As to the Bill for 300£ Provision Money drawn the 26. June 1735. The Acceptance of it is Postponed ‘till the Trust have Advice of your having paid the Value of it for them.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Nov. 26, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 157-168 and 173-174, concerning passengers and freight going to Georgia and many other things about the “Great Embarkation” of late 1735. Sent by the Two Brothers, Capt. William Thomson.

Sir

In Mr. [Francis] Moore’s letter to me of the 27th. of October last he mentions that there have been Disputes on board Captain Thomas’s Ship concerning Mr. [Will] Bradley and his things and that I should not Pay for Persons Passage in the Cabbin till the Passage is over. It is certain That a Captain without he knows People expects to be paid for the use of the Cabbin on their going on Ship Board; and my doing it for the Passengers at Gravesend was to let them have a proportionable Benefit of the Ten Guineas the Trust paid; which in my Computation I did for them and in the whole he received twenty four Guineas for the use of the Cabbin; sufficient sure to satisfy any reasonable Person. I took his Receipts for the Ten Guineas from the Trust and the Value for the several Passengers by Name Stationed in the Cabbin, and sent the said Passengers Notice thereof. And notwithstanding his Receipts to me Captain Thomas sent me a Letter dated 8th. Novr. with Advice of his drawing a Bill on me for Ten Guineas and making up very odd Pretensions to it; when the Bill came to hand I produced his Receipts to his Brother who brought it, and satisfied him therewith. He wrote to Mr. [Samuel?] Wragg That the Persons in the Cabbin should be Charged at 6£ a head for the Owner, and that I had stated it at 5£ But I told Mr. Wragg That the Charter had only Engaged for 100 heads whereas 119 had been paid for at 5£ a head and when he Considered that Benefit, he could not but be satisfied that he was well paid; and he answered me he was. And now I am on the Number of Heads paid for on board Captain Thomas I must acquaint You That Mr. [Will] Bradley’s Nephew who was mustered at Gravesend by the name of John Hughes and proves to be John Barnard I find came on Shoare, and I never heard of it, till after Mr. Wragg was paid his full Freight for 119 heads Whereas by his Coming on Shoare they were reduced to 118, and who now is to Go over with Mr. Bradley’s things on board the Two Brothers, as is also his other Nephew; whereupon the Common Council has Ordered That if the Trust is put to any Expence not made good by Captain Thomas by Agreement from him in the Accot. You shall settle with him for the Number of Cradles he shall deliver in Georgia at 7s. each (which by the Charter are not to be paid for till delivered in Georgia, and Mr. Wragg has for that Reason not been paid for the Cradles altho’ he has been paid for every thing else). Mr. Bradley is to be answerable for it to the Trust; and I have wrote to him about it. Wherefore it behoves him to engage Captain Thomas to deduct the 5£ overpaid in the Freight, out of the Value that shall arise due on the Number of Cradles delivered in Georgia. But if the Captain will not deduct the whole he must the half, and Mr. Bradley must answer the other half. Which Accompt of Cradles and the Overpayment in Freight Settled in Georgia Capt. Thomas or his Owners may receive when he comes back.

I received several Letters from Mr. [Francis] Harbin of the Difficultys he met with in Holland to get Servants, so many Roman Catholicks and Persons in Debt Offering, whose Debts must be Discharged before they could be permitted to Go, which being laid before the Trust and they finding a large Supply of Servants Shipp’d for Georgia at Scotland; I rec’d their Commands to acquaint Mr. Harbin of such Supply, and their Observations of the Difficultys he met with; and that They desired his Return to England. To which Letter I have rec’d an Answer that Mr. Harbin is ill of a Feaver at Amsterdam, but will see England as soon as he is able.

The Trustees have supplyed Mr. [John] West with Sixty Pounds Sterling and taken the Inclosed Bill on Mr. [Thomas] Causton to Pay you that Sum in Georgia. Mr. West has also Sign’d a Bond to You as a Collateral Security, which I have by me if ever it should be wanted.

He is now at Bristol getting Servants for himself and has Directions for the fourteen you agreed to Pay £6. 5. 0 each for in Georgia; He has sent me word he has Gott two for Mr. [Mathew] Brown, and that he finds it necessary for his seeing London before he can Imbark from Bristol; by reason That Mr. Plumsted has given him Credit for what Iron Ware he wants, and he must Settle with him and Collect his other things in London to be sent from hence. But I fear it must be by the way of Charles Town, where Captain Piercy is bound for a month hence; without I can persuade the Captain to Touch off Tybee Island, which I intend to Endeavour at by reason I hope the Saw Mill will be ready by that time and [Richard] Cooper and [James] Smetherd to go with it. Mr. [John] Tuckwell and the Millwright in the Country give Cooper a very great Character for his Ingenuity.

Mr. Tuckwell intended to have taken Mr. Brown with him to Wallingford and sent him to Bristol to have come over with his Cargoe consigned by Johnny [Brownfield]; But Mr. Brown was desirous of going upon some certainty to depend on in Georgia at Mr. Tuckwell’s Expence to be Imployed in his Business there, besides any Assistance That he did for him here; which gave Occasion for Mr. Tuckwell to Consult Mr. Tower upon it, who was of Opinion; That as Mr. Tuckwell has appointed Johnny his Factor at 5£ p Cent Commission, he had nothing to do with any one else; and That in Case any Goods consigned to Johnny should arrive at a time when by any Accident Johnny should be dead, a Letter to Mr. [Thomas] Causton would be sufficient to take Care of them; And that whatever Assistance Johnny might want to execute his Business of Factor, he must Pay for himself. But further said with respect to Mr. Brown’s Case as you had so strongly recommended him, If he was desirous of going as a Settler and taking a Servant with him, notwithstanding the Imbarkation was closed, he would endeavour to obtain the sending of him as a Freeman and the Charge of the Servant as a Loan to him in the same manner as the other Settlers in the last Imbarkations; And Mr. Tuckwell told him, If he liked to Go with his Cargoe to acquaint Johnny of the Package and be Assistant to him; he would make him a Present of Five Guineas, and Johnny no doubt would Imploy him If he wanted Assistance rather than a Stranger. To all which Mr. Brown said without Mr. Tuckwell gave him £10 he would not Go upon that Proposition, and thence the whole broke off. So that if Johnny thinks he shall be of use to him, he must send him word, and agree to allow him some proportion of the Commissions.

Mr. [August Gottlieb] Spangenberg having drawn a Bill on You for £20 Sterling which Mr. [Peter or J. C.] Simond had, and producted to the Common Council; I considered what Money could properly be applied to Discharge it without making You Debtor, for the Trust Taking up that Bill; and on reminding the Trust of the 200 £. Benefacn. for the German Persecuted Protestants to be divided in Sums of forty Shillings to each of such Protestants Either gone or going to Georgia, and it appearing That Mr. Spangenberg and the nine others with him had not received any Benefit therefrom, The Common Council directed an Application of £ 20 out of that Benefaction to Mr. Spangenberg for himself and the nine others who went to Georgia with him being after the rate of 40s. each; and with which I had Orders to Discharge that Bill, and have paid it accordingly.

Mr. Simond has been paid all the Expences and Charges of the Ship Simond to the time of her departure from Gravesend.

He has also been paid £ 821.15. 6 Sterling for £901.18. 0 Irish Money, The Amount of the Inclosed Invoyce and to which Invoyce I have Inclosed also Captain Dymond’s Bill of Lading for the 640 Barrels of Beef and 200 Firkins of Butter Ship’d on board him at Cork the 18th. of October 1735 And the Trustees have Insured the Value. They have paid Mr. Simond the Freight of it also to Georgia and the Freight of John Ridley the Boy and allowed Mr. Simond for his Ship staying before she went to Cork. So that the said Cargoe is to be delivered You without any Charge, and Mr. Simond has wrote to Captain Dymond for that purpose. As to the Captain’s Primage for 85 Tons which is the Freight Mr. Simond Charged & has been paid for, he may receive it here or in Georgia as You please it is only 2s. Sterling a Ton.

The Inclosed is a Copy of the Muster on board the Prince of Wales Captain [George] Dunbar at Scotland, which the Trustees received and which was made to amount to 166 whole heads, but it is reduced l/3d. of a head for Mr. John Mackay’s Daughter Margaret aged 1 1/2 being Reckoned who ought not to have been Computed. And Captain Dunbar sent a List of Persons who had paid their Passage, or whose Indres. [indentures] were Indorsed blank (a Copy of which is Inclosed) wherein 4 Persons wrote paid against, he Enters as of the Ten given by the Trust for raising the Men; which wants Explanation, why paid is wrote against their four Names. His Letter mentioning it to be a List of the Gentlemen and Servants who Pay for their own Passages, and are Indented and Indorsed to the Trustees.

There is further to be Observed on the said Muster Roll That several Names are Included in it of Persons sent belonging to some or all of the following Grantees who were to settle with Servants on 500d. Acres Lots at their own Expence. That is to say Patrick Mackay, John Mackay, Hugh Mackay, George Dunbar, John Cuthbert and Thomas Baillie. The Trustees therefore desire You will settle with Captain Dunbar an exact List of Persons The Trust are to Pay for, and another separate List of those who settle at their own Expence. For want of which The Trust could not settle the Freight of the Passengers on board the Prince of Wales with Mr. Simond; and therefore paid him Six hundred and fifty Pounds upon Accot. thereof; which is the Value of the Amount of 130 whole Heads, until the exact Freight can be settled which the Trust is to Pay. But they have paid him for the Grutt [?], Gun Powder, Demorage of the Ship at 80£ a month of 30 days from 25 August 1735 to 20th. October, when the People were mustered on board, For the Plaids Bonells [bonnets] and Shoes, & for the Nets.

There was a Bill for Marcegouse Claret of £33. 9. 6 produced by Mr. Simond drawn by Captain Dunbar for the Inclosed Bill of Parcels thereof, wch. not appearing to be for the Trust; They did not Pay. Captain Dunbar draw’d no Bill for any Balance due to him for getting his Proportion of People, Therefore that is open to be settled with him by You. Nor did he draw any Bills on the Trust for the Credit given him by Mr. Simond except for the Plaids Bonells Shoes Netts and the Wine above mentioned.

The Trustees received a Letter from Lt. Hugh MacKay with a List of those Persons he had shipped which amounted to 82 1/3 whole heads part of the 165 2/3 whole heads Muster’d on board the Prince of Wales Whereof nine were his own Servants and Twenty two Heads and one sixth Servants to Mr. Mackay of Scourie⁶⁸ and his Brother John. And he gave Advice of his drawing for Sixty Pounds Sterling for which he was Accomptable which Bill has been paid, and he is to be Charged Debtor for it in Accompt with You in Georgia.

The Common Council have Passed a Grant of Five Hundred Acres of Land to William Bradley and ordered me to Pay the Consideration Money of One pound and One shilling for him, and Ten shillings and Sixpence to Mr. Leheup for the Registering it; and that Mr. Bradley should be made Debtor for the said One pound Eleven shillings and Sixpence. Mr. Leheup is at present at Bath, and therefore I don’t send the Grant and Counterpart until the Memorial is Registered, which I will get done and send by the first Opportunity, together with the articles of Agreement with Mr. Bradley and the Trust. As to his private Affairs I have wrote to him about them and he will acquaint You.

I have wrote to Mr. [Thomas] Causton to peruse the Duplicates of the Accompts he sent from Lady Day [March 25] 1734 to Midsummer last, and send me Explanations of every article that does not speak it self to be what paid for That I may be Enabled to Post my next Years accompt to the proper Heads of Service from every Individual Sum paid which makes each head; and beg the favour of You to desire the same of him to be sent me by the first Opportunity.

The Annual Accompt ending the 9th. of June last has been approved of in Common Council, and Mr. [James] Vernon has been so kind to undertake the knowing Ld. Chancellor and the Master of the Rolles Pleasure when they will be attended therewith; after which It will be immediately Printed, & I shall send You a proper Number for Carolina to do the Province and Inhabitants Justice in making their Assistance Publick.

The 17th. of October last Mr. Madockes at the Bank [of England] rec’d Twenty Pounds for the Georgia Trust in a Letter from an unknown Person which the Trust have Publickly acknowledged and That they had agreed to apply it towards building a Church. And which leads one to acquaint You of the good Disposition in the Common Council themselves intending to be Examples for that Work, and that Mr. Chandler had given Ten Guineas for the Religious Uses of the Colony.

Dr. [Stephen] Hales continues Sollicitous for the Misson and has brought in 13 Guineas for that head since You went.

I rec’d a Letter from Mr. [Philip] Miller at Chelsea with a Tub of Madder Roots, and the Bamboo Cane wch. come to You by Captain Thomson, to whom Mr. [Thomas?] Tower has given paticular Instructions for the Care of the Bamboo Cane. And Mr. Miller acquaints me that Ld. Derby Ld. Petre and Sir Hans Sloane had agreed to continue their Subscription for Botany and Agriculture one Year Longer That the Botanist may have time to get his things Settled in Georgia from his Nursery in Jamaica, and that Mr. Miller Intends to desire the same of the Duke of Richmond.

Mr. Richard Lawley’s Father has paid in Ten Pounds Sterling to the Trust to be applied for the use and Benefit of his Son Richard who went over with You, and That to be in such manner as You shall see best; And of the Application of which as the Trust might Accompt; Please to acquaint them.

I have Insured £ 150. Sterling on his Goods on board the Two Brothers which cost £3.15. 0 to receive 98£ p Cent if lost, which You desired me to do, and he must Answer the Expence thereof in Georgia.

The Trustees have Petitioned the King for His Royal Instruction to the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina [Thomas Broughton]; That he would not suffer any Person to have Lands run out beyond the River Savannah pursuant to the Treaty with the Yamasee Indians. Which Mr. [James] Vernon was so kind as to take Care of, and of which he will acquaint You.

I have gott five pair of small Pistols for the five Saddles which wanted them and sent them by this Ship there being one pair had before for the Sixth Saddle.

I have sent by this Ship 50 pair of Women’s Shoes, 30 pair of Boys and 20 pair of Girls Shoes as desired. And I have also sent three Quarts of Liquid Laudanum and two pounds of the best Pickd Rhubarb as an Addition to the Great Medicine Chest.

I have Inclosed the Invoyce and Bill of Lading of everything on board the Two Brothers Capt. Thomson which are to be delivered You Freight free and without any Charge. He is Instructed to make the Island of Tybee, and send to Savannah Notice of his Anchorage off that Island, and there to wait four days without Demorage to deliver his Lading in such manner as You shall direct.

The Passengers on board him on the Trust Accot. are as follow.

Frances the Wife of David Stabler lately lain in and her Daughter with her.

Sarah the Wife of John Levally Junr. and John his Son who were left behind at Gravesend because of the Small Pox which the Son had who is now perfectly well.

John Barnard & John Hughes Nephews to Mr. [Will] Bradley.

Michael Wilson and Alkey his Wife recommended by Sir Charles Hotham, towards the Charge whereof Ten Pounds has been paid.

Jacob Faulcon a Millwright and Jeremiah his Son aged 17 from Guilford, who were to have gone long ago, and being thought very usefull hands were sent You.

Leonard Whiting and Benjamin Brownjohn, the apprentice and Brother of William Brownjohn; whose Passage are to be repaid the Trust by him, as also for their Bedding and Watch Coats amounting in the whole to £ 11.15. 0 Sterling.

And Sarah Penhelt Servant to Thomas Christie whose Passage is to be repaid the Trust by him, as also for her Bedding amounting in the whole to £ 5. 9. 0.

Mr. [Richard] Jochim and a Servant comes over to Mr. [William] Horton at his Expence by this Ship.

The Sute of Bedding and Watch Coat on board Captn. Thomas for John Hughes I hope will be delivered. The same having been again supplyed on his going now, and amounts to£0. 17. 6 Value, which if not delivered, Mr. [Will] Bradley ought to be answerable for, as much as for any other Expence occasioned by his Nephew’s not going with him after having been Mustered as beforementioned.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having sent to me for their Accompt relating to the Saltzburghers; I have made it out for the whole Expence of Mr. [Phillipp Georg Friedrich] Von Reck and the People with him from their setting out from Augsburg to their being Shipped in London, which amounts to £190. 0. 4. I have added also for a Bale on board Captn. Thomas’s Ship containing 17 dozen of Butt Soles sorted for Mens Shoes, 6 Dozen of Do. for Womens Shoes, 2 pounds of Hemp Thread, a dozen of Shoemakers Knives and a Groce of Awl Blades Value £6.15. 4 which Mr. [John] Vat and Mr. Von Reck both desired for ye. Saltzburghers and which are to be delivered accordingly.

There is a Bale on board Captain Thomas’s Ship for the English besides.

I have Noted at the foot of the said Accot. That the Charges of the Saltzburghers under the Care of Mr. Vat which have accrued in Georgia, were not then Stated for want of the Accots. thereof, which Accots. please to Direct Mr. [Thomas] Causton to make out and Transmitt to the Trust, That they may be able to make their proper Demand for the same.

I have sent You by this Ship a dozen of Hunting Horns, 100 d. of the Rules for the Year 1735, 200 d. of the Proposals to those who go at their own Expence and 50 of those who carry Ten Servants.

As You desired I would send over a Reading Glass from Mr. Scarlet suitable to one about 50 years old, when I get the Thernomiter [thermometer] mended (which I have sent You). I bought not only a Reading Glass but a pair of Spectacles for the same Age to be used occasionally, as might best Sute the Sight or Convenience of the Reader.

With respect to the Trustees present Stock The Balance in the Bank besides the 4,000 £ appropriated for the Georgia Bills is £5,877. 7. 0 whereof £804. 7.10 being for particular Uses reduces the same to £5,069.19. 2. Mr. [George] Heathcote has in his hands £666.15. 5. but that will not answer the Demands yet Outstanding. Altho they are brought to a narrow Compass, Yet for Safety Sake It will not be adviseable to think of more than £4,000 for the Colony besides the 5,000 £ in Bills &c. with You making in the whole 9,000£ for the Service abroad, until a further Supply can be had from Parliament which meets the 15th. of Janry. next.

The Trustees rec’d a Letter from Captain [George] Dunbar by the way of Dunkirk dated the 31st. of October off the Isle of Wight, giving an Accot. of the health of his Passengers; and hearing nothing further They suppose he Imbraced that Wind which they could have wished the Sloop would have let You shared in; But hope That Providence will make You more easy on Your Arrival by that Dispatch, which Your Patience has Exercised the want of here.

Mr. Simond has rec’d a Letter from Mr. [Thomas] Penn giving Advice of Captn. Yoakley having taken in his Loading at Philadelphia, and his being to sail for Georgia the 7th. of October 1735.

On Examining Mr. [Thomas] Causton’s Accot. it not appearing thereby that the last Six Guineas which the Duke of Kent paid the Trust for [Will] Dalmas, had been paid over before Dalmas’s Death; I have repaid the same to Mr. [James] Vernon to Return to His Grace which he will do by the first Opportunity.

Inclosed You receive an Authority for the Revd. Mr. John MacLeod to Perform Ecclesiastical Offices in Georgia; He comes over with the Scotch.

Since I wrote my Letter Mr. [Mathew] Brown has been with me, and offers now to Go on Mr. [John] Tuckwell’s Terms, and writes to him for that purpose.

I received Your Letter which mentions Mr. [Will] Bradley’s having taken another Servant for the Trust on board Captain Thomas’s Ship. Therefore that supplys the Place of John Hughes, who was Enter’d in the muster at Gravesend part of the 119 heads & did not go; and Rectifys everything which Captain Thomas must be made sensible of, and which I have desired Mr. Bradley to do. I have acquainted Mr. Wragg of it.

The Sute of Bedding and Watch Coat for John Hughes, no doubt has served this new Servant Mr. Bradley took.

In the Bill of Lading and Invoyce on board the London Merchant are contained two Casts of Garden Seeds No. 1 & 2, and a Barrel of Pepper No. 4, which were left behind, and come by This Ship. The three Casts on board the London Merchant instead thereof are as follow.

Mr. [Francis] Harbin arrived before I finished my Letter, and I will introduce him to Mr. [Samuel] Wragg tomorrow. He can assist him in getting Servants from Holland next March; and if Mr. Wragg gives him the Command of the Ship from Philadelphia he promised You; Mr. Harbin will go over by Captain Piercy to Carolina, to take upon the Command of the said Ship, & bring her home time enough to Imbark the Servants from Holland on Mr. Wragg’s Accot. for Georgia.

Mr. [Robert] Hucks desires you would let Samuel Ward at Skidoway have a sword and a pair of Pistolls which he is greatly desirous of.

I have sent you a Box which came to the Office directed to you, and said to contain Seeds.

Mr. [John] Tuckwell sent me word That one Thomas Chappel a Waterman received from Mr. Clements of Brandford the 15th. of October last, Ten Apple and Ten Mulberry Trees in Baskets with Orders to carry them on board the Simond at Blackwall; and he finding the Ship gone, carried them to Gravesend and left them at the Faulcon; I don’t know whether you have them on board or not; But I have desired Atherton to Inquire after them when he sees the 22 Chests of Arms put on board Captain Thomson, which he goes to Gravesend to do; and in case they are at the Faulcon, then he is to put them on board this ship.

I received of Sarah Hart£ l. 1. 0. for the Georgia Trust, which she desires may be applied by You for the benefit of her husband Richard Hart who went as Servant to William Abbot on board the London Merchant.

As the rules for the year 1735 settle That those Persons who took over Male Servants with them should Repay the Charge of Passage Cloathing and Provision of such Servants, within the third Year from their Imbarkation, which amounts to £ 10 Sterling for each Servant. That is to say The Freight £5 Bedding 5s. Working Tools 15s. Cloathing £ 1. and Food for a Year £3. I have therefore sent you a List of those Persons who had Male Servants with them on board the Simond and London Merchant. Vizt. on Board the Simond.

In all fifteen Male Servants in both the ships.

Besides the Seeds which Captain Thomson brings You; Mr. [Will] Bradley had with him from the same shop A Box No. 5 contg. 500d. asparagus Plants at 18d. p 100d. & Sage Plants 12d. Value & another Box No. 6 containing 20 pounds of French Barley at 2 l/2d. a pound.

Mr. [John] West and his Wife [the former Elizabeth Hughes] are come to Town to take their Passage on board the Two Brothers for Georgia since I begun my Letter, & his Servants are to follow him from Bristol; But can get no more than the two for Mr. [Mathew] Brown, willing to be assigned.

Among those things Johnny [Brownfield] brought me to the Office before he went [to Georgia]; I found a Receipt from Walter Augustine dated the 25th. of February 1732 for £24.10. 0. South Carolina Curcy. received of you on Accot. for a Canoe which he promised to deliver with two Oars and a Rudder, and well Tarr’d; and on the Delivery, the said £24.10. 0 was to be made up £28 which is no way brought into your Accot. with the Trust; and therfore either the £24.10. 0 that was paid or the 28 £ if the further Payment was made must be Credited You in the further Discharge You shall make out; and of which I thought proper to acquaint you That you may Include such Payments therein as have been made for the said Canoe, Oars and Rudder. [P.S.] I have sent also the two Peices of green Buntin you desire. 28 November 1735. I rec’d a Letter from Mr. [John] Tuckwell, sending for Mr. [Mathew] Brown to Wallingford, & to go from Bristol as proposed.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Nov. 25, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 169-172, examining Causton’s accounts, etc. By the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson.

Mr. Causton

On Examining the Orders You Charge Your Self with left in Your Hands by Mr. Oglethorpe, with the Accompt of Payments made while he was in Georgia; I find £6.10. 1 Currency to have been paid the 22d. of January 1733 to John West in Exchange for an Order on Col. Paris [Alexander Parris of S.C.] to James Oglevice for that Sum, and also That on the 13th. of September 1733 £ 6.10.— was paid to James Oglevey for a like Order for that Sum, which £6.10. 0 Order You have Charged Your Self with, but not the other for which £6.10. 1 was paid to John West in Exchange for; wherefore I desire that Johnny Brownfield who paid the £6.10. 1 to John West may be Consulted by You; and thereby, that I may have this matter explained and set right.

In Your Casting up the Orders in Your hands You carry them out only £102.11.10 whereas they amount to £100 more which You Charge to be the two Amounts of sundry Orders on Accot. of John Wright and James Muire Value £50 each. Whereas no part of the particular Orders making £ 202.11.10 will exactly answer the said 100£. Please therefore to explain this.

Mr. Oglethorpe sent You from Charles Town by the hands of John Wright 70 £ Currency the 10th. of April 1734, and in Your Accot. first Sent over from Lady Day 1734 to 4th. of May you Charged Your Self with it as received between the 9th. & 18th. of April; But in the Cash Accots. from Lady Day 1734 to Midsr. 1735 Lately received the said 70 £ is not Charged received by You. See Your Duplicates of the said Accots.

In the Particulars of the Orders Entd. as left in Your hands by Mr. Oglethorpe There are four which I don’t find in Mr. Oglethorpe’s Accot. to have been left with You, as if they were paid for by him are to be yet Creditted [to] him; Of which pray send me word. The Names and Sums of the said 4 Orders are

I observe You Charge Your Self with 8s. Currency rec’d of Major [James] Richards as the Balance of his Accot., which Accot. I desire a Copy of, as also of all other Accots. with Persons in the Colony; That I may do Justice to them & to the Heads of Services performed, and Charges of the Colony; in my Annual Accots. made out for the Trustees. And not Return any Person accomptable for Money who has either repaid it or accompted for it, or Charge any Expence to one Head of Service which belongs to another; Which without particulars for what Payments are made for must unavoidably be the Case.

Therefore I desire You would review every Item of the Discharge of Your Cash Accots. sent me, and you will find many of them mention only the Name and Sum paid; without saying for what, or if on Accot. without saying of what Service. And whereever any Item is so deficient I desire You will by the very first Opportunity send me Explanations and Particulours of every such Item, and not Names & Sums only. And where any Article is for Goods or Stores the Different Species must be known; so that in Effect I want Copys of every Bill of Parcels, and Accot. Currant within the time of Your Accot. That I may be particular in my Books and Post every thing to its proper Head.

Every 9th. of June I make out the Trustees Annual Accompt, therefore Enable me to be full and clear in the Accompts from abroad; and let me have the Explanations I now want out of hand.

I have Examined the Charge parts of Your Accots. with Mr. [Isaac] Chardon’s and Messrs. Jenys and Baker’s Accots. and with the Bills the Trust have paid drawn by You to Midsummer last. Whereon the following Observations arise.    Vizt.

The Bill You drew on the Trust the same day to Hugh Bryan was for 174 £ Sterling being £1,218 Curcy. which You have Entd. £ 1,243. but being Debtor & Creditor Entd. the same makes no alteration in the Balance.

You drew two Bills on the Trust to Messrs. Jenys and Baker the one for 300 £ Sterling the 14th. of April 1735 and the other 200 £. Do. the 8th. of May following which are not mentioned in Your Accot. which should have been Debtor and Creditor being within the time Your Accot. goes up to. Indeed it does not Effect the Balance, But would have been very proper nevertheless.

Captain Thomson who brings You this brings over a Cargoe shippd by one Mr. [John] Tuckwell and consigned to John Brownfield for Sale in Georgia. If any Accident should happen of Johnnys Death, You are desired to take Charge of the Cargoe, and for that purpose to open the Letter directed to John Brownfield which contains the Bill of Lading and Invoyce thereof; and Act for Mr. Tuckwell therein as Johnny was to have done.

I wish I could give You a good Accot. of Profit by the Tarr you sent. It is a low priced Commodity and when a tolerable Market happens will be sold. There have difficultys arose about the Bounty, which I will do my Endeavour to remove; and hope to Overcome them.

Till John Brownfield has got a Warehouse built for Mr. [John] Tuckwell, let his Cargoe be received into the Trustees Storehouse to prevent Damage happening to it.

[P.S.] Inclosed you receive Letters for Elisha Dobree, Walter Fox, Edward Bush, Alexander Johnston, and Elizabeth Moor.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Dec. 2, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 175, asking about apple and mulberry trees and servants’ bedding for Georgia. Sent to Gravesend to Capt. Thomson, the Two Brothers.

Sir

Atherton is returned from Gravesend, and has inquired at the Faulcon after the ten apple and ten Mulberry Trees. They were left there after the Ship Simond was sailed from Gravesend; And the Master of the House put them on board Captain Brooks’s Ship bound for Carolina, Which is all the Accot. I can get of them. To be sure Captain Brooks is known at Charles Town, and who it is that Discharges him there, and from thence I hope you will receive a further Accot. of them.

