or had not the opportunity to con sider the difficulties which commonly arise by an Employ of so high a nature as (solely) to hold the reins of a Discretional power for the support of so great a number of people living in places so remote and Guarding them against such distresses as might render the difficulties of a new Colony easy to them, so your Petitioner must naturally be uneasy at being obliged to bear so great a weight And as yoxir peti tioner finds himself thereby plunged into difficulties, charged with presun^tions and threatned with ruin on account of such employ. He hopes that he may be allowd to say, that he ought to have been (in due time more particularly instructed, and his real Authority made publick to the Inhabitants, whereby he might have had a Certain rule for his Bcqxiittal, as well) with regard to your Honours orders, as to the demands and espectations of the people. That your Petitioner being thus unhappily loaded with (173) Business of the greatest moment to the being of the Colony endeavoured to acquit himself by all the honest and just means that he could Devise hoping that his endeavo-urs to Execute a Trust thus reposed in him would (at least) excuse any mistakes which he might thro* Inadver tency, or want of Judgment have made in the Execution. And your Peti tioner the better to evidence a due regard to the said Orders, and the sence of the Trust committed to him, enployed the most proper persons he 41 (173) could proctire for keeping a just account and putting to Writing, as well the particulars of all Goods and Moneys received, to and for the Account of Your Honours or the Colony, as also the particulars of the Issues and Payments made hy Tour Petitioner, to and for the said Account, he jonx Petitr. always "believing and hoping that an Account thus kept and entrys made "by Indifferent persons, as they would testify the Truth thereof so it was the properest method he could take to demonstrate (if occasion regiiired) the justness of his Intentions and those reasons which were the Giiide to his Actions. And being Ignorant of any in tended errors therein is desirous and ready to assist in an Examination thereof; humbly conceiving that if Errors (of aiy kind) has happend, they cannot (with Justice) be in^juted as a Crime to him, because he can fully shew that the daily attendance in providing for the Emergencies of the Colony in all its parts, guarding against the Designs of its publick and private Enemys, hearing the Complaints which naturally arose among the Inhabitants, deciding their differences, writing letters on the Affairs of the Colony, and the supporting and encouraging those, who gave some reasonable hopes of raising food by cultivating Land or producing such Manxifactures as seemed likely to contribute to the Tranquilily of the Colony and its future happiness, so far (un avoidably) employed his time that it was in^iossible for him to give such an attendance on the Accounts so directed by him to be kept, as wholly to prevent such errors or omissions, for more certainty whereof and to evince that such accounts were kept he refers himself, as well to the said Books and paper Writings, which also remain in your said Magazine or in the possession of such persons who are lately for that purpose 42 (173) comission'd by Your Honours to receive and Examine them. As also to such other evidence which (if required) he can and will produce. That (174) the Situation of the several Settlements, as well in regard to their distance and difficulties of passage, As also that the Lands alotted to the Settlers were for the most part incapable of suitable productions for their support, demanding a supply far exceeding the Calculations made by the said James Oglethorpe before his departiire, your Petitioner was obliged to draw several Bills of Exchange and pur chase sundry Stores on Credit to support them, as the only means in his power to prevent a Desertion, the particulars of which with the applications thereof, being charg'd in the said Account, Your Peti tioner for more Certainty refers himself thereto. That the said James Oglethorpe in the mouth of Pebry. 1735 rettirned to the said Colony and fo\ind it in all its parts in Peace and Safety, and the number of its Inhabitants greatly increased, and did then declare to your Petitioner that he was well satisfied in your Petitioners good Conduct, and particularly with the great diligence he had used in supporting & keeping the Settlers together in his absence, and was also well and so fully convinced of the necessity for such Extraordinary expeuce, and of the difficulties whicdi the Inhabitants laboTired under, th?>t he order'd yoTir Petitioner to continue the support whicdi he had yeilded to in such absence, altho' the time limited and quantity of Species stipulated for such support, had been (long since) expired and conpleated; and also, caused several of the Inhabitants and particularly the whole Town of Ebenezer to be removed to a more fertile Soil, 43 (174) ^hat the said James Oglethorpe some small time "before and soon after his said Arrival made other Settlements (Vizt) the Town of Frederica on the Island St. Simons, The Darien on the Eiver Alatamaha, on Jekyll Island, on OiMiberland Island, on Amelia Island, and Fort St, George; And gave it also in Charge to your Petitioner to use his utmost endeavours in providing and sending sufficient Stores to the said Town of Frederica whereby the said Town and all the Settlements Scout Boats, and Vessells attending their Service & Security might he from time to time supplied with necessarys; And altho* (175) such additional orders were a farther htirthen on your Petitioner, he the said James Oglethosrpe hath many times acknowledged yoTir petitioners diligence therein. That the said James Oglethorpe having resolved to return to England and yo-ur Petitioner ei^ierimentally knowing the great fatigue which attended the Station he acted in, the certainty that few or none of the first Settlers in the Colony were able to maintain themselves, that discontents (on that account) daily arose and would very probably increase and that altho your petitioner had executed the Discretional power for their support to the Satisfaction of the said James Oglethosrpe, he had many reasons to believe he had not gratified the expecta tions of the people and was convinced it was inpossible for Mtn (under such orders) to have better Success, and also well knowing that the generality of the people on the northern side of the Colony had laid before the said James Oglethosrpe soon after his arrival (piirsuant to his own orders) their several grievances and wants and were promised dis tinct answers, which had not been, and did not appear likely to be given them, and yoTir Petitioner believing, that as every one naturally thinks 44 (175) hifflself the best judge of his own necessitys, and that without some publick hearing of what might probably be accus'd on your Petitioner or some publick declaration hoxf far your Petitioner had duly executed your Honours orders; so many Imaginations might ensue of Dangerous con sequence to him, he your said Petitioner therefore in the strongest terms he could devise apply'd to the said James Oglethorpe to be dis charg'd from all publick en^loyments. That the said James Oglethorpe refused to gratify your Peti tioner in such request, and answered that such was the Satisfaction of the people with regard to your Petitioners conduct that was he to appoint an Election (by them) for the several employs which your Peti tioner executed, he was well assured they would chuse your Petitioner, and added that altho he believ'd your Petitioner (from the difficulties of his employ) would receive great Satisfaction of mind by being dis charg'd therefrom, such discharge would not then be to your Petitioners Interest; and (176) promised that his Services would not be forgot, and should be represented to your Honours in a meritorious manner, or words to such effect. That your Petitioner farther urged that his private account with your Honours store, might receive such Credit as he thou^t proper and then shewed him the said James Oglelihorpe an Account whereby your Peti tioner stood charged for many Articles containing expences of House keeping, maintenance of your Petitioners Family and Servants and other incident charges which unavoidably attended the execution of his said several eB5)loyments, and the daily entertainments of Indians & Strangers being a necessary Hospitality for cultivating and preserving Friendships in the infant State of the Colony. 45 (176) Elat tile said ^ames Oglethorpe on sight of the said Account declared the whole to he far short, of what mi^t he reasonably espected, in such cases and assured your Petitionerj^ that he need not he uneasy on that account, because he would take care, that those things should he settled in England to your Petitioners satisfaction or words to the like effect. Shat the said James Oglethorpe some small time before Ms depar ture from the said Colony wMch was on the 22d. of Hovemher 173^ Ordered a Town to he settled by the name of Augusta two hundred miles westward of the said Town of Savannah, and also ordered a Port to he there built and appointed Mr. Roger Lacey Captain thereof; and for the due Execution of such orders and estahlisMng a Garrison there, did also Sign and deliver to the said Roger Lacey, written orders for the said Roger Lacey to Guide Mmself by, wherein (amongst other tMngs) your Petitioner was required to assist him the said Roger Lacey with sundrys therein mentioned, and with such farther necessarys, as he your said Petitioner (for future causes) should think fit. And also did Stipulate with Rich, Cooper and James Smythers Milwrights for certain Wages to he allowed to them, and a sufficient number of Workmen to erect a Saw Mill at or near the said Town of Ehenezer, and ordered your Petitioner to supply them with Boats, money, provisions and necessary (177) Utensils for effecting the said Work; and also did Stipulate with Joseph Barker to keep a Cow-pen at the same place, and ordered your Petitioner to supply the said Josh. Barker with Wages and Provisions as well for him self and Family as for such Labourers, and with such Materials and Horses as he should necessarily require for such Service. And also did 46 (177) Stipulate with. Mr. Robert Williams of Savannah to take care of, Oversee and direct theanployment of sundry Labourers for begining a Road from the said lown of Savannah tov/ards the West, which (in