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Copy of a Letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. Oglethorpe dated Charles 
Town 28th Septr. 1732. reed, in December. 

Sir: 

I have the favour of Yours of May the 15th. I rejoice that 
Your indefatigable Industry in Acts of Charity and benevolence to 
Mankind has met with Success. 

You are too good in the Sentiments You have conceived of me; 
neither my Capacity or Ability enables me to be very usefull to the 
Publick, but my Endeavours Shall never be wanting, in being observant 
& usefull to those of more extensive Knowledge and Abilitys to do good. 
It was with that view that I prevented the Lands in that part of the 
Province that the Trustees have obtained from being Surveyed and pur 
chased till I knew the Success of the Corporation's Applications; which 
although I had no advice of I flatter'd my self would Succeed, from the 
Nobleness of the Intention and Ability of the Undertakers; Some few 
People had Surveyed small Qoantitys of Land on the South Side of Savannah 
River before my Proclamation issued, but I have granted them no Titles, 
but tell them I suppose upon Application to the Trustees, when Affairs 
are Settled they may obtnin Grants from them and probably nay have a 
Preference in Consideration of the Charge they have been at in the 
Survey they have made. 

I do believe it would have been of great Service to the Design 
if such a. Person as Mr. St. Julian could have been prevailed upon to 
have taken the Direction of the first Transport, one who knows the 
Country und the manner of new Settling, and who has Capacity, Integrity, 
Honesty and Constitution, being Seasoned to the Climate, to undergo the 

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fatigue that will attend it; for I assure You I know by Experience that 
Undertakings of this nature require the Management here of those who 
know the Climate end mpjmer of Settling. I write this of my own head 
for Mr. St. Julian had no thought of being employed further, as he seys 
himself, in any other manner than to assist them all he can when they 
arrive. I hope the first Transport won't be given to the Management of 
a Stranger to these parts and Settlements. 

This Town has been visited with a malignant Feaver, brought in 
from the Islands which in about two months carried off 130 whites 
besides a great Number of Blacks; I thought my Duty required my Presence 
in Town, and I have lost a Son and three Servants out of my Family, but 
my greatest Affliction is the Loss of tne best of Ta!ives just before by a 
fall from her Horse. The Distemper is almost over. 

There are Letters from Mr. Fury's Correspondent in London inform 
us that we may expect him with two hundred Souls from Switzerland in a 
very short time; We are likely to have great Quantity of Corn and Rice 
this year, which will be well for new Comers. 

I have ordered my Correspondent by this opportunity to Subscribe 
& 50 towai'ds your Undertaking, which the Trustees will please to accept, 
only as a Token of my good Wishes to the Design. 

A great Consideration is where You first design to Set down sjid 
build your Town, the Goodness of the Harbour pnd Land are chiefly to 
be considered, and I am advised that Alatamaha River is the best and the 
properest Place; You must by all means order your Ships and People 
directly there, and not to come a Shore here; e hundred Inconveniencys 
will ensue, and I think You should employ Agents here to build con 
venient Houses, and provide fresh Provision for them; all this will 

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require a year's time at least. So I don't Suppose You will make any 
Imbarkation till this time twelve months; I must likewise take the 
Liberty to advise You to send none but People used to Labour end of 
Sober Life and Conversation, for others will never be govern'A nor make 
good Settlers, for much hardship, Sickness and Labour (3) will attend 
their first Settling, which will not be born by People used to Idleness 
or Luxury, and So far from being thankfull for the Bounty bestowed upon 
them, will be discontented and mutinous. 

In whatever the Society instructs me I can be serviceable to 
them in, I shall with pleasure obey, for I shall esteem it a great 
Honour to be thought yours and their 

Most humble and most Obedt. 

Servant. 

(5) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Deal to the Trustees 
dated 18th Novr. 1?32. 

Gentlemen 

We Sailed from Gravesend on Thursday l?th Novr. about 9 in the 
morning falling Down with the Tide, but came to an Anchor at night 
between the Nore and the Downs the Pilot not chusing to venture over the 
Flats in the night time, We weigh'd Anchor again early this morning the 
Wind blowing very fresh at N.N.E. So that we got to Deal about 11 
o'clock and the Wind being very fair to carry us through the Channel we 
stay only to take in fresh Provisions end send away our Dispatches. 
Before We Sailed we dismissed William Gainsford one of the Sawyers, he 

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desiring it because his family is taken ill with the small Fox at home 
and Sent for him. All the Colony are very well except Sea Sickness 
which the Doctor and I have escaped hitherto. We take as much fresh 
Provision as we can Stow for the People at Deal; As Gainsford is t?ken 
off at L 4 Mr. Amatis is to be added at t 6 to the List. Dr. Cox and 
Mr. Fitzwalter have behaved remarkably well and all the rest are very 
orderly and patient. The Agreement with Mr. Amatis is that Ms Brother 
bring with him 2 Men and 4 Women who understand the whole of the Silk 
Business; and he is to have after the rate of I< 10 p_ Head in Discharge 
of all Expences whatsoever from Turin to London and & 10 more to be paid 
to him for 4 Ib. Silkworms Eggs and a Copper for boiling and a Machine 
for Winding, the whole amounting to t 80 to be paid in the manner settled 
with Mr. Simond vizt. L 60 in France and & 20 in London. As Soon as 
ever they arrive please to let them be sent in one of Mr. Simond's 
Ships where they will find Some People that can Speak French and Care 
(6) Should be taken to keep them as private and let them stay as little 
as possible in Town for those Persons Mr. Vemon mentioned will endeavour 
to Seduce them, and every body knows their Industry. When Mr. Nicholas 
Amatis arrives I would desire the Trustees to s.dvise with him what 
Measures are farther proper to be taken end to excuse his Brother's 
going away before Ms Arrival. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most Obedient 

humble Servant. 
From on board the Anne 
18th Novr. 1732 off of Deal. 
Dr. Herbert's Respects attend all the Society. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. William Houstoun from Kingston in Jamaica to 
Mr. Oglethorpe dated 21st Deer. 1732. 

Sir 

I wrote to You from the Madera the 9th of Novr. that I was 

carrying from thence two Tubs full of Cuttings of Vines. I arrived 

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with them here in good order yesternight, for most of them are b#edding 

and Some have put out. Shoots of an inch or two long which is something 
Surprizing considering that they were taken off just after they had 
exhausted themselves in the Production of Grapes and Leaves. I went 
this morning to wait upon Mr. Pratter the S. S. Company's Agent in this 
place, who has very kindly granted me Leave to go over in a Snow which 
is to Sail in a few days for Jarthagena. I have given one of the Tubs 
to him, which he is to plant out in a Garden he has near the Town, and 
the other I shall commit to the care of a friend of my own, who has a 
Plantation a few miles off. So that when I em to Set out for Georgia 
I hope I Shall receive my own with Usury. 

My former Letter went by way of Lisbon, & lest You Should not 
have received it I shall repeat here that Messrs. Rider and Chalmbers 
have promised me to Send Cuttings to Mr. St. Julian by the first Ship 
that should go for Carolina; & that there is but one Cinnamon Tree in 
the Island of Madera. 

I shall endeavour to behave my self So as to give Satisfaction 
to You and the rest of the Honble. Trustees, and in the meantime beg 
Leave to assure You that I am Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servant. 

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On board the Ship Ann 8 of the 
Clock Jany. 13 1732/3 

This Lte from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Honbl. Trustees 

Gentlemen: 

We just now discover the Cost of America and it proves to be the 
Land which lyes off Charles town We are now within nine Miles distant 
and can from the Deck with the naked Eye discover the Trees just above 
the Horrizon No disagreeable sight to those who for seven weeks have 
seen nothing but Sea and Sky We have had a very favourable Passage 
considering that we passed the Tropick of Cancer and Stood to the South 
ward till we came into 20 Degrees and then Stood back again to 32 
where we now are By this meons t.e lengthened our Navagation from 
England above a third which was done to avoid the fury of the North 
west Winds that generaly rage in the Winter season on the Coast of 
America We have lost none of our People except the Youngest Son of 
Richard Cannon aged Eight Months and the Youngest Sone of Robert Clsrke 
Aged one Year and an half both of whome were very weakly when I came on 
Board and had indeed been half Starved thro' want before they left 
London as many others were who are recovered with Food and Care but 
these were so far gone that all our Efforts to Save them were in vain 
Doctor Herbert and all on Board are in perfect health except Mr. Scott 
who was bruised with a Fall in the Last Storm At present we ere all 
in a hurry so must beg leave to refer you for a fuller account to my 
next Letters Wee intend to take in a pilot at this place for to 

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conduct us to Port Royal where we shall hire Imberkations to carry us 
to Georgia I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most obedient humble Servant 

James Oglethorpe 

I have seen the Governour who came 
to meet me on my Landing and the 
Speaker of the Assembly also came to pay 
his Compliments to the Trustees they have 
promised all assistance I am just going to 
return on board 2 of the Clock in the Morning 

(1?) Carthagena Jany. 23 1733 
This Lre from Will: Houstoun to James Oglethorpe Esqr. 

Sir 

I had the Honour to write to you from Madera and afterwards from 
Jamaica in the Last of which I informed you that I had brought to that 
Island two Tubbs full of Vines in good Condition and of the opportunity 
I had met with of coming to this place I arrived here the 3& instant 
and am very well received at the Factory on account of one Gentleman 
who is my Relation and Some former acquaintance I ha.d of the rest But 
the Governer of the place who is extreemly severe makes us all uneasy. 

The Ipecacuantia plants grows at a place called Mampex about a 
weekes Journey up the Countery I cannot possibly be allowed to go 
thece my self but a Spanish Gentleman who sets out for that plsce 

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to Morrow has engaged to send me down some some plants of it in potts 
and there are no less then three different persons there besides from 
each of which I have reason to expect it upon Letters I have procured 
to be wrote to them I shall also use toy utmost endeevours to get the 
Seeds of the Trees that produce the Balsam called Capivi and of Tolu 
but these being still further up the Country are Consequently harder to 
be come at I shall as Soon as possible inform you of my Success and 
in the mean time beg leave to assure You that I am 

Sir 

Your most obedient 
and most humble Servant 
Will; Houstoun 

(2l) Copy of a Letter from the Govr.^ and Council of So. Carolina to 
Mr. Oglethorpe dated 26th Jany. 1732/3. 

Sir 

We can't omit the first opportunity of congratulating You upon 
your safe Arrival in this Province, wishing You all imaginable Success 
in your charitable and generous Undertaking in which we beg Leave to 
assure You any Assistance we can give shall not be wanting in promoting 
the Same. 

The General Assembly having come to the Resolution inclosed, We 
hope You will accept it as an Instance of oar sincere Intentions to 
forward So good a Work and of our Attachment to a Person who has at all 
times so generously used his Endeavours to relieve the Poor end deliver 

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them out of their Distress, in which You have hitherto been so success- 
full that we are persuaded this Undertaking can*t fail under your 
prudent Conduct which we most heartily wish for. The Rangers and 
Scout Boats are ordered to attend You as soon as possible. 

Colonel Bull a Gentleman of this Board and who we esteem most 
capable to assist You in the Settling your new Colony is desired to 
deliver You this aad to accompany You, and render You the best Services 
he is capable of, and is one whose Integrity You may very much depend 
on. 

We are with the greatest Regard and Esteem 

Sir 

' Your most obedient and most humble Servants. 
Jno. Fenwicke - ^s^u i^*j*^2 ' Robt. Johnson 
Tho. Waring Tho! Broughton 
J. Hammer ton Az: Middle ton 

A. Skeae 
Fra. Yonge 
James Kinloch 

(25) The Committee of His Majesty's Honble. Council appointed/ 

to confer with a Comittee of the Lower House, on His f /^ / / 

Excellency*s Message relating tc the Arrival of the j ^^A ^^^ 

/ * ' ^^? 

Honble. James Oglethorpe Esqr. ^/ ^^y^" 

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Copy of a Letter froa Mr. Wi.lJ.iaxi Kilbury at Yamacraw Bluff to Mr. 
Francis Harbin dated 6th February 1732/3. 

Dear Friend. 

We arrived at Fort Eoyal Jeny. 21st where we landed our People in 
perfect Health to Refresh them and prepare for their Passage to Georgia 
where the Town is to be built, the People arrived here the 1st of this 
Instant and I Landed here (from a Sloop of 70 Tuns which was hired to 
bring the dry Goods) the 3d of this Instant. As to giving You a 
particular Account of the Water it is out of my Power as yet not having 
a Man on board thpt knows the River nor how the Channel is; the Bluff 
where the Town is designed to be built has a fine fresh Water runs by it 
within 10 foot, where the Sloop can float too at an Hour's flood; the 
Country promises to be very good and the Indians are very kind & the 
People of Carolina are very generous and have presented the Colony with 
upwards of 200 head of Cattle besides Hogs and Rice and every thing 
looks with an extraordinary good face. I have a great Satisfaction in 
my Coming having pleased my Master and likewise the People but with a 
great Deal of Pains hardly have time to write to You, I don't expect to 
be otherwise till I see You again which please God will be the latter 
end of the Year. In about a Week more I shall go down the River to 
Sound and likewise the Bar I have made the best as I could a Coming up 
which will be some help to my second Proceeding. My Service to your 
family and all friends. My Master is in good Health but indefatigably 
exposes himself to all cold and Hardship imaginable and extream (30) 
kind more than ever I could expect. Pray let me hear from You all 

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Opportunity's, I conclude with the hearty Service and the well Wishes for 
the good Success of your Sincere Friend. &c. 

Dr. Herbert is well & Sends 
his Service to You and desires 
You will do the same to Mr. 
Verelst. And pray my Obedt. 
Service to Mr. Verelst. 

(33) From the Camp near Savannah Feby. 10th 1932/3 
From James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the Eonble. Trustees 

Gentlemen 

I gave you an Account in my last of our arrival at Charles Town 
The Governour and Assembly have given us all possible encouragement 

Our people arrived at Beaufort on the 20th of January where I lodged 

whilst 
them in Some new Barrachs built for the Soldiers/^hixh I went my ^elf 

to view the Savannah River I fixed upon a healthy situation about ten 
miles from the Sea The River there formes a half Moon along the South 
side of which the Banks are about 40 foot high and upon the top a flat 
which they call a Bluff The plain high ground extends into the Country 
Five or Six Miles and along the River side about a Mile Ships that 
draw twelve foot water can ride within ten Yards of the Bank Upon the 
River side in the Center of this plain I have L?id out the Town Over 
against it is an Island of very rich land fit for pasturage which I 
think should be Kept for the Trustees Cattle The River is prety wide 

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the water fresh and from the Key of ye Town you See its whole course to 
the Sea with the Island of Tybe which forms the mouth of the River and 
the other way you may See the River for about Six miles up into the 
Country The Landskip is very agreeable the Stream being wide and 
bordered with high Woods on both sides The whole people arrived of 
the first of Febty. at Night their Tents were got up Till the ?th 
wee were tpken up in unloading and making a Crean which I even then 
could not Get finished so took off the hands end set some to the Forti 
fication and begun to fell ye Woods I marked out the Town and Common 
half of the former is allready cleared and the first House w?s begun 
Yesterday in the afternoon Not being able to get Negroes I have taken 
Ten of the independent Company to work for us for which I make them an 
allowance I send you p Coppy of the Resolutions of the Assembly and 
the Governour & Councill& 3K Letter to me which you may Judge whether it 
will not be proper to print. Mi*. Whitaker has given us one Hundred head 
of Cattle Collonel Bull Mr. Barlow Mr. Julian and Mr. (34) Woodward 
are come up to assist us with some of their own Servants Our people 
are all alive but ten are ill with the bloody Flux which I take to pro 
ceed from the cold and their not being accustomed to lye in Tents I am 
so taken up in looking after a hundred necessery things that I write now 
short but shall give you a more particular Account hereafter. A little 
Indian nation the only one within fifty miles is not only at amity but 
desire to be subject to the Trustees to have land given them and to 
breed their Children at our Schools Their Cheif end his beloved man 
who is the Second man in the Nation desire to be instructed in the 

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Christian Religion. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your Most Obedt. humble Servant 
James Oglethorpe 

(37) Copy of a Letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. Martyn dated 12th 
February 1732/3. 

Sir 

I have rec'd the favour of yours dated the 20th of October and 
the Duplicate of the 24th. I beg You will assure the Honble. Trustees 
of ry most huxible Respects, and that I will attach myself to render 
them and their laudable Undertaking all the Service in my Power. 

Mr. Oglethorpe arrived here with his People in good Health the 
13th Deer. I ordered him a Pilot, and in ten hours he proceeded to 
Port Royal, where he arrived safe the 19th end I understand from thence, 
that after refreshing his People a little in our Barracks he with all 
Expedition proceeded to Yamacraw upon Savannah River about twelve miles 
from the Sea, where he designs to fix those he has brought with him. 

I do assure You that upon the first News I had of this Imbarka- 
tion I was not wanting in giving the necessary Orders for their Recep 
tion, and being assisted at Port Royal, altho* they were here almost 
as soon as we heard of their Design of Coming, not knowing whether 
Mr. Oglethorpe designed directly there or would touch here. I am 
informed he ie mighty well Satisfyed with his Reception there and that 
he likes the Country, and that he should Say things Succeed beyond his 
Expectation; but I have not yet received a Letter from him since his 

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being at Port Royal. 

Our General Assembly meeting 3 days after his Departure, I moved 
to them their assisting Mr. Oglethorpe in this generous Undertaking; 
both Houses immediately came to the following Resolution, that he 
should be furnished at the Publick Expence with one hundred and four 
heads of breeding Cattle, (38) 25 Hogs and 20 Barrels of good Rice; 
that Boats should be provided also at the Publick Charge to transport 
the People, Provisions and Goods from Port Royal to the Piece where he 
designed to Settle, that the Scout Boat and 15 of our Rangers, who 
are Horsemen and always kept in Pay to discover the motions of the 
Indians, should attend Mr. Oglethorpe and obey his Commands, in order 
to protect the new Settlers from any Insults, which I think there is no 
manner of Danger of; and I have given the necessary Advice and Instruc 
tions to our Out Garrisons a.nd the Indians in friendship with us, that 
they may befriend and assist them. 

I did propose the Subsisting them with Provisions for a twelve 
month, but the Charge has been so great already with the Puris burgers, 
who have also begun their Settlements, that the Assembly thought the 
Expence too large, & hope what they have done will be favourably 
accepted, as being adequate to the Circumstances of the Province which 
is but poor. 

I have likewise prevailed upon Colonel Bull a Member of the 
Council and a Gentleman of great Probity and Experience in the Affairs 
of this Province, the Nature of Land and the method of Settling, and 
who is well acquainted with the manners of the Indians, to attend Mr. 
Oglethorpe at Georgia with our Compliments, and to offer him his Advice 

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and Assistance; and had not our Assembly been sitting, I would have 
gone my self. 

I received the Trustees Commission, for the Honour of which I 
beg You will thank them; thereupon I published the inclosed Advertisemt. 
but our People are so poor I fear little will be got; I have received 
nothing as yet. I hope my Agent has paid the Trustees the L 50 I have 
(39) ordered towards this good Work, to which I heartily wish all 
imaginable Success. I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servt. 
P.S. 

Since the above I have 
had the pleasure of hearing 
from Mr. Oglethorpe who 
gives me an Accot. that his 
Undertaking goes on very 
Successfully. 

(41) This Letter from Thos. penn to James Oglethorpe Esqr. 
6 March 1733-3 

Esteemed Friend 

I H&K reced. with much pleasure thy letter of the 31st of 
August by way of Maryland and by Lord Baltimore as well on its begining 
a Correspondence with a Gentleman I have so great a regard for as on 
Subject to me truly deserving the Notice and Assistance of all v?ell 
disposed persons I reced. allso with thy Letter a Comision from the 

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trustees of Georgia to my self which I esteem a particular mark of thy 
Regard, and of those Gentlemsns who with thee have the Satisfaction to 
think themselves engaged in a design to render to many poor unfortunate 
fellow subjects pappy whet contribution I intend towards it should 
have Come by this Ship but wee having had s severe winter which 
fastned up our River and the ships in it from 17th November till the 
first of this Month has put a stop to much of our Merchants Trade So 
that I could not Get a Bill of Exchange and have since that time con 
sidered that no Corn is raised in Carolina (or at least very little) 
and the Inhabitance supplyed from this place and New York whether it 
might not be more serviceable to supply those who come first with Bread 
and flower from this from whenc I could send a Smal Slope on purpose 
but if no other advice from Carolina which we soon hope for that will 
not be Serviceable I shall enclose thee a Bill for one Hundred pounds 
Serling from my self and think it my duty to procure whet I can from 
others towards so good a work I send by this Ship to a friend of mine 
in London a Smal quantity of Potash made by a person I have got to 
teach it the Country people as soon as I have any — Account of what 
quality it will prove and have settled him on some where he and some 
others are to worke all the Summer in order to get a large quantity from 
the different Sorts of wood that I may Imow which is the most proper 
for that purpose I give the Trouble of this because I am sensible of 
thy regard to the Brittish Colloney and that the Importation of any 
thing from them to England not interfering with the Manufactures at 
home must Consequently be much to thy Satisfaction I desire the to be 
assured that (42) as I shall allways be ready to do any Service here to 

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the Collony of Georgia. every opportunity also shall be embraced to 
convince thee that I am with sincere regard 

Thy very affectionate friend 

Thos. penn 
Philadelphia. March 
the 6th 1732/3. 

F.S. running over my Lre I find some mistakes which by the Captains 

intending to go to morrow are only interlined he not allowing me 
time to dispach all my tra on looking over the Commition I find 

the Sumes Collected are to be remitted to the Trustees and 
therefore I shall the above mentiond Sum. 

(43) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Cglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees 
dated 12th March 1732/3- 

Gentlemen 

I have been obliged to mpke many expences here, the Price given 
by the Assembly not being near sufficient. I was forced to buy a con 
siderable Quantity of Provisions as also to make up the Arms which was 
burnt in the Fire and al?o the Tools many of which were so bad as to be 
useless, besides which I have thought it necessary to make several 
Expences in Gift to the Indians, for Intelligence, Rewards for taking 
Outlaws and Spies; all which with many other Articles of Expence You 
will receive as soon as we can get time to make out Copies of our 
Books. 

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I have drawn upon You for It 400 part of which I have paid, away 
end. the rest I have by me. 

This Province is much larger than we thought it, being 120 Hiles 
from this River to the Alatamaha. This River hss a very long Course and 
a great Trade is carried on by it to the Indians, there having above 
12 Trading Boats passed by since I have been here. 

There are in Georgia on this Side the Mountains three consider 
able Nations of Indians, one called the Lower Creeks consisting of nine 
Towns or rather Cantons makirg about 1000 Men able to bear Arms: One 
of these is within half a mile of us and has concluded a.Peace with us 
giving up their Right to All this part of the Country, and I have mark'd 
out the Lands which they have reserved to themselves. The King comes 
constantly to Church and is desirous to be instructed in the Christisji 
Religion and has given to me (46) his Nephew a Boy who is his next 
Heir to educate. 

The other two llations are the Uchees and the Upper Creeks the 
first consisting of 200, the latter of 1100 men. We agree so well with 
the Indians that the Creeks and Uchees have referred a Difference to me 
to determine which otherwise would occasion a War, and one of them hss 
informed me of a Silver mine on the River Side, the Earth of which being 
trash'd away the Ore lyes bare, of which he promised to bring me a 
Sample. 

Our People still lye in Tents there being only two Clapboard 
Houses built and three Saw*d Houses framed, our Crane our Battery of 
Cannon and Magazine finished, this is all we have been able to do by 
reason of the Smallness of our Number of which many have been sick and 

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others unused, to Labour though thank God they are now pretty well and 
we have not lost one Soul since our Arrival here. 

I desire some of You. will be so kind as to frank the inclosed 
and send them as directed, being the Natural Thoughts of our whole 
Colony. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most Obedt. Servant 

(4$) This Lye from Sam; Parker to the Eonble. Trustees. 

Savanph Town March 12 1732/3 
Hond. Sirs 

Your honours have been So good as to promise that those who 
came in the first Embarkation should have a friend or tvo sent after us 
whom we should recomend and myself being acquainted with tvo or three 
that I know have burthensome familyeg for whom they can make no provi 
sion in future and finding that in all humane probebility they may have 
an opportunity of doing veil here I do hereby recommend them as fit & 
proper objects of Yor. 3onrs. relief they Signifyed to me their inten 
tion of coming after me if I could give them suitable encouragement after 
my arrival here and having done that by Lres bearing equal date here with 
&s I expect they will two if not three of them attend your Honrs. 
thereupon their names are Isaac Spring of East Smithfeild Victualler 
William perry a plaisterer snd house painter of St. paus's Snadwell 
Avery Ingenious and necessary man here and Benjamin Manning of Chelms- 
ford in Essex Husband man being willing they should come a^ soon as 

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possible I humbly hope if they attend your Honrs. upon the that they 
will be inrolled in the next Imbarkstion — abundance of our Collony 
Joyn with me in renewing our humble thanks for the feavours Reced 
from your Honrs. % and it's with great pleasure I acquaint your Honrs. 
that every occurreince seeminly promises a. feavourable aspect and every 
way conduces to answer Your Honrs. good and Laudable Intentions to 
promote our wealfare in General thpt your Honrs. future proceeding in 
the same designs may succeed and prosper to Gods Glory Your Honrs. and 
our Advantage is and shall be the heajrty prayer of him who is Your 
Honrs. most Humble and obedient Servant 

Samel, parker 

(53) Copy of a Letter from Mxxx Mr. Thomas Causton at Savannah to his 
Wife dated 12th March 1732/3. 

My Dearest 

I wrote to You on the 12th of Jany. last from Charles Town Bar 
which I hope came safe to hand. I had then the favour of Mr. Oglethorpe's 
Packet; And promised to write again when we should arrive at our Place 
of Settlement. We were just a week in our Passage from Charles Town to 
Port Royal where we Landed and were Lodged at some new Barracks that are 
there intended for a new Fortification about 3 miles from Beaufort Town. 
At our Landing Mr. Oglethorpe ordered me to take all the Stores into 
my Care and to keep an Account of them. And in that Office I shall 
continue which takes up my whole time, in this Circumstance I could not 
so much as go to See the Town or Stir half a mile from the Piece. But 

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the Accot. I have from other People is enough for me to believe that % 
the Houses there are all of Timber and. very few have Glass Windows or 
Brick Chimneys. But notwithstanding that the People are very Gallant 
and generous & seem to live in a very plentifull manner. Some of our 
Company who went to the Town isere entertained in a very elegant manner 
and every one found some body to entertain them in some Shape or other. 
We have five or six familys amongst us that are deserving a Gentleman's 
Conversation. We continued in those Barracks Ten days, Sailed, from 
thence in Six large Boats, and the Country Scout Boat and the Garrison 
Boat with 12 Soldiers attending us, We had a very fair Wind and safe 
Passage being 2 days and then arrived at this place then called Yamacraw 
and now Savannah. This Place is very high Ground being about 30 Yards 
upright from low Water mark, about 10 miles from the Sea, and I believe 
that Ships of 200 Tun will be able to come within 3 miles of us. It is 
impossible to give a true Description of the Place because we are in a 
Wood, but I can't forbear Saying it is a very pleasant one. We have 
about 100 Indians just by us, and a Trader with them that speaks English 
and sells almost every thing to them at what Rates he pleases. Mr. 
Oglethorpe has behaved towards them with so much good Conduct and prudent 
generosity, that tho* (34) Some amonst them were ready to Grumble at our 
Coming yet he has both gain'd their Love & encreased their fearfull 
Apprehensions of us. They have always Parties out in hunting and they 
bring us Venison, for which Mr. Oglethorpe pays at a very moderate Rate. 
They seem to be sober judicious men, Straight and strong almost naked; 
But the King and the Chiefs wear Coats and Drawers and a piece of Cloth 
tied about their Legs like Boots. The Queen and her Daughters wear 
Common printed Calicoe, Jacket and Petticoat without any Ha&d Cloaths. 

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They maintain very little Distinction at our first Landing, they came 
to bid us welcome and before them came a Man dancing in Antick Postures 
with a spread Fan of which Feathers in each hang, as a Token of friend 
ship, wch. were fix'n to small Rods about four foot long, Set from Top 
to Bottom with small Bells like Morrice Dancers which made a jingling 
whilst the King and others followed making a very uncouth Hollowing. 
When they came near, Mr. Cglethorpe walked about ten Steps from his 
Tent to meet them; then the maJi with his feathers came forward dancing 
and ta&king,which I am informed was repeating a Speech, the Acts of 
their Chief Warriours, and at times came close and moved his Fens over 
him & Strok'd him on every Side with them; this continued more than a 
Quarter of an Hour. Then the King & all the men came in a regular 
manner & Shook him by the hand; after that the Queen came and all the 
Women did the like. Then Mr. Oglethorpe conducted them to his Tent 
and made them Sit down; the next day he made them some Presents to make 
them Cloathing. This being the 1st of February and of our Landing here 
We began to pitch our Tents the same Evening, and Set four large Tents 
Sufficient to hold the greatest part, I lodged in one of them with one 
Mr. Overend who came out of Aldersgate Street and did live in Cox's 
Court, he is a married man, has lived well in the Marcery way, and has 
3cx left his Wife in England. But since that the Stores wanting e 
pretty Deal of Care I lye in the Storehouse by myself. 

%e have had very little Illness amongst us, (55) having buried 
none, whilst the Switzers (we hear) have buried a great many; We are 20 
miles from them. And the chief Reason I believe is that we are on a 
higher Ground and in dryer Air than they. We are plentifully provided 
with Victuals, and the Men have a Pint of strong Beer every night after 

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work besides other frequent Refreshments, as Mr, Oglethorpe sees 
Occasion. Indeed he is both great & Good, and I am certain our Success 
is owing to his good Conduct only. There is no Room to doubt but that we 
shall be a flourishing People and hope to be a Thousand men before the 
Year is ended. We have had very great Assistance from the Gentlemen of 
Charles Town, have always some of them with us who bring us Workmen to 
help forward with our Works; they have assisted Mr. Oglethorpe in laying 
out most of the Lands already. We are according to a Plan directed to 
be drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe as I mentioned in my last building the Town, 
have got up three Houses, are Planting and Sowing, and have Sowed about 
ten Acres in all of different kinds of Seeds. The Houses are made of 
Timber of one Floor, only a Cock loft over it Sufficient to hold two 
Beds, the lower part will mrke one large Room and two small ones and 
stands in a piece of Ground which with the intended Garden is 20 Yards 
broad in front and 30 Yerds long in depth. We shall ha.ve a fine Pros 
pect when the Woods are clear. 

As to our Government we are divided into four Tythings each 
maintpining eleven Men able to bear Arms, of which one is Tythingmsn, I 
am one of them; And according with my Ten other men keep Guard every 
fourth night; Our Situation is indeed very pleasant, and tho' we want 
for nothing we have some Grumbletonians here also. 

I wish You had wrote to me by the Ship that followed us, She is 
just now arrived having been 11 weeks in her Passage, We made our 
Passage in eight weeks and Weather good enough to have made it in five 
weeks hen we not gone so far to the Southward, which we did for the 
Safety of us all. I defer writing to any one else at present hoping to 
hesr from You. You must needs think I long to hear how Affairs stand 

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and how You do in Health, and how my little (56) Boy does, whether he 
grows and how he reads; And think likewise, That as my Heart is 
immoveably fixed on the well doing of Miss Sophia and my Dear Jacky 
I long to hear from them and tali till then am betwixt Hope and 
Despair. 

You may bring any furniture with You, and we may have two or 
more Apprentices; And the Trustees will send them to Us if our friends 
will procure them. But the Point will be Settled when Mr. Oglethorpe 
returns to England. I shall want Thread or Cotton Stockings, Some good 
Checqued Linnen of a dark blew and strong Linnen for Waistcoats and 
Trowsers. Last Christmas Day was the hottest day I ever felt in my 
Life being then in the Latitude of 19 Degrees. We have very heavy 
Rains sometimes but tho* it reins a whole Day end Night it makes no 
Dirt. We are much pestered with a little Fly they call a Sand Fly. 
I have seen it in England about the Horse Dung. But every Insect here 
is stronger than in England. The Ants are half an inch long and they 
say will bite desperately. As for Alligators I have seen several but 
they are by the Sides of Rivers, Our Town is too high Ground for them 
to Clamber up. we have killed one. I find the Camphire very good 
against the Stings of the Flies. I now begin to be something hardened 
against them. The Gentlemen of Charles Town have given us 50 head of 
Cattle, We had some Hogs but they are run wild and left us. Fray 
present ny humble Service as You think proper, I don't fear doing very 
well &c. 

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Copy of a Letter from the Revd, Dr. Herbert from Carolina to Mr. Simond 
dated. 2?th March 1733. 

Sir 

I am extremely obliged to You for the favour of sending ne my 
Letters and should be fond of an opportunity of returning it in any 
vpy thpt would be agreeable to You. I have been ill for some time and 
am but just now recovering, so hpve Thoughts of embarking for England 
in May Therefore what Letters You receive for me after this comes to 
hand I beg may be kept till You hear farther from 

Sir 

Your obliged and very humble Servant. 
Our Friend was well when 
I heard fro;n him a few days 
ago, & goes on to his Wishes; but 
I was obliged to come Northward 
near two months ago on 
Accot. of my Health. 

(6l) This Letter from Saia: Eveleigh to the Honr. 
The Trustees 

South Carolina April 6 1733. 
Gentlemen 

About three weekes since did my self the honour to go down and 
Visit Mr. Oglethorpe what I here remaked I caused to be published in 

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the Carolina Gazette and sent it to Mr. Samuel Baker Herct. in London 
and desired him to get it incerted in the London newspapers which 
suppose by thig tine you have had the siglit of there are several other 
things which the printer for went of room could not put in I carried 
down with me a great bundle of Asparagus and as Soon as he reced it he 
ordered it to be given the women v.ith Child without reserving pny for 
himself Theres about a 11 foot at high water on the Bar which I look 
upon to be of advantage to a young Settlement for in case of wpr no 
Vessell of force can enter to disturbe them While I was there Hr. 
Oglethorpe gpve Captains Commissions to tvo of the Chief Indian Warriors 
together with some presents at which they Seemed well Satisfy'd and 
promised to do him what service they could Excuse me Gentlemen if I 
take the Liberty to make one remprk. Mr. Oglethorpe told me that by 
their Constitution they were to have no Negroes Amongst then which I 
think will be a great prejudice if not a.mesns to Overset your Noble 
design for there is a ve,st Quantity of extraordinary fine L^ncL which 
plentifully stored with large trees which I can't think can be felled 
by persons that are not used to Vorke and they cant there live without 
Corn, besides it will be very difficult for White people to hoe and tend 
theyr corn in Corn in the Hot wether for I do assure you I think tis 
equally as hot as ever I felt it in Jamaica in the Sumer Months, which 
I compute to be from the Middle of May to the Middle of September. 
Mr. Oglethorpe once a week puts up a Turkey or Some other thing of 
Value to be Shot for by Ms men which has allready had good effect 
brining them acquainted with armes which some of then before were 
Ignorant of. He Sent me Down a Small Cssk of Skins which I have 
shiped on Board the Voiajit Edmund Smyler (62) and consigned to my 

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friend Mr. Samuel Baker stiii with some of my own who will enter them 
and deliver them to you which will save you some trouble and Charge 
When I was a.t Georgia I acquainted Mr. Oglethorpe that there wss on 
the Island and on the Main next the Sea such vast quantities of live 
Cake trees as is not to be seen in any part of the World "besides 
Sufficient to Build more Ships then the British Navy consists of which 
for its durableness end Crookedness of Growth suit&ble for all difficult 
Timbers is preferrable to English or any other Cake whatsoever as one 
Mr. Barry who was Bred in his Majesties Yard if alive can inform you 
he Harried Bella Ash the Daughter of 36a$ John Ash Esqr. for-formerly 
of this province She's a Relation as I have been informed of the 
Lord Townsend's and St. paul Methwen I wrote you this thut you may 
know how to find her I design in three weekes time to Get Some 
Carpenters to cut Several pieces of these Teimbers and Send you Some 
for a Tryal. Since I wrote the above I I am informed the said was 
living within these three Years and was Forman of of his Majesties Yard 
of Deptford. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your very Humble Servant 

Sam: Eveleigh 

(65) This Letter from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the 
Honble. Trustees. 

diaries Town May 14 1733. 

Gentlemen 

I have but just time to let you know that we are at peace with 

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all the Indian Nations that there is great hopes of one towns being 
Converted to the Christian Religion since they allready desire to be 
instructed in our Faith and their Chief man is with me We have reced 
the stores and men that came with Vanderplant as I advised you in my 
last The James I left pt Port Royal from whence she is to proceed up 
to the new town upon the Savannah/River I have ik teken all the 
Masters Cargo and have agreed to give him One Hundred pounds Sterling 
to deliver it in his Ship at our Town for which I have dra.wn upon you 
I thought the getting a Ship up to the Town veil worth the expence 
I have also drawn upon Mr. Symonds for one Hundred Ninety and Eight 
pounds of which fifty is upon my Account As these two Sums seem more 
perhaps that at this tine you will h?ve Cash to except I have desired 
Mr. Symonds to accept of any Bills that you shall not think fitt to pay 
and to ppy them upon my account I have ordered him money for that 
purpose Doctor Cox is deed parker is ill of a Consumtion which he 
had contracted before he left England all the rest of our people are 
in perfect health we having not lost one Soul but Dr. Cox since our 
landing I have been in this town twelve days and have obtained from 
the Assembly Two Thousand pounds Currency Money for the assisting of 
our people this Year The Committe for Supply have voted 12000 pounds 
Currency for Supplying the Colony next Year and the Resolution will be 
reported after the Eollydays so I return till then to Georgia Some 
Merchants have proposed to hire the Liberty of trading with the Indians 
in our province That liberty I believe is well worth 2000 it Sterling 
a Year They Seem to think that one Thousand pound Sterling a Yeer is 
much as it is worth I shall do nothing in it but continue the Trade 

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upon the footing it is now and will carry over ell the proposals with me 
for yor determination (66) I have brought all our people to desire the 
prohibition of Negroes and Rum which goes much against the Grs-in of the 
traders in these Comodityes in this town But if either of them are 
allowed our whole design will be rained The Inhabitants of this Town 
have allread Subscribed 1000 L currency of which they have paid me 500 & 
to bye Cattle ther will be great contributions all over the province 
I found, and seized an Irish Eompn Chatholick who w^.s the man mentioned 
by Herbin Our Indians Stopt and the Scout boat took tvo others of the 
same nation and Religion who were sent by him with Intelligence from 
our Town to St. Augustine I retained their principal till the others 
were taken in the meantime fortifyed our town then shewed them our 
workes our 6annon and our Men under arms who being Strengthned by 
several Carolina people were pretty numerous I then I then sent them 
to Charles Town and told them they might give an Account to the Governour 
of Agustine of what they then Saw I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most Obedient Humble Servant 

James Oglethorpe 

I desire you would not apply for any 

men of war on our Station for they rather 

hurt than do Service wherever they come 

I sent you a cask of Seeds which was a present 

from the Indians some Bear Oyle and some 

druggs as the first fruits of this Country. 

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This letter from Sam: Eveleigh to the Honble. the 
Trustees 

South Carolina May 18 1733 
Gentlemen 

All the men of war Stationed here are now a Cruising so that I 
am not able to Get any Carpenter to Cut the Timber as mentioned before 
by order of Mr. Oglethorpe. you have inclosed two of the Carolina 
Ga^zetts and have Shiped on Board the William Gaily Capt. Francis Baker 
one Smal Cask of Druggs and three Qua.rt Bottles of Bears Cyle which 
will be delivered to you by my friend Mr. Sam: Baker Mr. Any this took 
a. Small House and Garden in this Town in which he has planted a 
quantity of Virginia white Mulberry Trees nigh 3000 of which grows 
very well there's about five Hundred orange Trees planted most of 
which grows and four Hundred and fiffty of the Vines you send are in a 
flourishing condition Besides a quantity of peach and other Fruit 
Trees all for the use of Georgia where they are to Be transplanted in 
due season some time since I carried Mr. Amythis over the River to my 
Brothers plantation where Grew som white Mulberrys and he doubts not of 
getting three Thousand Mulberry Cuttings from them hes now very Busie 
feeding his Wormes some of which have worked themselves into Balls and 
he proposes a second Crept and is in expectation of getting a quantity 
of Silk Not far from Savannah there is a large quantity of Choice 
Cedar and very nigh it Quantities of Red Barr which will be very usefull 
for Joyners and Cabinet makers Mr. Oglethorpe has made a tour ten miles 
back as far as black River now by him called Vernon in which Rivers as I 
am Informed by a Credible person are great Quantities of live Cake and 

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other valuable Timber He has got twenty odd p. of Sawyers and his 
Building goes on Briskly I hope in a few Years will be a very flourish 
ing Colony. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your very Humble 

Samuel Eveleigh 
The Tea Seed is own in Mr. 
Amythis*s Garden and 
hope twill grow. 

(81) This Letter from James Oglethorpe Esqr. to the 
Honble. the Trustees. 

Charles Town June 9th 1733- 
Gentlemen 

When I left your new town of Savannah there were then nine framed 
Houses finished the sides covered with feather edged Board and the tops 
with shingles besides the Smith forge and two other clapboard Houses 
the Fram'd Houses are 24 foot in length upon 16 foot in Breath They 
have one Story eight foot high with Garrets over them They are raised 
upon Loggs two foot above the Ground and are floored with Inch and half 
plank There was upon the place when I left it One Hundred and 60 heads 
of whome % Seventy bare Arms there were two blockhouses Musket shell 
proof and very defensible with four port holes for Cannon and one piece 
of Cannon ready to be put into each There was a Battery of Six pieces 
of Cannon upon the Water side and a Guard house of 36 foot long upon 24 

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foot wide the sides covered with thick Slat and the top with bark 
there was also a larg Stout Crane four ground Saw pitts supported all 
round with Timber and one Hundred and forty yards on the East side of 
the Town was fortified with pallicadoes Seventeen foot long the Trees 
all round the Town within on Hundred Yards thereof was cleared Before I 
came away there were fifty head of Cattle the Gift of Jno. WMtaker and 
his friend and fifty head more the Gift of Mr. Odingsell and the 
people of Distow landed several of them being wild run away into the 
Woods the remainder were decided by lot amongts the people Every 
family in which there was a woman had a Milch Cow and every single man 
a Heifer or Steer I have left with them also 4 Horses and two Canoes 
which I left with them on account of the Trust with respect to the 
Indian affairs I had also two Companys of of Tomo-chi-chis men and gave 
at their desier a Commission to Tuskenca Istinnocecheby the name of the 
Captain of the first Militia Company of the Indian allies and at their 
desire also appointed Skee captain of the Second Militia Company of the 
Indian allies The two Companies (82) consisted of Forty very Clever 
Men their pay is amaR one Bushell of com pr. month for each man while 
we employ them in War or hunting a Gun at their first listing and a 
Blanket p_ Ann. We have concluded a peace with the lower Creeks who 
were the most Dangerous Enemy's to South Carolina and formerly friend 
to the French and Spaniards The manor in which I gained them to our 
Interest is to long now to relate. You will receive a pretty faithfull 
account of their conferrence with us in the Inclos*d Gazette Inclosed 
is also a coppy of ther Treaty concluded with them which if you approve 
of you will order to be engross*d and Sent over with your Seal The 

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progress we have made and. the Measures ve have taken are so universally 
approved of that gndot private people have not only contributed largely h 
money labour of Slaves and Cattle but the Assembly have passed an Act 
the Coppy which I have ordered to be sent to you for granting unto us 

8000 Ib. I have H***W-<!t*!W!MMtrtH:yaH7ewW!gT**t**y!M^HH* 

bought a Sloop with all her Rigging good and Cable Anchors Sails Boat 
&c for 50 I< Sterling she cost her owner 200 t Sterling She mounts 
6 Swivel Guns and is prime Sailor A Great deal will be saved by her 
in carrying things from this Town She will be usefull in fighting 
going up the River and piloting in of Shipping if occation shall happen 
The Assembly arose this day and I Shall set out tomorrow for Savannah. 
The Land in Georgia becoming to Grow valuable by reason of our 
Settlement several have applied to me for grants and those who have 
served the Collony and are willing to take them upon the Trustees terms 
I have promised to recommend to you for 500 Acres of Land first Mr. 
Walter Agustine who has been long in this Country and behaved well in 
the Indian War he with four men is already settled upon a Lett Six 
miles distante the Town up the River he has built a house and Cleared 
Seven Acres of Land which he has planted with Indian Corn a little 

Barly and other Europian Grain which comes up finely for the next lot 

&^//r 
above him I promised to recommend Lieutenant 3fa^^s for the next above 

Mr. (83) Fennygall and for the next lot behind them Mr. Reves all of 
them being Officers of his Majesties Independant company I have 
promised to recommend Mr. Bryan a very brave young man who himself with 
four of his Negroes worked for us gratus some Months I also promised 
to recommend Ensign Farrington and Capt: Thomas for Letts upon the Sea 
Coast Besides these as I said before upon finding the land grew 

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valuable others applyed to me for large tracts of Land from 3000 to 
12000 Acres each in order to monopolize the Country and Offered to give 
me considerable presents for to bring the Trustees into making these 
grants and to continue at their putting Negroes upon them I treated as 
you may think with contempt and had it not been necessary to carry 
things with great temper here I should kicked the proposers into the 
Bargain Upon this I have had intillegence that these same people are 
trumping up forfieted Titles and old pretentlons to the lands in 
Georgia I give you notice of this that you may be prepared if any 
applycations are made I should advise also that you would get Lord 
Carteret to sign the conveyance of which the Attorney General perused 
the Draught and not mention one word of any claim till it is don You 
may Judg of the value of Your lands here by the price of those on 
Trenchs Island which lyes at the Mouth of the Savannah River on the 
Carolina side They were sold at 5 S an Acre Carolina money when I 
first landed here and about 10 days ago a large parcel of the same land 
was sold at 40 8 an Acre I would also desire you not to Surprized 
into anything relating to the Indian Trade For if that matter is ill 
managed it may draw on a War but if it is well managed it will bring im 
2000 &. Sterling a Year and secure the Indians in our Interest. 

As soon as I have divided the Lands held the Court of Records and 
put every thing in order which I hope to do in less than a Month I shall 
leave Georgia and set out for England I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most obedient himble servant 
James Oglethorpe 

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Copy of a Letter from William Brown John and Thos. Gapen from the Downs 
to the Trustees dated. 18th June 1733* 

Right Honble. and Honble. Gentlemen 

This morning we came to Anchor in the Downs in Shade 6 fathom 
water the Wind blowing very fresh at S. West; we are all in good Health 
free from Distempers, the Women were sick by the motion of the Ship 
but having Served them with Sage and Sugar they are now much better. 
Mr. Sacheverel is not come on board, John Barnes Samuel Dudly and Lewis 
Bowen came on board at Gravesend, Robert Hainks was Seized with a violent 
fit of the Apoplex and fell down the Ladder but by speedy Application & 
Mr. Pensyre's Assistance by bleeding him he is Recovered. We this day 
washed the Ship and afterwards read Prayers in very good Order; we then 
broach'd the Barrel of strong Beer that Your Honours were pleased to 
send us. Every Mess being Served in Proportion we drank the Healths of 
their Royal Majestys and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and all 
the Royal family, then the Healths of all our Honble. Benefactors and 
well Wishers to our Undertaking and the Healths of all the Eonble. 
Trustees to whom we are all in general so much obliged and return our 
most hearty Thanks, and the Health of the Eonble. James Oglethorpe Esqr. 
wishing a happy Sight of him. We are all in general pleased with the 
Capt. and he is very carefull and tender of us, the Provision gives an 
universal Content. We shall endeavour to write to your Honours by every 
opportunity of our Welfare, our utmost Endeavours shall be to obey your 
Honrs. Directions, (90) and we beg Leave to Subscribe our Selves 

Your Honrs. 

Most humble & most Obed. Servants to Comman. 
P.S. 

I am at a great Loss 
for the Paper and Pens Your 
Honours were please to 
promise me. 

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Copy of a Letter from Govr. Johnson to Mr. M&rtyn dated 28th July 1?33. 

Sir 

I am favour *d with yours of the 24th of Jaoy. last I should 
have answered it sooner tut that I was willing to endeavour the doing 
some Service to the Design of Georgia before I wrote. I have employed 
my best Interest with the Assembly & people of this Province, to promote 
their contributing to the Support of the Undertaking; and it is with 
Pleasure I can acquaint You, that by Mr. Oglethorpe's Address and 
lively Representation of the Necessity of it, the General Assembly of 
this Province have exerted themselves almost beyond their Abilitys in 
assisting that Colony; what they have done will amount to about t 2000 
Sterl. without which Support I don't find they would have been able to 
Subsist; but I leave it to Mr. Oglethorpe to give the Trustees an 
Accot. of these Aiz Affairs; he is indefatigable in his Endeavours, and 
without his Industry, Prudence and Resolution I apprehend the Spirits 
of the People unused to such Hardships and fatigues, as must necessarily 
attend new Settlements, must have sunk under them; but his good Example 
enables them to Surmount all Difficultys, and I hope the Undertaking 
will Succeed if His Absence don't discourage & dispirit them. He is 
shortly expected in Charles Town in order to take the first opportunity 
of embarking for England. Nothing shall be wanting in me to render the 
Trustees all the Service in my Power to whom I beg You will make my most 
humble Respects agEnaiHt agreable. I am Sir 

Your most humble and 
Obedient Servant 

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Extract of a Letter from Govr. Johnson dated at Charles Town 2?th 
July 1733. 

The General Assembly have contributed to the Georgians about 
t 2000 Sterling, which I hope will prove very agreable to the Honble. 
the Trustees, and will induce them to believe that the Assembly are 
desirous of giving them all the Assistance they are able. Besides this 
I should add that there are several private Subscriptions. I employed 
my best Interest with my Friends on this occasion, and I may without 
Xsxiattyxx Vanity say that it had some weight. 

Mr. Oglethorpe talks of returning shortly to England. As he 
has been indefatigable in Settling the People, so I fear he'll be 
much wanted. Some Hardships must be undergone and I am fearfull lest 
the People should grow disorderly and incline to desert into our 
Settlements which I shall be all I can to prevent. If Provision is not 
made for them by this Province for another year, I am almost sure they 
must desert us for they came too late to plant any Corn this year. 

We cannot fathom the Design of sending forty Jews to Georgia, 
they will never I believe make Planters, and if not Supported by their 
Friends in England must Starve, for I am told they are not Subsisted by 
the Trustees. 

(103) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah to the 
Trustees dated 12th August 1733- 

Gentlemen 

I have not been able to write at length since I left Charles 

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Town; when I retimed hither from thence I found the People were grown 
very mutinous and impatient of Labour and Discipline. This Petulancy 
was owing chiefly to severs! of them having got into drinking of Rum, 
and to Some more artfull, who had a mind to buy the little things they 
had for Liquor; And in order to bring that about, Stirred them up to 
desire that they might have all their Provisions delivered into their 
own hands, and then to have bought that Provision from them. Some of 
the Silly People desired their Provisions that they might be able to 
gratify their Palates by Selling a large Quantity of wholesome food for 
a little Rum Punch. 

I found that Gray who pretended to understand the Silk, had been 
one of the busiest in preaching up Mutiny, and whilst I was at Charles 
Town had in a bare faced manner insulted all Order and threatned the 
Chief People here, for which Mr. Scott a Justice of the Peace for this 
place whom he insulted in the Execution of his Office, ordered him to be 
Set in the Stocks. He complained to me when I came back again and told 
me that (amongst our People) he had a great many friends, and a great 
many Enemies who had Sworn his Destruction, and would have had me 
have brought them face to face to have sworn against each other, & 
told me that if I would not give him Satisfaction he desired Leave to 
go out of the Colony. I told him I would give him Leave provided he 
went away within twelve hours; which he accordingly did. There were 
two boys (for whose Passage the Trustees has paic.) came in the same 
Ship with him, These he ask'd to take with him prKtmt pretending they 
were his Servants. I told him that if he would pay the Passage for them 
and would give Security that he would not sell them he should have Leave 

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for them also to go with him; he said, he could not pay for them but 
would pay a.t Charles Town. Upon which I wrote to Mr. Chardon That if 
(106) he did psy the Money to him and give him such Security he might 
then have Leave to take the Boye. He never paid the money, but at 
Charles Town raised several lyes against this Colony and the People of 
it. Mr. Chardon for this ordered him to be prosecuted, on which he 
vent out of the way. By Degrees I brought the People to Discipline, 
but could not revive the Spirit of Labour, Idleness and Drunkenness were 
Succeeded by Sickness. To remedy the first I sent away the Negroes who 
Sawed for us, for so long as they continued here our men were encouraged 
in Idleness by their working for them. To remedy Drunkenness I gave a 
moderate Allowance of Wine, prohibited Rum and Staved such as I could 
find in the Town. But found that the Indian Trading house about ^ a 
mile from us in spite of all my Prohibitions sold Rum to our People. 
I did not care to disoblige them because they are the only Interpreters 
we have to the Indians. However at present I must either Suppress them 
or our People must be destroyed, we having lost twenty People within a. 
month since the Drinking of Rum was come into fashion; whereas we lost 
but one Person in five months whilst I was here and kept the People from 
excessive Drinking. 

Millidge our best Carpenter is dead of a burning Fesver which on 
his Deathbed he confessed he contracted at the Indian Trading House; 
he drank there Rum Punch on the Wednesday, on Thursday was taken ill 
of a burning Feaver and on the seventh day, the Crisis of that Dis 
temper, dyed. Poor Overend who was recommended by Mr. Laroche is also 
dead with Rum; to which most of the rest owe their Deaths. But the 

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Illness being once frequent became contageous. It appeared chiefly in 
burning Feavers or else in bloody Fluxes attended by Convulsions and 
other terrible Symptoms. Dr. Cox being dead Jones look'd after the Sick. 
The Indian Root Diascordium, Rhubarb, Laudinum and all other Applica 
tions usually used on that Occasion were of no Effect. Almost every one 
that was taken jdmci ill at first dyed. Jones himself fell sick and some 
of the Women (most handy about the Sick) dyed; So that we had neither 
Doctor, Surgeon (10?) nor Nurse, and about the 13th of July we had above 
60 People sick, many of whose Lives we despaired of. At which time 
Cspt. Hanton arrived here with some Jews and amongst them a Doctor of 
Physick who immediately undertook our People and refused to take any 
Pay for it; He proceeded by cold Baths, cooling Drinks and other cool 
ing Applications. Since which the Sick hsve wonderfully recovered, and 
we have not lost one who would follow his Prescriptions. Next to the 
Blessing of God and this new Regimen I believe one of the greatest 
Occasions of the People's Recovery has been, That by my constant watching 
of them I have restrained the Drinking of Rum. 

I have been so taken up, what with tending the Sick, what with 
Viewing the Country, marking out Lands, getting Provisions and Treating 
with the Indians that I ha ve not had time to write. I intended to have 
left this place long ago but the general Sickness of the People made me 
think, That if I abandoned them in that Condition it would throw them 
into Despair and make the Distemper fatal; So that I thought it was 
better to neglect my own Affairs and take my chance of Standing the 
Sickness here, than by quitting the People at such a time expose them 
almost to certain Death. 

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There are several People passed by here for Purysburgh to whom 
I gave what Assistance I could. Hetherington, Bishop, Fletcher, Penny- 
fa.ther and Mr. Quincy the Minister are arrived with their Servants; I 
have been forced to lend them Provisions out of the Store, otherwise 
they must have Suffered for want. 

I have agreed with Mr. Macpherson Captain of the Rangers to build 
a Fort upon Hogstchee River, wch. I hs.^e named Argyll. It is already 
begun and in good forwardness and I have Supplied him from hence with 
Provision Cannon and Ammunition. 

Betherington and Bishop with their Servants have undertook to 
build a Fort upon a Creek called Thunderbolt, upon which they are to 
begin to work on Tuesday next. 

And Ferguson Captain of the Carolina Scout Boat has undertaken 
to do the same at Skidowa Island. The two latter in Consideration of 
Lajads and the former of two hundred pounds Curcy. So that by this 
means (108) all the Passages to this Town both by Land & Water are 
covered. And by the Map which I shall soon Send You will see Ths,t by 
these Forts, if we can Set up another at Tybee, no small Bodys either of 
Spaniards or Indians can approach this place at all, nor any large one 
without a timely Discovery. 

On the 7th of July I held the first Court and administred the 
Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration named the several Wards 
and Streets & put each family into Possession of an iBntx House Lot, on 
twenty one of which framed Houses are built; The other nineteen the 
Carpenters undertook to build for themselves. But alas! five of them 
dyed within one week. The Lots of those who have no Children are put 

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into the hands of other working men who are capable to assist in build 
ing the remaining Houses. One is a Soldier belonging to the Indepen 
dent Company for whom I shall procure a Discharge; He is a sober hard 
working man. The other is Tibbitt who was sent by Capt. Coram. We 
proceed first on the houses of those who have Widows or Children here 
(that is to say). 

Millidge, who has left a Widow and five Children here, the 
eldest but eleven years old, and the Widow just ready to lye in of 
another. 