[P.S.] In my Letter about the Charge of the Servants on board Captn. Cornish’s & Captain Thomas’s Ships. I stated the Bedding 5s. according to the Estimate, and the Working Tools 15s. But it must be Bedding 9s. and Working Tools 11s. The Bedding having cost the Trust 9s. each, being Flock⁶⁹ & not Straw.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Dec. 2, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 175, concerning accounts and bills of exchange. By the Two Brothers, Capt. William Thomson.

Sir

The Trustees received your Letter dated the 15th. of October last and the Accots. with the Advice of Bills drawn. I have not time to Examine them now, but only to advise you of the Rect. Captain Thomson waiting for my Letter.

Mr. Oglethorpe has been detained by contrary winds above a month. When he arrives, you will have no further Occasion of Drawing Bills on the Trust.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Dec. 3, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 176, asking for Causton’s accounts and bills of exchange. By the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson. Sent after the ship under the care of Mr. Ricuset.

Sir

Since my last dated yesterday I have perused the Accompts you sent, and should have been glad to have had your own Accot. for the Quar. of a Year from Midsummer to Michaelmas last. But as I have it not, I desire you will send your Accompts from time to time as every opportunity offers, which will always keep them forward and Enable me to render an Accot. of the Applications abroad at all times when demanded.

Therefore miss no Opportunity of sending me your Cash Accots. whether Quarterly or not, yet to the nearest time of each Opportunity offering, and be particular in your articles, either in the said Cash Accots. or Copys of Bills of Parcels, or Accots. Currant explaining them; for without Particulars I am at a Loss to be certain in the Heads of Service which Articles should be Posted to.

In my last I mentioned That when Mr. Oglethorpe arrives You will have no Occasion of drawing Bills on the Trust; I now assign the Reason for that You must apply to him for any Occasions.

And Whereas Mr. [Paul] Amatis and Captain [Patrick] Mackay have drawn Bills without Order. You must affix Publick Notice That no Persons are to draw any Bills on the Trust.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Dec. 6, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 177, concerning relief of Samuel Quincy and appointment of John Wesley as clergyman in Georgia. Sent one copy to Cowes and another in care of Capt. Thomson to Deale.

Sir

Mr. [James] Vernon whom I had the Honour to dine with today gave me a Letter from Mr. [Samuel] Quincy dated 28th. August 1735, wherein he desires Leave to return to England in March next, and that the Trustees would provide a Successor in his Room, which Letter takes of all Occasions for Recalling Mr. Quincy, since it is his own Desire Which Desire You need not doubt but the Trustees when they meet next Wednesday will readily acquiesce in, and give them Occasion to apply to the Society for Propagating the Gospel who meet on friday the 19th instant; That the Salary may be given to Mr. John Wesley whom the Trustees appointed to be Mr. Quincy’s Succesor.

I am glad to have the opportunity of giving you this pleasing Accot. and to Give You Joy of a Northerly Wind, which I hope will continue to your help, and the satisfaction of all your Friends.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Dec. 8, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 177-178, concerning Causton’s accounts. Sent to Deale to the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson, but returned.

Sir

Since my last the Trustees have received your Letter dated 8. Septr. 1735 and the Accots. therewith. Your Cash Accot. brings over Sums Dr. & Cr. from Cash Book C. folio 36 Vizt. Dr. £45,808. 9. 7 and Cr.£ 48,295.18. 2 1/2. But the Cash Book C you sent me before goes no further than folio 31 which is Dr. £41,848. 9. 7 and Cr. 43,708.16.10. and Ends the 24 June 1735. Therefore your Cash Accot. from 24. June 1735 to 3d. August 1735 which I suppose to be Contained in your Cash Book C in Georgia carried on further than you have sent me from folio 31 to folio 36 is still wanting, and which I desire you to send with all the particular Explanations and Copys of Bills of Parcels paid, and of all the Receipts taken, contained not only in that but in your other Cash Books A. B & C which you sent me from Lady Day 1734.

Your last Cash Accot. now received contains Duplicate Receipts which are very proper, but should be attended with Copys of the Bills of Parcels, where the Rect. does not mention for what paid or the Quantity of Species paid for.

All which please to forward as soon as possible.

Harman Verelst to Capt. George Dunbar at Inverness, Sept. 6, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 178-179, informing him of grants of land to Scots in Georgia.

Sir

The grants to Patrick Mackay, John Mackay, John Cuthbert, and your Self passed the Seal last Wednesday, in the manner as you desired them. I have sent you inclosed that to John Cuthbert and your own. Mr. Oglethorpe will bring the Counterparts with him to be signed in Georgia; I have sent you the Memorials also which are Enter’d with the Auditor.

The grants to Patrick and John Mackay Mr. Oglethorpe wll bring with him and the Memorials and Counterparts.

You receive also the Grant to Thomas Bail lie in the manner you desired, and the Memorial thereof Entered with the Auditor.

The special Remainders on the Death of either without Issue Male, you will observe is the last Covenant in each Grant.

You are to have Land for the Town called Josephs Town besides the 500d. Acres to each. The Grant of which Mr. Oglethorpe will bring with him.

Inclosed You receive a Letter brought to the Office.

Benjamin Martyn to Capt. Patrick Mackay, Oct. 10, 1735, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 179-180, discharging Mackay for causing trouble with South Carolina and Florida.

Sir

Whereas the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America employ’d you in their Service in order to settle a Fort in the Indian Country, and to keep up a good Correspondence with all the Nations in Alliance with the King of Great Britain, and thereby secure the tranquillity not only of Georgia, but also of South Carolina.

The Trustees, always desirous of cultivating a good Correspondence with the People of South Carolina, have found that Your Behaviour hath occasion’d a general Dissatisfaction in that Colony; and as they have many Obligations to South Carolina, they will not continue in their Service a Person so Obnoxious; They do therefore hereby discharge You from the said Service.

The Trustees are very sorry to find there is a Complaint against you from the Govr. of St. Augustine, as having in time of full Peace between the King of Great Britain, and the King of Spain, incited the Indians to kill the Subjects of his Catholick Majesty; the Trustees think it their Duty in execution of the great Trust reposed in them by his Majesty to inquire with the utmost strictness into the truth of the said fact, and they hope You may be able clearly to prove Your Innocence.

Benjamin Martyn to Lt. Gov. Thomas Broughton of South Carolina, Jan. 2, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 180-182, concerning Indian relations, the dismissal of Patrick Mackay by the Trustees, and command of the Georgia militia.

Sir

The Right Honble the Earl of Egmont having communicated to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Your Letter to his Lordship of October last, together with a Memorial of several Mercahnts of Charles Town concerning the Indian Trade; the Affidavits of several Traders to the Creek Nations, and also Copies of two Letters from the Governor of St. Augustine, and one from the Commandant of Mobille relating to the Conduct of Capt. Patrick Mackay;⁷⁰ The Trustees have taken the same into Consideration, and they have order’d me to acquaint You, that it do’s not appear to them that the said Patrick Mackay himself claims to have acted under any Commission or Instructions relating to Trade, but what were given him by his Excellency Robert Johnson Esqr. late Governor of South Carolina, which Commission and Instructions not having been produced to the Trustees, they leave the said Patrick Mackay to answer for his Conduct therein to those from whom they issued.

The Trustees find the Commission and Instructions given to the said Patrick Mackay by James Oglethorpe Esqr. relate only to the building of a Fort in the Indian Country and the Command of a Company in Garrison there. They have given Instructions to Mr. Oglethorpe to inquire into the several Crimes laid to his Charge, and on proof of any such as Cognizable by them, they will take care that such Punishment shall be inflicted on him, as he shall appear to deserve; and they hope that no Misbehaviour of his (which will never receive any Countenance from them,) shall give any Interruption to the friendly and generous assistance given to their Infant Colony by the Province of So. Carolina.

The Trustees, being justly sensible of the ill Consequences that would unavoidably happen to the Provinces of So. Carolina and Georgia on a Rupture with the french and Spaniards, have all along given such Instructions to their Magistrates and Officers as tend most to cultivate a friendship and good Understanding with them, and hope they need not assure You, that it is with the utmost Grief and Concern, that they hear of the Murder committed on a Spaniard by Licka.⁷¹ As soon as that fact came to their Knowledge (which was previous to the Receipt of Your Letter,) they immediately gave Directions that a strict Inquiry should be made after the Offenders, in Order for their Punishment, and sent a Letter by Mr. Oglethorpe (of which the Inclos’d is a Copy) to dismiss the said Patrick Mackay from their Service.

As to the Militia of the Province of Georgia, The Trustees, not imagining they should have People in Georgia capable of Commanding in Chief desired, that in their Charter on all extraordinary Cases, where a Commander in Chief of the Militia of both Provinces should be necessary to take the field; To have that Command placed in the Governor of South Carolina for the time being for the common safety of two Provinces so closely united. But in all Ordinary Cases, the Command of the Militia by the Antecedent Clause in their Charter is placed in the Trustees, and such Person or Persons as they shall appoint. And therefore it is not without the utmost Concern, that the Trustees observe the Order You was pleased to send to the Militia in Georgia; And cannot but reflect with great Uneasiness on the ill Consequences that might have attended the Execution thereof; Which so directly tended to the Dissolution of Civil Government; and might have even proved of the greatest ill Consequence to Carolina it self, if (which has then Expected) a Rupture between Great Britain France and Spain had happen’d.

The Trustees have inclos’d with this their Annual Account from the 9th. of June 1734 to the 9th. of June 1735, which was (pursuant to their Instructions in their Charter) lately deliver’d to the Rt. Honble. the Lord High Chancellor, and the Master of the Rolls. By Which Account You will see Sr. the just Sense the Trustees have of the Obligations Which the Colony of Georgia has receiv’d from the Province of South Carolina, and their Desire to perpetuate the Remembrance of the same.

Harman Verelst to Robert Millar⁷² at Kingston in Jamaica, Jan. 2, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 183, concerning plant collections. Delivered to his brother to be forwarded.

Sir

The Trustees received Your Letters dated the 20th. of June & 27th. of September last. They hope that you have by this time made your Voyage to Campeechy & La Vera Cruz; But if you have not, That you would with all Expedition proceed thereon. And on your Return to Jamaica, You are to take the first Opportunity to Transport Your Self, and the Plants and other things collected by You; to the Colony of Georgia in America, Mr. Oglethorpe being sailed from England for that Colony.

You are therefore to joyn Mr. Oglethorpe in Georgia, and receive his Directions concerning your Conduct there, and the Care of the said Plants, & other things so Collected; and to send a Letter to the Trustees on your leaving Jamaica, together with an Accot. of the Collections you have made, and are taking with you to Georgia.

Harman Verelst to Messrs. Jenys & Baker at Charles Town, Jan. 13, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 184, concerning accounts of the Trustees and a horse sent to Georgia. By the Samuel, Capt. Piercy.

Gentlemen

The Trustees received your Letters, Accots. Currant, and Accots. of the Duty on Rum very properly made out and Certified to 1st. March 1734.

They also rec’d your Letter dated 29. October 1735 with your Accot. Currant and Accots. of the Duty on Rum therein mentioned. And they have directed me to acquaint You of their Approbation of the Method of the said Accots. and how much they are Obliged to you for the Trouble you give your selves for the Trust.

Mr. Oglethorpe (after a detention of near two months, and for the most part by contrary Winds) Sailed for Georgia the 10th. of the last month; and having Given a fine Stone Horse⁷³ to the Trustees, They have sent him over by the way of Charles Town; as also two Cases (one of them being a very small one) directed to Mr. Oglethorpe to the Care of Paul Jenys Esqr. and for which I have inclosed Captain Piercy’s Bill of Lading Consigned to You. Mr. Oglethorpe desired that the Freight might be paid at Charles Town to excite a proper Care for preserving the Horse in the Voyage; and it is settled at 10£ Sterling & 10s. Sterling besides for the Captain’s Primage, which you are desired to Pay, and which Mr. Oglethorpe on the Trust Accot. will Repay You; as also such further Expence in keeping the Horse till his Orders come to You for the Delivery of him, and the two Cases directed as aforesaid.

[P.S.] I beg the favour of your Accot. of the other Payments for the Trustees which have been made good to you by Bill or Bills on them since that of Mr. [Thomas] Causton’s Draft on You No. 34 to Samuel Lacey for 700£ Curcy. which is the last Article in Your Accot. to April 1735.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Jan. 9, 14, & 16, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 185-194, concerning ships coming to Georgia, Patrick Mackay, horses sent to Georgia, things sent to Georgia, Isaac Chardon’s accounts, and many other things.

Sir

The Trustees received your Letter dated the 10th. of last month with the agreable News of Your Sailing; and Soon after rec’d an Accot. of Mr. [Will] Bradley and Son and Mr. [John] Robinson being left behind; and of their being forced to Plymouth by endeavouring to overtake the Ship London Merchant; from whence they came to London; and the Trustees ordered Mr. Bradley £20 for the Charges that arose on that Occasion, or should arise until they went on board the Ship Samuel Captain Hugh Piercy, which they now come by.

On which Occasion I have Surcharged Mr. [Samuel] Wragg with half Freight for their being left behind; The Trustees now paying their Freight again by Captn. Piercy’s Ship.

Mr. Simond and Mr. Wragg have laid their Accots. of Demorage before the Trustees, which have been Considered by a Committee of Accots. who thought it very proper to take the Opinion of Some fit Person to Judge, whether the first Sailing on the 20th. of November was not leaving Cowes so as to Cause Demorage to Cease; or whether by being drove back by contrary Winds Demorage should continue to the 10th. of December.

I stated the Case from the Charter Partys and your Letters, and Mr. [John] Laroche took it to Consult Sr. John Barnard, and Mr. Alderman [George] Heathcote will Consult Col. Raymond on it; This the Trustees thought adviseable to Do for a Justification of them & arising from a due Caution in the Application of the Trust Money.

In the Accot. Captain Thomas sent Mr. Wragg, he Charges £0.10. 6 paid to the Clerk of the Hawk Sloop of War, which the Trustees have Disallowed, It not appearing for what paid. He Charges also £5 for the Passage of a Servant taken in at Cowes for Mr. [Will] Bradley, which £5 is struck off for the like Sum being overpaid in the 119 heads mustered at Gravesend, when only 118 went, John Hughes, Mr. Bradley’s Kinsman not going by the London Merchant; tho’ he was mustered as one of the said 119 heads. He Charges also £0. 7. 0 for a Cradle for the said Servant, and as the Cradles are to be paid for on the Delivery of them at the rate of 7s. each, that Article is taken out of this Accot.

Captain Thomas gives Credit for £25 rec’d of You upon Accot. of Demorage and Victualling; and your Letter not mentioning the Sum You paid him, I thought proper to acquaint You of the Sum so Credited, which the Trustees admit to be right; But if otherwise on hearing from You, in Case of any Mistake it may be rectified hereafter.

Lieutenant Governor [Thomas] Broughton sent a Letter to the Earl of Egmont, together with Copys of a Memorial of several Merchants in Charles Town concerning the Indian Trade, of Affidavits of several Indian Traders, and of Letters from the Governor of St. Augustin and Commandant at Mobille concerning the Conduct of Captain Patrick Mackay. All which the Earl of Egmont laid before the Trustees; and at the same time the Lords of Trade sent to the Trustees to desire a Conference on the like Papers sent them by the said Lieut. Governor; whereupon the Trustees desired Mr. [Robert] Hucks and Mr. [John] Laroche to acquaint the Lords of Trade of the said Letter and Papers the Trustees had rec’d, and of their being referred to a Committee for Consideration, and the preparing the Trustees answer to the Lt. Governor; and that the Lords of Trade should be acquainted with the Trustees sentiments thereon.

Which Committee having met and maturely Considered the said Letter and Papers; They settled the Trustees answer to the Lt. Governor; and the Earl of Egmont and Mr. [James] Vernon acquainted the Lords of Trade with the Substance thereof, who very much approved of the Trustees thoughts thereon.

I have Sir for Your Information, herewith sent you Copys of the Letters and Papers relating to Captain Mackay’s Conduct in the Indian Country; as well those received by the Trust before you left London, as those since; and of the Earl of Egmont’s and the Trustees Answers to the Lieutenant Governor (which Answers are to be delivered on Monday next to the Care of Mr. [Peregrine] Fury⁷⁴ to forward, he bringing the Packet to the Earl of Egmont) all which Copys are Contained in Ten Sheets of Paper fastened together.

The Trustees very thankfully accept the fine Black Coach Stone Horse you Presented them with; and have sent him by the Ship Samuel Captain Piercy, under Mr. [Will] Bradley’s Care on board. The Trustees have got no Mares yet to send You; Those Mr. [William] Horton thought on, Mr. [Richard] Jochim told me before he went, that they had got the Grease;⁷⁵ and as it might not be proper for the Stone Horse, & Mares to be in one Ship, the Stone Horse is sent first. I got Mr. Oakes, the King’s Coachman to view the Horse at Vaux Hall, where he stays till the Ship reaches Gravesend, to be put on board there; Mr. Oakes likes the Horse exceedingly, and says that as he is so fine a Creature, two Sutable Mares for height about 5 years old might be had out of the Country for about £8 a piece, that would answer the Trustees purpose. I got Mr. Oakes to furnish a Watering Bridle & Saddle such as the Kings Coach Horses have, Two Ship Halters, A Lanthorn, a Sive, and an old Quartern Measure; I have sent with the Horse a Town made Cavison Bitt with two long leading Reins, and a strong Collar. There is a Stable built on Ship Board for him lined with Sheep Skins with the Wool on to keep the Horse from hurting himself, the Horse will have two Slings provided for him at Gravesend lines with dress’d Sheep Skins with the Wool on. The Provisions put on board for the Horse are 20 Bushels of fine Poland Oates, twenty Trusses of Hay, 3 Tons of Water in new Puncheons well seasoned to keep the Water sweet; The Wine Casks being improper for they alter the taste of the Water. There is a new Pail sent for the Horse to drink out of, and as the Horse is to lye down when fine Weather will permit him there are 4 Trusses of Straw put on board for that purpose. I have sent on board 2 dozen of Candles for the Lanthorn to be used in the Stable.

I sent to Mr. Scarlett for the Spirit Levels you wrote for; he sent my Letter to Mr. Heath in the Strand who has furnished them, and they are put in a small Case on purpose and packt with Cotton and sent You by this Ship.

I have sent You a Case containing the following Particulars, vizt.

A Parcel of Books from Mr. Rivington, which Mr. [John] Wesley wrote for, and You ordered my Paying for.

A Parcel directed to the Reverend Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius at Ebenezer containing two Gowns & Petticoats for the Wives of Mr. Bolzius and Mr. [Israel] Gronau a Present from Mr. [James] Vernon.

A Bible in the German Language printed in the Year 1605 and taken from that by Martin Luther, a Present from the Earl of Egmont to Mr. Bolzius.

Fifty of the printed Accots. of the Trustees for the Year ending the 9th. of June last sticht in Blew Paper and containing therein the Benefactions received in America to be distributed among the Benefactors.

Twenty four more of the said Accots. covered with Marble Paper to be distributed to the Assembly and Persons of Distinction who were Benefactors at Charles Town.

The Daily Advertizer News Paper from the 11th. of October to 31st. of December last both Included.

A Pair of Spurs belonging to your Jack Boots and a Pair of Spurs belonging to your Spatterdashes and tyed on the top of the Case, the said Jack Boots and Spatterdashes within them; which You had left behind at Gravesend.

Which Stone Horse and 2 Cases are Consigned by Bill of Lading to Messrs. Jenys and Baker at Charles Town for your use, they paying 10 £ Sterling freight (which Mr. Wragg says is 10s. less than any Horse was yet Carried to Carolina for) and 10s. to the Captain for his Primage; and of which I have wrote to them about, and to acknowledge the Receipt of a Letter dated 29th. of October last, with their Accot. of the Duty on Rum to the 1st. of September last.

The Trustees received a Letter from Mr. [Isaac] Chardon dated 25th. of October last, with his Accot. Currant from 26th. of June 1735. to that day, and also an Accot. of Paul Amatis’s taken Credit for therein for the Quarter ending the 1st. of September last, Copys of which Accot. are herewith sent You, with the Observations arising on each of them.

As to that of Mr. Chardon’s in my Letter to him in September last on the State of all his Accots. to 25th. June 1735 (a Copy whereof You had with You) he then appeared Dr. to the Trustees by the Disallowance made on his several Accots. £382. 2.11 1/4 Sterling for which Reason the Bill he drew of £318. 7. 8 1/2 Sterling as if so much had been due to him was not paid, but return’d him by Mr. Simond to whom it was made payable.

The Difference he then remained Dr. on the said Disallowances will be £63.15. 2 3/4 against which His Accot. of Payments beginning 26th. June 1735 amount to £1757. 9. 1 1/2 Currency, and his Commission thereon as allowed by the Trustees in his last Accots. amounts to £36. 6. 3 1/4 making together £1793.15. 4 3/4 Currency of South Carolina, which in Sterling at 7 for 1 is £256. 5. 0 3/4 where out deducting the above Sum of £63.15. 2 3/4 The Trustees are Dr. to Mr. Chardon £ 192.9.10 Sterling on the Accot. of Payments to 25th. October last; They not accepting the £300 Sterling Bill he drew for Provision Money 26th. June 1735 until they had an Accot. of his having paid so much for them, which Bill Mr. Chardon has Charged himself with in this Accot. he last sent and only at 600£ P Cent Advance on Sterling. Whereas the Exchange now from So. Carolina is at 640£ P Cent advance on Sterling.

The Common Council are Summoned for Monday next and I will mention this £300 Bill to them. If they should direct the Payment of it Mr. Chardon will be Dr. to the Trustees thereon £107.10.2 Sterling; and You shall be acquainted by the first opportunity of their Determination, if this Letter should go before Monday.

I hope Sir You will settle with Mr. [Paul] Amatis, his several Accots by the first opportunity, and also Mr. Chardon’s Accots. upon the foot of the Observations already made, and Your Judgment arising thereon to whom the Trustees referred them. And that I may have an Accot. of such Alterations as your Setling those Accots. shall make from the respective Accots. the said Mr. Chardon and Mr. Amatis severally sent, which I have by me, and you have Copys of, That I may be as forward as possible in the Trustees next Year’s Accot. and return as little Money to be Accoted. for by Persons in America, as may be, by being enabled to post the applications of Money to the several Heads of Service Such applying thereof has been defrayed by.

The Saw Mill and Millwrights are to go from Bristol to Georgia directly, and not by the way of Carolina which your Observations of the 3d. Decr. has very justly occasioned. Mr. [John] Tuckwell & Co. being to send a Cargo from Bristol and Mr. Mathew Brown comes over with it.

The Trustees having paid Mrs. Wood,⁷⁶ the Widow of Warrin £10 a year for her house since her leaving the Colony, desire you would Inquire how her House has been of use to them, and if now used for the Trust, or by whom occupied; and if it shall appear that such House is not used for the Trust, That the Rent thereof may be repaid for the use of the Colony as to the time past by the Occupyer while used, or until the Trustees can be Informed how that matter is; so as to prevent their paying Rent for what they don’t use, or being obliged to use the House longer without any particular Occasion shall require it.

14th. January 1735.

There was not a Number on Monday the 12th. Instant to make a Common Council, but there is one Summoned for Friday next, when a Number is expected, the Parliament meeting to morrow.

16th. Janry. 1735

The Common Council met today and Mr. [James] Vernon acquainted the Trust that the Incorporated Society had agreed to allow to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley the £ 50 a year they had allowed to Mr. [Samuel] Quincy to Commence from the time that the said Mr. Quincy’s Sallary shall determine by his leaving the Colony in March next; and that they would continue the said £50 a year until the Trustees shall be able to maintain their own Minister, and recommended to the Turstees to do that as soon as they can.

Whereupon the Common Council agreed to appoint a Committee to consider of a proper Method to raise a Provision for the Maintenance of a Minister in Georgia.

On mentioning the Bill Mr. [Isaac] Chardon drew of £300 the 26th. June 1735 and his Accot. now sent to 25th. October following wherein he Charges himself with the said Bill, The Common Council finding the Trust Dr. to Mr. Chardon (without accepting and paying that £ 300 Bill) the sum of £ 192.9.10 on the said 25th. October 1735 as You will see by the Inclosed Copy of his Accot. They desire You will settle with him all his Accots. and pay him the Balance, and therefore have agreed not to pay the said £300 Bill, which I have wrote him word of.

Mr. Peregrine Fury, having requrested that the Money due to him from the Province of So. Carolina might be paid to the use of the Colony of Georgia for Bills on the Trust payable to him here The Common Council Resolved that You be desired to receive of the Treasurer or Committee of Correspondence of the Province of South Carolina the Money which is or shall be due to Peregrine Fury Esqr. Agent for the said Province; and that You do draw from time to time on the Trustees payable to the said Peregrine Fury or order in London thirty days after Sight for each Value received by You of the said Province for the said Mr. Fury, giving the Trustees a Letter of Advice of and with each Bill so to be drawn.

The Common Council having been acquainted with the Opinions of Sr. John Barnard and Col. Raymond concerning the Question arising on the time of Demorage Ceasing for the Ships Simond and London Merchant detained at Cowes, They came to the following Resolution; That the said Demorage Claimed by the Owners of the said Ships from the 1st. November 1735 to the 10th. of Decr. following, and the Victualling of the Passengers on board the said Ships for that time be allowed and paid.

Mr. [Will] Bradley having gott two more Servants which he brings over with him, applied to the Common Council for the Loan of Thirty Guineas to defray the Charge of them, he taking them at his own Expence, and also to defray some other Charges on him, and having proposed to Repay the same out of the Sale of his Pearl Ashes at Godalming which Col. [William] Cecil’s Servant was to sell for him. To which the Common Council agreed and I have paid it him accordingly and taken his Draft on Col. Cecil for the same to be paid when received by his said Servant; the Colonel having agreed to pay the same when so received.

Dr. [Richard] Bundy presented form Mrs. [Susannah] Haselfoot⁷⁷ a Petition on behalf of her Husband in Georgia, praying Leave to surrender his Town Lot to such Person not having Land in Georgia, who will make him a Satisfaction for his Improvements thereon; and to have one hundred and fifty Acres set out together as near as may be to some River or Island under the Grant made to him the 27th. of Febry. 1733 notwithstanding he had not Carried over the three Servants required of him within the year limited for that purpose; and to have the Loan of two Servants to make up with the Servant he has in Georgia the Number so required by the said Grant.

On Reading which Petition the Common Council apprehending That the Town Lot Mr. Haselfoot has been Improving, has not been Conveyed to him by reason that the time limited for the Trustees in the Trust Grant to Convey fifty Acres Lots at Savannah expired before Mr. Haselfoot left England. They came to the following Resolution That if the said Town Lot has been Conveyed to him he shall have Leave to surrender the same; But if not Conveyed to him In Consideration of his Improvements thereon the Trustees will grant the Same to such Person not having Lands in Georgia as shall make him Satisfaction for his said Improvements; and that the one hundred & fifty Acres Granted to him the 27th. Febry. 1733 be set out together according to the Prayer of the said Petition on his Surrendring his Town Lot if already Conveyed to him, and that if there are any Servants undisposed of in Georgia You be desired to let him have the Loan of Two Servants upon the usual Conditions.

The articles with Mr. [Will] Bradley passed the Seal to day, he brings them over with him; as also his Grant.

[P.S.] I have sent with the Horse a Curry Comb & Brush, a Card and a Main Comb with Spunges & an Hair Cloth.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Jan. 17, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 195-200, asking for explanation of Causton’s accounts.

Sir

In my Letter of 28th. November 1735 by Captain Thomson I then made my particular Observations ariseing on Examining the Charge part of your Accots. from Lady Day 1734 to Midsummer 1735.

I have since received your Subsequent Accots. to 30th. of August 1735 and find that you have Charge your self 14th. July 1735 with £68-Curcy. for a Bill on Mr. [Isaac] Chardon to Robt. Guthry B22. Whereas the Bill B22 to Robt. Guthry is Charged 2d. July 1735£88 Curcy. which is the Sum Mr. Chardon has Charged for it; and I don’t find two Bills of that Number for those different Sums taken Credit for by Mr. Chardon. It must therefore be an Overcharge on yourself for the said £68.