due time) mi^t extend to, and be a safe passage to the said Town of Augusta, the Indian Rations and Settlements on that quarter; and for that purpose ordered your Petitioner to pay such Labourers and provide them with Provisions and Materials. That your Petitioner did by the directions of the said James Oglethorpe write down an Estimate of the pay which was to be allowed to the Captain and his Men, who were to keep Gairison at Augusta, also the pay to be allowed the said Milwrights, Cowkeeper & Laboiarers; but as a very great expence would naturally arise by the purchase of Bor ts, Arms, Ammunition, Working Tools, Provisions and necessary materials as well in Settling the said Town of Augusta on the footing of the said written Orders as also for the supply of the said Saw Mill, Cowpen and Roads and conveyiiag the same to each respective place; any Guess would be very imperfect; so nothing for those uses was committed as perfect in Writing, but was therefore left to your Petitioners Discretion; and he did not then doubt, that the said James Oglethorpe would sufficiently acquaint your Honours, that a very considerable expence must unavoidably happen on those accounts beyond what was as aforesaid put into Writing. That your Petitioner (well knowing) that the said James Ogle thorpe had drawn divers Bills of Exchange on yoTir Honours and particu larly a Bill for Five Hundred Potmds Sterling which was protested. And also well knowing that your (178) Honours Stores were near enpty of Provisions, and that divers Sums of Money were due and unpaid to sundry 47 (178) persons for stindry Stores, and necessaries bonght, and Services before that time done, and also believing that it was not in the power of the said James Oglethorpe to leave any money or Value towards a reasonable discharge of what was so due, and would very shortly be Demanded, and consequently could not eiiable your Petitioner to defray the e3cpences of the Colony, either supporting the several Settlements or executing his said Orders, he your said Petitioner therefore thought himself obliged in Duty to acquaint the said James Oglethorpe of ell such facts in as plain a manner es he could (that is to say) of the small quantities of yvumi-virnrvif Provissions then remaining in the Store, of the State of the Cash and of the most material demands, that then were ejcpected to be discharged, and e3cpresly desired that the said James Oglethoi^e woiild acquaint the people at Savannah, that it could not be in your Petitioners power (by reason of present demands and the vincertainty of future sup port from England) to continue such assistance to them, as they (very probably) by reason of their difficulties mi^t expect, to which the said James Oglethorpe answered, that he could not say any thing, that was angry or seemed unkind, when he was going to leave them, or words to such meaning. !Ehat the said Jfames Oglethorpe did order the people to meet him in the Town House of Savannah, when and where he informed them, that it was necessary for the V^elfare of the Colony that he should go to England, that he would return to then in the month of June or July following, and that in his absence, he had directed an assistance, which would be a Loan to those who were Industrious in the Cultivation of Lands; but as the said James Oglethorpe did not express what particular action should 48 (178) intitle ea^h person to claim, or to what Valne, or in- what manner such assistance was to he so claimed or granted, the execution thereof must in a great measxire either he guided hy yoxir Petitioners discretion, which would naturally raise an Odium upon him for assigning a merit to (179) sx each persons Industry, or hy the Claimants themselves who could not he all supposed to act on proper Principles, and therefore your Petitioner most humhly submits if (under such orders) he could he exempt from Reflections or an In^jutation of misconduct. That your Petitioner also several times \irged to the said James Oglethorpe that the difficulties which seemed thus to threaten in his absence (from the State of the Colony and such orders) were In^jossihle for your Petitioner to surmount; to which he the said James Oglethorpe in substance answered, that as to the present demands and the imediate expence, altho* it was not in his power to leave much Cash with your Petitioner, the Sum of three Thousand Pounds would soon arrive in Sola Bills which was intended to defray the expence of the Colony till the 25th of March following, which with proper Cautions might keep every thing in due Action, till he could procxire a farther supply to he Transmitted; and because he the said James Oglethorpe could not he present to Sign those Bills, so as to render them Current He did obtain a Credit from Messrs. Montaigut and Conpany at Savannah and did Request other Credit of Messrs. Jenys and Conpany at Charles Town to pay Your Petitioner Value on Account of them, and that as to any other difficul ties tho* they might seem great or dangerous, he the said James Ogle thorpe promised your Petitioner that he should he made easy, hy the representations of him the same James Oglethorpe at your Honours Board 49 (179) in England, and "by his Speedy retxim to Sgvsnnah, from all which Declarations and eacjaressions of the said James Oglethorpe, and many others, which your Petitioner cannot at present remember He did heleive that the said James Oglethorpe might have particular Eeasons for not mnlH ng a more plain Declaration to the People of that Power, whereby your Petitioner was to gixide himself, or the difficulties which the Colony was then in and was to struggle \inder in his absence; and did also beleive and understand that as he the said James Oglethorpe had often declared he had good hopes of receiving Military Succours from his Majesty and the British Parliament for effecting the (180) Estab lishment of the Colony, It was therefore the Intention and desire of him, that the Inhabitants should (by all possible means) be kept to gether, till such Succour should arrive. That your Petitioner in regard to such belief and the obedience he always was desirous of shewing to the Commands and Intentions of the seJLd James Oglethorpe and the Sence he had of the then sad Circumstances of the Colony did resolve to act accordingly to those Commands and In tentions, And did not doubt that his endeavours to execute so necessary an Obedience, and thereby preserve the Colony (till then) in safety would be well accepted. That the said James Oglethorpe at the time of his said departure from the Colony did write sundry Letters directed to the respective coiomanding Officers in the Southern division and elsewhere within the Colony; wherein he acquainted each of them, that the said James Ogle thorpe had left your Petitr. in the charge of the whole Colony, and as such directed each of them to apply to your Petitioner for what each 50 (180) person might require for its use and safety; which Letters having been shewn to your Petitioner demands were accordingly made, and they were severally supplyd, so far as your Petitioners power and utmost Diligence cotild admit, the amount of which more than doubled your Honours estima ted charges; and your Petitioner being apprehensive that as no Limita tions was proper to be set to the demands of such Officers, he humbly submits how far it was in his power to Lessen any such Charge. That very few persons throughout the whole Colony co'uld be properly said to support themselves, because if support or enploy was not provided for the generality to subsist by, the rems-inder must want or desert. And as such a State of affairs in the Colony was well known Your Petitioners duty to the said James Oglethorpe forbids him to Imagine, that he did not (l8l) represent them in such a light before you; but your Petitioner is lead to beleive by many of your orders, that your Honours were acquainted that very few of the Inhabitants had atten^ted to Cultivate their Lands or raise food for their support, and that many had met with ill success in the attenpt. That your Petitioner being well assured of the benefit which the whole Colony wotild receive, if the Inhabitants could be lead to Culti vate their Lands and raise food, and if the Satisfaction which wotild arise to your Honours from the success of such undertakings, and that all means used to that end (by divers mistakes idle tales and other Casualtys had prov*d ineffect\ial, did obtain a Grant from the said Jas. Oglethorpe to take possession of a Tract of Land convenient for rasing a Farm and maintaining a Stock of Cattle being willing to contribute the fruits of all his Labours, and to set a personal exanqjle towards 51 (181) obtaining sncli general good; for the more immediate effecting of which your Petitioner ohtsined also leave of the said James Oglethorpe to draw Bills of exchange on him for Two Hundred Pounds Sterling on Credit; and as your Honours suhseq.uent orders confirm the said Grant of Land and also shew that your Honours (having read the Letters of Advice which express the use to v/hich the Value of such Bills were applyd) had ordered payment; he your said Petitioner is lead to believe that the said Value was intended to be a. Loan to him on the security of setling such Farm, especially well knowing that many People had received equal Loans to enable them to proceed in their respective MentifactTares, He hoped that not only the said Two Hundred Pounds but also any other charge which should appear to be reasonably expended therein exceeding what shovild be due to him for his Services, would not be otherwise charged on him, in regard that such undertakings were absolutely neces sary for the hxgxxhKgk being of the Colony and was attended with far greater difficulties and (182) immediate Gain to himself. That your Petitioner in prosecuting such Design hath brought into Tillage near one hundred acres of Land, hath built a dwelling House and many out houses proper for Lodging Servts. covering his Cattle and containing the produce of his Lend, is also possest of divers Cows, calves, steers, horses and hogs besides fowls; so that your Petitioner is well asstured if Diligence and desire to promote the Welfare of the Colony is Meritorious; or he should be fotuid indebted; such Debt will not be demanded of him, further than what may be reasonably spared from the increase thereof. That altho your Petitioner mi^t be well justified for the 52 (182) reasons aforesaid to be tineasy tinder the burthen he had long struggled with, he was much