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Common Council Grant of 300 acres of land to Thomas Causton, Henry Parker, Thomas Christie, and John West to be cultivated for the religious uses of Georgia. March 31, 1736. C.O. 5/670, pp. 281-283.

This Indenture made the Thirty first Day of March in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty six Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the one part and Thomas Causton first Bailiff Henry Parker second Bailiff and Thomas Christie Recorder of the Town of Savannah in Georgia aforesaid and John West of the same place Blacksmith of the other part. Witnesseth That in pursuance and Execution of the Resolution of the Common Council of the said Trustees of the Twenty sixth day of February One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty five for Setting out and Cultivating Lands for the Religious Uses of the said Colony with such Moneys as had been or should be received for the said Uses They the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Have Given and Granted and by these Presents Do Give and Grant unto them the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie and John West and to the Survivors and Survivor of them Three Hundred Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America being part and parcel of the Lands which His Majesty graciously granted to the said Trustees by His Letters Patent bearing Date the Ninth Day of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two. The said Three Hundred Acres to be set out limited and bounded in such manner and in such part or parts of the said Province as shall be thought most convenient by James Oglethorpe Esqr. of Westbrook Place in the County of Surry one of the said Common Council (Reserved and always excepted out of the Grant in Case the said Three Hundred Acres shall be set out by the Side of any River Two Hundred Feet of Ground to be measured in breadth from the Banks of such River along by the Side thereof the same to be for towing Paths and for such other Purposes as shall by the said Common Council be directed and appointed for the better Carrying on the Navigation and Fishery of such River). To have and to hold the said Three Hundred Acres of Land to them the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie and John West and the Survivors or Survivor of them for and during the good Will and Pleasure of the said Common Council & until some other Grant or Grants shall be made of the said Three Hundred Acres of Land to some other Person or Persons by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees in the Room and Stead of them the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie & John West or any of them In Trust to and for the Uses Intents and Purposes herein after mentioned and expressed (that is to say). That they the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie and John West shall improve and Cultivate the said Three Hundred Acres of Land or cause the same to be improved and cultivated by all such ways and means as they or the Major part of them shall think best according to such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the Common Council of the said Trustees. And also that they the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie and John West shall take the best care they can of the several Produces of the said Land and shall every Six months send over to the Common Council of the said Trustees a time and exact Accompts of the Moneys they shall have laid out the Work that shall have been done and the Produces that shall have been raised on the said Lands and also shall and will from time to time apply the same to and for the Religious Uses of the said Colony in such manner as the said Common Council or the Major part of such of them as shall be for that purpose assembled shall think fit and proper. And the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christies and John West by these Presents for themselves severally and respectively and for their several and respective Heirs Executors and Administrators and not jointly or the one for the other of them nor for the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the other do Covenant Promise annd Agree to and with the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors That they and every of them shall and will from time to time according to the best of their Skill and Knowledge duly and faithfully Execute the Trust in them hereby reposed And also shall & will at all times Obey and Perform all such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Common Council or the Major part of them for that purpose assembled touching the Executing the Trust hereby in them reposed. In Witness whereof the said Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees and the said Thomas Causton Henry Parker Thomas Christie and John West have to another part thereof severally set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written.

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General Abstract of Trustee Accounts from June 9, 1735, to March 17, 1735/6. March 17, 1735. C.O. 5/670, pp. 274-280.

Memdm. Of the Balance remaining unapplied for establishing the Colony and for particular Persons stated as above the Sum of £171.5.7 appropriated towards building Churches in Georgia out of the £26000 granted in the last Session of Parliament is apart & reduces the same to £7,068.18.7 1/4 which Appropriation was Stated to Parlt. in the Accot. exhibited of the Disposition of the said 26,000 and thereby the Contributions towards building Churches in Georgia are so much increased. And of the said Balance £22.10.- to make up the Stated Balance of 15£ remaining unapplied for encouraging and improving Botany and Agriculture to the Sum of £37.10 has been paid upon the Assurance of the Duke of Richmond’s Payment of £30 Due from him being made which he has this day directed to be done, and further reduces the same until such Payment is made to the Sum of £7,046.8.7 1/4 and the Balance of £480.17.3 1/4 above Stated for building Churches, the Mission, a Catechest, and other Religious Uses is increased by the said Appropriation to the Sum of £652.2.10 1/4 which being added to the £7046.8.7 1/4 make together £7,698.11.5 1/2 which with the £37.10.- paid for the Botanist’s Salary to Michas 1755 to be Creditted when the Duke of Richmond’s 30£ is received makes the above Stated Balance of £7736.1.5 1/2.

And there is Advice come of 7 Bills of Exchange amounting to £1257.10.- to be paid out of the above Balance.

As to the Money depending to be Accompted for it is mostly returned in Super on Mr. Chardon and Mr. Causton until the Query’s on their Accots. are answered.

For the General Meeting of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to be held the 18th of March 1735.

After reading the General Abstract It is observed That of the Sum of £26,756.17.8 received since the 9th of June 1735, for establishing the Colony and for particular Persons £9.10.- is the Produce ariseing from Bonds taken from Foreign Protestants to the Value of £44.- part of 600£ advanced with His Majesty’s Benefaction for that purpose for the Passage to Georgia and Necessarys for them. Which Produce as to 9/10ths. parts thereof is to be applied towards establishing an English School and for such other Charitys as the Georgia Trustees shall direct, and the remaining 1/10th. part for the Benefit of the Hernhouters settled in Georgia.

That of the Sum of £ 383.12.9 received since the said 9th. of June for building Churches, the Mission, a Catechist, and other Religious Uses £230.13.- was Benefactions for the Mission Whereout the £106.18.10 1/2 applied has been wholly out of the said Benefactions for the Mission. Whereby the Balance unapplied of the said Benefactions is £125.14.1 1/2.

That the Moneys for building Churches paid in by Benefactors amot. to the Sum of £215.7.9 for a Catechist to 20£ but there is 10£ due for a year ending last month (being to be continued for 2 Years certain or the Benefactors Life if exceeding the 5 years) for to buy Bibles, Common Prayer Books, and the whole Duty of Man to £10.10.-. And for the other Religious Uses of the Colony to £111.5.4 3/4. All which added to the Balance unapplied for the Mission make together £480.17.3 1/4 Unapplied.

That the Appropriated Money to be Applied out of the 26,000£ towards building Churches in Georgia together with the abovementioned Sum paid in for that Use, and the further Sum of £265.10.- Subscribed to be paid in one month after demand & to be applied for the same Use, Amount in the whole to the Sum of £652.3.4 towards building a Church at Savannah and another at Frederica in Georgia.

That the Reason for so large a Sum returned in Super is because the Accompts returned from Mr. Chardon & Mr. Causton cannot be adjusted till the Querys thereon are answered. And the Charge on Mr. Chardon amounts to £5,177.10.0 1/4 and Mr. Causton’s Bills to £3,615.13.- part of the said Supers which together make £8,793.3.0 1/4.

Of which Money in the Bank 400 £is to Answer the like Value in Georgia Bills of Exchange delivered to Mr. Oglethorpe in England and taken over with him to be Issued in America; thereby to Introduce a Method of preventing the Drawing Bills on the Trust at Pleasure, and at a detrimental Exchange; the Currency in Exchange for Bills having lately very much varyed. And such Variation not being duly Accompted for to the Trust.

That of the Balance for establishing the Colony & for particular Persons the following Sums remain unapplied for particular Persons. vizt.

Before the Lands granted since the last General Meeting are Stated It is necessary to acquaint the present Meeting That Mr. John West one of the first Settlers in Georgia, having married the Widow of another of the said Settlers, and coming to England with Leave did before his Return to Georgia apply for and obtain a Grant of 500d. Acres of Land to his Wife and the Heirs Male of her Body by him; in Consideration of his Securing by Note the Sum of 10£ payable in two Years from 26th. September 1735. And She first Surrendering her Widow’s Estate for Life in the Land belonging to her former Husband, which Land so surrendered the Trust has agreed to Grant to such Person as the said John West and his Wife shall nominate on the Customary Tenure & such Persons not having Land in Georgia already.

Whereof Men 493, Boys above 16 Years old 28, Boys under 16 Years old 186, Females above 16, 248 & under 16, 119 making together the said 1074 Persons.

Besides the Wives & Children of those who went at their own Expence & the many Settlers from Carolina and other parts.

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Common Council Grant of 200 acres of land to Thomas Ormston. March 31, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 283.

Grant & Enfeofment (with Livery & Seisin indorsed) made the 31st. March 1736 to Thomas Ormston of Edinburgh Merchant of Two hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁵² Excepting in the Number of Acres being 200d. instead of 500d. Acres the Rent being 2 £ instead of 5 £ a Year and Condition to cultivate 80 Acres in 10 years instead of 200d.& Plant 800d. white Mulberry Trees thereon instead of 2000d on 200d. Acres & 100d. white Mulberry trees on every 10 Acres of the other 120ty. Acres instead of 1000d. on every 100 Acres of the other 300d. Acres.

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Trustee Memorial to the Commissioners of the Treasury for £10,000 granted by Parliament. June 2, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 284.

To the Right Honble. The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury.

May it please Your Lordships.

The Parliament having Granted His Majesty in the last Session the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds towards Settling and Securing the Colony of Georgia in America.

The Trustees for establishing the said Colony, Pray Your Lordships Directions for the Issuing the said Sum to them to be applied to the Purposes aforesaid.

Signed by Order of the Trustees this second of June 1736.

   Benj. Martyn Sectary

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Common Council Grant of 100 acres of land to Patrick Graham. May 19, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 284.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 19th. of May 1736 to Patrick Graham of Crieff in the County of Perth in Scotland Chyrurgeon & Apothecary of One hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture of George Brigham Ent. in Page (134)⁵³ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 100 acres of land to Isaac Young. June 2, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 284.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 2d. of June 1736 to Isaac Young of Eslech Martin in the County of Gloucester Miller & Malster of One hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the above As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 100 acres of land to William Aglionby. June 2, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 285.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 2d. of June 1736 to William Aglionby of Westminster Gentl. of One hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as that to Isaac Young As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Trustee Letter of Attorney to Harman Verelst to receive £10,000 from the Commissioners of the Treasury. June 23, 1736. C.O. 5/670, pp. 285-286.

Know all Men by these Presents That We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have made ordained and constituted and in Our Stead and Place put and diputed And by these Presents do make ordain constitute and in our Stead and Place put and depute Mr. Harman Verelst our Accomptant to be Attorney for Us and in our Name and for our Use to ask and receive of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain or whom else it shall & may concern, The Sum of Ten thousand pounds by virtue of Her Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual in his Majesty’s Name, to be applied towards settling and securing the said Colony of Georgia pursuant to the Clause for Appropriating the Publick Supplies for the year 1736 & Enabling His Majesty to Issue the said Sum out of the said Supplies or any of them, in an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for enabling His Majesty to borrow £600,000 to be charged upon the Sinking Fund redeemable by Parliament; and for the further Dispostion of the said Fund, by paying off one million of South Sea Annuities; and for appropriating the Supplies granted in the said Session of Parliament. And Acquittance or other sufficient Discharge for the same for Us and in our Name to make Seal and deliver, and do all other Acts and things whatsoever concerning the Premisses as fully in every respect as We the said Trustees might or could do. And We the said Trustees do hereby Ratify and Confirm whatsoever our said Attorney shall lawfully do in our Name by the force of these Presents. In Witness whereof We the said Trustees have hereunto Caused our Common Seal to be affixed this twenty third day of June in the tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty six.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benjm. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to David Blair. Aug. 4, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 286.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 4th. day of August 1736 to David Blair of Giffordland in the Shire of Air in Scotland Gentleman of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia, of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁵⁴ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to Thomas Boyd. Aug. 4, 1736. C.O. 670, p. 286.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 4th. day of August 1736 to Thomas Boyd of Piteon in the Shire of Air in Scotland Gentleman of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁵⁵ As by Counterpart thereof remaining with the said Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Appointment of Hugh Anderson as Inspector of the Public Gardens and Mulberry Plantations in Georgia. Aug. 4, 1736. 5/670, p. 287.

To all to whom these Presents shall come The Common Council of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America send Greeting. Know Ye That We Have nominated constituted and appointed and by these Presents Do nominate constitute and appoint Hugh Anderson of Bridg Castle in Scotland Gentleman to be Inspector of the Publick Gardens and of the Mulberry Plantations in the Province of Georgia aforesaid. To have and to hold the said Office of Inspector of the said Gardens & Plantations for and during our Pleasure. And We do hereby authorize and Direct the Recorder of the Town of Savannah in the said Province for the time being to Administer the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration mentioned in an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first (Intituled an Act for the further Security of His Majesty’s Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open & secret Abettors) And also the following Oath of Office to him the said Hugh Anderson That is to say That he will truly and faithfully Discharge the said Office of Inspector of the said Gardens and Mulberry Plantations And to enter the same upon Record. In Witness whereof the said Common Council have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the fourth day of August in the tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty six.

Signd by order of the said Common Council

Benj. Martyn Sectary.  

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Common Council Instructions to the Magistrates in Savannah on the Memorial of Messrs. Rowland Pytt and John Tuckwell in case of the death of John Brownfield. Sept. 10, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 288.

Palace Court Westminster. At a Meeting of the Common Council of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America in Common Council assembled on friday the 10th. of September 1736. On reading the Petition of Messieurs Rowland Pytt and John Tuckwell Setting forth That they had sent over large Cargoes of Goods consigned to Mr. John Brownfield their Agent and Factor at Savannah. And that they should continue so to do. And further Setting forth That as it is possible their said Agent and Factor may happen to dye possessed of large Effects belonging to them which may fall into unknown hands and be Imbezzled to their great Loss. And They therefore Praying That for the Prevention thereof The Magistrates of Savannah may receive Instructions from the Trustees to take Cognizance of the Petitioners said Effects, and the Books and Papers of the said John Brownfield in case of his Death; And that the said Magistrates may be directed upon such Accident of Death happening to Inspect the same to find out and Possess themselves of whatever Goods may then be in the hands of other Persons intrusted by the said John Brownfield for Sale thereof. And to examine what Debts may be then due to the said Petitioners and to cause Inventorys of such Goods and Lists of such Books Papers and Debts to be made at the Expence of the Petitioners and sent to them inclosed to the Trustees. And further Praying That the said Magistrates may be also directed upon such Accident of Death happening to appoint some proper Person to dispose of the said Goods and collect in the Debts for the use of the Petitioners and that such Person should regulate himself in the Disposal thereof according to Invoyce and the last Prices the said John Brownsfield sold for.

The said Common Council taking the same into Consideration have Ordered That the Magistrates of Savannah be Instructed; And they are hereby Instructed to comply with the several Prayers of the said Petition.

Signed by Order of the said Common Council.

Benjm. Martyn Secty.   

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Trustee Memorial to the Queen in answer to Don Tomas Geraldin’s⁵⁶ complanits against the inhabitants of Georgia. Oct. 20, 1736. C.O. 5/670, pp. 289-291.

Answer to Monsieur Geraldino’s Complaints against the Inhabitants of Georgia.

SEAL

To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty Guardian of Great Britain; and His Majesty’s Lieutenant within the same.

May it please your Majesty

In Obedience to Your Majesty’s Pleasure signifyed to us by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle the 27th. of last month We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have enquired into the Complaints against the Inhabitants of the Colony of Georgia contained in a Letter which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle received from Monsr. Geraldino Agent for the King of Spain.

And as to the first matter of Complaint mentioned in Monsr. Geraldino’s Letter relating to the Fortress (situated in the Territorys of the King of Spain eight Leagues distant from St. Augustine) said to be attacked by the Inhabitants of Georgia the 3d. of March last; & that after they had killed a Soldier belonging to the Spaniards who defended, it they cut his Head off and carried it away with them in triumph.

The Trustees on examining the Accounts transmitted to them, do not find that any either English or Indians inhabiting the Province of Georgia had been concerned in the Outrage complained of But that the same was committed by some Neighbouring Indians, in Revenge for a more unheard of and Outrageous Injury acted by some Spaniards or Spanish Indians who had killed some Indian Women and Children and two Men, and after most wickedly abusing another Indian Woman, had burnt her alive.

As to the next Complaint in Monsieur Geraldino’s Letter of rebuilding a Fort which he alledges had been formerly demolished by Order of the Court of England at the Request of the Court of Spain.

The Trustees Most Humbly Observe to your Majesty That the Spanish Minister has been very much misinformed; For that the said Fort having been left by the Independant Company without the Consent or Knowledge of His Majesty, was Ordered to be rebuilt by Instruction from His Majesty to the late Governor [Robert] Johnson.⁵⁷

As to the Advices in Monsieur Geraldino’s Letter mentioned to have been received from the Lieutenant of the Fort of St. Mark in the Province of Apalache, That the Indians of the Provinces of Uchisses and Talapuzes Subjects of the King of Spain had complained that the English were then employed in building a Fort on the Territory of His Majesty of Spain, which are inhabited by the Uchissise Indians and that they had even given out that they intended to build another on the Territorys of the Talapuze Indians to the North West of St. Augustine.