I find also that You have Charged Yourself with £2,100 Currency for a Bill on Messrs. Jenys and Baker to Patrick Mackay. C 1 the 14th July 1735 which in their Accot. Current is not mentioned; nor the Bill of £ 500 Sterling you drew on the Trust payable to them or order the same day, which last, mentioned Bill You have not Charged Your self with altho’ You are Accomptable for it; Indeed You have Charged Yourself with 4 other Bills C 2, 3, 4, & 5 and 3 others No. 36, 37 & 38, all which 8 Bills make more than the £ 500 Sterling drawn on the Trust as aforesaid; And of which Bills I have no Accot. from Messrs. Jenys & Baker making you Debtor to them for them, or Creditor by your Bill on the Trust. Their Accot. Charging themselves only with the Duty on Rum, and taking Credit for your Drafts specifically directed on them out of that Fund.

You should therefore have Charged yourself with the £500 Sterling Bill drawn on the Trust the said 14th. July and omitted your Drafts on Messrs. Jenys and Baker, or else sent their Accot. with you for such Drafts. I have wrote to them for their Accot. of Payments for the Trust since your Draft on them to Saml. Lacey No. 34 for 700 £ Curcy. which is the last Article they have sent me an Accots. of except for those Drafts which are specifically made payable out of the Duty on Rum.

I have rec’d Mr. [Isaac] Chardon’s Accot. from Midsr. 1735 and he takes Credit therein for the Payment of your Draft on him for £50 to John Cowen A. 22 which I observed in my Letter of the 28th of November last that in his Accot. to Midsr. 1735 he had not Charged it.

And in Messrs. Jenys and Baker’s Accot. of the Duty on Rum they have taken Credit for Your Draft A 1. 23d. May 1735 to Saml. Lacey for 400 £ Curcy. and A 2 the 3d. June 1735 to David Douglass for 176 £ Curcy. which Accot. I had not rec’d when I wrote my said Letter to You

But as to your Draft on Messrs. Jenys & Baker No. 35. 12th. June 1735 for 143 £ Curcy. to Thomas Parmenter mentioned in my said Letter I have not rec’d from them any Accot. of the Payment thereof; the Accot. they sent me last being only for Payments out of the Duty on Rum to October 1735.

The other Observations Contained in my said Letter I hope you will take Care to Answer.

I have rec’d the Trustees Accots. with Mr. [Richard] Woodward & Co. and observe that in the last of them they give the Trustees Credit for £ 100 Curcy. for a Bill on Mr. [Isaac] Chardon the 14th. of August 1734 which I dont find to be Contained in yours or Mr. Chardon’s Accots. On Examining Your Accot. I find you take Credit for £100. paid that day to Wm. Lyford, but dont Charge yourself with any Draft on Mr. Chardon that day to pay it with. Please to explain how this Credit given by Mr. Woodward will agree with the £ l00 You paid Wm. Lyford, the said £ 100 not appearing paid him by Mr. Chardon. As to the Debtor part of the said Accot. I cannot Ascertain how far the Articles are taken Credit for by you already or not in your Accot. with the Trust for want of Copys of the several Bills of Parcels You have paid them; But this Observation plainly arises that You have Charged all the Bills drawn by You on the Trust payable to Richard Woodward & Co. both Debtor & Creditor in Your Accompts & those Bills (except the Balance Bill) amounting to £ 1750 Curcy. were all drawn in June and August 1734. At which time only £522. 3. 3 was due to them on their first Accot and they in their Accot. have made the Trustees Dr. for nothing more before 27th. October 1734. To this therefore I desire your answer. As to the last Article they make the Trust Dr. for being £358 for a Bill payable to John Field and Entd. the 18th. of March 1734.

I observe You have taken Credit for a Sum of £ 358 the 15th. of the same month paid Wm. Lyford for Provisions which I suppose to be the same. But as to the other Articles between 27th. October and 6th. Decr. on the Debtor Side of their said Accot. for want of the Particulars of the Payments You have made them; they must remain unexamined till I have such Particulars. But I observe You have Charged their Balance Bill Dr. & Cr. as well as their other Bill.

As to the £73.10. 0 Curcy. you Charge yourself with received of Mr. [August Gottlieb] Spangenberg in Silver Sixpences; This acquaints You that he rec’d also 10s. more, by reason of Margaret Meyers going on board after the £10.10. 0 was paid him, and which he gave me an Additional Rect. for to Pay over to You, and of which I acquainted You in my Letter by Captain Thomson dated 25th. January 1734 [1735 N.S.]. Therefore if You have not rec’d it of Mr. Spangenberg, you must; to make the Balance in your hands of the Money sent you by that Ship to be so distributed equal to the Balance of the Sums remaining undistributed, which You rightly State to be £3.13. 4. For You have Charged yourself only with £44.10 when £45 Sterling was the Sum sent You vizt. £34 in Copper money & £11 by Mr. Spangenberg. As to 700 £ Curcy. Charged for 5 Casks of Copper farthings supposed to be about 100£ Sterling, You will find by my Letter to You by Captain Yoakley who brought them, That I sent You Word you were to Charge yourself with them by Tale [count] and therefore you must still by way of Surcharge in your next Accot. send me Word how much the Tale of them amot. to, and the Surcharge must be for the Amot, above the said 100 £ Sterling; The Quantity is 1/2 a-Ton, each Cask containing 2 cwt. & Cost at the Tower £106.

Having gone thro’ my Observations on the Charge parts of Your Accots. I have Inclosed You a List of those Articles You have taken Credit for, which want Accots. of Particulars & Explanations & have described such Defects on every Article in the said List Inserted.

I desire You will with the utmost Expedition send me such Particulars and Explanations, That I may not be hindered in making out the Trustees Accots. or be Obliged to Return You Debtor for want of Sufficient explanatory & proper applications made appear by your Discharge.

I have rec’d Mr. [Samuel] Eveleigh’s Accot. and Your Bill drawn for the Balance the 14th. Septr. 1735 is paid, as is also your Bill to Grant & Douglass of the same date and your 3 Bills to Jenys and Baker the 27th. Do. for £16. 5.- £27. & £36.15.

Mr. Oglethorpe being Sailed before Your Bills on him dated sd. 27th. Septr. for £50 £30 came to hand, The Trustees have paid them in Honour to him. But you must take Care to let him have proper Vouches to discharge him from the £80 amot. of those 2 Bills; which he stands answerable for to the Trust being paid in Honour of him.

The Trustees have received a Bill drawn by You to Elisha Foster for £100 dated 24th. October 1735 But they have no Letter of Advice threof, which is very wrong in you, for you refer as p. advice, which all Bills should have and which if wrote should come with, and by the same Conveyance as the Bill drawn; for it is very Irregular to do otherwise, and may prove of very ill Consequence.

The Common Council yesterday Postponed the Acceptance of it until they rec’d a Letter of Advice of the said £100 Bill.

Harman Verelst to Isaac Chardon, Jan. 17, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 200, concerning Chardon’s accounts.

Sir

The Trustees rec’d your Letter dated 25th. October last with the Accot. Currant, a Copy of which they have sent Mr. Oglethorpe and desired him to pay You whatever Balance shall remain due to You on the said 25th. of October on his settling all your Accots. and allowing you such Commissions as the Common Council of the Georgia Trust did agree to; of which you had Advice in my last.

Therefore the Bill of £ 300 drawn 26th. June 1735 for Provision money and payable to Messrs. Peter & J. C. Simond will be return’d You.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Jan. 19, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 200-201, concerning accounts and bills of exchange.

Sir

In my Letter of the 17th. Instant I forgot to particularly acquaint you that I had received your Accompts from Midsummer 1735 to 30th. of August following by the following means; they being left at the Office among other Papers from Mr. Oglethorpe’s before he went, which I did not know was so on the 3d. of last month, when I wrote for your Accot. for the Quarter to Michaelmas last.

I mentioned in my said Letter of the 3d. of December last, That on Mr. Oglethorpe’s arrival You must apply to him for any Occasions; and not draw any more on the Trust. And I now add that as Mr. [Paul] Amatis and Captain [Patrick] Mackay have severally drawn Bills without any Order, You are to affix publick Notice That no Persons are to draw any Bills on the Trust.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Feb. 4, 1735/6, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 201-204, concerning Causton’s accounts and bill of exchange, tar and timber. Sent to Messrs. Jenys & Baker at Charles Town by Capt. Wardrope.

Sir

The Trustees rec’d Your Letters dated 20th. Novr. & 7th. Decr. last with the Invoyce of Captain Yoakley’s Cargoe from Philadelphia, the Remain of Stores taken 1st. Novr. 1735 and your Accots. for Septr. & Octor. last.

They are very much Surprized to find no mention in either of your Letters of the following Three Bills which You have drawn and are come for Acceptance without any Letters of Advice attending them, and all drawn before the date of your last Letter.

This irregular method is of such Consequence that one of the Bills dated 24th. October 1735 to Elisha Foster for 100.£ being payable this day, and no Letter of Advice received, I expect will be Protested for Non Payment and Return’d to New England & thence to You for want of such Advice. The Expence of it will be very great, I fear above £30 Sterling and all owing to not sending a Letter with the Bill to give Advice of its being drawn; and which in Justice ought to lye on you to answer.

The 2 other Bills are dated 5th. Novr. 1735 for £200 to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. and 25th. Novr. 1735 for £150 to George Morley Esqr. but they being not yet due, It is possible Advice of their being drawn may be rec’d before they become due. All which is so easily remedyed by a Letter coming with each Bill that I much wonder any Bill is taken from You without a Letter with it, that they might be sent together, which is the surest way to have the Bill accepted, and the Trustees justifyed in the Paying it.

The Trustees are still more Surprized to find that your Cash Accots. for the whole month of Octor. makes no mention of the Bill to Elisha Foster for £100 Sterling You drew the 24th. of the said month. How can you call this year Accot. for that month when so large a Sum is not mentioned or Accoted. for tho’ received by you within that time. Had this Sum been Charged in this Accot. It would have supplyed the Deficiency of the Letter of Advice; But as it is not it gives Occasion to doubt whether such Bill was drawn by You or not.

On perusing the Charge part of your said Two months Accots I find no mention made of Three Bills You drew 27th. Septr. 1735 on the Trustees for £16. 5. 0 £27. & £36.15. to Messrs. Jenys & Baker which are all paid; The Trustees receiving Advice of them, which should have been Charged by you to show how and in what particular manner you may be discharged of each of them; and therefore I desire You will send particulars for the discharging them for until You do You will remain accomptable for them; for it is not sufficient that the Bill Specifies the use for which it is drawn, but you must also before you can be discharged from such Bill show how you have applyed the Value of such Bill to such use, and that not by way of Gross Sum, when Particulars of such Sum can be made appear with your Voucher to discharge yourself from such Bill.

As to the other parts of the Charge I have not Messrs. Jenys & Bakers Accots. with you for the said months, therefore cannot Examine them.

But as to the Discharge I have Inclosed You a List of those articles which want Accots. of Particulars and Explanations, and described each particular Defect.

The Tarr you sent consigned to the Trustees has been sold and the Produce has not paid the Freight and Charges by £38.16. 9 Sterling. As to the Bounty on Importation of it I cannot yet tell you what Success will attend the applying for it. The Trustees will do what they can to get it.

This leads me to observe the Article in your Letter of 7th. Decr. relating to advantage by Timber; If meant to expect any by sending it here, you will be disappointed; and the Expence of this Disappointmt. the Trustees cannot concern themselves in. Therefore you must lay aside all Views of Loading Ships with Timber for England; at least for the present.

Benjamin Martyn to James Oglethorpe, April 1, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 204-208, concerning Parliamentary grant for Georgia, settlement on the Altamaha, support of settlers, Indian relations, defense, arrival of Highland Scots, and catechist for Savannah. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker and sent from Bristol to be delivered to Oglethrope by Mathew Brown. Sent copy by Capt. Scott from London May 10, 1736.

Sir

Before the Arrival of your Letters dated Febry. 1st. the Trustees had on Febry. the 26th. presented their Petition to the Parliament for a Supply, which they had great Reason to believe would have been strongly opposed, had it not been for the Detention of the Ships at Cowes, which furnished the Trustees wtih an Occasion to insert a Paragraph relating to it in their Petition (a Copy of which is here inclosed to you) and thereby moved the Compassion of the House to give the People another Year’s Subsistance.

The Trustees find that two years Provisions will be necessary for four hundred and ninety Persons of the new Settlers that lately went over with You; And they are so sensible of the Misery which the People must suffer without proper Subsistance, as you have mentioned in your Letters, that they think it the first Care upon their hands and have thought proper that every other Consideration should give way to the Maintenance of them; Since the Parliament have given but 10,000 £, tho’ the Trustees made a Calculation that required 20,000 £, as you will see by the Copy of it which is herewith sent to You.

As the Money now Granted is so small a Sum that it will only enable the Trustees to subsist the new Settlers, and those of the old ones remaining upon the Stores; They are of Opinion that the New Settlement, which was designed to be upon the Alatamaha cannot be thought of without a further Supply from Parliament, of which there is not only no assurance, but a Certainty of an Opposition; and consequently, that all those Expences and Charges that are relative to the new Settlement must for the present be laid aside. Vizt.

The Charges of Fifty Rangers or Forresters on Horseback to drive up the Cattle, kill Deer, and keep open the Communications.

The Charges of one hundred Working Men to Cut Roads, and fortify, excepting some few that may be necessary to open the Communications between Savannah and Ogeeche, in Case You shall think it more expedient to establish the new Settlers upon the Ogeeche than the Savannah.

As the Trustees are so confin’d in their Expences, they think it will be proper to dispose of the three ten Oar’d Boats that were bought for the design’d Settlement at the Alatamaha, to prevent their rotting, unless you find an absolute Occasion for them.

The Settlement on the Alatamaha being laid aside, the Trustees Sr. think there will be no Occasion for further Presents to the Indians for purchasing Land from them, and to obtain their Consent for settling there; and as the Indians have already agreed to settling on the Ogeeche, the Trustees leave it to Your Judgment to dispose of those Presents which You took with You either in Presents to them, or for the use of the Colony as You shall see proper.

As there are already more People than the Trustees know well how to support, they cannot think of sending any more on the Charity without further Supplies from Parliament, therefore no Agents, for engaging Men from Switzerland and Germany can be employ’d.

Sir

The Trustees are very much concern’d that so good a Design as fortifying the Southern Frontier of the Province has not been better hearken’d to; But they will certainly use their best Endeavours, during the Interval of Parliament, to make the Ministry attend to the Importance of rebuilding the Fort at the Forks, or upon some other Part of the Banks of the Alatamaha, as shall be thought the most proper for it, and ordering thither the Independent Company, which was granted to South Carolina, and is now in Carolina.

The Trustees are inclined to believe, that the Disregard, which has been shewn to their Applications has partly proceeded from an Assurance of a General Peace being Established in Europe, by which the Provinces may be thought not to be liable to any immediate Insults from either the French or Spaniards.

The Trustees have received an Accot. from Mr. [Thomas] Causton dated Janry. 20th. 1735/6 of an Uneasiness among the Indians, occasion’d by their Apprehensions of their Lands being taken away from them on the Alatamaha by Violence; But as You Sr. being upon the Spot will have a fuller Account & better Information of this, the Trustees hope for an account of it from You, and have no Doubt but ere this You have removed this Uneasiness and put an End to their Suspicions.

The Trustees have heard with pleasure from Mr. Causton, that Capt. [George] Dunbar arrived safe with the Highlanders on Janry. the 10th. as did Capt. Diamond in the Peter and James from Ireland, and Capt. Dicker in the Allen from Bristol. They hope Sir You will lose no time in bringing back the Highlanders and the other People from the Alatamaha, to settle them where their Provisions may come cheaper to them, where they may be assisted by the Neighbourhood of Savannah, and contribute strongly to the Defence of it. Whereas on the Alatamaha they will be left in too dangerous a Situation, since the Trustees cannot promise themselves to be able soon to send any more People to support them.

Since the Supplies from Parliament come with so much difficulty, and there are but little hopes of any more, the Trustees Sr. believe that You will think it highly proper to oblige the People to the Cultivation of their Lands with all possible Speed & Industry as having nothing else to depend on for their Subsistence.

The Trustees in order to ease you of the many Applications which may be made to You from People, who are desirous of being continued upon the Stores beyond the One Year Covenanted for, have sent their Directions to Mr. Causton upon the same, and You will receive herewith a Copy of the said Directions.⁷⁸

The Common Council of the Trustees have resolved Sr. that a Catechist shall be establish’d at the Town of Savannah; They desire therefore that You will look out among the People settled there a proper Person for such Catechist, to whom the Trustees may pay the Ten pounds p. Ann. paid in by Mr. [John] Burton from an unknown Benefactor, to be continued for five years certain, or during the Life of the said Benefactor.

Benjamin Martyn to James Oglethorpe, April 1, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 208-209, granting land for religious purposes in Georgia and funds for building a church in Savannah. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker and sent from Bristol to be delivered to Oglethorpe by Mathew Brown. Sent a copy by Capt. Scott from London, May 10, 1736.

Sir

The Trustees have ordered me to acquaint You that they have taken into Consideration the several Resolutions made by them in relation to the setting out and cultivating Lands for the Religious Uses of the Colony, and observing that no Grant hath as yet been made of any Lands for the said Purposes, They resolved, in pursuance and in Execution of the said former Resolutions that a Grant should be made under the Seal of the Corporation of Three hundred Acres of Land to certain Trustees, to be appointed, and from time to time to be changed and altered as the Common Council, or the Major part of such of them as shall be for that purpose assembled shall think fit and proper; and that all such Monies, as have been or shall be received for the Religious Uses of the Colony shall be applied with all convenient Speed towards the Cultivating and improving the said Three hundred Acres; and that the next Proceed arising from the Produce and Profits of the said Lands shall be from time to time applied to the Religious Uses of the Colony in general only 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.

The Grant is under the Seal and is transmitted to You with this Letter; The Trustees desire You will order the said Three hundred Acres to be forthwith surveyed, either together, or in Parcels, in the best Spots of Land as yet unsurveyed in the Neighbourhood of the Town of Savannah.

The Trustees have in hand for the Religious Uses in general £ 211. 5. 4 3/4 which is to be applied to the cultivating of the said Three hundred Acres. They desire therefore You will give Directions for the said Cultivation as far as the said Sum shall enable them to proceed.

The Trustees have likewise in hand for building the Church £ 486.13. 4 and there is besides £265.10. Subscribed to be paid one month after Demand, making in the whole £752. 3. 4. They desire Sr. You will transmit as soon as can be a Plan for the said Church, and an Estimate of the Expence. In the meantime they recommend it to you, that it should be a Brick Church and built strong and in such a manner that it may on any sudden Occasion serve for a Place of Defence; and that the Church Yard should be inclosed with a Pallisade and a Ditch.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, April 2, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 210-214, concerning people supplied from the Trustees Store, settlers in Georgia, bills of exchange, Causton’s accounts, and tar sent to the Trustees.

Sir

In my last of the 4th. of February 1735 I mentioned the Receipt of your Letter dated the 7th. of December 1735 and the Remain of Stores taken the 1st. of November before. The Trustees (who have had no Accompt of the Names and Numbers of Persons on the Store since Lady Day 1734) expected that such Remain would have been attended with a List of Persons on the Store at that time. But as no such List has been sent them they require you will send the Names of every Person who have been put on the Store since Lady Day 1734, together with the several times that each respective Person begun to be maintained by the Store. And that You would also send them an Accot. of the Names of every Person who have been reduced in their Allowance from the Store, or have been wholly struck off from having any Maintenance from the Store since Lady Day 1734 together with the several times when each respective Person was so reduced or struck off.

The Trustees now send You positive Directions That no Person whatsoever shall be continued on the Store after the Expiration of a Year’s Maintenance, without particular Order, unless in Cases of absolute Necessity. And where such Necessity shall require any further Continuance beyond the one Year Covenanted for; You are to send a particular Accot. of the Persons Names & Circumstances which require it, from time to time by the first Opportunity That the Trustees themselves may Judge of such Necessity. And I am to acquaint You further That if the Trustees shall find any Person continued on the Store contrary to these Directions; You will be Charged with the Expence thereof and Incurr their highest Displeasure.

The Trustees have had no Accot. from you of the Numbers of Persons who have arrived in Georgia at their own Expence either from England or other parts of Europe, or joined the Colony from any part of America. And as you know those that have been sent on the Charity, the increased Numbers at their own Expence may be Collected from the several Places where they are settled or Inhabit in; and a List of them made alphabetically. Such Accompt would be very Satisfactory, not only to know the Number of Inhabitants in the Province; but also to Satisfy many Inquirys after Masters and Servts. said to be gone to Georgia that may not be there. And when any Person shall leave the Colony, The Trustees desire to be acquainted therewith; and of the true Occasion of such Person’s leaving the Colony That they may be able to make such Person’s Conduct or Reason for so doing appear Satisfactory to those who shall desire to be informed thereof.

On the 13th. of last month the Trustees received your Letter dated the 8th. of December 1735 with the Duplicate of Mr. [Hugh] Bryan’s Accompt Currant, in which Letter You give Advice of a Bill drawn that day in favour of him for 200. £ which Bill has been presented and will be paid when due; and in the same Letter You mention that You had drawn a Bill of a former Date for 100£ to Elisha Foster, without saying of what date, or that you had given any other Advice. This Bill was dated the 24th. of October 1735 and protested; and had been returned to you, but for a Merchant who paid it in Honour of the Bill, and to whom the Trust have been obliged to Pay Interest for it, till they received your said Letter of the 8th. Decr. which mentioned the Bill to have been drawn.

Your Letter dated 20th. of Janry. 1735 with Advice of seven Bills drawn from 5th. Novr. 1735 to the said 20th. of Janry. has been received. But notwithstanding such Letter mentioning seven Bills together; yet each Bill should have been attended with a particular Letter of Advice, for 2 of the Bills in your said Letter mentioned, were presented long before your Letter was received; and had not this Letter been received before they became payable they would have been protested also.

The Trustees at the same time received your Cash Accompts for November and December 1735, and find that on the 1st. of November 1735 You have Charged YourSelf with 700.£ Currency for the 100.£ Bill to Elisha Foster dated 24th. October 1735 and altho’ You say in your Letter of the 8th. of Decr. That You have Accoted. for 30£ Currency received of him for the Course of Exchange, more than the Value; Yet You have not Charged YourSelf with the said 30£ nor can the Course of Exchange be called more than the Value; by reason the Course of Exchange is the real Value. And if any other Bills have been drawn by You for which You have received more than 700£ Currency for 100.£ Sterling, as you have had Opportunity enough for doing; without the difference has been answered to the Trust in the Price of things bought, You are required to send an Accot thereof and to Charge YourSelf with such Difference; And if You have not received more than 7 for 1 when the Course of Exchange has been more, nor had the same made good to the Trust in the Prices of those things that have been purchased; You are to send a Reason for not doing it.

The Trustees not having received Messieurs Jenys and Bakers Accot. with You, cannot Examine your Drafts on them which You Charge YourSelf with; nor do the Trustees require to know how they Pay You Value for the Bills you draw in their favour; Except it is for Goods sold and delivered or particular Cases that require it; For the Trustees Charge You with the Bills You draw on them, and not with your Drafts on others who do not draw on the Trust. And therefore the Charge on You Consists of the Bills You have drawn on the Trust, the Drafts You have made on the following Persons who have drawn Bills on the Trust vizt. Mr. [Isaac] Chardon and Mr. [Samuel] Eveleigh, the Money or Orders on Carolina you have rec’d of Mr. Oglethorpe; and the Drafts on Messrs. Jenys and Baker out of the Duty on Rum or Moneys otherwise received. But if you Continue to Charge YourSelf with the other Drafts on Messrs. Jenys and Baker you must send their Accots. to be Examined at the same time or as soon as may be afterwards; and also Enter in your Cash Accompts your Bills drawn on the Trust in their favour; by way of Charge and Discharge as a double Entry. And if You do so it may prove a more Satisfactory and clearer way for Examining your Transactions with Messrs. Jenys and Baker than without.

As to the several Sums you have Charged Your Self with in December Accot. 1735. Page 54 taken from the Accots. Currant of Thos. Gapen and 12 other Persons I desire Copys of those 13 Accompts Currant.

As to the Discharge part for the said two months I have inclosed You a List of those Articles which want Accompts of Particulars and Explanations and described each particular Defect.

The Merchant who bought the Tarr You sent consigned to the Trustees when he came to Pay for it deducted £0.16. 6 for the Value of 3 Barrels of Water drawn out of the whole Barrels of Tarr which added to the £38.16. 9 Sterling less Produce from the Tarr than the Freight and Charges amoted. to; which I acquainted You of in my last Letter makes the same the Sum of £39.13. 3 which the Bounty on the Tarr, if the same shall be received, is to make good to the Trust.

I desire You will hasten your Answers to all my former Querys, and those I now send You on your Cash Accompts; That I may be as early as possible in my making up the Trustees Annual Accompt ending the 9th. of June next.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, April 8, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 214, concerning goods shipped via South Carolina to Georgia.

Sir

The above Goods⁷⁹ being at Bristol It was found Cheaper to Ship them there for Carolina, in the way to Georgia than to send them to London first to Go with the Saw Mill. For the Freight will be no more from Bristol to Carolina than from Bristol to London.

I have therefore sent them Consigned as above and wrote to Messrs. Jenys and Baker, who forward this Letter to You. That if Mathew Brown who comes over with some Goods for Mr. [John] Tuckwell sets forward for Georgia with the things that go up with him the above Casks & Chest may Come in the same Pettiaugua Consigned to You.

Harman Verelst to Isaac Chardon, May 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 215-216, concerning Chardon’s accounts with the Trustees. By Capt. Scott.

Sir

I received your Letter dated 10th. Feby. last, and observe thereon That although you may have agreed for many Parcels of Goods or Provisions & Purchased the same for the use of the Colony of Georgia which have been paid for by Mr. [Thomas] Causton’s Draughts on You, and although Mr. Causton & You who knew the same to be so, might easily have distinguished and for aught I know may yet distinguish, which of the Draughts Mr. Causton drew on You; were for things so Purchased & Agreed for by You. Yet I can’t perceive how any other Person perusing your Accots. & those of Mr. Causton can be capable of making such Distinction, from any Entrys in either of your said Accompts; without knowing what could be bought at Port Royal or at Georgia, & what must, by not being bought there of Necessity be bought by You; and that not by the Nature of the Species only but also by knowing the Persons Names of whom such Species must be bought. And as I am unacquainted with these Facts, let my Inclination of serving You be ever so great; I can with no Certainty state the same. But chuse rather to recommend it to You to Consider the large Transactions You have had and the Benefit by Bills on the Trust Accoted. for at one Standard, notwithstanding the Variations of Exchange and that such Remonstrances may have an Acquiescing weight and determine You to Submit to the Accot. I sent You the 25th. of Septr. last, which was Stated with all possible Care and approved of by the Common Council of the Trustees.

I have Carried on that Accot. to your further Transactions for the Trust, and inclosed You the State of it. The Balance whereof Mr. Oglethorpe is wrote to to Pay You on your delivering up all your Vouchers & answering the Querys to him. The Bill therefore of £38.17. 2 Sterling drawn by You the 4th. of Febry. last & payable to Messrs. Peter & J. C. Simond will be returned You, as well, & for the same reason as your Bill of 300£ dated 26th. June 1735 was; of which I advised You the 17th. of Janry. last.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethrope, May 15, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 216-217, concerning Trustee payments in Georgia. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker.

Sir

The Trustees received a Letter from Messrs. Jenys & Baker dated 27th. Febry. last giving Advice of their having drawn a Bill for £ 342.17. 2 Sterling Value of 2,400 £, Currency paid by them the 10th. of Janry. last for Col. [William] Bull’s Bill on them dated 11th. Decr. last to Thomas Drayton Esqr. for Cattle bought of him for the use of the Colony. Which Bill the Trustees have paid. I thought proper to acquaint You thereof That You might take up Col. Bull’s Bill & discharge Messrs. Jenys & Baker for their Bill on the Trust; and Col. Bull’s Bill by Mr. Drayton’s Accot. of Particulars and Receipt thereon, or a Duplicate thereof; to remain a Voucher with the Trustees.

On Wednesday last the Trustees received a Bill drawn by You for 100.£ dated at Tybee Road 3d. March last for 735£ Currency received of Richd. Woodward & Co. as p. Advice; but no Advice is yet received. I observe Sir that the Bill is wrote by Mr. [Thomas] Causton who had received Directions to draw no more Bills on the Trust but apply to You on any Occasions; which Bill I suppose you signed at his Request & that he received the Value for Use at Savannah. If so, please Sir to take Vouchers from her for your Discharge; for his Accot. must be closed at the time of your Arrival with respect to Bills on the Trust drawn by him. I have wrote to him to acquaint him therewith & sent him all the Querys made on his Accots. and hope for speedy Answers together with his last Accot. of Bills drawn to 3d. Feby. 1735 & the Discharge thereto.