more affected by the advices he received from Commo dore Dent at Jamaica soon after the Departure of the said James Ogle thorpe, that the Spaniards had formed a design and might be daily expected to invade the Colony; and concludes that it is easy to Imagine, that all the sad state of affairs in the Colony before mentioned must naturally appear with a Calamitous aspect; the Stores being near empty of all necessary support and means of Defence, and no hopes of any immediate supply. And as it therefore was impossible for any of the Inhabitsuts to maintain their possessions, your Petitioner imagined (tha-t a Eepresentation of such facts being laid before your Honours) everything done by him at such a juncture and to guard against so great a Calamity would be approved. ThSit your Petitioner did not then presume to purchase such a supply as might both answer the present occasion, and g\iard against the like in futurity because he did believe that when those advices had reached your hands some particular Instructions might be expected; and your Honours having been pleased to approve of your Petitioners conduct, and on that and many other occasions exprest your Satisfaction, that your Petitionr. (I83) had not only managed the publick Stores with prudence but also shewn a commendable regard for the Publick Safety. And the said James Oglethorpe having also commanded your Petititr. on the like accounts. And tha.t he the said James Oglethorpe might be soon expected in the Colony with Military Succours your petitioner did not doubt further commendations for taking farther Care (should other occasion require) till such arrival happend. 53 (183) That other certain advices of other Invasions succeeded and altho' the execution vas said to he svispended for the present it was evident that a very considerable reinforcement was arriv'd on the Spanish frontiers; and the Colony might (without ar^r warning) he attacked; your Petitioner therefore was obliged to he at a farther extraordinary espence, as well to supply your Magazine whereby (in case of such attack) the Inhabitants mi^t not want necessaries of Life, or Ajnmunition when it was very probable they must soon be obliged to leave their usual Labour, and spend their time in Military exercises; As also to guard against a scarcity which (very lately) had like to have been fatal and would be also such to the expected forces and your Petitioner most hrunbly imagines that as the Inhabitants had also long laboured under various difficulties and the industrious cultigaters of Land (in particular) had from various causes fell short of their expectations, and could not subsist without redress, so it became necessary (at such a Crisis) to preserve its united Strength. And therefore your Petitioner imagines that he must have doubted your Honours Goodness, and tender regard towards the Colony, should he have been wanting in his endeavours for its support* That part of the said Military Forces being, (184) arrived under the Command of Lieutt. Colo. James Cochran and he having delivered your Petitioner an open order from the said James Oglethorpe as Genl. & Commander in Chief directing your Petitioner to assist in conveying the Officers & Soldiers to their respective Posts and in Landing & storeing the effects belonging to them. And also an express Injunction not only to accommodate the Officers in the best manner he could but particularly 5^ (184) to psy the seme regard to the Commands & Desires of the said James Cochran as if he the said James Oglethorpe was personally present. He your said Petitioner did according to the earnest request of the said James Cochran assist & accommodate him & them to a very great Value, and charged the particulars thereof to their respective accounts; and as such assistance & actings of your Petitioner was in obedience to the orders of the said James Oglethorpe he humbly apprehends that such orders & reasons (when produced) will Guard him against any blame that may be inq)Uted to him on that account. That your Petitioner having in all cases executed the Trust reposed in him with his endeavours for frugality & regard to the Publick Safety and received repeated approbations as well by your Honours orders as by Letters from the said James Oglethorpe wherein the strongest assurances were given tha t your Honours would never blame your Peti tioner without first giving him opportunity to Justify himself; and not being conscious of any Just cause is surpris'd to find himself discharg'd from all Offices, given up to the arbitrary opinion of those who suc ceed him in his eiiq)loy, and therefore have it in their power to raise merits to themselves by Malicious representations of your Petitioners conduct, and proceeded against (by them) without cause assigned in a manner contrary to all Laws, Customs and Usages of the Mother Country, and contrary to your orders under your Seal dated the 19th day of May 1738. (185) Your Petioner therefore for these and other causes hereafter mentioned most hTUBbly complaining alledgeth. That Mr. Thos. Jones whom your Honours appointed to succeed him as Keeper of your Stores at 55 (185) Savannah, well knew that your Petitioner had heen examined hy the said James Oglethorpe; That the said James Oglethorpe had likewise published in the Town House to a very great number of People, that he knew of no Frauds or other Criminal matter which yorir Petitioner had committed, and desired th8,t if such were known by other persons they should declare it. And that the said Thomas Jones also well knew that no such natter did then or at any time after appear by any sufficient proof whatever; but that contrarywise that he the said James Oglethorpe had often declared, that altho* the late expences for the support of the Colony had much siirprised your Honours, such surprise was only owing to the want of Accounts which ought to Imve been Transmitted to your Honours, and that yotir Petitioner otight to have been assisted therein; and that he plainly saw, that untill the Military succour with himself arrived such expence was unavoidable; and also well knew that the said James Oglethorpe upon a second examination in the presence of the Magistrates of the said Town of Savannah did direct & order, that in pursuance of some request which (he said) your Honours had made to him your Peti tioner shovild enter into a Bond without farther Security to make up his accounts, with all possible speed, so that he the said James Ogle thorpe might Transmitt particular reasons for those late expences which your Honours then seemd so much surprised at, suid tha.t (rendring an Inventory of all the Accounts Books and delivering the Stores over to the said Thomas Jones, he your said Petitioner should have the usual Liberty, possession & access to all of the said Books and Vouchers thereto belonging without any hindrance or other In^ediment; he your said Petitioner likewise suffering the said Thomas Jones to have also 56 (185) access thereto, as occasion might (186) require. And also well knew thet in iat pursuance of such Orders he the said Thomas Jones did take an Inventory of all the sa.id Books in such manner as he thought proper And that your Petitioner did deliver or cause to he delivered over to him the said Thomas Jones all the Stores which belonged to the Trust before that time reposed in your petitioner, as soon and at such time as he the said Thomas Jones thought fit to require such delivery or v/as willing to receive them; And that in farther pursiiance of the said Order your Petitioner at the request of the said Thomas Jones made a draught of a Bond and acquainted him that he your Peti tioner was will ing to execute such Bond; which Bond the said Thomas Jones received and promised to peruse it and give answer concerning it in a short time. And that your Petiitioner did soon ask the said Thomas Jones if the said Bond was approved or ready for your Petitioner to execute offering again that he was ready so to do, to which the said Thomas Jones answered, that the Bond was well approved, and that the said James Oglethorpe had declared it need not have been so extensive in the expressions or words to such purport, and further declared that altho' he had not then Leisure to attend it by reason of his attendance on the said James Oglethorpe he should have more leisure when the said James Oglethorpe was gone to the Southward and then iVmight be done; and promised to give your Petitioner notice of such time. Wherefore yoiir said Petitioner chargeth that he the said Thomas Jones did soon after the said Jas. Oglethorpe was gone to the Southern parts of the Colony, give out in speeches that your Petitioner had imposed upon the Inhabitants by issuing the Stores at unreasonable 57 (186) prices and had took such advance to his own Benefit, that yotir Peti tioner was a very great Villain and deserved to he hanged; and the better to si^port such Wicked false & malicious Speeches and render (187) them more fatal to your Petitioner he the said Thomas Jones nurtur*d & Countenanced any discontented person in any reproachfull Tale which they or any of them would relate concerning such advsoice promising they sho-uld he protected and have satisfaction against your Petitioner when at the same time, he the said Thomas Jones knex^, that I every such advance was not only placed against such Credit as was just for your Honovirs to discharge, and therefore to the only use & benefit of the Colony, hut that also all such Stores as were issued and charged to your Petitioner were also rated at the like advance and that such advance was intended to guard against Losses by the great Waiste that naturally attended so large a Store in this Climate under such well known insufficient Storehouses and also against the common Waste in the Issues and the Porterage, Clerkship and Charges thereof. And your Petitioner further chargeth, that he the said Thomas Jones wickedly & maliciously designing to destroy the good name & Character of your said Petitioner as well in this Colony as in other places where he was or should he known did invent & Report that your Petitioner \^as incspahle of rendring any just account of his said Trust, that he the said Jones had prepared Indictments against your Petitioner which \^ould lay him fast, that he plainly saw that your Petitioner had hut few Friends, and naraing some persons whom he imagined were so, declared in the presence of sundry Witnesses, that they (mean ing your Petitioners Friends) should soon he weary of taking part with 58 (187) your