Goddard who with his Wife are both deed, has left two Children, 
the eldest years old, who I have put Apprentice to Fitzwalter 
the Gardiner, the youngest five years old whom I have put to Nurse 
to James Carwall and his Wife, to whom I give three pounds a year, 
whilst we allow Subsistance, and then five pounds a year. 

Little has left a Wife and one Child. 

Michael Jermain and John Mackay dyed without Wife or Children 
here. 

I send You inclosed the Proceedings of the Court on Overends 
Death, together with two Boxes containing his things. I believe his 
Lands and House here, which is built, is worth & 30 Sterling, or up 
wards, money having been offered for it but I would not dispose of it 
till I hesrd her Intentions. In the mean while tis let after the rate 
of L 10 p_ Ann. The t 2:4:4 being the Balance should be paid by You, for 
the Persons that are the Buyers will pay into the Store here what they 
are Charged with. I hope in about a month from this time I shall set 
out for England when I shall be able to give You a more full Accot. 
I am &c 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Cochrane at Kingston in Jamaica to Mr. Philip 
Millar at Chelsea dated llth Septr. 1733- 

Sir 

Understanding You to be a Gentleman with whom Mr. Wm. Houstoun 
kept a strict Correspondence and for whom You used to transact some 
Affairs, I thought proper to acquaint You that after a long and severe 
Illness he dyed here the 14th of last month, much and very deservedly 
regretted by all who knew him, and if he had lived a few years longer he 
would have proved an Honour to his Country. He left some Manuscripts 
of Botany which may be of Service to the Curious in that way, and as I 
find he was sent out by some Gentlemen on Purpose to make Discoveries 
I think fit that all the Observations which he has committed to writing 
ought to be sent to those Gentlemen with a few Collections he has made 
of dryed Plants, all which are now in my Possession and am resolved to 
transmit them to You after I have heard from his Cousin at Carthagena 
who is the only Relation he has in these parts, and 'tis fit he should 
be first consulted before I dispose of any of his Effects. I expect 
Advices from him about a month hence by the Return of a Vessel which 
this morning Sailed from this place to Carthagena, and then shall write 
You further. In the mean time I must desire You to acquaint my Lord 
Petre of his Death and that I have found a Mem. of his Lordships to him 
for some things to be sent from this Country, which I shall take parti 
cular Care and transmit his Lordship as soon as possible. Some of the 
things such as Trees (110) growing cannot be sent till the Spring, but 
others shall be sent by the next opportunity wch. will be about three 
weeks hence, when I shall do myself the Honour to write to his Lordship, 

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for whom I have a very great Esteem for the kindess I find he has shewn 
to my worthy deceased friend, for whose memory none can have a greater 
regard than 

Sir 

Your very humble Servant. 

(113) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah to the 
Trustees dated l?th Septr. 1733- 

Gentlemen 

I rec'd. the agreable News, of the Approbation Your Designs have 
met with from Parliament, by the Georgia Pink Capt. Daubus Commander. 
The People on board him are all arrived safe, Daniel Preston excepted 
who was washed overboard in a Storm. His Widow the Day after She landed 
was taken picking of the Pockets of a Drunken man of Eight shillings 
Sterling. The Man was put into the Stocks for being drunk, and a Bill 
was found by the Grand Jury against her for Felony; Upon her being 
examined before a Justice of Peace her Defence was that She was drunk 
and did not know that She took the Money, nor did intend to keep it. 
Upon Petition and proving that She was with Child, the Tryal before the 
Petty Jury was put off till her Delivery and in the mean while She was 
admitted to Bail. 

We have taken a Man that had Stole an Horse in Virginia; he was 
tried before the Court, pleaded guilty was condemned and sentenced to 
hard Labour during the Space of three Years at Argyll Fort on Ogeeche 
River, was delivered to Capt. Mackpherson and sent away instantly. The 

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Horse is ordered to be sent to the Owner in Virginia. 

In a former I gave You an Accot. of my having agreed with Capt. 
Mackpherson for him to build Fort Argyll for L 200 Currency. The Trees 
that fell into the River and were carried down by great Floods stop'd 
the Passage below the Fort in such a manner, as to prevent any possi 
bility of getting up there by Water without immence Labour in cutting 
away the Trees. The Fort being about (114) half finished when he 
represented this, I ordered him to begin another 10 miles lower and 
allowed him !< 50 Currency for the Work already done. He has finished 
the New Fort, the Guns are mounted, the Houses built and six Familys 
Settled there besides the Garrison. Boats of fifteen Ton burthen have 
been there. I have Settled Mr. Bishop, Hetherington &c on a Point 
called Thunderbolt, which commands the Channel that comes up from St. 
Augustine to d&at this Place; they have some Guns there and a Fort 
in pretty good forwardness. I have ordered 10 men to be settled upon 
the Island of Tybee which commands the other Passage from Augustine, 
and when that is fortified I take this place will be pretty safe. A 
Beacon upon Tybee for to direct Ships on their making Land is very 
necessary, I have therefore thought that You would not be displeased at 
my ordering one to be begun which I hope will be finished at an Expence 
which will be but small, if compared to the great Usefullness of it. 

Many of the new Comers, in spite of all I can do, drink very 
hard; so that I fear a Mortaility will soon happen amongst them. Our 
People's being unhealthy forced me to Stay here lest it might seem that 
I left them in distress and for fear of Sharing the Sickness; which 
some People construed the Consequence of the Climate into which I had 

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brought them. The Place being now grown healthy, the .Authority of the 
Court being veil established, I shall so soon as the Fort at Tybee is 
begun, leave this place which I am in hopes will be in a few days. As 
it is very probable that I shall See You. near as soon as this arrives 
I shall not enlarge but only mention, that I have been obliged to give 
pay to several of the People to engage them to work upon the Magazine 
and other Puhlick Buildings. I am 

Gentlemen 

Your most obedient humble Servant 

J 

I send You inclosed a Bill of Parcels of Goods for which I had 
occasion and received from the Captain over end above what I received 
from You. Besides the Powder mentioned in the Invoyce, he delivered to 
me four hundred weight, which he said came from You. I have received no 
Bill of Lading with the Ship which puts us very much in the dark. 
Robert More one of the new Comers, has left behind him Tools &c to the 
value of L 10. in pawn for a Guinea, which if You will pay to Wm. 
Andrews and forward the Tools &c. by him delivered, More will repay it 
in Work, being a very handy Man. I send You. inclosed a List of those 
who have been born and died here; We have now four hundred People upon 
the Place. Warren on his Death bed desiring his Wife might have her 
Passage to England I have accordingly sent her with her Children. Her 
House here is preserved for her eldest Son and likewise her Stock of 
Cattle, She was very desirous to stay but her Health being bad and 
thinking She can only Recover in England She insisted upon ay giving 
Leave to go back. She is an object of Compassion and believes th?t with 

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some little assistance and countenance from You She can do very well in 
London, She has lost her Husband and two Children and had all her Goods 
burnt when the Guard House was fired. I find on further Enquiry that 
the four hundred weight of Gunpowder was put on board by Mr, Simond. I 
have taken it we having occasion for it. You will know whether it was 
put on board by You or him. 

I have allowed Capt. Daubuz a Reward as being the first Ship 
that came from Europe directly. As I have before informed You I have 
bought all other things as were necessary for the People at Charles 
Town. I have also taken some necessarys from Daubuz and other Ships 
that have come in here, and drawn upon You for the Amount. The Parti 
culars of which I shall bring over with me. 

(11?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees 
dated 2?th Septr. 1733. 

Gentlemen 

I recommend to You the following Persons for Grants of Land 
herein Specified and desire the Grants may pass your Seal with the ut 
most Expedition. That is to say Five hundred Acres of Land to Patrick 
Mackay Esqr. of Cyder Hall in the County of Sutherland to him and to the 
Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to the HeirsMale of the 
Body of Catherine Mackay Daughter of the said Patrick Mackay Esqr. And 
Five hundred Acres to James Bullock of Will Town in South Carolina and 
to the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to the Heirs Male 
of the Body of Jean Bullock Daur. of the scant said James Bullock. And 

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Five hundred Acres to George Dunbar of the County of Inverness and to 

the Heirs Male of his Body and in case of failure to Wm. Dunbar Brother 

to the said George Dunbar. And also Five hundred Acres to a Person to 

be recommended by them or the majority of them and to the Heirs Male of 

his Body; to be bounded as expressed in a Flan herein inclosed. The 

same to be held as Gentlemen's Tenour with Power to erect a Town. 

1st. They are to pay Ten shillings of lawful money of Great Britain 

for every hundred Acres to commence Ten Years after the Date To be paid 

within six months after the Day of Payment. 

2d. To settle a Town within the Space of one year after the Date of 

the Grant consisting of forty men either free, Tenants or Servants. 

3d. That a Number not less than forty shall continue within the said 

Province during the Term of Three Years from the Registering of the 

Grant and in five Years build forty Houses. 

4th. That each of them shall clear and cultivate (118) Twenty Acres 

for each Hundred within the Space of Ten Years and plant upon the same 

Two hundred white Mulberry Trees and maintain them and One hundred upon 

every other Ten Acres. 

5th. That they shall not alienate any part of the said Five hundred 

Acres without License. 

6th. That they shall not enter into a company to Manufacture Pot Ash, 

but each seperately may Manufacture the same. 

7th. That they shall not lodge, board or employ any Black or Negroe 

within the said Province of Georgia. 

8th. If the Persons mentioned in the Grant shall dye without Issue 

Male or they or their Successors shall be guilty of Treason or Felony 

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then the said Lands shall revert to the Trust as if the Grant had never 
teen. 

9th. As they will be at great Charges in establishing the said Town 
and that these Persons are joined in a Partnership for that purpose and 
the Design will suffer of any of them should decease and their Succes 
sors refuse to carry on the Partnership They desire that their Heirs on 
Refusal of carrying on the same shall be obliged to sell and that the 
Trust will renew a Grant to the Purchaser in as ample manner as the 
first Grantee enjoyed. And that on decease of any of them the Widow 
may be in titled to the Mansion House and one equal half of the Land with 
its Improvements for her Life or of the Purchase Money in case of Sale. 

For the Encouragement of People to come over with them I desire 
there may be a Grant of Five hundred Acres in Trust as to Christie 
That they may be transferred at Five Acres p_ Family to such Persons as 
they shall think proper. 

I further desire they may have a Court of Record to consist^/ of a 
Provost and three Bailiffs. The first Provost to be Patrick Mackay 
Esqr. and James Bullock and George Dunbar to be first and second 
(119) Bailiffs, and the third to be such Person as they shall recommend. 
The Provoship to be one year and to descend annually to the Bailiffs 
according to their Seniority. The Court to be final in all matters of 
one hundred pounds and under and in all Crimes where the Sentence 
extendeth not to Life or Limb. I am 

Gentn. 

Your most Obedient 
humble Servant 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe from Savannah to the Trustees 
dated 15th Novr. 1733. 

Gentlemen; 

I am now making up of all the Accots. in some parts of which I 
find a great deal of Perplexity Mr. Hughs being dead and I not being 
able to find out one of the Books which I left in his Custody. I have 
since 5th of October drawn upon You for the inclosed Sums. The Expences 
have been very largely increased by the raising the Prices of Provisions 
in Carolina occasioned partly by our Demand and partly by the fam failure 
of this Year*s Crop. Besides I was obliged for encouraging of the 
People to pay them for building the Storehouse &c. as also (several of 
our People being disabled by Sickness) to take in People of this Country 
for opening of Communications, sending Messages by Land and Water, 
giving Gratifications for fetching Intelligence from amongst the 
Spaniards, giving Rewards for taking of Thieves and Runaways. I shall 
be obliged to draw for farther Sums to pay the Negroes who were employed 
upon my first coming here for Sawing. The Maintenance of the Garden as 
a Nursery for Mulberry, Orange Trees, Vines <&c at Charles Town has been 
also an Article of large Expence, but which I believe You will think 
very well bestowed, since a Sample of thorough fine Silk has been there 
maAe which shews what may be done in this Country. And we have gain'd 
one Year's Growth upon the Mulberry and Orange Trees which is inestim 
able in a new Settlement. I think every thing here is now so well 
Settled that I can leave it without Shot Danger of the Colony*s mis 
carrying. As I doubt not to See You soon & perhaps before this Letter 

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I shall say no more but that I am 

Gentn. 

Ac. 

(125) Copy of a ^etter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees 
without Date. But wrote about Deer. 1733* 

Gentlemen 

I cannot but congreulate You upon the great Success your Designs 
have met with being not only approved, of by all America but so strongly 
supported by His Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain. Provid 
ence it self seems visible in all things to prosper your Designs calcu 
lated for the Protection of the persecuted, the relief of the poor and 
the Benefit of mankind. 

A Year being above expired since I set out from England I believe 
You will be impatient to have a short Account of what has been done 
towards the Settlement of this Colony which seems to have been conducted 
to its present successfull Situation by the manifest Interposition of 
God. 

We landed here on the 1st of February last with but 40 Persons 
able to bear Arms; notwithstanding our Weakness the Spaniards did not 
attack us. The Indians were most surprizingly inclined towards friend 
ship with Us. The People of Carolina assisted us with the Rangers and 
Scout Boat the Guards of that Province and sent up Cattle. Colonel Bull 
a man of extraordinary Abilities came up himself with a Number of his 
Negroe Servants, and not only instructed the People in the nature of the 

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Seasons & the manner of Clearing, Building and Cultivating but laid out 
the Timber and made his Slaves work for us; We were some time before ve 
could get any other Assistance from Carolina, The People refusing to 
hire out their Negroes though ve offered Security for them; but God was 
pleased to provide for us by preserving in health our labouring hpnds so 
that (126) We advanced considerably in our Works so long as our People 
continued sober and obedient. When I vas obliged to go to Charles Town 
to meet the Assembly who generously gave L 8,000 Currency towards ma.in- 
taing. our People a second year, some of the People begun to be in 
temperate and then disobedient so that at my Return I hardly knew them. 
Their excessive Drinking was followed with Sickness which raged for some 
time most terribly amongst us but though Individuals suffered the Colony 
it self increased and flourished by your Supplying them continually 
with timely Succours from Europe and the accession of many People which 
the Reputation of this Undertaking drew from several parts of America to 
settle here insomuch That the Colony increased notwithstanding our 
Sickness, and we were very well supplyed with all necessarys for our 
Money from Charles Town, for we had also 20 pair of Sawyers from 
Carolina for hire and Colonel Bull and Mr. Brian came up again in the 
midst of the Sickness to assist us with 20 Slaves whose Labour they gave 
as a free Gift to the Colony. Finding our People increase fast I 
enlarged our Quarters by new Settlements and covered this place to the 
Southward by building Fort Argyle at about 20 miles distance. Mr. 
Bishop and his People were settled at Tunderbolt five miles to the 
South East and by that means guarded the most dangerous Water Passage 
from the Spaniards, about six miles farther to the Southward on another 
Water Passage is settled a Colony of 10 f&miles to keep open the Passage 

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with Fort Argyle whilst by Land from that Fort we marked a Road about 40 
miles in length to Pallackucola Garrison in Carolina, in marking of 
which we found a River at about 12 miles from this place to which we 
gave the Name of Abercorn, it rises near the Ogeeche and divides this 
(12?) part of the Province from the Western Country. 

This River has great falls very convenient for Mills. At two 
miles distant from where it falls into the Savannah the Colony of 
Abercorn consisting of 10 families is settled. The Abercorn at its 
Conflux with the Savannah forms an Island about two miles in breadth, 
beyond which on Carolina Side stands Purysburgh so that this County if 
You think fit to make it such is on the West s&cured by the River Aber 
corn on the North and North East it is bounded by the Savannah upon 
which there is this Town and four Out Settlements already made, on 
the East and South East it is bounded by Augustine Creek which is a 
branch of the Sea that divides it from Wilmington ^sland on which the 
Settlements of Thunderbolt and Skidowa lye & on the South it is divided 
from the rest of the main by the Ogeeche a River little inferiour to the 
Savannah which arises in the *psr*-ht Apalatian Mountains. Within Land 
at 3 miles distant from the Town upon two Hills are situated Hempstead 
and Eighgate two Villages of 10 familys each. Over against the Town 
lyes HuthiRgon's Island one of the most delightfull Spots of Ground I 
ever saw, about 3 miles in length and one wide; a great part of it is 
natural Meadow the rest covered with t?ll Trees many of which are Bays 
above four score foot high. In that Island on the farther Side which 
commands the Northern Branch of this River opposite to the Town there is 
a House built and an Overseer lodged with four Servants belonging to You 

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with Orders to cut a Walk through the Wood in a strpit Line the breadth 
of this Town which will serve as a Meadow for feeding of Cattle and give 
a beautifull Prospect of the other River. A Sloop loaded with Servants 
was forced in here through Stress of Weather and want (128) of Victuals 
many of them were dead, 40 only remain'd as they were likewise ready to 
perish through Misery. I thought it an Act of Charity to "buy them which 
I Aid giving L 3 a head. I gave one of them to each of the Widows 
which will render them able to cultivate their Lands and maintain their 
families. I let each of the Magistrates have one at prime Cost that 
they might not be behind hand in their Gardens and Plantations by 
reason of their spending much of their time in the publick Service. Of 
the rest I have allotted Mr. Lafond five to help him in building a Saw 
Mill, Four to the Gardens and four to the Island. I have drawn L 200 
on You being the pay Payment for them. 

We go on with building the Beacon at Tybee. The People who work 
upon it have two shillings g.Diem and Blythman the Master Workman has 
the same Wages as he could have in Carolina. The Timber is already cut 
and squared and the Upper & Lower Floor framed, They reckon it will be 
finished in March. It is an Octogone of 90 feet high, 25 feet wide at 
bottom and 12^ feet wide at Top, Weather Boarded 26 feet high and the 
rest open. It is all framed here of the best of Light Wood and to be 
carried down and. set upon the Point of Tybee; The Foundation will be 
secured with Cedar Piles. 

There are 30 Houses of framed Timber & covered with Shingles 
which are Tiles made of Wood and tarr'd over already built. 

Three Wards and an half are taken up end the People to whom they 

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belong are all at present at work either at building their Houses or 
clearing their Lands so that before the Year is round there must be 120 
Houses built in the Town or their Lots forfeited. 

The Bricks You sent were partly employed in building the Smith's 
Forge, an Oven and a Well 20 feet deep Kit which affords excellent 
Water, the rest (129) in the Chimneys belonging to the Widows. 

The Orphans are fed and cloathed from the Publick Stores* sJid the 
Care of them is intrusted to three of our best Persons Appointed for that 
Purpose. 

The Militia is exercised and commanded by Tything men and Con- 
stsbles. The Civil Government is in the Court appointed by the Grant 
under your Seal and. Property as regularly recovered and Criminals 
punished as in any Court in Europe. Every man pleads his own Cause, 
The ^ fact is tryed by the Jury and Sentence pronounced by the Court. 

We feed 259 Souls in Town, in Hampstead and Highgate 
in the four Colonys 184 besides Indians and Strangers. 

The Supplying such a Number of People besides Forts, publick 
Buildings, Boat hire, Sloops Wages, Indian Presents, Intelligence from 
amongst the Spaniards and several other necessary Expences make Sksot 
Charges amount high which has forced me to draw very largely upon You. 
I have not been able to settle the exact Expence of each Person some 
People having occasion for more or deserving better than others. The 
Death of Mr. Hughes who kept the Cash Book which we have not yet been 
able to find amongst his Papers puts us under great Difficulties in 
settling the Accompts. I have drawn two Bills of & 150 each payable to 
Mr. Chardon for Goods had of him. I lent to most of our People Money to 

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enable them to set up in their different Callings, if you approve of it 
they may be charged to the Publick but if not I will take it on my own 
Account the Sums being small and the People able to repay them. 

The Creek Indians adhere firmly to Us, and those of them who 
guard the Southern Passages have informed me That a Spanish open Boat 
full of armed (130) Men attempted to come through the ^boaa±BHx narrow 
Passages between the Islands about 40 miles to the Southward of us; 
They would have spoke to them but the Spaniards refusing and fireing 
upon them They by their Ambushes secured the narrow Passages so well 
that the Spaniards was forced to put out to Sea. They say farther they 
believe the Spaniards have begun to Settle on jthoExai this Side the 
Alatamaha and that the Boat which fired upon them belonged to that new 
Settlement. I cannot believe the Spaniards would venture it but at the 
same time will not be too secure, so set out to morrow for the Alatamaha, 
to see the Truth of it and have sent to the Governor of Carolina to 
give him notice of what I have heard. 

I have steid till now expecting the Saltzburghere but hope You 
will excuse me staying any longer, if they do not come within seven 
days after my return from the Alatamaha. I shall then set out for 
England where I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing You. I am 

Gentn. 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 
I have also drawn on You & 268 for 
Goods delivered by Captain Yoakley 
being Blankets, planes &c. necessary 
for the Settlers & Indian Presents. 

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57 

I must recommend to 
You Mr. Beaufin for 3 Grant 
of a Gentlemena Lot. Mr. 
Symond's Brother for another 
and Capt. Yorkley for a third 
being the first Capt. that came 
to this Port. 

Mr. LaFond who owes his 
Passage to Mr. Simond is at 
work for You upon the Mills. 

Extracted from Mr. Peter Flower's Letter from Pnrysburgh dated 
7th Janry. 1733/4. 

There are already 600 Persons in Georgia. Mr. Oglethorpe has 
dispezsed severel along our River which will render it more commodious 
and very agreable to Travellers. There are 10 Familys at Tybee, where 
they are going to build a Tower of Wood of a prodigious ^eight, that the 
Ships that are bound to Georgia may know the Bar they are to pass 
through to go up the River Savannah, a thing very necessary to a new 
Settlement. There are likewise 10 Familys at Thunderbolt, it is 6 
miles up St. Augustine's Creek which is 4 miles below Savannah ajid it is 
but 4 miles from Savannah by Land. I suppose You are not unacquainted 
that the Principal Town in Georgia is Savannah; they have 10 Familys at 
Augutchy, it is 40 miles by Land behind Savannah and more than 80 by 
Water. There are 10 Families at Corn House Creek which is 8 miles below 

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Purysburgh. At Cape Bluff they have begun to build a Village which 
will consist in 40 Houses, it is one of the prettiest Places in Georgia 
and is to be call*d Oglethorpe it is 10 miles below Purysburgh. There 
are 10 Fsmilye at Highgate it is 4 miles in the Country about 
Savannah. They talk of building another Village of 40 Houses above 
Purysburgh, all which is very agreable to us they are so many 
Barriers against the Enemy. 

(13?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Chardon at Charles Town to 
Mr. Verelst dated l?th Janry. 1733/4. 

Sir 

I received your favour of the l?th Septr. last p_ Capt. Thomas 
with the Inclosed Invoyce of what was Shipped on board his Ship called 
the London Merchant. The Goods all came in very good Order and I shell 
take Care to send them as Occasions offer to Savannah in the same 
manner, Mr. Oglethorpe could not send the Sloop Heathcote for them 
since poor Kllbury was dead. 

The Colony has lost a very brisk active man for he was con 
stantly stirring & making some Discoveries of the Coast and Channel, 
and diligent in whatever he was employed in; I don't know what they will 
do for want of his Fellow, for they have now no body that they can 
trust to Send the Sloop round to this Port; he is very much regretted 
by Mr. Oglethorpe for I saw that he was much concerned He died the 
8th of last month. 

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Every thing goes forward to admiration & the first People seem 
now to work very quietly & with Courage, being sensible that the 
Interest they have there is not of little value, which will conse 
quently give great Encouragement to those that come after. 

There was then forty odd Houses up thirty of them all boarded 
and shingled and one whole Chimney, but that was fixed to the Revd. 
Mr. ^ Quincy's Habitation; there is now three quite finished, and there 
is also a glorious large Oven which convinces all Travellers that there 
is no want of good Bread; they are also pretty forward with the Look 
out or Lighthouse which is to be (138) $0 feet high. 

Mr. Oglethorpe has agreed with Capt, Dejean of Purysburg for a 
pretty large Quantity of Bricks which they understand making very well 
for those that I saw there were extraordinary good. 

Capt. Wood and Yoakley ere both safely arrived there and by this 
time I suppose are Discharged. 

Mr. Oglethorpe with Mr. Beaufain embarked at Georgia for Purys 
burg last week. 

We are daily expecting Capt. jf Fry and wish to have a good 
Sight of him. I am Sir 

Yr. very humble Servant 

(l4l) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thos. Causton at Savannah to the 
Trustees. Janry. 1733/4. 

May it please Your Honrs. 

Mr. Oglethorpe having occasion to go to Abercorn River; He has 

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commanded me to acquaint Your Honours That Capt. Lionell Wood Master of 
the good Ship Savannah arrived here on the 15th day of December, having 
conducted the Passengers, according to his Invoyce, very safely and in 
good Health except two Children who dyed in the Voyage, And has, upon 
a thorough Examination, behaved very veil both in his Voyage & here, as 
veil towards the Passengers in particular as the Colony in general. 

Mr. Oglethorpe has dravn Bills upon You for & 200 Sterling, which 
he paid for 40 Servants; a.nd & 78 which is the Amount of the inclosed as 
bought of Capt. Wood. 

I beg Leave to acquaint Your Honours That the People here are 
generally in good health. That Capt. Scott died here the 2d. Inst&at. 
To assure You of my diligent Obedience to all your Honour*s Commands, 
and that I may Subscribe my self 

Your Honrs. 

Most Dutifull & Obedt. 

humble Servant 

(145) Copy of a Letter front Mr. Parker at Savannah to Mr. Verelst. 
Jany. 1733/4. 

Sir 

I aca make use of Mr. Gordon's Departure to return You ay hearty 
Thanks for all your favours, I shall retain a due Sense of them. I 
am now in Georgia where I have undertaken to make a Mill for Saving of 
Wood & another for grinding of Wheat which will be finished in a few 
days. I have agreed with Mr. Oglethorpe who allows me L 60 Sterling a 

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year, my Victuals and 3 P C 2 Ann. on the Profits of the first Saw 
Mill. If I had People to help me I could build several Mills, if we 
had half a dozen we could employ them all. I have resolved to build 
all my Mills upon the little Rivulets we have in Georgia. I am building 
a Mill which will be very strong and will move upwards of thirty Saws, 
my Reasons for building them on the Rivulets are several. First The 
continual Supply of Water which I csn depend on night and day. Secondly 
Because we are not at the Charge and Trouble of bringing the Trees by 
Carriages, I have them cut down and thrown in the Water then they come 
down with the Current from upwards of 4 or 3 Leagues distsnce into a 
Repository that I have made near the Mill. 

(14$) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Beaufain from Purysburgh to Mr. Simond 
dated 23d Janry. 1733/4. 

Dear Sir 

I have wrote two Letters to You since I arrived in Carolina one 
of which I left at Charles Town to be sent You by the first opportunity. 
I intended to make but a short Stay there for I was impatient to See 
Georgia and Purysburgh but my Illness detained me. I embarked (tho* not 
perfectly recovered) on board of a small scooner the 2d. Instant and 
having met with contrary Winds arrived only the 7th at Savannah. We 
entered the River et Tybee Island without a Pilot, Mr. Oglethorpe had 
been so kind as to send one to meet us but the Weather being foggy he 
miss'd us at Sea. I had the pleasure to see your Ships the two Brothers 
and the Savannah at Anchor before the Town, The Commanders of them will 

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give You. an Accot. of the Coast and the fine River. I landed on the 
?th at night, Mr. Oglethorpe received me in the most obliging manner 
and next day did me the favour to shew me the Town, the Publick Garden 
and the Plantations, all which is Situated in the pleasantest part of the 
Country and laid out to the best advantage. As You have seen Accots. 
of the Particulars by Mr. Oglethorpe himself it would be Presumption in 
me to attempt one, I was Surprized at the Progress made already, it is 
carried on with good order and Dispatch; there is no Doubt but this 
Colony will soon be very considerable, it has the happiness to be 
Settled by Gentlemen who tho* Proprietors of the Country claim no other 
Share in it than that of procuring the Welfare of its Inhabitants; So 
generous an instance of Humanity must affect the People with the deepest 
Sense of Gratitude, and Mr. Oglethorpe*s Biif Example must give them 
Spirit to overcome all Difficulties. The settling of Georgia is what 
Mr. Oglethorpe has so entirely at heart that every Thought and Action 
of his is directed to that favourite Object; he is taken up when in 
Town with the Political and Civil part of the Administration, the 
business of Grants, the Settling and providing new Inhabitants, keeping 
a good order among the People, he enters into eve*ry particular and 
he^rs with the greatest Patience and good nature any one who applys to 
him. When Affairs (150) are ordered in Town so thpt he may be absent 
for some time then he visits the Out Settlements, lays out new ones, 
examines the nature of the Soil, appoints proper Places for Forks, Mills 
and other publick Works, searches into Inlets of Rivers hitherto un 
known, by means of which the Inland Navigation may be improved and even 
the great Rivers made to communicate with one another. I leave You to 

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judge my dear Friend what Care Activity and Resolution is required to 
go through such a MxitiK? Multiplicity of Work. I ha.ve had the Satis 
faction to attend Mr. Oglethorpe in one of the Country Expeditions, and 
to see him exert that generous Spirit which makes all this fatigue more 
delightful to him than the Pleasures which a man of his merit and 
Fortune might enjoy in England; Before I leave Savannah Town I must not 
forget to tell You who are concerned in the Navigation of the River 
that there is a fine Lighthouse making by Mr. Oglethorpe's Order to be 
erected upon a Point in Tybee Island. After having been five days at 
Savannah with Mr. Oglethorpe I waited on him in his Scout Boat to 
Purysburgh which is but 24 miles from Savannah Town by Water and much 
less by Land; we passed by a new Settlement upon Savannah River made 
by several Scotch Gentlemen of good Families, it is % about 11 miles 
above the Town, there is a strong Timber Building for a Fort gad there 
will be fix*d a Battery of Cannon to command the River, the Situation 

is very agreable; we might have reached Purysburgh in less than half a 

r 
day, but Mr. Oglethorpe would visit some familys which hehas settled 

upon Abercorn River, the River is large and joyns the Savannah at about 
6 miles below Purysburgh, we found the People very busy, they were 
extremely pleased with the Honour Mr. Oglethorpe did them, we passed 
the Night in the Boat and next Evening proceeded to Purysburgh, Mr. 
Oglethorpe was received there with all the marks of Distinction and the 
Demonstrations of publick Joy the Town could afford; we Supp'd at the 
Colonel's where Mr. Oglethorpe took his Lodging, mine was at Capt. 
iac&& Lafittes. Next day we continued our way up the River, we made a 
Progress of 5 days lying at Nights either in the Boat or in the Woods, 

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ve had for 2 nights a very hard Frost, this way of Travelling I was an 
entire Stranger to, I believe it would disagree with most People, we saw 
upwards (151) of Purysburgh no human Creature excepting an Indian 
Warrior who was coming down with his Family in a Canoe, he was mightily 
pleased to meet with Mr. Oglethorpe who has found means to keep a good 
Correspondence with the Indians of these parts, the Current of the 
River is very strong above Purysturgh, we went not only along the 
Savannah but turned into several fine Creeks or Lugunes they are called 
so here tho' some of them are Rivers; we landed on all Places likely 
for Settlements, I had much ado to follow Mr. Oglethorpe for he walks 
the Wood like any Indian, the Georgia Side seems to be by much prefer 
able to the other, there are more rising Spots of Ground fit for Habita 
tions; that on the Carolina Side is low and overflown in Winter, it is 
good for Rice Land but there is too much of it, this puts me in mind 
of Mr. Purry's 48000 Acres. I have got the Governour's Warrant for 
running of them out and he is to be put in possession of 12000. I 
asked Mr. Oglethorpe*s Advice, he told me that the* the Land below 
Purysburgh is better Situated he was for running it above that Town to 
avoid Disputes which might prejudice the Interest of Purysburgh in this 
Province, adding thrt as new Settlements are intended above Purysburgh 
on the Georgia Side, some of our Settlements the same wgy would be 
agreable to the Gentlemen in the Trust, we therefore concluded to take 
the 12000 Acres above Purysburgh and Mr. Oglethorpe is to send me a 
Surveyor for that purpose. Mr. Oglethorpe staid one day at Purysburgh 
at our Return and then went down again to Savannah. You have had, my 
dear Friend, so many Descriptions of Purysburgh already tha.t it is 

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needless to trouble You with one, I wish I could give You an agreable 
Account of the gnoxpoor People*s Condition, I know how wellcome it 
would be to You who have always shewn so tender a Concern for them, the 
Truth is they are in great need of assistance, they have some from the 
Province who is very sensible of the Usefullness of this Colony, but 
the Country is in Debt and cannot raise new Funds, the Hardships and 
Difficulties attending new Settlements are such as require great helps, 
they are not wanting to themselves, they are an industrious and brave 
People; some notice taken of them at home (152) would spirit them up 
and encresse their number so as to make this a strong fence against the 
Incursions of the French or Spanish Indians and even of the French or 
Spaniards themselves, this Colony may be no less usefull to Georgia if 
not more; it prevents their being Surprized from this Side, and in case 
of an Attack they are within Call in a manner of Savannah and may be 
there with Arms and Provisions in less than a day; they show'd their 
Readiness to assist their Neighbours last Summer when it was thought 
that the Spaniards were going to make p.,n Attempt upon Georgia, as they 
had their Provisions given them by the Province they look'd upon them 
selves as a Garrison and thought they could not leave their Town to 
meet the Enemy at Savannah without the Governour's order, They applyed 
to have a general Leave which the Governour gave them by telling them 
they were not restrained upon those Exigencies. Mr. Oglethorpe is a very 
good friend to Purysburgh, and where he is a. friend he is a usefull one, 
he has promised to recommend that Colony to the Gentlemen in the Trust. 
I have great hopes that some way will be found for the Relief of the 
poor People. I have received a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe who does me 

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the favour to let me know that he has rec'd a Grant from the Governour 
for the Lands below Onefurkee Creek; he is going to visit the Aletamaha 
River. I have paid today xixiixJEiEB t 60 Sterling to Mr. Bejeen which 
the Major will repay. I long to hear from You and our Friends, to whom 
pray give my hearty Service. I am 

Dear Sir 

Yours Ac. 

(153) Exg Extract of a Letter d^ted at Purysburgh 26th Janry. 
1733/4. 

Sir 

I have but very little to add to my last in which I acquainted 
You with the Agreement made between four Couples of our People to enter 
into the State of Matrimony which seems at present very well adapted 
to the Taste of the Young Men and Maidens of our Colony; Since there 
are now six Couples instead of four, all very fit for Propagation I am 
told that some of these Wives will hardly Stay the nine months out to 
Create a Progeny, whether by reason of the fruitfullness of the Air or 
of some Tryal of Skill beforehand/ I do not determine. As we have no 
Person to perform the Ceremony of the Marriage (being by the Grpce of 
God rid of that base Mr. Bugnion) the above six Couples together went 
to Georgia for that Purpose. The Attendants were very numerous and the 
Major of our Fortress was at the Head of this ^uptial Bend for the 
better Security snd good Order of the Voyage. They landed at Savannah 
Town and Mr. Oglethorpe received them in the most obliging manner and 

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with much Generosity, he ordered presently a fine Hog to be killed for 
the Entertainment of the Company, Beer, Vine, Rum and Punch was very 
plentifull, they were all very merry and denc'd the whole Night long. 
The next day they vent to Mr. Oglethorpe to take their Leave and thsnk 
him for all his Eindaesses, and as their Boats were passing the River 
they were Saluted from the Fort by a Volley of the great Guns. They 
all returned safe here; I cannot express how much our People were 
pleased with their Journey and how many times they bless'd Mr. Ogle 
thorpe. There is now two Couple more desiring to go to Spvennah as the 
others did; Peter Roche designs to marry a young German Girl of 15 
Years of Age, She is the prettiest Maid of our Colony; the other 
Couple is Francis Buche with the Widow Franks, but her first Husband 
being lost no longer (13^) than ten months ago She is to Stay according 
to the Laws of Carolina till one Yea? and one Day be over before She 
can take a second Husband; 'tis very likely the first has perished in 
the Forests, having heard of him in no manner at all. 

Every thing goes on very well in our Colony, our Gardens are 
plentifull, our Cattle encreases, our Lots in the Town are almost 
Cultivated and we are in hopes of a pretty good Harvest. 

(137) Extract of a Letter from South Carolina dated 26th February 

1733/4. 

We have here a very great Expectation of an Eruption with the Cherokee 
Indians, they have for some time behaved in a very insolent manner, but 
more particularly about fifteen days ago; there went a hundred of them 

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to a Trader's Store with their Arms and plundered his Store taking 
away every thing from him, and told the Treder if he was angry they 
would kill him. The Principal Actors in this Affair was those Indians 
that Sr. Alexander Cummings carried over lately to England; we find 
notwithstanding the good Treatment they met with there that they are 
more insolent than the others and say that we are all Slaves to the 
Great George, and all the Goods carried to their Nation are his and he 
sends them over as Presents to them, and therefore we impose on them by 
demanding any Consideration for the Goods. It would he tedious for 
You to read were I to relate their repeated Insolencies we have had 
from those Indians since their Return from Great Britain; and am sure 
it will be for the Service of this Province never to Suffer any more of 
them to go there; the Treaty of Alliance Settled between them and the 
Lords of Trade they now despise. We are under such Apprehensions from 
the Indians that the Assembly are now considering of two Forts to be 
erected immediately, one amongst the Cherokees and the other amongst 
the Creeks in order to put a Check to their Insolence as wellr-as to 
secure our Trade, and without that be done a War with the Indians will 
be unavoidable; For the French have to the Southward at least Twelve 
thousand Indians that they may easily bring against us, without men 
tioning the great Numbers they have at Canada and up the Riv&r Missis 
sippi; 9Btz These to the Southward (l$8) are the Nations called the 
Choctaws & Blewmonths who they may march from their Settlements to 
Charles Town in Twenty dpys. 'Tis true we have two new Settlements 
making to the Southward on Sava.nnsh River, that is the Swiss Settlement 
under the Conduct of Mr. Purry and the other called Georgia under Mr. 

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Oglethorpe; but these tho* in time may be good Frontiers, at present 
will be of little Service in case of an Indian War because those 
Strangers would make but a poor Stand in our Indian method of fighting. 
The Swiss Settlemt. goes on very well and the People very industrious, 
the others are not so ^srjwnrjr laborious. 

(l6l) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe at Savannah to the Trustees 
dated 26th February 1733/4. 

Gentlemen 

I recommend to You Mr. Joseph Watson of Grantham in Lincolnshire 
for a Grpnt of Land herein Specifyed and that the Grpnt may pass your 
Seal with the utmost Expedition That is to say Five hundred Acres of 
Land to the said Mr. Joseph Watson and to the Heirs Male of his Body 
and in case of failure to the Heirs Male of the Body of Susannah Watson 
Daughter of the said Joseph Watson and that his Widow on his Decease 
shall be intitled to the Mansion House and to one third of the Land 
during her Life. The seme to be held as Gentleman*s Tenour and bounded 
by the Trust Lands, dividing the same Tract from the Lands of John 
Musgrove Gent, and by the Trust Lands divided from the Indian Creek. 
On the following Conditions. 

1st. To Pay Ten shillings of lawfull money of England for every 
hundred Acres to Commence Ten Years after the Date of the Grunt, to be 
paid within six ^ days after the Day of Payment. 

2d. To Settle himself with four white Men Servants upwards of 
eighteen Years of Age each upon the said Lands and to continue with the 

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same Number offour men in the said Province for the Space of three 
Years from the Date of the Grant. 

3d. To clear and cultivate for each hundred Twenty Acres within 
the Space of Ten Years and Plant upon the same Two hundred white Mul 
berry Trees and maintain them, and one hundred upon every Ten Acres 
which he shall clear. 

4th. Not to alienate any part of the said Five hundred Acres 
without Licence. (162) 

5th. Not to enter into a Compa.ny to Manufacture Pot Ash, but 
may Manufacture the same separately. 

6th. Not to hire, lodge, board or employ any Black or Negroe 
or any Slave within the said Province of Georgia. 

?th. If the said Joseph Watson shall dye without Issue Male, or 
himself or Successors shall be guilty of Trepson or Felony then the said 
Lands shall revert to the Trust as if the Graxt had never been made. 
I am 

Gentn. 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 

(165) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Chardon at Charles Town to the 
Trustees dated 14th March 1733/4. 

Gentlemen 

You have here inclosed the News Papers which our little Country 
affords that Esqur. Oglethorpe desired me to send You, and is what You 
may expect so long as we can keep our Printer alive. 

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Mr. Oglethorpe was sent for the 22d last month by the Publick 
to be consulted with on certain Indian Affairs, to Ward against the 
Incroachments of the French on the back of the Upper Creek Nation in 
the Province of Georgia, and to six certain Forts by the Assistance of 
the Publick as will tend to the Safety of this Province so well as that; 
and being very much hurried while he was here and more so on the 
Arrival of Capt. Fry off our Bar with the Saltzburghers and other 
Passengers who were in good health, he set out again for Georgia the 
llth instant without having any spare time to write to You; he told me 
Mint he should return again a fortnight hence, but there is now so much 
fresh Work cut out for him that I do not expect to see him until the 
latter End of next month. I am 

Gentn. 

Your most Obedient 
humble Servant 

(169) Copy of a etter from Mr. Oglethorpe to the Trustees dated at 
Charles Town 2d April 1?34. 

Gentlemen 

The Ship with the Saltzburghers came in sight end Mr. Van Reck 
landed here just as I was going to imbprk for England. I found it 
necessary to go down to Georgia to place them there and make a Disposi 
tion for their Subsistance. I put on board them a Pilot and got Mr. 
Dunbar, a Gentleman of fashion, who is a very good Seaman and knows the 
Entrance of the Savannah River perfectly well, to go with them. I was, 

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for haste, not able to write to You, because I sat out instantly and 
arrived at Savannah on the 14th of March. I settled the Saltzbnrghers 
in the Situation which they desired, though it occasions an additional 
Expence we being obliged to buy Horses to carry up their Provision by 
Lend for they are six miles from the great River, end the Ebenezer is 
so choaked up with old Trees that Boats cannot go till they are 
removed. I therefore hired a Packhorseman and have ordered him Ten 
Horses to attend them. I have bought a Sow, a Cow, two Fowls, Ducks 
and Geese for each of them, which will be delivered as soon as they can 
be got up. The Commissary is a good natured Man, the Ministers are v&ry 
devout and the eldest is a very wise Man; the whole are a religious, 
industrious and cheerfull People and in all probability will succeed 
very well. 

The Assistance the Assembly voted us last year of L 8000 Currency 
is not yet paid so that our Colony's daily Expences obliged me to drew 
upon You for the Supply of them. The Money is to be raised upon the 
Duty on Rum, which is a very good Fund and You by th?t means may be 
reimplaced. The above Expences together with the Saltzburghers (1?0) 
and other Expences occasioned by the vast Increase of our People, and 
the Price of Rice rising from between 30 snd 40 shillings p_ hundred 
weight, which it was last Year, to 3E. 3. and t 3:2:6 which it is this 
Year, and all other Provisions proportionsbly together with the Ship 
Load of Servants which I bought, who xzxxJE must otherwise have perished 
and who are now grown very ueefull to the Colony; has occasioned my 
Drawing for the inclosed Sums upon You. 

The Orders for a Man of War to cruise off the Georgia Station 

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come, but we are in very little Apprehension of the Spaniards we 
being much more able to dislodge them from Augustine than they us from 
Savannah; but the French are much to be apprehended from the Westward, 
and several Soldiers pretending themselves to be Deserters, whom I 
take for Spies, have come into Carolina over Lund from the Mississippi. 
They have lately attacked the Chicka,saws and almost extirpated the 
Notchees and Foxees, Nations ^ in friendship with Carolina. Before 
I came here they had encroached into the Upper Creeks Country, where 
they had built a Fort celled Albamuse and were going to build another 
in the Lower Creeks when I arrived, but such Measures have been taken 
that they did not venture to do it; And the Creeks have resolved not to 
let them encroach any further. The People of Carolina izinltit are of 
opinion that the French will strive by force to settle amongst the 
Creeks; the Post which they did intend to fortify being of that con 
sequence that they think, if the French are once well established there, 
Carolina will be lost upon the very first War. They would fain have 
had me built a Fort there, and the Creek Indians (fearing to be over 
powered by the French) have applied to the same purposep though they 
would never admit of a Fort and Garrison from Carolina. The Expence 
being very great though the Nw^HHspt Necessity is much greater, I have 
not concluded any thing with (l?l) them being very cautious of imbarking 
in new Expences; those which are absolutely necessary for the Subsistence 
of the People being alreacy so great. I am 

Gentn. 

Your most Obedient 
humble Servant 

 (173) 

Copy of an anonimous Letter from Savannah to Lord Percivsl dated 6th 
April 1734. 

My Lord 

I know I need make no Apology your known Zeal for the Christian 
Religion is sufficient for me. I have my Lord from my Birth in a 
peculiar manner acknowledged the Divine Providence over me and parti 
cularly in the settling the Colony of Georgia. The great God therein 
hath blessed my Labours to whom I am desirous to dedicate the first 
Fruits of them. 

I have no Children nor am like to h?ve and on failure of Issue 
I have after my Death given my Town Lot Garden Lot and Farm Lot with the 
House Warehouses Buildings and Rgt Appurtenances whatsoever in the said 
Town of Savannah now of the ^ Value of L 2$ Sterling p_ Ann, towards the 
Maintenance of a Missionary to "be recommended by Your Lordship and Your 
Successors & approved of by the Trustees for the Colony whose only 
Business shall be the Conversion of the Indians in this Province to the 
ait***** Christian Religion. I beg Your Lordship will take care to see 
the same confirmed at home by those Honble. Gentlemen. 

My Lord the Indians near us are desirous of Instruction which 
they have hitherto refused to receive; there is nothing waiting to 
their Conversion but one who speaks and understands well their Language 
to explain to them the Mysterys of the Christian Religion, for as to 
the Morals of Christianity they understand and assent to it and indeed 
by strict Justice and good Usage Mr. Oglethorpe has so endear'd them to 
him that they are ready to hear and receive any thing he shall propose. 
They seem to be Masters of true Eloquence making allowance for what they 

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suffer through the badness of Interpreters. Many of their Speeches are 
equal to (l?4) those we admire in Greek and Roman Writings; They 
generally in Set Speeches use Similies and Metaphors. I beg Le^ve my 
Lord to mention one spoken by their Chief Tomo Chachi to Mr. Oglethorpe 
Sr. says he here is a little Present, giving him a Suffice Skin 
painted on the inside, with the Head and Feathers of an Eagle. That 
the Eagle signifyed Speed the Suffice Strength % That the English were 
so swift as the Bird and strong as the Beast since like the first they 
flew from the utmost parts of the Earth over the great Seas and like the 
second nothing could withstand them That the Feathers of an Eagle were 
soft and signifyed Love the Buffloe Warmth signifyed Protection; 
therefore he hoped we would love and protect them. 

I beg Leave my Lord to take notice that this Province will with 
Pains and Care produce both Wine and Silk and deserves his Majesty's 
particular regard. They are very loyal and on all publick Occasions 
drinking their Majesty's healths. I have ordered a Copy of a Poem made 
by a Georgian (the Perusal of which I hope will be agreable to Your 
Lordship) to be delivered to You. I am 

Your Lordship's 

Most Obedient dutiful 
end very humble Servant 

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Copy of a ^tter from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe deted at South 
Carolina 7th May 1734. 

Sir 

According to my promise I shall endeavour to give You as full an 
Account of all those Occurrences which shall happen in this Province 
that I think to be most material end which I believe will be most 
acceptable to You; and that I may not omit any thing material I shall do 
it by way of Journal. 

?th May. This Day came to Town Mr. Thos. Brown from the Cautabas 
and informed me that the Sinnscas hac fallen upon that nation and killed 
two Persons, but that a parcel of Cautabas to the Number of 20 in the 
Woods discovered 26 Indians whom they supposed to be French, Surprised 
them killed 13 and brought as many entire Scalps into their Nation with 
the Loss of only one Man. 

$th. I sent to Georgia by Mrs. Musgrove some Date Stones and 
Cottaquinteda^ seeds and desired Mr. Causton to put them into the Ground 
immediately, and acquainted him that the Cottexrainteda came up like a 
Water Melon and that the Leaves resemble one the other. 

About the same time came to Town Saml. Brown and other 
Indian Traders from the Cherokees who say those Indians were very in 
solent & threaten'd to tfke away the Lives and Effects of the Traders 
as will appear by the following Account Mr. Beane has given me in 
Writing (vizt. ) about the 1st of September the little Wgj-pior who is 
the Governour's friend came to my house pnd told me that he had much 
ado to Save the white mens Lives for at the meeting at J. Oree the 
Consultation was held the whole night and 'twas to kill all the white Men 

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that was there, and that a Runner was to go all over the Naiiion where 

any white Men was and kill them; In (*^&) the morning he came home ^LO ^ 7<? 

/ f ^r- 
drest in his Leather Shirt and the other Warrior called Major Fitch ^ ** 

took notice and ask'd him what was the matter, and he said nothing for 
he believed there would be no meeting that day; the Major told him to 
go and talk to them and he would stay another day; Accordingly the 
little Warrior went and ask'd them where he should go to get Powder and 
Bullets for that he had been every Path but could find none but amongst 
the English a.nd told them further if they were upon that Design he would 
dye along with them. Febry. the 6th the little Warrior came to my 
house again end told me that 'twas good for the white men meaning the 
Traders to Stay down among the English and not to come up here for one 
or two years end then their young men would know what the Want of Goods 
was, for You white People will not believe the Danger till You feel it 
and if You white People will stay below I think it is very good and then 
they will want me to go down & bring up the white People again and then 
that will be the time for me to talk with them; When the Warriors heard 
that the Indians had taken away Eorsfords Goods he said this is the 
beginning of my People's bad thoughts, for my part I shall not see it 
for I will go to the English end live with them I and all my Children 
and to morrow I shall go, to which I made him answer that he must not go 
and leave all the white men so he was contented to stay and see all the 
white men go out of the Valley. I then went to the Town house and 
desired the beloved men to persuade him to stay, at another time they 
said the Governour was a Rogue for stopping the Path and that they would 
go down in a body without his Leave. 

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13th May. Came to Town Goodall and several other Creek Traders 
who say that those Indians are very peaceable and quiet with them; ajnd 
with them came (201) down two of the men that belonged to Capt. Pointsets 
Sloop that sailed hence in September last for Moville and gives an Account 
that as soon as the Vessel arrived at Masackt at the mouth of the said 
River she was Seized and confiscated one half to the King the other half 
to the Governour and the Capt. fined a 1,000 Livres and 'tis here be 
lieved that the two Vessells that lately Sailed from hence to that place 
will meet the same fate which News is very agreable to the Indian 
Traders and many others no way concerned therein, it being a Trade that 
would have been attended with very mischevious Consequences to this 
Province and this Disappointment will put a Stop to this Tre.de and 
probably be a means to Extend our Trade to the Choctaws which will be a 
great Advantage not only to Trade but to this Province by bringing those 
Indians into our Interest which might have been affected some time 
since had not Capt. Glover obstructed it, induced thereunto by some 
private Views. 

The Governour did design to prorogue the Assembly to a further 
day but upon this News from the Cherokees he ordered them to meet and 
they are met now setting. 

l6th May. Yesterday arrived Capt. Paul Capt. Greg from 
Leith with 6? Passengers and a Vessel from Dublin with Servants. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servt. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Quincy to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Boston New 
England 20th June 1734. 

Sir 

I hope this may congratulate You on your safe Arrival in England 
after the many Hardships You have undergone for the Sake of doing Good. 
I know not indeed whether I ought to call them Hardships when I consider 
the real Pleasure You took in them; though I am certain any one less 
actuated by a Temper, benevolent and charitable, would have esteemed 
them so. 

I delivered your Letter to the Govr. on my first coming here. 
His Excellency told me that it was the only one he has had the Honour 
to receive from You, though You mentioned two more that had been sent. 
I find by Conversation that Dr. Cook has very much lost his Interest in 
this Country; His Character from wise and knowing Men is not the most 
agreable. They say that under high Pretences of acting for the Publick 
Good, he has acquired a Popularity amongst the common People and by that 
means been enabled to carry a considerable P^rty at Elections and so 
model the Assembly and Council much to his own Mind. This indeed is an 
Instance that he is no mean Politician; but many that were his friends 
begin now to think that he has not so sincerely intended the Publick 
Good as he would have them believe. And indeed the Consequence of his 
Management has shew'd that however sincere his Designs may have been, 
his Schemes have not effected the most happy Ends; The Country Isbours 
under very great Discouragements through his Means. The violent Opposi 
tion he has mane to the express Orders of the King, to allow the Governor 
a fix'd Salary; has occasioned great Disgust in England, and to 

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this is attributed the Frowns they have met with from the English 
Government, their present Discouragements in Trade and fear of greater. 
But I am unawares got into a Subject by no means within my Province, 
and beg Pardon for having dwelt so long upon it. 

The Town of Boston is mightily increased in Buildings and In 
habitants since I was here in the Year 19* They reckon no less than 
20,000 People in it. Their Militia consists of 600 Horse and 7 or 8000 
foot which are frequently drawn out to Exercise. Their Civil Government 
is complained of by some as too rigid and severe, restraining Men in 
what they call their lawful Liberties, frequenting of Taverns and 
keeping unseasonable Hours (for no Inhabitant of the Town must be found 
at a Tavern past 11 o Clock without incurring a Penalty end the House 
fined 40.°) but certainly tittx their Laws in these Respects as in many 
others particularly against Swearing, Gaming, Profanation of Sabbath's 
&c. are wholesome and good; ajid though it may happen that an Officer 
having more Zeal than Discretion may sometimes rather exceed his Com 
mission, yet the happy Effect of these wholsome Restraints are very 
visible for Vice is hereby much discountenanced and those who will be 
bad are obliged at least not to appear so, and thus exemplary Impiety 
is greatly prevented. There are no People more vilely misrepresented 
with Regard to their Religious Character than the People of New England, 
if we will believe common Report of them they are the greatest Hypocrites 
in the World who under specious Pretences of more than ordinary 
Sanctity will commit the vilest Frauds and do the most base and in 
jurious Actions. But these Reflections are very false and groundless 
especially (205) when thrown upon the whole Body of the People. It must 

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be own'd that some few such there have been and no Doubt are ait at 
present, not only amongst them but every other Religious Party who so 
far mistaking the true Nature of Religion lay the Stress of it chiefly 
on speculative Opinions pud mere outward Profession and may therefore be 
very bad men; but to do the People of New England Justice there is 
amongst them a great deal of sober Piety free from Superstition and 
Enthusiasm. 

I am now I thank God pretty well recovered of my Indisposition 
and intend to set out with all possible Expedition for Georgia and hope 
to be there before this can arrive in England. Since your Departure 
from Charles Town I am informed there is a Vessel arrived there from 
Leith in Scotland with 7 Gentlemen and about 60 inferiour Persons, 
Servants and Dependants with Design to settle in Georgia. My Friend 
writes me Word that some People there have endeavoured to dissuede them 
from going further but that he believes he shall prevail with 6 of the 
Gentlemen with their Servants &c. to go up. I heartily wish You Sir all 
imaginable Happiness and Satisfaction in your Return to your Native 
Country amidst the just Applauses of your Friends, and above all I 
wish You that calm Satisfaction & inward Pleasure which is the sure 
Reward of virtuous and good Actions and is infinitely preferable to 
Popular Applause; and am with the greatest Respect and Regard 

Sir 

Your most Obliged and 
most Obedt. humble Servt. 

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Charles Town 22d July 1734. 
Sir 

Since the Writing of this I have been disuaded by my Friends 
from undertaking so long a Journey by Land as from Boston to Philadelphia 
this hot Season of the year; and therefore have took the opportunity of 
a Vessel belonging to my Relations bound to Charles Town where I am 
now arrived after a short and pleasant Passage of 15 Days. Mr. Van Reek 
arrived in Boston a few days before I came away, I had the Pleasure of 
seeing him there and we Sailed out of the Harbour at the same time, I 
hope he is now arrived in London. The Governor of New England has 
promised to propose to the Council and Assembly to Send a Sloop with 
Saw*d Boards and Provisions for the Use of our New Colony. I have 
heard that they are at present in pretty good health at Georgia & go 
on very well. I em 

Sir 

Your most humble Servt. 

(211) Copy of a Letter from Patrick Mackay to Mr. Causton dated at 
Charles Town 8th of July 1734. 