The Trustees Most Humbly represent to Your Majesty That they never gave any Directions for any Settlement to be made or Forts to be built but within the Limits of the Province of Georgia, as described by His Majestys Most Gracious Charter And That if the said Uchissese or Talapuze Indians inhabit within the same, they undoubtedly are within His Majesty’s Dominions and ought by no means to be Stiled Subjects of the King of Spain.

And as to the further Complaint That another Party of three hundred English had appeared on the Frontiers of the Province of Apalache, and that having Set up a Standard of War in a Town of Indians called Apalachicola, they had Summoned the chief Town of the abovesaid Province called Caveta to join them in order to make War against the Spaniards; acquainting them at the same time that they were resolved to demolish the Fort of St. Mark and afterwards to besiege St. Augustine.

The Trustees Most Humbly represent to Your Majesty That they have always had it at heart in the making their several Settlements to avoid all occasions of Contest with the Neighbouring Nations in Alliance with the Crown of Great Britain and do not believe that any of their People can have Acted so contrary to the designs and intentions of the Trustees and cannot but think that on a further Examination it will evidently appear That these Reports have been spread without any proper foundation; And that none of the People of Georgia have made any Incursions into the King of Spain’s Dominions or in any wise Molested his Subjects. The Trustees having in all their Actions confined themselves to the Limits which by His Majesty’s Charter are given to the Province of Georgia; to which they make no question but His Majesty has a Most Undoubted Right and Title, nor do they observe in the Treatys referred to by Monsieur Geraldino, anything contrary thereunto.

All which is Most Humbly Submitted by Your Majesty’s Most Dutifull and Obedient Subjects and Servants the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Signed by Order of the said Trustees this 20th. day of October 1736.

 Benjamin Martyn Secty.

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Contract of Robert Millar to be Trustee Botanist. Nov. 10, 1736. C.O. 5/670, pp. 291-293.

To all whom it may Concern Know Ye That I Robert Millar of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Surgeon do Covenant and Agree that in Consideration of the yearly Salary of Two hundred Pounds to be paid unto me or my Order in the manner following Vizt. Fifty Pounds at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel⁵⁸ Fifty Pounds at the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Christ⁵⁹ Fifty Pounds at the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary⁶⁰ of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist⁶¹ & Fifty Pounds at the Feast That I will serve the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America in the following manner Vizt. That I will at my own Charge and Expence forthwith Imbark on board a Ship bound for Jamaica and will from thence proceed to such parts of America as the Trustees shall think proper not only to send to Georgia those Plants remaining at Jamaica Carthagena and Campechy which I have already Collected but also to Collect such other Plants as shall be contained in my Instructions from the said Trustees and that I will use my utmost Diligence for collecting such other Plants and will carry or cause them to be carried to Georgia. And that I will constantly Correspond with and from time to time transmitt to the said Trustees all such Observations as I shall apprehend may be usefull to the said Colony And at such time as the Trustees shall think proper will go & reside in the said Colony of Georgia at my own Charge and Expence and use my utmost Endeavours there for the preserving and propagating of the said Plants and follow such Orders therein as I shall receive from the said Trustees all which I agree to do to the utmost of my Capacity and Power for the Space of two Years to be computed from Midsummer last. And Whereas the Right Honble. the Lord Petre has engaged to Pay unto me Fifty Pounds for the first year and Sixty Six Pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the second year towards defraying the Charge of my said Travels I declare that I do accept of the said Engagement as part of the said Two hundred Pounds a year Salary. And Whereas the following Persons are expected to Pay to the said Trustees the several Sums hereafter mentioned pursuant to an Agreement drawn up and in part Signed for that purpose in order to defray my said Charge Vizt. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Thirty Pounds for the first Year and Forty Pounds for the second Year, The Right Honble. Edward Earl of Derby Fifty Pounds for the first year only, Sir Hans Sloane Twenty Pounds for the first year and Twenty six Pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the second year, The Company of Apothecarys Twenty Pounds for the first year and Twenty Six Pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the second Year, Charles Du Bois Esqr. Ten Pounds for the first Year and Thirteen Pounds Six Shillings and eight Pence for the second year, George Heathcote Esqr. Five Pounds for the first year and Six Pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the second year, and James Oglethorpe Esqr. Five Pounds for the first year & Six Pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the second year. But if it should so happen that any Deficiency shall be of the beforementioned Contributions or that the said Trustees should not think fit to advance Ten Pounds for the first year and Thirteen Pounds six shillings and eight Pence for the second Year to make up the said Two hundred Pounds a year Then the said Term of two Years shall be shortened proportionably as the whole to be received from the said Trustees shall fall short of Two hundred eighty three Pounds six shillings and eight pence. In Witness whereof the said Robert Millar hath hereunto set his Hand and Seal the Tenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty six.

And. Millar       SEAL

Harman Verelst

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Common Council Instructions for Robert Millar, Botanist. Nov. 10, 1736. C.O. 5/670, pp. 293-294.

Sir

You are ordered by the Common Council of the Trusstees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to go with all convenient Speed to Jamaica and to send to Carthagena and Campechy for obtaining those Plants Seeds and Roots which you left in the care of several Persons at those Places to be Preserved and Propagated; and on the obtaining thereof or any part thereof if you can find any Vessel going to South Carolina you must send them from time to time as obtained, to the care of Mr. St. Julian at Charles Town to be forwarded to Georgia and send him Advice thereof That it is in pursuance of your Instructions and therein desire him to send to the Superintendant for the Trustees in Georgia an Accot. thereof for Directions for forwarding them there.

If You touch at Madera in your Passage from England, and have time; You are ordered to inform yourself of the manner of Cultivating the Vines and making the Wines there; And to carry with You to Jamaica Cuttings of their best Sorts of Vines and Seeds Roots or Cuttings of any other usefull Plants you shall meet with on that Island which are wanting in the British Colonies but particularly the Cinnamon Tree; and if you can find any Vessel going from thence to South Carolina You must also send some of each of the abovementioned things directly there Addressed to Mr. St. Julian at Charles Town with Advice to him thereof as before directed.

You are to Renew the Correspondence which You had established with the Spaniards in the Countries thro’ which You have passed in order to be furnished by them with Seeds and Plants of the most usefull Drugs at their proper Seasons. And when you have an Opportunity of a Vessell going to La Vera Cruz and of your getting up the Country in Safety to Mexico You are to use your utmost Diligence to procure the Jalap and Cochineal with the Animals upon it and all other usefull Plants or the Seeds and Roots thereof which You have not yet Collected and that You shall Judge may be of use to the Colony of Georgia.

When You return to Jamaica you are to take the first Opportunity of going to Georgia with all the Plants and other things Collected by You and to take Care of the Culture there of what you shall carry with You.

And You are particularly desired to inform your self of the Nature and Culture of the white Mulberry Tree which is most proper for the Nourishment of Silk Worms, as likewise of all Sorts of Logwood and other Wood and Barks of use in Dyeing in order to the Propagating of them in Georgia.

And You are from time to time by all Opportunitys to write to the Trustees of the Progress you make.

Signed by order of the said Common Council the Tenth day of November 1736.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.     

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Robert Millar’s Letter of Attorney to Andrew Millar. Nov. 25, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 295.

Letter of Attorney from Rober Millar of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Surgeon to Andrew Millar of the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex Bookseller (of the same Tenor with the Letter of Attorney from the late Wm. Houstoun Entd. Page 100)⁶² to which the said Robert Millar set his hand and seal the 25th. day of November 1736 in the presence of Benjamin Bayley and Harman Verelst.

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Trustee Representation to the King against South Carolina’s opposition to Georgia’s Indian Act. Jan. 19, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, pp. 295-296.

To the King’s most Excellent Majesty. The humble Petition and Representation of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

May it please Your Majesty

It is with great Concern That We find Our selves obliged to lay before Your Majesty a Representation of the Disregard shewn to Your Majesty’s Authority by the Lieutenant Governor Council and Assembly of South Carolina in openly opposing the Execution of an Act Approved by Your Majesty in Council on the third day of April 1735 intitled an Act for maintaining the Peace with the Indians in the Province of Georgia; Notwithstanding That Your Majesty was Pleased by a Letter Transmitted by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle the 11th. of October 1735 to Recommend to the Lieutenant Governor and Council of that Province their giving all Countenance and Assistance for the Execution of the said Act. But May it please Your Majesty instead of paying the Regard due to such a Recommendation or to an Act which had the Sanction of Your Royal Approbation in Council They proceeded so far in their Opposition as to Pass an Ordinance in an illegal manner for raising Two thousand Pounds Sterling to indemnify the Traders from Carolina in their Contempt of the said Act. And in Consequence of this illegal Ordinance several Traders came from Carolina into the Province of Georgia, and in particular Thomas Wright a Transported Convict was employed as a licensed Trader from Charles Town to animate the Indians inhabiting within the said Province against Your Majesty’s English Subjects by a great many villainous Reports and Suggestions, which occasioned the pulling down of an House within the Bounds of the Province of Georgia and the further endangering the Peace of the said Province.

And therefore, Your Majesty’s Dutiful Subjects the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Supplicate Your Majesty That taking the Premisses into Your Royal Consideration, You will be graciously pleased to give such Orders herein as May preserve Your Majesty’s Subjects in the Province of Georgia from the like Violences for their endeavouring to Execute the said Act for preserving the Peace with the Indians within the Province of Georgia.

Signed by Order of the said Trustees this 19th. of January 1736.

Benja. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Answer to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts about support of a missionary in Georgia. Jan. 19, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, p. 297.

Answer of the Trustees to a Minute of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts dated Novr. 19, 1736.

The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia have with concern received from the Incorporated Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign Parts a Message sign’d David Humphrys which seems to imply a Doubt of the Intention of the Trustees towards making a sufficient Provision for the Missionary to be established in their Colony. The Resolution taken by the Trustees and the Orders given thereupon for improving Land for the Religious Uses of the Colony (Which may be seen in the Publick Books of their office) will sufficiently shew that they do not confine themselves to the bare Maintenance of a single Missionary, but are using proper means to have a sufficient Fund for providing likewise for a Catechist, and a School Master. And that they do at this time in fact maintain two Missionaries and a Catechist at their own Charge in that Colony.

The Trustees having given this Evidence of their sincere Intention for supporting a Religious Establishment among their People had great Reason to hope for an Encouragement from a Society Incorporated for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts, or at least that the Society would not have made an Order for the suspending the Payment of any Salary to the Missionary at Georgia before they had desired to have been inform’d what Resolutions the Trustees for the Colony of Georgia had come to.

Sign’d by Order of the Trustees Janry. 19, 1736/7.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Petition to the House of Commons for additional funds for Georgia. Feb. 26, 1735/6. C.O. 5/670, pp. 298-299.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Humbly Sheweth

That Your Petitioners did in the last Session of Parliament humbly Represent to this Honourable House the several Steps they had taken to Settle Improve and Fortify the Province of Georgia; And did at the same time Observe to them the Importance of the Situation of the said Province which extending from the Sea to the Apalatian Mountains (from whence descend great and wide Rivers) did afford an Opportunity by making regular Settlements upon the Banks thereof with white People; to procure a Security not only to Carolina, but to the other English Settlements upon the Continent of America which so greatly Conduce to the Trade and Navigation of this Kingdom.

That by the Assistance given to Your Petitioners the last Session of Parliament, they were Enabled to Subsist great Numbers of distressed Foreign and other Protestants, whom they had before sent to Georgia, whose Lands were not sufficiently Cultivated to afford them a Maintenance. And also since that to make several Imbarkations of Men Women and Children, consisting of persecuted and other Protestants; for establishing regular Settlements upon the Banks of the Alatamaha and Ocony (which descend from the Apalatian Mountains) in order to Fortify the Frontiers of the said Colony of Georgia so necessary to defend the same and to Secure the Province of Carolina, and the other adjacent English Colonys.

That Your Petitioners cannot but with great Concern Observe to this Honourable House That by several unforeseen Accidents and by contrary Winds, the greatest part of the said Imbarkations were delayed until the Season of the Year was so far advanced that it will be impossible for those People to clear any Lands whereby to raise a Subsistence for the ensuing Year, and who must in the mean time inevitably Suffer Hardships, even greater than those they have fled from without the farther Support and Assistance of this Honourable House.

That Your Petitioners beg Leave to Represent to this Honourable House That they have used their utmost Care and Deligence in applying the Money granted them in the last Session of Parliament to the Purposes it was intended with the greatest Frugality and Oeconomy. But that they still find themselves under a Necessity to apply to this Honourable House to Enable them to Support the Persons they have already sent to Georgia, and effectually to Settle and Fortify the Frontiers of the said Colony. They having already applied and expended very near all the Moneys which have been granted them for those Purposes.

That Your Petitioners have the Satisfaction to Inform this Honourable House, That the said Colony is Capable of Producing many valuable Commoditys at present purchased from foreign Countrys with Ready Money & particularly those of Pot Ash, Wine, Oyl and Silk. Some of which Silk having been manufactured in England was found to be equal, if not to exceed, the Produces of France or Italy.

Your Petitioners therefore Pray this Honourable House to give them such Assistance in the Premisses, as They in their Great Wisdom shall think meet.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Petition to the House of Commons for additional funds for Georgia. March 2, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, pp. 300-301.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Humbly Sheweth

That Your Petitioners by the Assistances given them by this Honourable House, together with the Contributions of well disposed Persons, have been enabled to proceed so far in the settling and securing the Province of Georgia, That there are some thousands of Foreign and other Protestants now inhabiting within the said Province.

That Your Petitioners have at a great Expence Erected a Light House ninety feet high upon the Island of Tybee (an advantage hitherto unknown in those parts) to the great Encouragement of the English Navigation and the Trade and Commerce on that Coast.

That Your Petitioners have made Settlements upon the Southern Limits of the Province of Georgia on the Sea Coast of the Continent of North America, as far as the Spanish Out Guards have opened a Passage by Land for Horses and Cattle ninety miles in length from the River Alatamaha to the River Savannah, and thereby procured a Communication from the Southern part of Georgia to all His Majesty’s other Provinces upon the Continent of America. And for the Security of the Southern part of the said Province have Erected the Forts of Frederica, St. Andrew & Amelia.

That a Town is laid out upon the Island of St. Simon called Frederica, and another upon the Alatamaha River called Darien, in both which Towns several Houses are already Erected and Inhabited and many others are now Building; which Towns when finished and Peopled will by their Situation be a Benefit and Defence to the Southern Frontier. But Your Petitioners are utterly unable to defray the Expences thereof until further Assisted by this Honourable House.

That the Necessitys of the Persons who have been last Settled in the said Province and of some others who have not yet been able to Cultivate Lands sufficient for their Support; make it incumbent on Your Petitioners to represent to this Honourable House the melancholy Circumstances to which they will be reduced unless there be some further Provision for their Maintainance.

That the Cultivating a good Correspondence with the Indians, the Support of a Civil Magistracy the encouraging the Produce of Wine, Oyl, Silk and other valuable Commoditys, and other accidental Charges are necessary to be defrayed in the Infant State of the Colony.

Your Petitioners therefore Pray this Honourable House to give them such Assistance in the Premises As they in their great Wisdom shall think meet.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Account of funds granted by Parliament in 1735 which remained unspent March 2, 1735/6. March 8, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, pp. 301-302.

An Accompt shewing how the Money remaining unapplied the 2d. of March 1735 of the Money granted in Parliament in the year 1735 to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America has been since applied by them towards settling and securing the said Colony.

Applied in America

Applied in England

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Account of how funds granted by Parliament in 1736 were spent for Georgia. March 8, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, pp. 302-303.

An Accompt shewing how the Money granted in the last Session of Parliament to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America has been applied by them towards settling and securing the said Colony.

Applied in America

Applied in England

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Accounts of the Trustees from June 9, 1736 to March 15, 1736/7. March 18, 1736/7. C.O. 5/670, pp. 304-309.

THE GENERAL ABSTRACT of the Accompt of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America from the 9th. day of June 1736 to the 15th. day of March following. To be laid before them at their Anniversary Meeting on Thursday the 17th. of March 1736 being the third Thursday in the said month.

Memdm. besides the £171.5.7 of the above Balance for establishing the Colony appropriated towards bldg. a Church the Sum of £41.13.4 was applied to make up the half yr’s Salary advanced to the Bot’st on last Contract with him till Subsc’rs had paid in their Money, & thereby the said Balance for the Colony to be applied amts. to £376.2.6 1/4. In the Accots. del’d by Mr. Ogleth. there are 4 Bills of Exchange Entd. as drawn by him on the days and for the Sum following which have never been presented for Acceptance & Payment. vizt. 4 March 1735 to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. for £200. 27 April 1736 to the same Persons for £200 8 June 1736 to Mr. Thomas Causton for £25 and the 20th of Septr. 1736 to Captn. Mackpherson for £100 making together £525.-.-

The several Purposes for which Monies have been received, and applied and expended

The several Purposes for which Monies have been received, and applied and expended

[Note: The center portion of this table is repeated as the table is too large to go on two facing pages.]

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For the Anniversary Meeting of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to be held the 17th. of March 1736.