Petitioner, and did also aci artftilly and wickedly prevail with Mr, Thomas Christie the Recorder of the said Town of Savannah, And fanc:ttnE (hy the hest Information yoor Petitioner can get) did make some ^ath, whereupon he the said Thomas Christie issued a Warrant against yoior (188) Petitioner charging him with a Design to abscond and secretly to depart the Colony, and your Petitioner was thereby accordingly arrested. And altho* the said Thomas Jones did not or could not make good such charge, and only insisted that he suspected it it now appears That he the said Thomas Jones by fair promises and artfull/ expressions did so far prejxidice the said Thomas Christie that your Petitioner was ^ Obliged to find Stireties and be bound in a very large Penalty, not to depart the Colony without your Honours Licence, or otherwise to go to Goal, so that thereby yotir Petitioner alledgeth he is made a Prisoner without cause assigned contrary to all Laws and usage hitherto known to him or practiced in a Christian Country, And your Petitioner further chargeth that the said Thomas Jones in farther execution of his said wicked purposes did immediately i^on such arrest, and before the said Thomas Christie had heard or Examined the ma.tter charged upon yotir Petitioner in and by the said Warrant, in a very Violent manner Seized upon all the Books, papers, vouchers, letters & Accounts and in the presence of many Witnesses did reproach yo\3r Petitioner with divers scurrilous names & speeches, and did by Violence compel the Clerks then enployed (in purstiance of yoor Hono\3rs orders) in making up the said Accounts to quit the said Books and their enploy and immediately placed a Servant of his own to take charge of all the said Books papers and accounts with express orders not to suffer 59 (188) your Petitioner, or any of the said Clerks or persons so ea^iloyed to enter the Room where such Books and papers were, without leave from him the said Thomas Jones which person so eiEployed hy the said Thomas Jones did lock up and secure the said Books and papers, so that your Peti tioner and the said Clerks were very much prevented from dispatching the said Accounts, and could not have access to them at any other times th^n when the said Servant, who was commonly called your (I89) Peti tioners Coaler could attend. And your Petitioner farther chargeth that he the said Thomas Jones in farther prosecution of his said wicked purposes and the better (if possible) to perplex your Petitioners affairs & accounts Did very frequently enter the Boom where the said Books were by himself, and con tinue there for many hours at each time and your Petitioner having missed many Bills of parcels, letters. Draughts and other Vouchers relating to the account, which your Petitioner knows and can prove to have been in the said Room, at the time of such Seizure; doth because of such acting of the said Thomas Jones and many other Reasons which your Petitioner takes upon him in due time to shew verily believe that the same have been taken from thence by him the said Thomas Jones or his Order And also that he the said Thomas Jones did immediately after Seizing the said Books & Papers so threaten the said Clerks and every person whom he imagined to be any ways conversant with your Petitioner, that your Petitioner was frequently informed by people of good Reputa tion, that they were under great danger of being ruined for holding any conversation with, or speaking in fa,vour of your Petitioner, and parti cularly hath denied common necessaries out of the publick Stores or 60 (189) money to the said Clerks altho he well knew, that they who required such necessaries had considerable Sums of Money due to them for such Service; And that they were en^iloyed pursuant to your orders; and also denied Payment or to deliver Stores as such and threatened to ruin sundry Persons "being Workmen & Tradesmen who had Value due to them, altho* he well knew, tha,t the Work done and goods for which such Value was due were done and "bought to and for the use and account of your Honours and the Colony and to and for no other use intent or purpose whatsoever many of whom, he openly charged with "being well (I90) Wishers to, and speaking in Pavour of your Petitioner. And your Petitioner f-urther Chargether, That he the said Thomas Jones wrote a Letter to the said James Oglethorpe at St. Simons and t:W*TngB|r there"by inform'd him, that your Petitioner was preparing to abscond and Conctracted with Captn. Stewart Master of the Ship Charles, for that purpose. In consequence of which Information He the said James Oglethorpe wrote to your Petitioner and acquainted him, that he the said James Oglethorpe had received such Information from the said Thoma.s Jones And that altho' he did not or could not give Credit to it, Yet by Eeason thereof he was Obliged to give such Orders as would prevent the Atten5)t end accordingly Ordered a Constable with a Sufficient number of Assistents to go on Board the said Ship (which then lay at l^bee) and continue there on Board till the said Ship should Sail over the Bar, And tha.t such Officer and Assistants did so continue on Board for some Weeks for no other Reason or cause whatsoever from which Violent and extraordinary Measures many were unwarily lead to believe that the said Information of the said Thomas Jones wa*s just and true; And tha-t your 6l (190) Petitioner was conseq.ujently Guilty of some Extraordinary Crime; altho the said / Thomas Jones well knew that there was no just Cause or reason for it, In proof whereof the said James Oglethorpe heing in a short time after at Savannah, Your Petitioner demanded in the presence of the said gkanng James Oglethorpe, That the said Thomas Jones should give Reasons for his said Information, to which demand the said Thomas Jones answered, that it was not proper to name the persons who had given Vi^wi such Accoxmts, And when your Petitioner insisted that such excuse was not sufficient when Injuries of that Nature were Committed, He the said Thomas Jones pretended that your Petitioners Goods were removing hy Water and mentioned a particular time when in Fact the said Thomas Jones well knew (and so the tnith was) that your Petitioners Servants had "brought "by Water some provisions and necessaries from Your Petitioners Farm to Savannah for the particular use & support (191 { of such part of your Petitioners Family as were obliged to he in the said Town with your Petitioner, Anri your Petitioner further Chargeth, that he the said Thomas Jones hath given out in Speeches, That your Petitioner should very soon he confined in a more Severe manner and should not he suffered to go any more to his Farm; and procur'd several Actions to he served at his said Farm upon him, at the suit of people to whom yo-ur Petitioner was no ways indebted and thereby hrou^t a Prisoner to Savannah, and also us'd his utmost endeavours to procure others by insinuating to every one who he the said Thomas Jones could find to have any demand on your Petitioner, that every thing your Petitioner had would soon he Seized in your Honours name whereby your Petitioner was very much prest for 62 (191) Payment, and (with great difficnlty) prevented Actions being hronght against him, and convinced them that what the said Thomas Jones had reported was false. And your Petitioner and his Wife (through fear) of disobliging the said Thomas Jones was drove to tarry wholly at Savannah, and to leave your Petitioners Farm Goods and Stock of Cattle to the Management of Servants, by whose neglects your Petitir. has s\xffered more than Two Hundred Pounds Damages, three of his said Servants having (by Quarrels among themselves) deserted his Service and cannot be again procured, more than a hundred Hogs and fifty head of other Cattle besides Fowls being also lost or otherwise destroyed for want of such attendance as your Petitioner did use and order to be given. And your Petitioner further chargeth That he the said Thoms-s Jones hath contrived divers ways to defeat your Petitioner of his just ri^t, and particularly did endeavour to prevent your Petitioner from receiving the Sum of Eight Pounds seventeen shillings & six pence Sterling being Value for Mulberry leaves sold to the Silk Manufactury insisting that your Petitioner was greatly indebted to your Honours and the Colony, altho^ at the same time. He the said Thomas Jones must beleive that your Petitioner stood Justly & fairly charged with every thing that had been Issued or paid, or (192) could by any ways sr^jposed to be Issued or Paid to your Petitrs. use and well knew that your Petitioner had received no Credit in his said Accompt for his Service as Storekeeper or for the executing the Office of first Bailiff in the said Town of ^avannah or in any shape or form whatever for the great Burthen which had lain on your Petitioner for several years in having 63 (192) the General Charge of the whole Colony committed to him; Or as Agent or Pactor for yoxir Honoxirs, for which yonr Petitioner is well advised he may reasonably and with Honour make a Charge of. And also well knew, that yo\ir Honours had declared that those Services should he dtily con sidered so soon as the puhlick Acconrpts were laid before you. And also that the Generality of the Articles mentiond in the said Acconrpt to be delivered to the use of yoxir Petitr. at his House in Savannah were for the most part apply'd to the General use of the Colony, and to st^iport the Credit thereof. And that yo\ir Petitioner had in charge (among other things) that he should Entertain all Indians and Strangers which were Friends to the Colony, and that he yoxir Petitioner did also Lodge and Dyet several Persons that were employd in the Service of the Colony, and that therefore he the said Thomas Jones had no power, right, or just pretence to hinder yo\ir Petitioner from receiving any Sum or Sums of Money whatsoever. And your Petitioner further ChargethjS, That the said Thomas Jones the better to event your Petitioner from receiving the Value of the said Mulberry leaves, did unaware (whilst your Petitioner was so compelled to stay at Savannah order sundry persons in a hasty and Violent laanner to gather and carry away the said Mulberry leaves within the space of two days, altho the cam said Thomas Jones well know that your Petitioner had particularly reserved in his Bargain, That no leaves should be gathered but in the presence of some person whom yo\ir Petitioner should appoint. And that the upper shoots of the Trees (might not be injured) Your