The Trustees being very desirous to put an End to the drawing Bills on them, by introducing the Georgia Bills to be Issued for the Occasions of the Colony; & sending more for the like purpose as their abilitys will permit; are in hopes & earnestly recommend it to You That their desires may be accomplished, by the Issuing those Bills, and not having occasion to draw on England, but rather to write for such Value in those Bills as the necessary Occasions of the Colony shall require, Si at the same time keep within the Compass of the Trustees Abilitys, to be sent over for your Issuing, or such other proper Person or Persons of Integrity as you shall think adviseable to be Intrusted therewith, whose Name or Names if not yourself the Trustees must know to fill up Bills to for that Purpose, and they Desire to be acquainted of what Value or different Values the Bills most useful ought to be made.

I have Inclosed you Mr. [Isaac] Chardon’s Accot. Current Stated from 25 June 1735 from his own Accots. sent to the Trust & Copys of his Letter to me & mine on the back thereof; on which State the Trustees desire You will Pay him the Balance he answering the Querys and delivering up all his Vouchers to You.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 218, concerning Causton’s bills of exchange and asking him to close his accounts with the Trust. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker.

Sir

Since my last of 2d. April 1736 acknowledging the Rect. of your Letter of 20th. Janry. 1735 the Trustees have had 3 Bills of yours come to hand, whereof they have rec’d no Advice. The 1 for 200.£ to P. Jenys Esqr. & Co. dated 26 Janry. 1735 & the other 2 for 100.£ ea. to Robt. Ellis dated 3d. Feby. 1735. The 1st. of them will become payable 17th. Inst. & the other 2 the 24th. & 25th. Inst. & if no Advice comes to hand before they become payable they must be protested & returned.

As Mr. Oglethorpe is arrived & you must apply to him for any Occasions that are absolutely necessary; I desire you will close your Accots. with the Trust and send it with all Expedition, together with Answers to all the Querys I have sent You; that I may balance yr. Accots. & state your Discharge in a true light, for till that is done you remain Accotable. for all the Bills you have drawn on the Trust.

Harman Verelst to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, May 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 218, concerning bills of exchange drawn on the Trust.

Gentlemen

The Trustees received your Letter dated 27th. Feby. last with the Quars. Accot. of the Duty on Rum to 1st. Deer, last & giving Advice of your Bill on them for 342.17. 2 Sterlg. which has been duly honoured.

Mr. Oglethorpe is wrote to, to take up Col. [William] Bull’s Drat, on you & discharge you of your Drat, on the Trust thereby.

The Trustees have been favoured with your Accot. of Mr. [Thomas] Causton’s Drats. on you out of the Duty on Rum sent 29th. Octr. last; But have rec’d no Accot. from you of Mr. Causton’s Drats. on you for Bills drawn on the Trust by him, since that ending 25th. April 1735 whereon there was a Balance of 1,269. 8. 3 1/2 Curcy. stated due to you and as several Bills have been drawn since by him in your favour, an Accot. Curt, with him for the use of the Trust is much wanted since the sd. 25th. April.

I beg the favour you will forward the herewith inclosed to Mr. Oglethorpe & Mr. Causton by the 1st. opportunity.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, May 17, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 219-220, concerning bills of exchange, sola bills, and ships going to Georgia. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, by Capt. Scott.

Sir

Since my last, there are two other Bills come to hand dated the 3d. of March 1735 made by Mr. [Thomas] Causton and signed by You, these are for 200£ each the one to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. & the other to Charles Purry; for the first of them no Letter of Advice is received, & for the other Mr. Causton writes word he received it from you to defray the necessary Expences of the Colony; & that the Letter of Advice of that Bill was wrote by Mr. [Francis] Moore but he omitted to get it signed by you. Mr. Causton is silent as to the 100 £ Bill to Richard Woodward & Co. mentioned in my last & the above 200.£ Bill to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. both of the said 3d. of March, altho’ the Three Bills were wrote by himself; Your Letters by Capt. Thomson are Come to hand & to be laid before the Trust next Wednesday, they mention nothing of the said Bills of the 3d. of March which amount to 500 £ Sterling. But your Letter of the 28th. of March gives Advice of two Bills to Robert Ellis of the 27th. of March; the one for 97.£ & the other for 100.£ but of no other Bills drawn by You.

There are several Georgia Bills of Exchange come to hand and are to be Checqued this morning. Mr. Solomon Merret who has some of them was with me before he rec’d them to know, if in Case a Bill was lost how Payment would be then made. I told him it would be paid in the same manner as in the Case of a Bank Note lost; That is by a proper Description thereof and attestation of their being shipt & an Indempnity Given. He said he would acquaint his Correspondent Mr. Hill at Charles Town of it, and was pleased therewith for that would save the Charge of Insuring the Bills to England. I understand that Freight has been paid for the Georgia Bills sent to England, which I cannot perceive any Occasion for, by reason If they are sent in Letters, they will come as safe as by the Captain’s signing a Bill of Lading for them; for tho’ they are to Bearer after Issued in Georgia, yet they must be Checqued at the Office in England & marked there before Payment of them; where all necessary Inquirys will be made relating to the Property of them in the Person who brings or sends them; and there are 30 days after being Checqued before Payment, if doubts should arise of any of them being not legally Possessed. This Care is certainly sufficient to make them of equal Safety with Bills of Exchange, and as their Certainty of being paid will always exceed that of a Bill of Exchange, by reason of the money being reserved for Payment of them. The use & Ease of them must consequently soon appear, and I don’t doubt but in time Applications may be made from Carolina to have their Returns to England by this means, for Value to be paid the Trust for further Issues at an Allowance for such Returns. And if but at l.£ p. Cent it would defray the Charge; and by large Circulations the Trust would gain.

Captain Thomson is to return to Georgia the first of next month with some Passengers at their own Expence, and the Saw Mill & Millwrights, for the Ship intended to bring Servants from Holland does not Go, being too late in the Year for getting them.

I rec’d your Letter dated the 17th. March & will take Care of the Papers that were inclosed relating to the Saltzburghers.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 17, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 221-222, requesting clarification of bills of exchange and accounts. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, by Capt. Scott.

Sir

I rec’d yours dated 10th. March last, & the Trustees have rec’d your Cash Accot. for January 1735. & your Letters dated the 8th. & 10th. of said March. I observe that neither of them Letters give any Advice of the following Bills drawn by You on the Trust, vizt. one for 200.£ the 26th. Janry. 1735 to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. & which You have not Charged yourSelf with in your said Cash Accot. for that month, And two other Bills for 100.£ each the 3d. Feby. 1735 to Robert Ellis, all which Bills mention as p Advice & no Advice is come of any of them notwithstanding the so often repeated Directions that a Letter of Advice should come with every Bill by the same Ship. There is two other Bills come to hand wrote by You & signed by Mr. Oglethorpe 3d. March 1735 the one for 100.£ to Richard Woodward & Co. & the other for 200.£ to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. which mention as p Advice, but no Advice of either of them is received; and which You are to blame for, by reason as you wrote the Bills & gott them signed you might have wrote the Letter of Advice referred to in those Bills & gott that Signed also to have come together. Therefore the whole 700.£ Bills will be Noted for Non Acceptance & I expect will be returned Protested for Non Payment when the 30 days expire; For the Trustees cannot answer the Payment of them without Advice, nor will they bear the Charges of their Return to Georgia arising by such Neglect which will be very great. In your Letter of the 8th. of March you mention you received of Mr. Oglethorpe the 3d. of March Bills of Exchange in favour of Mr. Charles Purry for 200.£ Sterling to defray the necessary Expences of the Colony (which were wrote by you also) and that Advice of that Bill was wrote by Mr. [Francis] Moore but omitted to be signed by Mr. Oglethorpe. That Bill is also come to hand. But why should you mention Advice of that Bill only being wrote when there were two other of the same date for 100.£ & 200. £ before mentioned; whereof you take no Notice at all.

I have Inclosed You the Observations on your Discharge to the January Cash Accot. & desire your speedy Answers, And to have your Accots. closed and you discharged of the whole & the last Bills you drew. Those Bills drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe he Accots. for to the Trust & you must Accot. to him for whatever You have rec’d since your last Bills on the Trust, either from him or any one else.

[P.S.] In the Accots. you make out to Mr. Oglethorpe don’t use the Words on Accot. or for Accot. to Payments that are in full for particular Services or that can be described without the word Accot; for that word is only proper to be used where a Payment is made in part or on Accot. till the whole is paid for the Business done & till then the Person to whom such Payment is made stands answerable for the same.

Benjamin Martyn to Secretary of State Lord Harrington, May 19, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 223, acquainting him of the Trustees’ lack of funds to send new colonists to Georgia.

My Lord

The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have order’d me to acquaint Your Lordship, that they have receiv’d Your Lordship’s Commands, with the Letter from his Excellency Mr. [Horace] Walpole;⁸⁰ and the Memorial inclosed therewith; And they humbly desire Your Lordship will lay before his Majesty the utter inability they are in to engage in any new Expence for the transporting of any more Foreigners or others to Georgia; The whole of the Fund of what is already in their hands, and what they are to receive from the late Grant in Parliament being far from sufficient to compleat the Settlements already begun.

Benjamin Martyn to James Oglethorpe, June 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 224-232, concerning Salzburger settlers, removal of Ebenezer to Red Bluff, Spanish and Indian relations, road to Darien, removal of people from St. Simons Island, bills of exchange, and sola bills.

Sir

The Trustees have receiv’d Your Letter dated March 16, 1736 as likewise that of March 28th. with the several Letters inclosed of Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius, Mr. [Philip Georg Frederich] Von Reck, and Mr. [John] Vat, and, after taking the same into consideration, have order’d me to acquaint You, that they Desire, that the Credit which You have given the last Transport of Saltzburghers should be made up according to the full Allowance of £7.15. 1 1/2 the Men, and £5.11.11 p. Head for the Women and Children for Provisions for the Year, as if they had gone with You to St. Simons; and That the first and second Transport of Saltzburghers (whose times of Maintenance are expired, and who are moved to the Settlement at the Red Bluff,) should be allowed £3. 3. 6. p Head for a Year from the time of their being settled at the Red Bluff.

They desire likewise that the Credit which You have given the last Transport of Saltzburghers of twenty Shillings p Head for Tools should be made up in Quantity of Tools and other Necessaries for settling themselves and Families as Part of the last Embarkation.

The Trustees Sir apprehend that the true foundation of the Saltzburghers Uneasiness was the badness of their Land at Ebenezer; therefore since they are removed to the Red Bluff, and at their own Desire, the Trustees consent to their being settled there; and hope they will now be perfectly satisfied.

That they may have no reasonable Ground of Complaint, the Trustees have consider’d the different Articles of Mr. Bolzius’s Petition to you, and they entirely agree with what You wrote to Mr. Bolzius, that the Saltzburghers may work Six by Six in Parties instead of working all together; and with respect to the Storehouse, the Trustees are likewise satisfied with their building a Hutt for the Publick Stores till after Planting time, Mr. Bolzius being answerable for the Stores.

As to the Grievance which Mr. Bolzius complains of Vizt. Twenty Gardens being reserved on each side of the Town for the Trust; The Trustees are willing to indulge them in removing of this likewise; for from the Notice which they take of the particular Situation of the Saltzburghers new Settlement, they are of opinion, that there should be no Reserve of Trust Lands on this side of the Ebenezer Creek and the River Savanah (by which the Settlement is bounded and too much confin’d) till all the Lots for the Saltzburghers at present settling in the said Town shall be run out and allotted to them. But at the same time, the Trustees Sr. recommend it to you to get the Indians Consent to a greater Extent of Land beyond the Ebenezer Creek; and in case any further Concession of Lands can be gained, then they think that an equal Quantity of Lands on the other side of the said Creek should be reserved for the Trust; Which the Saltzburghers can by no reason complain of, since the Trustees favour them by making no Reserve on this side the Creek, till they are fully provided for.

To make them still more easy, the Trustees consent that Mr. Vat should be removed from amongst them, especially as it is his own Desire by a Letter dated March 10th. 1735/6. And lest the Restlessness of Mr. Von Reek’s temper should have any influence on the Saltzburghers, the Trustees desire that his Lot of 500 Acres may be laid out at as great a distance from them as possible.

The Trustees Sr. refer it to Your Judgement whether it would not be right to remove such of their Buildings as can be removed from Ebenezer to the Red Bluff, unless You should think proper to settle any other People there, or unless the River by those Houses should be found a convenient Place for erecting the Saw Mill which they send by this Ship, since then the Houses might serve as Habitations for those who are to work the said Mill.

As the Iron Pots for the Saltzburghers in the last Embarkation were sent up to the Southward, on a supposition that they would be settled there, the Trustees have order’d a sufficient Quantity to be sent to them by this Ship; They have likewise sent to Mr. Bolzius as an acknowledgement for his Care of the Saltzburghers a Present in Apparel, and another to Mr. [Israel] Gronau his Fellow Labourer.

Mr. [Robert] Hucks says that You need not be under any Concern about the Beer which You thought was spoilt, for it will all recover.

The Trustees read with great Uneasiness that Paragraph in Your Letter to the Lieutenant Governor of So. Carolina dated March 28th. 1736; Where You say, that Your private Advices from St. Augustine inform You, that they have sent to the Havanah, and suspect that it is for Succours in order to drive the settlement at St. Simons away. They observe with pleasure the great Caution you used in not suffering any of the Creek Indians to pass over the River; and they hope you will continue the same caution in avoiding any thing that may occasion a Rupture or Misunderstanding between the two Crowns on Account of Indian Claims.

The Trustees observe in Your Letter that Mr. Walter Augustine has run a Traverse Line from the Town of Savanah to the Town of Darien upon the Alatamaha, in order to know where to lay out the Road between the two Rivers, which will be 90 Miles. They earnestly desire Sr. that You will put an immediate stop to the making of the said Road, which will be an Expence vastly too great for them to bear, and in the present weak Condition of the Colony would expose the Settlements on the Savanah to any Insults from the Spaniards at St. Augustine, who may be induced to make an Attack when the Passage is laid open for them; whereas at present the thickness of the Woods, and the Difficulty of passing the Savanahs is a Protection and Defence against any such Attacks.

And here Sr. the Trustees have order’d me not only to send You a Copy of their last Letter dated Aprill 1st. 1736, and sent by Mr. Matthew Brown from Bristol, of which a Copy was likewise sent by Capt. Scot, but they have also order’d me to repeat their Desire, that You will remove the People from the Settlement of St. Simons, and settle them at or near the Savanah, because however right the Design was at first of settling them on the Alatamaha, Circumstances are so varied, that the Trustees are unanimously of opinion, that Design cannot now be proceeded on, because the Parliament have by the smallness of their Grant so stinted them, that they cannot send over any new supplies, and the weakness of the Settlement without such supplies may be an Invitation to the Spaniards to disturb it; Because likewise the People will with much more difficulty and greater Expence be supplied with Provision till they can raise it themselves; and because the Trustees cannot bear the Expence of building Forts, maintaining Ferry Boats, and settling Villages to keep open the Communications; whereas the Settlements, when more closely united, will be of considerable Strength to Each other.

Since the Trustees Letter of Aprill 1st. to You, they have receiv’d Advices, that there is not a sufficient Depth of Water to carry Ships of any considerable Burthen over the Bar of the River Alatamaha; which was the chief Reason for their ever entertaining any thoughts of making a Settlement so far removed from Savanah, and which cannot be maintained but at an Expence, which they are by no means in a Capacity of supporting, as you will see by the State of their Cash, which is herewith sent to You. As the only hopes the Trustees had of inducing the Publick to contribute any further to the Execution of the Scheme You had form’d, were founded on the Advantages to the Nation of a Port capable of entertaining Ships of Force; They now think it necessary for them to direct an Alteration in the Measures, which under less Disadvantages and Obstacles they would have thought proper to have pursued.

The Trustees Sir do consider, that Your having settled the People at St. Simons has already been attended with a pretty great Expence; But they rather chuse to drop that Design, than prosecute it at an Expence that cannot be ascertain’d, as the several Branches of it cannot be foreseen, and by which they may not only deceive the People whom they have sent, but be deceiv’d themselves.

You Sir and You only can conceive the great Uneasiness which the Trustees feel on finding themselves incapable of carrying into Execution the Plan which You had form’d; and their only hope is, that, as You are acquainted with their Inability, Your Conduct and good Management will prevent the ill Consequences, which such an Alteration might otherwise produce; amongst which, that which they have most reason to fear is, lest by a sudden Departure from Frederica, any advantage might be given to the Spaniards in the Treaty which You are now carrying on with them in settling the Frontiers, by their imagining that Great Britain would not insist on her Claim to a Country which her Subjects had orders to desert. If therefore upon this Account You shall judge it necessary to continue the Settlement at Frederica, the Trustees desire that, to avoid any further Expence, it may not be increased by the addition of any more People than what are already settled there, and the Independent Company; that, in case the Parliament shall hereafter require an Inspection of their Accounts, it may be seen that they have run into no further Expence on that Settlement, than in building such Forts as are absolutely necessary for the security of the Province, and for maintaining the honour and Property of Great Britain.

Sr.

The Trustees have order’d me to acquaint You, that they were greatly alarm’d at seeing the Bills lately drawn on them by You, and they could no other way account for the drawing of those Bills, but believing the Sola Bills of Exchange which you took with You had not obtain’d sufficient Credit in South Carolina; But they are glad to find that they are very acceptable in So. Carolina by having£253 Value thereof just come to hand, and they are certainly inform’d, that You may have Sums to what Value You please in South Carolina for the said Bills, and possibly at an Advantage.

Some Merchants have attended the Board to know whether the Sola Bills of Exchange (in case of their being lost at sea, or by any other accident,) would on proper Certificates being produced of their being issued in Georgia be made good by the Trustees; The Common Council have therefore thought it necessary for the satisfaction of the Merchants, the Credit of the said Bills, and the honour of the Trust to come to a Resolution; That an Advertisement shall be publish’d in the South Carolina Gazette in the inclosed Words, a Copy whereof is sent to Messrs. Jenys and Baker for that purpose, that the issuing of the said Bills may be more facilitated

The Trustees have just receiv’d a Bill of Exchange drawn by Mr. Thos. Causton dated Deer. 27th. 1735 for £85.10. 7. Sterl. which they have order’d to be accepted and paid; and likewise a Bill of Exchange dated March 3, 1735 drawn by You for £ 200 Sterl. payable to Mr. Charles Purry or Order; Both which Bills they have rec’d Advice of, and order’d to be accepted and paid.

They have likewise receiv’d a Bill of Exchange dated March 3, 1735 for £100 payable to Mr. Richard Woodward or Order; and another Bill of Exchange of the same Date for £200 payable to Paul Jenys Esqr. and Co. or Order, both drawn by You. But they have thought proper not to accept the said Bills for Payment, not only because they have receiv’d no Advice of the said Bills, but because the Trustees have made the Sola Bills of Exchange to answer all Demands, and on the making of the said Bills they did resolve to have no others drawn on them; and Sr. they do desire You from time to time to acquaint them what Bills will be necessary to answer the Expences of the Colonv, and likewise to specify the particular Uses and Services for which the said Bills will be wanted, and they do desire that you will give Directions to the proper Officer from time to time to transmit an Account of the particular Services for which the said Bills were or shall be issued. And by the first opportunity they will send you Sola Bills to the Value of one thousand Pounds.

P.S. The Trustees have just receiv’d Sr. Your Letter by Capt. Piercy with the Memorial Letters and Depositions inclosed; and have order’d the same to be immediately laid before his Grace the Duke of Newcastle.

June 17, 1736.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, June 17, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 232-240, concerning bills of exchange, sola bills, Trustee finances, clergymen in Georgia, new settlers, building a church in Georgia, and supplies for the Salzburgers. By the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson.

Sir

I rec’d your Letters dated the 2d. & 17th. of March last, and having Communicated them to the Trustees, they have directed me to write to You in the following manner. That tho’ in the first of those Letters you mention a Sett of Bills drawn by You dated the said 2d. of March for 200. £ Sterling payable to Col. [William] Bull or order, and for part of the Sloop Midnights Cargo which belonged to the Owners, 4 other Setts of Bills also drawn by You for 500.£ Sterling. Yet neither of these Bills have been presented.

That they have received your Letters of the 13th. & 27th. February last; & of the 16th. & 28th. of March last, in the last whereof you mention 2 Bills amoting. to £197 — drawn by You to Robert Ellis for the New York Sloop’s Cargoe &c. for which they have received a Bill of Parcels, but neither of these Bills are yet come, those Letters in February were not received till the 29th. of last month.

The Trustees have had the 3 following Bills presented to them, which your said Letters make no mention of. They are all dated the 3d. of March last and wrote by Mr. [Thomas] Causton but signed by You. The one for 100.£ to Richd. Woodward and Co. the other for 200.£ to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. & the other for 200.£ to Charles Purry making together 500.£ Sterling. As to the last mentioned Bill, Mr. Causton sent the Trustees a Letter dated 8th. March 1735. That Advice of that Bill was wrote, but Mr. [Francis] Moore who wrote the Letter omitted to have you sign it, who went that moment to the Southward. But Mr. Causton is silent as to the other two Bills. The Trustees have therefore ordered Payment of the Bill for 200.£ to Charles Purry; but the other two they ordered should be returned for want of Advice.

The Trustees last Monday received your Letter of Advice for the said 200.£ Bill, with your reason for drawing it, rather than at that time to Issue too many of the Georgia Bills. They at the same time received your Letter dated the 17th. of April last wherein you mention That it is necessary for you to draw for £300. to support the People at Savannah pursuant to the General Disposition, which general Disposition Mr. Causton’s Draughts have more than Swallowed up, they having amounted since the 20th. of November last to £ 2,442.12.10. and that Disposition was made above a month before that time. And you also mention a Bill drawn by You on the 12th. of April last for £50. to Mr. Caleb Davis, whereby the whole Bills beforementioned to be drawn by You amount to £1747.

The Trustees Sr. by your Letter of the 27th. of Febry. observe That the Merchants are very greedy of the Georgia Bills; and they hoped when they made out their Sola Bills it would have prevented the Occasion of drawing on them. They observe also your reason for the 200.£ drawn to Mr. Charles Purry the 3d. of March last, rather than your Issuing too many of their Sola Bills at once. And notwithstanding the latter it would have been more acceptable to the Trust to have received advice of your having Issued their said Bills than of your drawing on them. For as to the Bills so Issued you and they were both sure of the money to answer them; But for the Bills drawn, neither you nor they could be certain of Ability to Pay them; and the latter happens to be the Case, as appears by the inclosed State of their Cash whereby their Deficiency to answer your said Draughts amounts to £1367. 9. 8 1/4.

This State of the Trustees Deficiency of Cash and the small Supply from Parliament in the last Session which is not yet received, makes it absolutely necessary to stop all the Expences of Rangers and Workmen, & they hope you will make some Saving by Discharging those (You estimated the Charge of for a year as part of the 26000.£) before the said year is up, which may be applied to the better Cultivation of Trust Lands for from the Produce of Trust Lands the Colony’s Support must hereafter arise. The Trustees hope the Presents you took with you for the Indians will be found sufficient, for they can bear no Expences but those that are for the well settling the Persons already sent; and they desire that no further Publick Charges may accrue either at Savannah or Frederica. The Incident Charges of the Colony when you was in Georgia before amounted to £209.11. 2 1/4 and the Rewards for Services there to £209.14.10. And the Trustees have in an Estimate of Charges to be defrayed with £3,150. in Sola Bills they intend to make out and send you when the 10,000.£ is received, Provided for £ 245.18.10 for the Contingent Expences of the Colony at present.

The Georgia Bills that are come to England amount to £356. And several Merchants who have sent them to be Checqued having desired to know what they are to do in case of Loss by Sea. The Trustees have for the Satisfaction of Merchants who take their Sola Bills agreed to the inclosed Advertizement, Whereby the Security and Credit of their said Bills will be sufficiently known by having Money always reserved to Pay them, which a Bill of Exchange drawn on England has no such Certainty to recommend it. But Sir with regard to the Trust as well as your Self these Sola Bills are of the greatest Use, for by Carrying with them the Trustees Ability to Pay them, and their Inability to Pay any others. The Return of Draughts on a Drawer is prevented, and the Trustees enabled to be always within Compass of their Cash and not to be lyable to any Expence that is unprovided for; and the Colony conducted in such manner as the Trustees abilitys will guide them.

The Trustees have received from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge the Sum of £50 which they desire you will Pay to Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius, for his, Mr. [Israel] Gronau, and the Schoolmaster’s Salarys for half a year ending the 1st. of November next, and take his Receipt for the same; they will send you the Value in Georgia Bills.

And as the Trustees have received Money from several Benefactors for the Maintenance of the Missionaries who went with you to Convert to Christianity the Native Indians in Georgia. They desire you will pay Mr. Charles Wessley and Mr. [Benjamin] Ingham 50.£ a piece and take their Receipts for the same. And as the Incorporated Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts have agreed to Continue to Mr. John Wesley from Lady Day last the £ 50 a year they gave Mr. [Samuel] Quincy & which they will Pay to him to that time. The Trustees think it right that Mr. John Wesley should have a year’s Salary advanced him and they will receive it from the Incorporated Society in Repayment. And they will send You the said £150 Value in Georgia Bills.

It is proper Sir to remind you of the 200. £ Benefaction Given to the persecuted German Protestants in Georgia to be applied and distributed in Sums of Forty Shillings a family. Whereof 32. £ was paid in England for the sixteen under the care of Mr. [David] Nitschman and 20. £ has been since paid for Mr. [August Gottlieb] Spangenberg’s Bill on You, as an Application of the said Sum to the ten under his Care. The Residue being 148. £ The Trustees desire you will apply to seventy four of the Saltzburgh Familys who are most deserving; and get a Certificate from Mr. Bolzius their Minister of the Application of the same; to discharge the Trust of the said 148.£ and You will receive the Value in Georgia Bills.

As to the £10. paid into the Trust for Richard Lawley, and the £ l. 1. 0 to Richard Hart Servant to William Abbot, The Trustees desire to be discharged therefrom, by your Paying Richard Lawley the £6. 5. 0 due to him after deducting the £3.15. 0 paid here for Insuring his Goods by your Direction and taking his Rect. for the said 10.£ so applied to him, and your Paying also the £1. 1. 0 to Richard Hart & taking his Rect. for the same, which two Sums are made part of the 3,150. £ in Sola Bills to be sent you.

The said Sola Bills will be filled up to You for Issuing in Georgia and consist of

The Services the said Bills are made out for are as follows. Vizt.

The Trustees have sent you by this Ship a large Quantity of strong Beer, Spice, Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Soape, Rape Oil⁸¹ & Cotton Wick as part of the next year’s Maintenance of the last Settlers who arrived with you. The Invoyce and Bill of Lading whereof and of the Saw Mill and other things on board the Two Brothers you have inclosed.

The Box containing 22 dozen of Stockings the Benefaction of Henry Archer Esqr. The Trustees desire may be sold for Indian Corn, to the Settlers that will Pay for them therein, or what else may be for the benefit of the Store.

If you would have any Cheese or other Provision towards the next year’s Maintenance of the last Settlers either to be sent from England, or Ireland, or contracted for from Philadelphia; please to acquaint the Trust thereof.

The Passengers on board the Two Brothers on the Trustees Accot. are Benjamin Deykin, his Wife and Man Servant who were accompted as part of the last Imbarkation and to have a fifty acres Lot.

Richard Cooper and James Smither the two Millwrights the former of whom has a very good Character for his Capacity, and to whom the Trust ordered Eight Guineas in Consideration of his Loss of time, in waiting for an Opportunity of going with the Saw Mill directly for Georgia; and the other was allowed four Guineas for his Subsistance at eight pence a day for the same time.

And there is a young Lad bound to the Trust for 10 years whose Indenture I have inclosed, his Name is John Sims and is aged between 11 & 12 his Brother aged about 14 goes over a Servant to Mr. William Williamson which occasioned his Desire to Go. The Trustees think it proper to appoint him to Mr. John Wesley for 2 years to go of Errands or do any thing for him, being a sprightly Lad; and afterwards to work in the Cultivation of Trust Lands.

The Passengers at their own Expence are Isaac Young & family. He is a Miller & Malster and recommended by Mr. Alderman [George] Heathcote. Isaac Young the father has a Grant of 100d. Acres and his Son Isaac is to have a fifty Acres Lot being of Age.

Mr. William Williamson and Alexr. Sims his Servant to settle on a fifty Acres Lot at Savannah.