Sir 

An Express from Captain Mcpherson for his Excellency Governor 
Johnson delivered me yours of first of July. I judged on receipt of 
yours that he had corned from you for his Excellency and therefore 
waited of him to hear the News it being reported in Town that you had 
taken 30 Spaniards prisoners. But his Excellency told me he had only a 

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Letter from Captain Mcpherson with a&vice of the Chactaws Indians 
Arrivall in Georgia with some of the Chiefs of the Bp upper Creeks. 
Tho it would be very inconvenient for me to be sooner with you as 
towards the latter end of this Month, yet I should endeavour to be with 
you sometime this week, but that his Excellency with some of his Counsell 
are of opinion that the Chactaws Should come here I em not my self 
averse to their coming here for this reason, that as the Chactaws have 
never been in any of our British Settlements before therefore they 
should see the best appearance we can make; that they may give a better 
report of us than they CEJi do from Seeing our Infant Colony only; Bis 
Excellency therefore desires thpt if you Join in Opinion with him, the 
Scout Boat may be sent down wth. them the upper Creeks and Jones, or 
that, if they Choose to travel by Land you send them by Furrisburgh. I 
shall trke care of them while here and return with them to Savannah 
where ixatrnxkaxz Ide have us enter into treaties with them and you 
should make them the proper presents on that occasion. If you join with 
me in Opinion pray send them down end let me know if you heve in the 
Store Such (212) things as are proper to be offered them as presents 
when they return, that if you heve them not I may carry them from here, 
which I should be Satisfied to have your Directions about. 

But if you should be of a different Opinion pray cause keep them 
in diversion there untill I am got Clear here, which will take me at 
lesst fourteen days yet, for tomorrow I go to buy 30 or 40 horses into 
the Country and as I can't tell where to find them it may consume more 
time than I can presently foresee? but how soon I have got the Horses 
bought I shall be after ordering them up over Land to the Patachocolas 

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Ready to leave this piece in a few days, for I have got ell the presents 
ready wither you keep them there or that they come here I shall 
endeavour to perswade them to return with me to the Creek Nations. 

If the Indians come here It will have this advantage that not 
only they shall entertain better Notions of the British in General but 
it will csuse ma as much of the Presents which this Province will be at 
the Exrpence off if they come here. 

Pray tell Tommy Jones not to apply to Carolina for a Licence to 
trade with the Chactaws if he comes here let him see me first & I shall 
Satisfie him in what he shall desire. Tell him to Acknowledge to those 
of this Province that shall ask the questions that it was by Mr. Ogle- 
thorpes possitive orders he undertook that Voyage for which he had a 
Promise of that Trade for 3 or 4 years, which tell him to insist upon 
if any Occasion is for his So doing. I am with Esteem 

Sir 

Your very humble Servant 

(215) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Martin Bolzius to Mr. Vernon 
dated at Ebenezer llth July 17?4. 

Most Honoured Sir 

The many favours and benefits You have laid upon me and all your 
Saltzburghers have occasioned my Writing to You, and I hope your 
generous good nature will excuse it when these humble Lines cause any 
hindrance in the urgency of your Affairs. For that would render us 
worthy of blame if we did not let You understand that we account ourselves 

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happy in your favour and yaxxk tender Care of us, and our Prayers are 
daily for your Health and Welfare. We have it already cast in our minds 
to bring to our father in Heaven many Sacrifices of Thanksgiving, so soon 
as we are informed You have finished your Sea Voyage in good Health end 
Prosperity. God reward You a thousand times for all your Goodness 
presented to us in the former time and let all your good Counsels and 
weighty Affairs redound to the publick Good & Welfare of many poor 
People. We will make it the future business of our Life by the Grace 
and Aspistance of the Holy Ghost to be no ways behind in Grptitude 
towards God and all our Benefactors. I cannot but let you know by 
this, that through your fatherly Care and Order Mr. Causton has sent 
for the Saltzburghers very sufficient Provisions and gives us most daily 
several Testimonies of hip tender Regard to us, which is as we see and 
hear very tedious to the People at Abercorn & Savannah; wherefore they 
spread, out very much Lies and ill things from your Saltaburghers, vizt. 
they were all given to Laziness, Drunkenness and several Disorders and 
were for all that not worthy of so (216) many benefits. I and all 
Persons which are much conversant with this People are obliged to 
report well of them, that they dwell in the fear of God, practise 
Soberness and other Christian Virtues, pnd labour so earnestly that some 
of them have by the much Troubles and heavy Works Sickness and Death 
upon themselves. Five men and two Wives are deceased and some have been 
till now deadly sick. Therefore seeing that we do not find a great 
Abatement in our Congregation, we pray You will after your beloved 
kindness be carefull that more Saltzburghers come to our place so soon 
as it is possible; because a greater number of hands will ease their 
burden and very difficult works. Until this time they are constrained 

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to do several Works which hinder them very often in building their own 
Houses and tilling the Ground. They h^ve put in the Ground some Indian 
Pease, Corn and other Seed which they received from Mr. Causton in 
abundance, but no more as the said Pease and some English Banns and 
Cucumbers grow up; I believe the seasonable time of Sowing wp.s past or 
the Seed is superannuated. As for mine and Mr. Gronau's healths, thanks 
be to God they continue as heretofore; and of our Livelihood we have no 
reason to complain. The Indians haunt us and tell us severe! Words of 
their Language which we note and learn by heart. So soon as we can 
quit the business, which is without our Vocation, we will do our utmost 
Endeavours to learn the said Language after which we have a hearty 
Desire and Delight. We wish earnestly that some family might dwell 
among us in Ebenezer, and rest in hopes our Wishes shall be by your and 
Mr. Causton's Care successfull. I have (21?) no more to add then that 
my Colleague Mr. Gronau gives his humble Respects to You, and so with 
my heartiest and best wishes I close up this and am evermore with the 
greatest Respect, 

Most Honoured Sir, 

Your most humble Servt. 
P.S. 

Mr. Rolf gave me the inclosed Letter 
to send it to You and desires that You, 
Sir, grant him Leave and. Licence to 
return to Germajiy, by reason he cannot work 
in the Ground after the testimony of all 
your Saltzburghers. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mrs. Musgrove to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah 
l?th July 1734. 

Honoured Sir 

I make bold to acquaint You that Thos. Jones is returned from 
the Choctews and according to your Honours Desire he has brought the 
Choctaws down and Jda^c they have received great favours from Col. Bull 
and Mr. Causton and all the rest of the Colony, and a great deal of 
Respect shew'd them which they are wonderfully pleased at, and when they 
came down Mr. Jones brought with him some of the Heads of the Tallooposes 
which is called the Upper Creeks; The Dog King of Uphalais Chanaway by 
name went with Mr. Jones up to the Choctaws to make peace, and he is 
mighty glad that he and Mr. Jones did persuade them to come down which 
is more than ever Carolina could do to get them down before; and the 
Choctaws are so glad that some white People whom they call'd their 
Masters has taken such Care of them as to send for them a.nd they was 
very glad of the opportunity to come for they lived very poor before and 
now they are in good hopes to live as well as the other Indians do, 
for they had nor have no Trade with the French and their Skins lye by 
them and rot. When Mr. Thos. Jones came to them at first there was 
Thirty Towns only that had the notice, before Mr. Jones came away all 
they gave their Consents for their Coming, but Notice was still sent on 
farther; and they say that they like the English better than the French, 
and that they will stend by the English as long as they have one left 
alive. There was some of the Caupahauches and the Hulbaumors came with 
them. The Choctaws are (220) all arnRzed to see the Creeks drink as 
they do, and they think the Creeks are saucy to the white People. The 

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Choctaw King thinks they are obliged to the white People and thinks 
they cannot do enough for the white People especially the English, and 
since they have been here there has not one of them been disguised in 
Liquor or any ways saucy upon any Account, they have been here 21 
Days for Mr. Causton thought it proper to send for Col. Bull and that 
was the Reason of their being Detained so long here. Govr. Johnson has 
sent for them to come to Carolina but Thomas Jones was not willing they 
should go to Carolina for fear of disobliging your Honour, and as he 
was sent for them for the Colony he did not Cere they should go any 
where else. Your Honour's Name is spread very much amongst them and 
they say that when your Honour comes back to Georgia they will be 3mxnng 
bound to raise a thousand or two at your Honour's Command if de?ired, 
and they design to leave the Trench entirely and then they will come 
down and pay their Respects to You, and to Govr. Johnson if your Honour 
desires they should go to Carolina but not without your Honour's Con 
sent. Mr. Thos. Jones does insist of the Trade amongst the Choctaws a.s 
your Honour did promise him, and the Choctaws have so very great 
Respect and Vplue for Mr. Jones that they had rather have him to trade 
among them then any body else because he ventured his Life to bring 
them down to the English. 

Honoured Sir, }C There has been a great Dispute about the Lot that You 
was pleased to give the Grant of to Thomas Jones, and since You have 
given it to Mr. Parker Gent, and since to me.Jones is returned home he 
finds he had lost it so there (221) has been a Court Business about it, 
for Mr. Jones does insist upon that very Lot or else none; and the Court 
has considered upon it and was so good as to give it to him again. The 
Colony is in good health and I hope your Honour and all your family is in 

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good health and my Husband is the smne, and I beg your Honour will take 
great Care of him he being in a strange place and not able to take Care 
of himself and to send him home as soon as possible. Capt. Mackay is 
not gone up as yet to the Creeks nor I do not know when he will. The 
Indians has expected him these three months ago, the Talloopose King 

has made great Complaints of the French building Forts amongst them and 

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they did not know where or who to go to so they came to see if the 
English would protect them. I remain with my Duty to your Honour, and 
wishing your Honour Health and all the Happiness that this World can 
afford 

Your Honour*s 

Most humble and most Obedient Servant 
to Command. 

(223) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Isaac Chardon to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at Charles Town 1st August 1734. 

Sir 

I have since my last unto the Honble. Trustees of the 6th last 
month rec'd Advice from Mr. Thomas Causton that Thomas Jones who went to 
the Choctaw Nation arrived at Georgia on the 1st July last with one of 
the Chief men amongst them and six other Warriors representg. five Towns, 
and with them came several of the Upper Creeks who were never there 
before that greatly assisted Mr. Jones in this Affair. 

The Choctaws seemed very much rejoyced at their good fortune in 
falling under your Protection and they made very heavy Complaints of 

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their ill Usage "by the French who Starved them for want of Trade and 
Surrounded them with their Forts. 

Mr. Canston received them very graciously and in the "best manner 
he KgKK could suitable to the Occasion, veil knowing what "benefit it 
would be to the British Interest and therefore did not spare to make 
them such Presents as were most necessary, the greatest part of which he 
purchased at Musgroves'. The Honble. Col. Bull was there at the time 
and furnished him with his best Advice, the Indians are since all 
returned. I Suppose the Col. will give You a more just and particular 
Detail thereof. They are all in good Health at Georgia for we have had 
good Seasons and daily fresh Showers of Rain which has xi very much 
contributed to the making our (224) Summer so moderate as it has been. 
I hope that You are very hearty and in good health, You have my best 
Wishes for a Continuance thereof. I am Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 

2d. August. I rec*d a 
Letter from Mr. Causton 
this day with an Accot. of 
some Spaniards & Indians 
coming to drown the Settlemts. 
but I refer You to our Gazette 
for the Particulars. 

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Copy of a Letter from Govr. Penn to Mr. Oglethorpe dated, at Phila 
delphia 4th August 1734. 

Esteemed Friend 

I had the pleasure of receiving thy Letter from Charles Town 
dated the 12th of April but I have not seen any thing of the two 
Letters thou mentions. 

Die Account thou gives of Georgia seems to forebode its Success 
and indeed from the great pains thou hast taken there can be no room to 
doubt it unless the Climate should disagree with the People. I wish You 
may find the Prohibition of Rum not disserviceable most of the Colonies 
on the Continent are indeed in the use of it to s. very great Excess, 
but I am from frequent Observation well assured that the moderate use of 
it mixed with Water in the very hottest Weather is very necessary. 

The Sloop thou mentions did not arrive here till lately when I 
ordered some Flour, Bread and Butter, of which lest Mr. Van Reck told 
me there was great Scarcity, to be Shipped to the Cere of Isaac Chardon 
and that it may be known whether the Account sent You is right I enclose 
thee a Copy of the Invoice. 

If I can be of any use to the Colony here my Endeavours shall 
never be wanting, or to thy self of which I had some hopes of assuring 
thee here, prsy lay thy Commands on 

Thy very affectionate Friend 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated, at South 
Carolina 5th August 1734. 

Sir 

By our Gazette of Saturday last I Rm informed that four Spaniards 
and Seven Indians were met with on St. Simons by our friendly Indians 
who enquiring what business they had there declared it was on the 
Crown's Affairs in Search of Settlements; from whence I em apprehensive 
that their Design was to Settle and infort themselves at the mouth of 
the Alatamaha River and You may remember that I was fearfull before You 
went hence that the Spani8,rds would do some such thing. You may also 
remember thpt I told You that I have been informed that the French 
about 14 Years ago had a Design of settling that River which wes dis 
covered by Sr. Martin Bladen when he was in France. 

If the Spaniards or French should make a Settlement and erect a 

Fort there they soon would erect a Fort up et the Forks so called 

where 
becsuse the Oakmulgy and Ocony Rivers meet at that place/Khax the name 

of that River is altered to that of Alatamaha. 

If the Spaniards should get that place and infort themselves it 
would intirely put a Stop to all our Trade with the Creeks, Chickesaws 
or Choctaws both from Carolina, and Georgia, for I am informed 'tis but 
35 miles from the Forke (to which place it's navigable for Pettiauguae) 
up to the fording place in the lower Path on the Ocony and Oaktaulgy 
Rivers at which most of our Traders pass to go to the Creeks. 

For the above Reasons I think it adviseable that Orders be immed 
iately given to build a good (232) Fort at the mouth of that River, and 
according to my former Proposals I will immediately build a Fort st the 

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Forks and place in it Seven Soldiers and mount Eight Guns two on each 
Flanker and keep it constantly provided with Arms, Ammunition and Pro 
visions; the Fort shall be built as strong and good but not so large as 
Fort Moore on Savannah Piver at my own Cost and Charges. 

I propose that Mr. Musgrove shall be concern'd l/3d part therein 
and I have in my Eye a very proper Person who is a sober carefull man 
and has been a long time acquainted with the Indian Trade and Traders 
to be concerned another third & my self the other third, all which I 
shall do on this Condition that we have the Sole Trade of that River 
both above and below it with the Indians, the Creek, Chickesaw and other 
Traders for 1 or 5 Years. 

If the Trustees agree to my Proposals I have ordered Mr. Samuel 
Baker the Bearer hereof to send me eight great Guns about one hundred 
and quarter each being of the Size or weight of those I think are at 
Fort Moore and I will engage in the spme immediately as soon as I 
receive your Directions. 

I have desired Mr. Baker to discourse with You on this Subject 
and to agree with the Trustees, which Agreement I shall stand to but 
must observe that I think five years to be as short a time as can be 
expected considering the Charge we shall be at and I don't doubt but 
that the Trade shall be carried on with more Satisfaction to the Indians 
and greater Security to Carolina & Georgia and hope You'll not expect 
any thing for Licences since the Trustees will be at no Charge for this 
Fort. 

I have prevailed with most of the Merchants (233) °f this place 
except those concerned in the Negroe Trade to write home to their 

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Correspondents in London to joyn together in a Petition to the King in 
Council and to prey that Orders msy be sent over to His Excellency to 
pass a Law to prohibit the Importation of Negroes for three Years which 
I think is highly nsy absolutely necessary; Here is lately arrived in 
less than a months time three Ships from Guinea with upwards of Six 
hundred and fifty Negroes and there is severs! other Vessels more 
expected and I do believe the Number that may arrive will be very con 
siderable because the Vessels that vent last year to the West Indies 
from Guinea made generally speaking looseing Voyages and those that came 
here made profitable ones. 

I take notice both from the English Prints & those from the 
Northward that the Negroes at the Jersays have attempted an Insurrec 
tion and we have abundant more reason to fear on that Accot. when we 
have ten Negroes to their one. 

Here is a Gentleman lately arrived from the North Side of Jamaica 
in order to buy a. Settlemt. and remove himself and family upon that 
every Account, he tells me they are there very apprehensive of a 
General Rising. The Planters of this Country are very considerably in 
Debt and should such a Law be permitted they would soon extricate 
themselves out of it. 

Mr. Day, Clifford and several others have sold and are about 
selling their Plantations and design to carry off their Negroes to Cape 
Hear, to which place abundance of our Planters are already gone and I am 
sensible tha,t%. the Reason of their so doing is chiefly owing to the 
Quantity of Negroes that have been imported. 

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I lately moved this Aff?ir to the Governor who seemed, mightily 
pleased therewith & thought it was the best thing that could be done for 
the Good of this Province. I have tslk'd with some of the Council on 
the same Head and they are of the same Opinion and do earnestly entreat 
You that You. would use your best endeavours that an Instruction to that 

,y 

purpose may be immediately sent over from the King to His Governour 
and I doubt not but it would here psss notwithstanding the Opposition 
that mey be made against it by the Negroe Factors and their Friends. 

Three Days since arrived Capt. Craigg from London end has brought 
an Accot. that a Person Supposed to be Humes had printed Articles snd 
delivered them to the Lords agpinst the Governor; end I am told by a 
Person that has seen them that several of them are false and that an 
Answer may easily be made wherein he levels his Artillery solely 
against him end that in it are several malicious Insinuations. I am 
afraid to add least I should tire You so conclude 

Sir 

Your most obliged humble Servant 

(233) Copy of a Letter from William Dalmas to Mr. Oglethorpe - dated 
at Skideway August 23d 1734. 

Sr. 

At your Departure from this plpce You was so good as to procure 
me a Servant i^hich I huve not yet received, nor indeed can hear any 
thing for certain off, I think it my Duty to acquaint You with it, it 
being a very great Hardship upon me in my weak Condition to be without 

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one. I most Humbly begg that you would be so good as to give Directions 
that he may be Procured or some other in his Stead, all our Settlement 
is in tollerable good Health but have been a.little alarm'd with a 
Report of 50 or 60 Spaniards and Spanish Indians being seen in a bopt 
on our Frontiers to the Southward, which mace me assist and give direc 
tions to our People in erecting a Square Redoubt upon our Point with an 
Intrenchmt. on the inside, and a fotsee without, we have 4 Swivell and a 
Carriage Gun Mounted which both commands the River and the Approaches to 
our Eutts, so that if any thing should happen I do not in the le^st 
doubt but we shall be able to stand a good Argument against a far 
Superior Number; I cant help but tpke Notice that we were but Six to 
carry on the aforesaid work the rest refusing to do any thing without 
being paid for it. You may assure your self that I shall make it my 
Chief Study to deserve the Favours that you have already bestov'd upon 
me and begg that You would believe me with the Utermost Gratitude to 
be. 

Sr. 

Your most humble Most Obedient 

and Devoted Servant. 

(239) Copy of a Letter from William Bateman to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at the Savannah September 3& 

Honoured Sir 

I made bold to write to you from Charles Towne South Carolina, 
I there took the Liberty to acquaint you of what the People of that Town 

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spoke concerning Georgia. I at the same time told you I hoped and did 
not doubt but I should be Able to give you a quite different Description 
of Georgia than what those People strove so much to make not only me 
tut ever Person believe concerning this Place, there could be no descrip 
tion of any Place (without the Malice of Hell itself) be made so dismall 
as the People of that Towne endeavour to make of Georgia. Tho' in short 
a Person may soon see through their Artifice and that is fear only of 
the Great Progress that has already been made in Georgia in so short a 
Space of time will greatly Damage their Trade, and Force them to be 
more Industrious end more Diligent than what they really are at Present; 
for ef all the Places I have ever yet been at I never see the Inhabi 
tants, so Indolent, so Proud nor so malicious as themselves. 

I arrived here on Wednesday the 28th of last Month(l thank God 
in good Heslth as is at present the whole Colony) when instead of finding 
what I heard at Charles Town, I found more Ground Cleared, more Houses 
Built and in a more Regular Manner than it was Possible for me to Con 
ceive or Believe, more especially when I Consider the short Space of 
time it has been entred. on, and thp.t the Majority of the People were 
not before Used to any hard Labour. They tell me th&t all America never 
could Boast the like before and I have (240) reason to believe, And 
that Philadelphia was 10 or 12 Years before it could boast of such a 
Town as Georgia at Present. 

As for a further Description of the Place your Honour has had it 
by far better hands than my self. It stands on a High Hill which they 
call here a Bluff Situate on p fine River. The Soil as far as I am 
Capable of discerning, Extraordinary good, and see no doubt but in a 

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short time All the Worthy Gentlemen the Trustees will have the Pleasure 
of seeing their Lgudable and Generous Undertakings Answer greater and 
sooner than they could reasonably expect. Which God Almighty of his 
infinite goodness Grant. 

I delivered the Letter your Honour was Pleased to Favour me with 
to Mr. Causton the Gentleman tha.t Acts in Mr. Oglethorpe's Absence. I 
had one also from Mr. Leigh which I delivered also, Be never made mention 
to me about the Contents of them But has Used me very Courteous and 
Civill. my Man run away from me at Charles Town, so Mr. Causton seys I 
can have but a Private Lot a.t Present, and which will indeed be enough 
now I am without a Servant, I chose a Country Lot and am going to settle 
at a Place call'd Hampstead about four Miles out of Town. 

If there should be any little Place Your Honour should think me 
Capable of in Savannah, I hope and Trust Your Honour will think of me, 
and hope you will always think me as I really am. 

Sr. 

Your Most Obedient Most Dutifull 
and Most Obliged Servant. 

(243) Copy of a Letter from Isasc King Cla.rke to the Trustees dated at 
Savannah 3d of September 1734. 

Gentlemen 

I hope your Honours will excuse the freedom I have taken in 
writing, which is to inform you that several matters relating to my self 
are so disagreeable that I hope your Honours will consider of an Amend 
ment. 

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n'/ 

I am Obliged to Attend the Guard upon able occasions, to mount 

Guard, to do day Duty, to releive Guard &c. and those days I am upon 
Duty, there are so many Complaints made against me to Mr. Causton (for 
not attending the Sick) that it is intollerable. 

It was agreed that a House should be built for my Attendance on 
the Sick for one Whole Year, and ever since I have been here I have been 
in a Hutt which is so expos'd that I have nothing left but what is 
rotten end spoil'd. I have mentioned the Building several times to Mr. 
Causton whose answer was generally this, or to the life effect, Vizt. 
We have so many things to be done for the Publick that it can't be gone 
about, Or that he expects Sawyers from Charles Town and then he will see 
what is to be done, ever since my arrival here, either my self Wife, or 
Servant have been ill occasion*d by laying Well; the ill consequencies 
of which we fx daily find, and according to a Moderate Estimate, with 
what Monies I have Received and the Injuries I have sustain'd 280 Pounds 
this Currency will not excuse me. 

It was ordered that Mr, Watkins of Abercorne should not Practice 
here in Town, that I might reap such small Advantages as might accrue 
by such Persons as came on their own Accompt as I had the Fatiegue of the 
Town, here is now no less than seven or eight Professors to Physick, all 
which assume a Prerogative very much to my Detriment without (244) any 
Contradiction from Mr. Causton, there are besides these many Complaints 
too tedious for Your Honours perusal. 

I hope Gentlemen you will take into Consideration my Present 
Condition. 

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'Tis a great Hardship to be Subject to the Guard and tax'd with 
Omission of Duly. 

'Tis a Greater Hardship to be axgg Exposed to the Injuries of the 
Weather in which not only (that which ie most dear) Health is Concern'd, 
but what I brought with me here is rotten end spoil'd, both of which 
will render me incapable of any Performance I am by agreement to do. 

'Tis a Hardship that others should be suffered to incroach on 
that which might tend to my future Support, for I am to have no 
Pecuniary Satisfaction for By trouble, exclusive of a House which is 
not to this day begun. 

Honoble. Gentlemen my Request is this, that an Amendment mpy be 
made to what proceeds, or that you wou'd grant leave for ma my return to 
England; if what I Object against cannot be Obtained I will willingly 
resign my right to any thing here end if I have done any thing worthy of 
Herrit to the Colony, 'tis at your Honours Service. 

I humbly beg Pardon for my Prolixity and hope your Honours will 
excuse this trouble given You. 

Gentlemen. 

I Remain with the Utmost Respect, Your Honours 
much Obliged, and Most Obedient Servant. 

(24?) Copy of a Letter from Messrs. Jennys and Baker to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated at Charles Town 6th of September 1734. 

Sir: 

This Accompsnys our Letter to the Trustees, with our several 

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Accounts and Advice of our having drawn on them for & 238:9.8. for 
particulars of which we referr you to those Gentlemen. 

We have this day settled with Collonel Parris for the Duty of 
Bum, for the two first Quarters ending the 1st of June, particulars of 
which we have else transmitted the Trustees. 

The Cherokees not having yet made any Submission to this Govern 
ment for their several Insults to our Traders, no one is yet Permitted 
to carry any goods to thst Nation; who being attack'd from several 
Quarters, and in want of Amunition will we suppose very shortly apply to 
us for a Supply, & desire a Trpde with us. 

Mr. Wiggan in June last inform'd Us that the Creeks expected a 
beloved Man from your Colony, that Captain Mackay would be very kindly 

received in that Nation, and that Silk Colours would be a very accept- 

P. 

able Present to the several Chief Towns; our W. Jenys told him that you 

ha.d Ordered fifteen to be made, which he said were not enough, that 
there would be an Occasion of at least Eighteen on which we gave direc 
tions for that Number, knowing t'was your design, that each Principal 
Town should have one; You have by this time heard of the Success Jones 
met with among the Creek Towns; which we Congratulate you on, and doubt 
not but your Colony will by Prudent Management draw them from the 
French; The French Soldiers at the Albania Fort are poorly paid, and very 
inclinable to desert, but of this no doubt Captain Mackay, will after 
he has been some time in the upper (248) Creeks give the Trustees, a 
full and Perfect Accot. By our last from him, we conclude he's now on 
his Journey. He found much difficulty to get Men and Horses, which much 
retarded him and if a Cherokee Trader had not dyed in our Settlements on 

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his Road to Town, who had some good Horses at Goose-creek, which on 

his Death were for Sale and which Mackay afterwrds bought; We believe 
he would have "been Unprovided to this Day; and those though he "bought 
them as they were apprais'd exceeded Your Price; "but of this, Be himself 
has (we believe) advised you (as he promised Us) he should. 

It gives Us the Utmost Concern to advise you, that Captain 
Phips, with whom he had agreed to send your Cannoe was on Accompt of 
tne Crankness of his Ship, Obliged to disappoint Us, and since you 
Sailed, there has not been a Vessel capable of carrying her; We have 
used our best Endeavour to send her, and to no Purpose offered twenty 
Guineas for the Freight of her; she is so long that very few Satii 
Vessells that use this Trade can carry her. 

We are 

Sir 

Your Most Obedient Ramble 

Servants. 

(251) Copy of a Letter from Jenys and Baker to the Trustees dated at 
Charles Town 6th of September 1734. 

Honoble. Sirs 

The Honourable James Oglethorpe Esqr. before he left this Province 
Empowered and Authorized us to receive for Acco: of the SBXBBOdKKiK 
Honourable Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America 
the Duty of 3^ p_ Gallon on Rum, Granted for the Speedier relief of his 
Majestys Subjects of Georgia, by an Act of the General Assembly of this 

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Province: And Pursuant hereto we have Received, from the Publick 
Treasurer an Accot. of the Dutys for tvo Quarters, ending the first of 
June last amounting to the Sum of & 921:19*9- for which we shall Credit 
the Trustees for Acco: of the Independent Compa,ny, pursuant to the 
Direction of Mr. Oglethorpe, "by whose Order we have Open'd an Account 
for the said Company; and shall out of the Duty on Rum, duely Pay such 
Order?, Mr. Causton shall drew on Us for the Use of that Company, 
according to the written Order given Us the 3& of May last by Mr. 

Oglethorpe by whose Orders, and Mr. Causton's, we have already laid out, 

<? 
and paid the Sum of & 9^7:19-8. as by the Accompt of particulars 

inclosed. 

We have Pursuant to Mr. Oglethorpe's Orders paid Captain Patrick 
Mackay & 620 for Purchasing of Horses for the Colony of Georgia, and 
delivered to him, Eighteen Colours being Present? for the Creek Towns 
which are three more than Mr. Oglethorpe had any Accot. of, but Mr. 
Wiggsn a Principal Trader among those Indians, assured Us there was that 
Number of Chief Towns, and we having received Bi directions to get a 
Flagg for the several Towns, order'd thet Number to be made, the Cost 
of which together v?ith Tick for Tents, you find in the Inclosed 
Accompt. (252) 

We have also paid Captain Mackay 3s 599- which he also has laid 
out in Horses having been Obliged to purchase more and at an higher 
Price than Mr. Oglethorpe Calculated: of which he Promised to send a 
Particular Accot. by the Amoretta; for what we have Supplyed him with; 
his Receipt is inclosed, being 3s 121$. 

For the Amount of your Accot. Current herewith sent ax we drew 
on you the $th Instant, in favour of Messrs. Paul Fisher eJid Thomas Jenys 

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for L 238.9.8. a L gQO Advance Pursuant to Mr. Oglethorpe's Order. By 
Our last Advice the Colony of Georgia, wps in good Health; Cpptsin Mackay 
is we Suppose now in the Road to the Creeks, who have for sons time "been 
expecting a "beloved Man with Presents from your Colony. We sh.°.ll be 
very glad to receive your Commands, and Proud to serve your New Settle 
ment. 

We are, Honoble. Sirs 

Your Most Obedient Humble Servants 

(255) Copy of a Letter from John West to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Savannah October the 12th 1734. 

Sr. 

I have made bold to trouble your Honour vith this Letter to 
acquaint you that we are all in a good State of Health, we have not 
buried three of our People for these several Months past the People 
was all in General very much Rejoyced to hear tha.t your Honour was safe 
arrived in England the most of our People are very Industrious and 
goes on very well with their building and Cultivating their Lands and 
as to my own part I have my health here better than ever I had in 
England and so says a many more. I know not how to Express my self 
with Gratitude enough to your Honour and the rest of the Honourable and 
worthy Gentlemen the Trustees for the great favour Done me to send me 
here where I enjoy both Peace and Plenty: Our Guard House is finished 
a.nd is very tight, there is a strong Fort Built round it and thirteen 
Guns mounted before it we have had no Ship arrived here since your 

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Honour left Us but we are in Expectation Every Day tho' we want for 
nothing but to see some of Our Miserable Country Men Come and Enjoy 
their freedom and Rest of the Comforts we now Injoy, this is all at 
Present from your Honours humble and most Obedient Servant. 

John West. 

(259) Copy of a Letter froa Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at the 
Savannah October l?th 1734. 

My Lords and Gentlemen. 

Mrj%. Cans ton and I talking the other Day We both egreed in our 
opinion that Madder would grow well in this Province, Especially in our 
Swamps or moist Lands, of which we have Enough. 

As I am resolved to try whether Madder will grow here I humbly 
beg that your Honourable Bosrd a± would be pleased to procure me the 
Root or Seed from Holland and to Order that Care may be had it may be 
sound, well Pack'd and taken care off in the Passage. I have about an 
Acre fit and will be ready for it egainst its Arrival, and if it Suc 
ceeds shall find more Land for thpt Purpose. 

I will also try a smsll Spot of Ground for Hemp and Flajc. I 
have about Two Acres ready for Vines, Mulberries end Olives. I only 
want the Seeds and Plants which Mr. Amatis tells me he will not be ready 
to deliver me this Year. 

I ha.ve put few Lime Seeds to try if they will produce here tho' 
I have no very great hopes of them. 

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is As for Oranges Mr. Eveleigh of Charles Town has promised me to 
help me with many, which together with the Help of other Friends hope 
to raise up a Nursery of 1000 Trees to Plant in my 43 Acres which I 
have reason to think may as veil Produce as those in Carolina especially 
in Charles Town where a good tree Produces about L 5* Sterling p_ Ann. 

I find the People here backward in Planting, which far from Dis 
couraging me Prompts me to go forward in (260) hopes of Reaping the 
Benefit of my Industry by Profit (tho* not Immediately) and the Appro 
bation of Mankind & especially your Honourable Board who as Fathers a.re 
pleased to see that Adopted Sons are Industrious, and it may be that my 
Example may Induce and Prompt Drones to rouse themselves and Improve the 
Blessing that God has put into their hands. 

Most of the People here have been sadly afflicted with a sort of 
an Itch and Boils, I thought it might Perhaps be Occasioned, or at least 
Increased by eating Salt Beef without Greens or Roots I have therefore 
Sowed and Planted about two Acres of Cabbage Seeds snd Csbbsge Plants, 
Salett, Onion, Turnep, Carrots, Spinage, Leeks &c. That any Family in 
the Colony may be Supply'd therewith at a reasonable price, the Seeds 
from your Store proving bad I have been Obliged to write to Old Savannah 
Town, y Port Roys.1, sjid Charles Towne for fresh Seeds snd even to 
Philadelphia. 

I cannot help Observing Mr. Eveleigh was very well Pleased with 
my Garden end found it to be the best Private Garden in the Colony. 
Tho' but a Wood thrse Months since I have many Seeds coming up, and a 
House built thereon by my Servants where they Live, and are at hand to 
guard the same from Thieves of which we have too many here, as it is but 

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three Quarters of a Mile from the Town. It is a Pleasure to walk there 
and. give proper and Suitable Directions. 

I beg your Honourable Board's Assistance to my poor Family in 
London in such a Manner as may bring them quickly here, for tho' with 
the blessing of God I may do well snd proper yet at present it's not in 
my Power to help them, Every thing being taken from me I am Obliged to 
Hire Lots of others, the Rent thereof a Gardners Wages and Paling five 
Acres draws all the Money and Credit I can at present raise, but I hope 
it may not be long before I do reap some (26l) small Profit however in 
the Meen tiine they mey be great Sufferers. I dread to receive Letters 
from them, if your Honble. Board would Please to Advance them any Money 
Sufficient to Enable them to come to me I will readily Pay it to whom 
you Pleese to Order, a few Servants with them would be of great Service 
to me which I most Humbly Leave to your Generous Consideration, I sm 
now Preparing Staves, Hoops, Red Bays and ^* Yallow Wood (or rather 
Green Yallow Wood) for Charles Town and London. I hope to be the first 
Merchant Adventurer from this Province of its Produce tho' with a 
trifle. 

Mr. Eveleigh being lately come here from Charles Town for a 
Large Demand he had on Mr. Wstson the Indian Trader the same was agreed 
to be put to the Abitration of Mr. Followfeild and my self which we 
Determin'd in two days to the Seeming Satisfaction of both Partys. 

My Family may be heard off at Mrs. Hornsin Love Court Love Lane 
Aldermanbury London. I begin to have small consignments on my Accot. 

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from Charles Town but the Credit is very short, and Money very scarce 
here. 

My Lords & Gentlemen. 

Your Most Obliged Most Devoted 
& Humble Servant. 

(263) Copy of a Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at 
Savannah October l?th 1734. 

My Lords and Genelemen. 

I have taken the Freedom (this Day) to write you on my Private 
Affairs. I shall now begin on the Publick. 

My Stuoy is Continually how and which way I can Promote the good 
of the Colony, and Considering the Present Circumstances of the In 
habitants I most Humbly Lay at your feet the following Proposal. 

That I am Inform*d by Mr. Foord the Depty. Surveyor who has mpRe 
greet Discoveries on this Coast, th^t he has found where one of the 
largest Men of War could come not far from this Town at Low Water, much 
more easier might - - - — A large Pink such as were Employ'd by the 
South Sea Company for the Greenland Trade. Such large 7essells require, 
but few Men. and Draws but little Water by reason of the manner of 
their being built. 

Such being Freighted by your Honourable Board might carry s 
greater Number of Passengers and Proper English Goods &c. of little 
Value and Cumbersome easier than commonly is done by Ships bound for 
this Place or Carolina and as for Eetunns they might carry the largest 

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Mast, a great Quantity of our best Timber at a Cheaper freight than any 
other Ships to ey from 40/to L 3.5. # p. Ton. as from Carolina it 
would not be worth while for us to send. White Oak, Cedar, Cypress or 
Live Oak. and hardly to afford for Red Bays, Laurel or Green Yallow 
Wood. but its my Humble Oppinion that your Honourable Board cou'd 
afford us Freight in such Large Vessells at 20/to 25 or 30 13 % Ton and 
Loose nothing by it. but rather yxi get a Profit thereby, if Dispatched 
Immediately. By this Mepns it would be a great Encouragment (264) for 
Us to Clear our Lands, Seeing that the Clearing of them would be over 
paid by the Nett Produce of the Timber. 

One thing more I have to Propose is this that most I may say all 
the People here wants Servants especially to Cut their Timber end Clear 
their Land. If your Honourable Board or any of your Friends would 
Supply us with a certain Number of them (for a Servitude for four 
Years) delivered free to Us of all Charges but to Pay for each at the 
rate of Four Pounds Sterling p_ Annum to be paid Monthly or Quarterly to 
prevent Arrears, this would be more easy to the People than buying 
Servants at 3E< 10. Sterling ready Money down this would Enable the Free 
holders to go on briskly in clearing their Lands and Cultivating the 
same for it does not yet appear to me what great Improvement One Man 
by himself can do in such a Forrest as this is. And its out of their 
Power to buy any Servants. 

The Profit gain'd by these Servants might Enable your Honourable 
Board to Transport hither many Distress'd Families in England. 

Suppose 2500 Servants were they brought to this Colony, I take 
it that their Passage &c. in large Ships as I hpve mentioned would not 

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amount to above & 12500. sterl. pjnd to gain 3s 4. Sterling 2, Annum on 
each (except Desths &c) would ^reduce $< 16 Sterl. on each Servant and 
thereby Amount to L 40,000 sterl., or clear of all Charges $< 27500. 
Net proceed. 

1st. This would be a. large Sum gaind either by private Persons 
in Case your Honourable board did not think to be concern*d therein. 

2ndly. And be very Advantageous to Vagabonds, Idle Vagrants &c. 
-who would be put in a way to live in Plenty and with Expectation of 
Lands after their Servitudes. (265) 

3dly. This Project would greatly Contribute to the Ease and 
Quietness Security of House Keepers Ac. in Great Britain by draining the 
Land of so many Idle Vagabonds. 

4hly. It would be of vast Service to the People here in Culti 
vating their Lands &c. 

5hly. It would be to the whole Kingdom of Great Britain for as 
much as if this Province Succeeds in dying Stuffs. Vines, Olives and 
Silk and Pot Ashes (which last some is making) the Less Demand there 
will be from Foreigners who takes few or None of the -Produce or Manufac 
ture of Great Britain. Whereas as this Colony Increases in Number of 
People and Riches will have all their wants from Europe Supply'd by 
Great Britain even those very People who were before a burthen to the 
Nation. 

I most Humbly and respectively beg Pardon for the Freedom I take 
for which I can give no other reason than the Earnest desire I have to 
see this Colony flourish and Prosper. 

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I wish that as in our Humane Bodies, God placed every one for the 
Use of the whole, that all of Us would have the same Regard for its 
Usefullness and with the same Union as every one Member of Humane 
Bodies, Acts for the Support and Benefit of the whole, however (The* 
others there be and too many) that are unconcern'd at their own or the 
Publick Welfare. I will by ell possible me?=ns Act for the Interest and 
Benefit of both, and Leave the Issue end Success to God. 
I am most respectively 

My Lords & Gentlemen 

Your Most Obliged and 
Devoted Humble Servant. 

(267) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh To Mr. Cglethorpe Dated 
at Charles Town October the 19th 1734. 

Sir 

The Inclosed Letter was designed You by Captn. Taylor who Sailed 
So suddingly that I could not gett it on Board since which I have been 
informed of Several Persons that came indebtted into this Province 
That hpve paid their Original debts (being Considerable Sums) and which 
they (in reason) could not be Expected to do had they tarried in 
England. 

On Thursday the third of this Instant I went on Board in a 
Canoe, at Six of the Clock in the Morning with a fair Gale of wind 
s.nd Stopping for the Tide at Bear Bluff Otter Island sjid Port Royal 
about Seven hours, I arrived in the Mouth of Savannah River about Six of 

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the Clock on Fryday Evening being the Shortest that has yet ever teen 
made that I can hear of But loosing our way it was next morning before 
we could get to Savannah Where I was very handsomely received & treated 
by Mr. Causton and the Other Gentlemen of that place being Invited 
Every dey to dinner by one or the other when I first came ashore, they told 
me that when ever I saw a Chimney house I msy depend that it did belong 
to a Widow and seeing some Gentlemen at a distance with laced Hatts on 
I ask^t who they were They told me they were Scotch men for that no 
other wore laced Hatts (but the Gentlemen of that Nation) on that Bluff. 
I found a great Alteration Every way for the better from what it 
was when I was last there. 

There are about four score Houses built and forty more going 

makeing 
forward besides Several Additions/ncskiHg to their former Ones Muir is 

building a two Storey house joyning to his former one and Mr. West (they 
Say) designs to build a House. 

A single House letts out for fifteen pounds Sterl. pr. Annum, 
and one five Acre Lett for five Pounds of the Like money. 

While I was there was the Quarter Session*3 when appeared a 
Great many Gentlemen being Summond as Grandjury Men from all parts of 
the Settlement^ to whom Mr. Causton gave a very handsome Charge & then 
proceeded to business Where Causes (268) were Try'd(and in my Judgment) 
very impartially without the Jargon or the Confused Quirks of the 
Lawyers snd without any Cost or Charges, and Yet (in my Opinion) 
consonant to reason and Equity which I take to be the foundation of all 
Law's. 

It*a true there were some Persons Who did Complain, but that is 
Common with Such who have lost their Causes. 

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Mr, Causton has there a great deal of Business, and is very much 
fa.teagu.ed from Morning till Night by the Impertinences of some people, 
and who seem to Exclaim against him (the* I believe without a Cause.) 

The Irish Convicts give him a great deal of Disturbance, They 
are constantly playing their Roguish Tricks, stealing from their 
Masters and Carrying the Goods to some others, which gives him double 
trouble, for he punishes both the Theif end the Receiver. Tis the 
General Vogue; That the buying of those Convicts, was the worst Action 
you did whilst there, and the Opinion is as General, That you did it 
with a good design. Watson has been drunk almost ever Since You went 
away. I was credibly informed that he has been so three Weeks Succes 
sively, but yet whilst I was there He kept himself Sober, Especialy in 
the Day time. 

He rails very much against You myself a,nd the whole Province of 
Georgia, and Say's Re has seen the Rain of two New Colonys, and doubts 
not but he shall see the third. He kept Sky drunk in his Store for a 

fortnight together, and when he went away publickly Said, that he had 

s 
done hds business for him, and he dyed Soon after. 

This came to the Ears of Stitehee vho came to Yemacraw with a 
design to Kill him, but he made his Escape by breaking through the End 
of his Store, and he in his Rage killed Justice, Musgroves Slave and 
Still persists in his Resolution of Killing Watson (if he csn find 
him). (269) 

Mr. Causton has had a difficult Card to play, do believe he*d do 
Muegrove, my Self and Watson too Justice, but is resolved either by 
fair or foul means to drive Watson off the Bluff, For it will be of 
ill and very dangerous Consequence if he should be killed by the Indians. 

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I carried down with me some Liquorish and Hopp Roots and gave 
them to Mr. Amathist with directions to plant them as I had been advised, 
and the first Place I vent to be with him, was the Publick Garden, But 
could not find th.3t any of the Coffee Berries, Date Stones, Collo- 
quintida Seeds, which I sent down some time agoe had been planted. 

The Orange and Mulberry Trees, sent from Town, look very well 
and Mr. Amathist hpd Sowne all along the Fence next to the Town above 
Six foot deep with white Mulberry Seeds which came up very thick, and 
doubt not but there will be an hundred Thousand Trees if not more. 

I went also down to See the Brick makers, where I found made 
about One hundred thousand, and the Workmen toll me, that they doubt 
not, but by March they Shall have three hundred thousand, and they 
expect their Chimnies up to all their Houses by Christmas. 

The People their seem to be dissatisfied That they hpve not 
Liberty of getting Negroes. I could wish the Trustees would oblige 
them in this two Points, and as to the Latter to Limmit it to two to a 
family. 

I went down to Thunderbolt which I found to be a place very 
pleasantly Situated, and Where Mr. Ethrington and Lacy hpd made very 
Considerable Improvements considering, the Time they had been there, 
They have built their Houses, Erected a good Fort and Gun's Mounted 
thereon that Commanded the Creek also cleared fenced and plsnted a good 
Quantity of Land with Corn, pease Rice &c and were clearing and 
fenceing more Land against next Year. (2?0) 

I went with My. Lacy down to His House where he designed to Make 
Pottash, w&ich I found to be in very good Order, The Eatts fixed and 

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the Receivers under them, a Pump also that Conveyed water 

into the Fall's by a Spout; a Kettle to boil the Lixivium into A Con 
sistency, and an Oven to bake it in veil fixed also. And he seems very 
Positive; That he Can make very good Fottash. He designs this or the 
next Week to begin his Work having a Quantity of Ashes by him, and has 
promised to send some down to me as Soon as it is made which I shall 
send to You Here I had a Sight of Skideway Where are ten Femilys 
settled, But was informed they were discouraged from making Improvements, 
because they had no title to their Lands. 

This place is Eight Miles Distance from the Mouth of Wassan 
River agpinst which lye's little Tybee, and has been lately Surveyed 
by Mr. Ford, Who told me that he could bring a Vessel into a. Place of 
Security, thro a Channel where there was four foot and a half at Low 
Water; And there is one place between That and Thunderbolt where there 
was but three And an half Fathom at Low Water, But at High Water could 
bring up to Thunderbolt almost eny Man of Warr Manxa Where the Vessell 
would be intirely land lockt (Having Willmotton and other Islands to 
Secure it, and which place is Extraordinary fitt and Convenient for 
Creaning of Men of Warr; there being four fathom and an half Water, 
within Sixty foot from low Water Mark, the Bluff is right up and down, 
and in the Channel there is Nine fathom. 

At the Savannah I met with Tom Jones Who told me that the 
Chacktaw were very well pleased with the presents made them by Mr. 
Causton and that he was in hopes of getting them Remove up to the 
Cohawhabee Hatchee or Petticak Hatchee (2?l) being forty and Six Miles 
from the Coosah River. He tells me that he was very credibly Informed, 

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the the French were sending up Eighty or an hundred Men to the Albania 
Fort, with a design to build three Ezix Forts on the White Ground (as 
they call it) Having lately purchased that Lajid of the Indians. 

The Euchees hsve lost three of their Nation lately and two 
wounded, about nine Miles from the Parrachocle'z fort, but by whom is 
Uncertain, Whether it be the Yamacraw or the Creeks. But there are 
nine men gone out from thence to make a discovery. 

We had this Week an Account, That the Cherrokes to the Number of 
Sixty were coming down and it's Supposed they msy be now at Captn. 
Russells. 

The Scotch hsve built a Fort at Sterlings and have cleared (as I 
have been Informed) a good Quantity of Land at the places I have 
already mentioned Together with Fort Argyle Abicorne, Eampstepd and 
other Settlements, and will in my Opinion Securely defend Savannah Town 
from any Surprize, Where I was informed were no less than Six or Seven 
hundred Persons. 

Coining back Homewards I toucht one Night at Port Royal to see 
Mr. McCoy Who has been Extreamly ill, but is at Present much better, 
end designs in a Short Time to proceed, But his Horses are at present 
very poor, four of which were drowned, as he went over The River, I 
Arrived upon Wednesday the Sixteenth Current. 

In the foregoing You have an Account of what Observations I 
made, whilst at Georgia Wherein I ommitted to inform You that upon My 
Arrival there I found the people to be in good Health and so have been 
all the Summer. 

I heard Mr. Quincy preach two very good Sermons, (272) but the 
Place was but indifferent. However are in Hopes of a New Church being 
built Speedily. 

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I am Sensible That you may have had. more perfect Accompts from 
son other People So that if you intend to Imprint what I have wrote,You 
may alter or omitt as you think fitt I confess I have been somewhat 
large But knowing your Affections to those people to be great is that 
which induced me to it, and hope will be acceptable. 

Yesterday arrived Captn. Sandwell from London, and Captn. Loyd 
appeared of the Barr, sent in his Lieutenant who informs us, That they 
were on board the James Captn, Yoakley off of Georgia, who had Seventy 
Passengers on Board and Saw him go into the River. 

I am with due respects to 

the Trustees 
Sr. 

Your Most humble Servt. 
P.S. 

In my former Letter instead of being the Bohemia it Should have 
been the Abimany Bank. And about a Husquett Shott from Thunderbolt 
fort, is as fine a Spring of fresh Water, as I have tasted this long 
Time. 

(275) Copy of a Letter from Isanc Cha. rdon to the Trustees dated at 
Charles Town 24th October 1734. 

Gentlemen 

According to my last of the 28th of September I do herewith send 
you the Accounts of wh?t has been disbursed for the Use of the Colony 
of Georgia for these last Six Months Ending the 24th September, the 

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Ballance in By Favour being L 1012.4.2. Sterling and I have agreeably 
thereto drawn upon you for that Sum Payable unto Messrs. Peter s.nd J. C. 
Simonds a sett of Bills bearing date with the seid Accounts which I 
hope you will be Pleased to Honour and Debit me therewith. I shall Be 
Obliged to draw upon you again in a few days for Moneys Disbursed since 
for BxKxiximK Provissions &c. 

I have lately been Informed by Captain Mac'pherson of the 
Palachocola Fort, that on the 28th of September upon Ogechee River was 
killed, three of the Uchee Indians, Two Women and one Men; thin Murther 
is supposed to be committed by some of the Yamasees s.nd Spaniards; Mr. 
Causton doubtless will inform you more particularly thereof when he 
Writes; I % Expected, to have sent you his Accounts of Disbursments by 
this Opportunity, but I suppose that he has not finished them yet. 

I am 
Captsin Yoakley arriv'd at 

Gentlemen 
the Colony last Week. 

Your Very Humble Servant. 

(279) Copy of a Letter from Isaac Chprdon to My, Oglethorpe dated at 
Charles Town 26th of October 1734. 

Sr. 

Of the 24th Instant I wrote to the rest of the Honourable Trustees, 
And at the seme time I sent all the Accounts which I hope will prove 
right and Agreeable, the Ballance is in my Favour L 1012.4.2 Sterl. 
which I desire should be paid unto Mr. Peter J. C. Simond and Mrske no 
Doubt but my Draughts will meet with due Favour. 

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All the News which I have now to Acquaint is that we have Again 
Settled and Fixed a Post Man, and as there is a great many Tredere from 
hence to Georgia so well as those that resides there, Mr. Causton has 
thought proper to fix a Postage on the Letters for Encoursgmt. to the 
Man and to make it the more easy for People to Convey their Letters, all 
Persons who have any to send Carrys them to the Box at the Georgia and 
Purrysbourgh Coffee House here. 

Captain McPherson informed me that on the 28th of September last 
upon Ogeechee River there was Kill'd three Uchee Indians two of them 
Women and one Man He supposes them to be Yamasees and Spaniards thpt 
has committed those Hostilities for to revenge themselves of the like 
that the Uchees Served them in June Last pretty far to the Southward; 
McPherson was at Georgia when this Happened. 

I have Credited James Carwell one of the first men that came to 
Georgia to Encourge him, he bought his dry goods here in Town of whom 
he Pleased, and I paid for them the Value of L 205- 0 — our Currents'' 
and he has since made shift to Convert them all into Wett and (280) 
Drank them up. he ought if he had the least Gratitude to have Drank my 
Health since that is all I could expect for my Money. 

As there is nothing further that Offers at present I beg leave to 
assure you that I am with the Utmost respect Possible. 

Your Most Obedient Servant. 
I just Now Received a Letter of the 21st 
from Mr. Causton who Confirms me of the safe 
Arrival of Captain Yoakley at Georgia with 60.ty 
Passengers for Purrysbourgh but there is no other 
News. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated. at South 
Carolina October 30th 1734. 

Sr. 

In Obedience to their Lordships Commands transmitted to me by 
you, to Inquire what further Encouragmts. may be Necessary to engage the 
Inhabitants of this Province to apply their Industry to the Cultivation 
of Naval Stores of all kinds and likewise of such other Products as may 
be proper for this Soil and Climate, Thpt do not Interfere with the 
Trade and Product of Great Britain, I have duely Considered thereof, 
and taken the Advice of such others as I thought Capable. 

Hemp./ The General Assembly of this Province did the last Sessions 
Pass a Law Whereby they gave unto Mr. Richard Rail One hundred Pounds 
Sterl. p_ Annum a.nd sent him to Holland to Procure two Hundred Bushells 
of Hemp Seed, and twenty Bushells of Flax Seed. But was so Unfortunate 
as to Ship the said Seeds on Board of Captain Paul, who stay'd so long 
in London and afterwards detained Nine Weeks in the Channell by Con 
trary Winds, that he did not arrive here 'till the 15th day of May, too 
late (as it was found by Experience) to plant the same, And it is 
generally Concluded that the Seed is Spoilt, But the Assembly Meets the 
next Month, When I shall Strenuously Recommend the Affair of Hemp to 
their Consideration, and to send to Philadelphia and New York to pro 
cure Seed for th^t Purpose. The said Mr. Hall is Obliged by the Law 
to Instruct our Planters to Manure, Cultivate and Manage Hemp till its 
fit for the Markett, for which he is extreamly well Qualified. The Law 
that now Subsists in Great Britain, That Allows a Bounty on the 

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Importation of Hemp, expires in a few Years time and if the Parliament 
will (284) continue the same for a longer Term of Years, it would 
mightily encourage our industrious Planters to Proceed thereon with 
Vigour. 

Flax./ Mr. Hall is of Opinion that Flax also wou'd do Extraordinary 
well in this Country, and if a Bounty was given thereon, it might much 
Encourage the Propagation thereof. 

Live Oak. Here are such vast ^ Quantitys of Live Oak Timber Trees 
grow in this Province a.nd in his Majestys Province of Georgia as is not 
easily to be conceived; Which Oak by reason of its durableness, crooked 
ness of growth Suitable to the Most difficult Timbers in Building of 
Men of Warr, is Superior to any English Oak which is the Opinion of Men 
of good Understanding who I have conversed, particularly of one Berry 
who was lately Master when I was in England (if not now) of his Majestys 
Yards in Deptford who built a Ship thereof in this Province. 

Cypress. We have in this Province a vast Quantity of Cypress Timber, 
almost inexhaustible which is Extraordary good and durable, free from 
Knott's and very proper (as Men of Understanding do affirm) for Decking 
his Majestys Men of Warr, because of its durebleness end Lightness when 
dry and Men of Judgment are of Oppinion, That it would make very good 
Masts for his Majesty's largest Ships, some of them are five foot thick 
at the Bottom and carry a good thickness all along as far as eighty 
feet without Limb or Enott, There are a great many of those Trees that 
are thirty six Inches and upwards thorough, and seventy five feet Long 
it's true they grow in Deep Swamps, and are very heavy when cutt down 

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green, but being Squared end put upon Logg's a considerable wsy from 
the Ground, I am informed will grow very light and may be easily 
brought out of the Swamps in Flood time which is generally twice or 
more in a Year. This Timber (in my Opinion) deserves your Considera 
tion. 

There's this great Advantage thpt attends both (285) live Oak 
and Cypress, the former grows upon Continent and Islands near the Sea, 
the Latter in Swamps adjoyning to fresh Water Rivers, so that there will 

be but very little Occasion for C&rtsge. Syxgt Cypress Plank I Presume 

<s 

to be the best for Lineing between Docks, because it will not Splinter 

as your Oa.k will, which Splinters in the time of Engagement does more 
Damage than the Bulletts: We have not that Quantity of white Oak in 
this Province as they have to the Northward but I am Informed it is 
superior in quality For Captain Austin Built a large Ship for Mr. 
Wragg about twenty Years since, end the Indian Warr Obliged them to send 
to Virginia and Rhode Island for Plank, and he informed me that what 
came from Virginia was better than that which came from Rhode Island, 
and some that he had cutt here was better than either, I do not mention 
Pitch, Tar and Turpentine because there*s already a Bounty. 

Boards Plank. I have been Informed thpt the Swedes and other Northern 
Countrys have risen the Price of their Boards Plank &c. to almost 
Double to what they were Sixty Years since, But the Distance is so great 
from this to Great Britain and the freight Consequently so high that we 
can't pretent to goe thereon without encouraged by a Premium. 

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Pot and ) Here is in this Province of Swedish Gentm. (who as I am 

) 

Pearl Ashes ) Informed) has sent for a Person that -understands the 

making of Pottash in Order to proceed thereon and there is now in 
Georgia a Person that has fixed his York's in Order to make Pottash 
some of which will be Speedily sent Home to Mr. Oglethorpe, who Un 
doubtedly will Communicate the same to their Lordships and if the Duty 
of the said Commodity (as comeing from America) be taken off it will 
be a great Encouragement for many others to Proceed thereon, as also on 
Pearl Ashes which Mr. Hall is of Opponion may be easily made in this 
Province. (286) 

Druggs. Here is a Design forming to introduce (if possible) several 
Valuable Druggs &c. from Natolia and Syria and other Places in the 
Streights; these two Provinces lye pretty near the Latitude of this 
Piece for which reason those Commoditys may Probably be produced here; 
and if the Parliament won't Grant some Encouregment for the Importation 
thereof into Great Britain, it would quicken and forward the design. 