After reading the General Abstract It is observed That the Sum of £124.2.2 3/4 charged received in America is the Sterling Money at 7 for 1 on £868.15.7 1/2 South Carolina Currency for the Duty of 3d. a Gallon on 69502 1/2 Gallons of Rum imported into that Province from the 1st. of March 1735 to the 1st. of June 1736 Granted by the General Assembly of South Carolina the 9th. of June 1733 for the use of the Colony of Georgia.

That the Trustees have received from Georgia by the Ship Two Brothers which arrived in January last 266 Barrels of Rice and 7 Cases of Deer Skins. The Rice producing 257 barrels sold to John Duffield weighing net 1127:0:20 at 15s p Cwt. £ 845.7.8. 4 barrels sold to John Woodbridge weighing net 16 cwt. 1.3 at 16s p cwt. £13.-.-, making together £858.7.8 and the remaining 5 barrels were empty’d by the Dirt in Garbling and by Damage. Of which £858.7.8 £333.14.0 had been received and is Charged as part of the £10,701.6.7 received in England since the 9th of June 1736 and the residue will be payable on Saturday the 19th. of this Instant March. The Skins on the Entry weigh’d 3,128 pounds but are yet unsold only 2/9 a pound having been bid, and it is expected from the goodness of them they will fetch 2/10 a pound before Lady Day next, but at 2/9 a pound if they continue the same weight will produce £430. 0 and will make the Gross Produce by the said Ship £1,288.9.8.

That to the Sum of £321.19.9 received towards the building of Churches in Georgia £171.7 appropriated by the Trustee for that use and £285.10.0 Subscribed for the same use to be paid at one months Notice are to be added; And make together £778.15.4 for building of Churches in Georgia.

That the Settlements are so extended from the Northern to the Southern part of the Province a Minister for each Division is become necessary; besides an Itinerant Minister for the several Villages in the Northern Division.

That notwithstanding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts did on the 16th. of January 1735 approve of Mr. John Wesley to be a Missionary at Georgia in the Room of Mr. Samuel Quincy and agreed That £ 50 a year should be by them allowed him from the time Mr. Quincy’s Salary should cease. Yet the said Society on the 19th. of November last Ordered the Payment thereof to be Stopped. Wherefore until a Provision for the Maintenance of Ministers and Catechists can be raised form the Lands set apart to be cultivated for that use there is no present annual Provision for such Maintenance Which is Humbly offered for Consideration if it may not be proper to open a Subscription for annual Contributions until the other Maintenance can be raised.

As to the Instructing the Native Indians and Converting them to Christianity That wholly Employs the time of one Missionary and a Schoolmaster besides the occasional Assistance of the other Ministers and Benefactions often come in for that very use, which at present amount to £382.17.1 1/2 remaining unapplied.

As to the Sum of £11687.8.11 3/4 Depending on several Persons in America to Accompt for. It is necessary to explain the Reasons of so large a Sum being still returned not Accoted. for which chiefly are two the one is That though Mr. Causton’s Cash Accompts are received up to the end of July last yet most of the Payments therein taken Credit for do not express the Services for which such Payments were made and some mention for several Services without the Particular Accompts referred to that would distinguish the same. Which Defect is soon expected to be Supplied from Georgia proper hands being employed to make out such Particulars, and which when received will be regularly entered in the Payment Book for America and Posted to their different heads of Service in Discharge thereof. The other Reason is for want of Mr. Causton’s Accompt from the end of July last and the Accompt of the Storekeeper at Frederica; Mr. Causton’s are soon expected and Mr. Moore’s will be delivered here as soon as settled.

The Sola Bills issued in Georgia amount to £ 4,000 whereof there has been paid to the 13th. Instant £2,323. There is also directed for Payment to the 15th. Instant and not yet due £ 152.-.- and then standing out £ 1,525.-.- which makes the £1677.-.- appropriated Money for the said bills whereof in the Bank £ 1000 directed on Messrs. De Smith and Heathcote £152.-.- Balance in their Hands for Sola Bills to be directed on them £525.

The Balance in the Bank the 15th. instant £ 2672.16.9 whereout deduct the £1,000 appropriated for Sola Bills the remainder is £1672.16.9.

The Balance to be applied by the General Abstract is £1991.14.8 1/2 whereout £41.13.4 must be deducted advanced to the Botanist more than was payable by the Trustees until the Subscribers repay it and which is not taken Credit for in the said Abstract, and thereby the said Balance to be applied will be the Sum of £1950.1.4 1/2 whereof in the Bank as above £1672.16.9 in the hands of Messrs. De Smith and Heathcote £244.15.2 and in the Accomptants Hands £32.9.5 1/2.

Which Balance of £1950.1.4 1/2 is to be applied as follows For establishing the Colony £376.2.6 1/4. Particular Persons £261.1.0. Building of Churches £493.5.4. Missionarys £382.17.1 1/2. Missionarys to the Saltzburghers £ 50. And the General Religious Uses £386.16.4 3/4.

The Lands granted since the last Anniversary Meeting are; vizt.

Besides the Wives and Children of those who went at their own Expense the 40 Servants bought for the Publick in Georgia and the many Settlers from Carolina and other parts which together with the abovementioned 213 Persons at their own Expence and the 10 Moravians are computed to amount to in the whole 1,810 Persons besides the 1050 sent on the Charity making together 2,860 Persons computed to be now in Georgia whereof Men 1,097.

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Common Council Grant of 150 acres of land to Thomas Upton. May 11, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 309.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 11th. day of May 1737 to Thomas Upton of London Gentleman of One hundred and fifty Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to George Brigham Entered in Page (134)⁶³ Excepting in the number of Acres being 150 instead of 100d. Acres the Rent £1.10.0 instead of 1 And Condition to Cultivate 60 acres in 10 years instead of 40 and Plant 600d. white Mulberry Trees thereon instead of 400d. on 40 Acres and 100d. White Mulberry Trees on every 10 Acres of the other 90 Acres instead of the other 60 Acres and to carry three Servants instead of two. As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Trustees Instructions to the Bailiffs and Recorder of Savannah about Joseph Watson’s mental state. June 6, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 310.

To the Bayliffs and Recorder of the Town of Savannah in the Province of Georgia in America. You are to make a particular Enquiry into the State of Joseph Watson’s Mind and if he shall appear to be of Sound mind and Understanding It is the Duty of the Court before which he was tried to proceed to give Judgement against him pursuant to the Verdict.

Signed by order of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the sixth Day of June 1737.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Memorandum to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for issuing the£ 20,000 granted by Parliament. June 22, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 310.

To the Right Honourable The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury.

May it please Your Lordships

The Parliament having granted His Majesty in the last Session the Sum of Twenty thousand Pounds towards Settling and Securing the Colony of Georgia in America.

The Trustees for establishing the said Colony Pray Your Lordships Directions for the Issuing the said Sum to them to be applied to the Purposes aforesaid.

Signed by order of the Trustees this Twenty second of June 1737.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Letter of Attorney to Harman Verelst to receive the £20,000 voted by Parliament. July 6, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 311.

Know all Men by these Presents That We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Have made ordained and constituted and in Our Stead and Place put and deputed And by these Presents Do make ordain constitute and in our Stead and Place put and depute Mr. Harman Verelst our Accomptant to be Attorney for us and in our Name and for Our Use to ask and receive of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, or whom else it shall and may concern, The Sum of Twenty thousand Pounds by Virtue of His Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual to be applied towards Settling and Securing the said Colony of Georgia, pursuant to the Clause for Appropriating the Publick Supplies for the Year 1737 and Enabling His Majesty to Issue the said Sum out of the said Supplies or any of them in an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for repealing the present Duty on Sweets, and for granting a less Duty thereupon; and for explaining and enforcing the Execution of an Act passed in the ninth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign Intituled An Act for laying a Duty upon the Retailers of Spirituous Liquors and for Licensing the Retail thereof, And for Appropriating the Supplies granted in the said Session of Parliament and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills, Lottery Tickets and Orders lost, burnt or otherwise destroyed. And Acquittance or other sufficient Discharge for the same for Us and in Our Name to make seal and deliver, and to do all other Acts and things whatsoever concerning the Premisses as fully in every respect as We the said Trustees might or could do; and We the said Trustees do hereby Ratify and Confirm whatsoever our said Attorney shall lawfully do in our Name by the force of these Presents. In Witness whereof We the said Trustees have hereunto Caused Our Common Seal to be affixed this Sixth day of July in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty seven.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to William Stephens and his son Thomas with a preamble and agreement with William Stephens to act as Secretary for the Trust in Georgia. April 27, 1737. C.O. 5/670, pp. 312-322.

This Indenture of three parts made the Twenty seventh day of April in the Tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and thirty seven. Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the first part William Stephens of the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton Esqr. of the second part and Thomas Stephens third Son of the said William Stephens of the third part. Whereas the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens do purpose with all convenient Speed to go to the Province of Georgia in America and there to Settle and inhabit and to clear and improve such Lands as the Common Council of the said Trustees shall grant to them for the respective Estates and upon the several Conditions herein after mentioned. And Whereas the Common Council of the said Trustees did on the Eighteenth instant April Appoint the said William Stephens Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the Province of Georgia and did Agree to grant to him five hundred Acres of Land in the said Province To hold unto him for the Term of his Natural Life and after his Decease to his said third Son Thomas Stephens and the Heirs Male of his Body with Remainder to his fourth Son Edward Stephens and the Heirs Male of his Body and with Remainder to his fifth & youngest Son Newdigate Stephens and the Heirs Male of his Body. To defray the Charges of Passage of the said William Stephens and three more belonging to him including his said third Son and a Woman Servant And to defray the Charges of Procuring Cloathing Bedding and Passage of ten Men Servants to be engaged by the said William Stephens to cultivate the said Five hundred Acres of Land. To Supply the said William Stephens with the following Working Tools for the use of his Men Servants Vizt. Ten Falling Axes Ten Field Hatchets Ten shod Shovels Ten broad Hoes Ten narrow Hoes Ten Gimblets Ten Drawing Knives Two Whip Saws and one Cross Cutt Saw with Lockers Tillers and Files for them a Grindstone with Spindles & Handles Six Hammers and two thousand Nails sorted. And to Supply the said William Stephens and two others including his said third Son with the following Provisions in Georgia for the first Year vizt. Six pounds of Beef a week each Two pounds of Rice Two pounds of Pease and two Quarts of Flour a week each a Pint of strong Beer a day each a Quart of Molasses a week each Four pounds of Cheese Two pounds of Butter Two Ounces of Spice Two pounds of Sugar a Gallon of Vinegar Six pounds of Salt three Quarts of Lamp Oyl and three pounds of Soap a quarter each and a pound of Spun Cotton each and his Woman Servant and each of his Ten Men Servants Two hundred pounds of Meat and three hundred and forty two pounds of Rice Pease or Indian Corn together with Contingent Food for the said Eleven Servants to the value of eight shillings Sterling each. To pay to the said William Stephens the Sum of Fifty pounds for his Cloathing Linnen Kitchen Furniture and other Family Necessarys before his Departure from England and the further Sum of Fifty pounds in the first Year after his Arrival in Georgia to defray diverse extraordinary Charges in Georgia at such times and in such manner as the said Wm. Stephens shall find occasion for it. And in Case any particular Expences should arise and Water or Land Carriage should be necessary in pursuing Such Instructions the said William Stephens shall receive from the Common Council of the said Trustees such particular Expences should be defrayed. In Consideration of the said William Stephens and his said third Son Thomas Stephens (in case of his Father’s Death) Agreeing to Execute the Office of Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the Province of Georgia for the Term of six Years and from and after the end of the said six Years for and during so long time as either of them the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens shall continue in the Colony of Georgia not exceeding sixteen Years in the whole without any further Charge or Expence to the Trust whatsoever (except as Provided aforesaid). Now this Indenture Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the Rents Services and Conditions herein after expressed by the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby to be made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the herein after mentioned Lands to be paid done performed and executed And also in Consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings by the said William Stephens well and truly paid for the Use of the said Trustees the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged And also in pursuance of the above recited Agreement They the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Have Granted and Enfeoffed And by these Presents Do Grant and Enfeoff unto him the said Wm. Stephens Five hundred Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America being part and parcel of the Lands which His Majesty graciously granted to the said Trustees by His Letters Patent bearing Date the Ninth Day of June 1732. The said Five Hundred Acres to be set out limited and bounded in such manner and in such part or parts of the said Province as shall be thought most convenient by such Person or Persons as shall by the said Common Council be for that purpose authorized and appointed (Reserved and always excepted out of this Grant in Case the said Five hundred Acres shall be set out by the Side of any River Two hundred feet of Ground to be measured out in breadth from the Banks of such River along by the Side thereof the same to be for towing Paths and for such other Purposes as shall by the said Common Council be directed and appointed for the better carrying on the Navigation and Fishery of such River). To have and to hold the said Five hundred Acres of Land to him the said William Stephens for and during the Term of his Natural Life and from and after his Decease to be and enure to the Use and Behoof of the said Thomas Stephens third Son of the said William Stephens and to the Heirs Male of the Body of him the said Thomas Stephens lawfully to be begotten Yielding & Paying for such Five hundred Acres of Land to the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors yearly and every Year for ever a Rent or Sum of Five Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain the same to be paid to such Person or Persons and at such Place in the said Province of Georgia as by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees shall be directed and appointed. The first Payment thereof to be made on the first Day of the Eleventh Year to be computed from the Ninth Day of June One Thousand Seven hundred and thirty-two. Provided always And these Presents are upon these Conditions That if it shall happen that the said yearly Rent of Five Pounds hereby reserved or any part or parcel thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the Space of Six Calendar months next after any Day of Payment on which the same ought to be paid as aforesaid Or if the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens shall not within the Space of One Calendar month to be computed from the Day of the Date of these Presents register or cause to be registered with the Auditor of His Majesty’s Plantations this present Indenture of Grant and Enfeoffment or a Memorial containing the Substance & Effect thereof Or if the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens shall not within the Space of Twelve Calendar months to be computed form the Day of the Date of these Presents go to and arrive in the said Province of Georgia together with Ten able bodied young Men Servants being each of them of the Age of Twenty Years and upwards Or if the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens or one of them or the Heirs Male of the said Thomas Stephens with such able bodied young Men Servants as aforesaid shall not abide settle inhabit and continue in the said Province of Georgia for and during the Term of Three Years to be computed from the Day of the Registering these Presents in the Common Register of the said Province of Georgia Or if the said William Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Five hundred Acres of Land shall not within the Space of Ten Years to be computed from the Day of the Date of these Presents clear and cultivate Two Hundred Acres of Wood Ground being part and parcel of the said Five hundred Acres hereby granted as aforesaid and set and plant Two Thousand Trees or Plants of the white Mulberry Tree in and upon the said Two hundred Acres and in and upon every hundred of the said other Three hundred Acres One Thousand of the said white Mulberry Trees or Plants when as the same shall be cleared and cultivated respectively as aforesaid and from time to time sufficiently fence maintain and preserve the same from the Bite and Spoil of Cattle and in the Room and Stead of such of the said Trees or Plants as shall happen to dye or otherwise be destroyed set and place other Trees or Plants of the same Sort in and upon the said Two Hundred Acres and also in & upon the said Three hundred Acres respectively with all possible and convenient Care and Speed so that there may always be growing upon the said Two hundred Acres Two Thousand of the said white Mulberry Trees or Plants and also upon every Hundred of the said Three Hundred Acres One Thousand of the said white Mulberry Trees or Plants at the least Or if the said William Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Five hundred Acres of Land shall at any time Alien Assign or Transfer the said Five hundred Acres or any part or parcel thereof for any Term of Years or any Estate or Interest in the same to any Person or Persons whatsoever without the special Leave and Licence of the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees or of such Officer or Officers as by the said Common Council shall from time to time be authorized and impowered to grant such Licence or if the said Wm. Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made form time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Five hundred Acres of Land shall at any time without the Leave and Licence of the said Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees first had and obtained enter into any Company or Partnership whatsoever for the making or manufacturing the Ashes commonly called or known by the Name of Pot Ash Or if the said Thomas Stephens shall dye without Issue Male Or if the Heirs Male of the said Thomas Stephens shall at any time dye without Issue Male so that the Estate in Tail Male hereby granted to him the said Thomas Stephens shall cease and determine Or if the said Wm. Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Five hundred Acres of Land shall do or commit any Treason Misprision of Treason Insurrection Rebellion Counterfeiting Clipping Washing Coining or other Falsifying of the Money of Great Britain or of any other Realm or Dominion whatsoever Or shall do or commit any Sodomy Murther Felony Homicide Killing Burglary Rape of Women unlawful Conspiracy or Confederacy and shall thereof be lawfully Convicted Or if the said William Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and if the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and entitled to the said Five hundred Acres of Land shall at any time keep lodge board or employ within the Limits of the said Province of Georgia any Person or Persons being a Black or Blacks Negroe or Negores on any Account whatsoever without the special Leave and Licence of the said Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees or of such Officer or Officers as by the said Common Council shall from time to time be authorized & impowered to grant such Licences That then and from thenceforth in any or either of the aforesaid Cases it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors into and upon the said Five hundred Acres of Land hereby granted to the said William Stephens and upon any part thereof in the Name of the whole wholly to reenter and the same to have again retain repossess and enjoy as in their first and former Estate as if this present Grant had never been had or made and all and every such Person or Persons so neglecting or misbehaving him or themselves in any or either of the Cases aforesaid and all other Occupiers and Possessors of the said Five hundred Acres or of any part or parcel thereof thereout and thenceforth utterly to expell put out and amove and also upon the Entry in any of the Cases before mentioned of such Officer or Officers as shall by the said Common Council for the time being be for that purpose authorized and appointed the Grant hereby made of the said Five hundred Acres of Land as aforesaid shall cease determine and become void Any Thing herein contained to the Contrary thereof notwithstanding. And the said Trustees do further declare that they do not design or intend hereby to hinder or prevent him the said William Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Two Hundred Acres of Land (not entering into a Company or Partnership with any Person or Persons whatsoever for that Purpose as aforesaid) from making or manufacturing as best he or they severally may the said Ashes commonly called Pot Ash. And these Presents further Witness And it is the true Intent and meaning thereof That if it shall so happen that any part of the said Five hundred Acres of Land hereby granted to him the said William Stephens as aforesaid shall not be cultivated planted cleared and improved within Eighteen Years the same to be computed from the Day of the Date hereof That then and in such Case all and every part of such Five hundred Acres of Land which shall not have been cultivated planted cleared and improved as aforesaid shall be and belong to the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors and the Grant hereby made of such Lands as to such part and parts thereof shall cease determine add become void. And it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors into and upon such part & parts not having been cultivated planted cleared and improved as aforesaid to reenter and the same to have again retain repossess and enjoy as in their first and former Estate as if this present Grant had never been had or made and all and every such Person or Persons Occupiers and Possessors of such part and parts thereout and thenceforth utterly to expell put out and amove and also to grant and dispose of the same in such manner and for such Uses Intents and Purposes as the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees shall think fit and proper. And the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America do hereby for themselves and their Successors covenant promise and agree to and with the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens severally and to and with their several Heirs Executors and Administrators in manner following (that is to say). That at such time or times as the said Common Council of the said Trustees shall be thereunto requested by the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens or one of them or the Heirs Male of the said Thomas Stephens occupying and possessing the said Five hundred Acres as aforesaid by any Writing under their Hands and Seals they the said Common Council will give and grant to such able bodied young Men Servants as shall arrive and settle with them in the said Province of Georgia as aforesaid Twenty Acres of Land in the said Province of Georgia to each and every of them severally in Tail Male under such Rents Conditions Limitations and Agreements as shall by the said Common Council of the said Trustees have been then last granted to any other Men Servants in like Circumstances. And that Possession and Seisin of the said Five hundred Acres shall be taken and delivered by such Person or Persons as shall by the said Common Council be for that purpose authorized and appointed to be their true and lawful Attorney or Attorneys in their Name and Stead into and upon the said Five hundred Acres of Land or into and upon any part or parcel thereof being so set out limited and bounded as aforesaid in the Name of the whole to enter and take Possession and Seisin thereof and after such Possession and Seisin is Holden as aforesaid in their Name and Stead to deliver full and quiet Possession and Seisin thereof or of any part or parcel thereof in the Name of the whole to the said William Stephens and him the said William Stephens to leave in quiet and peaceable Possession thereof according to the true Intent and Meaning of these Presents. And the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens for themselves severally and for their several Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and for every of them do hereby respectively covenant promise and agree to and with the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors in manner following (that is to say). That they the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens shall & will within the Space of one month to be computed from the Day of the Date of these Presents register or cause to be registered with the Auditor of His Majesty’s Plantations this present Indenture of Grant and Enfeoffment or a Memorial containing the Substance and Effect thereof and shall and will within the Space of Twelve months to be computed from the Day of the Date of these Presents go to the said Province of Georgia together with Ten able bodied young Men Servants being each of the Age of Twenty Years at the least and that they the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens or one of them will together with such Men Servants as aforesaid abide settle and inhabit and continue in the said Province of Georgia for and during the Term of Three Years to be computed from the Day of the Registering these Presents in the Common Register of the said Province of Georgia. And that he the said William Stephens or such other Person as shall by Virtue of these Presents and of the Grant hereby made from time to time become possessed of and intitled to the said Five Hundred Acres of Land his or their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns or some of them shall and will yearly and every Year well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors the said Rent or yearly Sum of Five Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain in such manner as the same is herein before reserved and made payable. And further that he the said William Stephens shall and will well and truly Execute the Office of Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the Province of Georgia for the Term of Six Years from his Arrival in the said Province if he shall as long live And in Case of his Decease before the End of the said Six Years That he the said Thomas Stephens shall and will well and truly Execute the said Office agreable to such Instructions as the said William Stephens shall have received from the Trustees for and during the rest and Residue of the said Term of Six Years And that from and after the xpiration of the said Term they or one of them shall and will continue well and truly to Execute the said Office for and during so long time as either of them shall be in the Colony of Georgia not exceeding sixteen Years in the whole And shall and will at all times Obey all such Orders and Instructions as the said Trustees shall from time to time send over for the regular and fully Executing the said Office. And the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Do for themselves and their Successors covenant promise and agree to and with the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens severally and to and with their several Heirs Executors and Administrators in manner following (that is to say). That in Case the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens shall well and truly Pay Perform Do and Execute from time to time all and every the Rent Covenants Articles Agreements Matters and Things before in these Presents mentioned and contained which on their parts are or ought to be paid performed done and executed as aforesaid. And in Case the Estate in Tail Male hereby granted to the said Thomas Stephens shall cease and determine for want of Issue Male of his Body or the Heirs Male of his Body That then and in such Case the said Trustees shall and will Grant Convey and Assure the said Five hundred Acres of Land and all other the Premises to Edward Stephens the fourth Son of the said William Stephens and to the Heirs Male of his Body under such Rents Conditions Provisoes Limitations and Agreements as are herein before mentioned to be reserved limited agreed and declared of concerning the said Five hundred Acres herein before granted to the said Thomas Stephens in Tail Male with a Covenant That in Case the Estate in Tail Male to the said Edward Stephens shall cease determine for want of Issue Male of his Body or the Heirs Male of his Body That then and in such Case as the said Trustees shall and will Grant Convey and Assure the said Five hundred Acres of Land and all other the Premisses to Newdigate Stephens the fifth and youngest Son of the said William Stephens and to the Heirs Male of his Body under such Rents Conditions Provisoes Limitations & Agreements as are to be reserved limited agreed and declared of & concerning the said Five hundred Acres to be granted as aforesaid to the said Edward Stephens in Tail Male. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the Corporation of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the said Corporation and the said William Stephens and Thomas Stephens have to another part thereof set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written.