Mr. William Aglionby who has a Grant of 100d. Acres & whose Servants are sent for to Scotland to follow.

Mr. William Wightman & William Hoperaft his Servant who is to settle upon a fifty Acres Lot.

And Mr. Patrick Graham a Surgeon who has a Grant of 100d. Acres & whose Servants are to come from Scotland.

There is one James Corneck also on board a Plaisterer whose Father paid his Passage and he is to work for his Living.

Mr. Adam Anderson desired me to mention to You That if one Mr. Richard Kent (the Son of Clement Kent of Thatcham in Berkshire Esqr. a Justice of Peace & formerly Member for Reading and High Sheriff of the County) should joyn you in Georgia, he should take it very kind in you to encourage his Settling there; he has been twice in the East Indies, and also in the West Indies on board a man of War with the King’s Letter. I believe Mr. Page who lives in Spring Garden spoke to me of the same Person also, he mentioning one who answered the above Description & whom for his father’s Sake be desired to have settled in Georgia.

I put half an hhd. of Vinegar and a Brush to sprinkle it with and a Stone Bottle of Theracle on board the Two Brothers for use in the Voyage under the Care of Mr. [Patrick?] Graham.

The Trustees have received an Instruction from the Queen as Guardian of the Kingdom to Cause the King’s Order to be Published in Georgia for Praying for the Princess of Wales, and you receive a Copy thereof inclosed; That the same may be Complied with accordingly by all the Ministers of the several Congregations in the Province of Georgia.

The Trustees have received from several Benefactors for building Churches in Georgia the Sum of £316.14. 9.

They therefore desire to have a Plan for a Church at Savannah and to know the Charge thereof. And as they have £346. 5. 4 3/4 to be applied for Cultivating Lands for Religious Uses, They desire you would employ proper Persons for such Cultivation and send the Trustees word what Money you shall want for that purpose & Sola Bills shall be sent to that Value.

Since I begun this Letter two Bills have been presented drawn by You the 20th. of February 1735 to David Provoost for sundry Provisions landed at the Alatamaha the one for £ 299.10. 1 and the other for 70.£ which I suppose to be part of the 500. £ in Bills for the Sloop Midnight’s Cargo mentioned in your Letters of the 27th. of Febry. & 2d. of March last.

The Saltzburghers who went over with You and settled with the other Saltzburghers having wanted the Iron Potts allotted them as part of the Imbarkation by being carried with other Stores to the Southward, The Trustees have agreed they should be supplied at Savannah with 20 Iron Potts and 5 Furnaces and 5 Trivats; and for that purpose I have inclosed a Direction to Johnny Brownfield who is Factor for Mr. [John] Tuckwell, to deliver that Number to you on your Order; which the Trustees desire may be to Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius, and they are to Pay Mr. Tuckwell for them here on Advice of Mr. Bolzius’s Receiving them or you for the Saltzburgher’s Use.

I have wrote to Mr. [Thomas] Causton and sent him one of the Copys of the Bill of Lading signed by the Captain, in case you should be at any distance from Savannah, that he may discharge the said Bill of Lading for your Use, and not detain the Ship at any Charge to the Trust.

Another Bill was presented to day for 30.£ drawn by You the 20th. of February 1735. to David Provoost for sundry Provisions landed at the Alatamaha which I suppose to be part of the 500.£ in Bills before mentioned.

Sir

Another Bill was presented this 18th. of June 1736 for £110. 8. 6 drawn by You 20th. Febry. 1735 to Captn. Thomas Barnes for sundry Provisions landed at the Alatamaha which compleats the 4 Bills of that date mentioned as aforesaid but amount to £9.18. 7. above the 500.£ mentioned, and will increase the Total of Bills drawn by You and the Deficiency of Cash that Sum.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, June 18, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 241-243, asking for clarification of Causton’s accounts and supplies sent to Oglethorpe. By the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson.

Sir

The Trustees received your Letter dated 14th. April 1736 and your Cash Accot. for February last, wherein you Charge yourself with several Sums from particular Persons taken from their Accots. Current, but do not send me Copys of those Accots. and you take Credit for Payments which are not fully described for what Services, and particularly Supported by Copys of Bill of Parcels. I therefore desire you will review your said Cash Accompt that I may have all necessary Explanations sent over in the same manner as I have particularly desired on your former Cash Accots. which are to be closed between the Trustees and you. As to the Charge thereof to the last Bills you drew dated 3d. of Febry. 1735 and the Discharge thereto.

Your new Accot. Commencing from Mr. Oglethorpe’s arrival is an Imprest Accompt in discharge of what Sola Bills or other Effects you receive of him which you must discharge yourself of by Payments by his Directions. The Sola Bills being all for Sterling will bring the Accots. to Sterling also, but you must be Carefull that the Application of them in Payment are Accompted in full Value, & if Stated against Currency to be the full Course of Exchange, for to pay Sterling Bills for Currency at 7 for 1 when the Exchange is 635.£ p Cent advance on Sterling, is lessening their Value, and I observe in your Discharge to the Sola Bills you have paid, You have Computed them so. Whereas a Sola Bill made out by the Trustees is a greater Security for Payment than a Bill of Exchange can be, by reason none are nor will be made out but what Money is reserved to answer. And this method will be Continued to supply the Colony as Necessity shall require, for no more Bills are to be drawn on the Trust.

You said Discharge to the Sola Bills contains Articles which want Particulars to Explain them and therefore you must review it, & send them before you can be discharged, for a Receipt is not a sufficient Discharge without knowing for what paid and having full Particulars of the Occasion for each Payment & the Services fully made out. For the Trustees must Accot. to the Publick for the several Heads of Service and the Expence attending each and support their General Accot. with particular Vouchers. And whatever Moneys have been paid by any Person for them, which are not so particularly made appear, such Person must remain Accomptable to the Trust, till satisfactory Particulars are made out.

The Trustees received the Letter of Advice you inclosed from Mr. Oglethorpe of the Bill he drew the 3d. of March last for 200.£ to Mr. Charles Purry. But they are much Surprized to find that the same Letter did not mention the two other Bills he drew the same day for 100. £ to Richard Woodward & Co. & 200. £ to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. which were wrote by you & Signed by him; and are ordered to be returned for want of Advice, for no one of Mr. Oglethorpe’s Letters mention them nor any of yours.

Captain Thomson who brings you this, brings many Letters to Mr. Oglethorpe, which I desire you will send to him. The Cargo on board is Consigned to Mr. Oglethorpe, as by the Inclosed Bill of Lading; another of which he has also likewise inclosed to him. The Captain is to deliver his Lading at Savannah, & if Mr. Oglethorpe should be at a distance too long for the Captain to be detained, You may discharge the Bill of Lading for the use of Mr. Oglethorpe, and acquaint him thereof, to prevent any Charge arising from the keeping the Ship.

I rec’d a Letter that a Box of Books was to be sent to the Revd. Mr. John Wesley by this Ship from the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, which is not included in the Bill of Lading, but must be delivered freight free.

Benjamin Martyn to Thomas Christie the Recorder, June 23, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 243, inquiring into records of the Town Court of Savannah.

Sir

The Trustees have ordered me to acquaint You that they take notice that no Account has been sent this twelvemonth of any Proceedings of the Town Court, which Neglect they are Surprized at; and they do hereby direct You to make up an Account of the said Proceedings from the date of the last which was sent over; and that for the future You do punctually send them every Quarter of a year an account of the Proceedings. They do likewise direct you to certify to them, whether any Fees have been taken for the issuing and executing any Processes, and if any have been taken, what those Fees were; and likewise what Fees are taken in Goal, and at the Discharge of any Persons from thence.

[P.S.] Your last Accot. of the Proceedings of the Town Court was made up to the 29th. Novr. 1734.

Harman Verelst to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, June 23, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 244-245, concerning lost sola bills and account of duty on rum. By Capt. Ayres.

Gentlemen

I wrote to you by the Two Brothers Capt. William Thomson who sailed last Saturday, acquainting You of the Receipt of your Letter by the Simond Capt. Cornish with the Accompts. inclosed. And I therein sent you an advertizement from the Trustees (of which the inclosed is a Copy) to be Printed in the South Carolina Gazette. The Occasion of it is to Satisfy Merchants what will be done in case of Loss at Sea of any of the Trustees Sola Bills of Exchange, which are the only Bills that will be paid by the Trust.

As Capt. Thomson goes to Georgia first, and no other Ship likely to Go for Carolina soon, I thought proper to send the inclosed Copy. The Expence of printing it in the Gazette the Trustees will bear; & are much obliged to You for all the trouble you have taken for them.

[P.S.] On Stating the General Accot. of the Trust & comparing your Accot. Currant with the Treasurer’s Quarterly Accots. of the Receipts for the Duty on Rum, you have short Charged yourselves with the amount thereof for the Quar. ending the 1st. of December 1735 the Sum of £0: 0: 7 1/2 Currency; that Quar. amoting. to £333: 0:7 1/2 & you carrying only £333 to Accot. for the same. Please therefore to Surcharge yourselves with the said Difference in your next Accot. that I may discharge you therefrom.

A Copy of the inclosed as abovementioned.

Georgia Office Westmr.

The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America out of a due regard to Publick Credit, and for the sake of all Trading Persons who negociate Bills of Exchange; do hereby give notice, That they have entirely put an End to the drawing of Bills of Exchange on them. But have made out, and shall continue to make out Sola Bills of Exchange under their Corporation Seal in England, to be Issued in Georgia by the Honourable James Oglethorpe Esq. for the Service of that Colony; For the Payment whereof on their Return to this Office after such Issue, sufficient Money is and always will be reserved in the Bank of England. Which Bills are made out on Paper, with the Words Georgia Bill in America wrought therein, the amounts thereof printed in old Print and in figures left white and under double Checques on both Sides of the Paper, the one remaining in England the other in Georgia; and all such Bills as presented to the Trust will be checqued and marked for Payment when due. And no other but the said Sola Bills of Exchange will be accepted or paid by them.

And they further give Notice That if any of their Sola Bills of Exchange shall happen to be lost at Sea, The Person claiming Payment of such lost Bill, must produce a Certificate signed by the Register of Georgia for the time being (if Shipped in Georgia) That he saw such Bill delivered to the Captain of the Ship that was to have brought it, specifying the Date, Letter & Number, the Value, the Day of Issuing thereof in Georgia, & to whom. Or if shipped in any other part a like Certificate signed by a Notary Publick must be produced, Which with an attestation of the said Loss, and of the Property, and a Security being given to the Trust to Indempnify them therefrom; will Intitle the Proprietor therof, or his Agent, to Payment of the Value for such lost Bill.

Signed by order of the said Trustees this
ninth day of June 1736.                   

Benj. Martyn Sectary.                      

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, June 23, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 246, concerning actions about spiritous liquors, credit at Trustee Store, and reports to the Trustees. By Capt. Ayres.

Sir

The Trustees observing by the South Carolina Gazette an article relating to your Conduct in the Execution of the Act against Spiritous Liquors, expected to have been made acquainted therewith from you and of the Circumstances attending that Procedure. Tho’ your immediate Correspondence during Mr. Oglethorpe’s Residence in America is with him, yet your Duty to the Trust calls upon you to make them acquainted of every Occurrence in the Colony; and they require it from you.

They have heard of Persons who have run in Debt in Georgia & suffered Misfortunes from it, and they desire that such Procedures may be discouraged; and the Inconveniencys arising from Trusting too much, be entirely prevented, by having the Peoples Necessitys supplyed by the Fruits of their Labour, & not by a Credit to them, which they cannot easily work out.

Mr. [Thomas] Christie is wrote to for Copys of the Proceedings of the Town Court since 29th. November 1734 to which time they were last sent; and the Trustees do require particular Accompts from time to time of the Settlers & their Progress & Behaviour in Georgia; for without such Accompts by every Opportunity you cannot Discharge the Duty of First Bailiff in the Province, nor satisfy the Trustees in what is so essentially necessary for them to be acquainted with.

Benjamin Martyn to James Oglethorpe, July 7, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 247, concerning Oglethorpe’s letter to the Duke of Newcastle and Trustees refusal to support any project outside Georgia. Sent under cover to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, by Capt. Ayers.

Sir

The Trustees, as soon as they received your Letter dated April 17. with the Letter to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle and the Papers which you desired might be laid before his Grace, came to a Resolution (a Copy of which is here inclosed) to desire Mr. [James] Vernon to lay them immediately before the Duke, and Mr. Vernon has this day reported to the Board, that, pursuant to their Minute he attended his Grace with the said Papers and Letter, and his Grace has return’d an answer to you which was sent to the Board seal’d up, and is herewith transmitted to You.⁸²

The Trustees Sir have ordered me to acquaint You that they cannot justify themselves in paying out of the Money given by Parliament any Expence incurred beyond the Boundaries of the Province of Georgia, and as you know they can authorize no Proceedings of Yours out of the Province of Georgia, they hope you take care to have proper Instructions from the Government to support your Proceedings there.

Benjamin Martyn to the Rev. John Martin Bolzius, June 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 248-250, concerning Salzburger lands, military guard, land surveying, gifts for Bolzius and Gronau, and suffering of Salzburgers.

Revd. Sir

The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia have received from Mr. Oglethorpe your Letter to him of March 16th. 1735 and have taken the same into their serious Consideration, and you will see by their indulgence with what a Fatherly Eye they look on the Saltzburghers, and how ready they are to grant whatever is reasonable for them to ask.

The first Article of your Petition to Mr. Oglethorpe, that the Saltzburghers may work Six and Six in little Parties instead of working all together, the Trustees agree with Mr. Oglethorpe in the Leave which he gave that they might do so.

The second Article is that the Saltzburghers instead of building immediately a Storehouse may build a good Hutt for the Stores till the Planting Season is over; The Trustees concur with Mr. Oglethorpe in his Licence for this also, but hope at the same time, as he desired that you will take Charge of the Stores which by this the Trustees commit to you and see that they are not stolen out of the Hutt, or any way imbezzled.

You desire afterwards that twenty Gardens in each side of the Town may not be reserved for the use of the Trust; Tho’ this is a method which the Trustees have ordered to be constantly observed in all their Settlements of Town Ships, yet that the Saltzburghers may be perfectly easy and have their Gardens as close to one another as they desire, the Trustees consent that there shall be no reserve of Trust Lands on the Side of Ebenezer Creek where they are now settled.

Here it may be proper to acquaint you, that the Trustees observe in Letters which they have seen from Mr. [Philipp Georg Friedrich] Van Reck to Mr. Oglethorpe, that he complains that the Saltzburghers cannot make a Settlement where they are, without having Lands beyond the River Ebenezer. These Lands Sr. belong to the Indians, the Trustees have no power to grant them, therefore they are surprized that Mr. Van Reck should have cast a longing Eye on the said Lands, and doubt not Sir that you informed him out of Scripture that he ought not to cover his Neighbour’s Goods.

The Trustees Sr. observe in your Letter, that you are uneasy that the People were assembled together in the Church, to hear the Regulations which the Trustees prescribe for their Conduct, You cannot but be sensible that the Trustees have by any Officer of theirs a power & Right in a proper time to convene the People in the Church upon any Civil Occasion, and that the same authority, which constitutes you to Officiate in that Place in Ecclesiastical Affairs, enables any other Person, that is sent over with the Trustees orders to act in Civil Affairs.

The Trustees think it absolutely necessary, that what Military Orders Mr. Oglethorpe has given for the Security of Your Settlement must be obey’d. And that it is requisite that Watches should be strictly kept on Sundays as well as at other times; You cannot but know that in an Infant Settlement, the most constant and strictest Guard should be kept against any Enemies; if ever they attack You, it will be by Surprize, and if they know there are any particular times when You are more negligent in your Watch than others, they will (if they have any Disposition to hurt You) take Advantage of those times; and Religion as well as Nature urges strongly Self Preservation and requires us to use all just and human means for our own Defences.

The Trustees are surprized that Mr. Van Reck should hire any Soldiers, and expect Mr. [Thomas] Causton should pay for them; Mr. Van Reck has assum’d an Authority which the Trustees never gave him, and they desire You will inform him, that levying Soldiers is by the Laws of England Crimen Leesse Majestatis, and that the Trustees expect he will attempt no such thing for the future.

The Trustees observe that Mr. Van Reck disputed the Payment of Fees to Mr. [Noble] Jones the Surveyor for his Trouble in marking out the Saltzburghers Lands. The Trustees order me to acquaint You, that Mr. Jones is intitled to his Fee, but they leave it to Mr. Oglethorpe to settle the said Fee as low as possible; the Trustees did not think it necessary to inform Mr. Van Reck what those Fees were, but Mr. Oglethorpe will inform You.

To make You and the Saltzburghers as easy as possibly they can, the Trustees have ordered that Mr. [John] Vat should be removed from among the Saltzbughers; And the Trustees have ordered me to acquaint You, that they have sent You as an Acknowledgement for your great Care of the Saltzburghers a Present in Apparel and a Present to Mr. [Israel Christian] Gronau your Fellow Labourer.

The Trustees are much concern’d that the Saltzburghers have suffered any hardships, but they are surprized to find that any temporal Sufferings should efface the Remembrance of those they suffered in Religion in their native Country. They are sorry likewise that many of them (as you say) left their good States they liv’d in by the care of their good Benefactors in Germany, and if the Trustees had known the Goodness of their States they would not by any means have taken them from them.

The Trustees have sent by this Ship a sufficient Quantity of Iron Pots for the Saltzburghers.

Benjamin Martyn to James Oglethorpe, Aug. 4, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 251, concerning Hugh Anderson, inspector of the public gardens.

Sir

The Common Council of the Trustees resolved the 2d. of June last to give a Lot in the Town of Savanah, to Mr. Hugh Anderson the Bearer of this; and, as they have a good Opinion of him, they have appointed him Inspector of the publick Gardens and the Mulberry Plantations in Georgia.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Aug. 9, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 251-256, concerning accounts, defense spending, sola bills, trees and plants of Georgia, Goodwin Cheney, treatment of servants, and Abraham DeLyon. By Capt. Wilkie.

Sir

Being now making out the Trustees General Accompt to the 9th. of June last, and Examining all the Accompts Currant I received from Georgia within the last Year. I find in Mr. Woodward’s Accompt with You between the 9th. of April 1733 and the 2d. of April 1734 the following Sums charged therein, which want Explanation vizt. 20th. Febry. 1733. To an order of Mr. Watts in 702:14:6 favour of John Feild . . . . . . .

The Particulars whereof is wanted of Mr. Woodward and John Feild’s Receipt, or the order of Mr. Watts indorsed by him, if they can be had. But if not, It is necessary to know for what the said £ 702.14. 6 was so paid; which Mr. Feild can explain, if Mr. Woodward cannot 14th. March 1733. To Cash lent Mongomery while in 1: 0: 0. Beaford . . . . . . . . . . . .

To know who Mongomery was, and if on the Service of the Colony at Beaford; and how repaid or accompted for by him.

The Trustees having received a Bill drawn by Mr. [Thomas] Causton the 14th. of May last for £173: 7: 9 received by him from Messrs. Jenys and Baker for the use of George Morley Esqr. to be paid him here, pursuant to Directions given Mr. Causton the 5th. of July 1735. I have by their Order wrote to him thereupon, that he draws no more Bills for Money to be received, nor receive any more Money for Mr. Morley’s Use, but in Exchange for the Trustees sola Bills, if he shall have any to Exchange for that purpose, and not otherwise.

The Trustees therefore desire You will call on Mr. Causton for the said Sum of £173: 7: 9 to be applied for the use of the Colony; that he may thereby be discharged therefrom.

This Bill has occasioned the Trustees to review their Desire to You in January last to Receive of the Province of South Carolina the money which is or shall be due to Peregrine Fury Esqr. Agent to the said Province, and to draw on the Trustees for each Value received, which Desire they now Supercede as to drawing for such Money; but only taking such Sum or Sums for the Value in their Sola Bills you may want to Issue; for the Trustees are fully resolved to put an entire End to the drawing of Bills on them.

Captain Dunbar attended the Committee of Accots. relating to the Freight of Passengers objected to be paid for by the Trust who went from Scotland, and Consist of thirty one heads; whose Freight were payable by Grantees of 500 Acres Lots for the very purpose only of going at their own Expence. And which the Trustees in their Accompts cannot Charge the Passage of Such Passengers are as follows: Mr. John Cuthbert and ten Servants, ten Servants belonging to Mr. Patrick Mackay, and ten Servants belonging to Mr. John Mackay, whose Freight at 5£ p head amounts to £155. The Trustees considering the Accot. Stated the 13th. of Febry. last between your self and the Owners of the Ship Prince of Wales and your Draft on them at the foot of the said Accompt and also your Letter dated the same day, whereby it appears to them That You had lent these People the said Passage to be repaid to the Trust by their Labour in the Publick Works of the Colony or in such Provisions as they shall have raised more than will support themselves and shall carry into the Publick Store, they have paid Mr. Simond the said £155. and took a particular Receipt for the same on the back of the said Accompt, and thereby You stand accomptable to have the said £155 repaid to the Trust in Provision and Labour in Georgia aforesaid; Please therefore to cause a particular Accompt to be kept of such Provision and Labour as paid; That the said £155 may be discharged thereby.

The Trustees received your Letter dated the 11th. of May 1736⁸³ on 21st. July last and also a Bill drawn by You to Mr. [Samuel] Eveleigh or order for 500£. There was not a Number to make a Common Council at that time to Consider thereof, nor come to any Resolution. But the Trustees present were greatly concerned to find such a Demand of Expences occasioned by Forts out of the Limits of their Charter; which they are in no Capacity of defraying, and much fear that your Advices of the Spaniards wanting to buy Presents at Charles Town; may have arose from Views of the Carolina Traders to get clear of their old Shopkeepers. For was Georgia to be attacked, the General Interst of Carolina would be carefull of Arms to defend themselves, and not suffer themselves to be exposed.

Since then, vizt. on the 4th. Instant a Common Council met to consider what was proper to be done relating to the said Bill. And they came to a Resolution That the Services you mentioned for which the said Bill was drawn, were not Provided for, to be defrayed out of any Moneys in their hands, nor should they be able to justify themselves in Parliament for making any such Expence. They therefore refused to accept the said Bill. Mr. Baker will return the Bill to Mr. Eveleigh after the time for Payment is elapsed which is the 18th. Instant.

6th. August 1736. This morning I begin to fill up new Sola Bills for £3,150. to be sent You for Issuing in Georgia. They will be finished to send You this month by the way of Charles Town to the Care of Messrs. Jenys and Baker to be forwarded to You.

Sir

The Earl of Shaftesbury and Mr. [Robert] Alderman Kendall (whose Name is now Cater by Act of Parliamt.) desired me to remind You of having some Seeds of the hardest Forrest Trees and hardy Plants from Georgia and they would be glad to have some Orange Trees, and American scarlet Oak.

Some of the Trustees desire to have some Cassena Tea sent from Georgia which Tomo Chachi said was good against the Gout.

The Earl of Egmont recommends it that the Settlers in Georgia should leave some Timber standing in each Lott and not to build their Houses too near together to be lyable to damage by Fire.

Mr. Alderman Cater desires the favour of you if there is any Possibility of preventing Goodwin Cheney’s Return to England who was settled at Skidoway in Georgia; That he may remain in Georgia. It is at his Father’s Request.

Richard Hart’s Wife has been up at the Office desiring if possible that her husband may be put to another Master than Wm. Abbot for that he is not well used. The Trustees desire that as the Servants should be made to obey the lawful Commands and serve their Masters faithfully and honestly, so the Masters may by no means be permitted to abuse their Servants. And the Town Court having sufficient Authority to do Justice in these matters the Trustees desire you would recommend it to them accordingly. And if the Abuse is notorious to discharge him from his Service.

There has been a Petition presented to the Trustees from Jeudah Senior Henriques against Mr. Abraham De Lyon complaining that he had sold a Chest of Carpenter’s Tools in Georgia for £7: 4: 4 Sterling for the said Henriques as by Letter dated 15th. Novr. 1734. But has never remitted the said Money to him. The Trustees gave for answer That there were Courts of Judicature in Georgia Invested with proper Authoritys to do Justice in all matters within their Jurisdiction. But they directed me to acquaint You with the Fact; Since it might prevent a Clamour here if Mr. De Lyon was spoke to to do Justice, without Expence of Law.

Harman Verelst to Samuel Eveleigh, Aug. 9, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 256, refusing his bill of exchange.

Sir

I received your Letters of the 1st. 22d. & 24th. of May last which I communicated to the Trustees. They have directed me to return you their thanks for your advices and to assure you that your Correspondence is very acceptable to them.

The Bill of Exchange for 500. £ which You mention in the Postscript of yours of the 22d. of May has been presented for Acceptance. But it appearing That the Services for which the said Bill was drawn are of such a Nature; as to be no way Provided for being defrayed out of any Moneys in the Trustees hands. They were therefore obliged not to accept the said Bill. And of which I have by their order acquainted Mr. Oglethorpe. Mr. Baker I suppose will return You the said Bill after the time for Payment is elapsed which is the 18th. Instant.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Aug. 6 & 9, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 257-258, requiring the use of sola bills, adequate correspondence with the Trustees, and Barsheba Simson. By Capt. Wilkie.

Sir

The Trustees received a Bill drawn by You for £ 173. 7. 9 the 14th. of May 1736 for value received of Messrs. Jenys and Baker and payable to George Morley Esqr. pursuant to their Directions of the 5th. of July 1735. Tho’ those particular Directions were to Subsist from time to time until Superceded by any other General Ones; Yet when a General Direction was received, for your drawing no more Bills on the Trustees but applying to Mr. Oglethorpe; You should have done so in this Case, and sent for Sola Bills from him to have given in Exchange for such Moneys as you was desired so to receive.

This therefore directs You to receive no more Money from Messrs. Jenys and Baker for Mr. Morley’s Use without You have Sola Bills to give in Exchange for no other Bills will be paid; and You are to Pay over the said £173. 7. 9 to Mr. Oglethorpe or have his Directions for the application thereof, so as to Accompt to him, and take his Receipt to Charge himself therewith and thereby Discharge you.

The Trustees are much Surprized to find You so remiss in Corresponding with them; and not answering the Querys to your Accompts, whereby you are returned In Super for all the Bills you are Accomptable for, by reason imperfect Accots. are no Accots. and for not sending them the Informations they want of the Progress of the Colony and the Conduct of its Inhabitants. All which they expect immediately to be Complied with, or they must take other proper Methods to be better regarded.

The Trustees desire You will send them by the first Opportunity a Certificate signed by two of the Bailiffs and the Recorder of the time when Mr. [Samuel] Quincy left off officiating at Savannah and of Mr. [John] Wesley’s Admission to Officiate there in Ecclesiastical Affairs.

P.S. I desire you will let me know if one Barsheba Simpson alias Ballet was ever or is in the Province of Georgia; and if in the Province and living That you would send me a Certificate signed by two of the Bailiffs and the Recorder That he is living, by reason that there is an annuity of 50.£ a year payable on his Life, and if he is not in Georgia and has been ever there please to let me know where he went & when, or if you know anything of such a Person being living.

Harman Verelst to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, Aug. 9, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 258, concerning bills of exchange.

Gentlemen

The Trustees have had a Bill presented to them for £173: 7: 9 drawn by Mr. [Thomas] Causton to George Morley Esqr. the 14th. of May last for Value rec’d of You, which they have accepted for Payment. But have ordered me to write to Mr. [Thomas] Causton that he received no more Money from You to be paid in England but in Exchange for their Sola Bills which they will continue to make out as the Service of the Colony shall require and their Funds be sufficient to answer.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Sept. 13, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 259-261, concerning lack of correspondence, accounts, and sounding the inlets to the Altamaha. Enclosed to Messrs Jenys & Baker by the Brooke, Capt. Keate.

Sir

After a Silence from the 14th. of April to the 8th. of June, The Trustees have received a Letter from You. They have been much Surprized to find so many material Occurrences happen without your taking any Notice of them to the Trust; as if you had forgot your Duty of Corresponding according to the Trustees repeated Directions.

Your said Letter has not mentioned a Bill of 40.£ and another of 25.£ drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe to your self on the very day your Letter is dated; Nor has it mentioned three Bills to Mr. Woodward drawn the 2d. of June amounting to £400. and yet your List of Bills drawn by Mr. Oglethorpe begins the said 2d. of June.