Silk is another Commodity which this Country does Produce (as 
appears by divers Samples which have been sent home) have been extra 
ordinary well approved off by Men of Good Understanding in that Com 
modity; divers Planters have lately Propagated a Considerable Quantity 
of White Mulberry Trees and I hope they will apply their Industry that 
way, and it would be a great Encouragement if the Parliament would take 
off the Duty on Importation thereof into Great Britain. 

The sti Advantages which Great Byitsin has by Experience found by 
a Iste Act, that gives us Liberty to Transport our Rice directly to sny 
part of Europe to the Southward of Cape Finister are so great (as may be 

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plainly made appear) That I doubt not but that his Majesty and Parlia 
ment will Prolong the same: And if that Liberty were extended to the 
Dutch, French & Spanish Islands and Continent in America, it would be 
an Additional Advantage to Great Britain. 

I beg leave to give n)y Oppiiion That his Majestys Settlements on 
this Continent, particularly this Province and the Province of Georgia 
ought at this time to be Encouraged; because I am Informed That the 
French increase very fast at New Orleans and ere extending their 
Limitts by Building Forts; so that his Majestys British Empire in 
America is more than one half Surrounded by the French from the Mouth 
of the River Messasippe to the Mouth of that of St. Lawrence: Nay 
further from Moveile to Cape Britton. 

(28?) Copy of a Letter from Captain Dunbar to Mr. Vernon ^ dated 5th 
of November 1734. 

Our Voyage hither was retarded by a profound calme which con 
tinued from thursday till this Morning when I thank God we were favour'd 
with a fair Wind and likely to continue. 

The Indian King, Queen and the others are well & chearfull 
(remembering their English Benefactors) except the Prince whose Cold 
continues, but was much easier last night than any Since he came on 
Board. 

The other Passengers seem pleas'd and are well except Sr. Francis 
Bathurst bad of an Old Wound in his Shin and Mrs. Fly who is a little 
mended. 

 125 (28?) 

Messrs. Gordon and Vst Manage their People with so much Prudence 
and good Sence thpt every thing is as Orderly as cou'd be expected and 
I think my self extreamly happy in both. The only way I can hope to 
return in ajiy Measure the Confidence you have repos'd in and the Honour 
done me is by a due care of the Indians a.nd other Passengers, which I 
do assure you was it contrpTy to my Inclinations I'd Sacrifice them to 
the return I owe to so many Favours. 

When it Pleases God I Arrive at Georgia 1*11 Execute your other 
commands with ray outmost Endeavours. I have the Honour to be. 

Your Most Obedient and Humble Servant. 

(291) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated at South Carolina November ?th 1?34. 

Sr. 

My last to you was by Captain Serjeant (Via Lancaster) wherein I 
gave you an Accompt of whpt was most Observable whilst I was in Georgia 
But therein omitted to acquaint you, That I was Informed by Mr. Canston, 
That a Spanish Officer and Souldiers had been mett in the Woods and do 
suppose they had been to View the Place where Fort Alatamaha was built 
(according to Custom) upon which Accompt I pm Apprehensive, That they 
have a Design to built a Fort th?t way and in Order to Prevent them I 
am of Opoinion its Necessary, Thn.t a Fort should be Immediately bui^t 
And that the Independant Company may be removed to that Place to 
garrison the Seme. 

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I am of Oppinicn you ought to get Leave of his Majesty to Build 
the said Fort or Forts on the South side of that River; For should you 
Build it on the North Side (which is within the Limitts of Georgia) The 
Spaniards may build on the South side and thereby render the Forts 
almost Useless. 

Sr. dont you think it Adviseable, That his Majesty should build 
a Fort on the North Side of the River St. Jeuan (which River is thirty 
Miles distance from St. Augusta, in Order to Ascertain the Southern 
Limitts of his American Empire. 

Captain Walker was drove in by stress of Weather behind the Islpnd 
of St. Simon Where he Observed in a smpll space of Ground so much live 
Oak Timber as was sufficient to build five hundred Sail of Shipp's (as 
he told me) And that too so ne?r the Water side, that there was no need 
of Cartage a Quarter (292) of a Mile. 

The Spaniards have of late Yeprs built several fine Ships at the 
Havannah, end are now building more; And did they know (as Perhaps they 
do) the Value of the Live Oak Timber that grows in those part's I 
believe they would Struggle hard for it, and could wish that his 
Majesty or the Trustees would send over two or three Persons of good 
Understanding to View sjid make report of the Quantity and Quality of 
that Timber which may be had in these two Provinces And I will at my 
own Cost and Charge Provide a Boat, Hands and Guide and other Necessarys 
to shew what Quantity's there are of seid Timbers, and am Confident the 
Report I shall make will be very Surprizing. 

I had forgot to Acquaint you that Mr. Walker informed me, that 
whilst he was on the Island of St. Simons he saw several fine Pine Trees 
(which would carry thirty Inches thorough) fitt for Masts. 

 12? (292) 

Yesterday I received the Acceptable favour of the twenty Seventh 
of July, ana return you my hearty thanks, for wh?t Favours you hpve 
shewn me in respect to Sr. John Bruce hope, and in a. particular manner 
for what Services you hpve done for this Province and the Governor* 

There*s one thing I must Observe which (am afraid has not yet 
been thought of) which will take of a great Deal of the blame that may be 
laid to the Governors Charge, on Accompt of his passing the appropria 
tion Lew. When he arrived here as Kings Governor, he found the Province 
very much in Debt occasioned by Palmer's Expedition against St. Augus 
tine and Collonel Glovers to the Creek Nation so that the (293) Governour 
was under a sort of Necessity of Issueing out more Orders. 

The Taxes of this Province (as I formerly Observed) are very 
great, upon which Accompt it is, That several People are leaving it to 
goe to Cape Fear. 

Mr. Clifford and Mr. Dry hsve sold their Plantations, and have 
sent their Negroes away to Cape fear in Order to goe there. Mr. Wright, 
Mr. Eagle and some others have Advertised their Plantations to be sold 
for that Purpose,and divers others (I am told) trill follow them and I am 
sensible that the Taxes and want of a sufficient Currency, are the 
Principal. Reasons that has Induced them so to do. The Governour some 
time since received a Letter from Mr. Popple a copy of which he gave me 
and desired I would drpw out my thoughts thereon, which accordingly I 
did, and last week gave it to him but he was so weak and Low, that he 
could not consider of it. (what Conditions end Amendments he may make 
thereto, I can't tell but you have inclosed a Copy thereof) Please to 
take Notice, that the Last Paragraph msy be made use of as Argument for 

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continueing the Liberty Granted to Rice and the Extending of those 
Limits. 

I heartily wish you success in your Undertaking for the Good of 
Georgia and this Province and em, 

Sr. 
Your Most Obliged Humble Servant. 

(295) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated at South Carolina November 20th 1734. 

Sr. 

I have severally times formerly been discoursing with some of 
Our Assembly Men; wherein I plpinly shewed them the Dissacvantage th?t 
Accrues to Trpde Ac. to this Province by the Duty they have put on 
6° p_ Skin at the Exportation and the Charge of the Lycense; By which 
mesns we can't Trade with the Cherokees & Cettabak's on such good Terms 
as those of Virginia do. Besides our Traders are Limitted to Towns, 
and their Pack-horsemen are not to Trade (which the Virginians do) 
notwithstanding, the Assembly lately mett and made a Law which was 
ratifyed last Saturday. (Inclosed you have a Copy thereof) wherein 
they have putt a Duty on all Skins and Furs (Light as well as heavy) 
of 6^ T3 Skin; And an Addition of fifty one Pounds g Heed Lycences which 
is a Burthen too great for them to bear. 

I Endeavoured (whilst the Bill was passing) to shew them the Dis 
advantage it would be to this Province that it would drive the whole 
Trade to Virginia Cape Fare and Georgia, And for thst reason no Law 

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made in this Country could have any Effect there; 

I demonstrated the.t it would be fifty thousand Pounds or more out 
of this Provinces way and do believe it will be as much in the way of 
Georgia. 

This Government (whilst the Indians were down) purchased of them 
a Neck of Land, which you'll find Mark't with redd in Collo. Herberts 
Draught of the Cherrokee Nation Inclosed, they tell me its good Land; 
(296) But it so happened there was not one Indian in Town that lived in 
those Parts so that the Purchase is thereby void. 

However Plausible the Introduction of this Act may appear Yet I 
do assure you the Design of it was levelled agpinst me and other 
Persons concerned in the Trade And they did Expect to Ruin the Traders 
so that they may take the Indian Tre.de into a Company for I can assure 
you that the Cherokee Traders (for these ten Years past) have not 
cleared fifty Pounds p_ Annum. 

There are six of those Indian Traders are resolved not to take 
out a Lycense, But will goe and teke out their Goods at Savannah Town 
and so goe up to the Cherrokees and come down the So. side of Savannah 
River and this comes to desire you to apply to the Trustees, That I may 
have two hundred and fifty Acres of Land at Kinyan's Bluff, which is on 
the South Side of Savsnnah River aforesaid Six Miles above the Garrison; 
And that I may have the Liberty to Purchase of the Yamscraw Indians 
Twenty Acres of Land somewhere by Musgrove's, which I design to clear, 
build a House upon and make Gardens &c. for I do design to go thither 
and live. 

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I have already wrote to Mr. Causton to tpke on shore what 
Leather cooes down the Savannah River, and. on Monday next I shall send 
my Young Man to "build a Press, carry Screws with him and pack my Leather 
there. And as Mr. Chardon says, there are some Vessells expected, 
which may come here, I will put them on Board (if bound, for London) 
For I am Informed, that thereby I may save both Duty's) as it won't be 
Landed. (29?) 

If you Conply with my request I desire you will signify the same 
to Mr. Jeffries, for by this Conveyance I have ordered him to charter 
a Vessell from Bristol and send her to Milford Haven and there take in 
whst &&x Servants and Passengers he can gett and two hundred Bushells 
of Malt, and See if the Old Brewer can make beer thereof; and I Propose 
to send, down some more Hopp Roots to Georgia and will plant them in my 
own Garden, and desire you will speak to some Welch Gentleman in those 
parts to Assist in procuring Passengers and Servants. 

Since the Passing of that Act I have spent a great many thoughts 
how to Promote and Encourage Georgia. Some of which I shall Communicate 
to You. I have already spoke to a Hatter, Who has Promissed to goe 
down there, and I have Promised to Supply him with Beaver, and all 
other Necessarys for his Trade. I shall also Endeavour to gett a 
Cooper, A Shooemaker, a Gold Smith and other Tradesmen and will supply 
them with what ever they shall want to carry on their Trades. 

I have a Scooner of about Seventy Tons, which I v<ill employ to 
bring in their Rum, Sugar, Molasses Ac. from the West Indies, and pro 
bably I may get another Sloop to goe to Pensilvania to bring Flower &c. 
from thence. 

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There are two Men who lately came from No. Carolina, and by my 
Encouragment are now settled, at a Town Ship up at the Congrees; they a.re 
both very carefull and Industrious Persons and they design in the Spring 
to goe back to North Carolina with two Men more. I promised to furnish 
them with as many Goods as will come to five or six hundred Pounds with 
which they propose to Purchase one Hundred Head of Cattle, and I will 
Endeavour to Persuade them to drive them to Eynians Bluff and there to 
have a Cowpen and Hogg Crawl, and (298) from thence they can Easily 
drive them down to Georgia. 

I am at this Juncture considering of a Method to make the 
Ballance of Trade between this and th?t in the Favour of Georgia which 
doubt not shall Effect (please God to spare my life and Health) The 
greatest difficulty that will Occurr, is how to Load the Vessells 
back but if you can procure a. Premium on Live Oak Timber, Pine and 
Cypress Board and Plank, I doubt not, but that it would be of vast 
Advantage and very much increase Navigation. 

Whilst I was at Georgia Mr. Parker told me that he i*as building 
a Saw Mill, and Spoke with Something of an Assurance that it would do. 

I desire you will Order Mr. Causton to grant Lycences to the 
Traders and that you write him (to that Purpose) by the first Oppor 
tunity That they may be ready by the time the Traders come down (which 
will be in Aprill. 

The Governor has of late been very much indisposed; and ie at 
Present in a Dangerous Condition, if he should die I will Endeavour to 
give you the first Account thereof for I will Perswade the Captain to 
put my Letter into the first Post he comes to and to keep the rest 

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till he gets Yip to London. 

I am now to the 3d of December and have since the about wrote to 
Mr. Causton and given him an Accot. of what our Ingenious Assembly has 
been doing. 

I understand the Governor and Council were against Passing the 
late Act, but the Assembly were so Violent and the Governor so Sick, 
that it was Ratify'd on a SpturRay Night after twelve a Clock and read 
twice thpt very day in both Houses. (29$) 

I spoke to Mr. Middleton Ipst Week on this Affair who happened 
at that time to be out of Town. He told me had he been there, he should 
have opposed it And beleive (so soon as the Assembly sitts) the Act will 
be repealed. 

If Mr. Jeffries sends me a Vessell to be here the latter End of 
Msy next You may have Liberty to putt any thing on Board, And I propose 
to be at Georgia about th?t Time and there to continue Two or three 
Months; I am still of the same Oppinion and will Promote your Darling 
Province of Georgia to the Utmost of my Power. 

I am, 

Sr. 

Your Most Obedient Humble Servant. 

(303) Copy of a Letter from Patrick Macksy to the Trustees dated at 
Uchie Town 20th of November 1?34. 

Honoble. Gentlemen 

I do not think it-A^-proper to Trouble you with s. detail of what 

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Stop'd me till now from going into the Creek Nation, but beg le^ve to 
referr You to Mr. Oglethorpe to whom I wrote of this date. But I am 
fond I c^n sey we hare enterr'd so far as to the Uchee Town on Our 
Journey and that I wait but for one fair Day to lepve it again; in my 
first from Charles Town I told you that the Commissioner of the Indian 
Trede for that Province Expressed in way of Advice to the Creek Traders, 
against your Agent and what were the Sentiments of the Merchants and 
most of the Carolina Gentlemen; I in like Manner told you to what 
little Purpose I had Complain'd to the Governor, but that I expected a 
Letter from his Excellency to the Creek Traders declaring I had been 
Appointed Agent end to respect me us such, but as I left Charles Town 
his Excellency in a handsome Manner refused giving the Letter the* I 
demanded it. And now I beg leave to Observe to you that it is to no 
Purpose (I fear) for you to appoint any Agent without you likewise 
Nominate a Commissioner to grant Lycences, for the Traders only respect 
the Province that gives the Lycence. Carolina now finding th?t by all 
Appearance they will loose the Trade to the Creek Nation, are become 
Indifferent how its regulated in the Nation, and by that Means they 
grant Lycences to every Person that Demands it, which may be attended 
with a Dangerouse consequence, if not timely adverted too; for (104) if 
too many Tracers are thrown into the Nation, of Necessity the one will 
Undersell the other, and then they will begin to Cheat, and play tricks 
with the Indians and by this Means ruin the Trade; and may be Incense 
the Indians to a Rupture. What will much Conduce to s Discord is the 
large Quantitys of Rum now Imported among the Indians, end winked, at 
by Carolina; since they find they are to loose the Benefit of their 

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Trade. I advised as many as I saw of the Traders to carry no Rum into 
the Nation, but they plainly told me without the whole they neither 
could nor would. For say they if we have no Rum and our Neighbouring 
Traders have, the Indians of our Towns will lay out none of Our Skins, 
but will Travel if it was an Hundred Miles to the Traders Store th^t 

^y\ /i t^l 

keeps the Rum. Yet all agree th^t -a3ri is a Pernicious Thing to be 
carryed into the Nation, for they ssy they never have discords with the 
Indians but when the Indians end Traders get Drunk; and that it is 
scarcely ^possible to Disoblige any Indian if Sober%. This I hope you 
will take into Consideration and give timely Instructions for Next 
Year, before the Traders shall Renew their LycenceR in Carolina. Tho' 
I had no particular Instructions about it, Yet I Ventured to renew the 
licences to the two Traders in the Uchee Town, but took no Money from 
them as is the practice in the Neighbouring Province* In my last of the 
10th of August I Promissed to send you a particular Accompt of the 
Horses I had bought for the Service of the Company and carrying the 
Presents into the Indian Nation. And now you will please to receive it, 
by which you will find the (305) L 1219- I had of Jenys and Baker was 
exhausted to ^35:10. which how Expended I shall Accompt. I shall be 
glad to have your Orders how I shall dispose of what Horses the Company 
does not Require. In the mepn time I beg lesve to assure you that I am 
with Profound esteem and Respect. 

Eonoble. Gentlemen 

Your Most Humble Servant. 

 135 (307) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Mackay to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Uchee Town 20th of November 1?34. 

Sir 

When I wrote my last I should be able to perform wh^t I had 
promissed in my first. Vizt. to be in the Nation, tho' not in the 
latter End of August yet of September. Yet I met with such unexpected 
Cross Accidents in Carrying the Horses from Carolina to this Place, as 
effectually Stop'd me till now. I sett out the 15th of August with the 
Horses, three Packhorsemen and a Servant I had bought at Charles Town; 
The first Night the Servant was taken down with Fever and Ague, And I 
was Obliged to leave him in Ponpon and have not seen nor heard of him 
since, the second day tvo of the Packhorsemen were taken so ill with a 
Fever that they could scarcely Sit on Horse Bsck, the third day all the 
three were taken ill; And I was Obliged to lye by two days there look 
ing for their recovery, but they continued so Weak they were of little 
Use or help to me, so was Obliged to hire a Man to assist me to the 
Pallachocolas from Ashipoo River, But before I reached so far I was 
Obliged to Drop two of my Sick Men in the Path at least ten Miles from 
any Settlement, and lost some Horses in the Journey and others in July 
fearing Swamp by being weak handed. The 26th dey of August, I got 
there with most of my Horses sjid Employed two of Captain Mclntosh's 
Hen, to tend them untill my Packhorse Men recovered, or th?t I return'd 
from Savannah with the Company; in the Mean time does the Pariagua. with 
the presents arrive, so stay'd two Days more to Unload and Secure her 
Csrgoe, and (308) then I set down the River in the Periagua, But when 

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I arrived at Josephs Town I was truely Confounded to find my Carpenter 
and two other White Servants had dyed, all my Men either down of the 
fester or but so weakly Recovered the One could not help the Other; and 
told Leiutenant Parker lay ill in Savannah. And the Doctor XE Reduced 
so Week with Fevers that he could not attend the Man. This was so dull 
a Scene that I stayed but two Nights there. I went down to Savannah 
where I found both the Lieutenant and Surgeon much worse than I Ex 
pected, and the Lieutenants then notyfyed to me he would not if in 
Health goe into the Indian Nation and therefore desired I would look 
out for any other that would accept of the Commission. That very Night 
I was taken so ill my self with the fever thpt in less than three hours, 
as the Doctors told me thereafter, I was Delirious and Continued sense 
days, the Delirium then ceased but the fever Continued till toward the 
end of September and left me Reduced to a Skelet. I was advised to goe 
to Fort Royall for the Benefit of fresh Provissions and the Sea Air, 
and there I relapsed into the fever which held me twenty deys more, and 
was reduced so low thpt Captain Massey's Surgeon (who attended me) 
dispair'd of myj% Recovery; however (it pie as'd God) th-t I got the 
better of the Fever (tho' then the Ague Attack'd me) that I pick'd up 
a Little and truely but little Strength, and left Beaufort the last Day 
of October and came to Savannah. This Season has been mighty Sickly all 
over the Province of Carolina, but few dyed in the Country, tho' I am 
told a good many in Charles Town. In one of my former Letters, I (309) 
told that Daniel Savage flatly refused to go as Linguister which made 
me in my way to Charles Town in June last to Call at one John Bartons 
who Demanding L 35- R Month I refused expecting to get one Prestoe, but 

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being disappointed of him likewise I wrote to Mr. Richard Woodward in 
July to plead with Savage again, whose answer, to which I beg leave to 
referr you will satisfy you that I wps under a Necessity of Complying 
with Mr. Barton. In the time I was at Beaufort, I sent twice for John 
Barton before he would condescend to come to me at last he did come, 
and finding I had Applyed to several others and could find none, he 
rose his Demand from I< 35* to L 40. Currency, which I was Obliged to 
agree to, and now he goes Llnguister: But tho' he has the Character of 
being the boldest Llnguister in the Province of Carolina, Yet I shall 
keep him no longer then I*ve Delivered the talk to the Indians, and thyt 
I can find one on easier Terms. Before I left Josephstown Mr. Gray 
Indian trader in this Town who had the Over sight of the Horses and 
Charge of all the Goods, advised me, that the Horses instead of Improv 
ing continued still in so low Condition that he was afraid they'd 
scareely some of them Travel into the Nation, which with Mr. Wiggans 
&&XKK Advice (to carry with me but one half of the Company untill I 
delivered the talk to the lower Creeks and found thereafter how they 
relish'd things, or if they wou'd agree to build a House for me) made 
me leave the Lieutenant and ten Men behind; If I find my talk accept 
able, end that the Lower Creeks will agree to my Staying among them, I 
shall return the Horses for the Lieutenant and his Men and to carry up 
what I most now leave, I confer'd on my return from Port Royal with 
(310) Mr. Causton about a Lieutenant and we differr'd in Opinion, I 
inclined for Mr. Burnside at Fort Argyle and he recommended Mr. Loyer 
who once Served in the Store, and because Mr. C?uston told me he could 
not be answerable, nor would he Allow any that had a Settlement, to 

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leave it, I contented myself with Mr. Loyer, the its my Cppinion he is 
one, no more of a Warlike Disposition than his Predecessor. He has six 
Months Fey appointed him, and Mr. Fa.f3cer got the other Six Month?. I 
shall expect fresh Orders before March Next, whether I shall Continue in 
the Nation and if I shall keep up the Company, for most of the Men I 
know are positive to leave the Service when the twelve Months sre 
expired, but If they should I shall support the CompsJiy till further 
Orders. I hope the Trustees will appoint some Person as Commissioner 
to grant Lycences; otherways it's to no Purpose to send any Agent, for 
I find the Tra&ers only respects the Province that Grants the Lycense. 

Nothing now stops my setting off from here but the dayly Constant 
Rains, the first fair day we hope in God to Enter upon our Journey. In 
the mean time I beg le?ve to assure you th?t it is my Utmost desire to 
Approve myself, 

Sir 

P.S. having lost all my 
Servants this Ipst Summer I 
took the Liberty to Leave two 
of the Company to take cere 
of my House, if this gives 
Offence I shell not do it ag?in. 

Your Most Obliged and 
Most Humble Servant. 

 139 

Copy of a Letter from Robert Miller to the Trustees dated at Kingston 
in Jamaica December the 10th 1734. 

May it please your Honours. 

I Embarked at Graves end on the l$th of May According to the 
Orders I received from the Common Council to Proceed on my Voyage to 
Jamaica, Where I arrived on the 25th of July, I went next Morning to 
Doctor Cochr??n end Demanded the Observations made in Botany by Doctor 

William Houstoun together with the Collection of Dryed Plants which 

^ 

was left in his 33ands, he told me he had sent them all home already by 

one Mr. Houstoun Surgeon a relation of the Deceased Doctor William 
Eoustoun and there was now nothing in his Possession but a Parcell of 
Books which he would only be Accomptable for to the Heirs and Executors 
of his Deceased Friend. 

I waited afterwards on Mr. Pratter the South Sea Companys Agent 
here who Immediately give me Liberty to go Pessenger to any Place on 
the Continent Where we had Factorys, and Pt that Time he hired the very 
Vessell in which I came from England to go to Portobello, I Embraced 
that Opportunity and arrived there on the 30th of August, after a short 
stay at Portobello I went to Panama by way of the River Chpyne, which 
goes up within six Leagues of that City, I had a Tedious Passage by 
reason of the great Current wch. always run's down into the North Sea; 
sf ter my arrival at Panama I made a particular Enquiry into the Trees 
which Yeilds the Jesuits Bark and the Balsam Pine, which are the only 
two Druggs brought from thence, The former is a large Tree growing wild 
in the Mountains ahjout 10 days Journey from Lima, There is three differ 
ent -far* sorts of it, one with a White Flower, The Second with a Purple 

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and the (312) 3d. with a Red Colour. The ^ark of the Trees differing 
as much in the Colour, as the Flower, but as the two first are not so 

good as the Latter they Export none else. 

f^V?) 

The Balsam 3?wn-ls falsly crlled so, for most of th?t which is 

made Use of at Panama, and all which is Exported from thence is the 

on 
Balsam of a Tree growing Wild/ix the Mountains in Niannagua which is of 

a much finer Colour and Consistence than what comes from 

Both these valuable Druggs might have been Cultivated in our 
Plantations long before now, had there been any Gentlemen of the least 
Curiosity in any of our Factions of Panama or Portobello; I have used 
the Utmost of my Endeavour to the Purchasing them and to perswa.de the 
Gentlemen of the factories to Use theirs, Severs! Spanish Gentlemen who 
goes to epch of these Places Yearly have Promised # # # # to 
Procure for me some Seeds, Plants, and Specimens of both Trees, p.s also 
the Chief Factor of Panama hpg Promised to send them to Jamaica. 

Daring my stay on that side of the Continent I made a little 
Voyage to the Islpnd of Tobago which is about 7 or eight Leagues from 
Panama, where I found the Contrayervp, end with a great desl of Pleasure 
I now acquaint your Honours of having a Dozen of Plants slive pt this 
3KKHX Present of them, and in good Order. 

I h?ve mp.de as good a Collection of Specimens of Plants and Seeds 
as the Sepson of the Year and my Time would allow of, it being then 
Winter when I was there, all which I have sent to Mr. Miller im at 
Chelsea, their being no Vessell at present going to Carolina from this 
Place, I thought it the much better way to send them directly to him 
that he might forward them for Georgia as he can never want an 

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Opportunity from London. 

I would willingly have stayed longer both at Panatne end Portobello 
to nave examined these Fields more narrowly but the Rainy Season being 
sett in at (311) both these Places I found I could do but little mid 
then Considering the different Places your Honours has Ordered me to go 
to and the shortness of time allotted me, I thought I had stayed my full 
Proportion of it there, so the Vessell in which I came being ready to 
Sail I wes Obliged to make the best of my way down to Portobello, and 
the Eoad being so very bed with the Rains that had fsllen, I returned 
the same way which I went up, we Embarked at Portobello on the 3d. of 
November; and arrived here on the 29th wherein I shall stpy till pn 
Opportunity Offers of going to Carthagena. to enquire after the Ippica- 
cuana and the Balsam Capivi, These Drugs being the Produce of thft 
Country; I have reason to hope of being more Successfull in this Voyege 
than I have been in my last, Concerning which This is all I thought 
Worth acquainting your Honours off. I em 

Honoble. Sirs 

Your Honours Most Devoted & 
Most Obedient Servant. 

(313) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dgted 
at South Carolina December the llth 1734. 

Sir 

Inclosed you have a Copy of one of my last Letters which I have 
transcribed, because I think it an Affair of very great Importance to 

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Georgia. I still continue in my Resolution of making a Settlement 
there, by your Permission, I can't tell whether I shall goe my self (if 
not) I shall send my Son and Daughter, which Probably may be of more 
Advantage to Georgip being both Young may have Children to Strengthen 
that Province. I am now constantly applying rny Thoughts how to promote 
Georgia. Whilst you were here I divers times have thought of com 
municating a Scheme to you, which would be very Profitable, And in 
Confidence that you will not discover it to any other Person to be Con 
cerned therein without me, I shall make the same known to you, end am 
willing to be concerned therein with you a Thousand or fifteen hundred 
Pounds Sterling, and by that mean's mey be introduced into this Country 
Several of the Drugg's mentioned in my former Letter from the Streightfs. 
The Act of Parliament made in the fifteenth Year of King Charles the 
Second's Reign, Entituled an Act for the Encouragement of Trade. - - - - 
Sexn. the Sixth Says That no Commodity of the Growth, Production or 
Manufactory of Europe shall be imported into any of his Mpjestys Plantp- 
tions, Asia, Africa or America but wart shall be first Imported into 
England, 

I Examined some time since Carcasses Book of rates and cannot 

find but we may bring directly to this Place from those parts in the 

j^^ 
Streights that lye in Assia and Africa any of their Commoditys as Shipped 

Cotton's (316) Burdetts,Silks, Rhubprb, Senna, Scamnony, Wbrmseed, 
Coloquintida, Gauls &ca. I cant tell wh?,t Wines they make in those 
Country's, but do believe some may be found very good and very Cheap 
which would turn here and other parts in the West Indie? to a very good 
Account. 

I have been Informed that Cypress makes very good Wine, which 
Gordon Addition the 12 Page 24^ Says is in Asia. I desire you'l 

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consider of this Scheme and write me your Opinion thereon. 

I have read (I think) in Suetonius, Th=t when the Roman's made a 
Hew Colony They Endowed it with severpl Immunity's end Priviledges, by 
which means they quickly grew to a formidable Body, and I hope the 
Trustees will follow their Example and give what Encouragement they c?n 
to Trade. 

This will be a great Encouragement to me and. others to Settle 
your Colony. 

Marseilles is grown of late a very populous and rich City, and 
is one of the Principal Citys in E-jirope for Trade, the King of Frpnce 
has made it a free Port, open to Vessells of all Nations and for any 
Goods without any Duty (Tobacco, S^lt end Gunpowder Excepted which are 
Prohibited (no Goods pay any Duty there Except Goods from the Levant 
and Barbery which Pay only two p cent and it is remarkable that the Port 
charges of a Ship of an hundred Tons amounts to little more than twenty 
Shillings Sterling. 

The Burthen this Province lies under on Accot. of Port Charges is 
very great and very pernicious to Trade. 

Here is a Ship now in this Province from Rhode Island of an 
hundred and fifty Tons, the Master assures me th?t this Port Charge 
there (in and out) cost him but three Founds this Currency, which is 
about twelve (317) Shillings and six Pence Sterling. 

Mr. Hill loaded s small Vessell with four hundred Barrells of 
Rice and the Port Charges copt ninety one Pounds ten Shillings which is 
about thirteen Pounds Sterling. 

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I have a Scooner now, I propose to send to Jamaica, which I 
shall order into Georgia and Land there some Sugar, Molasses &ca. If 
your Store has Occasion for any, Mr. Causton msy have what he Pleases 
at the Price it is Sold a,t in Charles Town. 

Thomas Brown a Trsder amongst the Catte.bah's ^formerly mentioned 
to you is now here, we have had some Talk about Moveing those Indians 
to the Okemulgah River, and he Believes it may be done,/ having living 
a long time amongst, and being very well beloved by those Indians. 

I desire you will read the late Act Pass'd Here and Advise me 
whither he may not carry his Leather over to Kinyans Bluff for I am 
willing to bring that Trade to Georgia too. The People of New England 
carry on a very Valuable Trade from thence to No. Caroline, with Rum, 
Sugar, Molasses, and dry Goods for which they Import Pitch, Tar and 
Turpentine which helps to load their Vessells for great Britain, Beef 
end Pork in great plenty, which they sell to the Fishermen, Whept, Corn 
and Pease for their own Use, Tallow and Hurtle Wax they make into Soap 
and Candles, which they Ship off again to the West Indies. They like 
wise import Hides, Feathers, and Deer Skins. In short they have a very 
great Trade^pjid as I have been Informed) there goes there every Year 
about Sixty or Seventy ^ Ssil of Vessells from fifty to eighton Tons. 

Our Wise Assembly did several Years since pass a Lpw by which 
they laid a large Duty upon Pitch, Tarr, (318) Beef, and Pork (so large) 
That it amounts to a Prohibition, for wee have not had a Vessell from 
North Carolina since thut Time. I am satisfyed we have not had fifty 
Barrells from thence since. I do Design to carry on that Trade from 
Georgia, and hope to make it answer for the Advantage of New England. /,<i 

 143 (318) 

Nayi I think better, because North Carolina is a great Deal nigher to 
Georgia than it is to Boston, and the Trade may be carried on the Winter 
Season which they cannot do in Boston. Sr. I can't tell how acceptable 
my Long Letters may be to a Gentlpman that has so great Affairs of 
Importance on his Hands. I could Enlarge but shall at present Sub 
scribe ny self. 

Sr. 

Your Most Humble Servant. 

(319) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Christie to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated December the l4th 1734. 

Most Worthy Sir. 

My last to you I hope came safe to hand, My 111 Stete of Health 
together with the Multiplicity of business which is greatly increased on 
my hands have Prevented me from writing so often as I might have done 
and I hope it may be Excused. 

Herewith you hpve the Journal of the Proceedings of our Court, 
Warrants and their Returns, Publick Orders Issued out, the Copy of our 
Lycences for Publick Houses with the List of those who takes most psins 
in Cultivating their Lands. 

I have often spoke to Mr. Jones to send you the Plan and keep a 
Journal of the Lands thst he runs out which I could never obtain, 
indeed I don't wonder at it for I believe little has been Run out since 
your departure till very lately. The People have greatly complain'd of 

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late for want of knowing the Bounds of their Letts, for want of which 
they have neglected fencing, so that most of the Crop that was Sowed 
last Summer hpve been eat up by the Cows and Horses, another thing I 
must not forget to mention the Corn & Seeds th?t was in the Storehouse 
when you went sway was given to the People, was musty Damaged or spoilt 
so thpt it never came up and it was so long and Late in the Year before 
they got fresh Seed th?t it baulk'd some, and others did not sow it till 
it was too late in the Year. I think If I had not Represented this you 
might ha,ve been too Severe in blaming your Peoples Neglect. And indeed 
we have some People who never were Masters of any Land and whose heads 
are turned (320) no way but to the Alehouse and others are so Idle to 
think of nothing but selling and running away notwithstanding all 
which I have found Means to keep up Lands and Houses at a good Price and 
People lately begin now to fence in and set a Value upon them. So that 
I hope to advise you of some fine Improvements made this Year; it is 
certain that People being beulk'd as I said before in the Cultivation 
of their Lands did mostly turn upon Building and Improving their Lotts 
in Town. So that there is few Town Lotts but what are built or are 
building, the Town is greatly Encreased, so that Whereas at first I 
could hardly see any thing but Trees, I can now scarce see any Trees 
for Houses. 

The People are going some upon planting Corn, some on Silk, on 
Vineyard, some on Pitch and Tarr, others on Fruit Trees as Oranges, 
Limes, Olives, Figgs, and other Fruits, and Cotton also, according to 
their own Genius and Inclination, but all those Productions will be a. 
Considerable tin:e before they are brought to any Perfection and we shall 

 14? (320) 

be always Poor and. Needy till we are able to make Exports of our Own, 
we don't want either Shipping or Provissions if we have but Money to 
Pay for them, for they pour in upon Us from all Places; those that 
seemed ready at first to starve us with bad Provisions are ready now to 
undo Us with Superfluitys. 

This Place might easily be made a Mart between North America and. 
England and the Antilles, pnd the Spanish West Indies, which might prove 
of a Prodigious Advantage to this Place and I dare say when once the 
Lighthouse is Finished this Trade will introduce itself but in the mepn 
time it seems to me thet nothing can keep Us sia alive but building a 
church & other Publick Buildings, the Raising of (321) our Fortifica 
tions. The Indian Trade and the Fresh Embarkations of Money'd Men. 

We raise the Envy of the People of Carolina by whoa we suffer many 
Aspersions and false Reports altho' we serve them for a Bulwark against 
the Indians, a Curb to their Negroes raise the price of their Marketts 
& the v^lue of their Lands, and they get all our Money into the Bar 
gain, they are settling on the River May and all about us. anc. with the 
advantage of their Negroes Report that we need not sow any Corn or Rice 
for they will always undersell us. I could, wish the Trustees would 
Oblige all Persons to whom they give any Grants, to Transport their 
Parsons and Effects directly to this Fort. And I hope on our side we 
shall in a little time find Loading back for the Ships that comes here 
without being Obliged to go the Tedious Tour to Carolina. 

I ajn fully persuaded that the Indian Trade and the Reserved 
Rents and Fines for Trust Lands will bring in the Trustees a Consider 
able Fund towards the support of this Colony a,nd to Defray it's charge, 

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"but I must acquaint you that the People at Purisburgh, Thunderbolt, and 
Fort Argyle have been all Indian Traders since you have been gone, We 
have smartly forbid our People and Settlements as soon as we heard it, 
and indeed tho' they seem to like the Trade much, they readily Submitted 
to our Orders; I dont Question but the Trustees will Endeavour to 
Regulate and Secure thst Trade to themselves as soon as possible. 

Watson has behaved very 111 since your Departure and hath Com 
mitted several Iregularities, hs.s best the Indians, presented a Gun at 
Mrs. Musgroves, proved very dissaffected to the Colony and unfit for a 
Trader, 

The Indian Skee Offering one day to break open (322) his Store 
house in Order to kill him, Watson Escaped out backwards and they 
finding him gone, in their MaA Freak fell upon Justice Musgrove's Slave 
and killed him. He is since gone up in the Country full of Malice. 

The Indians are full of Resentment against him and have Peti 
tioned us that Mrs. Musgrove may have the Trade for whose sake they 
settled here or at least that some other Person be join'd with her. 
you will see the Proceedings of the Town Court and we have found it 
Absolutely Necessary to Order Mr. Watson to Confine himself in his 
House in Town till we know the Trustees and your Pleasure on that Head. 

I likewise send you herewith the Reception & talk of the 
ChaktaW by which you'll see the Disposition of thst Nation and how 
easily a Trade may be carried on with great Advantage between them and 
Us. I could have Wish'd that Captain Mackay might have been present 
that we might have had the opportunity to have introduced him. We writ 
to him to Charles Town on their Arrivfl but did not receive any Answer 

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(till the Indians who were very earnest to return "back) were going 
away instead, of Coming, then he writ word that the Governour was de 
sirous that the Indians might come down to Charles Town, tut we 
neither could Encoursge it nor would the Indians consent to it; Captain 
Mackay is since gone up into the Country but has left part of his Men 
behind to bring up Provisions, Mr. Causton said he would fully Inform 
you of that Matter. As also the Expedition of our Men to the Southward 
and the reason of Thomas Jones bringing a Writ of Ejectment for his Lot 
which was possess*d by Mr. Robert Parker, that Gentleman has been at a 
vast Expence in Endeavouring to Erect a Saw Kill which is not yet 
brought to work and is believed by Workmen will never answer. We (323) 
are in great want of Boards by reason of so many Buildings that are on 
foot and Contracted for. 

We have finished the New Guard House mounted four Peices on New 
Large Carriages handsomly painted, besides five Peices fixt in a Plat 
form and designed for a Stx Salute, besides four others on the Old 
Carriages; I will in the next send you my Draught of it, We have like 
wise Paled all the strand in and KHX now built the Stairs down the Bluff 
and Paled it in. which together with the Chimneys being almost all 
Finished give a good Grece to the Place. 

We have cut a Psth through Eutchinsons Island fronting the Main 
Street by which we can see the River on the other side. We have like 
wise made a Path a Considerable way between the Town and Musgrove's 
Cowpen. 

Collonel Poull and Mr. Bryan having since your Departure Examined 
the Swamp between Hutchinson Island and Mr. Bryan on the Road going to 

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Purysburgh finds that the Swamp is hard without any Appearance of over 
flowing, that it is not above two days ride from thence down to the 
River opposite to Sutchinson's Island, so that the Reed might with some 
additions! Contribution be brought down thither; the Cutting a Path 
betwen Purysburgh and Charles Town goes on and we have by a. Subscription 
among our selves Established a Messenger for one Ye?r between this 
place and Charles Town, which will by that Means Secure a Coimmicstion 
not easily cutt off. 

Christopher Ford the Surveyor has been to the Southward to dis 
cover the Coast and finds by the great depth of the Sound end the Bar 
with the Clearness of the Coast from Shoals he could bring any Men of 
Warr with Safety within a Mile and e half of Thunderbolt, I hope that in 
Case of a War the Trustees will Endeavour to have some of his Majestys 
Ships Stationed here. 

There is a way to go from this Town to the (324) River Ternon 
without passing through any Swamps and as that River is large and 
Deep and the Land very good it seems a pass proper to be Secured by the 
first Settlers. 

Mr. Tanderplank hath not yet been able to get up the Peoples 
Cattle according to your last Instructions, so they are by this time 
almost turn'd wild and instead thereof Mr. Causton now buys Beef of the 
Indians or Mrs. Musgrove. so that we have little hopes of Seeing them 
any more. 

Its true we have now Compleated a. very large Cowpen containing 
near 45 Acres about a Mile from the Town on a Pine Barren, but little 
or no Cattle to put in it. 

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The Publick Gardens have been hitherto of very little Use to the 
Town and Seems rather a Private ^roperty B,nd those People that have 
had the most need, of it have had the least Benefit. 

Mr. Amptis arrived here the first of October last and has Sowed 
some Thousand Mulberry Trees which comes up very well and those thpt 
were there ^ before as veil as the rest of the Trees that Remain were 
likewise prun'd & flourish very well, Mr. Amatis and Mr. Fitswalter 
have had some differences together concerning their Authority which we 
have had some difficulty to Reconcile. 

Tiie People at Purysburgh have severs! Itqlipns there and Endeavour 
to be beforehand with Us in the Silk Manufacture. 

Collonel Pury with his People are all safe arrived before this 
Town the as likewise did Captain Yoekley who remains 
here still but is almost ready to Depart, the Two other Ships are 
Sailed for Lisbon these 14 Days. 

Mxxx Mr. Montagut and his wife ere in good Health he hath 
Built a Storehouse Adjoining to your House and is retailing his goods 
for resdy Money himself. 

We make here very good Bricks in which Manufacture they seem 
every day to Improve. 

I have introduced a Fishing Trade by which means we begin to be 
Supply'd with great Quentitys of (325) Fish, Variety of which as well 
as Fouls our Rivers abounds. 

I have set up a Brevhouse which seems to be the only way to bring 
the People off from Drinking Spirituous Liquors. 

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You hpve Inclosed an Accompt of the Death and Marriages of 
several People here as likewise those who left sny Wills or Substance 
"behind them, all the rest dying Insolvent, The Trustees will be able to 
send you the Orphans Accot. in a very little time and as the Constables 
are msde Administrator to the People in their Respective Wards for 
which they are to give Security to be Accountable to the Court I have 
no Effects at all in my hands. 

Mr. Bowen upon having raised his Frame and given Security, had 
leave to go to Charles Town where it is Computed he Carryed above - 300. 
Currency in Order to Buy Goods for this Place but Unfortunately died 
there about Septr. last at the House of David Alien who Administred to 
L 300. Currency little of which I am afraid we shall be able to Recover, 
his effects amounting to here about L 40. Sterling. 

Ambrose Vicary died the Second April last without a Will, but 
believe he left a Wife at Topshsm in the West of England, his Effects 
amount to about I< 38:17-0 Sterl. they have both of them mane Improve 
ments towards building their Letts which we have Ordered to be built and 
Finished by those Workmen Indebted to the Estates as you will see by 
the Inclosed Petition. 

Mr. Lewis Bowen made no Will but by the Inclosed Copy of a 
Letter found in his Chest we do suppose that he has made a Will in 
England. 

The Unfortunate Mr. Wise, his Effects was Sold Except Papers and 
MxKH± Manuscripts remaining in a Trunk in the Store and those things 
mentioned to be left with your Honours remain in the Storehouse 'till 
farther Orders, the amount of his Effects Sold was about L 20. Sterling 

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no doubt great many were Stolen by that Villain that murdered him which 
we never could find out; The manner of this Murder was thus, which you 
have no doubt been (326) Acquainted with, he Lay over in the Island a 
Considerable time in s, very weak Condition and kept his Bed he Used to 
call for some Water in the Morning to W?,sh himself and White Used to 
Assist him in Combing out his Hair in ^hich he took a great deal of 
Pride & Used to lay his head Leaning out of the Bed to have it easier 
done, Alice Relay by the Direction and Influence of White brought a 
Pail of Water which she sat down by his Bed side, White came in also 
Pretending to Assist him in Combing his Ha.ir, he usually Wore a Hand 
kerchief about his Neck, and while he wss learning over the Bed Side 
instead of Combing his Hair, White took hold by th?t Handkerchief, which 
he twisted 'till he was almost Suffocated, Alice Reley at the same time 
took hold of the Pole of his head and Plunged his Face into the Pail of 
Water and he being very weak it Soon Dispatched him, As to the rest I 
referr to the Proceedings of the Court. 

I am so Afflicted with the Rhumatism in my right side and right 
Arm that I j% am not able to write & am Obliged to have Mr. Dobree to 
assist me, whose capacity and Ability in Business makes him very Usefull 
to this Colony and I do Assure your Honours worthy of your Consideration 
of some Publick Employment here. 

I return your Honour many thanks for Conferring on me the 
Eonoble. Office of Recorder of the Town of Savannah, but my Present 
Indisposition renders me Incapable to Attend Publick Business, I most 
Earnestly Entreat your Honrs. would Dispose of that Place to some more 

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able Person. I shall always rely on your Honours Favour & Protection 
& will remain 

Your Honours 
Mr. Eveleigh desires Leave 

Most Faithfull & Obedient Servt. 
to set up a Store a little 

above Old Savannah Town a 

little of this Side the River as likewise Licences for 

all his Traders. We shall Endeavour not to 

discourage him but cannot do any thing of ourselves 

without further Instructions which we beg may be 

dispatched as soon as Possible, he Offers to bring 

down all his Skins & Ship them off at this Place and 

as the People of Charles Town have laid a Considerable 

Tax on the Indian Trade, this will be the only time to push the 

thing on to Advantage for this Province. 

Pp. 327 through 329 - Copy of a Letter (written in French) from Mr. 
Samuel Montaigut to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at Savannah l?th Deer. 173^. 

(331) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker to the Trustees without 
Date. Dec. I7l4 

Gentlemen 

As Benevolence, Charity and the good of mankind are the Motives 
You act by in so laudable an Undertaking as the Settling the Colony of 
Georgia; You'll sooner forgive what the same Influence obliges me now 

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to inform You off, should You differ from my T,Vay of Thinking. I offer 
no Harm should whatever I advise be rejected. 

Mr. Oglethorpe, that with the thinking part of mankind will for 
ever be had in a gratefull Remembrance of the People here that were 
Witnesses of this generous Actions, indefatigable Pains and Industry, 
is now with us no more. We feel the Ihsnte and I daily hear the Cry of 
the Multitude for being witiiout a worthy Hepd, which doubtless will be 
soon supply ed out of your laudable Body. 

I am informed th^t Orders are come over to allow no more than a 
Year's Provipion to those Passengers by Yoakley, Daubus and Wood. 
Gentn. I profess I have neither spoke pbout it to those People, nor am 
I myself affected, nor no &c# body knows of my Writing but I can't 
help setting their Case before You in the Light it appears to me. 
First severe! of these and most of the first forty thpt are alive have 
been employed in the Publick Works. They have had no opportunity of 
getting their Lands in proper order for Culture but at the same time 
I must needs say the Land it self comes far short of the Praises bestowed 
upon it which was the inducement that brought over the honest People, 
and must needs think they can't be made amends but by receiving yet one 
or two Years Provision longer. They h^ve hed some of their Seed out of 
the (332) Stores both English and Carolina, I can*t account how it 
happened but it produced nothing or next to nothing. They have had 
the same a second time which did like the former, some the third time 
& they have had their Labour for their Pains or their Crops consumed by 
Squirrels. Should such People as these be cut off from your Provisions? 
God forbid. I am sure when You wa.s at so much Pains s.nd Charge to send 

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them hith You won't suffer them to perish, which they must inevitably 
do if they are shut out of the Store. The Settlements at Abercorn and 
Skidoway for want of their Lands being run out to know where to clear 
and plant have had nothing to do but to bemoan themselves, so could not 
possibly have any Provisions coming up. The former Place was but the 
last week run out by the Surveyor; but whether Skidoway be yet done I 
am a Strsnger to, but have hesrd very lately great Complaints for want 
of its being allotted. Another thing that I think pleads strongly for 
them is their so often attending st Court, I hpve heard some return 10 
Days out of 30. It must needs be when the Recorder has told me he has 
granted 3-0 Warrants in a day, When at Purysburgh (to its Praise be it 
spoken) only one Warrant has been served since its first Settling. I 
have offered my self to take Pains and endeavour to make up Differences 
but that method is not approved of. I am sorry there should be such a 
Spirit among these People. The People from the Out Settlements have been 
obliged to give their Attendance frequently at the Loss of 3 or 4 Days 
Work at their own Expence and not so much as a. Bed to lye on, the 
Publick Houses having none to spare, so are exposed to the Inclemency 
of the Weather; They complain heavily end with too much Reason. I am 
sorry it's not in my Power to (333) redress the several Grievances 
Sprung up since the Departure of Mr. Oglethorpe. I shall point out to 
You wherein they consist and le^ve them to your better Consideration to 
give proper Orders for their Amendmt. I am at my Works up the Country, 
have time to consider things and I should think my self inexcusable in 
being silent end keeping You in Ignorance, when by your Prudence things 
may be amended. What Thanks I shall get from those at Savannah You may 

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imagine, "but I think it my Duty to do what Good I can to those that 
deserve it; which is a sufficient Recompence to me. 

1. The too frequent Courts which are a great hardship upon the 
People as I observed before but especiplly to those of the Cut Settle 
ments since they ere so often adjourned, those of Abercorn vere sum 
moned to attend the Court on Saturday last; They vent down on Fridey to 
be ready, then the Court was adjourn'd in the Afternoon while next 
Wednesday. The poor People, the Tide not serving, were obliged to come 
away in the night and so with Hunger and roving returned on Sunday 
morning. They return next Wednesday ajid expect most of the Week to be 
lost. Besides the Loss of their time they are from their familys at 
their own Expence which they can ill afford. 

2. The Punishments come next into Consideration which in a new 
Colony in my humble opinion ought to be used very tenderly and as 
seldom as possible, but at Savannah they are frequent and shocking even 
to disgust the Neighbouring Provinces. I have seen a Woman sit in the 
Stocks for 3 hours when it rsin'd hard (and the only Dairy Wife we have 
to Supply the Colony with Butter) a Servant of Musgroves, and tho' She 
interceded for her She was taken out of the Stocks and carried on board 
a Sloop & ducked. In ducking her they bruised her so against the Vessel 
(334) She was lame for 2 or 3 months after; The Crime had Mr. Oglethorpe 
been here had not been taken Notice of. One poor Gentleman with the 
Terrors and Frights of Whipping, Stocks &c. went distracted in the Town 
through the Terror. He went away but died before He reach'd Port Royal. 
He was one that had been a good Benefactor. 

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3. There is such an Alteration of People especially amongst 
them that have to do with the Store, Mr. Oglethorpe himself would, not 
know them. He has been Witness of their Poverty but now no Signs 
remain, they never appear without their Ruffles and their Houses are 
well furnished with Plenty of every thing to Profuseness. 

4. We have about 30 or 40 Free Masons they have a fine Supper 
every Saturday night and often 2 or 3 in the week besides; where such 
an Expence cpn be born I am at a Loss to know. One night amongst other 
Disorders they went to the Guard cut the Capt. down the Head ajid dis 
arm' d the rest carrying the Arms away. Mhen they came to reflect on it 
on the morrow, to meke things up they cpll'd a. Lodge at night and 
admitted Gough the Capt. a Free Mason, so I suppose the thing dropt. 

I might go on to other Particulars but have already said enough 
to fill You with Indignation at what passes at Savannah, if I hpve 
time to spare I can go up to Purysburgh and spend a day or two with 
Mr. Beaufin and other good Company agreably but Savannah is not a Place 
at Present I take Pleasure in. I wrote to Mr. Oglethorpe which I hope 
he communicated to your Honourable Board. I hope I shall h&ve the 
Honour of an Answer to 

Worthy Gentn. 

Your obedient humble Servt. 

(335) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker to My. Hucks dated at 
Mill Bluff 24th December 1734. 

Sir 

As You are the Gentleman among the Trustees that Sir Robert 

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Walpole was so kind in so affectionate a manner to recommend me to, 
makes me take the Liberty now to address to You; as he was acquainted 
with my former Condition of Life induced him in so particular a manner 
to recommend me. As I don't question but the Letter is yet regularly 
in the Office I could desire it might be once more read over if any 
Regard will be paid to that great Man's Recommendation. 

As I have formerly upon my own foundation as a Merchant employed 
almost as many People as is in the Colony, I thought some little Regard 
or Difference would heve been shewn, so indeed it was while Mr. Ogle- 
thorpe staid and I expected he would have given some Directions accord 
ingly, but instead of that I have found worse Usage than any body else. 
Mr. Oglethorpe gave me a Lot for a House &c which I inclosed and built 
a large Work S^op, Saw Pitts &c. at a very great Expence for my Workmen 
about the Mill, which since has been regularly taken away by our Court 
to gratify one that went up to the Inaian Nation, so I am dispossess'd 
without any Equivalent so that the Publick is served at a private Man's 
Expence. 

Mr. Oglethorpe gave me if confirmed by the Trust a Trust Lot 
mark'd K in the Drsft of the Town Plat in the large Book which in a 
Letter that I desired might be delivered to him to remind him upon his 
Arrival,, which Letter Mr. Brownfield had orders to lay before the Board. 
I should be glad to be confirmed in it and hope the Terms will be made 
very easy to me. (336) 

I had Liberty before Witness from Mr. Oglethorpe to erect my 
Mill Work either in the Salts or up the River where I pleased for my 
own Convenience; where I have pitch'd upon is remote from any Settlemt. 

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the nearest is two miles by Land above Abercorn end three miles in a 
direct Line from Purysburgh. I hope the Gentlemen will allow me a 
large Scope of Land in Consideration of my large family of Eleven 
Children besides what I msy possibly have should my Wife be induced to 
come over which is her Desire, and as soon as I can make her a suitable 
Reception will be as agreable to me, and likewise in Consideration of 
the Usefullness of my Undertaking which now I have the pleasure to tell 
You which please to inform the Gentlemen is at Work and I hope in a 
few days to cut eight hundred or a thousand foot of Timber a day, and 
when I make an Addition hope more than to double it; after furnishing 
the Demand at Savannah and the other Settlements & Purysburgh I hope 
to Ship off large Quantitys for the Sugar Islands besides I expect to 
furnish London with Thousands of foot for flooring of the finest clear 
Stuff that evdr was imported; One Branch of my Business was the Norway 
Trade so that I pretend to understand it as well as any body. I expect 

in my Grant a Liberty to h?ve one or two Negroe Servants for every $0 

<n 4 -'-?<2 

Acres, the Charge of w3a3?eh Labourers being so extravagantly dear there 

is no such thing as bearing it. As also, as I have severs! Children, a 
Power as in England to make my Will to leave what it may please God to 
bless me with as I shall see fit as an Encouragement to the more 
Dutifull. 

Mr. Oglethorpe might probably speak about two hogsheads of Rum 
he was told by a Person that (33?) happen*<3 to be in my House when I 
received the Letter, they was sent up without my knowledge & I immedi 
ately went out and acquainted Mr. Cans ton and Mr. West of them before 
they came on Shore, one Hogshead I took for my own Use and Workmen the 

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other I sold to Musgrove's Store. 

As to sy bearing JSrms, while I had Sons they would not permit it 
while they could do it for me, the Duty was never neglected. Another 
Objection Mr. Oglethorpe had was the Revd. Mr. Bering coming up to 
officiate for Mr. Qu.incy I had a little acquaintance with him pt Charles 
Town and being destitute of an House to go to (the Saltzburghers having 
Mr. Quincy's) he was at my house while he stxid in Town but I knew 
nothing of his Coning neither had he any Invitation from me further than 
taking him in for 3 Weeks while he Staid without the lepst thing allowed 
him from the Store not so much as a Bottle of Wine. One thing I will 
say, none of the Ministers behaved better nor gave more Satisfaction 
to the People than he did while he staid. I have troubled You with 
these three things which dwelt mightily upon Mr. Oglethorpe before he 
went away that he wrote me an angry Letter from Charles Town and did 
not therein use me well being innocent of either but as I have now 
represented them. 

My Cosing over into these particular Parts at first was the good 
opinion I had of the laudable Undertaking, hoping it might be im in my 
Power likewise of doing a great deal of Good here among the Persons 
sent over; but all that is now frustrated any other place would do as 
well for me. I hsve large Offers mane me from both North and South 
(338) Carolina if I am inclinable to move, but if I am well used I 
confess I like my present Situation very well. I was recommended to 
Mr. Heathcote by Mr. Trasford your Relation, please to give my humble 
Service to them and also to Mr. Ternon. And if You will xa be so good 
to give my Duty to the Right Honble. Sir Robert Walpole and Sir Charles 

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Turner my Relation You will much oblige me. If You can procure freight 
cheap as no Doubt but You, may please to send me Twenty Hogsheads of 
your best Beer, I will make a. Return to yew Satisfaction and if You 
will spare so much time to give me two or three Lines in answer by the 
first Ship to Charles Town directed for me at Mr. Richard Hill'3 
Merchant You will exceedingly oblige me. I am with much Respect 

Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 

One thing I forgot to incert but it being so material it will be the 
Ruin of all the Business in these parts if not carefully rectified, 
That is the Care of Letters, none is wrote for England that can be 
happen'd on but what are opened and often secreted as also Letters from 
thence. I don't doubt but I have had several served so my self and 
perhaps some with Bills which I can't yet learn. Letters for these 
parts should not long be detained in the Office if directed thither 
but forwarded by the first Ship to Charles Town to be sent hither with a 
Schedule of the Number and who they are directed (339) for, without 
coming to the Store to be fix'd upon the Door that every one may demand 
their own. i^ Some Letters have been delivered dated $ months before 
which is s prodigious Hindrance & would destroy all Negotiation. 