Petitioner (193) sold them for one half of the usual Value. And also well knew that if due regard according to Honesty 64 (193) and Justice bad been shewn to the bargain made, or the true Benefit of the Silk Manufactury considered such leaves would have been taken a full Month in gathering. By which Violent proceedings of the said Thomas Jones your Petitioners Plantation of Mulberry Trees containing seven hundred and ten Trees is become so ruinous and broken that two years growth will not in any degree repair the Damage, which having been Viewed by persons skilled in such matters is Valued at five Shillings Sterling for each Tree, All which proceedings with many others equally unjust whereof your Petitioner is ready to shew good proof hath been so contrived, aggravated and acted by him the said Thomas Jones or his Confederates, and are so contrary to Law and Justice, That your Petitioner is with good Reason apprehensive from the nature thereof, and from an Anonimous Letter directed to your Petitioner and left at his House; he the said Thomas Jones and his Confederates purposed so to Terrify your Peti tioner, as to induce him to fly the Colony, whereby your Honours might have bei perswaded that your Petitioner had acted unjustly, and that no proper accompt cotild be formed or reason given for the late expences. And your Petitioner is so much the more apprehensive that such was the purpose of the said Thomas Jones and other his Confederates, because it is publickly and well known. That your Petitioner has always shewn his utmost readiness and Diligence in setting forth such Account; and that notwithstanding all the obstructions which He the said Thomas Jones raised and attenpted to raise to such proceedings of your Petitioner and the Clerks employed pursuant to yoiu* Honours Orders, He your said Petitioner can very easilly and fairly shew clear and particular Reasons 65 (193) for the said Eacpences, and for more Certainty thereof, refers himself to the partictilars (194) of the Account hereto annexd now remaining in yoxar said Magazine or in the possession of such persons whom your Honours have Commissiond to receive them. Your Petitioner therefore most humhly heleiveth that any delay in the perfecting the said Accompts is a very great Injury to the Colony, and that great and commendable Character which yovar Hono\irs have justly Merited by so Religious and Generous undertaking; further charges that the said Thomas Jones eissuming to himself a Precedency in the Commission lately Transmitted under Seal of your Hono-urs Common Council, doth daily invent such unreasonable and malicious Suggestions against yovr Peti tioner & in every respect shew so many and unfair and ensnaring Prac tices, as plainly tend to prolong time, prevent the claimants of their past due, ruin the Credit of the Colony, keep your Petitioner under Terrours end Incertaintys, and prevent your honours from knowing the Particular reasons for yo\ir charge. And your Petitioner is therefore truly apprehensive that should it please the Almighty God to put a Period to his Life in sommon with hundreds in this Climate, He is in danger after all his known fatigue and faithfull Service, to leave a Widow, an Orphan and the fruits of all his Labour at the mercy of those who (while living) seeks and persues his Destruction. In tender Consideration of all the said Facts and just appre hensions of yo\ir said Petitioner herein before set forth, and for as much as yotir Petitioner soon softer the said Thomas Jones openly com menc'd his Malicious proceedings Did in due form Protest for Damages against the said Thomas Jones and all persons concern'd in the 66 (194) prosecuting and promoting any such unlawfull proceedings And that your Petitioner hath good Reason to heleive he the said Thomas Jones is the Author of a Letter dated at Savannah the d^ of and puh~ xxkK lishd in the Magazine of the Month of January last, wherein divers false expressions are usd and publishd tending to defame (195) your Ietitioner and prevent him of that Clemency and Bounty which he apprehends he is justly Intitied to from your Honours And also that the distance of place and particiilar Inclinations of those whom your Honours are obliged to confide in, for the most part prevents any true Account from being laid before You, and exposes your Petitioner to tedious and heavy Resentments and cruel usages of the said Thomas Jones & other his Confederates; and also doubting your Honours approbation (if in the Infancy of the Colony) your Petitionr. should seek the Ordinary means for redress, against those so immediately in yoTu: Honours Service and upon the seal of Justice. And confiding that your Honours will drQy consider the case of the Injur'd and Afflicted end will compel a just Retribution for inj^uries committed by them. And also for as much as the said Thomas Jones is now in possession of the said Stores in his own right and for his own adventage, and therefore any lessening of the just Value of the said Stores is an advantage to himself and an inj'ury to yoTU Petitioner, and may be a farther prejudice to him shoud the said Thomas Jones be permitted to continue in his Arbitrary and unj-ust manner of proceeding. May it please yo^lr Honours therefore to grant iniaxyaaot unto your Petitioner the power of being piresent when his or any of the Store Accounts are in Virtue of the said Comission under examination; and that 67 (195) the CoBimissioners appointed hy Your Honours may te obliged to take Cognizance of what your Petitioner shall from time to time offer con cerning the said Accounts; that other Indifferent persons who have no Interest in the good or had Issue of your Petitioners particular AccoH^t and also his Cash Account he appointed to Examine them, and that your Honoxirs will take into your consideration all the several facts herein charged and complained of, and grant such Eeleif as in your Wisdom shall appear just. And your Petitioner shall ever pray &c. Signd November 22d 1739. 5^! Canston (208) Jo. Pallowfeild to the Trustees rec. 20 March 1739/^0 Savannah 2 Dec. 1739 May it please your Honours The great and unedpected favour which yr. Honours were pleased to confer on me, by appointing me yr. Second ailif for the Town of Savan nah, cannot Sufficiently acknowledge; It is with Some confusion I take upon me a place that am not very well qualified; But as it is the Will of your Honours it Should be So, Shall think njy Self in duty bound to discharge that Office with the utmost justice and impartiality according to the best of my understanding. And as I know my own deficiency Shall use the best of my endeavours to Set aside that defect by application and Studdy. Shall likewise think it incumbent upon me to lose no opportunity in letting your Honours know the proceedings of this place. 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To Turpentine 1 Barr11. 35 It for his House in Joint Latour To White Lead 12 It 6^ To Narrow Hoes 2 I/8 To Wooden Bowl To Eazor 1 To Wooden Ladle 1 To Wooden Ware omitted in the first Estatlishment to the 28th. June 1736 Trenchers 6 ) Bowls 2 sm%ll ) Do. 1 large ) Pails 1 ) Ganns 1 ) To Ballance of the Acct* for the first Estatlishemtn 5 7 6 2 9 6 3 4 8 5 6 15 10 1 47 11 7-3/4 Errors and omissions Excepted. Frederica Augt, l4th I739. Elisha. Dotree. 78g (291) Bush; Bush; Pr.Men Pr. Girls Ih yard WhipSaw Ih Hung Bunch Potatoes Pease Hats Shoes Do. Tobacco Plains Chizells files Beef Onions Ehives 2 1131 27 2 217^31 4-1/8 3 11 2 1 6-1/8 116 1 13 7 2 4 17i 4 1 By the Eemainder of a Warrant on the Store for Puhlick Work in 1736 By Ballance due to the Honhle. the Trustees 47 11 7-3/4 1-6 46 11 1-3/4 Ii 7811 (291) Blan- hand Saw Qt. yds. pr. Ih Narrow Wood Wood kets saw Box Linseed Bed Womn. Turpentine White Hoe Razors Bowls Ladle Fish files Qyl Stronds Stockgs. . ^_lead_ 1 2 1 5 li 1 Bar11. 1.35 Ih 12 2 1 1 1 11 12151^ 1 35 12 2 1 1 1 11 80 (29*+) I have Cleared and Fenced ^ Acres of my 45 Acres, "besides my Acre Lot which is 6^ Acres, I raised this Sea,son about 60 Bushells of Corn 50 Ditto Potatoes 8-Pease But my Servant "being out of his time it will be very heard for me to Cultivate the same Quantity of Land this year. I was promised a Premium and great encouragement for industrious People, but the least we have not found, I leave this to your Lordships Consideration, who is better (295) able to make a true Judgment then I can. and being fully persuaded of your Compasionate Consideration Emboldens me to take the freedom of applying to your Lordship. I shall always put up my Prayers to ^esven for your Lordship and my Lady, with the rest of your E"oble family health and happyness and am May it please your Lordship Your Lordships most obliged and most humble and Obedt. Servt. The *^ark of X Samuel Davison Mr. Horton who goes by this opportunity has promised me to do vfhat he can in my favour with the Honble. the Trustees to grant my Petition. P. S. I was told by his Excellency GeneraJL Oglethorpe that my place a Seai'cher of Ships &c. would be worth to me L 40 Sterl. I have had no other Consideration for it but L 10 tovfards building my House, 81 (295) and L 7.10.0 let me on my Jfcss Note, I Seized in Decem'ber 1738 two Negroes in pnrsuance to the Act ggainst Employing Negroes in this Colony for which I have received no Eewsxd. I have made no mention of this in my Petition chusing to refer it first to your Lordship that you may mention it to the Honhle. Trustees if you think it proper. Mr. Moore Secretary to his Excellency has paid me L 2.10.0 for a Quarters Salary as Constable from Michaelmass to Christmass last. Et. Honhle. Earl of Egmont (301) Mr. WMtfeild to Mr. Verelts Savannah Jan: l6th 1739/^0 Sir On Friday last God brought me hither - Mr. Habersham before I came had looked out a proper tract of Land near Skedoway on which I purpose building the Orphan House, as soon as possible and to take all the Orphans in General into it Since I came I have perused the Grant, but find it not made to me and my Successors for ever (at lest but very indirectly) but only to such persons as I shell nominate in ny Will, So that it is secured to me only for a little while, which is contrary to By Intention and also to the Express words in the Copy from which the present Grant was taken This I suppose the Eonble. Trustees would alter immediately, for I would not think it wa,s a wilful mistake I would desire also, since the Orphan house is intended for a Cliaritable 82 (301) end, that it may "be exen^jted for ever from paying Quit Rents