I have perused your Cash Accompts for March & April, and to the 3d. of May and find you have charged your self with the three Bills Mr. Oglethorpe drew the 3d. of March last in favour of Mr. Woodward. Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co., and Mr. Purry amoting to £ 500 Sterling, and of which the Trustees had no Advice, except of that drawn to Mr. Purry which they received from you; and thereby the other two Bills were unpaid, and had been returned for want of Advice; If a Merchant had not paid them in Honour of the Drawer. It is therefore exceedingly Surprizing That You should have been carefull of giving advice of one Bill only when three were drawn the same day, and all come to your hands. And the Trustees desire you will send them a particular Accot. of the Reasons for such Omissions.

In your Charge part of the month of March Accompt You charge your self with several Sums as Cash taken from sundry Persons Accompts Currant, and yet have sent no Copies of those Accompts to make those Sums appear for what they became so received. Sr., Names and Sums will not do, for an accompt to be made up by. The Trustees must have Copys of the said Accompts Currant, and every thing particularly made out.

As to the several Defects in the Discharge parts of the said two months, and also the month of February; (which I had not before sent you) I have inclosed them. Whereby you have had every particular Defect sent You that wants to be cleared up and explained in the several Articles of your Discharge from the beginning. And the Trustees require your immediate, tho’ very full and satisfactory answers as particular as the Defects stated call for. And they very much wonder you have not answered those Querys on your accompts already sent you But instead thereof have continued to send your Monthly Cash Accots. in the same defective way, without Copys of those Particulars attending them, which are necessary to Enable me to Post the Services under the several Heads of Accompt. The Trustees are obliged to make appear in their General accompts, pursuant to their Charter, and in their particular Accompts rendered to Parliament.

As to those Payments You have made in Discharge to Moneys or Bills received of Mr. Oglethorpe; He cannot be discharged from the Bills he drew as to such Value of them as went through your hands, until you have sent particular answers to the inclosed Observations. And the Trustees must have them immediately done; to Enable them to lay before Parliament the Accompt of the Application of the Sums granted; and that in a particular full and Satisfactory manner under the several Heads of Service, as such Sums have been so applied.

The Trustees are very much Surprized that You should venture to Imploy Captain Yoakley (& thereby keep his Ship) in sounding the Inlets to the Alatamaha; and persuade him to continue to keep his Ship till Mr. Oglethorpe’s Arrival; since it has been attended with so great an Expence as Sixty pounds a month from 28th. of November before Mr. Oglethorpe came. And they blame You much for so doing, since proper Persons without the Incumbrance of detaining a Ship might have been employed, agreable to the Instructions you received from Mr. Oglethorpe for employing proper Persons to sound the said Inlets.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Aug. 28 & Sept. 13, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 261-266, concerning bills of exchange, sola bills, Trustee funds, relations with Spanish and Indians, troubles with South Carolina, unappreciative colonists, Barrilla seeds, and instructions to the Magistrates at Savannah. Enclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker, by the Brooke, Capt. Keate. Copy by way of Bristol.

Sir

Hearing of a Ship going from Bristol to Charles Town when at the Exchange yesterday, I took the Opportunity to acquaint You That by the Brooke Capt. Keate (who will sail about a fortnight hence) You will receive Letters from the Trust in answer to those they received, by Mr. [Samuel] Quincy and Capt. Yoakley, (the latter taking his Letters from Capt. Dymond).

A Common Council is Summoned for the 8th. of Septr., two were Summoned for the 18th. & 26th. instant, but only Six of the Gentlemen mett each time. There has been fifteen Bills presented to the Trust drawn by You in June last and amount to £ 1,841:14: 0.

By Mr. [Thomas] Causton’s Accot. for March last he has Charged himself with the two Bills the one to Mr. Woodward for 100.£ & the other to Paul Jenys Esqr. & Co. for 200. £ drawn by you the 3d. of March last, which the Trust had no Advice of, and which Mr. Simond paid in Honour of You; and being so Charged, they will be now repaid by the Trust. Therefore the Bills to be paid amount to £ 2,141:14: 0.

The Accompts of Demurrage having run very high, and those stated for Captain Yoakley’s and Captain Dymond’s Ship being before the Common Council. They, with the said Bills will sink the Trustees Cash in such a manner, that they are not able to send you so many new Sola Bills as they intended.

Mr. [John] Laroche’s Brother will write to his Correspondent at Charles Town to give you money for all the said Bills they shall send by Capt. Keate, and for those of the 4000.£ you took with you which remain unissued, and that at the Current Price, whereby no Run can be made on them.

It would have been of great Use, and govern’d the Trustees Conduct, had they known what Value of their Sola Bills did remain unissued, when you drew the Bills in June last.

As to the 500.£ Bill drawn the 11th. of May, the Services for which it was drawn being unprovided for; the Trustees cannot Pay it till it is Provided for. It has been noted, and the Answer of Non Payment at present for the said reason has been given the Notary. But whether Mr. Baker will keep it or return it to Mr. [Samuel] Eveleigh I can’t yet say. All your other Bills will be paid. Added.— But the Trustees beg you will make Use of their Sola Bills, and draw no more; for they cannot Pay any other Bills.

Sir

Since my last the Trustees have had three more Bills presented to them, and drawn by You in June and July, which makes the Amount of Bills to be now paid arise to the Sum of £ 2,406:14: 0. They have therefore sent You the Sum of £ 1500.—.— part of the New Sola Bills, to enable You to answer the uses of the Ministers and those other particular Persons which the Trustees have received Money for, in the first Place; as to so much as have not been already answered by You, and which were mentioned in their Letter of the 17th. of June last. And the residue to be applied for the other Services of the Colony in the said Letter mentioned, and which the Bills you have drawn may not have defrayed.

By this Ship a Letter goes to Mr. Savage at Charles Town to give you Money at the Current Price, for all the Sola Bills now sent and those which remain unissued. Whereby the Trustees have the Satisfaction to know you will be fully Supplyed, without having occasion to draw any more Bills on them. For after reserving Cash to answer their Sola Bills, they will have no Cash left to Pay any others together with the unforseen Occasions that may happen before a new Supply, of which they have no Certainty; and without your Presence in Parliament, they have no hopes of Obtaining.

The Sola Bills that have come to England for Payment amount to £ 847.

The Trustees are very well pleased to find by Your Letters, That the Commencement of Hostilities with the Spaniards has been so Providentially Prevented. And they are sorry to find, That such a Spirit has arisen in the Carolina People relating to the Acts for regulating the Indian Trade and Prohibiting Rum, That the Merchants in Carolina have prevailed with the General Assembly to make a Representation to His Majesty; which the Trustees have received Advice of by a Letter from Charles Town without a Name dated the 20th. of July 1736, and which mentions That the said Representation was sent to Mr. [Peregrine] Fury their Agent by the same Ship as that Letter came.

The Trustees find by the South Carolina Gazette, That the People of Charles Town sent for some of the Upper Creeks down to them, to desire their Trading with them as before; and the Trustees apprehend it a difficult Task to set things right with the Carolinians who are so jealous of letting the now Frontier Colony partake of their Benefits, Altho’ such Frontier disburthens them from those Charges which they bore while they were the Frontier Province.⁸⁴

The Trustees will certainly Support their Laws notwithstanding the Representation from Carolina, But desire that the Execution of those Laws may be no further extended than to the real Intent of them; The one to prohibit the Importation and Use of Rum, and the other to regulate the Trade with the Indians within the boundarys of the Province of Georgia.

The Trustees are impatient to hear the Result of the Conference which the Committee from the Assembly of Charles Town have had with You in Georgia concerning these matters; and hope your arguments have proved of convincing weight to unite the Interests of both Provinces.

The Trustees find you have had a great Number of Petitions delivered on Grievances at Savannah; and observe how detrimental the giving of Credit has proved to the Inhabitants. And they are sorry to find many of them so dishonest and lazy, as not to endeavour to make a Satisfaction to their Creditors by their Labour, and neglect the Cultivation of their Lots, which Lots can no way be Incumbered with their Debts, and will become forfeited for want of Cultivating; and of which the Trustees desire That such Persons should be made acquainted.

The Trustees having obtained Extracts of two Letters from Charles Town relating to Georgia; and finding therein many material Observations, have sent You Copys thereof for your Perusall. The Trustees do not doubt your making such Use of those Copies, as not to let the Persons who wrote them Suspect that they have got into the Secrets of their Correspondence.

By the Trustees Order I have inclosed you a Copy of their Letter to Mr. [Thomas] Causton; and they desire you will speak to him to send Satisfactory answers to the several Querys that have been sent him. That he may be fully discharged by a proper Application of the Moneys which would have come to his hands.

Inclosed you receive an Invoyce and Bill of Lading of several Parcels sent you by the Brooke Capt. Keate to the care of Messrs. Jenys & Baker to be forwarded to You.

The Directions for sowing the Barrillia Seed⁸⁵ now sent you according to the method used in Spain, are as follow:

The Ground they Sow the Barrillia Seed in is Plowed three or four times, according to the Strength or Lightness of the Soil; and after being levelled with a Board, which they make fast to a pair of Mules or Horses, and put a Boy or a Man to Stand thereon; they Strew the Seed, which the next Rain sinks into the Ground. The usual time of Sowing is in the month of January; and as soon as the Herb appears above the Ground about the Size of a Crown Piece, care must be taken to keep the same from Weeds and other Herbs, till about St. John’s day, at which time or in all the month of July requires Rain, which brings the Herb so forward that You may begin to gather the same the latter end of August, till the 8th. of September; when gathered, put it into Cocks as they do Hay, and when dry, you dig a Hole in the Ground of the Size you think proper, putting Sticks across, and the Herb thereon, to which Setting Fire dissolves it; and afterwards you must Cover the Hole over with Earth, and there let remain a few days, when ‘twill be fit to be pack’d up. When Rains in the month of August you must let the Herb remain in the Ground until it comes to Perfection; or if Rains fall at the time it’s gathering, you must let Six or Seven days pass, otherwise you’ll pluck up a fresh Root, which detriments the Quality of the Barrillia; observing that if the Herb is not full or plump when burnt, turns to Ashes, and is of no Service. The Farmers in Spain reckon that if it rains three times after the Seed is sown and those Showers come in Season, that the Cosecha⁸⁶ is secured and proves Plentifull.

N.B. When the Herb is melting, they keep stirring in the hole with a long Stick to mix it together.

Inclosed you receive Instructions for the Magistrates at Savannah; in case of John Brownfield’s Death, when Possessed of Effects, or the Property of Debts belonging to Messrs. Pytt & Tuckwell, to whom he is Factor; which the Trustees desire you will deliver to the Magistrates, and requires their Care therein in case such Accident should happen.

Benjamin Martyn to Secretary of State the Duke of Newcastle, Oct. 20, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 266, concerning Spanish Minister Tomas Geraldino’s⁸⁷ letter.

My Lord

In Obedience to her Majesty’s Commands to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, signified to them by Your Grace’s Letter of Septr. 27, 1736. with an inclosed Copy of Monsr. [Tomas] Geraldino’s Letter dated Septr. 21. 1736. The Trustees have drawn up a Representation to her Majesty on the subject Matter of the said Letter, which they desire Your Grace will lay before her Majesty.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Oct. 22, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, pp. 267-269, concerning sola bills, South Carolina troubles, Spanish troubles, purchase of cargo from New York, and Oglethorpe needed in England. Inclosed to Messrs. Jenys & Baker at Charles Town by Capt. Baker.

Sir

My last to You by the Brooke Capt. Keet was of the 13th. of last month, wherein I acquainted You of the Trustees sending You by the said Captain 1,500. £ in New Sola Bills, and of their desire for your using their Sola Bills, and drawing no more on them; and that Mr. Savage at Charles Town had full Instructions from Mr. [John] Laroche’s Brother to give you Money at the Current Price for all the Trustees Sola Bills.

I also acquainted you that without your presence in Parliament, the Trustees had no hopes of obtaining a new Supply.

As to the Carolinians I inclosed you two Extracts of Letters from Charles Town relating to Georgia, and have again inclosed You other Copys thereof; which the Trustees don’t doubt your making such use of, as not to let the Persons who wrote them Suspect that they have got into the Secrets of their Correspondence.

I have inclosed you also another Copy of the Trustees Letter to Mr. [Thomas] Causton, who desire your speaking to him to send satisfactory Answers to the several Querys that have been sent him; That a proper Application of the Moneys which have come to his hands may appear.

The Trustees have received a Letter from the Duke of Newcastle founded on a Letter he received from Monsr. [Tomas] Geraldino Agent for the King of Spain, with a Copy of that Letter inclosed; and also have received another Letter from the Lords of Trade on the same occasion, with whom they have Conferred; and the Lords of Trade and Plantations are to State the King’s Title to Georgia, from the Materials in their own Office, and those they have been furnished with.

The Trustees have herewith sent you Copys of the said Letters as also a Copy of their Memorial to the Queen in Answer.

There has been no Letters nor any Ship from Charles Town bringing fresher Advice than of the 20th. of July, which makes the Trustees very impatient of hearing of your Welfare; and the Result of those weighty Affairs You are engaged in; whereon the Carolinians were to Confer with You; and for the Preservation and Success of Georgia.

The Trustees received a Letter from Mr. [Thomas] Causton by the way of New York dated the 22d. of July last giving Advice of a Bill for 210.£ to Abraham Minoss [Minis] for the Cargoe of a Sloop which arrived at Savannah from New York, and of the Reasons for purchasing the whole Cargoe. They observe thereon That the parts of the said Cargoe not for the Trust, were to be Issued for Money to such as should have occasion for them at Prime Cost, and that a Parcel was immediately disposed of to William Cooksey amounting to £27: 5: 4 Sterling, This he is made Debtor for, how is that disposing of such part for Money; for had he paid Money for it, Abraham Minoss might have received it, and the Bill been drawn for so much less. Therefore Sir, the Trustees will make You Debtor for the Bill drawn; and you will have Credit for such part of the Cargoe as shall have been used on the Trust Accompt for the Colony.

The Earl of Egmont, Mr. [James] Vernon and Mr. Thos. Tower give their Service to you, and they with the rest of the Trustees who also send you their Services have directed me to renew their Desire of your Presence in England, as early as may be, for the approaching Session of Parliament; which is expected to meet about the middle of January next. For without Your Presence, they have no manner of hopes of any further Supply; and then Georgia will be in a melancholy State.

Mr. Vernon wonders he has no Letters from Capt. [James] Gascoigne relating to his Son.

Colonel [William] Cecil sent for me while writing this, to enquire after your Wellfare and Advices from Georgia and desired me to acquaint you That his Aunt Lawson died last week, and the Family is in grief on that occasion.

Benjamin Martyn to the Rev. Dr. Ayerst, Prebendary of Canterbury, Nov. 10, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/666, p. 269, informing him that the Trustees cannot send settlers to Georgia at present.

Sr.

Mr. [Henry] Newman Secretary to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge having laid before the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America Your Letter dated Octr. 29, 1736 recommending three Women to be sent over to Georgia, the Trustees have order’d me to acquaint You, that they have some time since come to a Resolution to send no more Persons thither till they are enabled by a further Supply.

Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe, Nov. 24, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 1, concerning no word from Georgia, Georgia-South Carolina troubles, and Oglethorpe needed in London. Inclosed to Capt. Dunbar and sent to the postmaster at Deale.

Sir

The Trustees order me to acquaint you that they have had no Account of your Proceedings in Georgia since June last. Though the Complaints against the Management in Georgia sent from Carolina have since that time been frequent and strong; and have proceeded so far as to Produce a Representation from Carolina to the King in Council, relating to the Staving of the Rum, the Navigation of the River Savannah, and the Regulating the Indian Trade in Georgia, Which has been Received and Referred to a Committee of Council.

And such Paragraphs are inserted in the News Papers in which your Self are sometimes mentioned (you will observe in the inclosed)⁸⁸ as require proper Explanation. And the Misfortune of the Trustees is such that for want of a regular Correspondence from you or Mr. Causton of what is doing in Georgia; They are absolutely Disabled from giving the Publick the satisfaction that is expected.

The Trustees have been informed that Mr. Charles Wesley did Imbark on board the ship London Captain Jeudevine at Charles Town, who Sailed the 19th. of August last, and whom may be supposed would have brought with him a full Information of the whole Transactions of Georgia. But as that ship is given over by the Merchants for lost; The Trustees will be deprived of that Information without you have sent Duplicates by some other ship.

Upon the whole the Trustees cannot think they can Carry on the Settlement of Georgia, or apply again to Parliament with any Success; unless you shall come over to answer the objections, and give an Account of the progress already made, and Justify the Application of the Sums heretofore granted.

Harman Verelst to Alured Popple, Secretary to the Lord Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Nov. 24, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 2, requesting cannon and ammunition for Georgia.

Sir

I am Directed by the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, to put you in mind that a Petition was presented to Her Majesty in Council the 30th. of July 1735, and Referred to the Right Honble The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations the 14th. of August following; for Cannon Ammunition &c. to fortify the Province of Georgia.

They not being so happy as to hear that any Dispatch has yet been given to the said Application, and being alarmed with Reports of Dangers with which the New Settlement is threatened. They have Directed me to desire the favour of you to lay this Letter before their Lordships, not doubting but that they will give proper Directions concerning the same.

Benjamin Martyn to Secretary of State the Duke of Newcastle, Dec. 24, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 2-3, giving an account of Chickasaw Indian relations.

My Lord

The Trustees believing That Your Grace has been informed by Letters from Mr. Oglethorpe; That the Chickesaws (a Nation of Indians in Alliance with the English) had been attacked by the French. They have ordered me to acquaint Your Grace That Mr. Oglethorpe thought this a matter of so great Importance, as to send Mr. [Charles] Wesley his Secretary, to them; with the Conferences he had with the said Indians; on a Deputation sent down to him; to demand the Protection and Support of the King of Great Britain, to whom they had been always faithfull Allies; and from whose Governours they had accepted Commissions, from the first time That His late Majesty sent General Nicholson to be His Govr. in South Carolina; As appears by one of the said Commissions in the Year 1732, under the hand of the late Governor Johnson; which they produced at the Conference with Mr. Oglethorpe, and is sent to the Trustees.

Which Account, the Trustees thought it Incumbent on them in Duty to His Majesty; and out of Concern for the Safety of the Colony; to lay before Your Grace for His Majesty’s Information with Copys of the said Conferences. Not doubting but Your Grace will readily Apprehend; That if a Nation in these Circumstances should be deserted, or not supported; All the other Indian free Nations which lye on the back of His Majesty’s Provinces, will thereby be obliged to throw themselves into the hands of the French. And if the French be allowed to destroy our Indians, Nation by Nation in time of Peace, the settlements must soon meet with the same fate in case of a War.

Harman Verelst to Paul Jenys at Charles Town, Dec. 29, 1736, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 3, concerning accounts, Georgia-South Carolina troubles, and the death of John Baker. By Capt. Seaman.

Sir,

Yours of the 10th. of September with the Accompts then sent, came safe to hand, and the Trustees are much obliged to you for your Care and Trouble therein. But still more so for the great Regard on all Occasions which you have shewn for their New Settlement of Georgia and the preserving that Union so essentially necessary between Carolina and Georgia, for the Welfare of both; Than which, they equally with you, have nothing more at heart.

The Trustees are sorry That the People of Carolina would not give them an Opportunity of showing their Readiness to redress any Grievance justly complained of against their officers in Georgia; which might have saved them the Trouble of Applying to His Majesty and they would have found the Trustees as ready to give them a satisfactory Answer, as they were in the Case of Captain [Patrick] Mackay.

This Sir the Trustees thought necessary to apprize you of, And to assure you of their Desire to Cooperate with your good Intentions of promoting the united Prosperity and Preservation of both Provinces.

They Condole with you on the Loss of Mr. [John] Baker, who was an equal Weiwisher with your self.

Benjamin Martyn to Capt. James Gascoign and Capt. Charles Windham,⁸⁹ Jan. 13, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 4, thanking them for their services to Georgia. Sent by Capt. Nichleson.

Sir

The Trustees being acquainted by Mr. Oglethorpe with the many services You have done for the Colony of Georgia, They think themselves very much obliged to you for the same, and have voted you their thanks, which they have ordered me to send you. As they have no doubt of the continuance of your good offices, they are justly sensible of the great Importance of them to the Welfare of the Colony.

Harman Verelst to Paul Jenys, Jan. 13, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 4-5, concerning seeds, plants, and papers sent to Oglethorpe. By Mr. Brathwaite on board Capt. Nichleson’s ship.

Sir

By the Brooke Capt John Keet who sailed from England in Septr. last, I sent from the Trustees directed to James Oglethorpe Esqr. in Georgia in America to the Care of your house at Charles Town in So. Carolina, a Cask containing Seed and Papers, 4 Tubs of Bamboo Plants and a box & Cask of Medecines No. 1 & 2 to be forwarded to Georgia together with a Letter to Mr. Oglethorpe, all which not being arrived when Mr. Oglethorpe left Georgia the 20th. Novr. last as he has acquainted the Trustees. They have ordered me to desire You if the said Parcels and Letter are still in your hands, to open the Cask marked Seeds and Papers and without a Number, and take thereout a Square Box, which without opening, the Trustees desire You will return to England by the first safe opportunity, to be Delivered by the Captain’s own hand to them at their Office near the House of Lords Westmr. and Mr. Oglethorpe desires You will return the Letter to him.

As to the Seed in the said Cask and the other Parcels please to forward them to Mr. [Thomas] Causton at Georgia and You will very much oblige the Trustees who are very sensible of the many favours you have done them.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, Jan. 14, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 5-6, concerning seeds, plants, sola bills, cattle for William Horton, and information for the Trustees. Inclosed to Paul Jenys & Co. by Mr. Brathwaite on Capt. Nichleson’s ship.

Sir,

By the Brooke Capt. John Keet who sailed from England in September last; the Trustees sent directed to James Oglehtorpe Esqr. in Georgia in America to the care of Messrs. Jenys & Co. at Charles Town in So. Carolina, a Cask containing Seed & Papers, four Tubs of Bamboo Plants and a Box and Cask of Medecines No. 1 and 2 to be forwarded to Georgia, together with a letter to Mr. Oglethorpe. All which being not arrived when Mr. Oglethorpe left Georgia.

The Trustees have ordered me to write to Mr. Jenys by the same opportunity as this comes to You, That if the Parcels and Letter are still at Mr. Jenys’s house, he would please to open the Cask marked Seed and Papers and without a Number, & take thereout a Square Box to be returned to England without opening, and to send the Seed and other Parcels to You.

But if Mr. Jenys has forwarded them to Georgia before he receives my Letter The Trustees desire You will send back the 11 Books of Sola Bills which were in the said Square Box and pack them safe, with Directions to be forwarded from Charles Town to England by the first opportunity and delivered to the Trustees by the Captain’s own hand. You need not mention what they are, though they can be of no use, Mr. Oglethorpe not being in Georgia to indorse them.

I have enclosed You the method of sowing the Barrillia Seed.

Mr. Oglethorpe desire You will send to Mr. Woodward⁹⁰ to furnish to Mr. [William] Horton’s order fifty Pounds in Cattle or other Live Stock; Or to pay to that amount for Live Stock purchased on Mr. Horton’s account, and You are to post the same to the said Mr. Horton’s Accompt with the Trustees for Labour &c.

Mr. [John] Brathwaite who goes to Charles Town by this Ship, and has a Settlement near Georgia, You are desired to shew him what Civilitys You can at Savannah, and in case he shall have occasion for Boats or any other Conveniences to recommend him to such Persons as will use him best and he will pay the Charges.

The Trustees desire You will send up a Messenger to the Cherokee Indians to acquaint them the Trustees intend to make them a Return for the Skins they last sent to Savannah and they would be glad to know what would be most acceptable to them.

It is of the greatest Service here to know the real Situation of Georgia from time to time and the Trustees desire You will for that purpose keep a constant Diary of what happens in Georgia and send a Copy thereof on every occasion that offers for a regular Information, which is so absolutely necessary and what they cannot be without.

Benjamin Martyn to Alured Popple, Secretary to the Lord Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Jan. 28, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 7-8, giving the Trustee’s reply to South Carolina’s complain against Georgia.

Sir

I have laid before the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia Your Letter of the 25th. Instant; wherein You signify that Mr. [Peregrine] Fury had presented a Memorial for the Lieut. Govr. Council and Assembly of South Carolina desiring, that the Hearing of the Subject Matter of their Complaint against the Magistrates of Savannah in Georgia, contain’d in a Representation dated July 17th 1736 (which was appointed by the Lords Commrs. for Trade and Plantations to be on Tuesday the 8th. of next month) might be defer’d; And that their Lordships have accordingly put off the said Hearing.

The Trustees have ordered me to desire You to lay before their Lordships the hardship which they conceive they lye under from this Delay, when they had prepared their Council, and were ready to produce their Evidence, which they are firmly persuaded would intirely clear them to their Lordships and the whole World, from the unjust Accusations contained in the said Complaint. This hardship affects them the more since as the Hearing is put off indeterminately, and without any certain day; They are in danger of Losing living Evidence capable of answering to every Objection and which they have now in their Power to produce.

The Trustees therefore hope, that if the said 8th. of February shall be found inconvenient, their Lordships will appoint a short day for the Hearing of the said Complaint, that they may have an opportunity of justifying themselves from the groundless Accusations therein contained which is the more necessary for them, since they cannot hope for the Encouragement they have hitherto received till they have cleared themselves from the said Accusations.

The Trustees cannot imagine that their Lordships will give any Countenance to such a Complaint, which comes unsupported by any Evidence or Proof, and which must appear to all the World to be design’d rather as a Calumniation than an Accusation, Since (tho’ pass’d by the Council and Assembly of South Carolina July 17th 1736) they have not thought fit to send over in all this time any Evidence to make it good; But as soon as they understood that Mr. Oglethorpe was embark’d for England with such Evidence on the part of the Colony of Georgia, as would plainly show how groundless their Accusations were, they then immediately gave Directions to their Agent to present this Memorial, wherein they desire their Lordships to put off the Cause for this extraordinary Reason, because they must send over some further Instructions and Proofs relating to that Affair. Whereas in Honour and Conscience they ought not to have presented their Accusation, and made publick their Complaint against the Proceedings in Georgia, till they had sufficient Evidence here ready to Support it.

The Trustees therefore are persuaded that their Lordships will reflect on the ill Consequences which will attend their continuing exposed, without a Possibility of making a Defence, to the Obloquy of Persons unacquainted with their Proceedings.

Benjamin Martyn to Henry Newman, Jan. 28, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 9, concerning Salzburger property and settlers.

Sir,

Mr. [James] Vernon has laid before the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia the Copy of Mr. [Samuel] Urlsperger’s Letter dated Janry. 15 1737; And the Trustees on reading the same have ordered me to acquaint You, that they in a Letter to Mr. [Philipp Georg Friedrich] Von Reck dated July 27, 1734 desired, that the Saltzburghers would send over a Specification of their Estates Moveable and immoveable which they had left behind them at Saltzburgh and a proper Authority to the Trustees, or any other Persons they should think proper to receive the same for them. They have likewise given Directions for a Letter to be sent to Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius to the said Purpose, They not having yet received any Answer to their former.

They have also ordered me to acquaint You that their present Circumstances will not allow them to think of sending any more Saltzburghers as yet to Georgia.

Benjamin Martyn to Secretary of State the Duke of Newcastle, Feb. 9, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 10-12, answering Spanish accusations against Georgia for violating Spanish frontiers.

My Lord

I am order’d by the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to acquaint Your Grace, that since the Representation which the Trustees desired Your Grace to lay before her Majesty the 20th. of October last, on the Subject Matter of the Letter which Your Grace received from Monsr. [Tomas] Geraldino Agent for the King of Spain, containing several Complaints against the Inhabitants of the new Colony of Georgia.

The Trustees have proceeded to make a further Inquiry into the said several Complaints.

And as to the first Matter of Complaint. The Trustees have receiv’d full Evidence, that none of the new Colony of Georgia were concern’d in the attacking any Fortress in the Territories of the King of Spain on the third of March last or at any other time. But the same was done by the Indians in revenge of Inquries and Hostilities offerd to them by the Spaniards, as specified in the Trustees said Representation.

As to the Complaint receiv’d by the Govenor of St. Augustine from the Lieutenant of Fort St. Mark, the Trustees have receivd Evidence that the Forts Which they have built are all within the Territorys of the King of Great Britain and erected at the desire of the Indians, being necessary for the Defence and Peace of the Country; and no Forts have been built by the Trustees within the Territorys of the King of Spain, nor in any of the Indian Nations belonging to him.