I have several Indians that come & visit me for the Sake of Rice 
and they bring me their Skins, which not to offend the present Orders I 
am obliged to turn away and so they go and sell them at Puryeburgh. It 
might be L 40 or & 50 Sterling in my way, and why should not I and the 
rest that venture our selves among them make the proper Advantages but 
see it go to Carolina; please to let me have your Opinion of this for my 

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own Satisfaction as veil as others. 

You will think me long and troublesome but being Christmas Eve my 
People desired Lepve to go out this morning to provide them xKKgi selves 
a Dinner though we have good Beef, Pork, Cheese Flour <&c. They are now 
come home and have brought 3^ Couple of Ducks, 1 pari of Doves, one 
Turkey and s fine Buck together with a fine young Fig, but the latter 
they had at Abercorn. We are not slltogether destitute of ^revisions 
when we have time to seek for it especially Turkeys and Venison, Ducks 
&c. in plenty but very shy. I have one thing to crave that nothing 
from my Letter may be comnunicated to the Publick with my Name unless 
upon absolute Occasion and then I shall not disown any thing I have 
advanced. I have sent also a Copy of the Letter delivered to Mr. Ogle- 
thorpe after his Arrival which Mr. Brownfield advised his Master had 
ordered to be Ipid before the Board. 

Copy of a Letter front Mr. Jose Vest to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Savannah December the 30th 1734. 

Honoured Sr. 

I make bold to Trouble you with this with my Heart full of 
Gratitude and Thankfullness for your dismissing me of so Troublesome 
and Chargeable Office. I do assure your Honour I hsve not spared my 
time nor Substance in keeping the Peace and Credit of the Colony and 
have Endeavoured to behave my self in such a Manner that I have the 
Good Will of almost all that have any Knowledge of me. The People in 
General seemed at first to be very Uneasy at my Quitting the Bench, but 

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I told them it was my own desire to be Discharged and now I believe 
they will be very well Satisfyed. The People in General are pushing 
forward their Buildings & Cultivating their Lands, a.nd we was all in 
Seneral in great rejoiceing on your Honours Birth Day and every one 
seemed to Express a deal of Satisfaction on it. The Indians arrived 
here all in good Health and Express a deal of Satisfaction on their 
Reception in England, & now I doubt not but we shall be very easy, 
Quiet and Industrious People & shall answer the Ends of your great 
Pains & Care that you have taken for Us; so I Conclude Hoping this 
will find your Honour and all the Honourable Trustees in good Health as 
I and all my Family are at Present I thank God, my Wife is brought to 
Bed with a Son on the 28th of this Instant. 

I am 

Your Honours 

Dutifull and faithfull Servant till Death. 
I should be very glad of 
Leave to Come for England 

for a small time in Order to settle some Affairs 
and to get some of my Country Men for Servants 
for me, I know them to be some of the best in all 
(344) England for Country Work; Here is a great deal more I could 
Inform you of but Mr. Causton and Hr. Christie both have told me they 
shall Write in Large to you of oil Transactions that have happened here. 
The People are all in General very Healthy and Well. 

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Copy of a Letter from ^Ugha Dobree to the Trustees dated at Savannah 
January the 15th l?34/5. 

Hy Lords and Gentlemen: 

I take the Freedom to Inform your Honoble. Board of pome matters 
relating to this Province which may not have "been writ by any Person 
from hence, but before I begin, I beg leave humbly to Represent the 
great Damage I suffered KH± & still am like to suffer by Mr. Causton's 
Advertizemt. in the Carolina Gazette wherein it looks as my Design in 
Comeing here was with an Intent to Defraud my Creditors. 

The Discredit and ill Character of Persons thus Advertized is a 
Barbarous way of Murthering a Man in his Reputation, the Loss of which 
is one of the greatest Losses a Person can suffer in this World. 

I Sx3± Challenge all the World to prove my Intent was to Cheat 
my Creditors and to this very day neither Mr. Causton nor any other 
have been able to prove any thing like it against me, all the Amends 
that is made me is that your Ssotxa Honourable Board has been writ to 
by the Magistracy in a more Favourable Manner, but as to the Loss of my 
Reputation Publickly Esposed 'twill never be in Mr. Caustons Power to 
make me Amends. 

I have been chosen Arbritrator in severaJ. Affairs here, and some 
of the greatest Consequence, I pm generally Foreman of the Jury. The 
Body of Free Masons has accepted me as a Brother, I have been Employed 
to Assist the Recorder and to his Satisfaction have Performed what time 
would Permitt. 

I am now Assisting Mr. Causton in the Publick Store in Stating 
the Accounts in the Manner he would have them snd which I find in a very 

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Confused Manner Ex: troublesome & difficult to State, and Adjust. 

Was I so great a Knave it would not be Prudent to have any thing 
to do with me Especially if any (3^8) Reflected on the Advertisement in 
the Carolina Gazette which spreads thro* all America.. These Disappoint 
ments & ill Usage at By first Coming might have Prevented me from 
Improving Lands Awere. Whereas I have quite the reverse Paled in the 
finest Garden of any in the Province and tho' it is Inferior to the 
Publick in some Things it Surpasses in others (though it SandS: Consists 
but of five Acres) by the Help of an Old Servant of mine a Gardener & 
some Indented Servants & Hired Men. 

I am now ready to take in Mulberry Trees and Vines <Sc. when Mr. 
Amatis will please to lett me have them. 
I have already Sowed & Planted Cotton Seeds about 200 

Oranges Do. 3000 
N.B. I am Preparing to Plant ) 

)Annis Seeds 300 
or Sow Logwood & other Foreign ) 

)Hemp Quar. of an Acre 
Plants & Seeds. ) 

Rape Ditto 

Some fev Olives and Limes, besides Cabbages Onions, Sallet and 
other Garden Seeds of which this Collony is in great want; and is very 
Necessary to eat with Salt Meat which is all we e?t here, & am Fencing 
a Cowpen of ten Acres fit to keep Cattle near the Town which I design 
to feed with Grains, Young Canes &c. which will be very advantageous to 
the whole Town who seldom or ever see the Cattle, and therefore can 
have no benefit of the Milk which is Extreamly scarce a.nd dear here. 

As soon as I can get Hen I will Employ ten Acres more for the 
Benefit of Hopp Poles and Staves to send to Charles Town: It is a 

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great Uneasiness to me that none have the Industry and Courage here to 

&<S;'J6?^ 
make something of their Timber which might tend, the Clearing their 

Lands provide them with several Hecessarys from Carolina. 

Our People are not to be brought over from Drinking Tea and Punch 
by Violence, I have an Order to draw them off from it Persuaded Mr. 
Christie & another (3^9) with whom I have Concerned to Brew good Small 
Beer for ten Shillings p_ Bsrrell, which is as good as most I have 
tasted in London for that Price. 

And for Tea I have planted a great deal of Sage which grows very 
well here and which will save a gre?t deal of Money to such as have 
little or None to spare, & indeed not enough for the Necessprys of 
Life. 

I have Perswsded a Friend to Undertake a Trade to Savannah Town 
the Chief place for the IndiMi Trade and to bring down in return Skins, 
and such Provisions as are Cheaper than from Port Royal. 

Finding the Messenger making his Journey to Charles Town and back 
to consist of 13. or 20 dpys. 

I have hired a Passage Boat to go, and back from Charles Town 
every week by which means we may have an answer in less than seven dpys. 
Altho' most People mind only their Private Advantage. My thoughts are 
Continually here to find something for the Publick Good, in doing of 
which I hope I shall receive no Discredit. 

I reffer what I shall farther Write to another Sheet and now beg 
leave to Subscribe my self with due Respect. 

Your Honours Most Humble Servant. 

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Copy of Letter from Elisha Dobree to the Trustees dated at Savannah 
January the 15th 1734/5. 

My Lords & Gentlemen. 

I beg leave to a.dd to the Inclosed four Pages th?t Mr. 

Saw Mill near this Town and Musgrove's Cowpen goes on Successfully and 
will fully make him amends for the great Charges he has been at in 
Erecting the seme, God Grunt the like Success to all that Undertakes 
Such Publick Affairs. 

I design by Csptain Dunbar to Consign your Honoble. Board some 
of this Country Produce. 

I am sorry to find we have no Money here, People never were so 
short of Money as they are now, they can't Pay 5 Shillings without a 
Warrant and when one is granted they are Obliged to make it up without 
Ppyment. a Currency is very much wanted here for at this time we may 
almost s?y that all Payments are Stopped from one Freeholder to another, 
but if Hogs or Fowls arrive here from Carolina, they are generally 
bought up for Ready Money, by which means all the Cash is drained from 
hence by the Carolina Planters, a small Boat Load will generally Carry 
off 2 or L 300. Currency from hence and take little or nothing at sJ.1 
from Us. 

I hope your Honourable Board will take our Case into Considera 
tion pnd if a War breaks out Enable Us to make a. good Defence in Case of 
an Attack. 

Ag it is likely we may have a Share in the Indian Trpde, I beg 
your Honourable Board will not forget me in that Employment and if 

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Possible to help and assist my Family to come over to me, the Charges 
&c. I would readily Pay here. 

As to Religioup Affairs here, I am Sorry to Observe that out of 
all the Inhabitants not above thirty most commonly assist at divine 
Service and of late seldom or ever can we see there our Chief. Mr. 
Gordons (352) Proceedings Seems to Please the People his courteous & 
good ature are Virtues which Often gain the good Esteem and Respect of 
all Mankind, and was at Church of Sunday last, when another was Absent 
that for some Reasons might have been there. 

We have some Stones which by the Owners are thought to be of 
great Value and something like Iron Oar upon the Surface of the Ground 
but none here can resolve what it is nor hsve not time or Courpge 
enough to Dig Low and Deep to find out more. 

I beg Pardon for writing this Letter in a great Hurry and remain 
most respectively. 

My Lords & Gentlemen. 

Your Host Humble Servant. 
Butter is Sold here at 12^ 
Sterl. p_ lb. which is an 
Extravagant price for Spit Butter. 
I wish a Small Cargo would arrive 
from Ireland. 

Besides im&x Logwood froj our Dye*"s I wish I could have Madder 
Seeds from England or Holland. Mr. Causton is of Cppinion that it 
would do well in our Swsmps here. I beg that your Honourable Board 

 (332) 

would please to add any other Foreign Seeds th? t you might have fit for 
this Climate with which I will Endeavour to make the best Use I can. 

I Wish I could get Ten or Twenty Pounds of Clover Seeds and as 
much of Lucerne, our Cuttle wants greatly good Feeding which had they 
near the Town we should not hpjve them run away to such remote places as 
can't be found which in CR.se of a Warr would be of Evil Consequence to 
this Province. (353) 

Before I Conclude I beg leave to Inform your Honourable Board that Pro- 

s 
visions have been Stopt to the few Servants I hpve tho' bought but about 

three Months who never have had above Six Months Provision all the time 
they have been in this Province; My own Provision were Stopt after three 
or four Months 'till at Isst speaking to some Purpose to Mr. Causton he 
ws.s pleased to have the same Continued 'till the 12. Months were 
Expired. 

My Servants Provissions are still stop'd from them tho' I can 
hardly find Money enough to keep them. 

As to my Effects Seized here wrongfully without Lpw, Court of 
Justice or Jury, I have tamely Submitted to every thing that has been 
required of me but I find (ss I thought at fir^t) that my Creditors are 
not pleased with those who h^ve had the Management of Disposing the 

Goods receiving the Money and Rendring Accots. I hsve paid in three 

/t 

Months where? s they will not be paid in Twelve and well for them If 
they are paid in that Time, they Repent (and with a great deal of reason) 
that ever they gave full Power to Mr. Causton to do what he did tho' out 
of 12 Persons that I ow'd in Charles Town not above two or three desired 
him to Use me as he did and I may say that to this very day he has little 

 171 (353) 

Comfort for what he did, but I would rather think thAt he has the 
Remorse new of having ruined an Inocent Man. Inocent I call my self 
since I came here with no other Intent th?n finding I could neither get 
Accots. nor Remittances for the great Quantitys of Goods I.had sent 
here to Mr. lynch nor from Mr. Harris whom I sent afterwds. to call the 
former to en Accompt, and could any body blsrne me after acquainting most 
of my Creditors in Charles Town and they Perswading me to coiae here in 
Order to cell those to reason whom no Letters could Persua.de so to do. 
why might not I come here as well as any others: in short I pm not 
willing to tire your Honours Patience, Mr. Recorder ha.s writ without 
my Soliciting the seme to Mr. Cglethorpe (33^) to Favour me with his 
Interest to your Honourable Board for a Publick Employ. I desire no 
Honour or Title only some Place or other wherein I may be usefull in the 
way of Trading which I am vain to think I Understand as well s.s any 
without Excepting one in this Province. 14r. Causton Asks often iay 
Advice which I always give him Bona Fida Though when I think on the 
harm he has done me I think I Act the part of a Superior Soul than his 
who Lately told me that he had rather 40 or 50 should suffer than he. 
% far from my Sentiments, for the Publick Good for which I would Freely 
Sacrifice my Private Interest? to Conclude I wish he may appear in his 
Accompts to your Honourable Board as Honest a Man as I am now look'd 
upon by the People in this Town and Colony; I am with all due respects 
though in great Easte. 

Your Honours most Obedient 
Humble Servant. 

 172 (335) 

Jos. Fitzwalters AHtt. of 
The Publick Garden 

Savannah 16 Jan. l?34/3 
Hond. Sir 

After ny most humble Duty is presented to your Honour, and the 
rest of the Honble. Trust ny Masters; This is to acquaint Your Honours 

That I have not been wanting of Doing what lay in my Power for the 

-^A€ 
Service of (torn) Colony by night or dsy even to the very Risque of my 

Life, which I hgve done three times since Your Honour left the Place; 
when I send my Journal by Captain Dunbgr will inform your Honour farther. 
By Mr. Causton's Desire I went with 8 Bo°t aJid four Servpnts to below 
Augustine Creek, pjid brought Mr. Gordon & Spouse, with Indian Ring, 
Queen, & Chiefs with Mr%. Musgrove, and were Saluted with thirteen 
peices of Cannon by Mr. Causton's Order, who gladly received them; and 
the Inhabitants of the Township expressed themselves with a grept deal 
of Joy of their safe arrival; and the Indians in General were glad to 

see us. 

A^-f" 
The Garden I have made great Improvements in, (torn) of the 

hja/^ 
Tree Stumps I have rooted up; Planted the front (torn) with Trees of 

3<9Jn<2 
Granges six feet high, which will bear Fruit (torn) this Year; and all 

in general thrive: Some Orange Trees this last Season Shott in the 
nursery four feet, and the least shott two feet, I have a thousand of 
them. Of Mulberry Plants I have Eight thousand, some of them this last 
Season shott fairly fifteen feet, and this Sef-son will be capable of 
feeding pbundence of the Worms. 

 173 (355) 

The Olive trees like the Soil & Situation; for I have some of 
them Shott six feet this Season; I have mett with some Cotton Seeds 

from Guinea, which from it I have raised(torn) thousand Plants, some of 

)*< ' ;f A t 
which have Shott eight feet in (tdrn) and the KKKi second Season will 

. 

come to their bringing forth Fruit (torn) Abundpnce, so that I shall 

of 
be able to send a large Quantity (torn) Cotton to the Trustees Use: 

As for the Kitchin Garden every thing thrive as well as ever in Europe; 
and as for Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Tards, Beans, Pease, Ryegrass, 
Clover, (356) Trofoile, Cinque foile & Lucerne Seeds, I hsve never seen 
finer th^n this Country produce: Hemp and Flex will do as well here as 
in any part of Eurgope, Rice I have had very good; Indian Corn and 
Pease in great Plenty; The lest Seeds as came received Damage by the 
Pettiaugua receiving Damage coming over the Sound. 
Mr. Amatis hath been here and at Purysburgh since the beginning of 
September, and is not for Planting any thing of Kitchin Stuff at all in 
the Garden; which I always apprehended was to be carried on; both by 
your Honour and Trust, and likewise Botany. 

But Mr. Amatis is more for the merchant than any thing else; For 
several Hogsheads of Rum and Vine, Barrels of Flour hath landed and sold 
here to my knowledge; and have taken the Servants out of the Garden both 
to Crpjie them up, and carry himself & goods several times to Purysburgh; 
and was for displacing me out of the garden, who had gone thro' the 
Heat and Burdon of all the Improvements in it. Mr. Causton out of his 
wise Judgment would not adhere to him. 

Since Wise*s Death I have had the management of the Servants over the 
Island, and was the chief ingot Instrument of finding out that cruel 

 (356) 

and barbarous Murder. 

The Vistoe from the Town to the other side of the Island, Is cutt 

through end looks extream pleasant. 

The Road from the Town to the westward of five acre Lott going to 

Musgrove's Cow penn is made good. 

Mr. Gordon brought word from your Honour Tnat the said Servants should 

go to Mr. Vandorplank's Management to the Crane, and what else he should 

put them to; which said Servants I delivered to him. 

I thank God our Town is in very good health, and increases 
mightily; For that Place which was nothing but Pine Trees when we cpme, 
is become almost as many Houses; and though Williamsburgh (which is 
the Metropolis of Virginia) hath been settled near a hundred years (357) 
yet we Exceed them in number of Houses; though not our Buildings quite so 
magnificent. In a word I take Our Settlement to be the Promised Land; 

It's Lands Rich and Fertile, Its Trees large and good for Building 

-PcTf ,, 

both (torn) Land and Sea, Various sorts of Gums and"%Ch,as good as 

come from East Indies, various sorts of Druggs, Flowering Shrubbs and 
Plants of various kinds, Fruits wild of different Species and very 
good, & when Cultivated will be much finer, Clays of different kinds, 
both for the moulder and Potter, Mines of different Species, Stones of 
various Colours and them transparent, fine Springs and some of them 
minerall, fine Rivers and them Plenty, who afford us Multitudes of 
Fish & the best in the World, Salmon Trout Sturgeons (of which I caught 

one weigh' d upwards of 300 wt. (torn) Mullets, Bass &c. Our Woods 

gJ$4 ^<e*,6-f- 
afford us great Plenty of Deer, (torn) Boar whose meat is extream good, 

Turkeys in great Plenty (torn) I have Shott 6 of a day & them very 

 175 (337) 

3L-T '&, 
large, some weighing (torn) each. Wood Pidgeons innumerable, and of 

other sorts of Fowls abundance too tedious to mention. Our Rivers 

afford us abundance of water Fowls, as for Goose, Ducks, Mallad, 

Teals and Widgeons; I hpve been one of the four thpt have shott 13 dozen 

in one day. 

Abundance of the Inhabitants have cultivated their Land, have had very 

good Crops both in Town, and Settlements. &H±t Cattle thrive better 

than in Carolina. I hope in a little time to make my Town Lett be as 

good as thirty pounds Sterling year. 

I should be very much obliged to your Honour, & the Honble. 
Trustees, to Order me the Payment of my Salary that I agreed with your 
Honour for, and whatever yr. Honours think fitt for the boy Goddard my 

( O S"**^ /=M>^h^ 

apprentice. I have had of Mr. Csuston about 20 and money I could 

^\ 

Convert to a good Use in Improving my Estate. 

Sir I hope that the things thet I sent by Captain Daubuz, Captain Wood, 
Captain Yoskley, and Ceptsin Fry, arrived Sefe to the Trustees hands; 
I shell always make it my Business (358) every opportunity to send 
something of the Produce of Georgia to their Honours. This Season there 
was not an Acorn or Walnutt seen; But as soon as there is any, I will 
send some Bushells. 

I am Sir 

Yr. Honour's & of the Honble. Trustees 

Most Obedient & Most Dutifull Servant. 

Georgia, Savannah Janry. Jos. Fitzwalter. 
the loth 1734/5 

 (339) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated at 
Savannah January the l6th 173^* 

May it please Your Honours 

It has been ny greatest Concern, That I have not "been able to 
discharge my Duty of writing as I ought; Neither h^vs I ^^Y thing to 
plead for excuse but my Constant application to all the Necessary 
affairs of the Province here And if it Shall appear, that ny Endeavour 
for the Publick good have Succeeded and was necessary, I shall ixrDe 
for your favour. 

I shall send by Cuptn. Dunbar my Cash Accounts to Christinas last, 
and a Transcript of the Register which I have hitherto kept. A journal 
of the Stores is also near finished and will be sent. As I would use 
sy Utmost Endeavours punctually to execute Commands, I found it neces 
sary to hire Assistance in Matters of Account before Orders for it came 
to my hands. 

We have had throughout the Whole Province the particular Blessings 
of God with regard to our healths, when our Neighbours of Carolina were 
generally *#rppE afflicted with almost universal! Sickness (for the 
most part intermitting Fevers) of which many &k Died. 

The Overseer to Mr. Jeny's Negroes died here on the 13th of May 
and Mr. Tan Reck left us on the 20th. Mr. Mugridge had Orders from Mr. 
Jeny's to take Care of his Negroes, and he went to Ebenezer, But having 
other Business to Hind, soon returned, and in this Case, I strenuously 
urged the care of them to Mr. Bunyan an(3 Mr. Clark Subject to the 
ministers Advise. The Negroes soon grew disatisfied end one of them 

 177 (339) 

Murdred one of his Fellow Negro's, And Mr. Jenys soon after sent for 
them away. 

When Mr. John Van Reck went, Mr. Bolzius went with him to 
Charles Town, an-1 on his return desired, That one Frederick ReinlsntLer 
and Family, should Settle with the Saltsburghers (being of the same 
Communion) He is accordingly with them; He has lived some time in 
(360) Philadelphia and Carolina, and understands planting. 

I went to that place on Saturday Bvening, and return'd on the 
Sunday following to See how the work went forward and took Mr. Jones 
with me. 

I found that most of the Negroes tine had been Spent in making a 
Road to Abercorn, having laid seven Bridges, That they had fruitlessly 
planted, on the most barren Ground. I blamed Clark for not advising 
better but he Say's they were obstinpte. 

Some ill designing people took an Opportunity to make them 
uneasy, with their Scituation, a.nd they much desired to be removed. I 
perswaded them That the' the Land in the Town did not seem to answer 
the present purpose of planting It would soon Enrich itself, and for 
their Immediate use They might plant on any good Land they could find 
nerr them; They have got resdy (by joint Labour) f°r this Season of 
planting above 20 acres: Bunyan goes on with their Buildings and has 
finished two of their Houses, besides one double house; I pay him as he 
goes on being first Surveyed by Mr. Jones. 

Augustine found a Water passage to Ebenezer and Conducted the 
Scout Boat within three miles of the Town The Entrance of that River is 
6 miles beyond Corn house Creek, and about 24 Miles froa thence to 

 178 (36o) 

Ebenezer, The good people were very much rejoced to see him here. 
But Aagu.sti.ne could not undertake to Clear the way to the Town for the 
30 L Currency which Mr. Oglethorpe was pleased to Order; so that I hpve 
paid Mm nothing on that head. 

Dr. Zwifter was lost for twelve days, when I heard it I sent 
some Indians to find him; They trough him safe home, and he is very 

well. //./; 

4^'<PV^ ^'" 

The people at Abercorn, are in good health. (Faded) has 

Yb t^ ^ ' . ,s- ) 

Rivetts Lot and she is Removed to this (faded!} ^^C /ny/tQ married 
her Daughter and he went to Charles Town to serve the Governor a.nd 
Died. (36!) 

Widow Box after her husbands death much desired to return to 
England But I promised her some assistance here; aJid did her some 
little Kindnesses; In a little time she slterd her mind and married 
Hr, Young the Wheelwright. 

Mr. Autrobus having buried his Wife has married the Widow of 
Joseph Taylor The rest of the people are also in good health, they 
planted last Year about ten seres of which Mr. Hogles had the greatest 
Share; He is indeed a very Industrious msji. 

Mr. Watkins some time since ask'd my Opinion about an Agreement in 
writing which he had made for the Lease of a Lett in Town; I told him, 
That indeed Tine people (for Improvement Sakelmight Rg2m& Lease their 
Lands for Seven Years, But th?t Lycence for Leasing was not to be under 
stood, to alter the Intentions of the Trustees With respect to the 
Settlements for if the outsetlers should, (under that Pretence, remove 
from their place of Settlement, The remaining body would be thereby 

 179 (361) 

weakened and exposed to Danger. 

Because I am mentioning Occurrences in this part of the Province 
I must not Omitt Mentioning That Mr. Robert Parker Senior has fixt his 
Mill about 8 Miles up this Creek vhere is a Bluff of about 12 feet 
high and Plenty of Pine, and within 3 Miles of Abercorn by Land. When 
I knew it I advised Mr. Jones to go and See it, who told him he must 
not meddle with the Timber without Lycence, And I suppose he has 
gKi± petitioned Your Honours for euch Lycence. I believe he has been 
at great Charges and is in Debt about it. It has begun to work But 
whether it will p.newer his Ends, is I find a question. He has make some 
Demands upon me. As appears by the Inclosed which I could not Comply 
with, And. indeed his Demands for workmens provissions have been so 
very Iprge, That I have been forc't to Stop; Till Your Honours pleasure 
be known. 

The Independent Company having (faded) the Store Accot. for 

-f-Jig McAeg 
Six Months went for (faded) Town about the Tenth of November, But the 

n, ti e n 4 e 

Captn. (faded) (3^2) went from thence left his Lieutenant and eight of 

his men behind him. I have perswaded them to work for their Victuplls, 
and leave their ^ay untouched, with which St^te, they Seem well Satis 
fied. I often told Mr. Mackay That I had no Instructions to provide for 
his Company And that he must Answer for it If not approved of. Robert 
Parker Junior having married the Widow Sale gave up his Commission snd 
Mr. Loyer is made Lieutenant. 

Mr. Thomas Jones with 19 Indians arrived here on the first of 
July some Creeks^ and some Chactaws/ The Names as Inclosed, upon 
their Arrival I order 'd the people under Arms, and we welcomed them to 

 180 (362) 

this place in the best manner we could. And having provided them 
provisions, desired them to tarry about 14 days and we would give them 
a talk. I dispacht a Letter from Colonel Bull sjid another to Captn. 
Mackay at Charles Town desiring their Company at the time appointed. 

Colonell Bull came without receiving my Letter and Mr. Mackay 
sent the Inclosed answer. The Chactaws seemed exceeding well pleased 
with the presents a particular of which is for the most part sett down 
in the Enclosed List which was Settled by Colonel Bull advise. These 
are much better polisht than the Creeks, and the Chief men seemed to be 
endowed with many Commendable qualifications. 

Mr. Paul Hamilton of Edisto with two other Gentlemen, arrived 
here and after a Stay of 2 Days returned. I endeavoured to shew him 
the Respect due to a Benefactor. And et his Return hone sent the 
Cattle by way of present to the within mentioned, which favour we 
acknowledged in writing; I though I could not better represent his 
Request to you, Than by Sending his own Letter to which If your Honours 
will be pleased to direct an Answer I will carefully Send it to him. 

Captn. Tuscany the Beloved Indian died here about the later End 
of may and Captn. Skee died the beginning of September. (363) 

Watson the Trader as Soon as Mr. Oglethorpe went hence, gave 
himself to drinking, and was so Seldom Sober That it was hard to Guess 
if he was not Mad. He would be naked with the Indians, Drunk with them, 
lye down with them and sometimes pretended to baptize them. He made 
Skee his Cheif Companion and he seemed to apprehend some some Da,nger 
from him. Therefore wanted to make him his particular friend. They 
were drinking every day together in this mad way for a.bout a Month. 

 181 (363) 

Skee got the flux and went to the Cowpen and died when Skee wps thus 
111 Watson made publick Talk That he had done Skee's business, pnd that 
he would die. This way of behaviour was generally lookt on as drunken 
Talk. But when Skee was dead and the s&rne talk not only continued 
but persisted in I took an Opportunity one day in the Store to Reprove 
him, and tell him of the dangers of such Speeches; I said, That if such 
talk should come to the Indians Knowledge it would be a difficult 
matter to perswade them to the Contrary, he answered Skee was dead 
And he was alive, and that they had both of them the like Distemper. 
I then went farther and told him perhaps (as misfortunes of the World 
were Various) he had lately turned his Thoughts on Something which made 
to great an t-nnprBrsrxTrsrK Impresion on his Mind, At which, the poor man 
wept and I did not chuse to say any more. 

Sometime before Skee's Death, Musgrove and Watson quarrelled 

and she could not be perswaded from bringing an Action against him for 

6?PJ 
calling her Witch The Cause was try'd August 13th and 6 S for Damages 

given against him as you will See by the Recorders Report. 

On the 24th another Action was tryed for an assault whereby he 
was charged, with Endeavouring to Shoot Mrs. Musgrove And it appeared 
very plain that he had shot her If she had not over Power'd him in 
her own defence and took it from him and broke it. A Verdict went against 
him for five pounds Serling Damages and he was Orderd to be boun for 
his good behaviour. (364) 

The next day he was tryed on an Indictment prefixed against him by the 
Grand jury for Beating Esteechee the Indian and defrauding him of his 
goods. Which upon Tryal appeared to be true and he was found guilty and 

 182 (364) 

ordered to pay 13s^ Sterling fine and make the Indians satisfaction 
for their Goods. On which Occasion I publickly reprimanded him; and 
gave him Cautions of the great danger of Such proceedings. I then 
Spoke to the Indians and desired That Esteeche would forgive Watson 
and pass it by, for that he had now been Tryed found Guilty & fined, He 
would be paid for his goods and Care Should be taken, That he would do 
so no more. You will see by Mr. Recorders Report, That this was a 
Trifling Assault. However, It appeared afterwards very plain, That 
Esteeche and all the Indians had received so x& strong a hatred against 
him That Esteeche said his Heart would never be streight towards him. 

Tallahummee Spoke next, and said I desire all the beloved men 
here present will take notice of whet I say we brought our Wifes and 
our Children here and thought to have traded with Musgrove, That the 
Esquire promist it. 

That when he went he left his talk with Mr. Causton That if 
any thing happen'd to them, it should be redressed; some time since I 
was out Striping of Bark, and Watson came and presented a Gun at me, I 
was going to arise but Considered of it. 

That we thought to be here and to be Civil and kind to one 
another but we find the Contrary by Watson. And I dont know what to 

make of it. 

^^ 

I asked them if they had any Complaints to make. Hg answered me 

all desire That another Man may trade with us, or thst Musgrove may 
trade by herself. There was present Tallahummee, Skee, Esteeche, 
Tallafoleecha, Whitustee, and Eronake, who all joined in that 
desire. 

 183 (364) 

Mr. Eveleigh, by a Letter acquainted me, That he heard Watson 
had differed with Musgrove: That he (3%5) had received no Skins 
since Mr. Ogelthorpe went. That there was a Considerable &ix Balance 
due to him, that he had given James Muir a Letter of Attorney to Settle 
the Account and demand the money, But had Subjected him to my Advise. 

In pursuance of this Muir applied to Watson and Watson perswaded 
him to bring an Action against for a jury to divide it. I could not 
approve of this till I knew how Eveleigh was prepared to make his Case 
good. Therefore chose to try other amicable Methods. The Recorder and 
I vent to Musgroves for this purpose and soon found, That this Enquiry 
would be the unravling of all Watsons behaviour. That under pretence 
of managing the Trade he had bought and Sold without Musgroves know 
ledge, and was carrying the Trade into another Channell; which was con 
trary to the Agreement with Bveleigh and the express words of the 
Articles between Musgrove and Watson. 

I ask*t him to give me his Objections to the Accot. in writing 
but he refused it. I acquainted Mr. Eveleigh of the Matter and desired 
some Body would Come to make good his Charge. I judged, That as 
Watsons Case seemed to be In Respect of Eveleigh Demand, The Indians 
Complaint, and Musgroves Uneasiness; It would be well If he could be 
persweded to withdraw from the Stores; Let his affairs be managed by 
another person to be approved of by both and a perfect Inventory to be 
taken; to this he Consented, But having changed his Mind he went 
frequently away and lock*t up the Store; Mrs. Musgrove one day found 
only the Servant there and she turn'd him out of doors, <S% lockt it and 
took the Key her self with intent (no doubt) of keeping Sole Possession; 

 But he soon found means to regain it snd then for severs! Days refused. 
to open the door to any one. 

He was one day lockt in, when the Indians came to weigh their 
Skiits. They found that Watson was in the Stores and would not open the 
door, therefore they endeavoured to break it open.(366) 

Mrs. Musgrove begged of him to Escape for if the Indians got in 
she feared that they would murder him. Accordingly Watson got out 
another way and came to Town. The Indians broke in, but finding Watson 
gone, their anger was rather Increased and Esteeche killed Musgroves 
Slave (Justice) that night. 

This Murder justly alarmed us And having advised With Mr. 
Christie, Mr. Vest, Mr. Vanderpls-nk and Mr. Jones We Concluded, That 
Esteeche, where ever he was Seen, either in the Town and Settlements, 
should be immediately put away in the most gentle manner that could be 
and he being then in Town Hr. Vanderplenk was ordered to Conduct him to 
the Indian Line, He has kept away from the Town ever since. 

Watson was much frighted at his proceeding. I told him, tvas 
absoulutely necessary for him to Secure his own person, But if he did 
not, I should be obliged to it, for the Publick Safety I particularly 
advised him to v;ithdre.w out of the Province for some time perswsding 
him, that perhaps this Affair might pass over Or at least that some 
instructions from Your Honours might be had, and that he might not 
be hurt in his private property, advised him to authorize some Body to 
manage for him. But by ill Advise, he soon seemed to forgett it, and 
took an Opportunity to Report that I advised him to go out of the Colony, 
Only, that he might be plundred of what he had, And Urged, we need not 

 185 (366) 

be afraid of Indians since we had sufficient Hostages in England. 

As I have nothing So much at heart, as the Publick Safety; my 
Duty to your Honour obliged me to have a particular Watch upon him and 
his Associates, And at the same time as much as I could forbear doing 
any thing, that might seem to Confirm the Report he had Spread. I 
therefore urged Mr. Eveleigh to finish his own Account (& arbritration) 
and assist Mrs. Musgrove as to the ^ partnership. 

Mr. Eveleigh arrived here, and they Agreed That Mr. Fallovfield 
and Mr. Dobree should be Arbitrators. When Wetson found the Award 
would not please him, he raised Reflections on both the Arbitrators end 
I much (36?) doubt (to this time) if shall be able to get any Determina 
tion made in that manner. I waited these Determinations near three 
Months, but finding, thpt he continued his drunken humours, And that 
the publick Danger rather encreased, for his own Report of Killing Skee, 
I found had reached Tallahummnees Ears, And there was nothing to hope 
for, but the Immediate Confinement of Watson to Secure his Life. 

A Charge was drawn up against him for Misdemeanors, which I 
chose to have found by a Grand jury; upon this he was tryed/ November 
the &k 21st and found Guilty in these words, — Guilty of publishing 
severall unguarded Expressions contained in the Charge, but believing 
him to be Lunatick, irM&FmMrtuna'tnMKiriE recomended him to the mercy of the 
Trustees. I hereupon Committed him Close prisoner to such Lodgings as 
he should chuse in the Town. He offered Bail, and I would hsve took 
it (vizt. Mr. Quinsey) if the security would have been bound, That he 
should not go out of the Town Mr. Recorders Report shews the Nature of 
the Charge, and Your Honnours Commands in this matter is much wanted. 

 186 (36?) 

Till now I had maintained the Publick peace with some Ease, and 
though somebody must be more or less the sufferer by every Persecution, 
yet the Determinations of the Court h?ve been always obey'd with great 
Readiness I shall Use my Utmost Endeavrs. to have all necessary Order 
kept, Especially in every thing which regards the In6.ia.ns. But a.n 
Opinion is now Started, That it is very cruel to Imprison any one for 
fear of an Indiaji, and our new Polititians think, It is more for the 
Interest of the Province to H Let an angry Madman go out of it (tho* 
he were Inclined to say all the Reprochfull things he Could) Than 
gently to Confine him to his own House. As to this (368) matter Mr. 
Gordon told me, That he did not choose to alter what had been edjuged 
in Court, But if he pleased, he could Admitt him to Bail which I 
denied. 

Captain Yoakley, having on a Sudden teken a Resolution to go for 
England am obliged to Deferr further Accounts to my next, which is 
almost finished and will come by Captn. DunbM- who will Set out from 
Hence for London in five Weeks. He will take all his Loading here, 
Mr. Lacey, Mr. Vanderplank, and Self, having hired some of the poor 
people at Puriisburgh who were in a very low Condition and. we have got 
about 700 Barrels Pitch and Tarr for him, which we beg leave to Consign 
to your Honours as the first Export of the Growth of this Province. 

I am as in Duty bound 
May it please your Honours 

Your Most dutifull Servt. 

 187 (371) 

Copy of a etter from Mr. John Burnside to the Trustees dated at 
Savannah January the 16th 1734/5. 

Gentlemen. 

'Tie above twelve Months since I Arrive in this Province and have 
done as much as in me lay, not so much for my own but for the Service 

thereof in return for the great favours raced, from your Honours, but 

h<? 

having Servants not being bred to Labour nor having any Experience in 
/t 

Country Affairs they not Agreeing with my Genius, renders Life a 
Burthen to me and also deprives me of any hopes (by my Land) of making 
Frovissions. 

There has been no Instructor of Youth here since Mr. Vaterlsnd 
went to Carolina, 'tis a Business I had eight Years Experience in, 4 
Years an Apprentice and 4 a Freeman, the People in General like ny 
Performance, so beg your Honours will not only for ny Benefit, but 
theirs, Grant me the Priviledge of Practiseing in Town and in so doing 
you will lay fresh Obligations on the Province in General but in a 
particular Manner on Gent. 

Your Honours most Obliged 
Obedient Humble Servant. 
N.B. I am Settled at Fort 
Argyle near 100 Miles from Town 
by Water at which Place I have 
Built a House and Clear'd Near 
two Acres of Land. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward Jenkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 

Savannah January the 20th 1734/5. 

Sir 

Mr. Willibee our Fellow Trust of the Orphan's is dead, the 
Magistrates have not as yet chosen another, Mr. Causton seem to inti 
mate that he will receive orders from the Trustees before he nominate 
another, we have taken care to Cloth the Children according to your 
Honours order, but we thought the deaths was to be a Gift from the 
Trustees. But Mr. Causton says we must pay for it, out of the Orphans 
Ki Effects. But shall not Consent to pay for it before I hear from 
your Honours or the Board, we have taken care to make the most of what 
ye Orphan's have, we have let Goddards House and Land to Mr. Christie 
for eighteen pounds pr. year. Mr. Christie wants it for 10 years, But 

I told him it was not in our power to grant it without Consent from the 

so f€ 

Trust, some stay for the finishing of the Lease untill we have an 

answer. Milliges House we have let to young Robt. Parker who Marryed 
the widow Sale for fourteen pounds pr. year Mr. West have agreed that 
we should have Little's Child under our care and agrees to give twelve 
pounds pr. year for the Childs House the Child lives with Mrs. Mercer 
which from the Mothers Death have Taken a Great Deal of Care of. 

We Gain a Great deal of ill will by forcing People to pay for 

the Orphan's Goods we sold, we ere now taking out executions against 

& 
all in General that have not paid, Poor Mrs./fayt<a,is dee.d/ZH& have 

left two fine Boys under our Care but no effects to maintain them, 
what gives me the greatest uneasiness Concerning the Orphans is That 

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they are not taken as Good care of as I would wish Altho we see them 
often and is not Backward of telling of any one that buses them, 
I am sorry I can't help but say the Women turns out but Kxmqc very 

badly, which makes the Orphans lives miserable. (3?6) 

t <. 
Mr. Amatis told me & fortnight ago of taking the two Lonaon Children 

from him he seemed to be very uneasy & told me he was Going for London 
I yesterday asked him where he depended on our taking the Children he 
said, he would have me stay till he Come Back froai Charles Town, I 
know he have been very uneasy of late but can't Say for what. I wish 
there was some honest man Chosen for our Partner to take of some of our 
trouble Had I known of Mr. Yoakley's Going directly from hear to London 
we would have sent jthHK the whole account of the Orphans but If I live 
pax propose to do it % By Captain Dunbar So remain 

Your Honrs. most Obedient 

and humble Servant. 

(377) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward ^enkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at Georgia January the 20th 1734. 

Sir 

I did not think to have given your Honour an account how White 
was taken that Murdered Mr. Wise myself but thought Mr. Christie or Mr. 
Causton had done it. but I understand they have not the truth of it 
is as follows. 

Mr. Henry Parker & his Brother, William was at work at my Lot to 

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pay me for what work I had done for him ae we was working one of my 
men said yonder Goes a man very fast. I looked and. saw the man and said 
I believe its White that Broke out of Prison If it is him Let us go and 
take him, the two Barkers agreed not knowing where it was he or no left 
the men at work all the Weapons we had was two hooks & an axe we was at 
work with, I desired one of them to be about 10 yards at my right hand 
and the other at my left keeping that distance without Speaking a word 
And as soon as we Csme to him I would seaze him and if he offered to 
rebell they should kill him immediately, so we persued him tell we came 
into about twenty yards of him At first sight of us was much surprised. 
I told him your Name is White its in vain to Attempt and immediately 
I seized him he fell on his knees & with many Blows on his Breast baged 
his Life so I took him by one side of the Collar and Mr. Henry by the 
other, and William walked behind we held him very fast for we had often 
heard ths,t the Servant bid defiance to ten men to take him. 

As we was Leading him to Town, we asked him where he had been and 
where he was going he said he had been looking for some house out of 
town to get some Provisions but could not find any one. And he then was 
looking after the the woman, he thought he left her p little to the 
right hand (378) where we then was. As we was Leading him along he 
would often beat his breast and begg'd his life, we told him if we let 
him Go he must perish in the woods he said he would be joyfull to 
perish in the woods rather than dye on the Gallows we told him if any 
thing could turn to his safety it would be if he knew of any other 
Villainy that the Irish Servts. or any one else had been done or was 
inventing. He then Earnestly declared before God that some of the 

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Irish Servts. was at him to Contrive to break open the Store, and for 
fear of his Spepking of it they had taken away his Life and if their 
oaths must be taken he did not doubt but they would serve many others 
the same, we could get nothing more from him but carry'd him into 
Town he was had immediately to the Gallows and declared to the last he 
was not Guilty of the murder & by all appearance died a Roman, the 
woman was Hanged yesterday, and deny'd the murder of Wise, & the most 
that she had to answer for was her being so wicked to Confess a thing 
she was not Guilty of, by which means she imagined was the Death of 
White she seemed to be of tae same Principle as White was. So remain 

Your Honours most Obedient and 
humble Servant to Command. 

(379) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Edward Jenkins to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at Savannah January the 20th 1734/5 

Sir 

I hope you will excuse me in giving an Account of one thing 
more relating to my self. I believe I was once an Instrumt. of Saving 
Mr. Watson^s Life, and perhaps of a great many others. 

Mr. Causton, Mr. West, Mr. Christie, Mr. Vanderplank, Mr. Jones 
and my self mett at Mr. Christie's to Consult what method to take to 
find out the reason of the discontent the Indians seemed to be under, 
we doubted it might turn to be of a dangerous Consequence so the Magis 
trates Picked upon me to go to the Indians with a Linguister which was 
Bartlets wife. 

 192 079) 

I went home and & Sent for Bartlets wife & Told her I would be 
her friend if she would be Just In being Linguist for the Indians to me. 
I Gave her a Bottle of Rum to Carry with her, & Charged her Say nothing 
tell I came but drink with them.H&ixh when I came she was with 
Husteche which was the Indian I wanted, the rest was gone up the River, 
with Skins because Watson should not have them so after I had Showed a 
good deal of friendship to the Indian, I asked him how Mr. Watson end he 
agreed he said his heart end Uatsons was one, but it was easy to gett 
the Contrary. I told him he need not be afraid to discover, his 
uneasiness to me, for he should have as much justice done him KK as any 
of our own People, he thought some Minutes, at Last said his heart 
nor none of Indians was Strait towards Watson nor never would & that 
Watson should have no more Skins from eny of them & that Watson got 
drunk with their Rum and then would beat them & in a great Passion 
showed me some signs of his Blows, I perswaded him to be easy & he 
should see we would vindicate this Rights and Privileges as much as our 
own. so at Last seemed to be well Satisfied that he had discovered his 
Mind, so I acquainted Mr. Causton (380) what I had done, he sent by 
Mrs. Musgrove which in great measure abated their discontent, they 
came into Court and discovered much to the same purpose what they did 
to me. 

These Letters are much to the same purpose as I sent to Charles 
Town a Fortnight ago in Order to be carried for London, I wish you may 
be able to make sence of what I have wrote I had not three hours 
warning of Yoakley's going direct for London but thought he was to go 
to Lisbon in my Last Packet I sent my good friend Mr. Holland a Letter 

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but fear I now have not time. In that desired his interest Concerning 
the Licence but I seem to be fully perswaded I nead no ones But your 
Honours. So remain with. 

My Duty to the Honourable 
Board of Trustees. 

(383) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Martyn dated 
South Carolina January 20 173^/5 

Sir. 

Your kind favour of the 23d of Octor. p_ Captain Dunbar, in due 
time came safe to my Hands. I am very glad that any thing that I hfwe 
done for Georgia or Mr. Oglethorpe is acceptable to the Trustees. I do 
assure you when first I heard of the Trustees design of Settling Georgia 
I thought it wag So humane and might prove so Beneficial to Great 
Brittain and this Place That it gave me a great Satisfaction. And in 
Order to Advance that Colony, I have Spent a great many thoughts some 
of which I have Communicated to Mr. Oglethorpe which probably you may 
have Seen, a.nd Should be glad to hear they h?ve been of any Service to 
that Colony. 

There are two or three things which I think worthy of the Con 
sideration of the Trustees (Vizt) That they admit of Negroes coming 
into that Province So it be but a Limitted Number, For without Negroes 
you can't have there any produce Sufficient to load Vessels % And with 
out that no Trade can be carry'd on there to Satisfaction. 

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It can't be Supposed^: That the Trustees know the Circumstances 
of this Country so well as those who have lived, several Years in it, 
And we are all here generally of Opinion, That Georgia can never be a 
place of pay great Consequence without Negroes. 

There are Some few in this Province Who have no great Affection 
for Georgia. And I have seen them reJoyce in this very article that 
there are no Negroes to be allowed there. 

I am very much against too great a Number of Negroes and am of 
Opinion Wee have to many in this Province as you may observe if you 
have read one of my Letter's to Mr. Oglethorpe on that Head / But then 
on the other hand there may too few: The Golden Mein ought to be 
Observed. 

It would in my Opinion tend very much to the Advantage of Georgia 
If the Trustees would put the Government of that Place under a good 
regulation. 

I have Several Times heard That the Fundemental Constitution 
drawn up by Mr. Lock, and Sent hither by the Lords (384) Proprietors 
about forty years since to be a very good One, and should very much 
rejoyce Should I live to see a good Constitution of Government in that 
place, and should be very proud Should I be in the least Accessary 
thereto. 

In Severall of my Letters to Mr. Oglethorpe I have desired that 
he would gett a Bounty upon Lumber, which would be of great Advantage 
to Georgia. And tho* you may not be able to get it for the Main in 
general You may for that -^rovince Several Reasons may be urged vizt. 
That it is a young Colony, therefore Ought to be Encouraged And 

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Assisted / As was the Custome of the Romans. 

That it is a Frontier, both to the French & Spaniards, (The 
former of which is grown powerfull and formidable) That if the French 

Should tske that Place & this it would very much indanger, Severs11 of 

?Ja, 
his of his Majesty's New Colonys. 

His Majesty does not Value the Charge of Materials in building 
his Men of Warrs And. tha.t live Oak Timbers are Allowed, by all the Work 
men of good understanding That I have conversed with, to be preferable 
to any English Oak whatever. 

The French (as I am informed) hen a Design of Settling Alatamaha 
River, about fourteen years Agoe which was discovered p_ Mr. Bladen 
whilst he was in France, did the French and Spaniards know how valuable 
that Province is on Account of the live Oak timber, They would have long 
Since Settled it, which / probably night have proved of very bad Con 
sequence to Great Brittain. 

Theres A great deal of Timber, and other Lumber Imported into 
England for building his Majestys Ships of Warr, and Merchant men, from 
Hamburgh, Dantzwick &ca. which is paid for Chiefly in Gold Silver or 
Bills of Exchange from Amsterdam; Which if brought from America would be 
paid for in the Linnen or Wollen Manufactory, and other European Goods, 
and this likewise would very much Increase our Navigation and thereby 
raise Men to Man his Majestys Ships. 

I could wish you could prevail with Mr. Oglethorpe to come over 
again his presence is certainly very Necessary. That he may ^ Finish 
what he has so well began. 

There are several things reported in Town to have been 

 (383) 

transacted at Georgia which I don't like, I am very certain his presence 
is wanted. 

I teg the favour that you'll excuse the Liberty that I have 
taken, and that youll make my best of Services Acceptable to the 
Trustees, I am with my Utmost Respects 

Sir 

Your most Obliged humble Servant. 

(38?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Tailfer and others to Mr. 
Peter Gordon dated at Savannah 21st Janry. 173^/5- 

Sir 

We take this opportunity of laying the following particulars 
before You. We having obtained Grants for Land from the Trustees for 
establishing the Colony of Georgia, end according to those Grants 
having engaged Servants and brought them st our own Expences into the 
Colony expected to have the same Encouragement as other Settlers; such 
as Provisions for our Selves and Servants for one Year, Tools for 
building our Houses and for clearing and cultivating the Ground, Nails 
and other necessary Iron Work, Arms and Ammunition <5c. But when We 
arrived here, contrary to our Expectation, We could receive none of them. 
We had a very discouraging Rhzxg Character of this place given us at 
Charles Town, upon which Account some of us ceme here to view it, and 
then Mr. Causton told us that he had orders not to give us any thing 
but he would allow us Credit for Twelve months Provisions, yet when we 
brought up our Servants and Goods it was with a great Deal of Difficulty 

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we could procure three month's Provisions end a few other things, and 
not even those without paying for them. 

We beg the favour You would join with us to represent those 
things to the Trustees, and we humbly presume that being in all fifty 
two in Number and all our Servants able young Men except two or three 
Women, we were a considerable Addition of Strength to the Colony and 
indeed we (388) should have been much more in Number if it were not for 
the Loss we sustained by the Desertion of our Servants before we left 
North BjckiJc Britain, and at Portsmouth by a Misfortune which befell our 
Ship where we were obliged to lay her on ground so that several of our 
Servants had an opportunity of leaving us. 

We beg Leave to remark one thing more, that being settled at a 
great Distance from this Town to the Southward it is a very great incon 
venience for us to procure from time to time such things as we stand in 
need of; and likewise that our People have been very industrious in 
building a Fort which we think is as capable to defend us in case of an 
Attack from an Eneay as any we have yet seen in this Country; and 
although it has been a considerable Hindrance to the clearing of our 
Ground, yet we believe that proportionable to the time of our Settling 
there is as much Ground cleared as any where else in the Province; end 
indeed we thought it necessary to put our seives in some Posture of 
Defence in the first place. 

We would willingly persuade our selves that the Eonble. Trustees 
upon knowing the preceding Circumstances will grant us the same 
Encouragemt. they do to any other Person. 

 198 (338) 

We hope You will be so good as to excuse this Trouble from 

Sir 

Your most Obedient Bumble Servant 

(391) Copy of a Letter from Captn. Dunbar to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Savannah January the 23d 1734/5. 

Hond. Sir 

I would have troubled you on my Arrival the 2? past with an 
Accot. of the State of the Passengers who (except Traahowi and was then 
perfectly recovered) were well man Woman & Child the Saltzburgers 
particularly still Chesrfull and pious Laborious Sober people, the 
Indians behaved with their accustomed Modesty and I have reason to 
believe they as well as all the other Psssengrs. are Satisfied with 
their Treatment while on board, but delayed it till my return from the 
Southern parts of this Province where on my An-ivall there appeared 
some need of Sending.The State of Affairs were that some time before a 
Body of Spanish Indians passed Ogetchy River and kill'd $ Outchees nigh 
Pallachocolps. 

A Brigantine off Tybee sent her Boat on shire & got of Chetwin 
Fizard one of the Pilots under Pretence to come into the river, and 
immediately stood to Sea. and the Master of a Bristoll Ship then in 
the River affirmed that he ha^ seen a Negro one of the men that carried 
off the Pilote at the Havanna. 

The Scout bopt was on her Cruise some weeks longer than Ordinary 
& feared that she was fallen into bad hands. 

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Thus the Affairs stood when in Obedience to the Trustees Commands 
and ty the Magistrates Authority I set out on the 8th ult. with eleven 
white men and four Indians Mr. John's as Constable one of the Burnter 
as was Mr. Bailie who would not beungon was by the Magistrates named 
Constable for the Expedition end to Succeed Mr. John's and he me in the 
command of the men in Case of Accidents. 

TomoChachi told me that if his presence was not so much wanted 
at home he'd go in person with a Sufficient number of his men in the 
round Cpnoes and would on that Occasion if he was sure there was any 
disturbers of our peace in the Province but Eellispelly Hnmpetchee and 
Stimaletchee (392) insisted on going wth. e Servant of Mr. Musgroves ss 
interpreter, and during our voyage behaved with utmost discretion and 
forwardness. The 8th we passed Thunderbolt where these Gentlecten have 
Cleared and fenced so much Land that without Misfortunes prevent they'll 
be able to Sell a Considerable Quantity of provisions, they have made 
every great advances in their Potash Manufactory have loaded of a 
Sloop with Pipe Staves since I have been here, have three Houses finished 
and tolerably well fortifyed. We left Skidowey the 9th where they hpve 
made a much greater Progress both in their Houses end Lands than I 
expected they 31e very regular in their watch so that by night or day 
no boat can pass undiscovered and have a battery of the carrsge Guns 
and four Swivels in good order: two mile South of this Settlenent the 
Scout boat lays when at ho^e where they have a very commanding prospect 

-^<3-f ''* 

and can put to Sea at any time of tide we came at noon to Poesam 

^t 

were we hunted if we could find any people that could not give Satisfying 
cause for their being there but found none from this we passed Ogetchy 

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sound to Bare Island where we encamped for that night without Seeing any 
extraordinary the 10th we continued our voyage along the sland of 
Ossaba to Sappaho where we found fresh marks of fire but hunting as 
formerly with the same success the llth we were at St. Catherina were we 
found fire end hunted as formerly the twelfth we past Doboie Sound to 
St. Simons without any thing remarkable nor here tho we hunted carefully 
did wee see any marks of people having been lately on the gland the 
13th we went to Jekel Island Searched it as in other places with the 
same success and returned to St. Symons the same night where we left 
two of the Indians during our absence at their earnest request to hunt 
for Deer not having hitherto spent any time that way the l4th we went 
to Fort King George and in the way Landed on Barnwell Bluff where we 
found Surveyors lines and in (393) Mr. Johns*s opinion had been lately 
run out from thence the 13th we went to Sappalo by a Creek which runs 
of Close to were the Garrison wps and formerly supposed to run only 
into the woods but observing the tide of flood set in that way to the 
River, I resolved to attempt it and came in one tide from thence to 
Sappalo missing Doboie Sound which otherwaye is the work of three end 
is a safe way for Pettiauguas on this Island we found all as we left it 
the 16th we came to St. Catherina where we were weather bound till the 
18th when we passed Bara Island to All Honey we hunted this Island with 
our usual Success without Seeing any marks of people having been there 
lately as we passed ^c^(K Possum we discovered a fire where we found 
some of the Savannah Indians they could give us no intelligence, and we 
proceeded the same night to Skidoway where we had the agreeable news 

^ay 

that the Scout boat was returned and had made the Extraordinary <e^y on 

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Accot. of building a Canoe the 19th v,e arrived here and were likewise 
agreeably informed tb.3t the Pilote whom we thought carried away was 
returned the Ship having been drove of the Coast and at last put into 
Charles Town. I had on my return Mr. Chardons permition to load here 
and have contracted with *"*r. Causton for eight hundred barrels of Rice 
Pitch or Tar on freight for London there's likewise 20 hogshepds of 
Skins belonging to Mr. Eveleigh so that tho I go tomorrow to Carolina 
to Purchase some Rice on j&dbE freight or other ways I hope to be fully 
loaded with the Products of Georgia on my return if Mr. Simmons 
Affaires will permitt I think of Seeing the Saltzburgers at their Settle 
ment, Btjc visit Abercorn pass over lend to Fort Argyle see the Scots 
Settlement and return by Skidoway agsin. 

Mr. Forsuls boat was bought here when I was gon to the Southward 
for the people of Augustine The vessell which you may remember, w?s 
launched when you was at Charlestown mounted with eighteen Guns was 
likewise sold to (394) them Torance that belonged to the Scout Boat is 
there and we are told much in favour, tho Wallace and others taken at 
the seme time are Confined. When I ceil give you a more parll. account 

of the affaires of the Town I'll likewise trouble you. 