Indorsed on the back

Memorandum

That on the Day of in the Year of the the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And in the Year of our Lord 173 quiet and peaceable Possession and Seisin of the said Five hundred Acres of Land within granted was had and taken by in Pursuance of an Authority for that purpose for and in the Name of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and also for and in the Name of the said Trustees delivered by the said in pursuance of the said Authority unto the within named William Stephens To hold to him the said William Stephens for the Term of his Natural Life and the Reversion thereof after his Decease to be held as within mentioned upon the Conditions and according to the force and true meaning of this Deed within written in the Presence of

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Common Council Appointment of William Stephens as Secretary of the Affairs of the Trust within Georgia. April 18, 1737. C.O. 5/670, pp. 322-323.

The Common Council of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America To all to whom these Presents shall come send Greeting. Know Ye That We the said Common Council reposing especial Trust & Confidence in the Ability Care and Circumspection of William Stephens of the Isle of Wright in the County of Southampton Esqr. Have nominated constituted and appointed And by these Presents Do nominate constitute and appoint him the said William Stephens to be Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the Province of Georgia aforesaid. To have hold perform and execute the said Office of Secretary for during and until some other Person by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees in the Room and Stead of the said William Stephens shall be nominated and appointed to the said Office. He the said William Stephens conforming himself in all things according to the Instructions which he shall from time to time receive from the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees under the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees. And We do hereby direct and require all and every the Magistrates and other Peace Officers and all other the Inhabitants of the said Province to observe & pay due Regard to all and every the Instructions that shall be from time to time produced by the said William Stephens for the due Execution of his said Office and to aid & assist him therein to the utmost of their Skill & Knowledge and in all things well and truly to behave themselves to him as they shall be answerable for the contrary. In Witness whereof the said Common Council have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the eighteenth Day of April in the Tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty seven.

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Common Council Instructions to William Stephens as Secretary of the Affairs of the Trust within Georgia. July 20, 1737⁶⁴. C.O. 5/670, pp. 323-325.

Instructions for Mr. William Stephens from the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, who was appointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the said Province on Monday the eighteenth Day of April 1737.

As to Military Concerns

1st. You are to send an Account to the Trustees of all Fencible

Men⁶⁵ in the Province from the Age of Twenty to Fifty Five according to every Town and Village.

2d. You are to send an Account of the Number of Forts, Description of them, the Garrisions in them, what Number they are capable of maintaining, the Number of Cannon in each, and what is wanting, the Bore of the Cannon in each Fort, and how mounted, what is wanting to compleat them; the Store of Powder for Cannon & Musket, and if any be damaged, the Quantity of Ball, and if Suited to the Cannon and Musket, the Number of Swords and Bayonets, and what Condition every thing of that Sort is in for Service.

3d. You are to send an Account of the Condition of the Storehouses built within the Forts, and what Supply of fresh Water there is.

As to Civil Concerns

1st. You are to send to the Trustees an Account of the Behaviour of the Inhabitants towards their Magistrates, of their Industry Sobriety and Obedience to the Laws.

2d. You are to send the People’s Reasons, good or bad, for not having Cultivated their Lands according to the Condition of their Grants.

3d. You are to send a just Report of the Surveyor’s Negligence f; who among the People there are capable of taking that Business upon them.

4th. You are to send the Number of Souls, English Scotch & Foreigners according to their Towns and Villages, and according to Families or Single Persons.

5th. You are to send the Number of Gentlemen Freeholders & Servants.

6th. You are to send an Account how Cultivation and Inclosure goes on, who have been remarkably industrious, and who have been otherwise.

7th. You are to send an Account of what Progress is made in the Silk, planting out Mulberry Trees and preserving them, and the Condition of Amatis’s Machines.

8th. You are to send an Account of the Publick Gardens, how the Plantation of Vines goes on, and what Prospect there is of making Wine.

9th. You are to send an Account whether Coffee is cultivated and what other usefull Berries, Medicinal Drugs, Roots or Bark for Dying.

10th. You are to send an Account whether the Timber cut down be turn’d to the best Use for building or Traffick and with Prudence to preserve enough for Fireing for some Years to come.

11th. You are to send an Account whether the Timber on the Trust Lands in Town and Country be preserved.

As to Religious Concerns

1st. You are to inform the Trustees whether the People frequent Divine Service according to their several Persuasions; by wch. means they will know whether any concealed Papists are among them; and to inform the Trustees what Example the Magistrates give the People.

2d. You are to acquaint the Trustees how the Cultivating the Lands set apart for Religious Uses goes on.

3d. You are to recommend to the Magistrates a strict Care to Punish Vice and Immorality, and in the Courts of Justice to pay Reverence when Oaths are administered by rising up and enjoyning Silence as in Scotland. And that they encourage our Ministers in their Duty all they can.

4th. You are to recommend to the Magistrates that they encourage the Children at School, and sometimes inspect their Learning, and exhort their Parents to send them.

5th. You are to recommend to the Magistrates that they do the same by the Indian Children.

Other General Instructions

1st. You must call regularly at set times upon the Magistrates; the Recorders, the Surveyors, the Publick Gardeners, and the Register to make up their Accounts and send them Quarterly to the Trustees.

2d. You must Suggest to the Trustees whatever You may think may further the Good and Prosperity of the Colony.

3d. You must advertise the Trustees of all Material Occurrences, News and Reports that You think well grounded.

4th. You must See that the Naval Officers inform the Trustees of all Ships coming into the Ports of Georgia, of their going out, when they Arrived or Sailed, their Cargoes, from whence they came, and whither bound.

5th. You must miss no Opportunity of writing to the Trustees, whether You have much to Say or little, that they may timely provide & direct what is found necessary, or have the Satisfaction to know that all things go well.

6th. You are to send Duplicates of all Letters You write to be sent by the next Ship.

7th. You are to enter all Letters sent by You to the Trustees in a Book noting by what Ship Such Letters and their Duplicates are sent And all Letters received by You from the Trustees. You are to indorse on them the time when You received them and by what Ship or Conveyance they came to Your Hands.

Signed by Order of the Common Council of the said Trustees.

Benj. Martyyn Sectary.

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Common Council Private Instructions to William Stephens as Secretary of the Affairs of the Trust within Georgia. July 20, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 326.

Private Instructions for Mr. William Stephens from the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

As to Civil Concerns

1st. You are to send an Account of the Behaviour of the Magistrates and other Officers of Savannah and Frederica, then Diligence or Carelessness, Abilities &c, without Fear, Affection or Partiality and of what Care is taken in Distributing the Stores.

2d. You are to send an Account of the People’s Pretences of Complaint against the Magistrates.

Signed by Order of the Common Council of the said Trustees.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Articles of Agreement between the Trustees and William Bradley to be Overseer of Trust Servants in Georgia. Oct. 7, 1735. C.O. 5/670, pp. 326-328.

Articles of Agreement Indented Made Concluded and Agreed upon the Seventh Day of October in the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty five Between William Bradley of London Farmer of the one part and the Corporation of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the other part as followeth that is to say.

First The said William Bradley doth hereby Covenant Promise and Agree to and with the said Trustees and their Successors That he the said William Bradley and Elizabeth his Wife and Robert James William Riehard Jane and Martha his Children shall and will forthwith imbark on board the good Ship or Vessell called the London Merchant John Thomas Commmander now lying in the River of Thames and proceed directly for the Colony of Georgia in America And shall and will remain and be imployed in the Clearing Draining Cultivating and Improving Lands in the said Colony for the Space of one Year next after the Arrival of him the said William Bradley there and during that time Oversee and Employ therein Thirty (or any greater Number not exceeding one Hundred) of the Servants belonging to and maintained by the said Trustees as James Oglethorpe Esqr. shall direct. And with the Assistance and Labour of Thirty of such Servants within the said Space of one Year next after his said Arrival in the said Colony shall and will clear and cultivate One hundred Acres of the Public Lands belonging to the said Trustees for the Use and Benefit of the said Trust and lay out the same in proper Divisions either as Arable Meadow or Pasture in a Husbandlike manner with all necessary Fences Inclosures and Draines to the good Liking and Satisfaction of and in such manner the said Mr. Oglethorpe shall direct. And which said One hundred Acres so to be Cleared and Cultivated are to be allotted and appointed by the said Mr. Oglethorpe. In Consideration whereof the said Trustees for themselves and their Successors do hereby Covenant promise and Grant to and with the said William Bradley That they the said Trustees shall and will bear and pay the Expences of the Passage of the said William Bradley and his Wife and Children to Georgia and maintain them in the said Voyage and during the Space of one Year next after their Arrival in the said Colony. And that he the said William Bradley shall by or out of such part of that Year’s Produce of the said One hundred Acres so to be by him Cultivated as the said Mr. Oglethorpe shall appoint be paid the Value of One hundred pounds Sterling and also shall at his Arrival in the said Colony be furnished and provided with ten other Servants belonging to the said Trustees for his own Use and Benefit and to be employed by him in Cultivating the Lands to be Allotted to him for his own Use by the said Mr. Oglethorpe. Each of which Ten Servants are to be provided by the said Trustees for the Space of One Year with Tools and Provisions according to the Custom of the said Colony provided nevertheless And it is the true Intent and Meaning of these Presents And the said William Bradley doth hereby Covenant promise and Grant to and with the said Trustees and their Successors that if he the said William Bradley shall at any time during the said Term of One Year next after his Arrival in Georgia depart or absent himself from the said Colony without the special Licence and consent of the said Mr. Oglethorpe first had and obtained in Writing Signed by him whereby or by means whereof the Cultivating of the said One Hundred Acres shall be neglected Then he the said William Bradley for every month of Thirty days that he shall so absent himself shall forfeit and lose the Sum of Forty shillings (and so after that rate for any greater or lesser Space of time than one such month) to be Substracted and Deducted out of the said Sum of One hundred pounds so agreed to be paid him out of the said first Years Produce of the said Lands as aforesaid. Provided also and the said William Bradley doth hereby further Covenant promise and Grant to and with the said Trustees and their Successors That if at the Expiration of the said Term of One Year any part of the said One hundred Acres shall remain uncultivated Then for every Acre thereof which shall so remain uncultivated he the said William Bradley shall forfeit and lose the Sum of Forty shillings which is in like manner as aforesaid to be Subtracted and Deducted out of the said Sum of One hundred pounds as Agreed to be paid him out of the said first Year Produce of the said Lands as aforesaid. Provided also And it is hereby further Covenanted Declared and Agreed That if the said William Bradley shall within the said Space of One Year next after his Arrival in the said Colony by the Direction and to the good Liking and Satisfaction of the said Mr. Oglethorpe Clear Drain and Cultivate any greater Number than the said One hundred Acres of the publick Lands belonging to the said Trustees for the Use and Benefit of the said Trust Then he the said William Bradley shall out of that Years Produce of every Acres (over and above the said One hundred Acres) which he shall so Clear Drain and Cultivate for the benefit of the said Trust be paid the Value of Forty shillings Sterling. In Witness whereof to one part of these Presents the said Trustees have Caused their Common Seal to be affixed and to the other part thereof the said William Bradley hath set his Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above written.

