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Volume 14211 
1 (1) 

NB. this letter was 

received by Col. /Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Thomas Jones dated at 

Stephens 8th. Octbr. 

following Westminster the llth. June 1?40. 

Sir 

The Trustees having lately paid Captain Thomson for the several 
Servants delivered in Georgia to the Persons hereafter named upon 
Credit in January 17?8, the Amount for such Servants so delivered is to 
be deducted from each of their respective Allowances on the Estimate 
established by the Trustees from Michaelmas last; of which Deductions 
the said several Persons are made acquainted, as well as Mr. Stephens. 

.The said Deductions so to be made are as follow, vizt. From 
Henry Parker out of his Allowance as first Bailiff at Savannah the Sum 
of t 7 for the Servant delivered him in Credit as above 

John Fallowfield out of his Allowance ss Second Bailiff at 
Savannah the Sum of I< 28 — for four heads of Servants delivered him on 
Credit as above. 

Samuel Perkins out of his Allowance as Second Bailiff at 
Frederics the Sum of L 17*10.0 for 2% heads of Servants delivered him 
on Credit as above. 

And from John Mackintosh Moore out of his Allowance as overseer 
of the Trust Servants at Darien the (2) Sum of I< 8 — for an English Boy 
Servant delivered to him on Credit as above at that price, 
a And the Trustees having paid Capt. Thomson for other Servants 

delivered at the same time on Credit, for which Bonds were taken in the 
said Captains Name from the several Persons hereafter named. The Sums 

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so paid by the Trust are to be repaid in Georgia by them pursuant to 
their respective Bonds, but for the use of the Trust vizt. by 

Andrew Duche the Potter the Sum of L 14 — for two Servants 
delivered to him on Credit as above: Which is to be received from him 
as soon as he is able whether he has given Bond or not. 

Noble Jones the Sum of L 23.6.8 for 3-1/3 heads of Servants 
delivered him on Credit as above. 

Thomas Walker at Frederics the Sum of L 7 — for the Servant 
delivered him on Credit as above. 

Thomas Walker at Frederica the Sum of L 7 — for the Servant 
delivered him on Credit as above. 

Andrew Walset at Frederica the Sum of L 14.- for 2 heads of 
Servants delivered him on Credit as beforementioned. 

And as those Settled upon Village Bluff at St. Simons shall 
become able, their Bonds are also to be discharged by them for the 
Trustees use; the Captain having received of the Trust the whole they 
have given Bond for. 

Captain Thomson having delivered several things to Genl. Ogle- 
thorpe in December last towardz answering the (l) Estimated Expences of 
the Colony from Michas 1739 amoting. to L 228.19.2 herewith You receive 
a Copy of the Particulars thereof, to Examine into the Application of 
them; and to lessen the Issuing of Sola. Bills for such Services by so 
much as they respectively amount to have been already paid for by the 
Trust. 

The Trustees hope You. have taken Csre of repairing the Light 
house at Tybee; a.nd the Bouse at Savannah built for the Trust by Mr. 

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Bradley, Which have been so expensive to the Trust in the Erecting And 
th6 Trustees direct You and Mr. Stephens in case such Repairs are not 
done, That You immediately give the necessary Orders for that Purpose, 
pursuant to those Directions already sent You; For You are not to wait 
for further or other Orders after those from the Trustees are received 
for the doing of any thing required. And the Trustees expect that such 
Orders as You are in Possession of, or shall from time to time receive 
you will take care of the due Execution of For no Powers given to You 
for any particular purpose will be vested in any other without giving 
Notice to You, by a proper Instrument, to Supercede any Original Order; 
And the Trustees also direct that the Saw Mill be also repaired with the 
Trust Servants appropriated to that Mill. 

The Trustees have received the several Accots. transmitted by the 
Commissioners for examing and Stating the Publick Debts (4) in Georgia 
with their Observations thereupon. And have paid such of them as have 
been demanded. They received a Letter from Benj. Adams concerning his 
Debt which he mentions to be about t $0 Sterling, but the Accot. sent 
over amounts to 3E< 34.1.9-3/4 Stated due to him; a Copy of which Accot. 
^hey have sent him, and directed him to apply to You and Mr! Stephens, 
or either of You for a Draught on the Trustees for Payment thereof 30 
days after Sight here; And they have sent Mr. SMqt Stephens e. Copy of his 
Letter to the Trustees. Asm As to what he writes relating to the 
& $0 — he let Mr. Causton have the Trustees have nothing to do with 
that; But what he mentions of a Trade carried on in a high Degree at the 
Store that there is no Room for any Trades People whilst the Store is 
allowed to trade in such a manner occasions the Trustees to enquire why 

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any Stores are continued at Savannah and with what Money they are pur 
chased; Since the Trustees have directed that no Store of their own 
shall he continued tut for the Issue of the Remain of Stores before 
their Estimated Expences took place, for Payment of the Expences in 
Georgia with ready Money. 

c James Searles having petitioned the Trustees for Paymt. of what is 
d due to him, and Mr. Camuse having wrote for Paymt. of what is due to 
him; The Trustees have referred them both to Apply to You, and Mr. 
Stephens or either of You, for Draughts on the Trustees for what shall 
be still due and owing to them. 

I am 

Sir 

Ac 

NB. this letter / Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Wm. Stephens Esqr. dated at 

was reed, by 

Col. Stephens 8 KaxJadbnzJaoE Westmr. llth. June l?4o. 

Octbr. following 

Sir 

The Trustees having lately paid Captn. Thomson for the several 
Servants delivered in Georgia to the Persons hereafter named upon Credit 
in January 1738; the Amount for such Servants so delivered is to be 
deducted from each of their respective Allowances on the Estimate Es 
tablished by the Trustees from Michas last of which Deductions the said 
several Persons are made % acquainted as well as Mr. Jones. 