JT? /<y 
I would have sent seeds or plants to My Lord I Stay p_ Ceptn. 

Yoakley but his going to Londin is owing to a Misfortunat accident here 
with the Collector of Port royal being intended for Lisbon till yesterday 
and is to sail with the first fair wind. At am my return to London if 
you csn Imploy me to the least advantage to a.ny of your friends in the 
way you Spoke of at London it will give me Infinite joy Since I can never 

 202 094) 

hope of returning in any other way than by my wishes the many the many 

obligations I lay under to you. I am 

Eonble. Sir 

Your most obedient and most 
Obliged Servant. 

Tomo Chochi Tonohowi Hellispelle and Hurnpetchee are with me this Morning 
and often in their passage and since remember you Tomo Chachi desires 

3De to acquaint you that your Picture is gon to the Nation Tonohowi 

Ltj<?*t-<=. b 

which is very much abased but I carry'd it to Charles Town & will have 

it ntHKzat mended, pardon this Scribling Yoakley being just going. 

(395) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Mouse to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at Savannah January 23d 1734/5- 

Bond. Sir 

You being well acquainted with our Settlement at Skidowsy, I 
hsve made bold to inform your Honour, of the Improvement belonging to 
my own Lett, which I c^ll the House Lett, it is pailed out, s.nd I have 
two large hutts built thereon, one is twenty four by Sixteen and is 
sett all ^ round with Large upwright Loggp, the other is twenty one by 
fourteen with Clnp boards only; which I propose as a Store House with a 
yard and Conveniencys for Bread, where I keep my Fowls, of which I have 
about thirty, besides what I have Sold which came Cheifly from the 
Fowle which your Honour was pleased to give me, but I have not had 
altogether such good Luck with my Sax? Sow, she has had two Litters of 

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Pigs the first Died being nine, and the last litter, five only two 
living, which are large thriving Piggs. The Cows and Calves which we 
had are ix all run into the woods, and can't bring them up having so 
few hands, that Pretend they cannot Spare time to Hunt for them and 
theirs. 

I am now to Inform your Honour that the Ground brings forth 
Plenty of Callavsnces, Potatoes, and Indian Corn and will I don't doubt 
Produce many other things which I intend to Try, I hope your Honour 
will not forgett to send over some new Settlers for our Island, It 
being very hard for a man (who has a Large Family) to watch continually 
every third or fourth night and for refusing one Night, I have been 
tied Necks end Heels by Mr. Dslmas our Tythingman I am very sorry I 
should deserve to be served in that manner, but his being Tithing Man 
over so few people as we are at present, he has more times to do a 
Service for said place than he hag, but must Submitt to an Officer in 
Power, I am informed that it is in his po^er to Tye me Neck and hslls 
when he pleases which I submit to if deserved, but If a Man (396) is to 

be governed by an Officer who will Reign Arbitrary it is very hard to 

.fh^tn^ 

Subscribe to and if it is to be so I most Humbly beg your Honr. please 

to permitt me and my Family to Proceed for Englend, alltho I like 
Skidoway better than any place I have seen in the Colony. I realy 
declare that I think it hard to be used as a Common Soldier, as I like 
my Place of Settlement so well, and to leave the seme after I have 
taken so much Psins for my family's Sake is still more hard to me. 
I take the freedom to acquaint ^ your Honour, that I do not 
mention out of Vanity but I do assure you I have made the most Improvements 

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on my Lett of anyone in the Settlement, am very unwilling to trouble 
your Honour with what Improvements others have made, not Doubting but 
you and the Honble. Trustees will be informed therein As to our Land 
which is belonging to us is lately run out the 17th December. 

I understand by Mr. Causton That the Honble. Trustees have 
thought fitt to Allow the People of Skidowsy another year Provisions 
for which Great favour your Honours have mine and my Familys Humble 
Thanks. 

My Spouse is in Daily Expectation of being brought to Bed and is 
now in Savannah where she intends to lye in, she and my Family joins 
with me in humble Thanks to your Honr. and the rest of the Eonble. 
Trustees for all favours and am Honoured 
Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servant. 

(399) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Musgrove to Mr. Oglethorpe Dated 
at Savannah January the 24th 1734/5. 

Sir 

This with my Duty and my Wife's to your Honour & the Rest of the 
Honble. Trustees, & having this opportunity I mske bold to trouble yor. 
Honour with this to *?!pryx Accquaint you that we are all spfely Arrived 
and in good health, and I bless God found my family all well. SEaam 
Toosnahowi has been ill but now he is upon a Mending hand & I hope he 
will do very well; I hope this will find your Honour & the Trustees in 

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good Health as we are at this present. Mr. Wattson who was my Partner 
when I came for England I do not Like, Nor cannot Approve of his way of 
Proceedings; for I find since I came home to Georgia, by Mr. Wattson's 
proceedings & Abuseing of the Indians, I he.se lost my man servant Justice, 
& he one Day tjemrtrsi? Locked the door and would not Lett the Indians in 
with their skins that they Brought with them that they might have them 
weighed, & they waited with a great Deal of patience till st last their 
patience was quite tired & very much vexed, & broke open the Door and 
was resolved to be revenged; and as soon as my Wife heard that the Door 
was broke Open she run to the window and told Mr. Wattson, & Desired 
him to gett away or Else he would be kill'd, & because they could not 
find hint Stechee kKmx knocked my boy Justice on ye head directly & 
killed him, he having the Misfortune of being in the way. Mr. Causton 
is & has been very good to the imix Indians and they all praise and 
Value him, & all the Rest of the Indians was affraid they should be 
blamed upon the acct of the Murder, but Mr. Causton was so very good & 
Pacified them all; so they are very easy & none to be blamed but 
Stechee who Committed the murder: Mr. Caueton will write your Honr. 
the whole Acct. of it. The Looeeing of my man Justice who was so good 
a Servt. to me is a great Loss & 3zis3E Dissappointment in my Affairs and 
Mr. Vattson being continually Drunk I cannot bring him to Accot. for 
whut has been sold out of the Store since the Commencement of the 
Partnership nor will he account with My. Eveleigh at any rpte wh^t 
ever, he makes his Brags he killed Captain Skee by Drinking of Rum & 
If Cspt. Skee's brother should know it, Mr. Wattson the Risque of his 

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life which will bring a Scandall and trouble -upon this (400) Colony 
tut we all do our Endeavour to keep it froa him, & for what I promised 
to the Eonble. Trustees, I will use my utmost Endeavour to P&rform to 
keep peace Tranquility Love & Unity amongst them % on both sides and as 
for Mr. Wattsons proceedings I am Oblidged to break Partnership with him 
wch. I have done allresdy for my own security, And Mr. Wattson he does 
insist on Partnership for four years & that it is as he says according 
to your Honours Promise and since he behaves himself in the manner as he 
does I think it not proper to be concerned with him any 'further for if 
I aia I believe it will be my ruin for the Magistrates are oblidged to 

keep him in Custody upon the Acct. of his Behaviour. By the loss of my 

/% A ^ tA^g. 

boy Justice I aa Obliged to be at home & Hunting €omeing on I have 

nobody to assist me which hinders me from ,ggx going up to the Nation my 

Self but the king Tomo Chachi has sent for the uoper Creeks and the 

A 

lover to Come Down to him to Lett them Know that he is safely Arrived & 
also to tell them of the talk with his Majesty King George said to him 
& the rest I Remain with my Duty & my Wife's to your Honr. & the 
Honble. Trustees from 

Your Humble most Obedient and 
7 Dutyfull Servant to Command. 

(403) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Elisha Dobree to the Trustees Dated at 
Sava,nnah January 2?th 1734/5. 

My Lords and Gentlemen 

I humbly beg your Pardon for the Freedom I have taken in Opening 

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my Thoughts to your honble. Board. My Earnest desire for the good of 
the Colony has perhaps carried my Freedom Too farr bat I hope youll 
easily overlook this And favour me with your Countenance and Protec 
tion. 

I herewith send some Letters which I wrote to your honr. Board 
some tine since & which I would now write over again & Digest em in 
Less compass, but the Settleing your stores account taking almost my 
whole time & gives me no small trouble through the Confused stated they 
are in, and the improvement of ay Garden (5 Acres Lot) taking up the 
remainder of the time: I beg youll Excuse my Sending you Such Imperfect 
Letters. 

As to ny Garden I have with all the Endeavours I possibly could 
make use off got seeds from Sundry places & am now Daily Expecting more 
from Augustine Savannah Town, New York, Philadelphia Lisbon & New 
England. 

As we have no Fresh Beef nor Pork out of bhe Store. Eating so 
much salt meat heats the Blood and Causes the Scurvy I have sowed a 
vast Quantity of Greens & have now fine Sallet Peas & Cabbage Plants 
& almost ready to Eat, Turnips from Carolina, are sold this Day at 2:2 
Sterling &xR p_ Bushell. Good Cabageg would readily Sell for 6^ & 8^ 
peice but none good to be had at any rate few are come from New York 
but mostly Spoiled. These are Trifles hardly worth mentioning but 
Perhaps youll Not take it 111 to be Informd of such affairs tho Never so 
trifling. 

While I thus Consult the health and the desire of the people I 
am considering which way I might improve the garden to some proper 

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usefull future Benifit to my Self, & for that End I am now (404) going 
to Sow The following seeds Almonds, Currants, Baisins Lime Lenuions 
& other foreign Seeds I have already put in Orange, Cotton, Clive &c 
I have Poppys which grow up very fine Some people tells me they pre 
valuable in Physick for which reason I shall tske care to make the "best 

of ym. 

Beans 
I Design to Plant or sow this week a sort of/BMuckx which gxzz 

grows about 12 or 15 foot high & Produce Extraordinary Large beens of 
Wonderfull Size scarse and. hard to be mett with. 

I beg leave to Desire you Hon. & Board to Supply me with Physical 
Herbs & Plants of wch. I will with the Blessing of God for my Private 
Interest make the best use I can & for my Character Supply other Free 
holders with the Produce. 

I am sorry th?t I have reason to Inform your Honble. Board that 
the Workmen at Tybee are allmost Continually Drunk & that the Light 
house is not like to be Quickly built: of Course it must go on slow 
enough & no ways answer the Cost of that Dear peice of Building. 

The freeholders of this town are many of them Building on all 
the whole front of their Town Lot which if an Accidentall Fire should 
happen might Occasion greatly to the Burning of whole Wards at once. 
For the sake of the town & the Stores Leather Bucketts would be very 
Usefull <5 might always be kept ready in the Store. 

Mellassee from Charlestown have been lately sold here by Mr. 
Houston at 2: 6 g.Gallon & at the rate I See them in the London 
Invoice it would save some money to send them there they are 1. 6 
p_ Gall, at Charlestown. Your Honble. Board will I dare say Encourage 

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any thing that may Tend to the Wellfare and. Establishment of this Colony 
and make it a Province Renown'd upon Earth &s well as a Barrier to the 
English Settlement on the American Main: we doubt it not & we are now 
flattering our Selves thst At this very time you are procuring us Some 
Publick Good from the Parliament. 

Mr. Musgrove is very 111 & Like to Die I should gladly Accept 
of some of his Trade were your Honnrs. pleased to grant me Lycence for 
the ssme. (405) 

I am told Mr. SxziH Eveligh of Charles Town ismx dessigns to 
Settle here which I wish may prove true he being a Fublick Spirit a 
good Nature & an Encourager of Industry. 

I might write some Reflection on some of our great men here in 
Endeavouring to Engross all the trade (that is not their business to 
Trade) & on their Absenting from Church Especialy one for Some Months 
past but tis Dangerous to medle with Edge Tools or men in Power. 

Mr. Gordon hath hitherto gain'd the Approbation of ye People. 
It were well if all Judges of Provinces & men in Power there to whom 
the Government of the People is Cc^n-nited would Endeavour to Copy after 
Our Late Kings & Queens in their Fatherly Eudevours more to gain the 
Love and Affection of the people than in Rx Riged lyranical way of 
Government in Using their Subjects more like Slaves than Christians 
Freemen. 

I am most Respectfully 

Your Lordship & Honours Most Obedient 
Most humble & Devoted Servant 

Had I but few Strong servants I would Endeavour to Send a Sloop 
Load of White Oak to Irland: its plenty Enough here as is Live Oak. 

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All Sorts of Greens have been So Scarce here that for Want of them 
Onions have "been Sold for Eight pence Sterling g, pound, tut on the 
arrival of the New York Sloop they are fallen to half the price. Mutton 
is not Sold for Less than Eight p_ Pound & Seldom can get it. Fowls are 
the Chepest Fresh meat we have here. I give twenty Shillings Sterling 
g, Acre for the Letts I have hired near town tho it is an Extravagant 
price I Shuse to pay it rather than to have others free from Rent 
further off mine being tut pbout half a Mile from the town where I may 
Easily go three times pr. Day and Do other bussiness. 

(40?) Copy of a Letter fro.m Mr. Bolzius and Mr. Grenau to Mr. Newman 
Dated Ebeneser 6th February 1734/3. 

Sir 

Being assured that you have kindly receiv'd that Letter which we 
took the Liberty to write to you the 10th December last we make more 
bold once again to trouble you in the midst of your weighty affairs by 
these humble Lines. Whereas you gsve us in your last very oblidging 
Letter dated the 2$th Octr. Sufficient marks of the Continuance of your 
and other great Benefactors favour towards Us and have Sent in the name 
of the Society Money two travelling Beds and other Necessary things for 
our Relief we should be the most ungr^tefull persons of the world if we 
did use these Benefits without Praiseing Almighty God and the praise 
worthy generosity of our great Favourers Tis our firm Resolution which 
is renewed now by these new Testimonies of Divine Blessings to employ 
all our care in beseeching God continually to reward them thousand times 

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for all Benefits bestowed hitherto upon us end our Flock end to grant in 
his grace to be answerable to their desires and extordinary TrptMH 
Intentions % We take the pleasure to acquaint You that the Saltz- 
burghers under the Conduct of Mr. Vat have finished their Sea Voyage so 
happy and in so short a time that every One wonders at it Tie impos 
sible to Express in words all manner of joy and Pleasures we have had 
in receiving them in Cur Place Ebenezer We appointed them quickly 
O b? '. 5 S ' <>*t Several Houses and Eutts of their Countrymen till they have prepared 

/7 

some acres to plant corn and other things next Spring. They told us 
with pleasure of mind that by the Particular Care of their Benefactors 
they have received at London as well as in the ship a great many kind 
nesses and Benefits and Confess themselves not only high Cblidged to 
them for the said and many more benefits promised for time to come but 
they are also firmly Resolved to make it their Business by the assistance 
of Holy Ghost to perform to the utmost of their power all that Shall 
become true Cristisns to answer the Expectations of the Trustees and 
Society Some of this good people are affected with some infirmities 
which es we hope and wish in our Prayers will go off in short time 
One man died at Purrysbourg before he could be brought up to our Place 
of abode the Child that was Christened at Gragesend died likewise a 
few Days after their arrival. 

For the young Man that was Sent to our Service by the (408) 
Providential Care and goodness of the Society we return our humble 

thanks assuring his Soul's and body's welfare shall be our Special 

/ 

Business to make him through God's Blessing Capable of being Servicable \5 

W 

both to God and Hen. (^ 

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We a,ccept with thankfullness the Salaries the Society are 
pleased to allow us for the Support of our Bodies more our relying upon 
the blessings of God who Can and as we hope will by fatherly Affection 
and Care Supply all our wants The bill of fiVty pounds has been accepted 
by Mr. Montague & the Spanish Peices of Eight together with the half 
pence are come to our hands and we could wish that more half pence had 
been added in lieu of Silver. Copper money being extream usefull and 
Convenient in this Country For the English Books which the Society 
please to allow us by Mr. Quincy we leturn our humble thanks We know 
to take advantage of them ansl pray for many more I am in hopes you will 
not take it amiss in troubling You with an Account of the manner of the 
Saltzburgers Divine Worship. We are exceedingly glad to perform by 
Gods Direction Divine Offices among them Their love to the holy word 
of God is very great, and they shew by words and by Deeds that that was 
the Cheif & only reason of their leaving their Native Country. They 
not only Come on Sunday three times to our assembles but their Zeal to 
edifying of their Souls is so ardent that at their desires we have 
appointed in the Evening about half an hour's time for Instructing them 
in Christian Duties and putting up with them to Almighty God our 
prayers in the Week Days after they come from their daily Labour and 
refreshments So that they may not loose the least time for preparing 
their ground And they Convince Us by their Sober Behaviour that they 
make very good use of the Gospel & they have heard And Endeavor to keep 
Strictly by assistance of the holy Ghost its precepts. They at all times 
Remember the great many Benefits they Constantly receive from their 
generous Benefactors in England particularly for having allow*d them 

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Ministers preaching and administrin^ to them the holy word of God and 
Holy Sacraments And being sensible of those grest Blessings they Lift 
up their ^ hands and. Hearts to God Almighty for the prosperity of their 
noble Benefactors. Their Children being now 12 in Number who Constantly 
come to School give us ^reat hopes of following the foot Steps of their 
pious parents And in order that they may be very early instructed in 
the Principles of the Christian religion and other necessary Qualifica 
tions we both teach them every Day over & above what they are taught by 
Mr. Crthi3?nn who follows our directions (40$) Concerning them: wherein 
he employs at present his best Skill and we hope he will continue so 
hereafter. Soae of the Children begin to be in years fit for assisting 

their Parents and upon that account we use our utmost Endeavour to 

(^ 

promote their Learning iaxg lest we weary you with our Serible and for 
fear we Steal from you that him which you wholly inrploy for the Care of 
the Publick we Conclude protesting that we beseech God to prosper the 
noble Designs of the Society, and hope surely he will further mercifully 
grpnt a good Issue of all their Praise worthy Enterprizes taken for 
promoting Christian Ea.owled,ge. And so wishing you all Happiness imagin 
able we take the Le^ve and pleasure to Subscribe our Selves 

Kind BU- 
YouT most humble Servants 
Mr. Vat presents to the Gentlemen 
of the Society his most humble Duty 
& Respect, not being as yet able to 
write to them himself by reason of 
his Infirmity upon his Eyes. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Martin Bolzius to Mr. Oglethorpe Dated 
Ebenezer February the ?th 1735- 

Host Honoured Sir 

My D*aty Cblidges me to render you my humble Submission and 
Respects by these lines I am not ignorant your mighty affairs give you 
very little leisure to read them over I did the seme the 16 of July 
and 12 of December last which Letters I hope are come to your h^nds. 
Eleven people of our Small Company are dead wherefore I am exceeding 
glpd together with the Saltsburghers that you was pleased after your 
Generosity to Send a new body of their persecuted Brethren under the 
Conduct of Mr. Vat which came safely on shore the 30th of December: 
Wist Goodness & benefits they have received by your order & the good 
Care of Mr. Dunbar, you will hear from Mr. Newman to whom I gave a 

V 

Short account of it. I must return you thousand thanks for nil your 
favours and concerns for xiy self & my Colleague as well as for our 
Flock beseeching you to believe we have such a sense of all your Favours 
that we went words to express it Sufficiently. What thanks & Prayers 
the people put up daily to almighty snd Mercyfull God for you and other 
great Benefactors I need not to tell you since you are ascertained of 
the Saltzburgers Godliness and tender Love to you Be pleasured to 
assure yourself the longer the more that they fear and love God very 
earnestly and endeavour as far as lies in their Power to till the 
Ground according to the Intent and will of their Benef-ctors Honour I 
cannot forbear to mention after my humble Duty ^ that at present even So 
as formerly the English and other people as often as they come to our 

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place talke very much from the Settlement of the Saltzburgers they call 
our Land, pine "barren where nothing else will grow "but Indians pesse 
and. Potatoes Hence it is that the poor people are some times dies- 
hear tned "by such talkings tho we do our utmost endeavour to encourage 
them by the holy word of God. Some acres about the river seeme to be 
good but there are few and soiae are covered newly with the high water 
of the River and Swamps. Notwithstanding they have worked hitherto in 
the Ground as much as possible they could for the great troubles they 
have till this time in fetching their provisions and other things (412) 
from Savannah which by modest Computation is no less 44 English miles 
by water the people in some Measure cleared the river Ebeneser in such 
manner that if the water is high they c?n come up with a Small boat to 
our town % but if the wpter is low they can come no further then within 
four miles of the Town to the landing place. And the Currents of 
Savannah River from ebercorn Creek to the Mouth of Ebeneser River are 
so Strong that the people with a Smal boat carrying about one thousand 
pounds weight cannot perform the voyage down and up in less thpn 4 days 
time being oblidged to land at night in sufh places where they can have 
no accomodstions for refreshing or resting themselves unless they make 
small Huts and lie in upon the ground which in Summer time weakens so 
much their bodys that they very frequently fpll sick especially wanting 
proper Refreshments and in the winter and wet season they suffer very 
much by the cold and rainy nights But the people is never out of 
patience It is a new testimonie of the tender Care of our Benefactors 
for our best that by their order Rolf and his Wife was oblidged to quit 
Ebenezer there is nobody in our Congregation that must not suffer 

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several Importunities from them heretofore the order came just at this 
tic;e to I'r. Caustons Hands as the said Rolf wes willing according to 
his open threatnings to kill treacherously two persons at Evenezer of 
which Wickedness Mr. Causton was informed by my Letter to him. After 
the aforesaid good Order he is hindred to pursue his wicked Purpose. 
He was intented to go by Sea for Germany but Since his Voyage was 
Stopped by my letter that I must send to Mr. Causton after my Duty & 
Mr. Causton'g desire he Shew'd together with his Wife a great indigna 
tion against me with a scornfull meen. the Behaviour of the Saltz- 
burgers towards God and men gives us a great Satisfaction wherefore I 
hope nobody should blame me for mine Eagerness to See ma,ny more Such 
people in our Congregation. My Dear Colleague Mr, Gronau MrJ%wiffler 
and all Seltzburgers present you their most humble Respect and due 
Acknowledgment for all your Favours & Benefits: and so expecting your 
Commands to Do what mpy please you in all things I remain 

Most Honoured Sir 

Your most humble Servant 

(415) Mr. Saml. Hill to Mr. Pine. 

Clarendon in Jamaica Jany. 10 1735 
Mr. John Fine 
Sir/ 

I make no question but it may give you a small Surprize to see 
my name at the bottom of this Epistle, not having done my Self the 
pleasure of the same kind since my arrival here, but if the length of 

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this can be any Compensation for that Omission, then I nha.ll stpnd 
fair for your forgiveness — Having never any mention been made by my 
Sister of any Sickness, or Death, to have visited your family, I from 
thence have hope of your enjoying Still the same good health as when I 
left you, and if it would be any Satisfaction to you to know how it has 
fared with me since then in a Country so brsnded for Feavers, Belly-achs, 
aJ3.d Mam Mortality, I cea. (with Gratitude to our Common Preserver) 
acquaint you, that I have had as Continued a Share of health as I have 
been happy in at any time heretofore, except a little Giddiness in my 
head, from a fullness of Blood, by the lessening of which I have been 
relieved, but I keep to my accustomary Temperance, which is one of the 
best Preservatives in every Climate. 

Last year (having before taken notice of an Advertisement of Reasons 
for Settling Georgia) I wrote to my Sister to send them to me, for from 
ay first % hearing of that intention, I possess 'd my Self with very 
favourable Impressions of the Undertaking from the temperature of its 
Latitude the fertility of its Soil, and the abundant plenty of food wch. 
the Woods and the waters cant fail to yeild, being never ransacked by a 
great number of Inhabitants, -Ht*tn-&r therefore perswaded my Self that 
it would very rationally answer the expectations of those who by their 
Industry are desirous of providing (4l6) for their familys, or improving 
their fortunes, and might in few years become one of the most flourishing 
Colonys in our Western World, if the Settlers by their imprudence in 
defrauding, or ill treating the Neighbouring Indians (on one side) dont 
make them their Enemys (and which if they do they will never be safe 
till the others have an opportunity amply to take their Revenge. ) as on 

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the other side, if our Government dont fail to give them all necessary 
Support and Protection against the Spaniards at St. Augustine, and the 
Savage Indians inhabiting Florida, whom they may be very apt to Spirit 
up against a Colony which they cannot but look on with umbrage for this 
being our nearest Settlement to the &ulph, thro which all their Wealth 
from their New World must pass, nothing to me seems more plain, than that 
by a Squadron of our Men of War to intercept and take every Spid of 
their flota or &aleons, when they leave their Rendezvous at the 
Havannah, without the fatal Circumstances thet must unavoidably befall 
our blocking them up in their own Hsrboure; for here our Ships will lie 
in a Safe Port, without their Bottoms being eat out, our Sailors will 
retain their Healths and Vigour, by a plentifull Supply both of Fresh 
water and fresh Provisions, in a Salutary Clime, our light Vessell too 
(while Cruising about for intelligence of their approach) will prove a 
Security to that part of the Continent against Pirates or Privsteers, by 
which mesns it will be allways in the Power of England to prescribe 
Laws to Spain, by keeping in all their hopes of money from thence, end 
without this they will never be able to carry any thing on to our px# 
prejudice, if this then be the ataxa case (and to me it seems as un 
deniable as that twice 2 mfkes 4) I shall not be % Surprised to hear 
that the Spaniards by all Attempts either (4l?) of Power or Subtlety, 
leaves nothing untried to give sex us all possible mor^-^tsr-Hrpnr molestation 
to make us uneasy in it, if he may not have Strength to root us out, 
when it appeprs so much his interest to Compass it, as it will be ours 
to be maintained at all points in our Possession of it. And altho for 
prudential Reasons it might not be judged necessary to publish this as 

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one motive yt. might promote its Settlement, yet I cannot imagine that 
our Gentlemen at the Helm could possibly overlook an Advantage of so 
prodigious a nature, for if Gibraltar proves so uneasy a Thorn in the 
Spaniards Sides in Europe, This Georgia may be a Spear thro tne very 
heart of him in America, on this acct. I read the other day in one of 
yr. News Papers that was transmitted hither, that Sr. Charles Wager had 
presented the Plan of a Fortification for it, and that her Majesty had 
approved on't, This with great pleasure I perused, as likewise that the 
produce hitherto so well answers to Expectation, and the people go on 
so Successfully — One more advantage comes in mind as I am writing 
this, of our lying in wait for the Galeons as aforesaid, is, th?-t the 
Northern Colonys would Supply the Fleet with Masts and Naval Stores, 
and any number of Seamen (should they be wanted) for so good an occasion, 
or Land men with small Arms for boarding, nothing giving greater Joy 
to them than the Gutting of a Galeon, and revenging the many injuries 
received by them. 

But to come a little nearer to my first purpose, I am to acquaint 
you that for Some time I have had an Inclination of Changing this 
Torrid Clime for one more temperate, on the Northern Continent, and this 
Colony in particular having inclined me to move thither could I have a 
Considerable inducement thereto, I would readily Set about it, and the 
advantage of the first Inhabitants of a Country who risque their lives 
and health against Intestine Foes; (418) or Sickness of the Country, 
(and all new Countrys are more or less so, till the land is cleared of 
its Woody Incumbrances and the Air finds a free and uninterrupted 
passage) among other Encouragements should have their Choice of Land, 

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as for the Commodious Situation for their Dwelling, so in its fertility 
in Manuring. 

Should I form a Satisfactory Encouragement determine to go 
thither I would, carry s few hundred pounds along with me in Run, Sugar, 
Molasses, or whatever else might be vendible there, and when Settled, 
I propose to trafick with my fellow Georgians for their Boards, Shingles, 
Staves, Ox-bows, Truss-hoops, Flower, Biskett, Wine &c, to Ship to 
Jamaica; likewise I would provide them from London with tools for their 
Work, Cloething for themselves, Furniture for their Houses, or other 
necessarys which they may have occasion for, and in Exchange take the in 
Silk, Pot-ashes &c^ that may be proper for an European Markett; as 
also with our friendly Indians for their Furrs and Hides <&c. 

Having thus far let you into my present Scheme, and recollecting 
that you by a frequenting that end of the Town where the Gentlemen who 
have the direction of the lower Orbs Inhabit, that there wps a very good 
probability some of the Trustees for Georgia might be known to you in 
Person, or might hat by the means of others easily become so, and Nego 
tiate the manner of my Settling there, on better terms than the Group of 
those who go thither, as I Shall put the Trustees to no Expence in 
fitting me out, or in the furniture for my house when arrived there, and 
yet these will cost me no very Smpll matter. If there are any Posts of 
Profit, or Credit unsupplyed, One of them might be of Service by my not 
only being looked on as of some Consequence among them, but also on a 
supposition that a better Dwelling house (419) Lands, with more con 
veniences or Priviledges sjre anex*d to such, for keeping up a good 
Decorum among them; To such a.Post I may have some Pretence from being a 

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Man of worth, when brought into a Comparison with most of the present 
Inhabitants; If any Enquiry should be made with regard to my Person or 
Character, your Self or any other of my Friends I depend will not be 
wanting in giving me a true one, qnd that I am in no doubt of its being 
Satisfactory; by gaining an acquaintance with one of the Trustees 
Clerks, or other Officer in that Direction, you may possibly Come at a 
more Effectual or Expeditious method of dispatch, and by Chatting 
together over a Glass of Wine you may be let also into the Knowledge of 
Some things th^t may be of use for me to be acquainted with, any Small 
expence of this kind, or little feer I would readily Eelmbuse you in, 
and will write to my Sister accordingly. 

I am not unspprised that it may prove a very Forlorn uncomfort 
able life for want of suitable Conversation, which I have always been 
accostomed to, but that I must endeavour to supply with Books. 

As to the Article of servants I should be glad to have sone 
information (Negroes being with right Judgment prohibited) for I am 
both too Old for much Bodily Labour, and too unskilled in the making a 
Bed or boiling the Pot. 

I suppoee in this Case of mine, the Trustees will give some 
Instrument in writing directed to the Governing Power for a ready ad 
mittance, and Recital likewise to what Possessions and Priviledges, 
otherwise no man would care to leave his present Settlement, for one 
that is uncertain, or that can give him any delays, Therefore shall 
expect somewhat of that kind to be sent me, or without such kind of 
assurance shall Continue as I am. (420) 

I inagine it needless to trouble you with any thing farther on 

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this Subject, my Conclusive Request will be, to intreat you will be so 
good as to do this Friendly Office for me, and to give it all the dis 
patch that your own Affairs (and the nature of This) will admitt of, 
becau.se, if it were possible I might set out before the Wintery, or 
windy weather should come on, wch. we look for in August, and to that 
end shall bring my Concerns here into as Close a Compass as may be, 
that they mayn't be a Cause of delay herein. 

Its no matter whether you let my Sister know whats on foot, till 
we see whats like to be the Issue. I should be glad of an Occasion to 
requite the favour I now ask; if any there either is, or may be, prey 
lay your Commands on 

Sir 

Fray my due respects Yr. very humble Servt. 
to all friends/ Saml. Hill 

If my good Old Friend Mr. Phil. Overton has (or can make) an 
acquaintance with any of the Gentlemen concerned, I perswade my Self of 
his readiness to do me s Service, therefore may please to consult him in 
it, if necessary. 

Fray let me hear from you as soon as possible if but a line or 
two, for much may be said in a few words: The Cover of your letter 
Directed To the Honble. Eeny. Dawkins Esqr. in Clarendon (Jamaica) and 
the enclosed For Saml. Hill. If there is any Plans lately t^ken of 
this particular Colony, /A the Country contiguous only (for I have 
already 2 or 3 Maps of New America in General) with relation to the 
Situation of the Towns as intended, the Roads laid out, The Rivers 

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Month with its forts &c, for its defence or any tiling of this kind to 
give me a farther insight as the number of people already gone, and if 
healthy. Pray fold them up as a Packett and. dispatch them (421) by 
the first Ship directed as aforesaid. 

I am not without thoughts of Planting a Vineyard, if our Young 
friendly Indians (or other Servts.) SJ*e to be hired, and I find the Soil 
and Climate indulgent to the Grape, both for Wine, and the Raison 
kind. 

(423) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eveleigh to Mr. Martyn dated at 
South Carolina February the 8th 1734/5. 

Sir 

I referr you to the forgoi-ig as Copy of my Last Since which 
Several other Reasons have Occurred to me which I shall communicate to 
you to move the Parliament to ^rent a Bounty on Lumber from Georgia I 
would have the Trustees or such of them as are Members of Parliament 
offer to the House that in Case they'l grant a premium on Lumber That 
they would make a Law. That the Hen and Women in Georgia their Outward 
Apparell Should be all of the British Vollen Manufactory and No Silk's 
Chinee or Cpllico Should be there worne by Either Six And if the 
Parliament dont agree hereto % do hacii beleive Such a Law to be neces 
sary and that neither Silver or Gold Should be worn or Tea Drunk for I 
do assure you they are Somewhat Profuse in these Punctilios. 

I am Confirmed by divers hands th?,t Wassam is a Noble Port 

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capable of receiving any Man of Isarr that Usualy come into any part of 
America and with the greatest Security, And in Case of Warr with Spain 
an Extraordinary place for Our Men of Warr to Ride in Order to intercept 
the Spanish plate Fleet and for that Reason will be vast Consequence to 
the British Nation. 

Its very probable the Province of Georgia may in Time be of vast 
Consequence to the British Nation nobody can as yet tell what Riches 
there may be in the Bowells of the Earth within that Colony, what Silver 
wli^t Gold and other Metals what Diamonds and other precious Stones may 
be therein I expect down from the Cherrekee Mountains sone samples of 
Mettalls in June next which I ha.ve promised Mr. Oglethorpe to send him 
home. 

I was informed some years since by a Creditable person that the 
Richest Mines of Gold in New Mexico, lay in the Latde. of (424) 36 and 
37 right opposite to California, but that the Indians that possessed 
that Country were always at Warr with the Spaniards, so that they gott 
but little of it. Now the Cherokee Mountains being in the same Latitude, 
Its probable they may contain the same ore. 

The Province of Georgia lies very Convenient for a Trade to the 
Havannah and St. Augustine, And in time it?s Probable these may frame 
thence be carryed on a very profitable Trade, and that there may be 
Introduced Large Qtys. of the Vollen and other English Manufactories 
and the Silver am in return thereof will all Center in Great 
Britain. 

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I submitt what I have above offered to your better Judgment and 

am 

Sir 

Your most Obliged humble Servant 

P.S. 

Georgia, can never be a 
place of any Samaspt Consequence 
unless the Trustees consent to 
alter the Conditions of their 
Grants, and make them agreable 
to his Majestys Grants to the 
People. 

(42?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Vat to Mr. Newman Dated Ebenezer 
the 10 February 1734/5. 

Honourd Sr. 

I don't doubt but before this cometh to your hands you'll hpve 
heard of our safe arrival in Georgia and our Landing at Savannph Town, 
which was on Saturday the 28th December last. I Should before this 
time have given you sn Account thereof, but having got a great Cold in 
ny head s.nd eyes ever Since mat we cast the Lead, for Sounding at Sea, 
I could hardly read or write any thing, besides being srMr oblidged to 
attend the loading enc unloading our Baggp,ge and provisions for one 
quarter of a year; So that I must refer my Self for further particulars 
to the Letters now to be written by the Revd. Messrs. Bolsius and Gronau 

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to James Oglethorpe Esqr., to James Vernon Esqr., more particularly to 
the Reverend Mr. Feigenhaggen and to yourself; the Substance whereof 
they have made me acquainted with, as being of the same opinion with them 
relating to the Soil of this place, and the great difficulties the people 
lie under in bringing up their provisions from Savannah Town, and other 
matters concerning the present Settlement of the Saltzburgers. 

On the ^leveath of January v?e left Savannah Town and got on 
Board three Pettiawguas, the Smallest of them with the Sick being gone 
directly for the landing Place at 4 Miles distance from this Town over 
Purrysbourg and Ebenezer River; we came with the two Larger 

Pettiauguas the 12th to Abercorn, and the 13th of the same Month by 
Land being 12 or 14 miles to this town of Ebenezer; at the Sight 
Whereof We were Confirmd of what every body (excepting Mr. Causton and 
Mr. Jones the Land Surveyor) had told us of the barrenness of this part 
of this province, being Chiefly Pine Barren a Sandy white Ground not 
above one fifth or et most one tenth part of tolerable Mould Cane-ls.nd 
or Swamps, which Swamps Seeming to be good are coverd with a black 
Mould about one or two Inches deep, but under It appears ^ a white 
Sand like Salt; so that every one that cometh hither Saith, The People 
will never be able to get a livelihood in this Place, be they never So 
Industrious & Laborious. For upon a rainy dpy the black mould being 
washed off, nothing but white saj&d is Seen in large places like paths 
in a Walk; So that the poor Saltsburgers were exceedingly Struck down 
and disheartened, and beg'd that according to (428) the permission 
given them by Mr. Causton for looking out for Some good Ground and for 
working it Jointly till he and Mr. Jones Should come to Sett out their 

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Letts they might Seek out some such Spott At their return they reported 
to hpve seen some good Spots of Ground near the Mouth of Ebenezer River 
and Savannah River Upon this Mr. Bolzius and my Self vent by water the 
24th of January to the Red Bluff, and the Indian Hutt this last "being 
about 9 Miles distant by Land from this town or in a Stfa.it line 6 
miles and metting in our passage hither in Ebenezer River the Small 
Pettiaugua losden with part of our Baggage and provisions from Abercorn 
I order'd it to go down and to unload its cargoe on the Indian Hutt and 
coming thither we found that there was on the north side of that 
Indian Eat up to the Red Bluff and along, the South Side t,f Ebenezer 
River about two miles High land on the declivity whereof large Oak 
trees and others as also large Tines of 3 or 4 Inches diameter but st 
the tope of the High land were pine barren and Judged that were the 
lotts there so orc.er*d that one Chain were given on the River Side and 
three upwards — the people would have one Moitie good land and the 
other Moitie ^±XK pine barren with which the people would be exceedingly 
well pleased the next day we vent to Abercorn and meeting there by 
Chance Mr. Christie the Recorder we acquainted him with our Expedition 
And he carried me in his boat the 2oth to Savannah Town in order to See 
the power given by the Trustees for Georgia to Mr. Gordon Mr. Csuston 
Mr. Parker and Mr. ShxxsJdmg Christie jointly for Setting out 2500 
Acres of Land for our Ssltsburgers those Writings giving them power to 
Sett out Such lands were and in what manner they should think fit Mr. 
Christie proposed my presenting a Petition to the said four Gentlemen 
but Mr. Causton and Mr. Parker were of opinion (Mr. Gordon being absent) 
Mr. C^uston and Mr. Jonee^came with me the 29th the abercorn and th3 30 

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to Ebeneser Town after dinner we design*d to go by L?nd to the Indian 
Hu.t, but missing our way thither we ceme again to abercorn the 31st 
Mr. Causton designing to return to Savannah Town I desired him to give 
me his directions for my acting with the people Since he <^io. not intend 
to go to the Indian Hutt for want of a knowing guide He told me the 
people Should Fitch upon some spot of ground near Ebenezer town and 
Clear it and work it Jointly till such time as the pleasure of the 
Trustees Should be known for which purpose he would vrrite to them, then 
(42$) I proposed to him the permitting the New Settlers under my Care to 
build a Hut on the Indian Hut Land for working there Jointly, but he 
roundly refused complying with my request. I return'd thrt day to 
Ebeneser Town and some days afterwards I he^rd Mr. Causton and Mr. Jones 
had been the 1st Instant in the Indian Hut and were gone thence the 2d 
in the morning early the 3& I went by Land to the Indian Eutt and 
orderd such Baggage &c& as was deposited there to be brought up to the 
Landing place with the Small Pettisugua and the Small Boat the former 
of which was some time five days in going from Abercorn to the Landing 
Place which might have been avoided if we had proper Carriages and 
Horses to be Convey'd by Land about 12 or 14 miles, and this transport 
Could not be compleated before the fivth though we have not as yet ha,d 
all our Provisions for one yam quarter of the Store house in Savannah 
Town. And the people are oblidged to bring their baggage and Small 
Tools and Casks upon their backs from the Landing place and the heavy 
Casks in the Small Boat by w^,ter which will require 8 or 10 days more 
provided Water in the River Ebenezer doth no full. 

The Inhabitants of this Province generally Compute the distance 

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20 Miles from Savannah Town to abercorn Creek thence 6 Miles to Purrys- 
bourg; 10 Miles to the India Hut 4 Miles to the Ped Bluff or Mouth of 
Ebenezer River; 7 miles to the landing pla ce and thence 12 Miles to 
Ebenezer Town In all 59 miles by water The town of abercorn lieth 2 
miles from the River Savannah, indeed our Saltzburgers with a Small 
boat go down from the Landing place to Savannah Town in one day but 
cannot Come up in less than three deys And that Boat Cannot Carry above 
one thousand pounds weight and 4 men neither can it Come hither from the 
Landing in Summer or at low waters by reason of some trees 3ushes and 
Sands in the River by which the people must lose a great deal of time 
and Labour however were the Soil of this place tolerable good these 
difficulties might be over-looked but as it is the opinion of every 
Body even Some of the best planters in this Country and the province 
adjoining It's humbly hop'd the Trustees for Georgia will take the low 
dejected Condition of these poor people into their Consideration antL 
grant them the favour of Removing hence to the Indian But or the (430) 
Red Bluff or to Some other piece higher on Savannah River more likely 
of being thereby enabled to get a livelihood. For should they be 
oblldged to remain here in this place according to the promises made to 
them in Germany the Society or the trustees for Georgia will find them 
selves under necessity of Subsisting of them with provisions as long as 
any of them Shall *be living and it's to be fear'd many of them will 
die for grief no less than eleven having died of the first transport 
since they came into this province and two of the last Transport Vizt. 
Sebastian Glantz the 13th January at Purysbourg and the Child born on 
board the prince of Wales whilst the Ship wp.s in The Thames died here 

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23d of January last and. Some of the first and last transport are now 
Sick tut we are in hopes by Mr. Zwifler's Care some will do well again 
as some others are recoverd of tbMJir there Illness and here I cannot 
but Observe that indeed 6 pounds of Spit Beef per week for a Man and 5 
pounds for a Woman and as much for two Children above 2 end under 12 
years of age is sufficient yet 2 Ib. of Rice 2 lb. of flower pnd 2 Ib. 
of Corn or pease pr. Veek pr. head is not sufficient as not being 
thereby enabled to bake bread which is the main Support of Health and 
Life neither Is the allowance of 4 lb. of Cheese end 2 lb. of Butter 
pr. Quartr. pr. Head Sufficient if they actually had Garden Rotts or 
Eatables. 

It's our humble opinion that should the Trustees for Georgia 
think fit to Settle the people of the new and last Transport on the land 
near the Indian Hut the town to be built there might go by the name of 
Ebenezer and would not discourage other Saltzburghers in Germany to cone 
there and Settle but as long as these rempin here none are like to be 
invited either by the first or last transport. 

On the 6th of this month the Revd. Mr. Bolzius proposed by a. 
fine Speech to the prople of the last transport to work jointly on a 
peice of land to be pitch'd upon near this town though attended with 
many difficulties some of Such as were present SKxm& Seemd to Come 
heartly into it and such as are gang gone to Savannah for Some provisions 
are to be Consulted at their return and then we Shall pitch upon some 
place for that purpose. 

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my next Shall give you an account thereof and of Such other 
Ocurrencee as may happen. I am with great Submission 

Honourd Sr. Your most Obedient and most humble Servt. 

(431) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Elisha Dobree to the Trustees Dated 

Savannah February the 10th 1734/3. 

My Lords and Gentlemen 

Vines being the Quickest Growth & Produce of any Trees that can 
be plpnted in this Province and the Produce of them being very Con 
siderable I beg lepve in the Name of the Freeholders as well as my Self 
to desire that a Sufficient Quantity of Slipps &c of Vines may be deli 
vered us against the next Season had I enough ready I would plant now 
at least Ten Acres. 

Mr. Amatis told me the other day that the Vines he had in Charles 
Town had not proved Succeesfull So I find but Little good can be Expect 
ing from them. I have planted Some few wild Vines at all Hazard. 

The Quickest way to make this Province flourish is no doubt to 
rise a produce and Such as will amount to Large Sums fit to be Exported. 
Vines when once produced will be a Settled Income to be depended on for 
our Selves and Posterity The Land here is fit for it and the Summer 
full hot to Ripen the Fruit. 

We are fully persuaded you neither Expect nor desire any Amends 
for what you do for us And we hope That as you have began a good work 
you 'will go through the Seme And Compleat a glorious Undertaking To Make 

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People hnppy who "before were Misserable & might have Continued so Had. 
not Your Honourable Board Stretch'd out your hands to pull us out of the 
Water when we were Sinking. I am most Respectfully 
My Lords and Gentlemen 

Your Most Obedient & Devoted Servant. 

Although we are a poor Colony we have had of Late great many 
Marriages and Balls till 2 or 3 in the morning sn Excess which in ny 
humble Oppinion deserves no Encouragement or Countenance from men in 
Po^'er. I continue to plant Cotton which we call Annual Cotton from the 
Carolina Seed was I but Supply'd with proper Seeds and plants I doubt 
not (432) but with the Blessing of God I would soon make a fine Garden 
I wish could get the Seeds of Sevill Oranges from Portugal!, Lemmons 
and Olives I am afraid cannot without your Assistance. Ships often 
arrive at Charles Town from there. 

I heve hired 4l Acres nesr this Town Vizt. 
1 — 5 Acres Lot Mr. Hughs deceased of Mr. Christie 

1 — 3 Ditto Mr. West of Ditto ) these two Lots makes a 

) Square and Mr. Hughes 
4 Acres Mr. Jos. Stanley ) is next to them — 

The first Lot I have vastly Improved the other Two I am now Improving, 
having Leese for the three for seven years I most humbly beg the said 
Leases may be Alowed good by your Honble. Board and I wish it were for 
more than Seven Years. S&c I Shp.ll not desire as I know of any Such 
Favour for any more Letts The next improvments I make Shall be on a 
45 Acres Lot. 

 233 (4-32) 

February 13th 

Considering Seriously the Health of this Colony mid the many 
diseases that attends it Especially the Scurvy and 111 humour occassioned 
by the Bxtream heat in the Summer I am fully persuaded that Eating 
intirely Salt Provisions here is Certainly prodigiously hurtfull to our 
health's Especially at this time when we have no Greens or Roots to Eat 
with it As for Rice few Eat it but Servants or the poorest People. 
I am therefore pushing forward my design to Serve the whole Colony with 
Cabage &c. I have now about 100,000 Plants which with the Uttmost 
trouble and Industry I have at last Procured. 

Cotton I XT will greatly go upon, but for Vines I must beg your 
Assistance against next Season tis certain one of the best Presents you 
can make us and I flatter my self you will in this Article Quickly 
give orders to prepare the same for us in time for coming here. I have 
always in View the Welfare ;uid Benefit of the Colony, this Induces me 
to be thus ^ troublesome to your Eonble. Board which I hope your Goodness 
will Excuse. I am always 

My Lords and Gentlemen 

Your most Obedient Devoted Servant 

(435) Copy of a Letter from Tomo Chachi Mice of Yamacraw to the Trustees 
Dated Savannah February the 24 1734/5. 

Gentlemen 

By the Return of Capt. Dunbar I take this Opportunity to acquaint 
You that we Arrived safe at Savannah on the 28th of December last we 

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have all had our health during the whole voyage Except Tooanahowi whom 
whom we fear'd would have dyed, and the he is now much better yet is 
Very mash weak and infirm we have received all our Goods and were very 
kindly Used by the Capt. which we shall Endeavour to return by our love 
as well to the Ca.pt. as to all the white People who Now are or shall 
hereafter be known to Us. 

I Purpose to go with the Capt. to Tybee and there tpke my leave 
of him and Brink Your Honours healths. 

??hen I Came home I found Some of my people had Misbehs,ved & 
that Istichee had killd Musgroves Slave Justice I have talked with 
Mr. Causton about it and when the heads of the Nation Come down will 
tletermin what to do in the matter in the mean time I have advised that 
14r. Kptson should be Close kept. 

After this Determination I shall Acquaint Your Honours more 
Particularly of the Matter. 

The Savannah Indians are Now with ne and they have now Chose 
IcLsquo to be there King (during the mmx minority of Fimique the late 
Kings Son) I desired Mr. Causton to Receive him as Such and he waited 
with the rest of his Nation and have delivered him some Skins which they 
deaire Your Honours to accept as a token of there Gratitude &;ad love, 
they are Sensible that your Honos. have Much "better things but as they 
are few in Number hope the few Skins will be acceptable. 

ItLsquo with s,ll his people are Agreed to Joyn Me in building on 
Pipe makers lnsr-rTran, "bityugh and we Intend to live together. 

It will be a ^reat Pleasure to me to write to year Honours on 

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all Occasions with hopes that Your Honours will Always belelve me with 
great Truth to be 
Gentlemen 

Your very Humble Servant 

(439) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Houstoun to Mr. Feter Gordon 
dated at Savannah 1st March 1734/5. 

Sir 

I rec'd. yours of the 15th ult. only a day or two ago, I pm sorry 
You are going to Britain so soon; in nsy opinion You would have done your 
Business much better if you. had. Stayed, some time longer in this Country 
when You had been Witness to more of the Management. Since You have 
resolved to go I wish You all happiness an<l prosperity, I do not expect 
to have the pleasure of seeing You in this Country again, I send You 
inclosed a Note of such things as occur to me which I would have done 
sooner but I delayed till *4r. Millishaja should return from Carolina to 
get his Assistance who is very capable and much Shagrined and upon very 
good Grounds. Millisham is not yet come up, there is an Affair happened 
within these few days worse than all C&pt. Watson or some body else, I 
may say an Enexiy to the Colony has said to Husgrove that in his Absence 
Mr. Causton had agreed with Mrs. Musgrove to give him the Indian Trede 
for wch. he was to give her L 1,000 Sterl. Some People say also Mus 
grove is jealous of his Wife with Mr. Causton however this be he has 
often been heard say that he would shoot Mr. Causton and kill his wife. 

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Yesterday there was a Story in Town that an Indian had. painted himself 
and was he?rd say he would go to the Woods to lay in wait for Mr. 
Causton and would not return till he had shot him; I believe some 
Settlers in the Colony have been the Contrivers of this, so much are 
they disobliged at Mr. Causton they would run the risk of Sacrificeing 
all to be revenged of him. Musgrove is much disobliged for he said eo 
to me. Mr. Vest and I are doing our Endeavours to (440) pacify Mm 
which I pray God we may succeed in; This day they both dine with me 
please to let me know your Correspondent at Charles Town & your Direc 
tion at London and I will write to You from time to time. Capt. Dunber 
is much in Mr. Causton's Interest and has endeavoured to make up Differ 
ences betwixt him and me end the rest of our Countrymen; we were alto 
gether & seemingly did it which we thought absolutely necessary for 
Peace so let not Dunbar or any body here or at home know any thing of 
my Writing to You, for Bunbar asked me if I was to send You by him a 
Note of Complaints I told him I would send You none by him or any body 

else which he approved of; not thinkin&rof your going over I promised 

(f 

to write by him to the Trustees to have my Lands run near Savannah Town 

and to give him a Power of Attorney to get me a Trustees Lot in Town 
I beg your Assistance with the Trustees in both these Affairs if I do 
not get a Lot near Town the Ground I desire is what Capt. Scott was to 
have which being vacant I think I shall not have Justice done me if I 
be refused it. I think the Trustees may give me the Lot in the Square 
where the publick Mill stands for a Lot for a publick House; in some 
more remote part of the Town will answer that purpose as well and not 
at all answer my purpose or business. And if I get it I shall build an 

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House upon it to beautify the Town as much as their House vill do. If 
/ You would get Messrs. Jenys and Eveleigh to mention me in their 
Letters to the Trustees it would do me Service and perhaps your Designs 
no Prejudice. By my next I shall send You ^x Copies of my Letters to 
the Trustees and Mr. Oglethorpe by Brbspr? Dunbar. I send You inclosed a 
Letter to my Lord Fercival which I beg You will put under Cover and Seal 
and Direct it I not ^ (44l) knowing his Direction being I hear created 
an Earl. If You do not wait for Capt. Dunbar's Ship please not to 
deliver it till his Arrival that the Trustees Letters may be delivered 
at the seme time. I send You a Letter to Dr. Boustoun who procured all 
your Countrymen Grants which please to Seal & deliver, he vill do You 
and ell his Countrymen Service if it be in his Power; I have wrote him 
no Complaints for he is very hot and would resent our Treatment in a 
different manner. If all our Treatment were known it would do the 
Colony Prejudice by hindering other People to come over which I do not 
incline yet to do till I see if the Trustees will grant me my Desires; 
if not I design and am fully determined to leave the Colony and settle 
at Port Royal. I am endeavouring to bring the Port Royal snd Santilina 
People to buy their Goods here, if they can be brought to that it will 
be the best Support of any thing to the Colony; several of the Planters 
have promised and if I had the Store and Trustees Countenance Mr. 
Montaigut h^s I would not doubt of getting 3/4 if not more of all the 
Rice of these Islands shipped here next year, but he will never do it 
for being ^ frequently at Purysburgh they cannot get Goods his Store 
being always shut in his Absence. I hear some People have wrote to the 
Trustees th^t I sell Rum, I own I sell it and till the Recorder and 

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People in the Store sold it I sold none; but seeing them make a Trade 
of It I thought I had as good reason to make Bread ps any "body else 
for that is the Commodity brings the most ready Money of any. I am 
positive it will never be in the Trustees Power to hinder the Drinking 
of Rum, People being very sickly last year when Mr. Oglethorpe was here 
and hindered the Drinking of it, and this year very healthy they all 
are convinced it is owing to the Rum and the discharging of it (442) 
makes Rum to be sold at 30. which could be sold at 12. ^ Gallon being 
most Hew England Rum sold here & mixed by the Pettiaugua men, and if no 
Settler in this Colony were to Sell it the Pettiaugua men would bring 
it from Charles Town and Sell it privately and I do not think it can be 
jgatxxz prevented for if it should be seen on board their Bosts they 
pretend they are carrying it to Purysburgh and other parts of Carolina 
up the River. The Prohibition of Rum carrys more Money out of the Colony 
and makes us depend acre upon Carolina than any thing else for the Rum 
is not only bought in Carolina with ready money but the Molasses and 
Muscovsdo Sugar and sll the rest of West Indian Goods; if we had a 
freedom of Trade we would hove them directly our selves from the West 
Indies and a Market opened for our Staves Hoops and some Boards &c. 
These Restrictions will either make People go out of the Colony or be 
troublesome to the Trustees and their Agents, for if the Colony ever 
thrives People who c^n live independent of the Trustees Store must settle 
here and will not so easily submit to hardships and restricting Laws 
as those who hpve their Provisions given them. Those People who hpve 
had them is as mutinous noi?.' as pny, what Service lyes in my power to do 
You I assure You none shall be more willing or reedy. I shall do my 

 239 (442) 

Endeavours if possible to lett your House tut I am afraid I shall not 
get a Tenant for it till more People arrive for I believe there is near 
twenty houses in Town empty nnd soon will be more. I think if You had 
ordered the House to be partitioned and a Floor above and a little 
Kitchen built it would have answered the Expence for the House is well 
situated for any Business, and having a Chimney if any (443) House 
letts it must, if it had those Conveniencies. I wish You would let me 
know how many Cattle You have and what Brand You would have put upon 
them. I have not yet learn'd the first Appraisement of Dobree and 
Harris's Effects but is possible shall this week Harris being now 
returned to Town. Col. Prioles having wrote about his Negroe, he was 
sent down last Week. Your Resolution of going to Britain I observe 
gives some Uneasiness here; so soon as I got your Letter I made your 
Resolutions known on purpose to give People opportunity to write to You 
which I believe several will do this week. It will be a great Encourage 
ment to the Colony if the Trustees give power to grant Licences here 
for Traders to the Indians; if they send over any Goods for to furnish 
the Traders with I shou'd wish to be Storekeeper for I incline to turn 
my self entirely in Merchant Business. I am sure I shall quite weary 
You in reading this long Letter, therefore I must conclude in offering 
my humble Duty to Mrs. Gordon and wishing You and her every% thing You 
wish or desire and a good and prosperous Voyage. I do design (if the 
ixHBtt Trustees don't do me Justice in granting my Desires) to go to 
England next Earvent & prevent any more of my friends or Countrymen 
being deceived as I have been. When You arrive in England I shall 
expect to hesr frequently from You with all your News and how Affairs go 

 24o (443) 

at the Trustees Office, and. whr.t Turn Affairs take there and any Pro 
jects that is set on foot for the Colony; I sm of opinion we shall never 
be happy till a Trustee comes over to put us once more to Rights. If 
You would, do me the favour in case You meet with an honest clever young 
(444) Man who wi ites a good Hand Master of Figures and Bookkeeping and 
knows something of Merchants Business to engage him for Rome years for 
me and give him what Wages You think proper I will perform your Agree 
ment and. be singularly obliged to You to send him over to me. I do not 
doubt abundance such are out of Business about London and would be glsd 
of this occasion. I am Dear Sir 

Your most humble and Obedient Servant 

I wrote to Mr. Robert Fringle to psy You some money please to take 
Payment of the Rent for year House and for my Razors which I received 
but the Fellow has not done me Justice in grinding them. 