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Trustee Memorial to the King for protection of Georgia from the Spaniards. Aug. 10, 1735. C.O. 5/670, p. 329.

To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Memorial of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Humbly Sheweth

That they being entrusted by Your Majesty with the Care of the Colony of Georgia, which was formerly part of Your Majesty’s Province of Carolina, And Your Majesty’s Colony of Georgia being very much exposed to the Power of the Spaniards, and become an Object of their Envy by having valuable Ports upon the homeward Passage from the Spanish West Indies, and the Spaniards having increased their Forces in the Neighbourhood thereof The Trustees in Consequence of the great Trust reposed in them by your Majesty, find themselves obliged humbly to lay before Your Majesty their Inability sufficiently to protect Your Majesty’s Subjects Settled in Georgia under the Encouragement of your Majesty’s Charter against this late Increase of Forces. And therefore become humble Suppliants to Your Majesty on behalf of Your Subjects Settled in the Province of Georgia; That Your Majesty will be pleased to take their Preservation into Your Royal Consideration. That by a necessary Supply of Forces the Province may be protected against the great Danger that seem immediately to threaten it.

All which is most humbly Submitted to Your Majesty’s Great Wisdom.

Signed by Order of the Trustees this Tenth day of August 1737

 Benj. Martyn Sectary

SEAL

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Robert Williams Letter of Attorney to Papillon Ball. Jan. 13, 1735/6. C.O. 5/670, pp. 330-331.

Know all Men by these Presents That I Robert Williams of Bristol Merchant now bound out on a Voyage to the West Indies have made ordained constituted & appointed And by these Presents Do make ordain constitute & appoint Papillon Ball of London Merchant my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my Name and for my Use to Ask Demand and Receive of and from all and every Person and Persons whatsoever all and every Debt and Debts Sum and Sums of Money Goods Chattels Merchandizes and Effects whatsoever now due or owing or hereafter to be due or owing to me the said Robert Williams or to me and my Partner John Williams in Company or otherwise howsoever. And upon Non Payment thereof the said Persons or any of them their or any of their Executors or Administrators for me and in my Name to Sue Arrest Imprison implead and prosecute for the same and upon such Suit to proceed to Judgment and Execution and thereupon the said Persons any or either of them their or any or either of their Executors and Administrators in Person to hold and keep until Payment thereof be made with all Costs and Damages Sustained and to be Sustained by Occasion of the detaining of the same. And upon Payment thereof the said Persons any or either of them their or any or either of their Executors and Administrators forth of Prison to discharge and Acquittances for the same or any part thereof for me and in my Name to make Seal and deliver and also to do perform and execute all and every other lawful and reasonable Acts and things whatsoever both for Obtaining and Discharging the same as shall be needful to be done giving and by these Presents granting unto my said Attorney my full and absolute Power in the Premisses Ratifying and holding firm all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in or about the Premisses by Virtue of these Presents. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Thirtieth Day of January in the Ninth Year of the Reign of my Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty five.

Robert Williams

Be it Remember’d that I the above named Robert Williams have also constituted and appointed the above named Papillon Ball my Attorney to prevent and defend any Action or Suit in Law or Equity brought or to be brought against me during my Absence Ratifying and Confirming all and whatsoever he shall lawfully do or cause to be done therein or to Submit for me any Demand to Arbitration.

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Common Council Grant of 150 acres of land to John Amory. Oct. 5, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 331.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 5th. of October 1737 to John Amory of Boston in the County of Lincoln yeoman of One hundred and fifty Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to Joseph Wardrope Entd. in Page (128)⁶⁶ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to Robert Hay. Oct. 5, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 331.

Grant and Enfeoffment (with Livery and Seisin indorsed) made the 5th. of October 1737 to Robert Hay late of Edinburgh and now of Georgia in America Cooper of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entd. in Page (125)⁶⁷ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the said Trustees at large appears.

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Trustee Petition to the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Plantation Affairs asking for a hearing against the Report of the Board of Trade. Nov. 16, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 332.

To the Right Honourable The Lords of the Committee of His Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Councill for Plantation Affairs.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Sheweth

That pursuant to Orders of the 8th. of Deer, and 4th. of February 1736 referring to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; One Petition from the Councill and Assembly of South Carolina and also another Petition from Your Petitioners. The said Lords for Trade have sent in a Report to Your Lordships dated the 14th. of September last.

By which Report Your Petitioners humbly conceive themselves and His Majesty’s Colony under their Care to be very much aggrieved.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray Your Lordships to appoint a Day for hearing them, by their Councill learned in the Law against the said Report.

Signed by Order of the Trustees this 16th. of November 1737.

 Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Bishop Martin of Gloucester’s Certificate of his ordination of George Whitefield as Deacon. June 20, 1736. C.O. 5/670, p. 333.

Be it known unto all Men by their presents that We Martin by divine Permission Bishop of Gloucester holding by the Assistance of Almighty God a General Ordination on Sunday the twentieth day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty six in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester did according to the Rites and manner of the Church of England in this Case made and provided admit into the Holy Order of Deacon George Whitefield of Pembroke College Oxon being very well recommended to Us for His exemplary Life Morals and good Qualities and well Instructed in sound Literature and sufficiently entituled examined and approved (he having in the first Place takes the Oaths and Subscribed the Articles which are in this Case by Law required to be taken and Subscribed). And that we did then and there in due form canonically Ordain him Deacon. In Witness whereof We have Caused Our Seal Episcopal to be to these presents affixed. Dated the Day and Year above written.

M. Glocester

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Trustee Authorization to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield to perform Ecclesiastical Offices at Frederica as a Deacon in the Church of England. Dec. 30, 1737. C.O. 5/670, pp. 333-334.

Whereas the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield of Pembroke College in Oxford hath been Canonically Ordained Deacon in the Church of England by the Right Reverend Father in God Martin Lord Bishop of Gloucester and is willing and desirous to Go over to Frederica in the Southern part of the Province of Georgia to perform all Religious and Ecclesiastical Offices there as a Deacon according to the Rites and manner of the Church of England. We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America approving of the Commendable Zeal of the said Mr. George Whitefield have authorized and impowered and by these presents Do authorize and impower the said Reverend Mr. George Whitefield to do and perform all Religious and Ecclesiastical Offices as a Deacon in the Church of England according to the Rites and Manner of the said Church and that shall be necessary to be done and performed at Frederica aforesaid for the better Establishing and promoting the Christian Religion in the Southern part of the Colony of Georgia and all other the good Ends and purposes thereby intended agreeable to the Laws of England and the Tenour of Our Charter. In Witness whereof the said Trustees have to these Presents affixed their Common Seal the thirtieth day of December in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty seven.

By Order of the Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to Lt. Col. James Cochran. Nov. 23, 1737. C.O. 5/670, pp. 334-335.

Grant and Enfeoffment with Livery and Seisin endorsed made the 23d. day of November 1737 to James Cochran Esqr. Lieutenant Colonel of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot under the Command of the Honourable James Oglethorpe Esqr. of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁶⁸ Except the Land being appointed to be set out by the said James Oglethorpe Esqr. and the addition of the following Covenant vizt. And the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America do for themselves and their Successors covenant promise and agree to and with the said James Cochran his Executors and Administrators in manner following (that is to say). That in Case the said James Cochran shall well and truly pay perform Do and Execute from time to time all and every the Rent Covenants Articles Agreements Matters and Things before in these presents mentioned and Contained which on his part are or ought to be paid performed done and executed as aforesaid. And in Case the said James Cochran shall dye having no Issue Male of his Body lawfully begotten alive at the time of his Decease That then and in such Case the said Trustees shall and will Grant Convey and Assure the said Five Hundred Acres of Land to Mary Ann Cochran his Eldest Daughter and to the Heirs Male of her Body lawfully to be begotten under such Rent Conditions Provisoes Limitations and Agreements as are hereinbefore Mentioned to be reserved limited Agreed and declared of and concerning the said Five Hundred Acres hereinbefore Granted to the said James Cochran in Tale Male and in Case the said Mary Ann Cochran shall dye having no Issue Male of her Body lawfully begotten alive at the time of her Decease That then and in such Case the said Trustees shall and will Grant Convey and Assure the said Five Hundred Acres of Land to Betty Cochran the second Daughter of the said James Cochran and to the Heirs Male of her Body lawfully to be begotten under the said Rent Conditions Provisoes Limitations and Agreements and in Case the said Betty Cochran shall dye having no Issue Male of her Body lawfully begotten alive at the time of her Decease That then and in such Case the said Trustees shall and Grant Convey and Assure the said Five Hundred Acres of Land to Caroline Cochran the Youngest Daughter of the said James Cochran and to the Heirs Male of her Body lawfully to be begotten under the said Rent Conditions Provisoes Limitations and Agreements As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to George Preston. Nov. 25, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 335.

Grant and Enfeofment with Livery and Seisin indorsed made the 23d. day of November 1737 to George Preston Junior of Valyfield in the County of Perth Esqr. of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁶⁹ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Samuel Eveleigh Letter of Attorney to Samuel and William Baker. Dec. 22, 1735. C.O. 5/670, pp. 335-336.

So. Carolina ss.

Know all Men by these Presents That I Samuel Eveleigh of Charles Town in the Province aforesaid Mercht. Have constituted ordained and made and in my Stead and Place put and by these Presents Do Constitute Ordain & make and in my Stead and Place put Messrs. Samuel and William Baker of London Merchants to be my true sufficient & lawful Attorneys for me and in my Name and Stead and to my Use to Ask Demand Levy Require Recover and Receive of and from all and every Person and Persons whomsoever the same shall & may Concern all and singular Sum and Sums of Money Debts Goods Wares Merchandize Effects and Things whatsoever and wheresoever they shall and may be found due owing payable belonging and coming unto me the Constituant by any Ways and means whatsoever nothing Excepted or Reserved Giving and hereby Granting unto my said Attorneys my full and whole Strength Power and Authority in and about the Premisses and to take and use all due means Course and Process in the Law for the Obtaining and Recovering the same And of Recoveries and Receipts thereof In my Name to make Seal and Execute due Acquittances and Discharges and for the Premisses to Appear and the Person of me the Constituant to Represent before any Governour Judges Justices Officers and Ministers of the Law whatsoever in any Court or Courts of Judicature And there on my behalf to Answer Defend and Reply unto all Actions Causes Matters and Things whatsoever relating to the Premisses with full Power to make and Substitute one or more Attorneys under them my said Attorneys and the same again at pleasure to Revoke. And generally to say Do Act Transact Determine Accomplish and Finish all Matters and Things whatsoever relating to the Premisses as fully amply and effectually to all Intents & Purposes as if I the said Constituant my self ought or might personally altho the Matter should require more speical Authority than is herein Comprised. The said Constituant Ratifying allowing and holding firm and valid all and whatsoever my said Attorneys or their Substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and above the Premisses by Virtue of these Presents. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Twenty second Day of December Anno Domini One thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty five And in the Ninth Year of His Majesty’s Reign.

Saml. Eveleigh

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Trustee Petition to the House of Commons for funds for Georgia. Feb. 15, 1737/8. C.O. 5/670, p. 337.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Humbly Sheweth.

That Your Petitioners since their last Application to this Honourable House have been put very great Expences in Fortifying their Settlements and preparing for a vigorous Defence against the Attempts of the Spaniards, who continually threatened the Colony of Georgia with an Invasion.

That the Inhabitants were by frequent Alarms hindered in the Cultivation of their Lands from whence they might otherwise have hoped to have raised themselves a Subsistance.

That Your Petitioners have proceeded further in the Settling of the said Colony by sending over Foreign & other Protestants And think it their Duty to lay before this Honourable House the Necessity Your Petitioners are under to desire a further Supply in order to the more effectually establishing this Colony; having already applied with the greatest Care and Frugality almost all the Monies which have been granted them for that purpose.

And this Your Petitioners humbly hope this Honble. House will be induced to do when they shall Consider the Importance of the Situation of this Province and the Advantages which may arise to this Kingdom by producing in Georgia those Materials for the Manufactures of Great Britain which are at present purchased from Foreigners with ready Money.

Your Petitioners likewise humbly beg Leave to lay before this Honourable House That the Securing the Friendship and Assistance of the Indians in Case of need is at this time more particularly necessary for the preservation of the Colony & which must be attended with Charge and Expence.

And further That the Support of a Civil Magistracy, the encouraging the Raising of such Produces as this Province is capable of, and other incidental Charges are necessary to be defray’d in the Infant State of the Colony.

Your Petitioners therefore Pray this Honourable House to give them such Assistance in the Premises, as they in their Great Wisdom shall think meet.

By Order of the said Trustees.

Benj. Martyn, Sectary.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to Major William Cook. Nov. 23, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 338.

Grant and Enfeofment with Livery and Seisin indorsed made 23d. day of November 1737 to William Cook Esqr. Major of his Majesty’s Regiment of Foot under the Command of the Honourable James Oglethorpe Esqr. of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁷⁰ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to William Wood. Dec. 21, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 338.

Grant and Enfeofment with Livery and Seisin indorsed made 21st day of December 1737 to William Wood of Saint John Wapping Captain in Sea Service of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125)⁷¹ Except the Addition of the following Covenant vizt. And the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America do for themselves and their Successors covenant promise and agree to and with the said William Wood his Executors and Administrators in manner following (that is to say). That in Case the said William Wood shall well and truly pay perform Do and Execute from time to time all and every the Rents Covenants Articles Agreements Matters and Things before in these Presents mentioned and contained which on his part are or ought to be paid performed done and executed as aforesaid. And in Case the said William Wood shall dye having no Issue Male of his Body lawfully begotten alive at the time of his Decease That then and in such Case the said Trustees shall and will Grant Convey and Assure the said Five Hundred Acres of Land to such Person not then having any Lands in the Province of Georgia in Possession or Remainder as the said William Wood shall by his last Will or any Writing under his Hand and Seal nominate and appoint. Provided That the Grant so to be appointed shall be of an Estate in Tail Male And for no other Estate whatsoever and under such Rent Conditions Provisoes Limitations and Agreements as are hereinbefore mentioned to be reserved limited agreed and declared of and concerning the said Five Hundred Acres herein before granted to the said William Wood in Tail Male. As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Trustee Account of how money granted by the last session of Parliament was spent. March 8, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 339.

An Accompt shewing how the Money granted in the last Session of Parliament to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America has been applyed by them towards settling and securing the said Colony.

Applyed in America

Applyed in England

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General Abstract of Trustee Accounts from June 9, 1737, to March 15, 1737/8. March 15, 1737/8. C.O. 5/670, pp. 340-345.

THE GENERAL ABSTRACT of the Accompt of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America from the 9th. day of June 1737 to the 15th. day of March following. To be laid before them at their Anniversary Meeting on Thursday the 16th. of March 1737, being the third Thursday in the said month.

Memdra. by the Appropriations out of the Balnce for the Colony the same is reduced to £2897:7:8 And the Bal. for Churches increased to £783:15:4 And for Botany to £46:13:4 But there is a Bill of Exchange standing out drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe 27 April 1736 to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. for £ 200. And there will be at least £211:12:6 due to Mr. Wragg for the German Servants which further reduces the Balance for the Colony to £2,485:15:2

The several Purposes for which Monies have been received, and applied, and expended.

The several Purposes for which Monies have been received, and applied, and expended.

[Note. The center portion of this table is repeated as the table is too large to go on two facing pages.]

For the Anniversary Meeting of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to be held the 16th. of March 1737.

After reading the General Abstract It is observed That there is no Money charged, received from America in this Accompt of the Trust since the 9th. of June last. The Money charged in the Accot. to the 9th. June 1737 being for the Duty of Three pence a Gallon on Rum to the 1st. of March 1736 Granted by the General Assembly of South Carolina the 9th. of June 1733 for the Use of the Colony of Georgia until the Sum of £8,000 Current Money was paid whereof £7,361.0.4 1/2 has been already paid from 1st. of December 1733 to the 1st. of March 1736. And no further Accots. have been since received. The Balance therefore remaining chargable thereon amounts to £638.19.7 1/2 Current Money of South Carolina.

That of the Sum of £48.7.0 received for the Use of the Missionaries the Sum of £5.5.0 may be applied towards an Orphan House in Georgia in Case such House shall be Erected.

As to the Sum of £13,800.8.9 1/2 Depending on several Persons in America that includes the £4,667.- imprested in Sola Bills sent over for the Service of the Colony the particular Accompts of the Services for which they were Issued or how many remain unissued are not yet returned from Georgia. The Residue being £ 9,133.8.9 1/2 has been expended in Georgia but the Particular Payments thereof don’t sufficiently explain the several Services to be Posted off to each proper Head. Mr. Causton has sent some Copys of Accots. Currant and the rest are very soon expected he having had Assistance sent him to make them out from the Store Ledgers in Georgia; Whereby the same may appear regularly applied in the Trustees Accompt Books in England.