and all manner of Taxes whatsoever, as also, that all Persons concerned in the management of it, may never he obliged to hear Arms, or Serve in Civil Offices For both these will be a great hinderance to the Education of the poor Cnildren -- I think it best not to take any possession of Mr. How's Lot, because Mr. Habersham has got 500 Acres altogether, and I think it best to build the Orphan house in the Country, because the Children will then be near their place of Work For it is my design to teach them by honest labour how to get their own living It is a Con stant Rule in my house. He that will not labour neither shall he eat As the Orphan house will be veiy expensive and as I must necessarily be obliged to go frequently from Savannah, I think it inconsistent with my duty to keep the Parish under my Care, and therefore I intend to Resign it very soon, but to do wha^t I can till (302) I go hence which will be in about three months but in the latter end of the Summer I intend returning from New England and Stay here three months longer Sy that time I hope to have the Orphan house and Lands Compleat Stocked and Settled This done, I p\irpose, God willing, to return again for a Season to my Native Country Mr. Norris I beleive is made Chaplain of the Regiment, but says he will Come now and then this way Had he been given to Contention, he might have distrubed me in his Ministry For the Trustees have given him a general Grant to excersise his Ministry thro the whole Colony Neither have they taken up my presentation to Frederica, so that we might have hindered each other But God forbid any such thing should happen That all things may be easy, I shall give up my Commission both for Frederica and Savannah The care of the 83 (302) Orphan house at present is Stifficient for me. Pray my "best Respects to the Honourable Trustees and desire them to send an Answer as soon as possible to Sir Your very humble servant George Whitfield (305) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Christie to the Trustees. Gentlemen I reed, a Letter signed Harman Verelst dated July l4th 1739 wherein he says the Trustees have been pleased to promote me to the office of first Bailiff in the room of Henry Parker displaced. And further says you are therefore desired to send Copies of the Proceedings of the Town Court wch, have not been already sent to the Trustees to the time Mr. Williamson shall be sworn in Recorder to Succeed You. Gentm. Your orders are so well obeyed that ny setting as first Bailiff and my Commission is not only refused me but Mr, Parker is not displaced nor is Mr. Williamson sworn in Recorder Altho he has personally applyed for it so that I am Affraid If I should delay sending over the Proceedings of the Town Court till Mr. Williamson is sworn in Recorder it would tire Your P8,tience. You will be well informed by me of the reasons for these Pro ceedings so tha.t I slmll not mention anything farther here. I have been continually visited by (306) Sickness for this five Months past 8k SSt (306) As Mr. Verelsts Letter to Mr. Stephens differs from mine and seems to point out Mm as the Person directed to see those Court proceedings transmitted to the Trustees I have for his satisfaction taken with me tvro friends and inclosed the same in his presence directed to Your Honrs, having at the same time also demanded my Commission and the Execution of Your orders hut to no purpose. I remain (317) Mr. VThitfeild to Ld. Egmont rec. 10 April 17^0. Savannah Jany. 28th 1739 Wiy Lord The opinion I have of your Lordships disinterestedness, and single intention to promote the welfare of tMs Colony emboldens me to trouble your LordsMp with this Letter and here I cannot but inform your Lordship that nothing will be done to any purpose till persons, to whom the Trustees send their Orders, have courage and Eesolution to execute them immediately. Several objections are made against building the Jury Hoorn, tho a thing of such great necessity. Indeed Colonel Stephens seems willing to do it but says he has not money Besides, I now find Candles out of my own house for the Church. And the Parsonage house is just in the same Condition that I left it. Tho a Room was begun to be built yet it is now unfinished It often grieves me to see how the Trustees must necessarily be baulked in their Expectations; 85 (317) An(^ how good people will Certainly withdraw their hands when th^ are informed (as I shall think it my duty to inform them in the most publick manner if the affairs of Religion are not more regarded) how little is to he seen for all the money they have contributed. Your Lordship cannot conceive what a vast service the building of a Church at this time wonld be to the Colony. It would not only keep many from leaving it but also bring many Workmen hither Under God my building the Orphan house has prevented Savannah being much deserted (318) The Poor People are now a little Spirited up a gain I have near 30 hands at work and intend employing as many as offer themselves I am going to set a Weaver to work to wea,ve Cotton and intend to agree to take all the Cotton Flax and Hemp that shall be raised the next year thro the whole Colony I am juat writing to the Trustees to make them an offer of Building the Church if they will put the money into my hands. I have only time to refer yoTir liordship to that Letter and Sub scribe my Self I'ly Lord Your Lordships most obliged humble Servant George Whitfield (321) Mr. Whitfeild to Mr. Verelts reed. 10 April 17^0 Savannah 28 Jany. 1739/^ 86 (321) Sir In a letter dated the 16th. instant, I was informed that Mr. Hahershatn had taken up 500 Acres of Land which I find since lies on the Continent opposite Westward to Mr. ITohle Jones his Plantation on the Island of Hope, and adjoyning Southward to a Tract of Land possessed hy Mr. Stephens and Mr. Mercer. This Tract of Land Mr. Hahershatn since my arrival has surrenderd to me, and thereby has prevented my taking possession of Mr. Hows Lot. I therefore desire that the Honourable Trustees will be pleased to send me a fresh Grant of these 500 Acres of Land to me and my Sxiccessors for ever, with the Immunities mentioned in my last The Building of this Orphan house I find will be of great Service to the Colony in general. It prevents many leaving the place and I beleive will be an encouragement for others to Come over. It is about 10 miles from the Tovm and I intend contributing largely towards making a great Cart road from Savannah thither which will be very ser viceable to all the Plantations thereabout. I am taking in many Chil dren and am taking in fresh ones daily. I purpose employing Some of them in the Cotton Manufactory. I am just setting a Weaver to work and have engaged to take all the Cotton that shall be planted in the Colony the ensuing year. So that I hope Savannah, thro the Divine blessing, will yet lift up her drooping head I am sorry to inform the Honble. Trustees that their Orders are not punctually obey'd. Colonel Stephens says he has not money to build the Jury Room. Little Care is taken a,bout the 5 Acre Lot, and tho (322) a Hew Room was begun in the Parsonage house when I left Savannah, yet I find it now unfinished. 87 (322) lEhe Chisrcli or rather Court house I Supply with Candles out of my own Store. And upon the whole it grieves me to think how insensibly the Colony will decay unless more care is taken to obey the Trustees orders. In a Letter sent from the honble. Triastees to Colonel Stephens I fini they desire to know how the building of the Church goes on, I answer not at all, nor any likelyhood of its being set on foot. And yet nothing would more encOTirage the people. If the Trustees will put into ipy hands the money that has been given on that Acct. I will make a handsome addition to it and get the Ch-urch finished out of hand. If not I believe it will never be done. Por the General in all likelyhood will be more engaged every day. And no person here seems to have heart to do any thing without his Orders I shall wait a little longer to see what Amendments will be made in the Affairs of Religion, If theres no altera tion for the better and the Church be not built, I shall think it my duty to inform pious people in a Publick manner, how little good has been done with their Charitable Contributions After I began this Mr. Jenlcins the former Trustee for the Orphans has been with me If the Trustees please I will take the Orphans effects into my iiands. And I should be glad if the Magistrates will not settle with him that he may have orders to give up his Accts. to me I have only time to desire a Speedy answer and to Subscribe my Self Sir Your very humble Servant George Whitfield P. S. Sir 88 (323) I had not room to mention how sadly Captain Thomson has been detained at Frederica he came hither hut last night, and a parcel I sent hy him not yet deliverd. Such proceedings must he of great di service to the Colony. Besides I find the Court house which was begun when I left Georgia and was intended for a place of Worship, was put a Stop to at the Generals arrival and nothing done towards it Since. Savannah Jan: 28th 1739/^0. Capt. Mark Carr to Genl. Ja. Can^hell Hermitage 28 Jany. 1739/40 Sir In whatever part of the world I shall happen to he Stationed in I shall always think it my indispensihle duty to make all acknowledgemts. for the many favours I have received from you. And the only one left me here, is to give you Some Acct. of this Infant Colony, with the proceedings of our General after his first Advices of War with Spain; to do him justice he deserves a better pen, hut as I had the honour to acconroany him in different Stations, I shall endeavour at the best. We are in the Latitude 3 1/2 much healthyer than our Neighbouring Colony, but whether thats owing to the Generals prudent care of hinder ing the use of Rum, and Slaves, or our higher Situation I shall not determine. Last Season was the wettest has been known in America, 89 (325) notwithstanding we lost not above 50 in 1200 people which was in Agues and Fevers; for eight months nothing can he pleasanter, and in which time great plenty of Venison, Turkey, and Wild Fowl might he got with a little fatigue. The other four is a little too warm for a British Consitution, hut as we came not here out of Choice we must learn to *a Scotch termer to use our- *thole. I am of Opinion if we would not oppose nature hy Sowing and selves to it. planting British Seeds and Plants, hut apply our Selves heartily to the natural product of the Climate, Such as Indian