Since Writing the above this Afternoon there has been a Design 
discovered of the Irish Transport Servants. The Story is a Scotch Girl 
deposes that one Cox a Tpylor came to her and desired her to tell Dr. 
Sims*s Daughter that Mr. Vanderplank's Msn who was in Prison for some 
Says bygone to tell Sims's Dao/hter who was his Mistress that this night 
he was to be st Liberty; the Girl ask'd how, he said he and 40 or 50 
more was in concert to barn the Town this night, kill all the white Men, 
spve the Women, and Musgrove with several Indians were to join them; 
upon which the Town was alarmed, several of us sat up all night, nothing 
appeared but I do not at all doubt but there was something designed. 
Cox told all in the Plot wore a red Ribbon about their Arm (44^) which he 

 (443) 

several others taken up had upon their Arm when taken; The whole 
Affair is not yet discovered but I hope will. I do believe we shall 
never be safe while these Villains are amongst us. Husgrove and all 
his family and the whole Indians were up at Pipemaker Bluff yesterday; 
This day Mrs. Musgrove and Tomo Chachi cane to Town who deny any such 
design, however we slip.ll know more to morrow Xas^rove being to a.ppear 
himself to morrow to answer to the Charge. James Muir came to me this 
day & asked if I was to let your House, he said he could not giv^ the 
Zey without your Orders in Writing for he had your Orders to the con 
trary. Ross has laid the Floor and wants he says some more Boards to 
compleat it. I was obliged this day to hire a. Man for your Guard which 
I fancy You will approve of. I find thie Difference amongst us is like 
to be of bad Consequence to the Colony by encouraging these Transport 
Villains to Mutiny, so it is absolutely necessary we join all together 
and dissemble our Displeasure till the Trustees redress us; so I pray 
You say nothing of isy Writing to You to any body. 

Adieu. 

(44?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Parker junr. to Mr. Gordon 
dated at Savajinah 2d March 1734/3- 

Sir 

I am credibly informed that You are auout embarking for England; 
I must confess You take the most prudent way, Letters may be inter 
cepted, but where a Persons self is the Messenger that Undertaking is 

 242 (44?) 

the most likely to Succeed. I am sure our present Bnyliff Causton 
takes the surest Methods for the Destruction of this Infant Colony 
which is now almost inevitable unless some speedy Way be found out to 
relieve us. I have been these three months interceeding with Mi-. Christie 
to take my Wife's Administration but could not get it done before yes 
terday and what Papers I have got from him I doubt will be of no Use 
from the many Blunders with which they abound, which should ought be 
undertaken towards recovering of the Suit I em fearfull it may be to my 
Disadvantage. I am not the only Person in this Colony that have 
Demands upon Mr. Opus ton nor yet the only one whose Credit he hss 
blasted and whose Ruin he has most industriously sought. I believe I 
once before told You that he accepted a Note of mine for 43. and 
afterwards gave it out of his hands with an Execution when he had about 
& 30 in his hands. Poor Hugrage was sent Prisoner to the Log House 
yesterday for demanding what was due to him from the Store House. On 
the Backside this You will find my ConplaiRts of Damages Sustain'd 
wch. I have twice laid before the Trust who I hope will consider my 
Sufferings and make me a (448) suitable Redress. 14 Days before You 
left us I went up to my Fathers Mill and began to clear Land and built 
a large convenient Hutt for the Reception of my Wife and Family; but 
Mr. Causton Jones and Capt. Dunb&r coming up to see the Mill, the two 
former told me that if I offered to settle there they would chop or 
burn down my Eutt and oppose me to the utmost; they being so positive 
against all I could alledge I again removed my Servants and Household 
Goods for Savannah. I think it is very hard seeing I have been here 
these 12 months and been 6 months in possession of the Eonble. Trustees 

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Grrjit to Mr. Wm. Sale for 500 Acres, end though I have offered Mr. Jones 
5 Guineas above the Common Rate to run out my Land I can't get it done; 
So I thought I might Rettie any vhere, where the Land was not run out 
as ny Father had. sone months pgo written to the Trust that I had already 
taken my Land there upon Account of his Mill. I hope Sir You will do 
se what Service You can with the Honble. Trustees in faithfully repre 
senting to them the Hardships I labour under. 

Mr. Woodward of Fort Royal has offered to send me up L 50. upon 
Bills on You which should He deceive me I shall be utterly ruined 
unless something what most unexpected happens. Therefore I desire Sir 
You would give me Leave to Draw on You or procure me the same from any 
Merchant in Charles Town and I will send down my Bills on my Brother Mr. 
Webb Druggist in Chespside which I am sure will meet with an Honourable 
Discharge. I heartily wish You and Mrs. Gordon a good Voyage, (44$), a 
safe and speedy Return; but before You leave America beg an Answer to 
this Epistle, So beg Leave to Subscribe ny self 

Your most humble Servt. 

The underwritten Goods are what Mr. Causton took into the Store after 
Kr. Sale's Death upon an Agreemt. of allowing 25 p_ Ct. on the Prime 
Cost and this on the Eonble. Trustees Credit, which now they have 
lain in the Store these 6 months He would turn into my Hands again to 
my entire Loss which I can very ill afford. 

Lost By a Plow with the Iron Work of Two i< $:-:- 
One pair of Chain Harness ------ 3:-:- 

Tapestry agreed for at 4 Guineas; He ) 

) 2:2:- 
refuses to pay me but Two ------) 

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Being forced to let out Eiy Men at 18 ) 

) 

]o Day p_ Man By the Negligence of Mr. ) 

) 43:4: 

Jones pm thereby a Loser Six Shillings ) 

) 

33 Day for Six months --------- -)- 

p a Year's Provision which I was hinder'd ) 

) 

gx raising by being turn'd off my Land, by ) 

) 

Kr. Causton and Jones when I was in a ) 

) 

fair way for raising it- ---------) 

A Horse bought for the Indian Nation ) 

) 7:2:10 

drowned crossing Savannah River ) 

A % Deduction of 3 months from my Fay ) 

) 6:-:- 
as Lieutenant of Capt. Mackay's Comrpa. ) 

This is what I most earnestly desire You would endeavour to serve me in 
with the Trust. From 

Your humble Servant 

(451) Sx& Copy of a Letter from Mr. Ouincy to Mr. Gordon dated at 

Savannah 3d MaTch 1734/5. 

Dear Sir 

I should have wrote to You much sooner but that I had some 
Thoughts of coming down to Charles Town as I intimated in ny last. I 
have now laid that De&ign aside for some weighty Reasons nor indeed am 
I at present able to undergo the Fatigue of the Passage being lately 

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Biased with a violent Disorder in my Face occasioned by the Tooth Ach. 
I hear by Mr. Eoustoun that You intend very Speedily for Bngland and am 
in some fear least You should be gone before this gets to Charles 
Town. 

I entirely agree with You tlif t it is highly necessary to set the 
Proceedings of oar present Ruler in their true Light, but I am really 
afraid that Matters are run to so hi^h a Fitch that it is now too late 
to prevent the Ruin of the Colony. We had on Sunday last an Affair 
that threw us into great Confusion, ?anderplenk and some other of the 
Officers were called out of Church and. made acquainted that there were 
40 or 30 white Persons end as many Indians with Musgrove at the Heed 
of them that were entered into a Design to burn the Town and destroy 
the People, at least some of them. The Alarum Bell was run^, Search 
was made for the Conspirators and some of them were found who wore a 
Mark to distinguish themselves vizt. a Red string about the right Wrist; 
They were chiefly Irish Transports, none of the Freeholders were con 
cerned. There are several of them indeed discontented enough but I hope 
none that would enter into such wicked (432) Measures as to bring a 
general Destruction upon the whole Colony; many of them I believe You 
are sensible are Persons of worth and it would be well worth the while 
to endeavour to make them easy; but this is far from being the Cere of 
our imperious Magistrate who does thing? rather to encreese & provoke 
than soften and appease the discontented. As for Musgrove he is for 
some Cause or another very much enraged with Causton, some spy he is 
jealous of him with his Wife, others that he is afraid Causton should 
get the Indian Trfde from him, and some that during Musgrove* s Absence 

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his Wife has made awp-y with L 1,600 Ourcy. the chief of which was in 
Silver and Gold and that he saspects that Causton has got her Honey. 
Whatever be the Cause I know not but it is like to fall very heavy upon 
Watson who is accused of the whole Crime of provoking Mugjrove by 
telling false Stories of Causton to him. He is threptned to be sent 
home in Irons to the Trustees which indeed I could almost wish, I mean 
that he should be sent home for there would be then hopes that no In 
justice would be done him. I am very certain that he is maliciously 
accused in this last Affair for he is not by any means the chief Tormen- 
ter of Musgrove; Mr. Parker and some other Persons of Probity being 
present while Husgrove was with him and heard every Word between them. 
However here is fresh matter against Watson, Cotes, Watkins pnd some 
others who are to be tryed as Conspirators against the Colony & indeed 
Mr. Packer himself is deemed one of the Conspirators, but it seems his 

Youth and Inexperience are to excuse him from Punishment. The other 

Cotes 
Persons (453) too vizt./RaxBX and Watkins are to be excused for some 

Reasons or smother and the whole is to be laid upon Wateon. It is sur 
prising that a Man should have so much implacable malice, that no 
methods are left untried to compass his Destruction. For my part if 
nothing else could be alledged ageinst Causton but his inhuman Treatment 
of that unhappy Man it gives me such a Horror end Detestation of his 
Actions that I could never more brook him. My Letters p_ Yoakley to Mr. 
Copping sufficiently relate the whole Afffir and I hope will come safe to 
hand and then little more need be said. But least they should miscarry 
I nave sent You Copys of the most material of them and beg You to take 
Care of them because I have not transcribed them. I am so much 

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indisposed that I cannot say any more, on which Aceot. I hope You will 
excuse my had Writing. I shp.ll be glad to hear from You before You 
depart, and am 

Dear Sir 

Your most affectionate humble Servant 
Hy humble Service to Mrs. Gordon, 
and lest I should not have an 
Opportunity to write again I heartily 
wish You Sir and your good Lady a 
prosperous Voyage and all Happiness. 
The Things You left at my House I 
will be accomptable for to any one 
You shall appoint. 

When you come to England if You will 
be so good as to visit Mr. Copping You 
will know whether my Letters p_ 
ever came to hand. 

(455) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated 
Savannah March the 10th 1734/5- 

May it Please Your Honours 

In ny Last of January the 16th I proposed to Complete mpny other 
Occurrences by Captain Dunbar and particularly Omitted (for want of time) 
on Accot. of what had passed on Mr. $s±K&x Sale's Death; But there being 

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an Accident, Intervened; I thought it necessary (withot. Delay) to lay 
"before Your Honours following Account of the State of that Family as 
also of an Intended Contrivance to Destroy this Colony. 

Upon the Death of Hr. Sale his Widow resolved to go to England 
& dissposed of his Effects; Mr. West "bought some Furniture & the 4 
Servants; She employee, him to Sell the Grant of Land to *4r. Houstoun 
one of the Scots Gentlemen. Collonel Bull "being then here, Mr. Houstoun 
advised with him and me about it. I lookt on the Grant, and told them 
That the the Trustees had Covenanted Jsaxx to grant to the Widow, in 
that Manner, she could mak no Conveyance without their Lycence and es 
Mr. Houstoun had already a Grant of Lands It would "be for the Interest 
of "both partys to join in a proper Application to them; Both Mr. West 
and Houstoun sgreed to this: And also upon Condition of Yor. Honours 
issgsxhp Approbation) for 12.1- Sterling as purchase Money. But this 
agreement was soon set aside; for it seems, Mrs. S?le Aid not intend to 
part with her Grant; and her Orders to Mr. West was only in Relation to 
the Town Lot This Misunderstanding brought her to me. 

She Complained of being in Danger of loosing, her Gr^nt; that she 
was afraid Vest was not able to pay her for the 4 Servants, AnJ- thut she 
had good Assurances of Making 100 L Sterling of her Grant in iJagland. 
I talkt to West on this MatLer, and told him, that I supposed he had 
bought those Servants only with Intent to Serve Mrs. Sale because in my 
Judgement, they could not be much serviceable to him. That as she had 
hopes of making a good Advantage of her Grant in England, by offering it 
to (456) The Trustees; It would, be much to her Disadvantage to part with 
them, because, In them, lay the most immediate Value of the Grant, And 

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it would, be a great Service to her, if he would give up that Bargian. 
Especially considering that the Servants (tho of an Orderly Disposition) 
were much against being sold To this he very repdily and thankfully 
agreed, And I promised Hrs. Sale, That if she went for England, I would 
take Care of them for her. and employ them in the Trustees Services and 
wait Such Orders as she should make; She also Complained, that her 
husband had laid out a great deal of money in working Tools and Goods 
which they could not Sell; end laid Claim, (That as Mr. Oglethorpe had 
promised the Store Should take in the Negro Cloth). The Tools might be 
taken also; In which Case I considered, Thp.t as she was going to England 
& leuve this place, It would not be Lisa^reeable to Tour Honours, If I 
endeavoured to make every thing as agreeable to her as I could. And 
therefore, took all she spid left into the Sbore, and paid her for them, 
As your Honours will more particularly see by the Accot. Inclosed. 

She soon after Changed her mind with respect to her going to 
England, and Married Robert Parker junior who upon that Marriage gave 
up his Soomission and preferred Idleness and Luxury above the Service of 
his Country. 

I proposed to him, That as his Servants would now become Service 
able to him, and that his Ploughs and Cert Geer and other things (which 
Yor. Honours will observe to be deducted out of the Account, whereof, 
we have great plenty in the Store already, without any Immedipte pros 
pect of being used;) would be usefull to him in a proper time; Or at 
least he might dispose of them to a much better advantage He thanked me 
for this advise, and Offered his Harnesses and Ploughs to Mr. Houstoun, 
but they hot agreeing he resolved to send them altogether to Charles 

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Town. And I got them ready to deliver to the Boatman, but I insisted 
(that as I had acted in all that affair ix on my own Opinion ana. more 
particularly being a ballance due in favour of the Store, that the 
Boatman should either return me the Goods again or pay (457) the Ballpnce 
out of whpt he should sell the Goods for; But this made him very Angry 
and Spoke many unbecoming things. 

As my whole behaviour in this was in the first place to serve the 
Widow in the best Manner I could, and after the Marriage to do what has 
been necessary from time to time by Supplying them with every thing, 
that with any Colour of Reason they have askt; I was not a little 
Surprised, to have the enclosed come to my hands a. Duplicate of which, 
(if Mr. Parker Says truth) is transmitted to Your Honours. 

But if on the other hand, he has only nocx wrote it in an angry 
Mood, and upon after thought, has not realy sent it, I thought I could 
not tpke a better Cportunity, to lay before Your Honours, the Opinion 
of this young Spark with such Ansers to it, as I am ready to justifie by 
written and liviag Witnesses. 

Twas the Discovery of a Dangerous Design; That brought this to me 
I had received Information, That Watson and this Parker had sent for 
Musgrove and had perswsded him, to be jealous and bear an ill Hind to 
me, That he had repeated many Notorious and Villanious things which yor. 
Honours will see by Musgroves and Camon's Affidpvitts. That several of 
the Transport Servants, had Stole and hid several Loaded Guns & Ammuni 
tion in the Woods & were found; That when I was gone to Skidoway on 
Sunday the 2d Instant, 7onderplank having received Information That a 
Design was laid for Destroying the Town; And that those who wore a Red 

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string on their Wrist were concerned in it, And that Musgrove was to 
hi head some Indians to join the white; He Rung the alarm Bell and Appre 
hended One John Cox a Teylor from Carolina., Peircy Hill, and Edward 
Cruise, Vanderplank*s Transport Servant who had all of them Red 
strings on their Wrist as a Token of the Design agreeable to the 
Informations. 

As I was coming home Mr. Fitzwater coming to meet me, told me 
what had happened & I beleive, if (458) they had not been so hasty in 
ringing the Alarm more discovery might have been made, Besides with 
Submission to Yor. Honours Commands when ever you. sha.ll please to declare 
in that matter. No Alarm is to be given to the people (in the Day 
time) without a warrant from the Magistrates then at hand, in the Town. 
When I had considered of the whole Conspiracy I was of the Opinion That 
very Probably some Villanious Fellows might be employed to do Mischief 
and when done, lay it on Musgrove and the Indians. 

On Monday March the 3d (which Your Honours will observe is the 
date of Parker's Letter he came to me about an Administration to Mr. 
Sale and I took that Opportunity (Mr. Henry Parker being present) to 
Reprove him for joining with Watson in the Storeys told to Musgrove, 
That it was very Ungenerous, when I had done so many things in favour 
of him & Family and perhaps had exceeded my Orders; And further beleived 
it would be ill taken by your Honours, because as Mr. Oglethorpe had 
favoured him with a Commission. They no Doubt expected; he should 
render them in a particular Manner, a Due observance of Such Regulations, 
they think fitt to make in the Province, and to shew a proper Respect to 
those they think fit to Entrust. He owned he had been with Watson on 

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Such an Occasion, and. that he thought Watson was very unjustly dealt by. 

On the Discovery of this Conspiracy It was agreed by all the 
Magistrates here that Warrants should be Issued to Search Watson, 
Parker, Coates, Watkins Peiba, and Kn^ig Clark (These Six being daily in 
Consultation frequently guilty of 111 Language, and were Seldom Separate) 
with endeavour to find out further Lights into the Design. But it was 
too Late, for Watson had not a paper of any sort about him, except one 
Letter wch. he said was to Mr. Gordon, (by which you will see the 
Encouragement he has lately taken and how ready he his (459) to Embroil 
the Opinions of Ungarded people, And more particularly That he supposes 
himself to be tryed for his Life before he is Charged with any other 
Crime than Creating a jealousy in Musgrove. But that and what he had 
told Cannon was much alike; for Musgrove does not beleive him. At 
Parkers the two Letters was found, are mentioned in Jones*s Affidavitt. 
At Watkins Coats, Peiba & King Clark nothing was found. 

Now as to that part of Mr. Parkers Letter which Setts forth his 
Damage so far as the same concerns me I beg leave to say, if it be 

Compared with the Account now Enclosed, and what is before mentioned, 

^ 

Your Honnours will easily see he has been no Sufferer on my Account. 
As to that part which Concerns the Surveyors I do assure you, tis 
groundless; That he has not made any use of his own Originall Town Lott 
which he well knows; Neither has he medled with Mr. Sale's five Acre 
Lott (tho begun in Sales lifetime) Neither has he been in any Settled 
mind concerning his Land by his Wife's Grant; Sometimes agreeing (to 
Orders) for the Land near Thunderbolt according to the Priority of 
Landing & Grants; At other times absolutely refusing all Lands accept at 

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Skidoway, and since that resolved to have it where his Father has thought 
fit to Erect a Mill and no where else; Tis true, he did tell me One day 
That he had taken possession of Land which he liked and would keep it, 
And tho I did not much heed it, I thought it necessary to accompany Mr. 
Dunbar to See his Fathers Mill "because of many reports that had been 

raised about it. 

^ S<m "/ fn? %f<'// 

We went as Visitors and Mr. Jones with us.and am Convins't that 

A 

the Shortest way to make it answer a proper end, is to pull it down and 
new build it from the bottom in another manner, we saw it work, and it 
saw*d half a foot in half en hour. I have desired Mr. Jones to give your 
Honours his Opinion in the matter, as also the uses which that stream 
might be Capable of with respect to Mill's (in Case) your Honours 
should be inclinable to Indulge Mr. Parker or any one else in Such 
Schemes. 

This River is from the opening into Savannah near Abercorn Upwards 
of 30 Miles to another opening into Savannah within 3 Miles of the River 
leading to Ebenezer (460) And is a much better & easier water Passage 
to Ebenezer then going up the Savannah where the Current is very Strong 
on the Side of the Main are many Bluffs of very good Land. 

When we were there, the Young Gentleman shewed us his Hut which 
he was building, I made no answer to that But Mr. Jones I beleive did 
tell him That if he thought he did not intend to get Lycence he would 
pull it down at which he was displeased & Said he would go to England. 
I advised him not to be angry for if ihz Mr. Jones pulled it now down, 
he did but his duty, and I thought that to take things by Force was the 
wrong way to obtain a Lycence. There was nothing else materially 

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passed, but that the Father and we were very friendly, he askt Some 
thing of the Store which I agreed to, He sent for them the next day 
with a very obliging Letter, and I sent them (vizt.) the day of 
As per his Account. 

As to the other Reflections levelled at me I answer'd if I had 
at any time refused a reasonable request he might think me Narrow. But 
the Truth is he has been Idle enough to Stay at home and Sell their 
Cloaths and Eat and Drink till they are so much in debt, that they 
can't tell what to do. 

As to the goods Sold in the Store every thing on your Honours 
Account is always sold at Prime Cost with about 10 P Cent for Charge of 
Landing pax porterage and waist as will appear by the Store accos. now 
entred and Attested by the Magistrates agreeable to your Honours 
Order. 

As to Rum. There has not been one drop in the Store since Mr. 
Oglethorpe's going hence. And I have desired Mr. Henry Parker and Mr. 
Christie to Examine Robt. Parker about it. 

What I have allready said & what the Enclosed Affidavits Contain 
is the best Account I can at present give; But as many other things are 
likely to be known in a Short time, I shall beg leave to Referr to my 
next, and only tell you that Peircy Hill was Indicted by a Grand jury 
& found Guilty of High Misdemeanors and Misprison of Treason. And the 
Grand jury have made the Enclosed presentments. 

I can't forbear Saying twas very Satisfactory to me, (46l) That 
the Grand jury which is Composed of the peace Officers and Gentlemen So 
readily and of their own mere motion and thought, presenting Robt. 

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Parker for publishing false Storeys. In that the Publick Store Creditt 
was at a stand, and questioned by every body. 

We shall not proceed against Watson nor Parker till your Honours 
Orders arrive both with respect to Watson in my last Letter, and both 
of them in this. 

We shall punish the three people under Prosecution with shiping 
fine or Imprisonment Aside Shew as much favour as we can to Hill. We 
are very quiet, and make no doubt have disapointed our Enenys designs. 

Your Honours will observe (no doubt) that Watson in his Letter 
to Mr. Gordon mentions a Sending of Mugridge to Gaol by the Courts 
Committment. 

The Case was thus Heustoun had brought an Action agt. Mugridg 
some time since Mugridg had kept out of the way till Houstoun was gone 
to Charlestown Mugridg then comes and Claimed a Nonsuit, which I 
granted; When Houstoun came again he renewed his Action and Mugridg 
had not appeared to it, At this Court he was a Tythingman in waiting; 
and I sent for him and orderd him to appear the next day; He told the 
Court that he would not Appear at all; And that as he had obtained a 
Nonsuit if it should be tryed elsewhere he persisted in Contempt of the 
Court, and I Committed him. In One hour's time Bail was offered And 
he was discharged. Tis true that Mugridge did some silly things, too 
bad to be born with; But I never was nor shall be afraid to do ny Duty 
And when I embrace the first Tokens of submission I think I do my 
Duty best. I always know I have Your Honours Rules to observe and no 
one else; And in all my Actions shall Endeavour to manifest my Gratitude 

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so long as I have Life. 

And am with my beat Endeavours 

Your Honours most Dutifull Servt. 
P.S. 

a Complaint haveing been made about Selling Bum I took the enclosed 
Examination which I suppose Mr. Shxii± Christie will answer. 

(463) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John West to Mr. Gordon dated 
at Savannah 10th March 1734/5. 

Sir 

I am informed that You are going for England very soon which 
gives me and my Wife a great Deal of Concern that we must lose your good 
Company so soon and to think we must still remain under our old Govern 
ment. I fear that the Inhabitants will rise and destroy one another, 
here has been a bloody Design since You have been gone found out which 
I doubt not but by this time You have heard the Story. I beg of You if 
You go for England that You would be so good as to entreat the Trustees 
in my behalf to give me Liberty to come to England next Spring or as 
soon as Opportunity shall permit me after that time for I would not do 
any thing that should be contrary to their Will if I knew it. I beg 
You will give my Duty to Esqr. Oglethorpe and the Revd. Mr. Smith and 
all the rest of the Honble. Trustees end I heartily thank them for all 
the favours that I have received from them, and I beg You will be 
pleased to tell them that I shall not think no Pains nor no Cost too 
much that is in my Power to do for the Credit, Good and Peace of the 

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Colony which I have hitherto endeavoured to keep and maintain. One of 
my Reasons that I want to come to England for is to get me some Ser 
vants of my own Country; I want also to Settle many Affairs with my 
Relations in Bristol. I fear that You put Confidence in one man here 
that will not prove as faithfull (464) as You may expect, he came to 
me to give him the beat Information I could of the Grievance of the 
People which I did but after he told me that he should not send it and 
seemed to speak Slighting of You; There is no body so great as Mr. 
Causton and he. I should be glad to hear from You before You go and 
if possible to send seme Letters by You to England. Fray give my Love 
and Service to Your Spouse and my Wife's also. From 

Your humble Servant end faithfull 
Friend to Command. 

(46?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Gordon dated at 
Savannah 10th March 1734/5. 

Sir 

Before I rec'd. your favour of the 20th ult. I had resolved on 
applying to You and had drawn a foul Draft of a Letter ready to trans 
cribe wherein I beg'd your directing Mr. Abercromby the King's Soil. 
General or Mr. Whitpker to plead my Cause in Case Mr. Causton's Malice 
brings any fresh Trouble on me, believing he is purposed to destroy me; 
My Apprehensions are jus tly enlarged since your Departure, for on 
Friday last Mr. VancLerplank with a^*^?**^ served two Warrants on me 
Siezing all my Papers &c. the Copys of them I have often sent to Mr. 

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Vanderplank for and the Copys of the Warrants but cannot get them nor 
do I know their Contents; I think Sedition is expressed in one of them. 
After searching they na.il'd up my fore Door pud Window and kept e. 
Centinell at my back Door with Orders to Suffer no Person to come near 
nor speak to me at any Distance unless he hesrd our Discourse; nor may 
I use Pen, Ink or Paper, only By Servant Maid is permitted to go out 
and in. I have sent By Case to my Wife with Orders to lay it before the 
Honble. Trustees, it being unavoidably very long I have not an oppor 
tunity to send You a Copy of it and writing but indifferently my self 
I employed Mr. Watkins a Surgeon to write it, who being taken notice of 
by Mr. Causton's Spys for coming to me was likewise taken into Custody; 
from my House they took from me my Copy to You of my Letter, from Mr. 
Parker the Copys of two Letters gone to the Trustees one (468) informing 
the / Trust that Rum, during the time of pretending to Stave all that 
could be found, was commonly sold in their Honours Store by Gold and 
Compa. and the other reflecting on the 111 Payment of the Store Debts, 
which is all they found (the* they search'd sundry Houses and Persons 
after a very indecent manner) except a Petition and JbcpjaMEXJcxx Duplicate 
to the Bayliffs and Recorder of Savannah, that Mr. Causton would perform 
his Promises the last Court day to deliver up what Affidavits he h?d 
received against some Officers of the Town, from whom the Life of him 
self and all his fcmily were in danger; which Mr. Watkins was writing 
when Mr. Vanderplank entered my Apartment as they all do acknowledge. 
I really expect Mr. Causton will put me out of this World by foul 
Practise and have therefore enjoyn*d Mr. Watkins, if please God I dye 
during these Commotions, to use diligent Ways of discovering the Cause 

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of ay Death as he shall judge needfull. Mr. Watkins complains of 
receiving so many Injurys and Abgtses that it was with the greatest 
Difficulty he would comply to assist me in giving You this Account which 
undone I must have languished in this almost dark Goal and perish 
without Relief, or the World know any part of my Story; I beg You as 
You tender the Life of an innocent injured Man do what in You lyes to 
prevent my Sufferings MmxxBtzxKkK "before your Return, ease some of my 
Griefs end let me have the Laws of my Nation to condemn or acquit me, 
I desire no favour "but an impartial Tryal and some body Skill*d in the 
Law to plead my Cause that I may not be quibbled out of my fortune nor 
Life by a Cast of White Chappel (469) Sollicitors. I return You 
Thanks for your kind Letter to me and wish You may return safe end 
quick to see this People peaceable and prosperous, rescued from the 
unlimited Tyranny they now groan under which is what offers from 

Your obliged humble Servant to Command 

(4?l) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Tailfer to the Trustees dated 
Savannah March the 15 1734/5. 

Honoured Sirs 

Having obtained a Grant from you for five Hundred Acres of Land 
in the province of Georgia I ceme here Cheifly with a design to Settle 
upon it but having had the misfortune of losing nine of my Servants a 
few Days before we embarked and four more at Portsmouth (where we were 
oblidged to lay our Ship aground in order to refit her being pretty much 
damaged by an unlucky Accident which happen'd there) I am rendered 

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incapable to persue that Design untill I get more Servants over, having 
only three Men a Boy and Woman Servt. left Upon which account I have 
rented a House in this Town and Practise my business here as Physician 
and Surgeon. However I should have imployed my Servants in Cleaning 
and Cultivating my Land if I could have got it at any reasonable dis 
tance from this Town but the land assigned us lying on the South Side 
of Oheechy River Thirty miles from the Mouth of the River & about 
Seventy ^ miles from this plpce being so remote it would have been 
needless for me endeavour to do any thing to the purpose with three men 
Indeed some of our Company who had a Sufficient number of Servants have 
Settled there & mane great improvements considering the time having 
Built a very Strong Fort as well as Cleared a Considerable space of 
Land. 

As I am now in a manner Settled in this Town (which I would fain 
flatter my Self may be of some advantage to the place there being no 
other here regularly bred either to Physick or Chirurgery) I beg you 
would be so good as to allow me my Land as neer the Town as possible in 
aj3y lax vacant place for I expect more Servants over very soon which 
will enable me to Settle and Clear it. I likewise beg you would Grant 
me a Lease of one of your own Lots upon the Same Conditions as you do 
to others and if you think proper to do it I shall build a good House 
upon it and make what other improvements are Necessary. 

I am with all due Respect 
Honoured Sirs 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Tailfer, Mr. Patrick Houstoun and 
others to the Trustees dated at Savannah March the 15: 173^/5* 

Honoured Sirs 

We beg leave to lay the following particulars before you when we 
obtained Grants from you for land in the Province of Georgia HBXzaaai 
we never in the least doubted but we Should have the Same privileges 
and encouragment that other People had. We expected as soon as we 
arrived here to have received provisions for our Servants for twelve 
months. Tools for building and Clearing the Land Nailes for our Houses 
and other necessary Ironwork, Arms and ammunition &c but contrary to 
our Expectation we were refused every thing we hope you will Consider 
that with a view of having those things we Laid out our money in pur 
chasing what necessary goods we Should want here in procuring our Ser 
vants, paying for their Freight and our own (which amounted to a good 
deal of money for we were obliged to Freight a whole Ship) and that we 
put the Honourable Trustees to no Expence in sending us here. 

The Land alloted us is very remote from this place being at 
least Seventy Miles Distance which obliged part of us to Settle in this 
Town in order to Supply the others who have settled upon their Land 
with provisions and other necessaries from time to time, as well as 
upon the Kg account of our own business. It was impossible for us as 
we laboured under such difficulties to do whpt we otherwise should have 
done but however those that are Settled in the Country, have made at 
least as great improvements as any before them especially considering 
the time of their Settlement; they have cleared a Considerable Tract of 
Land, Built their Houses and likewise a very Strong Fort which may be 

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of great advantage to this place as well as to themselves; but it is of 
no use without Arms and Ammunition they having only two Swivel Guns 
and. ten muskets which they received from Mr. Causton to be paid for out 
of our goods, for being Strangers in this Country and not knowing where 
to purcha.se provisions and Several other Necessaries, we were oblidged 
to apply to the Store but could not get any any thing from thence till 
we lodged the Chief part of our Goods there. (4?6) 

We hope your Honours will take those things into consideration 
and gr^nt us the same advantages as others. We likewise hope you* 11 
allow us the remaining part of our Land next to the Town of any not yet 
taken up. 

We are with all Due respect 
Honoured Sirs 

Your most obedient humble Servant 
P.S. 

We had almost forgot to mention one thing which is likewise a 
great incumbrance upon those who ere settled at Okecchy that the 
indians in passing backwards and forwards commonly demand provisions 
and frequently SRy Stay there Eight or ten Days and being always allowed, 
them at Thunderbolt and Fort Argyle, they ima.gine it to be the same 
here and would take it very ill if they were refused. 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Thomas Christie to the Trustees dated at 

Savannah 19th March 1734/5. ^ 

Gentlemen o 

I think it Indispensible my Duty to inform you That Whilst I was ct- 

at my own house a Sunday Evening the 2d of March Inst. To my grept ^, 

0) 

Surprize I he^rd the Alarm Bell (Mr. Causton being then at Thunderbolt) ct 

I immediately arm'd my Self and made to the Guard House where I found m 

Mr. Vanderplank who said he had discover'd a plot to Surpize the Town y 

and kill the people and he beleived Musgrove and the Indians were con- 3 

cerned in it. without Speaking any thing more he took a party of men o 

3 
and went down with them to Musgroves House. It seems since to Learn of * 

them whether any thing was in it but they were all out of Town. o 

He left Mr. Carwell at the Guard house who at my request mar- ^ 

shall'd the Freeholders as fast as they came & drew them up regularly ^ 

so that in a Quarter of an Hours time there was near 50 Men in Arms in n 

the mean time I used all the Diligence I could to learn out how this ^ 

3 

Plot was to be Executed and by whom and upon Enquiry found Elisabeth p* 

Gray knew Something of it I there upon took her to my &ouse & began an ^ 

Examination that a Red String was to be a Sign or token and immediately 
A 

sent out persons to make a discovery of sny that wore it but found 
none but the Prisoners hereafter named. I dispatched Mr. Fitzwalter 
to desire Mr. Causton home and another Person to Mr. Parker who was 
likewise out of Town. Mr. Vpnderplank soon returned from Mr. Musgroves 
finding nobody at home and upon hearing Mrs. Gray Examined read in my 
house, seemd very angry with the Examiner went out in an abrupt manner 
and cryed out in the Street he found whet the Plot was we were agoing to 

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hang his man. I was going on with further Examinations "but night 
coming on and "being informed of Mr. Caustons coming home Staid to 
advise with him in this uncertain Posture of things We vent to Mr. 
Vanderplank Requested that two Compleat Tythings of able men might "be 
upon Guard that Night, That three or four of the Cannon might be 
Imediately Charged and drawn out to Flank the (480) Strand on each side 
and things put into a posture of Defence Especially a good Guard about 
our Magazine. 

It is with a great deal of Pleasure I can tell your Honnours 
what a vast number of Freeholders appeared in the Defence of the place 
And with what Spirit and Alertness they were ready to Execute any orders 
that Should have Appeared Necessary. 

My Self with a great Number of Gentlemen and the better Sort of 
people being Compleatly armed form'd a Resolution to Patrole the Town 
all that Night as Vollunteers. Mr. Causton soon came home and Joyn'd 
us. 

We were Considerably Employed to See if all the Servants were at 
home and a Bed and if not sent them to the Guard house Especially the 
Irish Transports who if any Mischief had been on Foot we had no great 
Oppinion of Especially Since Mr. Lacy (tho very dark) ha,d made his way 
through the wood to us that Night in pursuit of two of his Servants who 
were that Evening run a way, a Maid Servant of his who had discovered 
it and who was of design to go away with them having been found with a 
Red String on her Arm the Mark or Sign mentioned in those ^ affidavits 
Sent to your Honours Inclosed in Mr. Causton's Letter to which I crave 
leave to Refer. 

 263 (480) 

All was very qaiet that Night and the next morning We Sate and 
made further Enquiry took further Affidavits and Continued the Necessary 
Orders. 

It was upon the Information of James McDonnald end the Affidavits 
Of Cannon and Musgrove which you had enclosed in Mr. Caustons together 
with our own knowledge of Several discontented Persons th?t had Con 
tinually resorted to Watson's that we Judged it for the Saftey of the 
Province to make out a Warrant to Search for papers there but seems 
by some unaccountable means we found afterwards by Mr. Douglas his 
Neighbour who has nothing but a thin Deal Partition between him and 
Watson that our Resolution was carried to him before the Constable came 
there and no doubt of it but to ell the Others I can only Say if Mr. 
Vanderplpnk hpd communicated his cause of alarm to me I should have 
advised him to hsve made proper Search and taken measures for discovery 
before the Alarm bell had been rung (481) And according to the best of 
my Judgement The Plot if ever it was Form'd Seems to have had Birth 
either at Watsons or MKXgx Mugredges house where Generally a par cell of 
People in bad Circumstances resort a Little time will discover more of 
which Your Honnours shall have Notice. Tomochachi and his people 
Appears no way concerned in it and Seem'd very Surprised at the Alarm 
Guns Testified their Fidelity and was Concerned they had been named in 
it Mr. Musgrove as well as they desired we would assure your Honnours 
of their Fidelity but it is certain That Some of the Indians Especially 
one Sallote and Some others which are not of the Savannah Indians but a 
Sort of Strollers seems to envy him very much Its well if they have no 
design on his life they say he has sold them to the English for the 

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presents he has received & and what he tells them of the Granduer and 
people of our Nation is a Lye to keep them in Awe and indeed I must Say 
I could wish Tomochachi and his wife would Communicate some of his 
presents to his people I beleive it would tpke of a great deal of their 
Envy to him. Tomochachi was with us this day and told us that Sallotte 
took a brand of Fire and went to Strike the Queen but narrowly missed 
her that the Scattering People Seemd to be displeased with him and 
Apokutche ssys he makes himself greater than he Should be We have 
assured Tomo Chachi of our Protection end if he found himself ajiy ways 
in Danger to reside at Yamacraw near us where we should do every thing 
requisit for his ^ Safety. 

If any thing of Mix2 Mischief Should come forth I am of Oppinion 
it must be of that Side with the Spaniards or French Instigation. We 
have had no News of Capt. Macksy but beleive he is Safe. We Expect 100 
of the Upper Creak Nation who they now say are coming down to See us pnd 
we Shall take Care to receive them in the best and most Formidable 
manner we can. 

Inclosed is the Presentments of the Grand Jury of the Tenth of 
March upon which Peircy Hill John Cox and Edward Cruise hsve been since 
Tryd and found Guilty they have already received 60 Lashes each by the 
hands of the Common Hangman and are to receive 60 more unless any one 
of them Shall make an ample Discovery Our orders relating to the (482) 
Rest of the Presentments Shall be transmitted to your Eonaours in my 
next As to what relates to Watson and Parker reffer to Mr. Caustons 
Letter end Shall expect your Eonnrs. Directions on that head. 

There was am Information pretended to be sent to your Honnrs. by 

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one Robert Parker Junior Letters wherein he says it is Notoriously 
known that Rum was Sold out of the Store House in the Name of Could & 
Compa. Mr. Henry Parker Bayliff and my self were desirous to Inform 
your Honnrs. of the truth of it and to that End sent for Mr. Parker but 
instead of coming sent the Inclosed Letter by which you'll See the dis 
position of that Gentleman we then sent an Officer who brought him to 
us he refused to give us any Accot. of that matter and gave us the same 
answer as before he had done in his Letter, he refused likewise to 
Attend the Court as Juryman Tho he had at the Same time two Twon Letts 
for which we Fined him and now he has thought fit to Attend. 

Mr. Gordon has been some time at Charles Town where he went in 
order to Dispose of Some Goods he brought with him from England and it 
was Strongly Rumourd that he had a design to return back but I am 
Inform'd this day that we are not likely to See him again. 

The Land the Saltsburgers are upon turns out very Sandy and 
Barren it is now too Late to remove them for this Season and Shall 
first Expect Your Homours directions therein. 

Allice Riley was hanged Some Months agoe within Six weeks after 
her being brought to bed persuant to her Sentence of the llth Day of May 
Last and the Child is since dead. 

I continue my former Request to your Honnours and remain 

Your Honnours 

Most Faithfull & Obedient Servant 
The Indians talk mentioned in one 
of Mr. Causton's Letters having Seen'd 
crave le?ve to Referr thereto. 

 268 (483) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Hetherington to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
Thunderbolt March the 22d: 1734/j. 

Honoured Sir 

I Receiv'd your Welcome letter from Mr. Johnny Brownfield on the 
28th of December last and have aotznaHot according to toy Instructions 
Sent John Godly home by Capt. Dunbar he has proved an Excellent good 
Servant till the news came he wes to go for England he then went 
directly to Savannah and would not come to $&KK±H& Thunderbolt any 
more but Stayed till the Ship Saild wch. was upwards of thz two Months 
although Mr. cpuston snd Mr. Gordon persuaded him all that ley in their 
power and at last threatned him with Punishment if he did not return 
i# was all one he minded them not and I was Unwilling he Should receive 
any Correction as I intended he should go home but I beleive he was 
Encouraged by mother Penrose for she kept him in her Employ the whole 
time I am sure nobody else would give him Encouragement and as for 
troubling my head with her is what I did not Care for She Still remain 
ing Conqueror over the whole place I received the Swiss and his Wife 
and in return they are very willing to zxx work and are laborious 
people, but the man has had some old Strain in his right Arm & Cannot 
work so hard as his wife my Spouse in particular returns your Honnour 
many thanks for the great Care you had for her in Sending A maid for 
now She don't work alltogether so hard her self nor Inded can She. She 
now being very big with Child and within two months of her time and 
likewise desired me to inform Your Honour th??t if you had been here she 
would have made bold to Ask't you for a gossip being in a fair way of 
having the pleasure of the first Child at Thunderbolt our Settlement is 

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much alterd for the better since your Honour was there for Now we can 
Almost go Ahunting there is so ouch Land Cleared I have got about 
twenty Acres to my own Share and All fenced in with a strong fence. I 
beleive Mr. Lacy his brother and Mr. Bishop have each of them almost es 
much so that if our lends had proved but good we might Expect an 
immence Crop this year but your Honour knows its most of it pine barren 
Except a little Oak and Hickery towards Skidaway which is about ten 
acres and that fell to Mr. Lacy's share our Settlement is Certainly a 
beautifull place and the pleasentest in all Georgia and has not wanted 
for any Industry to make it so. it has been Exceeding hard upon me this 
last year being Obliged to build so much (484) And Clear lands at the 
Same time I having but two Servants left My Old frenchman being dead 
I realy did work beyond what I thought I could but no person csn tell 
what they may do till they are put to the trial and I am very glad that 
I was for it agrees mighty well with my health and Use has made it 
intirely agreeable to me we finished our Hexicon Ever Since the 2% of 

September last but not built any more then Every one a house and where 

filld 
the Other Should be have/fKiisi: the vacant places up with pallesades and 

So Strong and Commodious it is that we Value not all the force of 
Augustine. I have likewise built me another little House the demensions 
of the first forty in Savannsh which I call my farm with a yard of 200 
foot Square aaild in about a quarter of a mile from the fort and a 
pretty Garden behind it my Cowpen adjoining to it the reason that 
invited me to it was I found out a fine Spring that comes from under A 
rock which is a sort of an Iron Stone and that is likewise fenced into 
my yard, the water is farr better then the Spring your Honour ie 

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acquainted with. My rural l&fe I like so veil and the Inclinations I 
have to the place that I am as well satisfied, as if I had five hundred a 
year in England I only wish to have another Year over our heeds then we 
Shall begin to live and have every thing in plenty of our Own produce 
I bought ten head of Cattle which I thought was pretty well at first 
but had the Misfortune to loose seven of them soon after which was a 
great loss for a young farmer but hope I shall retreive it again I 
return your many thanks that you was so good as not to draw upon me for 
the last favour I received when it became due for if you had I know not 
what I should have done having met with so many Losses the first year 
but I would have sold all I had in the world but it Should have been 
answered it being so kind and generous an action but as your Honour has 
been so good us to Stay so long must beg a little longer time I haveing 
a Chargeable time coming on and God knows how our Crop mpy turn out 
If I had more Servants I did intend to Settle another plantation this 
year and Mr. Jones would be so good as to run our Our other lands out 
we having no more then one hundred & twenty five seres apeice as yet and 
to Clear any more of it for planting would be so much Labour lost it 
being entirely pine as we may want timber th?t may be of Service by and 
by. I cheifly bend my mind to planting, & Cultivating of lands & had I 
more assistance should be a very great Proficient that way I can't 
afford to run upon any Projects as yet, having so few hands if I was 
I should not get bread for my Family and Planting must be the first 
thing thet is taken Care on. I have given your Honour as good an (48$) 
Accompt of my Affairs as possible I can and Exactly as they Srtand hoping 
every ^ody will do the Same I had like to have forgot to acquaint you 

 when ve had finished our Fort and mounted our great guns which are in 
Number Eight. The Indians who are often with us asked what we made 
such Strong defence for we told them in Case the Spaniards Shod, 
interupt us. they answered if wee was afraid of that they would at any 
time go and fetch all the Spanish Indians Sculps to us we thankt them 
and Said no if they did us no hurt we Should do no harm to them They was 
very well Satisfied and wanted much to deal with them for Skins "but we 
referrd it and would not meddle with the trpde, Excepting your Honour 
is so good as to give your Consent I would do nothing Contrary to your 
Inclinations to gain th Riches of the Indies so much I value your 
Honours fpvour a.nd Esteem & a line from your Honours hand would be the 
greatest present I could receive upon Earth My Spouse joyns with Self 
her Duty to you hopeing Cod will Continue your heelth and prolong your 
Dsys for the good of his people is the Sincere desler of 

Your Honour's most Humble 
and Obedient Servant 
P.S. 

We have taken up Provisions upon Credit from Mr. Causton till an answer 
comes from your honour to know wether you with the rest of the Honour 
able Trustees will allow us a Second years provisions hoping it won't be 
refused as it hsth been allowed to all the out Settlements Except ours 
and Should Thunderbolt be Excempted from {9ny benefits that Other Out 
Settlements receives I beleive it would be the breaking of Hearts. 
Likewise hope your Honnour will give me your Interest in haveing the 
same privilidge granted to me as my Neighbours has alread received 
which is in Case of Mortality I should die without heirs as in all 

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likelyhood I shall not that I or my Spouse may by will Nominate any one 
person to be our Successor to the lends granted to me and in case we 
Should hcve a female Child it mpy desend to her I being one of the first 
Grantees hope it will not be denied as it hath been granted to other of 
a later date. 

(48?) Copy of a Letter from Capt. Patrick Mackay to the Trustees dated 
at Coweta March the 28 K& 1734/5- 

Honourable Gentlemen 

Hy Last was dated the November last fron the Uchie Town on 
Savannah riger whereof I now send a Copy. 

This accompanies a Joumall of my procedure and actions since I 
left Savannah untill this day that I am prepairing to proceed for the 
upper Creek nation. I have nothing to Say in Addition to the Journal 
but what follows. Tho' I have been but a Little time here I remarkd 
th$.t the Chief men of the Indians behave with greater Civility and 
Seem to respect us. yea all the traders more with in this 20 days then 
they did before and I impute it altogether to ye description these 
Indians Mr. Oglethorpe carryed over gave on their return here to them 
of the grandeur and Power of the British Nation. Its incredible how 
much they are overpwd by the Silly plpce in posession of the French 
calld fort Thoulouse and by St. Marks which lyes about a Short days 
Journey from the entry of the Chata.uchie River but the Spaniards give it 
the name of Appalachicola River, by all the Intelligence I could get 

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St. Marks has but 20 men in it and. there is only thirty in Fort Thou- 
louse call'd by the Indians Albania. So I inferr from this sudden 
Change and their being so much overaw'd by these little Forts that the 
Indians are governd more by the principles of fear as love. I find they 
are a sullen morose people of few words, very ambiguous in answering 
Questions, mighty deceitfull and covetous nor are they naturally so 
brave as some say as their manner of Fighting declares. It's true they 
are so intoxicated with the principle of revenge that they delight in 
going constantly to warr against those that Injure them or rather they 
hunt enemies as they do any other prey with this difference only, that 
when by Surprise a gang of 20 or 30 kills one of their enemies they run 
day and night tho they know of no enemies nigh them till they think they 
are out of daJiger or reach of the Enemy end that is never under a 100 
or 200 miles they are Self Conceited people and very apt to think 
Europeans are affraid of ym. They have a Notion that if they do sny 
mischief or harm to a white man the name the give to a. European. It's 
the only means to obtain a present. They have no manner of Notion of 
gratitude, in a word I cant observe they are governd by any vertuous 
principle Having Considerd the Indians in this light I thought proper 
to hsve spoke to them in the manner I did and I now find I have not been 
deceived in my opinion for If I was to demand all (488) their terri 
tories, they have not a Countenance to deny me tho I beleive any thing 
they yeild is against their Inclination. Its my Opinion that 500 Men 
with what Indians could be raised in this Nation if Brittain was 
engaged in a warr with France and Spain would put Brittain in possesion 
of ell Florida and to the Missisippi River and that these 500 Men 

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garrison'd in augustine and Moville and Cowsa Rivers among the Chactaw 
Indians I spy its my Oppinion it would not only gain tut preserve all 
the Indians Inhabiting that part of this Continent to the British 
Interest but be an effectuall Security to the Southern Settlements of 
the British Empire on the American main against those potent Powers 
And I must think that if Brittain overlooks these Settlements particu 
larly that of the French it may in time prove of dangerous Consequence 
to Carolina and Georgia. By the advices I had last month from Carolina 
I understood that Brittain must inevitably be engag'd in a, Warr with 
France & Spain this Spring as that would be a favourable ertKyart Occation 

and th^t I know not but the Goverment might think proper to lay hold of 

case 
it. I dont think it impertinent in informe you in/KXXK the notion of 

want of provisions should prove a difficulty that this Nation could 
Spare 4 or 5 months provisions for 500 men without incomoding them 
selves in the least, by buying up the corn airly from the Indians who 
likewise have plenty of Hogs and I believe 100 Cows and Steers could 
be bought up smong them besides a few Carolina Cattle. Hunters could 
very soon kill what Cattle they plessed in the Apelachie fields where 
there are thousands to be had Salt the beef there and transport it to 
the Chatanchie River wch. is Scarcly 20 Miles from these Fields. But 
this ix I mention only to Show there is no danger of want ice of provi 
sions in this Nation for 500 Men for the time I mentioned if Such a 
thing Should ever be attempted I would advise to embark the men so as 
the might be in the month of September or Ocober in the River Alatamaha 
which is but 8 Days easy march from this nation These months are 
reckon' d the healthyest for Europeans to come into this Climate because 

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the Violent heats being over they may be Seasond a. little before they 
return. And moreover I take this part of the Country as it is hilly 
and lyes high to be much healthier than the Sea Coast which Commonly 
Lyes Low and marshy Even Strangers are Seldom or ever troubled with 
Fevers and Ague in this place and I am inform'd by the traders that if 
they should (as Sometimes they are) be Catch*d by the fever and ague in 
the Settlement it rarely continues a month by them in this Nation. (48$) 

Ane other motive that Should invite Brittain to be at a little 
expence is the enlarging the Comsumpt of her manufactures which such an 
addition as the Florida & Chactaw Indians would crest and the Chact&Ms 
have allready essay'd and do Still Show a forwardness for entering into 
a treaty of friendship and Commerce with us which has allsrmed the 
French at Movile mightly. the Chactaws (I am told by the Dog King who 
wss the person Thomas Jones imployd to Carry some of them down to Georgia 
when they were quarreld after they return'd home, by the Governour of 
Moville for going there ) Said we have Since we made peace with the 
Creeks had favourable reports of the English and we see'd the Creeks who 
are in Xxi Frendship with them Supply'd with all manner of necessarys 
for them selves, women and Children which we went, we have now been long 
in frendship with you and yet wee injoy no Such benefits if you Supply 
us with all these things they do the Creeks we will not go to the English 
and if you do not we a free people mpyn't we go to whom we please. 
Upon this Isrge Presents were made them and farr Larger premisses that 
they would next year be Supply'd with all Such things as the Creeks had 
from the English, however they reinforced the two Chactaw garrisons and 
keep the body of the Nation at home by promise and threats excepting a 

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few on the Frontiers who come to trade with Thomas Jones. And now the 
French telk of building a New fort on the Frontiers to prevent any 
Communication twixt us and them. I Could not only prevent this new Fort 
being built but I could soon be master of fort Tholouse which would 
open a Communication with the Chactaws but as I know not how such a 
thing would be taken at Court before actuall warr is declared I choose 
to waite further orders or that I finde the French begin to a.ct offen- 
ceively, which in the meantime (if I waite to receive it) gives them the 
advantage of giving the first blow and if I wait till the French dis- 
coverd a disposition to disturb us in this nation, I don't know what 
could be done with 24 Men but to fly before them in the woods. For as 
the French hpve the remains of a party among the Creeks if we were &KHK 
izxxX Seen to fly once our friends would be discourag'd to declair for 
us and would be overawed by them their Creek friends and the Chactaws 
and if we pretended to stand we would be but cut to peices before we 
could have releif from Georgia or Carolina Indeed had I an 100 men 
here it would give the Indians a Countenance to Join us and we could 
keep the Enemy in in play till we were Reinforced. ^# (4$0) The 
Doctor is a very acceptable person among the Indians. I find he ell- 
ready has cured Severall of Some Distempers as it is 0 call'd here and 
of Several other Illnesses. The young man behaves exceeding well and I 
3mt3± believe knows his bussiness as much as sny one in these parts of 
the World. Yea I gott him Condesend to cure our horses of wounds 
bruises &c by which Severall has been saved. 

I send herein a Catalogue of medicines for the Company which can 
be Supply'd from thence cheaper as from Carolina and if you approve of 

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his Serving the Indians the Quantity must he enlarged. 

I em to have an interview with Chercholeigie at Palachocola. how 
soon I have dispetcht this Express, who goes for Information from 
Savannah if conform to my last advices Brittain has declared var against 
france and Spain that I may act scBsaoaiiagiy acordingly here. 

I shall write my next how soon I have had a Publick Conference 
with the Chief men of the Upper Creek Nation till then I shall tske the 
Liberty to say that I am with great Esteem 
Honourable Gentlemen 

Your most Devoted & most humble 
Servant 

(4$l) Copy *of a Letter from Mr. Canston To Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Savannah March 24 1734/5. 

Sir 

In my Letter to the Trustees of January 16th Your Honnour will 
observe Th?t I declare (till then) I had maintained the Publick pepce 
wth. some ease. . . . And Indeed the People's behaviour in general has 
been very Commendable. But when Mr. Gordon unhappily took part with 
Vfatson and Discoverd to the people that he had different Sentiments 
from me They soon Concluded That as he was First Bayiiff it was in his 
power to order everything and every one thpt had Beef when they wanted 
Pork was countenanced by him with a great deal of Compassion and Com 
plaisance. 

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When I told him of Watsons Case and how gently I had used him he 
told me That he thought it was not very gentle Usage to Imprison a man 
for the Sake of an Indian. And tho' Self preservation, Humanity and 
all the reasonable Obligations in Nature confirm your Honnours Orders 
with regard to the Indians Yet I am Told by Mr. Quincey and Some few 
others That tho' (in Such things) I may act according to my Instructions 
I ought to Gratifye the People and think that you are not Infallible 
this Gentleman has often Changed Ms mind in this affair One day he 
came to me and told me That Watson was a very Villain and a madman So 
that I Bsk't him wherein he thought you had Erred. He told me That most 
people were of th6 Opinion we Should one day Repent our Civilitys to 
the Indians. But tho' as to th?t matter he would not pretend to direct 
yet he thought it would be more prudent to Send Watson away. I told him 
I had power to Imprison him But none to Discharge him And that I had 
much rather bear the Reflections here which I might at a proper time 
Correct; than give him an Opportunity to Spread his Malitious poison 
where I should never have it in my Power to apply a Remedy. Be urged 
it as an Extrordinary Case wherein I might and ought to Deviate from 
your Sentiments or my Orders. 

Mr. Coats is a great Sollicitour and an Asserter of Watson's 
&xix Greivances, for which he has had many Reprimands. De Perbe the jew 
will be nibling but is as yet Sly enough to avoid a Punishment, Watkins 
the Surgeon Is his Secretary Robert Parker Senior & Robert Parker 
Junior, Wright, and King Clark are Councellous in their towns and they 
all think themselves Eminent Politians ^nd Scorn to be advised or Submit 
to Rule. (492) The two Parkers absolutely refuse to serve on jurys or 

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appear in arms Saying they are Gentlemen and it is beneath them to Serve 
in an inferiour Court. And the Old Gentleman with an sir of Complaisance 
That he Should be unwilling to act Contrary to the Rules of any place 
But his friends in England would blame him. As to the Old Gentlemen his 
Talk was some time Since I told him I would fine him and he immediately 
declared he would quitt his Town Lott which prevented his being troubled 
any more on that head. And upon this Occasion it was that Tommy Jones 
being resolved to Claim his right to the Same Town Lott the Court gave 
way to the Presention which your Honnour will See by the Court Pro 
ceedings. 

As to the Young Gentleman, he has been brought As prisoner to 
his Arms by his Officer very frequently and has been twice fined snd 
Levied on for non Attendance on Jurys. 

I am sometimes Informed of their Transactions and I knew of the 
Scheme to make Musgrove uneasy more than a Week before Musgrove dis- 
coverd it and was in a fair way to have made a more usefull Discovery. 