The whole amount of Sola Bills sent to Georgia to be Issued there for the Service of the Colony instead of Drawing Bills is £9.150 whereof there has been returned and paid & Accepted for Payment £6,668. The outstanding Sola Bills remaining for which Money is Appropriated to Answer amounts to £ 2,482. whereof £ 233. are of the first 4000 sent in the Year 1735. Which £2,482. is in the Bank of England and in the Lands of Messrs. De Smith and Heathcote vizt. in the Bank of England £ 2,332 and in the hands of Messrs. De Smith and Heathcote £150.

The Balance in the Bank the 15th. instant is £6,135.12.9 whereout deduct the £2,332. appropriated for Sola Bills, the remainder is £3,803.12.9.

The Balance to be applied by the General Abstract is £ 4,556.4.2 whereof appropriated for the Outstanding Bill of Exchange and for paying for the German Servants £411.12.6 whereby the said Balance to be applied will be the Sum of £ 4,144.11.8 Whereof in the Bank as above £ 3,803.12.9 in the hands of Messrs. De Smith and Heathcote (besides the above Appropriatiion) £308.1.5 and in the Accomptants hands £32.17.6.

Which Balance of £4,144.11.8 is to be applied as follows: To establishing the Colony £2,485.15.2. Particular Persons £100. Building of Churches £783.15.4. Missionarys £277.14.11 1/4. The Scots Minister £144.15.6 The General Religious uses £408.17.4 3/4 and for Botany £ 46.13.4.

Of which Sum of £ 2,485.15.2, £ 1,252 is Stated in tbe Accompt to Parliament to Answer the Cloathing and Maintenance of 156 1/2 heads of Servants sent from Germany and Scotland to Georgia at 8£ p. head Which will reduce the same to £1,283.15.2.

The further Demands besides the Certified Accompts unpaid are for the Copper Mace Gilt, the Deal Boards bought and sent by the last Transport Ships, the extraordinary Pilotage of the Ship Three Sisters for want of a Boat at Tybee, the Charges of Passengers by Captain Nickleson’s Ship from Charles Town to Georgia, and for the Law Charges, Whereof £330 has been paid.

The Certified Accompts whereof Payment has been postponed until an Accompt of the Sola Bills sent has been received amounts to £2163. 5. 0, whereon Interest at 4£ p. Cent p. Ann. is payable from the 8th. of February last. And another Certified Accompt has been received for £65.10. 5 due to William Clay the 10th. of October 1737 before the Arrival of the abovementioned Sola Bills. Whereby the whole Certified Accompts unpaid amounts to £ 2,228.15. 5.

Sir Jacob Des Bouverie having paid £ 1,000, his Benefaction for Sending over Servants to Georgia upon the 31st of March last. The Common Council of the Trust Resolved upon the 27d. of April following that Forty Servants should be employed to clear and cultivate a Farm Lot to be called Bouveries Farm in Discharge of the said Benefaction. And that the Annual Produce of the said Farm Lot should be kept in a distinct Accompt to be applied for the Benefit of the Colony.

The said Common Council on the same day appointed William Stephens Esqr. Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust within the Province of Georgia.

The Lands granted since the Last Anniversary meeting are vizt.

The Common Council of the Trust on the 15th. of August last Resolved that each Man Servant who shall be out of his time in Georgia before Christmas 1737 should on proper Certificates of their good Behaviour be Intitled to fifty Acres of Land to be set out in Villages and have a Cow and a Sow given to each of them. And on the 25th. of November last Resolved That each Soldier of General Oglethorpe’s Regiment who shall at the End of Seven Years from his Inlisting be desirous to quit His Majesty’s Service, and shall have his regular Discharge and shall settle in Georgia, shall on his Commanding Officer’s Certificate of his good Behaviour be intitled to a Grant of Twenty Acres of Land To hold to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body for ever.

The Number of Persons sent upon the Charity are vizt. whereof

Besides the Wives and Children of those who went at their own Expence the forty Servants bought in Georgia for the Publick Service, and the many Settlers from Carolina and other parts who have joined the Colony.

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Peter Gordon’s Surrender of his lot in Savannah to the Trustees. April 10, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 346.

To the Honourable the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

May it please Your Honours.

In pursuance of Your Honour’s Leave I Peter Gordon and Katherine my Wife do hereby Surrender unto Your Honours All that my House, Garden Lot, and Farm Lot Situate at Savannah in the Province of Georgia in America and described as follows Vizt. The House containing 24 feet in front and 16 feet in depth, the Garden Lot containing 5 Acres and the Farm Lot containing 45 Acres, Making in the whole 50 Acres, Adjoyning to the like Lot belonging to Mr. Thomas Causton.

And I do hereby humbly propose to Your Honours for my Successor therein Mrs. Ann Cook and Mrs. Susanna Cook Daughters of Mayor William Cook, and the Heirs Male of their Bodies, to be joint Proprietors thereof and the Survivors of them.

And Pray Your Honours Approbation That the said Lot may be Granted to them accordingly.

We are

Honble. Gentlemen

Your Hoonours Most Obedt. Servants

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Trustee Grant of 500 acres of land to James Carteret. March 22, 1737/8. C.O. 5/670, p. 347.

Grant and Enfeofment with Livery and Seisin indorsed made the 22 day of March 1737 to James Carteret of the Parish of St. George Hanover square Esqr. of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125).⁷² As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustees at large appears.

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Common Council Grant of 500 acres of land to Capt. Alexander Heron. April 26, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 347.

Grant and Enfeofment with Livery and Seisin indorsed made the 26th. day of April 1738 to Alexander Heron Esqr. Captain in His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot under the Command of the Honble. James Oglethorpe Esqr. of Five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia of the same Tenor as the Indenture to James Houstoun Entered in Page (125).⁷³ As by a Counterpart thereof remaining with the Trustrees at large appears.

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Major William Cook’s Petition to the Trustees about his daughter’s property in Georgia. May 6, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 347.

To the Honourable the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

The humble Petition of Major William Cook on behalf of his two Infant Daughers, the one named Ann aged 20 and the other Susanna aged 16.

Sheweth

That on the 12th. of April last the Common Council of the Trustees having approved of your Petitioners Daughters and the Heirs Male of their Bodies to be Successors and Proprietors of the House and Garden Lot and Farm Lot at Savannah in Georgia lately the Property of Peter Gordon Surrender’d unto Your Honours the 11th. of the same month.

That your Petitioner being Stationed in Genl. Oglethorpe’s Regiment at Frederica and therefore desirous of building a Good House in that Town.

Your Petitioner Prays Leave for permitting his Daughter Ann when of Age to Surrender her Interest in the above mentioned Lot at Savannah to her Sister Susannah in Order that She may be Enabled to hold an House Garden and Farm Lot at Frederica which I shall build and cultivate for her Property.

6 May 1738.        And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray &c.

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Common Council Appointment of John Clarke as Secretary for Indian Affairs in Georgia. May 3, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 348.

The Common Council of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. To all to whom these Presents shall come send Greeting. Whereas in and by an Act Confirmed Enacted and Ratified by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council the third day of April 1735 (Intituled an Act for Maintaining the Peace with the Indians in the Province of Georgia) It is amongst other things Enacted That the said Common Council for the time being or the Major Part of them who shall be present and assembled for that purpose shall and may from time to time as Occasion shall require nominate constitute and appoint one or more Secretary or Secretarys as to them shall seem proper and convenient for the better regulating The Trades with the Indian. And Whereas Charles Wesley MA Student of Christ Church in the University of Oxford was in pursuance of the said Act appointed Secretary for Indian Affairs on the Twenty fourth day of September in the Year of our Lord 1735. And Whereas the said Charles Wesley for want of his Health is not able to perform the said Office, Know Ye That in pursuance of the said Act We Have nominated constituted and appointed And by these Presents Do nominate constitute and appoint John Clarke to be Secretary for Indian Affairs. To have and to hold the said Office of Secretary at such Salary Fee Perquisite or other Reward for the same as shall be directed and appointed by the said Common Council of the said Trustees for during and until such time only as some other Person by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees in the Room and Stead of the said John Clarke shall be nominated constituted and appointed to the said Office. And We Do hereby authorize and Direct the Senior Bailiff of the Town of Savannah for the time to Administer the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration mentioned in an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first (Intituled an Act for the further Security of His Majesty’s Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors and also the Oath of Office particularly set forth in the said Act) to him the said John Clarke and to cause the same to be entered of Record by the Recorder of the said Town who is hereby required to enter the same accordingly. In Witness whereof the said Common Council have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the Third day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Thirty eight.

By Order of the Common Council.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Appointment to Robert Gilbert as Third Bailiff of Savannah. May 3, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 349.

To all to whom these Presents shall come The Common Council of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America send Greeting. Whereas John Dearne the third Bailiff of the Town of Savannah and the Precincts thereof in Georgia aforesaid is lately deceased. Know Ye That We Have nominated constituted and appointed and by these Presents in the Room and Stead of him the said John Dearne Do nominate constitute and appoint Robert Gilbert to be the third Bailiff of the said Town and Precincts thereof. To have and to hold the said Office of third Bailiff together with able Powers Authorities and Jurisdictions thereunto belonging for during and until such time only as some other Person by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees in the Room and Stead of the said Robert Gilbert shall be nominated and appointed to the said Office. And We Do hereby Authorize and Direct the Recorder of the said Town for the time being to administer the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration mentioned in an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first (Entituled an Act for the further Security of His Majesty’s Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors) and also the Oath of Office unto him the said Robert Gilbert and to enter the same upon Record. In Witness whereof the said Common Council have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the Third Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Thirty eight.

By Order of the Common Council

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Grant of 300 acres of land to William Horton, Thomas Hawkins, Willes Weston, and Thomas Hird for religious uses at Frederica. June 6, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 350-351.

This Indenture made the Sixth Day of June in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty seven Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the part and William Horton Gentleman Thomas Hawkins first Bailiff of Frederica Willes Weston Gentleman and Thomas Hird Dyer of the other part. Witnesseth That in Pursuance and Execution of the Resolution of the Common Council of the said Trustees of the Twenty seventh Day of April One Thousand seven Hundred and Thirty seven for setting out and Cultivating Lands for the Religious Uses of the said Colony with such Moneys as had been or should be received for the said Uses. They the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Have Given and Granted And by these Presents Do Give and grant unto them the said William Horton Thomas Hawkins Willes Weston and Thomas Hird and to the Survivors and Survivor of them Three Hundred Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America being part and parcell of the lands which His Majesty graciously granted to the said Trustees by His Letters Patent bearing Date the Ninth Day of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two. The said Three Hundred Acres to be set out and limited and bounded in such manner and in such part or parts of the said Province as shall be thought most convenient by James Oglethorpe Esqr. of Westbrook Place in the County of Surry one of the said Common Council. (Reserved and always excepted out of this Grant in Case the said Three Hundred Acres shall be set out by the side of any River Two Hundred Feet of Ground to be measured in Breadth from the Banks of such River along by the thereof the same to be for towing Paths and for such other Purposes as shall by the said Common Council be directed and appointed for the better carrying on the Navigation and Fishery of such River.) To have and to hold the said Three Hundred Acres of Land to them the said William Horton, Thomas Hawkins, Willes Weston and Thomas Hird and the Survivors or Survivor of them for and during the good Will and Pleasure of the said Common Council and until some other Grant or Grants shall be made of the said Three Hundred Acres of Land to some other Person or Persons by the Common Council for the time being of the said Trustees in the Room and Stead of them the said William Horton, Thomas Hawkins, Willes Weston and Thomas Hird or any of them. In Trust to and for the Uses Intents and Purposes herein aftermentioned and expressed (that is to say). That they the said William Horton Thomas Hawkins Willes Weston and Thomas Hird shall improve and cultivate the said three Hundred Acres of Land or cause the same to be improved and cultivated by all such ways and means as they on the Major part of them shall think best according to such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the Common Council of the said Trustees and also that they the said William Horton Thomas Hawkins Willes Weston and Thomas Hird shall take the best Care they can of the several Produces of the said Land and shall every six Months send over to the Common Council of the said Trustees a true and exact Accompt of the Moneys they shall have laid out the Work that shall have been done and the Produces that shall have been raised on the said Lands and also shall and will from time to time Apply the same to and for the Religious Uses of the said Colony in such manner as the said Common Council or the Major Part of such of them as shall be for that purpose assembled shall think fit and proper. And the said William Norton, Thomas Hawkins, Willes Weston and Thomas Hird by these Presents for themselves severally and respectively and for their several and respective Heirs Executors and Administrators and not jointly or the one for the other of them nor for the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the other Do Covenant promise and Agree to and with the said Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors That they and every of them shall and will from time to time according to the best of their Skill and Knowledge duly and faithfully Execute the Trust in them hereby reposed And also shall and will at all times Obey and perform all such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Common Council or the Major part of them for that purpose assembled touching the Executing the Trust hereby in them reposed. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have to these presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees and the said William Horton Thomas Hawkins Willes Weston and Thomas Hird have to another part thereof severally set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written.

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Trustee Application to the Commissioners of the Treasury for £5000 granted to the Trustees by Parliament. May 31, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 352.

To the Right Honourable The Lords Cammissioners of His Majestys Treasury. May it please Your Lordships.

The Parliament having granted His Majesty in the last Session the Sum of Eight thousand Pounds towards Settling the Colony of Georgia in America.

The Trustees for establishing the said Colony Pray Your Lordships Directions for the Issuing the said Sum to them to be applied to the Purpose aforesaid.

Signed by Order of the Trustees this 31st day of May 1738.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Lease to the Bailiffs of Savannah of 3000 acres of land for one year. May 16, 1738. C.O. 5/670, pp. 352-353.

This Indenture made the Sixteenth Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the One part and the Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah in the Province of Georgia in America for the time being of the other part. Witnesseth That the said Trustees in Consideration of the Sum of Five shillings of lawful Money of Great Britain to them or one of them in hand paid by the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being or one of them at on or before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents the Receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and for divers other good Causes and Considerations them hereunto moving have given granted bargained and sold and by these Presents Do give grant bargain and sell unto the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being All those Three Thousand Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America part and parcel of the Lands which his Majesty by His Royal Charter bearing Date the Ninth day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two Granted unto the said Trustees and their Successors for ever In Trust for establishing the said Colony of Georgia. To have and to hold the said Three Thousand Acres of Land unto the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being from the Day of the Date of these Presents unto the full End and Term of one whole Year from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended. Yielding and Paying therefore unto the said Trustees and their Successors the Rent of One Pepper Corn upon the Feast Day of St. Michael the Arch Angel now next coming (if lawfully demanded) and no more To the intent that by Virtue of these Presents and of the Statute of transferring Uses into Possession the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savnnah aforesaid for the time being may be in the Actual Possession of the said hereby bargained Premises and be there of Enabled to Accept and take a Grant and Release of the Reversion and Inheritance to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being by Indenture of Release intended to be made between the said Trustees of the one part and the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being of the other part and to bear Date the Day next after the Day of the Date of these Presents. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees the Day and Year first above written.

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Common Council Release to the Bailiffs of Savannah of 3000 acres of land to grant 50 acre lots to arriving settlers. May 17, 1738. C.O. 5/670, pp. 353-357.