As to the further Complaint That a 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 Apalachicolo, they had summoned the chief Town of the abovesaid Province, called Coweta, 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 find the same to have been made without any just Ground; and that the apprehensions which the Governor of St. Augustine had entertained, arose from the Behaviour of one Drake an Inhabitant in Charles Town in South Carolina, who was sent up from thence with certain Traders into the Indian Nation, without the knowledge and contrary to the orders of the Trustees; and who hoisted Colours and did other Actions; for which they who sent him only are answerable. But the like of which (it is to be hoped) will hereafter be prevented by the wise Regulations His Majesty has been pleased to make, by an Act for maintaining the Peace with the Indians in the Province of Georgia, by which Persons without License from Georgia, are Prohibited from going up amongst the Indians within the Province of Georgia And by settling the Country with Towns under proper Magistrates and Communications.

And further Advantages will thereby Accrue by preventing disorderly Persons from taking Refuge as heretofore in the Woods on the Frontiers, who there used to commit Murders and Ravages and all kinds of Disorders, which neither the Governor of St. Augustine, nor the Governor of South Carolina could prevent or punish.

The Trustees are assured That the Governor of St. Augustine was fully convinced of the various Arts used to create Misunderstandings between the two Provinces of Georgia and Florida, and perceived the Groundlessness of the Reports that had been spread, as soon as an open and safe correspondence was procured between Mr. Oglethorpe and him. So that on the 22nd. day of October last N. S. he signed the inclosed Treaty.

And in order to remove all Umbrage, Mr. Oglethorpe drew off the Garrison from Fort St. George; which is on the same Spot that was fortified by Sir Francis Drake in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Wherefore Mr. Oglethorpe’s Conduct has fully answered what Monsieur Geraldina hoped it would, by establishing a better Intelligence between the Inhabitants of Florida, and those of the King of Great Britain’s Dominions in their Neighbourhood.

Which State of the said Complaints now sent Your Grace, together with the former Representation sent to your Grace the 20th of October last. The Trustees humbly apprehend contain a full answer to the several matters they were directed to enquire into.

All which they have ordered me to lay before Your Grace.

Benjamin Martyn to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Feb. 10, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 12, asking for support for missionaries to the Indians in Georgia.

My Lord

I am directed by the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia to acquaint Your Lordship, that Lady Cox and several other Ladies at Bath being desirous of promoting a Collection there for the Support of the Missionaries to convert the Indians in Georgia; the Revd. Mr. [George] Whitfield has undertaken to preach a Sermon for the said Purpose if Dr. Coney can have Your Lordship’s Permission to let him preach it. Which favour the Trustees desire Your Lordship will grant.

Benjamin Martyn to Philipp Georg Frederick Von Reck, Feb. 25, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 13, inquiring about German servants for Georgia.

Sir

The last time you was at the Board of Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia, You undertook to engage a certain Number of German Protestant Servants for the use of the Trust, and then received a Copy of Instructions for the said Purpose. The Trustees are now desireous of knowing whether You have done anything since in relation thereto, and what you have done. Your answer by the first Opportunity will very much oblige.

Benjamin Martyn to the Rev. John Martin Bolzius, March 2, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 13, concerning Salzburgher effects left in Europe.

Sir

Mr. [James] Vernon has deliver’d to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia the Copy of a Letter from Mr. S. Urlsperger dated Augsburg Janry. 15, 1737 N. S. to Mr. Henry Newman acquainting him that Mr. Von Ploto had secured effects belonging to the Saltzburghers to a considerable value. The Trustees therefore desire You will inquire if any of the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer have left any Effects behind them, and if they have, that You will send over a Specification of their Demands, and a proper Authority from them to the Trustees, or Whoever else they may think proper to receive their said effects.

Benjamin Martyn to Thomas Causton, March 9, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 14, concerning recruits for the Independent Company.

Mr. Causton

Sr

The Trustees have ordered that You send up from Savanah to Frederica a Boat and Guard with the Recruits Which the Bearer of this Mr. William Tolson Ensign carries over with him for the Independent Company under Capt. Massey.

Benjamin Martyn to Thomas Causton, March 7, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 14-16, concerning reports to the Trustees, farming in Georgia, regulations for Georgia, Noble Jones as surveyor, and Salzburger allowances. By the Peter and James, Capt. Dymond.

Mr Causton

Sir

The Trustees have received Your Letter of Novr. 26 and likewise that of December 14. and they have ordered me to tell you, that they expect You will now go on in sending them regularly a State of the Colony by every Ship.

The Trustees are very much concern’d to find by your Letters that many of the People don’t think yet of Planting, and that either thro’ Idleness, employing themselves too much in building, hiring themselves to Labour, or Living upon their Credit in Town, they entirely neglect the Improvements of their Lots; They therefore Require You to inform all the People, that those, who will be first intitled to their favour, will be such as are industrious in cultivating their Lands; and to put them in mind of the terms & Conditions of their several Grants.

The Trustees are persuaded that the proper Employment of the People in their several Plantations will be the surest means to remove all the Contentions, which You complain are amongst them.

The Trustees are sensible of the many ill Effects that must attend the great Credit that is given in the Province, and they will very soon send over their particular Orders for regulating the same, and the suing for Debts.

They are likewise preparing a Law for regulating the Watch, and till this can arrive, they recommend it to You to avoid as much as You can all Disputes relating thereto, and keep every thing as quiet as possible, and they hope and expect that a proper Obedience will be paid by every one to the Civil Power established there.

You take Notice in your last Letter of several Letters which have been sent from Charles Town to private Hands in order to lessen the Credit of the Colony, and that the People thereupon are very uneasy; Surely they cannot be affected by any Advices from thence, they must be sensible from the Jealousy that has been shewn, that no Arts will be wanting, no Arts unemploy’d to create Uneasinesses in Georgia; and at the same time they may be assured that the Trustees, who are so attentive to the Welfare of the Colony in every other particular, will be carefull of its Credit in the first place, and they must know, that their Industry in their several Plantations, as it will considerably diminish the Expences of the Colony, will enable the Trustees to Support its Credit the better.

The Trustees are apprehensive that the Negligence of Mr. [Noble] Jones the Surveyor has been of great prejudice to the Colony; They therefore expect that You call upon him from time to time to do his Duty; You must enquire what Surveyors there are in Georgia, and whether any of these will undertake to Survey at Savannah on the same terms that Mr. Jones did, and in Case Mr. Jones will not go on to Survey You must Employ such of them as You shall find necessary within the Country of Savannah to run out the Lands within the said Country immediately, that the People may not suffer for the future by any Delays in Surveying their Lands, And You must enter into written Agreements with them upon the same terms as Mr. Jones’s.

As the Lots at new Ebenezer are not yet Surveyed, the Trustees have ordered that the first and second Transport, who were removed thither, shall have the reduced allowance (the Particulars of which You’ll find in Mr. [Harman] Verelst’s Letter) continued to them up to September next, and You must not require any thing of them for repayment, but You must Compute the Crop which they took with them from Old Ebenezer as part of the said reduced Allowance.

The Trustees have ordered that the Saltzburghers of the third Transport shall be provided with the same Quantity of Tools and Utensils and other Necessarys for settling themselves as the former Embarkations were; They have likewise ordered that the third Transport shall be provided with Swine and Poultry (the Particulars Mr. Verelst, will tell You) for which there is a particular Benefaction.

The Trustees have likewise directed that the House for the Ministers of the Saltzburghers be built for which there is a particular Benefaction of £16. and You must Enquire whether any of the Saltzburghers employed by You in building the House of the Ministers at Old Ebenezer are unpaid; and if they are, You must pay them what is due to them upon that account. You must likewise pay the £50. for the Salary of Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius Mr. [Israel] Gronau and Mr. [Christopher] Ortman to the 1st. of Novr. last, and what Expences they have been at in borrowing Money for want of Payment of the same before.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, March 23, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 16-23, concerning William Bradley, supplies for Georgia, gifts to Tomo-Chi-Chi and Toonahowi, Causton’s accounts, sola bills, payments in Georgia, Salzburgers, new settlers, Spanish troubles, and other Trustee affairs. By the Peter and James, Capt. Dymond.

Sir

Mr. [William] Bradley’s Contract with the Trustees is to cultivate One hundred Acres of Land within one year with the use of 30 Servants belonging to the Trust in Consideration of ten Servants being allowed him for one year to be employed in cultivating his own Lot; and after the Expiration of the said year the said ten Servants to remain as his Servants; and £100 Sterl. to be paid him out of the year’s Produce of the Publick Lands which he shall cultivate for the use of the Trust. As to the Maintenance of himself, family, and ten Servants. His own Maintenance is for one year 312 pds. of Meat 104 pds. of Rice, 104 pds. of Pease, 104 pds. of Flower, 39 Gallons of Strong Beer, 52 Quarts of Molasses, 16 pds. of Cheese, 8 pds. of Butter, 8 ounces of Spice, 8 pds. of Sugar, 4 Gallons of Vinegar, 24 pds. of Salt, 12 Quarts of Lamp Oyl, 12 pds. of Sope, and a pd. of Spun Cotton. The maintenance for each head of 12 Years old and upwards of his family for one year is 260 pds. of Meat, the Rice, Pease, Flower, Molasses, Cheese, Butter, Spice, Sugar, Vinegar, and Salt the same as to himself, 6 Quarts of Lamp Oyl, 12 pds of Sope and half a pound of Spun Cotton, but no Strong Beer. And the Maintenance for each of his ten Servants for one year is 200 pds. of Meat and 342 pds. of Rice, Pease or Indian Corn besides the value of 8s Sterling in Contingent food. And whatever Mr. Bradley has had since his and his family’s arrivals must be accoted. as part, and what value is still wanting to compleat the above Allowances for one year from their Arrivals must be delivered and no more, of which I have sent Mr. Bradley a particular Accot. also. As to his Cultivating of Trust Lands with thirty Servants as that Number besides his ten are not yet under his Imployment a Proportion of Land must be computed for Cultivation and a Proportion of his Pay out of the Produce until he shall have thirty Servts. to imploy for the Trust. And what is necessary for the clearing and cultivating the Trust Lands and the Maintenance of those Servants so imployed must be furnished for that use, but not as Mr. Bradley’s Property.

Inclosed You receive an Invoyce and Bill of Lading of what is Shipped and consigned to You from the Trust, as also of what is Shipped and consigned to You for the Saltzburghers by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, and of a Box Shipped by Mrs. Lawley and consigned to You for her Son Richard Lawley at Frederica.

The Bill of Lading for the Trust contains a pair of Cullen Stones which are for an Hand Corn Mill for the Saltzburghers wch. please to deliver to Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius. Two Cases of Arms for the Southward the one to be delivered at Fort Frederica and the other at St. Andrew each Case containing 25 new Musquets and Bayonets. Four Boxes to the Revd. Mr. [John] Wesley and in another Box directed to You a large Parcel in brown Paper for the Revd. Mr. Wesley and a small Box for Mr. Bolzius which please to deliver, and a Parcel for Mr. [Thomas] Hawkins the Surgeon at the Alatamah in the same Box which please to forward to him and there is in a Bag a few Neapolitan Chesnuts for sowing in Georgia.

A Box for Thomas Oakes who is Servant to Mr, [Thomas] Young the Wheelwright, and which You are desired to take care of, and give him the Content as he has occasion for them, and favour me with a Line how he behaves. A Box for Richard Hart at Frederica who is Servant to William Abbot which please to forward, it comes from Richard Hart’s Wife. A small Box for Robert Parker Junr. which please to deliver, a Box for John Millidge, a Box for Mr. [Henry?] Green a Shoemaker at Savannah and a Box for Henry Lloyd to be respectively delivered. A Box of Garden Seeds containing a small parcel only, the Season being so far advanced.

The Trustees have sent in a Box Mark’d TxC a Gift to TomoChachi of a Scarlet Garment with Gold Lace and Furr for his own Wear, and Camlet with Lining Silver Buttons & all Materials for making a full Suit of Cloaths for Tooanahowi which You are to get made up fit for him, and to give them to TomoChachi for him; and in a Keg mark’d TxC ten pounds of strong Gunpowder for TomoChachi which you are to acquaint him with the Strength of, that he may not put too much at a time in a Charge.

And there is in a Box directed to You some of the Trustees General Accots. to the 9th. of June last, those in Marble Paper are for the Principle People at Charles Town, and those in blew Paper for others there, and in Georgia who desire them. You will observe in the said Accots. what want I am in for the Particulars I have wrote to You for, and how every Payment You make requires a particular Accot. for what made, which I hope I shall always have for the future of Duplicate Bills of Parcels, Accots. and Receipts, the one for you to keep and the other for to be sent to England. I am in daily Expectation of your answers to the Querys already sent, and of your explanatory Particulars of your Payments to the end of July last, to which time your Cash Accots. are received, but want such Explanations and Copys of Accots. Currant whereon Moneys have been either received or paid. For until I have them I cannot discharge your Accots. to Post off the Particular Payments to the different heads of Services such Payments were made for.

In the same Box there are several Letters for Persons in Georgia which are to be delivered as directed. This Box the Captain has particular Care of, for the Trustees have sent you One thousand Pounds Sterling in Sola Bills filled up as on the 22d. of November 1736 by Francis Moore to himself & Signed by Mr. Oglethorpe, they are therefore now issuable by You as Money. The Date is made the day before Mr. Oglethorpe left Georgia, which make them appear regularly Issued there. They are Letter D. No. 101 to 200, £10 each. With which Bills in the first Place Settle with Mr. [John Martin] Bolzius his Accot. for the £ 50 the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge paid in to the Trustees for the Salarys of the Saltzburgh Ministers and Schoolmaster for half a year to the 1st. of November 1736 payable by that Society, accompting what Mr. Bolzius may have rec’d as part, and whatever Expences he may have been at in borrowing money for want of it You are to Repay; and send Mr. Bolzius’s Receipt for the said£50 to Discharge the Trustees thereof. Then Pay Mr. John Wesley and Mr. [Benjamin] Ingham £50 apiece as Missionarys; accompting what they may have received as part, and send their Receipts in Discharge of so much of the Benefactions received for the Missionarys, these three Sums were to have been paid with part of the 1,500 £ in Sola Bills which arrived after Mr. Oglethorpe left Georgia and which were sent for back to England, they being of no use in America without Mr. Oglethorpe himself indorsed them. The rest of the 1000 £ Bills now sent You are for Supplying Provisions at the Southward, to buy Gun Powder for the Southward, (49 Kegs are on board consigned to John Brownfield) for Supplying Provisions to the Magistrates and Peace Officers in the Northern Division of Georgia, and to Mr. [William] Bradley’s family and the Publick Servants; for supplying Provisions to the first & second Transport of the Saltzburghers on the reduced Allowance of 15 bushels of Indian Corn and 200 pds. of Meat each head a year and a Quart of Molasses each head a week, which the Trustees have ordered to be continued to them to September next at that rate, without their repaying it to the Trust; particular Benefactions having been received for the Saltzburghers. But in their Accot. from Mr. [John] Vat’s leaving them to the said September 1737 whatever their Crop at old Ebenezer amounts to, or whatever has been advanced or delivered to them already since their Settling at new Ebenezer must be accoted. as part of the said reduced Allowance to September next Of which You are desired to make up an Accot. with Mr. Bolzius and send it to the Trustees Signed by him. If the new Boat for the Saltzburghers has not been paid for, the Trustees desire You will Pay for it. The Trustees have been informed That You employed from Saltzburgh Carpenters in building Mr. [Israel] Gronau’s house at Old Ebenezer & have not paid them. If You hired them for that purpose & they are not paid, You are desired to Pay them; But the Trustees understood that the English Carpenters and twenty Negroes were employed in that and other Buildings at Old Ebenezer. Please therefore to let the Trustees know if the Saltzburgh Carpenters were so employed or not. A particular Benefactor has enabled the Trustees to direct You to expend £16 Sterl. in the building the Minister’s House and a School House at New Ebenezer, to furnish each Man of the 3d. Transport of Saltzburghers with a Cock and an Hen, whom I think are now 24 Men in Number and to every five heads of the said men and women and Children which I think are now about 55 heads, a Sow, a Turkey Hen and a Goose, which when delivered and the said £16 expended send the Trustees a particular Accot. of the whole Charge of the said Poultry & Sows and building Signed by Mr. Bolzius to Discharge the Trustees of the said Benefaction. As to the Provisions Tools and Necessarys for the said third Transport Mr. Oglethorpe gave You Directions therein which are again repeated. Their Provisions for the first year was to be as New Settlers which are the same as in this Letter mentioned to Mr. [William] Bradley and family and the Credit of 20 s p head which Mr. Oglethorpe ordered them for Tools and Necessarys was to be made up to the Quantitys of Tools and Necessarys furnished new Settlers including the Iron Potts sent them in June last as part, and whatever has been advanced them or they have received since their Arrival must be accoted. as part of the said Supplys, and Accot. of which must be made up by you and Signed by Mr. Bolzius and sent to the Trustees.

The Trustees desire you would order the remainder of the Saltzburghers Lands at New Ebenezer to be set out as soon as possible; that they may not be hindered in raising a Maintenance for themselves.

The Trustees have received two certified Accots. You Signed to Mr. [Samuel] Eveleigh the one for £417:19:8 Curcy. the Balance of his Accots. of Guns and Duffils and the other for £ 6967:11:7 Curcy. the Balance of his Accot of Provisions and Necessarys, which will be paid when the Parliamentary Grant is received. They have also received from You the Copys of the following Accots. But no certified Accots. thereof are come to hand viz. Mr. Hugh Bryan’s Accot. whereon is a Balance Stated of £ 582:15:8 Sterl. due, Mr. Wm. Bellinger’s Accot. amounting to £1738:11:3 Curcy, Mr. Wm. Clays Accot. amounting to £1413:2:0 Curcy, and Mr. David Provoost’s Accot. amounting to £112:18:11 Sterling. The Trustees desire you will send them as particular Accompt as you can of all other Demands in or for the Colony to Midsummer next.

The Passengers by this Ship are John Venables bred on Upholsterer who pays his own Passage and settles at his own Expence on a Lot of 50 Acres which must be set out for him; his Father has paid the Trustees £12 Sterling to have the Value thereof delivered him in Provisions in Georgia in the first Year after his Arrival; The Trustees must therefore have an Accot of such Provisions to that Value Signed by the said John Venables as received to discharge them therefrom. The Ensign to the Independant Company his Wife and family with eight Recruits and the Wife of one of them, the Ensign has a Letter to you for a Boat and Guard to carry the Recruits to the Southward. Elizabeth Brownfield goes to her Brother’s. Robert Gilbert returns to his Settlement and gave the inclosed Note to repay his Passage in Georgia; which You may give him time for doing with the most Conveniency to him. John Pye comes over to be employed as a Clerk in the Store to be maintained with the Colony Provisions and paid 10 £ Sterling a year for 3 years for Cloathing and Extrarys. I have inclosed you his articles and he has received 5 £ Sterling in Advance which is indorsed thereon. There are two Women Servts. for you which McBain hired and their Indentures are sent you inclosed in a Letter from him. The Trustees Pay their Passage and have found them with Bedding and a pair of Shoes to each to be charged to Your Accot. in part of your Allowance for keeping the Stores. There are four Men Servants whose Indentures Capt. Dymond will indorse to the Trustees and deliver you, they are for the two Brickmakers at Frederica [John] Robenson and [George] Spencer, & must be sent to them. There is a Servant also on board for Mr. [James] Haselfoot which Mrs. Haselfoot bound her Self for her husband and whose Indenture I have inclosed to Mr. [James] Haselfoot.

Samuel Lacey having wrote for his Wife and Children to Come over to him, and desired £10 Sterling to be advanced her for Necessarys. The Trustees have Complied with his Request, and She received the said £10 which she will acquaint her husband of. She gave me a Receipt upon the back of her husband’s Letter and therefore he will Pay you the said £10 for the Trust in Discharge thereof as also £15 more for the Passage of his Wife & his Son and Daughter they coming by this Ship; Which when paid let the Trustees know That Samuel Lacey may be discharged therefrom.

Mary Cooper the widow of Joseph Cooper having sent you a Letter of Attorney to Receive the Rent of her House let to Mr, [Henry] Parker the 3d Bailiff at £10.10.0 Sterling a year from 16 June 1735 and to Remit her the said Rent in the Trustees Sola Bills. But having a present Occasion for Money and applying to the Trustees they have paid her £10.10.0 for one year’s Rent to be paid You for their use by virtue of the said Letter of Attorney, which You are to Charge Your Self with when received, and Remit her only what you may receive more than the said £ 10.10.0.

Mrs. Lawley having received of the Trustees the balance of her late husband’s Benefaction for Richard Lawley at Frederica, has consented that if her Son’s House is built as was intended with that Benefaction of £10. the Box consigned to You for her Son shall make it good to the Trustees. But if the said £10 or£6.5.0 which was the Balance of the £10 is not applied in Georgia, and her Son be living, the Box is to be delivered to her Son, but if her Son should be not living and no such application made of the said Benefaction, then the Box must be sent back to England to be returned to her.

Mrs. [Elizabeth] Stanley the Midwife being near her time The Trustees have assisted her with six pounds and six shillings Sterling to defray her Charges until She is ready to return to Georgia again, and which You are to acquaint her husband of to Repay the Trustees that Sum in Accot. in Georgia which You are to Charge your Self with when received.

There has been a Petition presented to the Trustees in the name of Jacob Lopes de Crasto setting forth That he has married Ziporah late Wife of David Lopes de Paz and is thereby possessed of 100 Acres of Land; and desires Leave to dispose of one half thereof to such purchaser as he can get for the same. Which the Trustees have desired You to Examine into, first to know if the Wife desires to surrender her Interest for Life to the Trustees & then who the Purchaser is that will be proposed who is not possessed of Land already; and on your Report they will consider it.

The late Wm. Wise’s Nephew has been at the Office for an Accot. of his Uncles Effects which you are desired to send over. I have a Copy of his will.

Capt. [George] Dymond brings over Provisions in case you wanted them, which give him a Receipt for, Specifying the qualitys and Quantitys.

Mr. John Murcott has been at the Office complaining of Theophilus Hetherington’s usage of him against whom he had obtained a Judgment for about £ 30 in Debt and Costs; and he produced a Letter from him wrote in a very daring manner, acknowledging himself capable of paying him, and yet refusing it. Which the Trustees blame him very much for, and expect that as soon as he can he does the man Justice and Pays him; Please to speak to him of it, and let the Trustees know what he says.

The Trustees being alarmed with Reports of the Spaniards intending a Descent on Georgia, they desire you will be watchful, and very careful to avoid the beginning of Hostilities, and to prevent the Indians from giving offence by their Inclinations of falling on the Spaniards, or Spanish Indians being in the least pursued; and that you would send to Frederica and the Southern Settlements to have the same watchfulness and Caution.

Defence is the Business of the Inhabitants of Georgia, and I hope a watchful Guard, and keeping the Indians in a defensive manner only; will with the Protection and good Providence of God, prevent any Design on Georgia being carried into Execution.

Harman Verelst to the Rev. John Martin Bolzius, March 17, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 23-25, notifying him of supplies for Salzburgers, surveys at New Ebenezer, and the third transport of Salzburgers. By the Peter and James, Capt. Dymond.

Revd. Sir

I received Your Letter acknowledging the Receipt of the Tokens the Trustees sent You and Mr. [Israel] Gronau, the Executing the Trustees order thereon gave me pleasure; and I shall on all occasions assist to the utmost of my Power to the Welfare of the Saltzburghers.

As to the first and second Transport of the Saltzburghers whom Mr. Oglethorpe consented to remove to new Ebenezer at their Request, and that their Crop at Old Ebenezer should be for their use towards their Subsistance. The Trustees have considered them to be assisted from the Store on the reduced Allowance to September next without expecting Repayment thereof, the Particulars whereof are over leaf, but their Crop at Old Ebenezer and whatever has been advanced to the Saltzburghers since their new Settling must be accompted as part.

As to the New Boat, Mr. [Thomas] Causton had Directions to Pay for it at the Trustees Expence; and if he has not it will be done by him, for which purpose I have wrote to him by this Ship.

As to the Lands Set out for the Saltzburghers at New Ebenezer there are more already Set out than cultivated to raise their Subsistance from, and Directions are given to have the Remainder set out with all possible Expedition; in which setting out of Lands the Surveyor as much as can be is to do equal Justice in the marking out each Person’s Lot, wherein some part may be of one Soil and some of another, to be improved by the Owner according to the different nature of each, wherein no one can expect more than Neighbour’s fare, and the Case of Setting out Lands makes it impossible to be otherwise. Therefore if a Garden Lot proves Pine Barren some other part of the Lot may be good, and until the whole can be set out the Saltzburghers must assist one another where good Ground is to be returned in assistance in other good Ground when the whole is set out, which I hope will soon be done.

As to the third Transport of Saltzburghers they were Computed part of the last Imbarkations for the Southward, and it was intended to have desired Mr. [Israel] Gronau to have ministered unto them there, but the altering that Intention on their Arrival in Georgia occasioned great Difficultys to provide for them as first Settlers. All their Tools, Necessarys and Provisions being on board those Ships for the Southward, which could not be unpacked at Tybee, nor until they were Debarked where the said Imbarkations were appointed to be Settled. This Consideration must take off all blame from the Trustees who had so fully provided for them in the same ample manner as the former Saltzburghers.

In this Situation therefore the Trustees sent their Direction for the Supplying them with Provisions as first Settlers and with Iron Potts Tools and Necessarys for Settling themselves, which I have again repeated, and am Satisfied it will be, if it has not already been Complied with; But then whatever they have received must be accompted as part.

A particular Benefaction has enabled the Trustees to send Orders for a Cock and Hen to be given to each man of the third Transport of the Saltzburghers; and a Sow a Turkey Hen and a Goose to every five heads of the said Transport, and that £16. Sterling should be laid out for building your house and school house at New Ebenezer.

Mr. Gronau’s house at Old Ebenezer as well as the other Buildings there as I understood were Erected by the English Carpenters and ye Twenty Negroes that were employed; as to the Saltzburgh Carpenters if employed I have wrote to Mr. Causton to know and if under any Contact for Payment unsatisfied to be sure it will be made good, and have desired it should.

The Accident of your not receiving the £50 paid in by the Honourable Society for promoting Christian Knowledge for your Salarys to the 1st of November last, was owing to the Sola Bills sent for Payment thereof to Mr. Oglethorpe not being arrived before he sailed from Georgia. But on Receipt of this Letter if it has not been paid you it will be by Mr. [Thomas] Causton together with whatever Expences you have been at in borrowing Money for want thereof.

[P.S.] My humble Service to Mr. Gronau. I have sent You from the Trust a pair of Cullen Stones for an Hand Mill as Mr. Zeigenhagen desired for the Saltzburghers. The reduced Allowance is to each head for a year. 15 bushels of Indian Corn & 200 pds. of Meat & a Quart of Molasses a week.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, March 24, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 25, concerning Joseph Watson. By the Peter and James, Capt. Dymond.

Sir

Last Week a Petition (of which the inclosed is a copy) was presented by Mrs. Watson to the King in Council relating to her husband’s [Joseph Watson’s] Confinement. To which the Trustees desire your particular answer, supported with such Evidence as You have that can Speak to it; which Evidence may be given by Affidavits before the Recorder. Loose no time in answering this Petition & be prudent in the manner of doing it.

Harman Verelst to Samuel Eveleigh, March 24, 1736/7, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 25-26, concerning Eveleigh’s accounts. By the Peter and James, Capt. Dymond.

Sir

The Common Council of the Trustees since Mr, Oglethorpe’s arrival, and communicating to them the use of purchasing the Guns and Duffils with the £500 Bill he sent You in May last, and that the said Guns and Duffils were fit for future Occasions Did Order me to Pay the said Bill together with Interest. Notage and Protest amounting to £510.0.3 which I have done to Mr. Baker the 20th. of Janry. last. I have lately rec’d from him two certified Accots. belonging to You, the one to Balance the Accot. of the said Guns and Duffils and the other of Provisions and Necessarys furnished the Colony, which will be examined by the Committee of Accompts and reported on; and I have no reason to apprehend any Objection will be made thereto. They shall be the first Accompts dispatched as soon as the present hurry of Business is over, and when reported will be ordered for Payment in June next. The Trustees are much obliged to You for your Zeal and Service to Georgia and your kind Correspondence.

Benjamin Martyn to Lt. Gov. Thomas Broughton of South Carolina, April 18, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 26, concerning reported Spanish attack on Georgia.

Sir,

The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia have received a Letter from You dated Febry. 7, 1736/7 giving Notice of Advices which You have receiv’d from Commodore Dent that the Spaniards have form’d a Design to attack the Colony of Georgia.