I fear Watson will have re?son to find his pretended friends a 
Real Burthen. 

Your Honnour will easily belelve that when I committed him to 
Goal t'wp,s intended not only to preserve him from the Indians Resent 
ments But also from Dangerous Company but the Military Gentlemen are too 
apt to think that the Orders of the Maglstrstes are to be executed as 
they think fit and untill some of your advice come it is very Rif&imt 
Difflcient for the Magistrates to help it. 

The Court having in the "best manner they could Required the 
Grand Jury to present emong other things Tipling Houses without Licence 

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they presented Cheesewright on a Suspition of Carrying on Such Practices, 
And and tho' this was their own Presentment the Officers Neglected their 
Searches. 

I was one night going to Musgroves to Remove some people who I 
know was there after the Guard pretended to have been; about 12 of the 
Clock at Night and coming home I heard a noise at Cheesewrights I went 
to Coats who was than on Duty to tell him to Enquire the meaning of it 
he brought me word That five or Six men were drinking and were going, 
but I found that he had told Cheesewright I had been Listening under the 
window and had Sent him So th°t the next day Mr. Cheesewright (4$3) came 
to my house to Insult me. 

Mary Simeon, who came with Mr. Papott and was bound by Your 
Eonnours Orders to Arther Oyle Edgecombe has been Transferred (without 
Leave for money to James Muir, I reprimanded Edgecombe for pretending 
to Sell what he did not buy and that if any thing happened amiss to the 
Girl I would place her out & then Muir would Expect his money again. 

Muir in a Short time Dislikt the Girl and Sold her again to 
Willson. Upon which I order'd That Willson should recover his money of 
Muir and the Girl should be put to Some Housewifely Mistress I desired 
the Trustees of Orphans to look out for s Mistress. But Wilson found 
means to hire her to Cheesewright as a Servant and so was to be Repaid 
his money. 

I had received frequent Accounts of ill Practices and of the 
Girl's misusage but not willing to Credit every Storey had recomended it 
to the Guard without any Success. 

One night going my self into an open Hutt of Cheesewrights in 

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Search of a Fellow who had been ill behaved pad could not be taken, I 
found the Fellow this Girl and three other men on several beds in one 
Room. 

I examined Cheesewright the next day about this matter taking 
Mr. Christie and Coats with me to Cheesewrights House, when it was with 
great Difficulty that I got Coats to take the Girl and Convey her to 
the Trustees of the Orphans. However the Girl is Removed and is at 
Service with Mr. Fellowfield who is now a married man. 

The Order Against Retailing Liquors landing of Rum Forestalling 
and unlawfull Assembling of Servants are wholly neglected and Unless 
the Magistrates are both Witnesses and Judges nothing is done. Twas by 
an absolute Charge upon the Consciences of the Grand jury that I got 
Penrose and Hodges to be convicted of Retailing Liquor without Licence. 
This I Pursued (after a first Conviction and fines Levied) to a Second 
when Mr. Hodges Submitted to Order in s very handsome manner. But altho' 
I have reason to Beleive many carry on that trade, I have Bat no 
Presentments of that kind or Proofs to Convict them. 

I once seized a Pipe of Rum my self at Hodgeses which (4p4) had 
been landed at the Crane at Noon Day. Another time Dennis Fowler one of 
the Trustees Servants (placed under Vanderplank) was accused before me 
of lying with Carwall's Wench in his Masters Yard before a great Boy in 
the time of Divine Service; I Ex Orderd him to be whipt and (the 
Officer) declared that the Honestest Fellow in the Province was going 
to be wMpt. 

If any person is committed to Gaol they lett them out and if they 
apprehend any one either by Night or Day they discharge them at pleasure 

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without Consulting or Reporting it to the Magistrates. 

As Capt. Dunbar will be able to give your Honnour a particular 
Account of things of this nature I shall hope for your advice or 
presence here. And beg leave to Assure you that tho' this idle way of 
Behaviour is Sufficient to TEEOdt vex me, I have allways maintained the 
Authority of a Magistrate without the Breach of private friendship. 

I could ssy a great Deal on this head but as I have perswaded 
the Constables to Exercise a Ward every Sunday after Evening Service I 
hope my next will give a better Account. 

The Red String Conspiracy, which I mentioned to the Trustees 
proves to have risen at the Widow Bowlings House where Mugridge TibMtt 
and some others (too much in Debt) had distinguish^ themselves by a Red 
String on their wrists as a Signall of a Drunken Resolution to desert 
the Colony upon pretence that they have no Tittle to Shew for their 
Lsjids. 

I Judged it better not to t-^ke any direct notice of that and to 
tell the people (as occasion offered) That any one might have an Extract 
of their Title at pny time; And I beleive by the Prosecutions against 
Cox, Cruise and Hill And letting the people know the damage of Con- 
spiracys they are pretty well Convinc't that they have escaped a 
Scowering. 

I shall take Care to have an Eye upon these Sort of Gentlemen pnd 
not fsil to Charge them (who have made no Improvements) with what the 
Trustees have expended on them, when ever they shall attempt to Desert 
their fellow Adventurers. 

With Respect to the Reflections which some people here have so 

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little reason and so foolish as to publish by writing and Speaking I 
have not SpsTed to Read them Some Paragraphs in Woods Institutes 
whereby they msy see the Punishments they are Liable to Libells and 
false tales And indeed it will not be proper (allways) to pass it by. 

As I would not be willing to lengthen any one Letter longer than 
I am Sure of making a fair Transcription in proper time I beg leave to 
Refer your Honour to my next for further Accts. which is now my mighty 
Employ. 

Be pleased to give your favourable Correction to any thing here 
amiss, As not intended to Reflect on any one But is particularly 
adressed to you (who having been an Eye witness to many of our failings) 
in hopes that by your Advice and Interposition Affairs may pass on 
Something smoother. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most Dutifull and most 
humble Servant 

Copy of a Letter from Patrick Mackay to An Anonimous Person dated 
Coweta March the 2?th 1735- 

Sir/ 

I had yours of the 10th January nigh a Month sgo advising me of 
the Arrival of the Indians from Brittain, and that the Trustees had sent 
presents for the Cheif men of the Creeks. 

I have had all the Cheif men of the Lower Creeks Assembled in 

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this Town last week to hear the talk I had to deliver them from Mr. 
Oglethorpe. I took occasion to tell them then that the King of Brittain 
and his greatly Beloved men had sent Presents afresh to them by Tomo- 
chachi as a further Indication of their Esteem and friendship for them, 
that when I had. delivered the tslk to the upper Creeks, I would return 
from them prepared to Accompany them to deliver them the new ta&k and 
presents that are waiting there. 

I found the Indian sent here by Tomochachi inclined to have their 
own private friends Carried down, and not the Leading men for which 
reason I forbid him to Invite any without my knowledge, as the Trustees 
are at so great Charges to gain the friendship of the Indians, Its just. 
to think the presents should be bestowed on the most deserving and of 
most Interest and power among them here, as I dont doubt but you will be 
of Opinion with me in this I hope you'll Cause take care that none of 
these presents be Lavished away by Tomochechl who I hear has them in 
his Custody, but take them under your own Charge till the Chelf men go 
down your Senceable that if there is no presents for these Indians I 
carry down at your desire it will put the Trust to a Needless Expence. 

The young Prince you mentioned in your Letter and who was Son of 
the late Emperor Brem dyed at Silver Bluff on Savannah River about a 
month ago. the other Twin Brother is but a worthless drunken fellow 
and Intirely in the French (500) Interest, you'll use this Express with 
Civility because he is to Continue in this Station by Direction of Mr. 
Oglethorpe for should he be male treated I shall have difficulty to find 
any other so proper to Carry on a Correspondence in Case of Danger 
By all the Intelligence I have here of late the Spaniards talk of Settling 

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and Building a Fort at the Appalatche Old Fields, I have Imployed proper 
heads to prevent this, a.nd as it's possible some of the Spaniards mpy 
suffer, they will be apt to resent it on your Colony therefore it's my 
Opinion you put the out Settlements on their Guard snd Tomo Chachi of it 
that he msy order Some of his Indians to Scout about the Aletam&ha and 
likewise Order Captain Ferguson to keep a sharp look out that he mey not 
be Surprised. I here the French have Reinforced Albama Fort end talk of 

Building a new fort to Cut of the Chuct&ws from any Communication with 

I'le 
us, this/RK endeavour to prevent If possible and would Effectually if I 

understood Brittain had declared l^arr. Therefore you'll advise me by 
this Express of the last Accots. you hpd from Brittain relative to peace 
or Vnarr and if you should understand Warr is Declared after this Express 
leaves Savpjuiah, you should advise me thereof by Express, for Sho'd I 
know it sooner than the French, I msy have it my power to Surprize their 
Fort; but if they have earlyier Accounts of it they will fortify them 
selves in that Place; and be Reinforced with Such Numbers of men as that 
it will be a difficulty to gett them removed by which mean as they hpve 
allrendy a party among the Indians they will sooner awe the whole of the 
Nation that we may be in danger of Losseing our Interest in them therefore 
I think as early advise mey prevent this it deserves the Expence of any 
Express you csn easily be Supplied by Captn. Mackpherson in any if 
Requisite. I am with much Esteem 

Your Most humble Servant (501) 
P.S. 

Please send by my Express 4 pair of hend Cuffs with small Pad 
locks. I find a great many Sawcy Villians in this Country that dont 

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incline to Submitt to any Government, and their is a.n Absolute Necessity 
to make Examples of some for the Terror of others. I shall Expect this 
Express shall return before I leave therefore let me know how many of 
the Chief men of the Indians you'll have me Carry down. Let the Express 
Have Indian Corn for his Horse. 

Please forward the Pacquet Directed for the Honourable Trustees, 
and as its possible my Express mpy loose his Horse by being at so great 
a Distance from him it would do well that you would order Mr. Musgrove or 
some other to Fylott him to town. It will be a disappointntt. if after 
you have Dispatched him he should loose many days in Search of his 
horse. 

(503) Copy of a Letter from Captn. Patrick Mackay to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated at Coweta March the 2$: 1735. 

Sir 

I gave you the trouble of a long Epistle from the ^chie Town in 
November last Since which time I have been imployed till now in the 
manner my Journall Setts forth. 

If in any thing I have behaved my self unworthy of the trust you 
were pleased to repose in me nothing could give me greater pain or more 
Satisfaction then to tell me wherein that by quickly rectifying my 
mistakes or neglects I might demonstrate how Cheerfully I would hew down 
any thing to Merite the Honourable Trustees approbation of a person 
called poor Freind of Mr. Oglethorpe's (the common appellation given me 
in derisione in Carolina) and which I hope you'll give me the Liberty 

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to value my self always upon while I don't act any thing unworthy of 
my Patron. 

Since I wrote my Letter to the Honourable Trustees I had an 
Interview with Cherekeileigie first in the P&lachocola Square which 
Continued from 9 in the forenoon to 2 afternoon and the remaining part 
of the Evening in Mr. Wiggines house. It's Impossible to Comrnitt the 
whole that passed to writeing. I hope you'll Judge it sufficient I 
tell here that I impeached him of Treachery and Fallshood towards my 
master and his Subjects and thpt he never observed any promisees he had 
given of good behaviour on the Contrary betrayed us sllwsys to the 
Spaniards. I told him the great King and his greatly Beloved man the 
Esqr. bid me tell him that they would give him this Opportunity once for 
all of repenting of his former misbehaviours and an offer of entring 
into (as the rest of the Creek nation had done) and ratyfying the treaty 
of Freindship and Commerce with the King my Master But if he thought to 
Continue th# Deceitfull Men he hitherto had been I would find it out and 
perhaps pay him a visit at his house when he least Expected it. 
Cherekeileigie is the Crafyest most Cunning And the boldest Spoken 
Indian I have had as yet Occasion to Converse with He told me with great 
Impudence a great many false Stories and I as % Confidently told him I 
beleived them to be so. ^*hat Say's he do you discredit what I say 
I am a MizaxxK Mico and Mice's Scorn to Spake Lyes I em not affraid to 
tell truth I once was in Freindship with the English when I gave (504) 

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Proofs of my being a men I h?ve Fought with them against the Fuskeroraes 
Its true I was Concern*d in the Yamasee Warrs against Carolina but I was 
not the Occasion of breaking the peace at that time yea I wes averse unto 

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it because I lived as happily as any white men in those days in my own 
house I vore &s good apparel and rode s,s good e Horse as most of them 
but once I was engaged in the warrs I did the English all the harm I 
could and thereafter tho I did not personally disturb them my men did, 
but of late years I take your Kings talk with a Streight Heart. I have 
not been there 10 or 11 years at Augustine but they send for me and 
presents to me with a. talk I hear what they say they deeire the Liberty 
to Settle and rebuild a fort at the appalachies they and the franch 
(but I beleive he mistakes Spaniards of Pensawla for the French) have 
run out Large Quantitys of Land last year & Said they would Settle it 
this year by the time Watermellons were ripe I told them (S^ys he) 
that I beleived the Creek nation would not give their Consent and that 
they had better let it alone. 

You desire (Says he) that I Should return to my own Town if I 
do so then they will Settle where I am therefore I do better to Con 
tinue at the forks where I can be a Spy on all the Actions of the 
Spaniards which I will Communicate to any beloved man your great King 
Shall Send here You forbid us to go to the Spaniards and French why 
does your own Kings Subjects trade with them & think to hinder us who 
are free People. Your King allways threatens to demolish Augustine and 
Conquer the French att Moville and the Cutt Cheek King, (meaning the 
Governour of augustine) threatens to destroy Charlestown and the King 
of Moville Says he will destroy both but I Shall never see the day that 
the one Shall Conquer the Other, amongst many other things I said in 
return to this I answer'd to the last part of what he Said particu 
larly that if the Spaniards or we were at warr he was mightly mistaken 

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I desir'd him to ask of these of his Country who had been in Brittain 
if they thought the Town they Saw Could Spere as many men Ships and great 
Guns with Ammunition as would demollish Augustine Fort which had but 400 
or 500 men at most in it and 50 or 60 Guns I dont know (seys he) what 
power or force your Fing may hrse there but I Jnci have seen Several 
attempts made in vain by Carolina upon it and the Spaniards Say that 
your King has but a Small Island in a Word I beleive that Fort is 
impregnable. A great deal more to this purpose passed needless to 
Notice here but he Concluded with a (505) Promise of acting friendly 
towards us and keeping me allwpys advised of the actions of the 
Spaniards. But it is my Oppinion he will Endeavour to deceive both 
parties; as for me I shall allways Consider the man as a rogue and employ 
him accordingly. I gave him and his Brother 2 blanketts and 2 Shirts 
which I had of Thomas Wiggines and promissed him if he would behave 
himself with fidelity as friend the great King would take Notice of him. 
some days after I deliverd the Talk and presents Luckho, Mico of the 
Uchesses a faithfull friends of ours by report came and told me that a 
great many had gone from the lower Towns to Augustine they never will 
(Says Luckho) forbear goeing that way while the path is white but if it 
be made bloody they'le xiisgt allwsys Stay at home I want to be xRg 
revenged of the Spaniards for killing my Brother out of whose Scull they 
drink at Augustine. I am resolved to make thut path Bloody and this 
will keep our mad young People at home and if they are not hindred in 
this manner they never will be got Stoped from going there. I told him 
he might do as his heart inclined for my part I neither would advise or 
diswade him. I find Lickho keept this design Secret and is with 25 men 

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gone to varr, but the other Indians Suspect Mm much where is gone, and 
Seems much concernd for the Consequence that this will create enemya 
below as well a.s above them. I ha. *se advised Mr. Causton of this that 
he may put the Out Settlements Capt. Mcpherson and Ferguson on their 
guard, in case the Spaniards Should think proper to disturb them. I 
have reasons to beleive I could easily get Albamas Fort oversett if I 
knew the war was declared for that reason I send this Express to r. 
Causton to Know the State of Europe by last advices with respect to 
peace or wsrr that I mpy act accordingly here. Till I have the pleasure 
to write my next I beg leave to declaire that I am Sincerely with 
profound Esteem 

Honourable Sir 

Your most Oblidged & most faithfull 

humble Servant. 
P.S. 

Tomorrow I goe for the Upper Nation. I forgot hitherto to tell that if 
the Company now here is to Subsist or Designed to range, as I think they 
must, Carabines should be provided for them, for the common Musketts are 
too heavy and unfit for Horses Carriage. If I am to Continue in this 
Service I beg the favour a Saddle with Curb bridle Breast plate & 
Crupper may be sent me made very Strong on purpose, These Sadies csll'd 
Kings %t hunters answer best (306) Here with Shammy or Coarse Velvet 
Seat because leather burns up very soon. I had two Saddles broke in the 
riding thourough bad. Swamps allready, & now I have but a very Indifferent 
Saddle. I beg pardon for this presumption & I hope when you Consider I 
have no acquaintences in London that would Serve me faithfully in this 

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you'll easily forgive me; I shall pay the Value to Mr. Csuston I teg 
to know if my bill h?s been duly Honoured for I have had no advices 
from Britain ever Since I had wrote them in May Ipst which makes me 
Suspect my Letters are Miscerry'd, & for thpt reason I beg to be 
Excused for Sending this under your Cover. Cherckeileigie told me 
St. Marks was a punchion fort & hed 3 Guns & 30 men and that their was 
no Settlement on this river below him. 

(507) Copy of a Letter from James Abercromby Esqr. to Mr. Oglethorpe 
dated at Charles Town March 29th 1?35. 

Sir 

Having this opportunity by Captn. Dunbar I can't let it pass 
without paying my Compliments, which may have nothing to Recommend them 
but the Distance from whence they come. 

The Affairs of this Province have had no great Alteration Since 
your Departure. Our last Sessions of Assembly ended Yesterday, by a 
Prorogation (not usual with us) for three Weeks It was occapioned by 
the lower house having thrown out the Tax Bill upon 2000 It being added 
to the Estimate for the Cheif Justice's Arrears Salary by the Council, 
which Addition the lower House wont edmitt of, in ao respect whatever, 
this was put into the Estimate upon the lower House taking no Notice of 
a Message sent them concerning the Judges Salary This point must be 
given up by one Side or other before we can have a Tax reined. 

The Affairs in North Carolina are just upon the point of Con 
fusion Partys pro and Con the Governor already Sprung the Quit rent Lav; 

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Bill of a very Extraordinary Nature as ny Letters from thence inform me 
thrown out by the Council; in this Bill forty odd Landings were appointed 
for His Majestys Receiver General to receive the Quitreats, in Various 
Commodities, such as Fitch, Tar, Green Mirtle Wax, end other Species; 
what has set them at Variance is the Blank Patents for Lands, the Cape 
FesT first Settlers hold by, or pretend to do, And such are Mr. More 
Mosley, and Swans, who are become now opposers to the Governor because he 
wont Confirm them. In this Bill they made Wacathaw Neck part of their 
Province and would now Tax the Inhabitants there, which has obliged the 
Governor to appoint Commissioners on both SicLes to Settle the Boundaries: 
from this Province ajre appointed Mr. Skeene and ny Self, and recommended 
by the Assembly Mr. Waitiee, who they ai*e from North Carolina I can't 
yet tell, We Set out next Week for Cape Fear I am afraid (508) we 
shall find it hard to bring them into our Way of thinking as it will 
also be for them to bring us to theirs If they they take it in their 
way they must have all our Indians and some are of Opinion Savannah 
Town it self, our Conference will however produce an Explanation from 
home of both Instructions. 

Before I Conclude I must beg the fevour, if upon talking with Mr. 
Horace W & over Carolina Matters, You would be so good as hint to 
him the great Disadvantage the Officers lay under here Vizt. the Cheif 
Justices Secretary and my self by our Salarys not being yet Settled. 
The he has jromis'd it a great while and has done it to the Gentlemen of 
North Carolina, and to none here but Mr. St. John; this Affair My Lord 
Cathcart and Mr. Drmmnond have push'd to him, but have hitherto had only 
promises. As You have Done me the Honour to Concert me for the Trustees 

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in this Province Mr. Walpole may be the More induced to Consider me in 
Service, If an Opportunity should come in Your way to give us 
a push in this Affair we Should all of us "be obliged to you, 

and particularly now more than myself who shpll always think my Self 
happy under Your Countenance. 

I am Sir 

Your Most Obedient and 
Most humble Servant. 
P.S. 

Our Governor now seems to mend very fast. 

(523) Copy of a Letter front Mr. Thomas Causton to the Trustees dated 
Savannah April 2:1733. 

May it Please Your Honours 

The Store Account of all Goods Received, Issued and Remaining is 
now finisht and the Transcripts are making to be laid before Your 
Honours. 

I am now Setling with every One th^t is Debtor or Creditor with 
the Store to the 23th of March last, and hope to send their Respective 
Accounts by Captn. Thomson; who loads here. 

Your Honours Orders, with Respect to the future Support of the 
People shall be punctually obey'd; And as it has ever been cy Choice 
to take advice in all matters, where my Orders are not Express, so I 
shall be particularly Carefull to advise with Mr. Christie and Mr. 
Vanderplank when any such Occasion offers. 

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The people "being now Chiefly discharged, from the Store Provisions 
I judged it would be agreeable to your Honours Intentions to keep Pro 
visions in Store That the people may be supplied either for money or 
Credit st the Prime Cost, and accordingly a Barrel of Pork which Costs 
10 It Currency is charged 11 t reckoning at the Rate of 10 P Cent for 
freight, Craneage, waist and all Charges. These people who Choose 
Sawing a.ad Labour pay for their goods imediately And those who go to 
planting have Credit till the Harvest be in, or Your Honours Pleasure 
*be known. 

There are a great many People in good earnest at planting now 
and Industry shews itself more every day to these I deliver also Corn 
Peas and Potatoes for seed which they are to return in Specie when the 
Harvest is in; I beleive 300 Acres will be planted before this Month 
is ended of which I will send Particulars. I have been sskt what Bounty 
would be allowed at the Store for such Provisions as the people would 
furnish the Store with (being of Growth of Georgia) But having no (524) 
Orders for this Year I desire your Honours Directions what I shall say 
in that matter. I thought it my Duty to give the Utmost Encouragement 
to Planting, and beleive the good Effects will be seen. 

I Received the Ten Tons of Strong Beer, which I have disposed of 
at $0 Sterling p_ hhd. the byer keeping the Cash.' 

The People are to Apt to Run in Debt at the Ale houses (the they 
pay 6 p_ Quart for Beer. The Magistrates have ms.de an Order to prevent 
such Creditt, and would Regulate the price of Beer & other Liquors if 
your Honours thought Proper. 

The People continue their Healths in a most happy manner enjoying 

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every thing that can mpke them happy. And now every thing seems to move 
again in Peace Friendship and Industry. (Watsons party only excepted) 
who Still maintain their Caballs in full Assurance of Mr. Gordon's 
promises which I Choose to wink at. 

The Spltzburgers are very Industrious. They heve already fenced 
and planted 100 Acres of Land with Corn, Pease, and Potatoes; They have 
been much dissatisfied about their Land, and I have had much Difficulty 
to persuade them to be Easy Their Prejudice is so strongly raised, that 
nothing but seeing the Produce will Convince them what they have planted 
is Cheifly on the Sides of the Rivers where the Oaks grow. And I dont 
doubt but they will hove good Crops. 

The Surveyor will soon lay out the 2500 Acres which we have 
agreed shall be sent (in a Plan) for your Honours Approbation before the 
Letts are disposed off. 

Mr. Vatt very much desired to ih?ve his people Settled on a Red 

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Bluff which is near the Entrance of the River Ebenezer, and gave us a 

Reason, the Barreness of the Soil where the Town now Stands the Danger 
of Starving the People for want of Produce and the ill Reputation the 

Country would gain, if the people should write to their friends, that 

$<"'(* 

they were Seated in a Barren. This Bluff is about 8 Miles from the 

Town. (525) 

In talking to Mr. Vatt and the Ministers I have represented to 
them the many hardships, the whole Province suffered from Evil disposed 
Tongues. 

That it was every ones Duty to the Trustees to Manifest to the 
world, that they were resolved to be Contented and depend upon their 
Orders, and firmly to beleive That if the People did their Endeavours 

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all unavoidable Disapointmts. would be made Easy. 

Th?t I was very Sensible too many Halitious People endeavoured 
to raise uneassinesses among, them on many Accots. and beged they would 
take Care that the People might not be Ensnared. 

That if they would forbear giving too much Creditt they would 
find that the Sume of their Argument is to Alter the Trustees Schemes 

of Setling the Province Vizt. .... (Want of Negroes and Setling every 

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(One by himself where he pleases 

( 

(with many other Arguments to that 

( 

(End. 

That on the other Hpnd to give Encourpgement to any Ones Opinion 
who have no right to give it, would be of Dangerous Samxapt Consequence. 
And it would be almost Impossible to Support a People to any good Pur 
pose where Prejudice prevailed. I beged and Insisted, that they would 
give the People the greatest Encouragement; forbid the belief of all 
Tittle Tattle; pnd Assure them That as God Allmighty had now put them 
under the Protection of the Trustees, their Industry would allways meet 
with just Encouragement. 

That as to the Land, twas plainly Malitious, to call it Barren, 
when the Valleys were so many and the Runs of Water so Conveniently 
intermixt, with Such Large Tracts of Young Canes, making large amends 
for the little Hills; And in a small time, would be fine Pasture 
Meadows to Support a large Stock of Cattle & thereby furnish Manure 
(by Penning) for the Hills; and make them fruitfull Corn fields And 
that this Mixture was so Advantageous for the whole that every Free 
holder might have a Proportionable Share. %: 

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Besides the planting above mentioned, they vill plant Rice in the 
moist Ground. The Produce of which at the Price I now pay for Bread 
kind will alone Supply them all with Bread kind for the next Yea?. 

The Abercorn People show great Industry in planting (except 
Watkins) who is never there. 

Robert Parker Senior has now left his Mill (being much in Debt) 
And finding that it is not able to Answer his ends, gives out, that he 
built it by your Honours Order, And that Your Honours Must Discharge 
the Workmen. 

Augustine by the Assistance of a Millwright is building a saw 
Mill on his own Land; Sir Francis Bathurst his Lady and Children are in 
good health and very fell pleased with their Scitustion, his two Eldest 
Daughters are married end he has buried two of his Servants. By Assis 
tance of Peircy his Son in Law he han planted and fenced 8 Acres and 
built him Convenlant Covering. 

Musgrove is wholly at the Cowpen, we are daily in Expectation of 
Mr. Evileigh, when I Suppose all their Matter With Watson will be 
settled. 

The Indians are at Pipemakers Bluff and h=ve built a very pretty 
Town being joined by the Savannah Indians. They all behave exceeding 
well. 

According to the Advices of Csptn. Mackay a Coppy of which is 
Enclosed Tomochaci, Umpicki Hillispelli, Santutche Tallskumme 
Toanohowi and another *^ad are gone to the Southward and have promised 
to Return in a Month. 

Tomochaci had sent Santutche to the Nation to Invite the Cheifs 

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of the Towns, to receive your Honours Presents And they vere to be here 
the beginning of this Month. Santuche was a little disatisfied becKU.se 
Cpptn. Mackay had prevented their coming. I wrote Captn. Mackay the 
Enclosed answer and sent him the Enclosed List of the Names of such 
Persons who Tomochachi desired to come And I suppose they will be here 
next Month, 

The People at Fort Argile are in good health (32?) Edgcomb is 
made Lieutenant (by the Captn.) Teesdale Finley and Jones are enter*d 
into the Scout Service Celvert and Roth are the only people there that 
minds Planting. 

The Scotch Gentlemen on that River are very Industrious and very 
healthy have built a good Fort, hpve planted about 103 Acres of Corn 
and Peas and very probably will Clear as much more for Turnips at the 
Season I ha.?e lent them 4 Small Cannon and Smpll Arms for all their 
People. 

As I am now informed Mr. Gordon is Sailed for England, with 
design to give some unjust Reflections. I beg leave to Say, That when 
he Arrived, I received him as one I visht for, I mesn a Person capable 
of Assisting me with hopes that he would Save me the Trouble of Acting 
(on every Occasion) in the Office of a Magistrate, and I communicated to 
him, Such parts of Your Honour's Orders to me as concerned the publick 
Administration. 

I expected he would have enforct the former Orders which till 
then had been peaceably Submitted to; But to tny great Surprize encouraged 
Complaint and Raised Discord, as if he came with some great Comission; 
And there is not one Material thing done, but he has Endeavoured to 
Expose it. 

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As there have teen Various Instances of this his procedings It 
is impossible to Speak to any particular Unless he would have entered on 
any One Argument, And I should h?ve given him my Reasons, and have most 
Dutyfully Submitted to Your Honours Orders. 

But this it is he has made a Voyage to Georgia Stp.icL here a*bout a 
Month, Encouraged Complaints aginst the A&ninistrptors of Justice 
helped to Vilifye, Ridicule and Oppose all former Management hearing 
one side without the other And then left us, Without letting us know 
his Sentiments, (or Staying) whereby to prevent those thing which he 
pretended to Complsin of. (528) 

I hope Your Honours will not be Offended if (with great Sub 
mission) I say, That this Treatment by Mr. Gordon, has given Me so 
great Uneasiness th°t I had rather Choose the most Ordinary Servitude 
Than Execute a Fublick Office on Such Terms. 

I Bely on Your Honours goodness, Sha.ll patiently expect, and 
readily Submitt to All your Honours Orders And all Occasions endeavour to 
be with the Greatest Industry 

Your Most Dutifull and most 
Obedient Servant. 

(531) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John Fenwicke to Mr. O^iethorpe dated 
at Charles Town the 3d April 1735- 

Eonble. Sir 

I have had the Honour to receive your favours of the 28th of 
October Ulto.; Which as it is but very lately since it came to my h?nds 

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you'll excuse toy not answering / it sooner, the Zeal with which you 
are pleased to say I have Acted in your Colonys behalf, has never come 
up to whpt I ha ve allways wisht I lay in my Power to do. Encouraged 
therein by the good Example of your Unwearied Endeavours and Application 
for the Mutual Advantage of this Province as well as that of Georgia; 
but more particularly by representing at home in a just manner the 
Situation and Circumstance of Our Affairs here, which we are &ound in 
Duty Gratefully to Acknowledge. 

My Interest shall not be wanting in having the Scout Boat and 
Rangers st Georgia continued; well knowing the Security and Encourage 
ment they are of to those out Setleaents there hgs been some thoughts 
in the Assembly of reducing &HN those on this side Savannah River to 
Ease the great Expence we are at, but the Government has Concluded they 
Shall also be continued at least for this Year, under the Apprehentions 
of Warr; We have agreed (tho the Act not past yet) to raise in this 
tax the Sum Stipulated with them in leiu of your Setling a Garrison in 
the Upper Creeks tho we have no advice as yet of its being done, nor 
Even of their Arrival there eltho that Affair has been many months in 
Agitation, I could have Wisht Mackay Red been furnished at the beginning 
with an Experienced good officer under him; The French Ceptn. at the 
Albamsh Fort by his Letter to our Governor is alarm'd at the New's & 
Threatens he will repell by force any Attempts We shall make of 
Setling a Garrison nigh that of theirs wch. Letter the Governor Sent to 
Mackay before he went from (532) Palachocolas: hgxKxx however we are 
under no great apprehension of any thing they can do on that head, pro 
vided Mackay plays his Cards well with the Creek Indians who have but 

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a mean opinion of the French and their Fort insomuch that they not long 
ago Surrounded the Fort in Arms, pud Obliged them to deliver up one of 
their men, that by some means had killed an Indies Wompn which man they 
burnt before their faces; so th?t As we have lately ha.d a good Accot. 
that that Fort and Garrison is Capable of making but very little 
Defence, it is to be hoped The Trustees have it now in their thoughts 
(in Cpse of Warr) Imedintely to dismantle and reduce the same, which I 
dare say we shall not be backward in giving our Assistance to You'll 
no doubt have a more particular Accot. of matters from your Officers at 
Savannah than I am able to give you wherefore I must beg le^ve to referr 
them thereto as well as to Several things Mr. Bveleigh tele me he has 
advised you of So have only farther to Assure you of my readiness to 
Execute my Commands you think me Capable of a.n<l that I Phall always 
be proud when I h?ve an Opportunity to demonstrpte how much I am 

Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servsnt 
My Wife desires to join with me in her Compliments to you. 

The Governor has been dangerously 111 but now on the mending 
hand. 

(535) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Eyeleigh to Mr. Oglethorpe dated 
at Carolina April the 3d: 1?35. 

Sir 

I could not possibly get down but four Peices of those live Oak 
timbers mentioned in my last which I have put on board the Prince of 

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Wales % Captn. Dunbsr and Consigned them to Messrs. Peter Symonds and 
Company as also a "barrel of Ashes, which I lately Received from Mr. 
Welsh Hou.stoun Markt 10 and have desired the said Symonds to deliver 
it to you. I have by this Opportunity wrote them a Letter which 
Suppose they will communicate to you It relates Cheifly to live &k 
Oek I should be glad you could prevail with Sir Jacob Akeworth to 
report in favour of that Timber to the Lords of the Admiralty. Captn. 
Dunbar dined with me some days since, When after Dinner we Drank the 
Health of the Royal Family, the Trustees, Yours and Sir Jacob Akeworths 
Ee told me that a School fellow of mine at your House (who is Recorder 
of Eazellmore) drank my health, end we drank his also. I should be 
glad to know his Npme. I am of Opinion That on the report of Sir Jacob 
Akeworth to the Lords of the Admiralty on live Oak Timbers, depends the 
Success thereof in a great Me?sure, and that if it be given in our 
favour Mr. Symonds may easily contract with the Admiralty for a quantity 
to Advantage I do assure you it is my Opinion that it will be of great 
advpntsge to England and Georgia, and about which I spent many hours in 
inquireing and thinking thereof, some time since here was a Cpptn. of 
a Yessell that had been two Voyages from Piscataqua to Marseilles with 
Ships Timbers, Oak Pine &ca. and assured me, that he had a good freight 
and that the Merchant gott money besides; I took from him Minutes of 
those things which were necessary, and doubt not but it will turn to a 
better Accot. from Georgia because live Oak Timbers are in great Esteem 
there and are certainly much preferable to pny Oak whatsoever. I desire 
you! discours^ Mr. Benja. Barry (whose (536) name I have formerly men 
tioned) his Report of what he knows of his own knowledge msy probably 

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much avail with Sir Jacob. Yesterday I sent down to Georgia my Young 
man Wm. Buttler, and with him went two white Hen, One of them is very 
well acquainted with live Oak Timber and after they have Cut some 
sparrs Oprs &ca. Sufficient to loed my Schooner back therewith to 
Jamaica They have Orders to cutt some few live Oak Timber. 

I am almost Impatient of Receiving Some Letters from you in 
Answer to a. great m&ny I have wrote you ever Since the begining of 
June last and if by them I find Encouragement, He send more Strength And 
cutt sufficient to loed one or two of Mr. Symonds*s Vessells if he 
desires it* 

I design the letter End of this Month for Georgia and to K3t 
Carry with me (if I can) Mr. Hidleton the Pilate who was with Captain 
Gaiscoigne during all his Surveys and in the first place soExx were 
forced to Survey the Inlett and the River of Warsaw as likewise to see 
to Pitch upon a Commodious place there for cutting of live Oak Timbers. 

Our Assembly met here the fourteenth day of Jany. and drew a 
bill and Sent it to the upper House for suspending the Indian traiding 
Law they past last Sessions; but the upper house making an alteration 
in the Tax Law, which was in favour of the Cheif Justice the Lower 
House Unanimously rejected it, for they would not acmitt the Upper house 
to make any Alteration in a money Bill which mpy appear Strange Unless 
you Consider TlMt the Kings Instructions to the Govr. Say, That you 
shall not admitt your Assembly to have any more privilicges than the 
Parliament of Gceat Britain, so that Implys they may hpve as much. I 
find by some Letters from Mr. Jeffreys That the Maligne Party both here 
and in England are Employing the Utmost Tenome against the Governor, 
there are two matters which they make an (53?) handle of which I suppose 

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was represented home by the Cheif Justice; The one is the Affair of Mr. 
Kazle, on which (Mr. Jefferies) who has been a very great looser p^ him 
Seems to Exclaim. They have infused, into his head, that the Governor 
was the Occasion they could, not gett ye. money of him, which is very 
false, for I em veil assured the Governor did not in the least interferr 
in that Affair The other is about passing the Law for Assistant Judges 
a Law (in my Opinion) as Reasonable as any Law in this Province. The 
Cheif Jus tice (as I am Informed) has Compleined against the Assistant 
Judges taking away some of his Fees. I have Inquired of them all and 
they Say they never gott one farthing but gave their Attentions for the 
good of the Province without any other reward, than a Satisfaction of 
doing good to Mankind. They have also Represented as Ime Informed 
That they are both Ignorant and unlearned And I do assure you that x 
they are Men of good sense tolerable Learning and Honesty and for these 
Reasons I would sooner Submitt ny life and Estate to any one of them all 
than to the Chief Justice and if Humes himself would but tell you, what 
He told me before he went from hence E^ would inform you he was a Man 
not fitt for Such a post and I am Satisfied this is the Opinion almost 
of Every Lawyer in this Place (Except Graham) Another thing' is, I find 
Mr. Jeffries they lay the blpme of Captn. Gordon's Depth to the Govr. 
which I think is very unjust for if the Governor had Rot taken any 
Notice of the Judge of the Admireltys Request Mr. Whitaker would have 
sent home to the Lords of the Admiralty a grevious Complaint against 
him, and having done it He is Still to blame and wh?=t could the Poor 
Gentlemen do in this Case; It is here disputed whether the Admiralty's 
Jurisdiction did Extend to this Case if So Mr. Whitaker is most to 

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blame for he at least should know the Extent of his Authority. I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servant 

(519) Copy of a Letter from Paul <?enys Esqr. to Mr. Ogiethorpe dated 
at Charles Town April the 

Sir 

The repeated Instances you have given since your Arrival in 
England) of your Attachment to the Interest of this Colony the Assis 
tance which on every Occasion youve given our Agent, and the Unwearied 
Pains you've taken to Sett the Affairs of this Province in a True Light 
merret the particular thanks of Every one who desires the Prosperity of 
this Country and I may Venture to assure you, that the Present Assembly 
will have a greet Regard to whet you recommend. 

Captain Mackay has been some time in the Upper Creeks but in 
what Town he designs to Erect a Fort or what Progress he has made in 
that Undertaking we have not yet hard, tis probable that this will 
Create some Jelousy in the French Settlement, The Governor of new 
Orleans discovers a Great concern on Account of some Trade, that has 
been carried On between the Choctaws and some of our Traders, and com 
plains of some Attempts made by the English to withdraw that Nation 
from the French Interest; He seems to be much Alrjrmed at the Advice he 
has received Concerning those Indians I presume His Excellency has Com 
municated to you the Substance of what Genl. Bienuile has writ on this 
Head, The Visit which the Cnocktaws paid to your Colony & the Presents 

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which were there made them, and the Assurances they then gave of Culti 
vating a. Trade and Friendship with yovj? People, will give further 
Umbrage to the French Governor, but we hope be attended with no Injury 
to your Settlement a Garrison well Est=.blish'd in the Upper Creeks will 
(we conceive) be some Awe to the French & Security to the Trsders, ^nd 
your Colony, and. the sooner this is well affected the better, as 'tis 
like ta Great (5^0) some Jealousy, & we hope Captpin Mackay will with 
the Uttmost Expedition pursue your Instructions and erect a Fort in 
some proper Place; Pursuant to the Engagement which the General Assembly 
made with you in Behalf of the Honble. Traders, and which was after 
wards Confirm'd by a Law passed for that Purpose; the Generpl Assembly 
will in the Tax Act for the year 1?34 raise the Sum of 1= 2320: towards 
defraying part of the Charges of the Garrison to be Settled in the Upper 
Creeks, and the further Sum of L 1680 for the Reinforcement of the 
Rangers now in Georgia under the Command of Captn. Macpherson; Both of 
these Sums were in the Estimate of the Tex Bill for the Affoiesaid Year, 
but this Bill on a third reading was rejected in the Commons House of 
Assembly the 2?th ppst, as this is an Affair of unusual nature I shall 
give you a short Account of it; without entering into the debate or 
mentioning more than the Reason why the Bill was rejected; I would 
observe (tho I beleive you took Notice of it when here) that all Bills 
are read alternerly three Several times in ea,ch House of Assembly sad 
not According to the Custom of the Parliament in Great Britain The Tax 
Bill h^d passed The Lower House a Second Resding, pnd was sent to the 
Council with the Estimate of the Year Closed, and on a Second Reading 
in that House An Addition was by them made of the Sum of & 2100, and 

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the Bill sent to the Lower House Alterd agreeable to the Additional Sum 
upon this the Lower House of Assembly rejected the Bill on a third 
Reading, and alledged for this Procedure, that the Sole right of Taxing 
the Inhabitants is in their Representatives upon this the Governor after 
giving his Assent to three Acts prorogued the Assembly to the 15th 
Instant. 

Upon The Meeting of the Assembly a Tax Bill will be immediately 
brought in and soon dispatched if the Council do not retard it by 
Insisting on their right to Alter (541) And Amend a Money Bill which 
(I find) will not on any Consideration be Submitted to by the House of 
Representatives The fatal Consequences of a Difference on this Subject 
gives me great Concern, and the more as it will immediately Affect a.11 
of our Garrisons, Scouts & Rpngers who will on this Account be kept out 
of their pay and be distressed to the last Degree. 

A few Days pust Captain Ferguson came to Town to discharge him 
self from the Service of the Publick, but I beleive the Scout Boat & 
Rangers will be Continued another YepJ* in Georgia. KKxmxaBga I've 
made use of all my Interest with the Members of our House for tha.t pur 
pose, and hope to Succeed a Manx Majority will come into it unless I 
am deceived, and the Sooner as I have xx Assured them that the Trustees 
are like to obtain some Grant from the Parliament in Order to settle the 
Western Frontier and that then this Expence will be at an End. The 
Parliament being now Sitting I am in Expectation that the Representation 
of that Province will be recommended by the Ministry to their Considera 
tion and as Georgia will receive more immediate Advantages from the 
Success of it I make no doubt but You and all of the Trustees will use 

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your Utmost Efforts to Accomplish the Grand Design (which I may justly 
Say) is of your own Forming Nothing will be more agreeable to me than 
to hear of your Success in this Important affair which I hope you'll not 
forgett to advise me of. 

I shall not trouble you with any of the News of Georgia, but 
leave that to Captain Dunbar who is Capable of giving you a. very full 
Account, Tis with much Pleasure and Satisfaction tlMt I can now Inform 
you that I've Shipt your Cannoe en board the Prince of Wales and being 
Committed to the Care and Charge of Captain Dunbar I ($42) make no 
doubt but twill Accidents excepted come safe to Hand I never met with 
so many Disappointments nor so much Difficulty in my Life as to convey 
the Craft to England and had it not been Mr. Oglethorpes the Commander 
of the Prince of Wales would not have taken the Charge thereof for any 
Money Ive Inclosed to your Adress the last Quarterly Accounts of the 
Georgia Duty on Rum hope you'll lay it before The Honourable Trustees 
at their first Meeting; We've duly paid all of Mr. Cp.ustons Draughts j% 
an Accot. of which we sha.ll shortly transmitt to the Trustees they 
amount to much more than the Duty of Bum anc. for the Ballance (we 
Suppose) Mr. Causton will give us a Bill on the Trustees, whose Com 
mands we shall be very proud to Execute on every Occasion If the 
Trustees have not empowered any Person to receive what is Granted them 
towards the Charges of Erecting and Maintaining the Garrison in the 
Upper Creeks we shall be resdy (if they please to empower us) to 
receive it when raised and to pay it a? they shall Direct. Mr. 

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Manigrall is appointed. Publick Treasurer in the Room of Colonel 
Parris. I am 

Sir 

Your most Obedient humble Servant 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Paul Amstis to the Magistrates of 
Georgia dated at Savannah 5th April 1735* 

Gentlemen 

I am obliged (tho* contrary to my Inclination) to write these 
few Lines with an Intent to defend my Character against the wicked 
Designs of Mr. Fitzwalter who certainly has no other View by bringing 
me into Court than to cover and hide his MismaMgement & great Faults in 
relation to the Trustees Garden. He might easily have prevented what I 
have done against him had he done his Duty ever since Mr. Oglethorpe's 
Departure, but it seems he did not believe that another Superior to him 
was appointed by Mr. Oglethorpe to overlook his Proceedings and every 
thing else relating to the Publick Garden. 

I do declare and maintain the same that my whole View and 
Intentions have been no other than to do Justice and my Duty to the 
Trustees according to my Promise to them long since. 

I have very good Reasons for turning out Mr. Fitzwalter from the 
Garden, which I will shortly give the Trustees in Person. 

I have the Satisfaction to find that I have entirely in the 
strictest manner obeyed and performed the Orders Mr. Oglethorpe geve me 
several times before Govr. Johnson and several other Persons of Dis- 

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tinction, vizt. The Revd. Mr. (344) Qaincy, Capt. Mackay, Capt. Dunbar 
and Mr. Vanderplank. 

I further declare that Mr. Fitzwalter ha.s insulted me in the 
Garden and acted contrary to ay Orders anc. &iven away severe,! Plants 
and. Trees out of the Publick Garden without the Trustees Leave or mine. 
I therefore oppose his having any thing to do there till the Trustees 
have received my Complaint and their further Orders arrived here which 
I expect in a short time to end this Dispute. 

I have wrote to them twice relating to their Servants being taken 
away from their Employ in the Garden in my Absence, and that I stay in 
this Town with no other View than to perform my Duty to them and take 
due Care of their Interest, which 'tis evident I have more at Heart 
than my Rival Mr. Fitzwalter. 

Copy as reac. in Court. 

(547) Copy of An Anonimous Letter Dated SavpDnah April the 10th 1735* 

Sir 

Your favour of the 27th March cajne safe and very Welcome to my 
hands. 

I heartily Congratulate you on your good health, and prospect of 
Success in Affairs of the province. 

The presents sent by the $^ Trustee? of which I advertized you 

in my last I have Orders to Dispose of to the Creek Nation as Tomochachi 

T^^ t' 5 ,s /a^J 
shall advice, s I Mean to such as have the Most Interest, a.nd since you 

Nevertheless, I understand it as you do, 

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have the Opportunity to Advice in this Affair, it would Certainly be 
very proper to Advice Senteche who is the Messenger from Tomochachi to 
Invite those down here whom you discover to have that Interest. 

I have taken the Inclosed List from Tomochachis Own Mouth, 
which I thought proper to Send you whereby you will see who he means 
and. Judge of it in a proper manner. 

I h?.ve also Enclosed the Quantity and quality of the presents, 
which are all in my Custody and (pursuant to my Orders) will be deli 
vered to none but the heads of the Creek Nation. 

We have no Account of a. Warr (with regard to Brittain at present). 
But every one seems to beleive it unavoidable. I sha.ll tpke pprticul?r 
Care to give you Intelligence of what comes to my Knowledge, have given 
the Necessary Caution to the out Settlements and have procured some 
Indians to Cruise towards the Alatsma,ha. 

I send you also the Hand Cuffs as desired, our Colony are all in 
very Good Health. 

Names of th6 Chief Indians to be Invited from the Creek Nation to 
Receive presents. 

(Chekelly al Saawny bones head man of the Coweta Town 

( 

(Himolatche Twin Brother to Saphia Son to the Emperor Brem 

(Iseiche King of the Cursetees 

( 

(Teechee Choweche al Carr heed man of Do. 

(Toowhihituche King of Chehaw 

( 

(Phohehaw % Cheif War ri our of Do. 

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(Tallapholechee (brother to Tasany who died here of 
( (the Wosctchee Town 

% A Woolleg 

(Hopoheebeche 

( 

(Imetalshow 

(ToDUseko 

( 

(Tomeeha 

( 

(Helathe 

(I slechami 

( 
(Yawchs.ce 

( 

(Izawyewa.s 

(Tsmahumme 

( 
(Ellich 

(Alatchee 
( 

King of Do. 

King of the Hitchet??ws 
Head Warriour of Do. 
King of the Palachocalae 
Head Warriour Do. 
Cheif man 

King of the Eokomas 
his Brother Cheif Warriour 
King, of the Sowkalaw Town 
Cheif Warriour 
King of the Enfantes 
Cheif msm live at Ewchee Tovn 

Bead man at the Tokebotehee Town ) 

) Those must 

another head man as he likes ) 

) Consult 

) 

) Together 

) 

(Dick Hornabee King of the Tallasees 
( another as he likes 

at the Obehavs 

and Such as he likes 

Dog King of the Enfautes ) from the Several Town 

his Brother ) Each One. 

(HuDoihaache 
( 

(Chahawe 
( 

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Copy of a Letter from Sir Francis Bathurst to the Trustees dated at 
Bathurst's Bluff 15th April 1733- 

May it please Your Honours 

This waits on You humbly to beg the favour of Your Honours to 
give me 2 or 3 Servants for I have lost 2 of mine, one dyed in about a 
month and odd Days after I landed here of the Scurvy and Dropsy; the 
other about ^ Weeks ago of a Dropsy and sn Ulcer in his Leg. I vaetly 

like the Country and would be heartily glad to continue here if possible 

^ 

I could have Servants; the Death of them 2 is a hundred lost to me, it 

/< 

now being Planting time and People are hard to be got here. I wish all 

People were of my mind and then I am sure the Colony would soon be 
peopled; so hoping your Honours will grant me my Request I beg Leave in 
all Humility to Subscribe ay self 

Your Honours 

Most Dutifull humble 
and Obedient Servant 
I don't hear but that the 
Colony is in good heplth & 
all very quiet, ny poor little 
Son does the Work of a Man 
and is vastly delighted 
with the Country. 

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Copy oc a Letter from Mr. Thomas Causton and others to the Indian 
Traders dated at Savannah April the l6th 1?35- 

Gentlenen/ 

Being Inform' d by Mr. Barker that you are Indian Traders within 
this Province and are Apprehensive of some Interruption or Disturbance 
in the Same. We phall teke the first Opportunity of Aquainting the 
Trustees of this matter and in the mean time let you know That the 
Trustees have here eppoininted a Court of Records and whatever power 
Except from them Sh?ll presume to give you any disturbance or Molesta- 
tion within this Province You may depend upon up of a Legal Protection 
and we shall allways be ready to Serve you to the Utmost of our Power 
we are 

Your humble Servants 

(559) Copy of a Letter from Mr. John West to Mr. Oglethorpe dated at 
Savannah April the 18th 1735. 

Honoured Sir 

I have made bold to trouble you with this, to heartely thank 
you and the Honble. Trustees for the great favour you was pleased to 
bestow on me in letting me come for England and with a kind offer of 
paying my Passage to and from England I shall have Occasion to stay 
but a Small time in England I purpose comeing with C^ptn. Tornson I am 
now Settling my Affairs. I shall leave 3 nen in my Shop to carry on my 
business while I am away. I am like to have abundance of Letters to 

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your Honour and the Rest of the Honourable Trustees Mr. Vanderplpnk 
sends his Journall by me and Mr. Fitzwalter. I am making a Collection 
of Curiositys to bring with me. I beleive Captain Tomeon will gett his 
Loading here And I hope to putt my self an 100 barrels of Rice aboard 
of her their vill be about 400^ Barrells of Fitch and Tarr made hear 
also on board the same and about 20 or 30 Hogsheads of Skins, the Pitch 
and Tarr belongs to Mr. Lacy at Thunderbolt, Mr. Causton end Mr. 
Vanderplank and the Skins to Mr. Eveleigh I hope your Honour will be 
so good as to petition the Honourable Trustees for 300 Acres of Lpnd 
I should be glad of that which was Captain Scott's between the town end 
Thunderbolt I have wrote to sy Father, and Brother, to gett me as many 
Servants as they can against I come to England which If I can Emberke 
from Bristoll. I am very sorry for Mr. Gordon that he did not stay 
longer with us before he went away the people are all at present Very 
quiet and very Industrious I have and will go and see what Land Every 
man hpve Cleared and what Improvements is made on itt in Town and 
Country (360) and bring your Eonnour as particular account of itt as 
possible I can I beleive I shall s?il in May so I hope that your 
Eonour will be satisfied till I see you the people in generall seems 
to be greatly pleased att my going for xx England but not so well 
pleased at Mr. Gordon going so soon from them ?nd nott to let them know 
of itt I hope to be able to give s trew reeportt of Most transactions 
here from your Honnour's 

Humble Servant to Command 

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Copy of a Letter from i4r. Samuel Marcer to the Trustees dated, at 
Savannah 25th April 1?35. 

May it please Your Honours 

I have ms.de bold to write to You hoping that You will excuse me 
for I am very sorry that the first Letter that I send to Your Honours 
should be a Complaint, and this is at present to let You know the great 
many Grievances that we lay under. 

In the first place Esqr. Oglethorpe when he was here was so good 
as to grant to me a Licence for Selling of Liquors, and since I am 
informed has "been consented to by the whole Trust; for which I return 
the whole Trust a thousand Thp.nks for their Goodness and shall always 
acknowledge it as a great favour and shall always be very willing to 
obey any Commands that the Trust shall think proper. 

I might have begun Selling Liquors when the Esqr. left Georgia, 
but after he was gone Seeing so many People Retail Liquors that had no 
Right so to do made me forbear a long time and longer a great deal than 
I would have done, thinking thot those things might be suppressed; and 
I have often times spoke to the Magistrates of this place and particu 
larly to Mr. Causton thinking that they would suppress them, but I 
found all was in vain and to no manner of purpose, for instead of en 
couraging those Houses that had a Right to Sell Liquors, did always 
encourage those that had no Right; and their Reasons for so doing are 
these. 

In the first place the Trust have thought proper to Debar us from 
Selling of Rum or any (564) other Distill'd Liquors which I do assure 
Your Honours I never have sold any nor never will except I hsve the 

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Consent of the Trust. And because they can get Punch at those Houses 
that have no Licence they always encourage them, which I think is very 
hard.; for if ever p.ny Gentlemen come to see the Place, Mr. Causton 
instead of encouraging those whom the Trust had thought proper to grant 
Licences to for Selling of Liquors, always went with them to Mr. Penrose 
who hath no Right to sell any Liquors. And those Persons having ready 
money always, wch. cannot plweys be expected of those that live in 
Town, has "been a. very great hardship to us and we have suffered very 
much by it and shall do more except Your Honours will be so good as to 
think of some method to Suppress those things. 

I did not begin to sell any Liquor until Christmas last seeing so 
little Encouragement for it but then was willing to take a Trypl to see 
what I could do but can find no Encouragement for carrying on the 
Business at present therefore I hsve rather chose to forbear selling 
of Liquors by the Advice of some friends until such times as I might 
acquaint your Honours of the Proceedings that are now carried on in 
this Town, for I do believe there ere hardly Twenty houses in the Town 
but what sell Rum and other Liquors; and those Persons whose Business it 
is to see that Your Honours Commands ere obeyed, are the furthest from 
it; even so far that Mr. Christie our Recorder sells Rum as well as 
other Liquors by Retail even by Quarterns, and not only he but several 
others. There is one Mr. James Gould whom Mr. Causton employs to write 
in the Stores (565) that sells Rum and else other Liquors which Mr. 
Causton is very well acquainted with, es also one Mr. Houstoun and one 
Mr. Jenkins and several others, too many to speak of at present. But 
Mr. &ould Selling has been of very bad Consequence to those that had 

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Licence, for those People that were at Work for the Publick we must 
give Credit to until such times as they could, have their Money paid, and 
when they have come to receive their Money then had. they most part of 
it, if not all, to pay to Mr. Gould and other Persons for Rum; So that 
it is very herd for us to get our Money. And these Persons selling of 
Rum such as Mr. Christie end Mr. Gould have mane a great many more 
Sell, more a great Deal than I believe would have done; for the People 
ssy that if Mr. Christie who is the Recorder, and Mr. Gould who is in 
the ^ Stores, sell Rum; why may not they? And a great many People do 
believe that Your Honours never gave any such Orders that Rum should 
not be sold in this place, end their Reason for it is because those 
People do sell it. And I say that Rum is now sold as plenty as any 
other Liquor and as openly, and those People that sell it get all the 
ready money for so long as the People can get Rum they never will buy 
any other Liquor; and when they hove got no Money then they will come 
to the Publick Houses to get Credit, and we must give Credit or our 
Liquor must perish on our hands a.nd then we must suffer very much, for 
Beer and Wine will not keep in the Summer here there being so much 
Thunder and Lightning. I hope that your Honours will be so good as to 
take these tilings into Consideration and not to let me suffer for I have 
(566) been at great Charge in Building and making Room for Lodgings pnd 
getting a greet many other things on purpose to carry on the Business in 
a handsome and decent way and to entertain Travellers in a handsome 
manner; so that I hope Your Honours will not let me suffer but gr?=git 
that I may sell as other People do and not be under the Penalty of I< 50. 
Sterling, or that Your Honours will be pleased to think of some methods 

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to Suppress those that do sell Rum, and whatever way Your Honours shell 
think most proper I shall always be ready to obey Your Honours Commands. 
Mr. Penrose has continued to sell Rum and other Liquors ever since the 
Esqr. left this place wi