This Indenture made the seventeenth Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Soverign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the one part and the Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah in the Province of Georgia in America for the time being of the other part. Whereas It is necessary That every Freeman of the Age of Twenty one Years or upwards being a Protestant now in the Province of Georgia aforesaid who is desirous to have Lands granted to him should have a certain Number of Acres not exceeding Fifty to every such Man Conveyed and Assured to him and the Heirs Male of his Body. And that every Man of the said Age being a Protestant who within the Space of Three Years from the Date hereof shall arrive in the said Province of Georgia with a Design to Settle and inhabit there should have the like Number of Acres granted to him. Now this Indenture witnesseth that in pursuance of the Execution of the Trust in the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America by His Majesty most graciously reposed and to the Intent that such Persons who are resident and Inhabitants in the said Province and such others as shall hereafter go to reside and inhabit there may have and enjoy to them and the Heirs Male of their Bodies a fit and sufficient Quantity of Land whereby they may maintain and provide for themselves and Families They the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America for themselves and their Successors Have Granted Released and Confirmed And by these Presents Do Grant Release and Confirm to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being (in their Actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to them thereof made for one whole year by Indenture bearing Date the Day next before the Day of the Date of these Presents in Consideration of Five shillings by them or one of them paid to the said Trustees and by force of the Statute of transferring uses into Possession) Three Thousand Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America, part and parcel of the Lands which His said Majesty graciously granted to the said Corporation by His said Letters Patent bearing Date the Ninth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two. The said Three Thousand Acres of Land to be set out limited divided and bounded in such manner and in such part or parts of the said Province as shall be thought most convenient and proper by William Stephens Esqr. Secretary for the Affairs of the Trust in Georgia Thomas Causton first Bailiff of Savannah William Horton Esqr. and Thomas Hawkins first Bailiff of Frederica or any two of them. To have and to hold the said Three Thousand Acres of Land to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being upon Trust nevertheless and to and for such several Uses Intents and Purposes and subject to such Powers and under such Provisoes Limitations and Agreements as are hereinafter limited declared and expressed (that is to say). To the intent and purpose that they the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being shall from time to time as Occasion shall require Grant Assign and Transfer to every Man of the Age of Twenty One Years or upwards being Protestants who within the Space of Three Years from the Date hereof shall arrive in the said Province of Georgia with a Design to settle and inhabit there and shall Signify to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being his Desire to have Lands granted to him a certain Number of Acres not exceeding Fifty to every such Man. To have and to hold to him and his Heirs Male upon the Terms and subject to the Reservations Conditions Provisors and Limitations herein after limited declared and expressed of and concerning the same (that is to say) upon Express Condition that if any such Person or Persons to whom such Grant shall be made shall not abide settle and inhabit in the said Province of Georgia for and during the Term of Three Years from and after the Day on which he or they shall request and desire such Grant to him or them to be made and shall not cultivate such Lands as shall be allotted and given him or them by all such Ways and Means as according to their several Abilities and Skill he or they shall be best able and capable Or if any such Person or Persons shall depart or pass out of the Limits of the said Province of Georgia without Licence in Writing first had and obtained under the Hands and Seal of such Officer or Officers as shall by the said Common Council be authorized and impowered to grant such Licences Or if any such Person or Persons to whom any such Lands shall be granted as aforesaid shall Alien Assign or Transfer the said Lands or any part or parcel thereof or any Term Estate or Interest therein to any other Person or Persons whatsoever without the special Leave and Licence of the Common Council of the said Corporation for the time being or of such Officer or Officers as shall by the said Common Council be authorized and impowered to grant such Licences. That then and from thenceforth in any or either of these Cases it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors into and upon the said Lands hereby intended to be granted as aforesaid or into and upon any part thereof in the Name of the whole wholly to reenter and the same to have again retain repossess and enjoy as in their first and former Estate as of such Grant or Grants had never been had or made and such Person or Persons so misbehaving him or themselves on any or either of the Cases aforesaid and all other the Occupiers and Possessors of the said Lands or of any part thereof thereout and from thenceforth utterly to expell put out and amove and also that upon such Entry by such Officer or Officers as shall by the said Common Council for the time being be for that purpose authorized & appointed such Grant or Grants shall respectively cease determine and become void. This Indenture or the said Indentures of Grant so to be made as aforesaid or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And also on this further Condition That if any of the said Lands so to be granted as aforesaid shall not be cultivated planted cleared or improved during the Space of Ten Years to be accounted from the Day of the Date of the Grant of such Lands that then and in such Case all and every part or parcel of such Lands not cultivated planted cleared and improved as aforesaid shall be and belong to the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors and the Grant or Grants of such Lands as to such parts or parcels thereof shall cease determine and be void and shall be granted and disposed of in such manner and to such Persons as the said Common Council of the said Corporation shall think fit. And further reserving in all and every the Grants so to be made as aforesaid a Rent Charge or Yearly Rent for ever after the rate of four Shillings for every hundred Acres of the said Lands which shall be so granted the Payment of which said Rent not to Commence or be made until Ten Years after the making such Grant and to be paid to such Person and at such Place in the said Province of Georgia as by the said Common Council shall from time to time be directed and appointed. And further as touching and concerning the Reversion or Reversions or Remainder or Remainders expectant on the respective Demise or Demises of any such Person or Persons to whom such Grants shall be made as aforesaid without Issue Male or any Forfeiture or other Determination of the Estate of such Person or Persons It is hereby declared and agreed by all the Parties to these Presents and their Intent and Meaning is that the same shall be and remain to the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors and to and for their Use and Behoof and for none other Use whatsoever. And the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being by these Presents for themselves severally and respectively and for their several and respective Heirs Executors and Administrators and not jointly or the one for the other of them nor for the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the other Do Covenant promise and Agree to and with the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors That they and every of them will from time to time according to the best of their Skill and Knowledge duty and faithfully execute the Trust hereby in them reposed and shall and will at all times Obey and perform all such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Common Council or by such Person or Persons as shall by the said Common Council for that purpose be authorized and impowered touching the Granting and Disposing of such Lands & Premisses and the Executing the Trust hereby in them reposed. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees and the said Bailiffs of the Town of Savannah aforesaid for the time being have severally set their Hands and Seals to another part thereof remaining with the said Trustees the Day and Year first above written.

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Common Council Lease of 3000 acres of land to the Bailiffs of Frederica. May 16, 1738. C.O. 5/670, pp. 358-359.

This Indenture made the Sixteenth day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the one part and the Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica in the Province of Georgia in America for the time being of the other part. Witnesseth That the said Trustees in Consideration of the Sum of Five shillings of lawful Money of Great Britain to them or one of them in hand paid by the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being or one of them at on or before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents the Receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and for divers other good Causes and Considerations them hereunto moving have given granted bargained and sold and by these Presents Do give grant bargain and sell unto the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being All those Three Thousand Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America part and parcel of the Lands which His Majesty by This Royal Charter bearing Date the Ninth day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two Granted unto the said Trustees and their Successors for ever In Trust for establishing the said Colony of Georgia. To have and to hold the said Three Thousand Acres of Land unto the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being from the Day of the Date of these Presents unto the full End and Term of one whole Year from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended. Yielding and Paying therefore unto the said Trustees and their Successors the Rent of One Pepper Corn upon the Feast Day of St. Michael the Arch Angel now next coming (if lawfully demanded) and no more. To the intent that by Virtue of these Presents and of the Statute of transferring Uses into Possession the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being may be in the actual Possession of the said hereby bargained Premisses and be thereby Enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release of the Reversion and Inheritance to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being by Indenture of Release intended to be made between the said Trustees of the one part and the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being of the other part and to bear Date the Day next after the Day of the Date of these Presents. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees the Day and Year first above written.

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Common Council Release to the Bailiffs of Frederica of 3000 acres of land in trust to grant five acre lots to the soldiers and noncommissioned officers of Oglethorpe’s regiment. May 17, 1738. C.O. 5/670, pp. 359-361.

This Indenture Made the Sevententh day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight Between the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America of the one part and the Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica in the Province of Georgia in America for the time being of the one part. Whereas His Majesty hath by His Royal Charter bearing Date the Ninth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two constituted a Body Politick & Corporate by the name of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and hath granted unto the said Trustees & their Successors for ever certain Lands and Territories in America In Trust for establishing the said Colony and hath Erected the same into an Independent Province by the Name of Georgia. And Whereas His majesty hath been graciously pleased to Order for the Protection and Defence of the said Province of Georgia a Regiment of Foot under the Command of the Honourable James Oglethorpe Esqr. Captain General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty’s Forces in Carolina and Georgia. And Whereas it hath been represented to the Common Council of the Corporation of the said Trustee That it will be a great Encouragement to the Soldiers of the said Regiment and highly conducive to their well doing That each Soldier should have an Allotment of Land in the said Province to Cultivate and raise therefrom Subsistance for himself. And the said Common Council taking the same into Consideration Have Resolved to Encourage the said Soldiers and to Grant them Allotments of Land To hold to them during the time of their Continuance in His Majesty’s Service in Georgia. Now this Indenture witnesseth That in pursuance of the said Resolution the said Trustees Have Granted Released and Confirmed And by these Presents Do Grant Release and Confirm to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being (in their actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to them thereof made for one whole Year by Indenture bearing Date the Day next before the Day of the date of these Presents in Consideration of Five shillings by them or one of them paid to the said Trustees and by force of the Statute for transferring Uses into Possession) Three Thousand Acres of Land lying and being in the Province of Georgia in America Part and Parcel of the Lands which His said Majesty graciously granted to the said Corporation by His said Letters Patent bearing Date the Ninth day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty two. The said Three Thousand Acres of Land to be set out limited divided and bounded in such manner and in such Part or Parts of the said Province as shall be thought most convenient and proper by the said James Oglethorpe Esqr. To have and to hold the said Three Thousand Acres of Land to them the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being upon Trust nevertheless and to and for such several Uses Intents and Purposes as are hereinafter declared & expressed (that is to say). To the intent and Purpose that they the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being or any two of them shall from time to time Assign and Transfer Five Acres of Land and no more to every Private Soldier and Non Commissioned Officer in the said Regiment of Foot under the Command of the said James Oglethrope Esqr. To have and to hold the said Five Acres of Land to the separate Use and Behoof of every such Private Soldier and Non Commissioned Officer for so long time as he shall be and continue a Soldier in the said Regiment and no longer. Reserving in all and every the Grants so to be made as aforesaid a Rent Charge or yearly Rent for ever after the rate of Six pence for every Five Acres of the said Lands which shall be so granted the Payment of which said Rent not to Commence or be made until Ten Years after the making such Grant and to be paid by the Paymaster of the said Regiment for the time being to such Person and at such place in the said Province of Georgia as by the said Common Council shall from time to time be directed and appointed. And further as touching and concerning the Reversion or Reversions expectant on the Discharge or Non Continuance of any private Soldier and Non Commissioned Officer in the said Regiment It is hereby delcared and agreed by all the Parties to these Presents and their Intent and Meaning is That the same shall be and remain to every such Private Soldier and Non Commissioned Officer who shall be inlisted and taken into the Service of the said Regiment in the Room and Place of any Private Soldier or Non Commissioned Officer not continuing in or being discharged from the said Regiment. And from and after any Reduction of the said Regiment either in the whole or in part It is hereby further declared and agreed by all the Parties to these Presents and their Intent and Meaning is That the Reversion or Reversions expectant if any such Reduction shall happen shall be and remain to the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors and to and for their Use and Behoof and for none other Uses whatsoever. And the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being by these Presents for themselves severally and respectively and for their several & respective Heirs Executors and Administrators and not jointly or the one for the other of them nor for the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the other Do Covenant Promise and Agree to and with the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and their Successors That they and every of them will from time to time according to the best of their Skill and Knowledge duly and faithfully execute the Trust hereby in them reposed and shall and will at all times Obey and Perform all such Orders and Directions as shall from time to time be given them by the said Common Council or by such Person or Persons as shall by the said Common Council for that Purpose be authorized and impowered touching the Granting and Disposing of such Lands and Premisses and the Executing the Trust hereby in them reposed. In Witness whereof the Common Council of the said Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have to these Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees and the said Bailiffs of the Town of Frederica aforesaid for the time being have severally set their Hands and Seals to another Part thereof remaining with the said Trustees the Day and Year first above written.

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Common Council Instructions for Thomas Jones as Storekeeper in Georgia. Undated.⁷⁴ C.O. 5/670, pp. 363-364.

Instructions for Mr. Thomas Jones appointed to be Storekeeper for the Trustees in Georgia.

On your Arrival at Savannah You are to deliver to Mr. Thomas Causton the Letter directed to him from the Trustees and take his Receipt for the same and forthwith transmit it to the Trustees; And you are to affix on the Door of the Storehouse at Savannah the Notice ordered 29th. March 1738⁷⁵ by the Trustees and Signed by their Secretary and herewith delivered You That all Expences in America for the Use of the Colony of Georgia shall be defrayed and paid for in Georgia in Sola Bills of Exchange only under the Seal of the Trustees; And that no Person whatsoever has any Authority from the Trustees or in their Name or on their Account to purchase or receive any Cargoes of Provisions, Stores or Necessaries, or to contract any Debt or create any Expence whatsoever in America. And another like Notice herewith delivered to You, You are to Send to Frederica to some safe hand there to be affixed on the Door of the Storehouse at Frederica; And You are by Letter to Mr. Richard White the Storekeeper there to require him to Send You an Accot. of the Remain of Stores in his Custody and of the affixing up the said Notice; That the Trustees may from You be made acquainted with these Notices being so affixed.

In one month after the Delivery of the said Letter You are to take Possession of the Remain of Stores in the Custody of Mr. Thomas Causton and Issue them pursuant to the Orders of William Stephens Esqr. Mr. Thomas Causton and Mr. Henry Parker or any two of them; For which and the future Care of the Trustees Store in the whole Province You are to be allowed a Salary after the rate of 30 a year from the end of the said month and to be allowed the Assistance of one of the Trustees Clerks.

You are directed to examine into the Demands & Conduct of Mr. William Bradley who has had the Care of the Trustees Servants to be employed in the Cultivation of Trust lands to raise a Produce for the Use of the Colony. For which purpose Working Tools Provisions Necessaries and Cattle have been delivered to him. The Trustees Contract was to maintain himself family and Ten Servants for one Year with the particular Species of Maintenance as in the List thereof herewith delivered to You which they have performed. That on his Part he was to perform the several Conditions mentioned in the said Contract in Case he had Thirty Servants to employ in the Performance thereof (a Copy of which is also delivered You) but it happening that the Thirty Servants fell short yet so many of them as was under his Care over and above the Ten carried over for him their Labour belonged to the Trust; And You are therefore to enquire in what Labour they have been employed and how for the Benefit of the Trust. That if any of the Ten Servants he carried over and was taken as his own on his Arrival (but not any of the other Servants which went over with him) has been employed in the public Service. You are to inquire in what Service and by whose Order they were employed and for what time. And You are to examine & settle with Mr. Bradley what Sums have been paid him by Mr. Causton and what Surplus Provisions have been delivered him over and above the Allowances to himself and family and Ten Servants for one Year from his Arrival, and for the Maintenance of the Trustees Servants employed under him if they were so employed for the Trustees Service and Benefit.

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Common Council Instructions to Capt. John Thomas Relating to building a church at Savannah. May 17, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 365.

Instructions for Captain John Thomas relating to the Plan and Estimate for building a Church at Savannah in Georgia.

Sir

The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have put in your Possession a Plan for erecting a Church to be built of Brick in the Town of Savannah in Georgia, and it is their Desire that as soon as conveniently You can after your Arrival there You will by enquiring into the Prices of Labour and Materials Qualify your self to acquaint the Trustees for what Sum that Plan may be Erected.

And if any small Alteration therein may make the said Building a Place of Refuge and Defence for the Inhabitants upon any Surprize. That the further Expence thereof be also computed by You, And that You likewise enquire of Mr. Causton what Number of the Trustees Servants can be spared to be employed in this Work, which will be in Diminution of the article of Labour.

I am

Your most humble Servant
Harman Verelst Accotant.
7 May 1738.  

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Trustee Letter of Attorney for Harman Verelst to receive the £8000 granted by the last session of Parliament for Georgia. July 5, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 366.

Know all Men by these Presents That We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Have made ordained constituted and in our Stead and Place put and deputed And by these Presents Do make ordain constitute and in our Stead and Place put and depute Mr. Harman Verelst Our Accomptant to be Attorney for Us and in our Name and for our Use to ask and receive of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain or whom else it shall and may concern the Sum of Eight thousand Pounds by Virtue of His Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual to be applied towards Settling the said Colony of Georgia pursuant to the Clause for appropriating the Public Supplies for the Year 1738 in an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Two Miillions for the Service of the Year One thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight, and for paying to the Governour and Company of the Bank of England one Million for redeeming an Annuity of Forty thousand pounds payable to them, and for the further Appropriating the Supplies granted in the said Session of Parliament. And Acquittance or other sufficient Discharge for the same for Us and in our Name to make seal and deliver, and to do all other Acts and things whatsoever concerning the Premisses as fully in every Respect as we the said Trustees might or could do; And We the said Trustees do hereby Ratify and Confirm whatsoever our said Attorney shall lawfully do in our Name by the force of these Presents. In Witness whereof We the said Trustees have hereunto Caused our Common Seal to be affixed this Fifth day of July in the twelfth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth; And in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty eight.

By Order of the said Trustees

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Trustee Authorization to the Rev. Mr. William Norris to perform religious and ecclesiastical offices in Georgia in the place of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley. July 12, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 367.

Know all Men by these Presents That We the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America for good and sufficient Reasons have revoked and by these Presents do revoke all Power and Authority by Us heretofore given to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley to do and Perform all Religious and Ecclesiastical Offices in the Colony of Georgia aforesaid And have authorized and impowered and by these Presents do authorize and impower the Reverend Mr. Willaim Norris in the Room and Stead of him the said John Wesley to do and Perform all Religious and Ecclesiastical Offices that shall be necessary for the better Establishing and Promoting the Christian Religion in the said Colony, and all other the good Ends and purposes thereby intended agreeable to the Laws of England and the Tenour of our Charter. In Witness whereof the said Trustees have to these Presents affixed their Common Seal the Twelfth day of July in the Twelfth Year of the Rein of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty eight.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Trustee Instructions to the Rev. Mr. William Norris. July 17, 1738. C.O. 5/670, p. 368.

Instructions to the Reverend Mr. Norris.

You are to Correspond with the Trustees by every Opportunity; And as You are to keep a Register of the Births Christenings and Burials of the People under your Care and of those which come to your knowledge. You are to Send by every Opportunity an Account thereof and likewise of what Care there is taken of the Charity School.