Corn, Pease, Pumpkins, Potatoes, &c, with Some few English Plants, Vizt. Cahage, Asparagus, Heartychoaks, the Increase wo'dLd he Surprising. As the whole length of the Colony (I mean towards the sea) is ranged with Islands, there is a very good inland passage which in time would have ruined (326) Carolina, if this Colony had not fallen under the Tutelage of so indefatiguahle a man as General Oglethorpe, for as there is no dept of water for our Shipping, the Spanish Launches would have always had free passage to Charles Town, hut now S-urely prevented hy the Generals foreseeing knowledge in making his first Settlement upon these Islands. It's great pity and a general loss to America he is not at tlids time Supplyed vdth proper means to take Augustine, if he had, its my humhle Opinion he would not leave Jack Spaniard one foot of Land this Side of the Missisippy, this nat\xrally leads me to his personal hehaviour Since his Advices from England of an Eruption with Spain, which I dare Say he received with great joy. As I am Sensible all his kindness to me is owing to you. So I am likeways Satisfied the Confidence he reposes in me is hy your 90 (326) reconuaendation, -upon which he honoured me with his designs. His first care was to look into the Situation and Sa-fety of his outmost Settlements particularly Amelia, where there had "been two High landers Murderd about a month before, thither he sent an Officers Command, end dispatched proper people up the Nations where (foreseeing what was to happen) he had been all Stimmer in great fatigue, while he Was making this necessary defence: he likewpys was puting every thing in readyness to reconature the Inemys Frontiers, and as he is very assidous, he soon brought things to bear, that on the first of December he embarked (on board 14 Canoes and boates) Three Captains, 5 Sub Alterns, 5 Serjeants, 10 Corporalls, 5 Drums, 100 private, 3^ India.ns, the Highland Hangers, and with Volunteers, in all near two hundred. We landed on the Spanish Main the 4th about 12 at night, (32?) but as he could find no place of Safety for his men, we were orderd to our Boates and went farther up the Eiver where he had infoimation of a look out, we landed the 5th by break of day, and marched in three divi sions three leagues into the Country, but being wrong informed, marched with great Order back to our boates, and Orders given out, no fires. So that the General with his Brother Soldiers lived on raw Salt Beef and Pork four days. There was a Captain and 40 Men orderd immediately up the Hiver for discoverys, but came back next mornir^g without Seeing any thing except a Pallmetto Hutt, which they burnt; On the 6th, we returned to the mouth of the Hiver and landed. As his Excellency had had so many reports of Forts, Lookouts end other places of Strength all along that Coast, He was obliged to advance v/ith the utmost precaution. Here we burnt their guard house which was for Six Horsemen as a Lookout; The 91 (327) Indians were of great use here, for they not only were a Terrour to the Spanish Indians, but they inspected the Inland Country, and brought us plenty of Fresh Beef, and as the Senerall had Eeason to beleive they were alarmed, fires was allowed, which refreshed the men much for jbuB tho the V;inters may not be so Severe here as in England, yet the Sudden alterations make us more Sensible. 3?he Enemy giving us no trouble, the Seneralls nightly Orders on the 10th was to marfh early next morning, which gave great Joy. after a proper guard appointed to attend the Boates, they marched in three divisions, the Higjaland Hangers as an advance Guard, and your humble servant with the Eear guard of the Militia. You must likeways know we had a Small train of Artillery under a Sub Alterns Command. Upon the March we were Alarmed with a Sudden return (328) of the Indians, that they had discovered a Party of Horse and Foot retreating, which they desired to pursue, it being granted, they Strippd and Eun like Hounds in full Cry, and to do them Justice, they are fine breve fellows. IThe Genii, after some Consultation with his Officers, gave Orders to march with the utmost Eatpedition, and Order to Sustain the Indians, but we immediately observed the Parties about three leagues before us, and the Indians retTirning without hopes of Scalps. Having then marched upward of 14 miles, and being near a fresh water Brook, we Encais^jed upon a high ridge, now calld Oglethorpe Camp. The height and bleakiness of the place, made me more Sensible of Cold than I before ever rttantk rememberd. The Indians desired next morning to go for a Scalp, which they brought (from a neighbouring Town called Moosa, inhabited by runaway Slaves from Carolina) that night. 92 (328) Provisions falling Scarce by longer Stay than the Generalls expectation, the weather Severe, and the men fatigued. Several of them being newly Eecoverd from Sickness, we ret\irned to our Boates, and after a Command of a. Lieutenant and 40 men with 12 Indians was Sent up the Eiver; After farther discoveries there iifas generall Orders for embarking and they returned to their respective Garrisons the 18th. Mr. Dunbar who Commanded the Party Sent up the Eiver St. Johns, (now called Oglethorpes Lake) returned the 24th with advice that he had fallen in with two Small Ports calld Peckalato and Port Pransisco de Pupa 25 leagues the Eiver. He landed his men, and attacked it briskley, but for want of Artillery was repulsed. The Generall without loss of time, Orderd the Same number of men his first Party was of (329) of, with two 4 pounders, two 2 pounders, 6 Swivells, 6 Cow horns. Some hand grenadors, imder the Command of Ensign Mace, who is Sub Engineer, to Embark Jany. 1st and on the 4th in ye Evening we came within 3 leagues of the Place, where we dropt Anchor. I was immediately Orderd to Eschort the Indians, under the Com mand of Messrs. Mathews, Jones, and Gray, who were to land as near the Port as possible without discovery, which was easiely obey'd about 2 in the morning, for the Spaniards had abandon'd the place, and gone to the Opposite Port upon Mr. Dunbars r^ulse; however this could not be known till day, but as Soon as discoverd, they burnt it to the ground, with out waiting the Generall, and then made w'ha,t hast they could possible to acquaint him. They met him about a league from the place, and as soon as he had learned their informations, we Stood for St. Pransisco, but the Indians vho were under no Command, iifas at work with the Port, 93 (329) ere we co-uld possibly land, tho really the men were very brisk and ready for Action. After the Generali had disposed of the Divisions as he thou^t proper. Be orderd the Indians and Militia to divert the Besieged vdth brisk fireing, till he raised the Battery, which being immediately finished, he Orderd the Guns to fire upon the Fort, and then Sent a Flag of Truce, which they trifleing with, Orderd a Second, which had so good an effect, that they called for Quarters, and they that night gave us possession of the Fort, end marched out next morning prisoners of War. It was a Tower muskett prove shot, with Strong Palisadoes, 10 Inches diameter, which is Commended from Loop holes out of the Manachock holes (330) projecting 3 feet, it was lucky we took those Carriage guns, for am of opinion all our Arms would have been to no effect. The Generali has Strengthend it much, by throwing up a large bank, and left a Command of An Officer and 30 men, with a Scout Boat well mand. He has since Sent a Periago Commanded by a Lieut, end 36 men, as likewise a Sloop well man*d to Cruise the lake. I am much Surprised the Spaniards had no greater regard for this place, it being but I6 miles from Atigustine, and the only land Communication to Mexico. Their Post with all their Letters, was taken the other day, by our People at that Fort. The Greatest hardship the Generali has laboiired under, was for want of Horse under Discipline. I am most assured if he had had 60 regular Dragoons, he v;ould have been Master of Augustine before noxf. The day after Fransisco Surrenderd, if the Genii, had been Master of ye Eegular Troops beforementioned, he certainly would have taken 50 of ye Spanish Troops, and near a 100 of their Foot, which KKZdt 94 (330) we Jiidged was coining to the Helief of the ^ort, but observing our numbers, returned with great precipitation. The little Garrison consisted of a Serjt., one Corporall, nine private and one Indian, which were relieved monthley; they had 5 Swivells, one Small Mortar, which widend from the Breach to the Musel, so as to Serve for Shells of different Size, which they had, with hand Grenades, and Some Confound in Bottles, with plenty of other ibimunition. I shall here give you a Short Acct. of their Scituation at Augustine, and their out Guards, from the Serjeants Examination. He says there are two kinds of Troops in Augustine Vizt. The Old Troops of the place (331) and those lately Sent from Spain. Those Troops of the Place, consists of 3 Companys of Foot, One of Horse, and One of Artillery, .Each by the Establishment is a 100, but believes them not to exceed 70 effective in each. The Troops that came over about 2 years ago, Consists of 8 Companys 50 each Establishment, but how many are dead he does not know, these he s^ys are all of the Regular Troops of Spain, but there are likeways Severall other Men that are not listed who have no pay from the King, but have Arms and Officers, making one Company of Militia. There are above 200 transports, a few Molatooes, and above 200 Negroes, all Armed, within a league of the Town, There are 9 Villages of Indians containing in all betwixt 4 or 500 able to bear Armes; The Ditch round the Town of Augustine is a yard deep, and 3 yards wide, within which is a Pallmetto Royal hedge, which is kept up by Setting fresh Pallmettos as wanting. The Earth thrown up is faced with wood, mans height. They have 10 Buiworks upon the Lines a 100 yards a distance. There are two 95 (331) 4 poimders, and other Cannon in each Buiwork with a Guard of 5 Men, There are 4 Gates made of 4 inch plank. The Castle he says is very Strong, the Ditch round it is 24 yards wide, and 11 foot deep, which th^ can fill with water at pleasure, "both Sides are faced with Stone, and lately they have made on the out Side of the Ditch a Coverd way faced with Stone. The Walls of the Castle are 7 Ells thick, with 4 Sulworks, the Curtain about 60 yards. The parapet is 3 yards thick of Stones of that Breadth, the Walls are about 4 yards high on the Inside, They have in all within the