They have order’d me Sr to return You their thanks for the Information which You have been so kind as to give them, and to assure You, that they have taken and will take the most Effectual Measures to the utmost of their Power for the Assistance and Defence of the Colony under their care; and they have no doubt but you will find the Persons with whom they have intrusted the Administration of Affairs in Georgia ready on all occasions to join with You in such Measures as shall be agreed by them to be necessary for the support and defence of the Colony.

Harman Verelst to Elisha Dobree at Frederica, April 19, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 27, concerning Mrs. Dobree coming to Georgia.

Sir

The Trustees rec’d your Letter dated the 17th. of Decr. last, and there will be care taken for sending a Minister to Frederica, and finding proper Instruction for the Children also.

Mrs. Dobree was sent to, to know if She cared to Go over to You with her family; She was very willing provided She could be Satisfied how You could provide for them, which is what She waits for, whever You are able to do that, and let her know; and She applys to the Trustees thereupon, they will facilitate your familys coming over to You. Mrs, Dobree at present maintains herself and family and therefore is the more desirous to be Satisfied how You can maintain them before she goes.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Christie, April 19, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 27, concerning the courts in Georgia and their judgments.

Sir,

The Trustees have rec’d the Copys of the Proceedings of the Town Court at Savannah, But they observe Several Tryals at the said Court whereon no Judgments have been Passed.

They therefore desire You will review the last Accot. of the said Proceedings which You sent, and let them know what Sentences have been passed and how such Sentences have been executed upon the several Verdicts that required Sentences; and which have not yet been mentioned by You.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, April 19, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 28-29, concerning Ann Clark, certified accounts, servants, Elizabeth Lacy, a clock for the church, and Hugh Anderson. Inclosed to Samuel Eveleigh by the Princess Carolina, Capt. Coe.

Sir,

Herewith You have Copys of the Letters by Capt. Nickleson and by the Peter and James Capt. Dymond. I have further to add that Mr. Thomas Siddons who is Uncle to Ann Clark the Orphan and Daughter of Henry and Ann Clark who was put out a Servant to Mr. [Joseph] Hetherington; has applied to the Trustees to have his Niece the said Ann Clark brought back to England, She having some small Assistance left her, and he having engaged to take Care of her. Whereupon the Trustees have ordered That the said Ann Clark shall be brought back by Capt. Dymond who has promised to take Care of her; and You must acquaint Mr. Hetherington therewith that he may Comply with such Order, She being only his Servant till otherwise provided for.

The Trustees have received the 3 following Certified Accots. which You acquainted them off. vizt. Mr. Hugh Bryan’s Mr, Wm. Bellinger’s and Mr. David Provoost’s. But Mr. Wm. Clay’s Certified Accot is not yet come to hand.

They have also received two certified Accots. which You inclosed to Mr. Ogelthorpe the 27th. of Janry. last giving Advice of Paying the same in Sola Bills without Mr. Oglethorpe’s Indorsement vizt. To Mr. Barns £ 40 for £39.19.8d. due to him, and Messrs. Minis and Salomon’s for £215 due to them for a Cargo from New York. The Trustees judging those Bills of no use without a proper Indorsement on each had ordered and have sent You by the Peter & James £1000 with proper Indorsements on them for the Services they are appropriated to defray; and being uncertain whether any more of the £1500 Sola Bills which by their Letter of the 14th. of Janry, last they desired to be sent back, have been paid before the Receipt of their Letter to discharge Certified Accots. sent over before You received those Bills. They are obliged to Postpone the Paying those Accots. for some time until they receive an Answer from You to their said Letter of the 14th. of January; and they are very much Surprized You did not write to them the 10th. of Febry. last after having paid to Mr. [John] Brownfield £178 more of the said Sola Bills. Your not writing to the Trustees by the same opportunity as Mr. Brownfield did, notwithstanding You have been so often desired to omit no opportunity of writing to them; and this Case of the Sola Bills being of so particular a nature which so much required their hearing from you; They cannot assign a Reason for not receiving a Letter from You, and should be glad to know the Occasion.

There were two men Servants shipped at Gravesend on board the Peter and James which Capt. Dymond had Instructions to deliver to You with their Indentures to be sent to [Richard] Cooper the Millwright and employed by him for the Publick Service in fitting up and using the Saw Mill and other Millwrights Work. There is another Saw Mill bespoke and to be sent over as soon as possible.

Samuel Lacey’s Wife [Elizabeth] and Children did not go with Capt. Dymond, notwithstanding She was on board at Blackwall but they intend to go by the next opportunity.

The Trustees desire you will take Care of Preserving the Clock for the Church which was sent over that it may not be spoiled and to prevent which if it is not put up in some useful place, they direct it should until the Church is built to move it into which will be the best means of Preserving it.

Mr. [Hugh] Anderson lately sailed from Crommarty in Scotland to Georgia. The Trustees have ordered a Credit to be given him in Georgia in case he shall want it, of 12 bushels of Corn and 200 pds. of Meat for himself and each of his Servants for a year.

Benjamin Martyn to Thomas Causton, May 4, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 30, concerning John Warwick.

Sir

The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia have resolved to grant a Town Lot within the Town of Savannah to Mr. John Warwick⁹¹ the Bearer of this. You are therefore to acquaint the Trustees nam’d in the Trust Grant that they are order’d to put him in possession of such a Lot; and in case there is no vacant Lot in the Town of Savannah they must get a Lot of 50 Acres mark’d out for him in the most convenient Part of the Province nearest to Savannah and put him in posession thereof.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 5, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 30, concerning Causton’s reports, Spanish danger, and Elizabeth Lacy. Inclosed to Samuel Eveleigh by the Princess Carolina, Capt. Coe.

Sir

The 29th of last month the Trustees rec’d your Letter dated 10th. of Febry. 1736 with the Copys therewith inclosed and much approve of your Answer to Lt. Govr. Broughton’s Letter; and on the 3d. instant they rec’d your Letter dated 24th of Febry. 1736 with the Copys and List of the Tythings therewith inclosed. Your reasons for not sending into the Indian Nation to invite the Indians down at this Juncture are very well Stated and very just; and the Trustees are fully Satisfied with your Endeavours for the Publick Safety. They have ordered the Paymt. of those Bills You drew on Mr. Oglethorpe after having heard your Letter read for what they were drawn. The Trustees hope that the Spaniards Designs will not be executed, but defeated by the early notice, the Stationed Ships and the Peoples Courage, crowned with the Almighty Protection, who has hitherto preserv’d so many Imbarkations and the Colony itself from the many Alarms it has heretofore been under.

[P.S.] Mr. Oglethorpe would have wrote to You but he is so much hurried he couldnot. Saml. Lacey’s Wife [Elizabeth] & Son & Daur come by Capt. Coe’s Ship, let Mr. Lacey her husband know it That he may fetch his Wife from Charles Town. He is to repay to You the £15 for their Passage, the £10 advanced her by his Desire and £2.2.0 more on her going on board yesterday.

Harman Verelst to John Hossack & Co. at Inverness, April 23, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 31-32, concerning Scottish servants and supplies, clerks for Causton, death of Elizabeth Warren Hood (or Wood).

Sirs

Last Wednesday the Trustees agreed with the Owner of the Ship Two Brothers to go to Inverness and imbark 40 Men Servants to be Shipped within 14 days after her Arrival at Inverness by the Order and for the Accot. of the Trustees.

The Trustees thereupon ordered me to acquaint You thereof and to request your employing Archibald McBean or whom else You think proper to engage them; those of 20 Years and upwards are to serve 4 Years, those under 20 Years old are to serve until they are 24. The Indentures of which Servants when bound to the Person who engages them, must be indorsed by him with his Name on the back of that part of the Indentures which the Servants Sign and those parts of their Indentures must be delivered to You; Which the Trustees desire You would inclose and forward by the same Ship to Mr. Thomas Causton at Savannah in Georgia who will have Instructions for employing them in the Publick Service, and please to favour the Trustees with a List of their Names and Ages. The Charge the Trustees pay for engaging them is Twenty Shillings Sterling for each Servant.

The Trustees have ordered 40 Beds to be made of Sack Cloth with one End open and unstuffed which each Servant may fill with Straw himself, a Bolster for each of the same Sack Cloth ready filled with Flocks, and a large Blanket to each Bed which will be sent from hence in the Ship & which comes to 5s/19 Sterling each Sute of such Bedding.

Mr. Provost Lindesay thinks the properest Clothing for the Servants will be a short Coat and short Hose of Tartan and a Tartan Plaid the Coat and Hose of abt. 12d. a yard Sterling and the Plaid abt. 14d. The Trustees allow as far as 19s 3d Sterling for cloathing of each Servt. which makes the Cloathing and Bedding 1.5s together some of the Servts may want more than others for the present with the addition of Shirts, Bonnetts, & wt. they wear on their feet therefore as far as 19s/3 each for 40 or so many of them as shall be shipped the Trustees will pay yr. Draught for as well as the 20s each for engaging which yr. Accot. with the Trust will discharge by the engaging & cloathing of such Servts. at £1.19s.3d each.

I shewed Mr. Beans [McBeans] Letter to Mr. Oglethorpe & you are desired to buy for the Trust to be used in Georgia for the Highlanders there & now going 300 yards of Tartan at 12d. Sterling a yard for short Coats & short Hose & 1200 yds. of Tartan at 14d. Sterl. a yard for Plaids to be packed in a Bale & mark’d G&C Tartan of which Bale please to send the Dimensions of length, Breadth & Depth to settle the freight therof with the Owner here & let yr. Capt. sign 3 Bills of Lading for it one whereof please to inclose to Mr. Causton the other the Capt. will keep & the third please to send to the Trustees. I will send some Blanks for filling up.

You are further desired to buy 12 Spinning Wheels with some Wool & Hemp or flax for the Women to be employed in & consign the Sd. Spinning Wheels &c to Mr. Causton & insert them in the said Bills of Lading the Expence of all which please to draw on the Trustees for and discharge yrself by yr. accts. thereof.

The 40 Servts. are to be ship’d as bound to save Charges & the Trustees are to allow the Owners for Victualling each of them from the Time of Shipping to the Time of Sailing from Inverness therefore the Trustees must know the Time when each of the said 40 Servts. was shipped and when the Ship weigh’d anchor for Sailing by the next Post after the Ship shall sail from Inverness.

Mc Bean was desired by his Countrymen and others in Georgia to come to Scotland to engage Servts. for them which they are to pay the Capt. for on Delivery in Georgia & the Owner in Consideration of Mc Beans Trouble gives him his own Passage back & the Passage of some Servts. for himself in proportion to the Number he shall engage and Ship over and above the 40 to be shipped for the Trustees. The Owner of the Ship who once thought to send the Ship all at his own Risque advanced to McBean £ 9.18s. 6d Sterling for Cloaths & his charges to Scotland and therefore what he earns of the engaging money for the 40 Servts. for the Trust must be repaid to the Capt. as far as the 5d £9,15,6 who will bring you McBeans Rects, for the same and McBeans said Earnings must also defray his Charges till on Board.

Your good Offices in facilitating the Freighting & Dispatching this Ship which will sail in 10 Days for Inverness will add to the Favours the Trustees have already received from you & much oblige them.

Benjamin Martyn to Thomas Causton, May 11, 1737, Westminster, C,0. 5/667, p, 32, granting 50 acres to George Foster,

Sir,

The Trustees have resolved to give a Lot of fifty Acres in the Town of Frederica to Mr. George Foster the Bearer of this; You are therefore to acquaint the Trustees named in the Trust Grant for the said Town that they are ordered to put him in Possession of a Lot as soon as they conveniently can.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 20, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 33-36, concerning accounts, sola bills, supplies and servants sent, clerks for Causton, spinning in Georgia, death of Elizabeth Warren Hood (or Wood), and rent of Mrs. Frances Watts. By the Two Brothers, Capt. Thomson.

Sir,

Since my last by Capt. Coe the Trustees have rec’d a Certified Accot. for £ 218.7.5 Sterl. dated the 29th of Deer, last & Stated to be due to Messrs. Minis and Salomons, to whom the 27th Janry. following You paid £215 in Sola Bills unissued by Mr. Oglethorpe for another Certified Accot. as both these Accots. came to the Trustees hands together from Mr. Levi, and if they were both sent from Georgia by the Owners of them together; It is a Wonder Sola Bills were not required for both. The Trustees have rec’d no Accot. from You of the above £218.7s.5d and in Your Letter of the 24th of Febry. last You mention that You believe the People who You shall buy Provisions of will take the Sola Bills You received as they are and that in such Case You will certify the Goods bought; But if they should not do so Mr. [Samuel] Montaigut and Mr. [Paul] Jenys are both willing to let You have Carolina Curcy. for them at 650£ P Cent advance. And as the Trustees have not yet rec’d any subsequent Letter in answer to theirs relating to the said Sola Bills they are obliged to continue postponing the Payment of Your Certified Accots. to prevent any double Payment with their Sola Bills; since they have been already taken for Certified Accots.

The Trustees rec’d a Letter from Mr. Robert Ellis dated Charles Town the 21st. of March 1736 acquainting them of a Certified Accot. of Goods delivered amounting to £372.19.2 1/2 Sterl. but there is no Letter from You thereupon assigning a reason why You did not pay for them. The said Letter mentions that the Frederica Sloop is gone to Philadelphia for another Load of Provision by your Order; when that arrives You will send the Trustees a particular Accot. thereof and I hope the £1,000 Sola Bills by Capt. Dymond will reach You time enough to Pay for that Load of Provision thereout.

Inclosed You receive the Invoyce and Bill of Lading of what was Shipped in London on board the Two Brothers Capt. Thomson. Mr. [John] Hossack will send You an Accot. of what shall be shipped at Inverness where Capt. Thomson is going for 40 Men Servants for the Trustees to be employed in the Publick Work and several of them must be set to Sawing Timber and Boards, for which purpose there are Saws and files put on board.

The Olive Oyl, Emory and Sand Paper in the Invoyce are for Cleaning the Musquets and Guns with.

The 2 Boxes I D No. 2 and 3 are for Mr. [John] McLeod the Scots Minister at the Darien which please to forward, with the Cloathing for Capt. [Edward] Masseys Company which he has shipped on board this Ship and desires may be sent with the utmost Care and Expedition.

The 2 Tubs of Vines came from Mr. King’s Vineyard and are for planting in Georgia.

There was 1/2 an hhd. of Rape Eager⁹² and a Brush for sprinkling it Shipped for Use in the Voyage.

The Indentures for the 40 Men Servants Mr. [John] Hossack will send You indorsed for the Trustees Accot. whose freight the Trustees pay, and for whom they have sent 40 Beds of Sack Cloth with one End open to be filled with Straw, a Bolster of the same filled with Flocks and a large Blanket to each Bed.

Col. [William] Stephens has sent you a Letter about employing 6 Men Servants he has wrote to Scotland for to come by this Ship, being part of 10 he intends to have for himself and to settle in Georgia on a Grant of 500 d, acres of Land lately granted him.

Inclosed You receive 2 Indentures Signed John Younghusband⁹³ and Wm. Colthred and indorsed by George Foster to whom they were bound. The Occasion of their Indorsements is to secure the freight of £5 each and 8d a day each from their being Shipped to their Sailing from Inverness which the said George Foster is to Pay You in Georgia and which the Capt. will inform You of; The said Foster goes by this Ship to settle on a 50 Acres Lot at Frederica, and the Servants must remain to be employed for the Publick Use until he Pays You the said Expence of them.

All the other Servants on board whether Men or Women, their Indentures are indorsed to the Capt. to secure the freight and Charges of them which the Owner sends at his own Risque and has ordered the Captain to wait one month to receive £10 a piece for them. But if any of them should not be paid for at the Expiration of the said month of 30 days from the Ship’s Arrival at Savannah, the Capt has Leave to deliver to You those Servants whose Indentures are indorsed to him or are bound to him with the Indentures themselves for the Trustees Use to be employed in the Publick Work. And You are to make a List of such (if any there are so delivered) inserting their Names Ages and times of Service, and give the Capt. a Rect. for them for his Owners Use here.

Inclosed You have the Articles under the Seal for John Pye who was sent to be a Clerk to You by the Ship Peter and James Capt. Dymond which please to deliver to him. And the Trustees have sent You another Clerk by this Ship named Saml. Hurst and also one for the Store at Frederica named Saml. Smallwood; Counterparts of whose Articles I have also inclosed to you. Saml. Smallwood may go up with the Cloathing for Capt. Massey’s Company.

The People at Darien are to have the Refusal of Servants which the Capt. is to receive the Money for, they coming from Scotland.

Mr. [John] Hossack has been directed by the Trustees to buy 300d Yards of Tartan for short Coats and short Hose, and 1200 Yards of Tartan for Plaids as also 12 Spinning Wheels with some Wool and Hemp or Flax for the Women to be employed in Spinning which he will send by this Ship and Consign to You for the Highlanders already in Georgia and the 40 Men Servants now going.

Capt. Thomson has Directions to get 2 Men Servants for Charles Wheeler at his Mother’s Expence and his Mother has desired me to write to You That if her Son should want any Tools as far as 40 s Sterl. or Provision for his Servants as far as £8 Sterl. She will Pay the Money here on her Sons Certifying he has been Supplied with that or any less Value. But this Supply is only to be in case he should absolutely want it and cannot do without it, which the Revd. Mr. Smith who knows his Mother desired me to mention to You.

There is one Mr. [John] Warwick on board this Ship who goes at his own Expence to settle on a 50 Acres Lot for which he has a particular Letter.

Capt. Thomson has bound one Mary Jones as a Servant to be delivered to a good family in Georgia. She is a Neighbour’s Child in Westminister and was brought to the Office to desire her being recommended to a family that would use her well.

The Widow [Elizabeth] Warren who married Wood [Hood] is dead. She died the 30th. of March last, her Son Richard who has the House and Land now being an Orphan, the Premisses late his father’s must be taken Care of for his Use, he is now at Sea with his father in Law; which father in Law has no right to that Lot now his Wife is dead. Warren’s Daughter [Elizabeth] is here in England whether She will come over or not is not yet determined.

Let Mrs. [Elizabeth] Stanley’s Husband [Joseph] know the Trustees have let her have Two Guineas more which he is to repay to You for their Use.

[P.S.] Mrs. Frances Watts the Widow of Mr. [Will] Cox has sent You a Letter of Attorney to receive the Rent of her house which is here inclosed, and the Trustees have paid her £ 20 in part of what You are thereby to receive for her, and when rec’d You are to Charge Your self with that Value on the Trustees Accot. and Remit her only what You may receive more than the said £20. Tell Mr. [James] Haselfoot That the Charges of the Servant sent to him by the Peter and James is a Loan to him from the Trust at the Request of his Wife.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 21, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 36, recommending Thomas Upton.

Sir,

The Bearer Mr. Thos. Upton has a Grant for 150 Acres of Land to Settle on at the Southward, and his Friends intend to pay unto the Trust £30 for that Value to be delivered in Provisions in Georgia, Of which I shall acquaint You by my next Letter, in the meantime The Earl of Egmont recommends Mr. Upton and his Wife to your Advice and Assistance until the above limited Credit is sent You.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, May 27, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 37-39, concerning Scottish servants, Archibald McBean, guns for Darien servants, Oglethorpe’s regiment, and salary of the Rev. John MacLeod. Encloased to Samuel Eveleigh by the Seaforth Man of War, Capt. Scott.

Sir

Capt. Thomson Sailed with the Ship Two Brothers on Saturday last for Inverness in Scotland to imbark 40 Men Servants which Mr. [John] Hossack was wrote to to engage for the Trustees, and whose Indentures Mr. Hossack will inclose to You. The Charges of them Servants to the Trustees amount to £7.5.0 Sterling each for engaging Clothing Bedding and the freight of them; But such of them that are Shipped before the day of Sailing from Inverness The Trustees Pay 8d a day for their Victualling from the day of their Shipping to the Day of their Sailing from Inverness; and towards the Voyage to Inverness the Trustees also Pay fifteen shillings each being £30, they having Contracted for 40 to be Shipped, Which makes the whole £8 Sterl. each besides the Victualling before Sailing; And if a lesser Number than 40 are Shipped they are also to Pay the further Sum of 40s for each of the 40 short Shipped. These Servants are to be sent to Lieut. Moore Mackintosh at the Darien with a List of them, and You are to Acquaint him That he is to offer to each Freeholder of the Darien that was there when Mr. Oglethorpe left the Place (beginning by the oldest) to take one of the said Servants and give Security by Bond for Repaying to the Trustees or their Order in Georgia the Sum of £8 Sterling in twelve months from that time; And as Alex. Cameron paid Mr. Francis Moor £5 Sterling for a Servant to be sent him, one other of the said Servants is to be delivered him in Discharge thereof, and he must give a Bond as above for the £3 Deficiency. And the remaining Number of the Servants sent by the Trustees Lieut. Moore Mackintosh [John Mackintosh Mohr] is to Set to work in Sawing and Cutting up Timber in any of the ungranted Lands near the Darien for the use of the Publick. The Timber to be Sawed into Inch and half Boards and Feather Edge Boards, for which purpose Whip Saws & Cross Cutt Saws are sent by this Ship; That a Stock of Boards may be ready for the Trustees Service. And You are to send up Provision to supply those remaining Servants with four pds. of Meat a Week each, a bushel of Corn and two pd. and an half of Butter a month each, and seven pd. of Cheese a Quarter each. These Servants being Shipped by Mr. Hossack, [Archibald] McBeane has nothing to do with the Disposal of them at all or giving any Directions concerning them.

As to the other Servants shipped on bourd the said Ship for Persons who had desired McBeane to get them Servants, all their Indentures will be indorsed to the Capt. to secure for his Owner the Money the Capt. is to receive for them in Consideration of all Risque and Charges; And the said Owner gives MacBeane his Passage and the Passage of some Servants for himself in proportion to the Number of Servants McBeane shall Ship on the Owner’s Risque, And in that Case where the People of Darien can pay the Capt. for any (over & above the said Loan of one to each Freeholder) they should have the Refusal, as coming from their own Country. And You are to recommend a kind Usage to be given to all the Servants thus brought; and to be civil to McBeane who tho’ he was not employed by the Trustees but by Mr. Hossock whom they employed, yet in some Measure he has been instrumental in this Supply of Servants.

In March last You had a Copy sent You of Mrs. [Joseph] Watson’s Petition which You were desired to send your Answer to supported with sufficient Proofs upon Oath. That is to say Affidavits sworn before a Magistrate and duly Certified. And it is further necessary That there should be like Affidavits sent over of the Acts of Lunacy Watson has committed, such as his Painting himself, running about naked, threatning to bring down Storms and Showers of Blood, Saying Mrs. [Mary] Musgrove had bewitched People; and his other Figarys;⁹⁴ Together with Tallahumes and the other Evidences relating to the Poison of Skee.

The Trustees having sent a Representation to the Committee of Council on Mrs. Watson’s Petition, I have Inclosed You a Copy of it. And by the next Opportunity Directions will be sent to the Bayliff and Recorder of Savannah relating to Watson’s Affair.

You receive inclosed a Copy of what was made up at Savannah by Mr. Oglethorpe and Yourself relating to the Charge of the Colony; wherein You must be carefull not to exceed in anything. But You are to take Care That Mr. [William] Horton and the People at the Southward and the People at Darien are Supplied with Provisions.

You are to send up Indian Guns for all the Servants at Darien to be delivered to their Masters for them, and the Indian Guns for those Servants at Darien which remain for the Publick vizt. one for each Servant are to be delivered to the Care of Lieut. Moore Mackintosh, to whom on all Occasions You are to have a particular Regard.

I believe Mr. Oglethrope will be soon setting out for Georgia with the Commission of Capt. General & Commander in Chief of the King’s Forces in Carolina and Georgia, and a Regiment of Six hundred Men under his Command.

I have wrote to Mr. [John] Hossack to send by the Ship Two Brothers one hundred and fifty pair of what the Highlanders wear upon their feet⁹⁵ which will be Consigned to You for the Use of the Highlanders in Georgia and going thither.

The Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge having by Mr. Adam Anderson paid into the hands of the Trustees for Georgia the Sum of £41.15.6 Sterl. to be paid over to the Revd. Mr. John MacLeod Minister to the Scots Settlement at New Darien on the Alatamaha River; The Trustees direct You to pay the same out of the Sola Bills they sent You, and take two Receipts of Mr. MacLeod in Discharge thereof, one to send to England, and the other for You to keep.

[P.S.] Herewith Your receive Copys of the Letters by the Princess Carolina Capt. Coe & by the two Brothers Capt. Thomson; & I have inclosed a Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe to You.

Harman Verelst to Messrs. John Hossack & Co. at Inverness, May 28, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, pp. 39-40, concerning Archibald McBean and Hugh Mackay, Scottish servants and supplies. By the Seaforth Man of War, Capt. Scott.

Gentlemen,

I have rec’d Archibald McBeanes Letters of the 7th. & 14th. of this instant with Mr. Alves Letter to Mr. Richie and the Copys of the Letters relating to Capt. Hugh Mackay. As to McBeanes Letter of the 7th. relating to Duncan MacDonald there will be no Application for his Discharge. MacBeane is very much to blame to take upon him to call Persons Names, & reflect upon the Persons Capt. Mackay carried over with him, when Capt. Mackay was imployed by the Trustees.

You are desired to rebuke him for such Behaviour, the Trustees having had no Complaints of any of those Persons Capt. Mackay took over with him, and they have been very well pleased with his Services in Georgia.

As to the above mentioned Letters concerning Capt. Mackay I shall lay them before the Trustees when they meet. But in the meantime think it necessary to acquaint You That the Trustees troubled You with the Commission of employing Persons to engage the 40 Men Servants they want & desired your employing Archibald MacBeane or whom else You thought proper for that purpose; and You are to draw for the engaging Money and the other Charges attending the Cloathing and the furnishing and Shipping what the Trustees have desired to be sent by this Ship the Two Brothers, which Sailed from London for Inverness on Saturday last the 21st. instant.

I have further to desire your getting 150 pair of what the Highlanders wear upon their feet; but the Name of them I can’t remember; they are not dear and if I am not mistaken they are about 8d a pair; but please to get them as cheap as You can and pack them with the Tartan or any other proper Package; The Mark is G x C but if not with the Tartan let the other Package be mentioned in the Bill of Lading consigned to Mr. Thos. Causton at Savannah in Georgia.

As to that part of MacBeanes Letter hoping for an Indulgence from the Trustees to Ship for his own Accot. three Servts. Please Gentlemen to acquaint him That the Trustees can’t Pay engaging Money which he under You may Earn, and the Passage of Servants for him too. The Owner has contracted to allow him his Passage and Servants in proportion to the Number of those he shall Ship for his Countrymen in Georgia, over and above the 40 You were desired to get engaged for the Trustees; and in that Case he possibly may be Supplied with Passage. But if by any unforeseen Accident MacBeane should not be in a Condition to Earn of the Owner or Pay his own Passage; I have wrote to Capt. Thomson to take him on board to return to Georgia.

[P.S.] I have troubled You with a large Packet for Capt. Thomson under Cover to You. The Postage whereof please to Charge to the Trustees Accot.

Harman Verelst to Thomas Causton, June 11, 1737, Westminster, C.O. 5/667, p. 41, concerning accounts, sola bills, and Joseph Watson. Sent to Inverness to go by Capt. Thomson.

Sir

The Trustees on the 6th instant rec’d your Letter dated the 24th. of March last with the Copies of the Correspondencys therein inclosed. The next day Mr. Simond presented Sola Bills with Your Certificates of having received the Value of Messrs. Samuel Montaigut and Co. to the amount of £1017 wch. with the £433. You before advised of having paid away makes together £1450 of the 1500 £ that were sent over. The Certified Accots. already received without Sola Bills attending them will therefore now be examined and reported upon for Paymt., And as it may be hoped You have before this time rec’d from Capt. Dymond the £1000 in Sola Bills sent You by him. You will thereby be Supplied for making Payments for Provisions and the absolute Necessitys of the Colony without having Occasion to send over any more Certified Accots. for Payment in England; Yet Copys of Accots. must continue to be sent to Satisfy the Trustees of the Particulars for which their Sola Bills are paid.

The Trustees will continue to send over their Sola Bills for Payments in Georgia, and your Corresponding by every opportunity will inform them of your foreseen Occasions in Order that You may be regularly Supplied with them.

Since my last Letter to You the Trustees have Settled the inclosed Directions relating to Mr. [Joseph] Watson’s Affair. And I shall send a Duplicate thereof and of this Letter by the first opportunity which shall offer.