You are also to Send an Account of the Number of your monthly Communicants and whether the People are regular in their Attendance on Divine Worship. And as the Trustees believe You will to your utmost promote a Spirit of Peace among the People, They desire You will constantly recommend to them that Industry in their Business, Sobriety in their Behaviour, a due Submission to the Magistray, with a constant Attendance at the Worship of God, will be the most effectual method of making them happy and best entitle them to the favour of the Trustees and Government in England.

Signed by Order of the Trustees this Seventeenth day of July 1738.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Common Council Instructions to John Mathias Kramer about securing foreigners to come to Georgia. May 11, 1737. C.O. 5/670, pp. 369-370.

 Instructions for John Mathias Kramer from the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

You are to acquaint those Foreigners who may apply to You for Land in Georgia to Settle themselves upon at their own Expence That the Trustees will grant to each Man of twenty one Years of Age and upwards, whether married or single, Fifty Acres of Land To hold to him and the Heirs Male of his Body. But if he is a Father and has more Sons than one who are of the Age of twenty one Years, the Trustees will grant to each of such other Sons except the Eldest, because he is the Heir of his Fathers Land, Fifty Acres of Land also, That they may make so many distinct Families.

You are to acquaint such Persons whose Birth Honour, Reputation and Ability are made known to the Trustees and shall be approved by them; That the Trustees will grant to each of such Gentlemen Five Hundred Acres of Land To hold to him and the Heirs Male of his Body. The Gentleman carrying over & maintaining at his own Expence Ten able bodied Men Servants to cultivate the said Land. Which Lands will be marked out within three months after the Arrival of such Foreigners in Georgia.

You are to acquaint Men Servants That for their Encouragement to behave well, if their Masters certify to the Trustees their good Behavour, The Trustees will grant to each Man Servant, at the end of his five Years Service, twenty Acres of Land To hold to him and the heirs Male of his own Body.

If Persons apply to you who cannot pay their own passage, & are willing to bind themselves to the Trustees for Servants to the Publick to work in Families together for five Years all of twenty Years old and upwards, and all under twenty Years old until they are twenty five Years old. You may engage as far as Sixty Heads in number which the Trustees will advance the Passage for. And those Families so engaged shall have Six weeks time after their arrival in Georgia to try if they can repay their Passage and be free. But if they cannot repay their Passage in that time, then they to remain Servants to the Trustees as beforementioned, And no Family must be divided but each Family must repay their Passage together or remain Servants together.

And the Trustees agree That all Children under Six Years old shall remain with their Parents until they are Six Years old; But those Children who are Six Years old and upwards if Boys are to Serve until they are of the Age of Twenty five Years, and if Girls until they are of the Age of Eighteen Years.

You are to acquaint those Persons who bind themselves to the Trustees, That during their Service they will be provided with and allowed all necessary Cloaths, Meat, Drink, Washing & Lodging and all other Necessaries fit and convenient for them as other Servants in such Cases are usually provided for and allowed. And that at the End of their Service the Trustees will grant to each Man that has behaved well, Twenty Acres of Land To hold to him and the Heirs Male of his Body.

Persons born in Georgia and their Children & Posterity will have all Liberties of natural born Subject within any of the British Dominions.

And for the Encouragement of those who shall come to inhabit in Georgia, there is a Liberty of Conscience allowed in the Worship of God to all Persons inhabiting or which shall inhabit or be resident within that Province and that all such Persons except Papists shall have a free Exercise of their Religion so they be contented with the quiet and peaceable Enjoyment of the same not giving Offence or Scandal to the Government.

Signed by Order of the Common Council of the Trustees 11th. May 1737.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

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Harman Verelst’s Instructions to Capt. George Dunbar relating to German passengers on board the Three Sisters. Sept. 17, 1737. C.O. 5/670, p. 371.

 Instructions for Captain George Dunbar relating to the German Passengers on board the Ship Three Sisters Captain Hewitt Commander now at Cowes who are willing to go to Georgia. Sent him by the Accomptant 17th. September 1737:

If ninety or a hundred Heads of the German Families will bind themselves to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America You are to engage so many but not more than One hundred nor less than ninety, and You are to have three Originals of their Agreement wrote on Stampt Paper to which they are to Set their Hands and Seals; one the People are to keep one other You are to inclose to Mr. Causton and the other to bring to London with You.

You are to make a List of each family with their Sexes, Names and Ages. Every Person of fourteen Years old is computed a whole head. Every Person of four Years old and under fourteen is computed two for one. And every Person under four Years old is not computed but must be Entered down as part of the Family. And You are to Annex a Copy of the said List to each of the three Agreements computing the Number of heads in each family to be Entered in the said List.

You are to acquaint Captain Hewitt with the Inlet to Tybee where he is to send up to Mr. Causton at Savannah the samll Box and Letters for him; For which Box the Captain is to Sign Bills of Lading one of which You are to inclose to Mr. Causton. And You are to acquaint Mr. Causton that he is to give Captain Hewitt a Receipt for so many Heads of the said List of Passenges as have indented themselves for Georgia and shall be delivered Mr. Causton by Captain Hewitt.

You are to acquaint Captain Hewitt that if he shall have any spare Provisions when at Tybee which Mr. Causton may want for Georgia and shall take of him, The Captain is to take Mr. Causton’s Receipt for the same specifying the Quantitys and Sorts.

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Privy Council Order Disallowing South Carolina Ordiance indemnifying Indian traders who trade in Georgia. May 25, 1738. C.O. 5/670, pp. 372-373.

At the Court at Kensington the 25th. day of May 1738.

Present

The Kings Most Excellent Majesty

Whereas the Trustees for the Colony of Georgia have by their humble Petition and Representation to His Majesty at this Board Sett forth (amongst other things) That the Lieutenant Governor Council and Assembly of South Carolina have opposed the Execution of an Act prepared by the said Trustees and approved by His Majesty in Council on the 3d. of April 1735 For maintaining Peace with the Indians in the Colony of Georgia. And that the said Lieutenant Governor Council and Assembly have passed an Ordinance in an illegal manner for raising Two thousand pounds Sterling to indemnify the Traders from Carolina in their Contempt of the aforementioned Act. And therefore prayed that the said Ordinance might be Disallowed. And Whereas the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council to whom His Majesty referred the said Petition and Representation have this day reported to His Majesty at this Board that they have taken the same into their Consideration together with the said Ordinance which was passed in South Carolina the 26th. of June 1736 Entituled An Ordiance for asserting and maintaining the Rights & Privileges of his Majesty’s Subjects of this Province of South Carolina to a free open and uninterrupted Trade with the Creek Cherokee and other Indians in Amity and Friendship with His Majesty’s Subjects and for the better preserving those Indians in the Interest of Great Britain. And that it appeared to them that the said Ordinance was passed in a very irregular and precipitate manner, the Governor having issued his Proclamation on the 16th. of June 1736 for convening the Assembly on the 24th. of the said month notwithstanding the said Assembly was under an Adjournment from the 29th. of May preceding to the first Tuesday in September following. And that it likewise appeared that the said Ordinance was passed by the said Assembly and also by the Council and assented to by the Lieutenant Governor in so short a Space of time as between the 24th. and 26th. days of the said month of June. And that the said Lieutenant Governor is giving his Assent to the said Ordinance hath Acted contrary to His Majesty’s Instructions. And the said Committee being of Opinion that it is of the utmost Consequence to His Majesty’s Service and absolutely necessary for the well governing the several Plantations and Colonies in America that such extraordinary and unjustifiable Proceedings should be discountenanced Did therefore humbly advise That the aforementioned Ordinance should be disallowed by His Majesty. His Majesty taking the said Report into His Consideration is pleased with the Advice of His Privy Council to Approve thereof and accordingly to Declare His Disallowance of the aforesaid Ordinance, and pursuant to His Majesty’s Royal Pleasure thereupon Expresst the said Ordinance is hereby Repealed Declared void and of none Effect. Whereof the Governor Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s said Province of South Carolina for the time being and all others whom it may concern are to take Notice and govern themselves accordingly.

Ja. Vernon

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Trustee Petition to the House of Commons for funds for Georgia. Feb. 7, 1738/9. C.O. 5/670, p. 374.

To the honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Humbly Sheweth

That by reason of the extraordinary Charge attending the Defence of the Colony during the continual Danger and Alarm of a Spanish Invasion and before the Arrival of the Regiment which His Majesty in his great Wisdom thought proper to send for the Preservation of the Province; a considerable Debt has been unavoidably contracted. Which being unforeseen, could not be provided for by this Honourable House in the last Session of Parliament.

That the Inhabitants having been taken off from their Labour in the Season for Sowing to prepare for the Common Safety were thereby disabled from cultivating sufficient Quantitys of Land for their Maintenance. And those Lands which were cultivated and sowed, by reason of a general Drought for a Year past, which has afflicted that part of North America, have not yielded the Crops which might have reasonably been expected. v/hereby the Inhabitants do necessarily still remain Objects of Compassion to be for some time longer Supported by the Assistance of this Honourable House.

To the granting of which Your Petitioners humbly hope this Honourable House will be the more inclined from the Consideration that this Colony (as Your Petitioners are well assured) will within a few Years be found very profitable to its Mother Country by producing several Materials for the Manufactures of Great Britain which are now bought from Foreigners with ready money. And that its Situation and valuable Ports to the Southward are of that Importance to the Navigation of this Kingdom and for securing the Trade of the West Indies As to make it the constant Envy of its Neighbours.

That the Support of a Civil Magistracy, the continuing the Friendship of the Indians, the encouraging the raising Produces, and other incidental Charges are still necessary to be defrayed.

Your Petitioners therefore pray this Honourable House to give them such Assistance in the Premisses As they in their great Wisdom shall think meet.

By Order of the said Trustees.

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

SEAL

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Trustee Petition to the House of Lords that Georgia not be affected by the Covention for settling the limits of Florida and Carolina. Feb. 24, 1738/9. C.O. 5/670, pp. 375-376.

To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Sheweth

That his Majesty by his Royal Charter bearing Date the 9th. day of June 1732 granted to Your Petitioners and their Successors for ever seven undivided parts of all those Lands Countries and Territories in that part of South Carolina in America which lyes from the most Northern Stream of the Savannah River all along the Sea Coast to the Southward unto the most Southern Stream of the Alatamaha River & Westward from the Heads of the said Rivers in direct Line to the South Seas, with the Islands in the Sea lying opposite to the Eastern Coast of the said Lands, within twenty Leagues of the same. All which His Majesty thereby made erected and created one Independant and separate Province by the name of Georgia.

That the Right Honourable John Lord Carteret (the Proprietor of the other undivided eight part of the said Lands Countries and Territories, which His Majesty granted to your Petitioners) by Indenture bearing date the 28th. day of February 1732 granted and released All his Right and Property in the undivided eighth part of Georgia in the same manner to Your Petitioners and their Successors for ever.

That the Province of Georgia was granted to Your Petitioners in Trust for Settling and Establishing a regular Colony in the southern Frontiers of Carolina and not for any Benefit or Profit whatsoever to your Petitioners.

That by divers Sums of Money granted by Parliament for this purpose and by voluntary Contributions Your Petitioners have been enabled to send at several times poor British Subjects and Foreign persecuted and other Protestants to Settle in Georgia, who as well as others that went thither at their own Expence have erected Houses and cultivated Lands in several parts of the Province and particularly in the Northern and the Southern parts thereof.

And whereas in a Letter from Monsieur Geraldino then Agent for the King of Spain to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle bearing date the 21st. of September 1736 (a Copy whereof was sent to Your Petitioners by Command of her late Majesty, when Guardian of the Kingdom for your Petitioner’s Answer thereto) it is asserted That the Colony of Georgia being to the Southward of the Colony of Carolina, is without dispute on the Territory of the King his Master. And whereas by a Convention between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain concluded at the Pardo on the 14th. of January last New Style, it is agreed That the Regulation of the Limits of Florida and of Carolina should be committed to Plenipotentiaries to confer and finally regulate the respective Pretensions of the two Crowns according to the Treaties therein mentioned.

Therefore Your Petitioners in Discharge of that great Trust, which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to repose in them and being fully Satisfied of the undoubted Right and Title of the Crown of Great Britain

to the said Province of Georgia think it their indespensible Duty humbly to lay this State of their Case before Your Lordships, and to implore your Lordship’s Protection in behalf of this part of the Dominions of the Crown of Great Britain in America, intrusted to the Care of Your Petitioners and also in behalf of his Majesty’s Subjects in Georgia for whose safety and Welfare Your Petitionersare so deeply concerned.

By Order of the said Trustees

Benj. Martyn Sectary.

SEAL

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Trustee Petition to the House of Commons that Georgia not be affected by the Convention for settling the limits of Florida and Carolina. Feb. 24, 1738/9. C.O. 5/670, pp. 377-378.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.

Sheweth

[This Petition is in the same words as that to the House of Lords of the same date, above pp. 286-287.]

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1. On William Houstoun see Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman, Georgia Journals (Athens, Ga., 1961), 121-122; Colonial Records of Georgia, I, 72; II, 5-6; III, 51-52; and Edith Duncan Johnston, “Dr. William Houstoun, Botanist,” Ga. Hist. Q., XXV, 325-339 (Dec., 1941).

2. September 29.

3. All these are medicinal plants.

4. Anno Domini. The que [and] at the end of “Anno” is unnecessary.

5. Remove.

6. A space in a ship between decks used as a storeroom.

7. A Law French spelling of the French word “enceinte,” meaning pregnant.

8. See above pp. 27-32.

10. The sign is not clear, but this seems to be what it is.

11. See above p. 57.

12. See above p. 63.

13. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755), gives “equal” as one meaning of “answerable”. In this list it must mean “the same” as listed before.

14. See above pp. 80-81.

15. See above pp. 56-57.

16. The editor’s thanks go to Professor Robert R. Harris, Classics Department, The University of Georgia, for this translation.

17. These instructions were undoubtedly issued in response to Henry Newman’s letter of Sept. 7, 1733, read to the Trustees meeting of Sept. 12, 1733. Newman’s letter is in George Fenwick Jones, ed., Hentry Newman’s Salzburger Letterbook (Athens, 1966), pp. 53-55. Urlsperger’s letter of Aug. 31, 1733, to which Newman replied in is Ibid, 331-333.

18. An earlier form of Berchtesgarden, ten miles form Salzburg.

19. Lady Day or the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25.

20. Carthogena is a seaport on the Northwest coast of presentday Columbia.

21. Porto Bello is on the Caribbean coast of the Isthmus of Panama.

22. Both cities in Mexico.

23. All medicinal plants.

24. See above pp. 80-81.

25. The Common Council Minutes for this date say the land is for the Salzburgers and others. CRG, II, 76.

26. See above pp. 80-81.

27. More details on Watson’s case can be found in Temple and Coleman, Georgia Journeys, pp. 81-89.

28. Johnson, A Dictionary the English Language, gives “fract” as a verb meaning “to break or to violate.” Thus the meaning here would be “infractions.”

29. Undated, but evidently the petition authorized Feb. 26, 1734/5. See CRG, I, 204-206.

30. March 25.

31. Grizon, Grissons, or Graubunden was an eighteenth century protectorate of the Swiss Confederation which joined it in 1803 as its southeastern canton.

32. Or Herrnhuters, so called from the estate of Count Nicholas Ludwig Zinzendorf at Herrnhut in Saxony from which the Moravian settlers in Georgia came.

33. A Charleston merchant who dealt with Georgia in its early days.

34. A town on the Moray Firth north of Inverness in Scotland.

35. Burgoa is a thick oatmeal porridge.

36. A small shield.

37. See above pp. 80-81.

38. Cohorn, a small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block, used for throwing high shells. Granadoes were probably shells for the cohorns.

39. Tilbury is on the Thames 22 miles east of London, on the north shore opposite Gravesend.

40. Leith is the port of Edinburgh.

41. At the entrance to Inverness Firth.

42. Theracle or treacle is defined as a remedy for poison, any effective remedy, or molasses.

43. See above pp. 80-81.

44. See above pp. 80-81.

45. See above pp. 144-149.

46. See above p. 160.

47. See above pp. 80-81.

48. See above pp. 80-81.

49. See above p. 90.

50. See above pp. 144-149.

51. See above pp. 80-81.

52. See above pp. 80-81.

53. See above p. 90.

54. See above pp. 80-81.

55. See above pp. 80-81.

56. Don Tomas Geraldino was the Spanish Minister to Great Britain.

57. This would have been Fort King George, at the Georgia site of Darien.

58. September 29.

59. December 25.

60. March 25.

61. June 24.

62. See above pp. 56-57.

63. See above p. 90.

64. For the date of these instructions see Historical Manuscripts Commission, Diary of the First Earl of Egmont, II (London, 1923), 424.

65. Capable of bearing arms.

66. See above pp. 82-83.

67. See above pp. 80-81.

68. See above pp. 80-81.

69. See above pp. 80-81.

70. See above pp. 80-81.

71. See above pp. 80-81.

72. See above pp. 80-81.

73. See above pp. 80-81.

74. No date has been found for these instructions, but Jones was appointed storekeeper on May 10, 1738, (CRG, II, p. 239) so the instructions must be of about that date.

75. This notice is in CRG, II, pp. 226-227.