Castle about 50 Cannon, 3 of which are (332) 40 pounders, two 32 po-unders, and 2 24 pounders; There axe Ambrazures, and all the Ramparts Casemated with lodging Rooms under it, which doubled by flowering, would lodge all the people in SkaoEKOt Florida; its Arched with Stones 3 foot thick and covered with Earth of the Same thickness, they have plenty of water within the Castle. They have belonging to the place 4 Launches and two Billanders, but the two Billan6.ers for present is at the Havannah. He Says they have no other Fort of Strength, but at St. Hark at the Appellaches, where are 50 saen, 6 of each Conpany, one Capt. one Lieut, one Ensign, two Serjeants, two Corplls., and two Drums. This place is about 8 days journey from Augustine, on the Road to Mexico (and I believe a Communication with the Gulph.) the rest of This Examination was much to the Same purpose. His Excellency is gone to Carolina, in hopes of some Assistance from them, which their own Interest, I think will oblige them to. He has raised one additional! Shrap Troop of Rangers, wch. he has hond. me with, my Commission wch, is dated ye 19 Xbr. runs as Capt, I have a 96 (332) Lieut. Cornet, Quarter Master, two Corplls., one French horn & 29 private Men, hqt Eange is to he from Fort St, Fransisco to ye Darien, wch. I judge is near 200 miles distance, they will he of great pta- protection from ye little Excursion of the Spanish Indians upon this Colony, in time of peace, hut if the War continues, they*11 he of the utmost con sequence. The is very Small Scarce able to Subsist on, Setting aside ye hardships wch. perhapps is Lying 9 months in ye year on Bare s ground without ariy Covering, & all for 2,6 _ day, hut the Genii, designs to push to have them on the Dragoon Estahlishmt. & I flatter my Self if such a thing come upon ye Carpett youll give me yr. assistance, for s its you I thank for the 2,6. If you have any desire for any thing this Country produces I shall use my utmost diligence to procure it, & shall think it an honour to he esteemd Yr. Dutyfull and Ohedt. Servt. &c. Signed M. Carr. (3^1) Genl. Oglethorpe to Col, Stephens, and by him Sent to the Trus tees, arrived by Capt. Thompson 2 May 1740, Frederica 2 Fehy, 1739/40 Sir Since the Spaniards began hostilities by attacking Amelia, & murdering the Men there, I pursued them into Florida, Swept the River St. Mathao, by the Indians calld Alata, which the Spaniards would fain now call St. Johns. 97 (3^1) I landed on the Spanish Main, drove their Outgriards, and the Indians hvirnt 3 Guard houses; I proceeded one daj'^s march to\rards St. Augustine, Stayed 3 days hunting their Cattel, and ravaging the Country, hut could not provoke them to Action. Their horse, and a party of Negroe & Indians appeard, hut went off upon a gallop, and took Shelter in their Ports. The Spaniards had in S'lorida, besides the Portress of Augustine, The Port of St, Harks, with a garison of 80 Regular Troops, 100 Spanish. Transports, besides Kegroes, Indians &ce. This Port lies on the Bay of Appelachee, which makes the most Eastern part of the Gulph of Mealco, and by it, Augustine has a coraiinicstion with Mexico. It also influences the Creek Indians, being not far from their Towns. They had also built a new Port called St. Prancis de Pupa on the Brittish Side of St. Mathao or Alato above mention'd. This Port was an incroachment, and built not long Since to protect a Perry over the River ^ Alata, to defend their comunicf?tion with St. Marks, and to give them an Entry into that part of Georgia inliabited by the Creek Indians, and also all the northern parts of Georgia and Carolina by Land, it be but 5 days journey from this Port to Mr. Mathews (3^2) new Settle ment, and that but two days Jo-urney from Savannah. Over against this, on the South Side the Alata, wch. is there so wide, as to be no longer a River, but a lake, they had a Port call'd Picola.ta, in the Sh^e of a Star, and a Perry boa.t, going from the One Port to the other. They had also the Port of St. Diego, 7 league from the Alata, 6 from Augustine, and 3 from the Sea. 98 (342) Ihey had another called Eossa, with a garison mostly Indians. Another call'd Chiketo, with 4 Bastions, the Garison mostly Indians, and partly Eegular troops, and lies about a league from Augastine. Another called Pinion. And they were building a new one of Stone, called Moosa, to pro tect the Plantations they had granted to Run away Negroes, who were armed and Officer'd in order to garison the Same. A particular Acct. of Augustine is inclosed. On jny first inroad, the Spaniards quitted Moosa and drew off the Negroes. I Sent Lieut. Dunbar up the River with 2 Scout bor?ts, to destroy what boats the Spaniards had, and to view their Ports and attack them if weak;. Accordingly after 12 hours rovjing up the Alata, he came to where it forms a Lake, in many places above 2 leagues wide, but Streighten'd in One by 2 points. So that it was not above Two miles wide. On the northern point was Port St. Francis, and on the Soutnern point that of Picolata. He landed in the ni^t, and thought to have Surprised the latter: But after Several hours firing, and 3 being wounded, he found he could not carry it without cannon. So return'd. On New years day, I set out with a Party of the Regiment, accompany'd by Capt. Hugh Mackay, (343) Capt. Desbrisey, Lieut. Dunbar, and Ensigns Mace, Mackay, Sutherland & Maxwell, and Adjutant Hugh Mackay, the Rangers, Paunee Mico with the Chickesaws, and Capt. Gray the Uchee King with the Nchees and Howitt, Hillispilli & lx Santouchy with the Creeks, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Jones, 1 Periagua, 13 boats, and a Small 99 (3^3) Privateer Sloop, who went in at the Hiver Alata. On the 7th having got over many difficulties, by day breah, the Indians Surprised & burnt the Port Picolata, the Spaniards having abandon'd it. At 10 the Same day, I lauded, and invested St. Francis de Pupa, with the Indians & ^angers, & formed the Regular Troops, and landed 4 pieces of Cannon, posted them, & mark'd out a battery in Such manner that they were Shelter'd from the Sight of the garison, by the woods. In the mean time the Indians advanc'd as near as they could under the Shelter of Trees, Some of which Stood within 100 yards of the Port, but in most places the ground was clear'd 3OO yards round. The Indians fired very briskly upon the Port, and the Spaniards return'd the Same very hotly, till tovfards 3 a clock, when their fire lessen'd considerably. This kept the Spaniards So amused, that they did not discover our men at the Batteries, So that they work'd undiscoverd till 5 si a clock, when the Spaniards began to fire upon them, but the breast work being then finish'd, they did no mischief. Before Sunset, the Battery fired on the Fort, when I offer'd them terms; but they refus ing, the Canons fired a Second time, which had So good an^ effect, that they cry'd out for Quarter, became prisoners of War, & Surrender'd the Port with 2 pieces of Cannon, 1 Mortar, 3 Swivel guns, I50 Shells, a number of fidCxxscx^ glass bottels fill'd with powder and artificial fire works, a Sufficient quantity of Amunition, provisions &c for a long defence, (3^) The Port consisted of a Strong new built Tower about JO foot high, 16 foot Square within, with a Manchicolis above, which flank'd the 100 (344) foot of the Tower; without that, a Rampart faced with timber a foot thick & 12 foot high, fill'd tip within Side with 6 foot Earth, But the garrison was very weak, consisting only of a Sergeant, a Corporal, 9 Soldiers & 1 Indian, the Governour having Since the first Inroad with drawn the garrison from Picolata, & part of tha,t from Fupa. They formerly consisting of a Comnission'd Office, and 30 Men. I left a garrison in this place, and have added to the Eortification, it being of gaeat consequence. Since thereby the comunication with the Creek Indians is Secured, and their means of invading the Northern parts of the Colony is taken away, and if any party of horse comes from Carolina, they may be here Shelter'd, till ferry'd over, and Picolata at which they land, is within 21 miles of Augustine, and the Country between is full Stock'd with Cattle & horses. I have receiv'd Some letters from the Trustees relating to the Title of lands, which I wish may not give room to the troublesome peoples making new Cavils. I ha,ve not yet had time to consider well of it, but think it would be right to take tiifem into mature consideration, that at the Same time th^y are publish'd, they may be thoroughly explain'd to the people, and thereby dissentions at this critical jtincture be prevented. I am Sir Your very humbe. Servt. Oglethoipe I desire you would Shew this letter to Mr. Jones. I have Sent Mr. Horton to England, & Capt. Heron to Charlestown, to Soliscite assis tance for the Seige of Augustine, and other matters for the Safety of the Province. 101 (3^5) By the examination of the prisoners, which confirms former In formations, the Castle of Augustine is a Fort "built of Soft Sone, with 4 Bastions, the Curtain 60 yards in length, the Parapet 9 foot thick, the Eaupart 20 foot high, casmated underneath for lodgings, and arched over, & newly made Bomh proof. There are 50 pieces of Canon mounted in the Castle; they have "been Some time working on a coverd way, which is not yet finishd. Sixteen of the Canon are "brass, and Some 24 pounders. The Town is intrenchd with 10 Saillant Angles, in each of which are Some Small cannon. The Forces in Florida consist by Establishment Officers & Men in each 1 Troop of horse. 100 1 Coii5)y. of Artillery. 100 3 Independent Companys of old troops, each 100. 300 2 Companys of the Eegimt. of Asturias each 53. 106 1 Conip.any of "Valencia. 53 1 Coa^any of Catalonia. .. . 53 2 Companys of Cantabria each 53 106 2 Companys of Mercia each 53. 106 Armed Negroes. 200 White Transports for labour ..... 200 1324 Militia of Inhabitants 1 Conpany Indians, the niuaber uncertain 102 (353) Coll. Oglethorpe to Mr. Jo. Mackintosh Moore, & the Eevd. Mr. Macleod of Darien Frederica 18 Feh. 1739/^0 Gentlemen Mr. Whitfeild has offer'd to take care of the Orphan family that is at yo-ur place. If they are So Small as you are desirous to have em removed, you may Send them down to him: hut if you are desirous to have them Stay, they will he continued on their Allowance. I leave this entirely to your determination, and am Gentlemen Yr. very humhe. Servt. James Oglethorpe Mr. Jo. Mackintosh Moore & Mr. Macleods answer to Col. Oglethorpe Darien 18 fehy. 1739.40 Eonhe. Sir We ha