The said Deductions so to be made are as follow Vizt. from Mr. 
Henry Parker out of his Allowance as first Bailiff at Savannah the Sum 

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of L ?.-*- for the Servant delivered to him on Credit as above. 

John Fallowfield out of his Allowance as second Bailiff at 
Savannah the Sum of t 28.-.- for four heade of Servants delivered to 
him on Credit as above. 

Samuel Perkins out of his Allowance as Second Bailiff at 
Frederica the Sum of & 17.10.- for 2^ heads of Servants delivered to 
him on Credit as above 

And from John MacMngtosh Moore out of his Allowance as Overseer 
of the Trust Servants at Darien the Sum of t 8.-.- for an English Boy 
Servant delivered to (6) him at that Price on Credit as above. 

And the Trustees having paid Captn. Thomson for other Servants 
delivered at the same time on Credit for which Bonds were taken in the 
said Captain's Name from the several Persons hereafter named; the Sums 
so paid by the Trust are to be repaid in Georgia by them pursuant to 
their respective Bonds but for the use of the Trust. Vizt. By. 

Andrew Duche the Potter the Sum of & 14. for two Servants deli 
vered him on Credit as above; which is to be received from him as soon as 
he is able whether he has given Bond or not. 

Noble Jones the Sum of & 23.6.8 for Sz% 3-1/3 heads of Servants 
delivered him on Credit as above. 

Thomas Walker at Frederica the Sum of-L ?.-.- for the Servant 
delivered to him on Credit as above. 

Andrew Walset at Frederica the Sum of t 14 — for two heads of 
Servants delivered him on Credit as before mentioned. 

And as those Settled upon Tillage Bluff at St. SMMExx Simons 
shall JatiH become able, their Bonds are also to be discharged by Them for 

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the Trustees use; the Captain having received of the Trust the whole 
they have given Bond for. 

Captain Thomson having delivered several things (?) to General 
Oglethorpe in Dedember last towards answering the Estimated Expences of 
the Colony from Michas 1739 amounting to t 228.19.2 herewith you receive 
a Copy of the Particulars thereof, to examine into the application of 
them; and to lessen the Issuing of Sola Bills for such Services by so 
much as they respectively amount to have been already paid for by the 
Trust. 

The Trustees hope you have taken care of repairing the Light 
house at Tybee and the House at Savannah built for the Trust by Bradley 
which have been so expensive to the Trust in the erecting; And the 
Trustees direct You and Mr. Jones in case such repairs are not done, 
That You immediately give the necessary Orders for that Purpose pursuant 
to those Directions a30t already sent You; for you are not to Wait for 
further or other Orders, after those from the Trustees are received for 
the doing of any thing required. And the Trustees expect that such 
Orders as you are in Possession of, or shall ixzy from time to .time 
receive, you will take care of the due Execution of, For no Powers given 
to You for any Particular purpose will be vested in any other without 
giving Notice to You by a Proper Instrument to supercede any Original 
Order. And the Trustees also direct that the Saw Mill be also repaired 
with the Trusts Servants appropriated to that Mill. 

(8) You are desired^ to send to Mr. Hawkins at Frederica for a 
List of the Trusts Servants in the Southern part of Georgia to be made 
out in the same manner as you did that of those in the Northern part. 

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The Trustees received a Petition from Messieurs Stirling, Grunt, 
Douglass, and B&iiHe relating to an Intended Settlement they are 
desirous to make on part of Wilmington Island, and herewith you receive 
a Copy of the said Petition which is referred to Your self, and the 
Magistrates, to cause the Lands to be Surveyed, and seperate Plans to 
be made of four Grants thereof to lye together; no more than 500. 
Acres being to be in any one Grant; Which You are to report to the 
Trustees with your Opinion thereupon, as also to acquaint the said 
Petitioners, That in order to be intitled to the several Grants thereof, 
Surrenders must be made to the Trustees of the respective former Grants 
to them, describing what has been done under every such Grant; and 
thereby become part of the Consideration of their new Grants, but if 
either of the present Grantees should be unwilling to surrender his 
said Grant, he cannot possess two different Grants of Land at the same 
time; nor can either of them possess a Country and a Town Lot at one 
and the same time 

The Trustees have received the several Accompts transmitted by 
the Comissioners for examining and Stating (9) the Publick Debts in 
Georgia, with their 6BEOOE observations thereupon and have paid such of 
them as have been demanded. They have received a Letter from Banjamin 

Adams concerning his Debt, which he mentions to be about & 50 Sterling 

lb 
but the Accompt sent over amounts to 34.1.9-3/4 Stated due to him; a 

Copy of which Accompt they have sent him, and directed him to apply to 
You and Mr. Jones or either of You for a Draught on the Trustees for 
payment thereof Thirty days after Sight here, and they have herewith 
sent you a Copy of his Letter to the Trustees. As to what he writes 

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relating to the L 50 — he let Mr. Cans ton have the Trustees have 
nothing to do with that; But what he mentions of a Tra.de carried on in 
a high Degree at the Store, that there is no Room for any Trades People 
whilst the Store is allowed to Trade in such a manner; occasions the 
Trustees to Enquire why any Stores are continued at Savannah and with 
what money they are purchased, since the Trustees haw directed that no 
Store of their own shall be continued, but for the Issue of the Remain 
of Stores before their Estimated Expences took place, for payment of the 
Expences in Georgia with ready Money. 

James Searl's having Petitioned the Trustees for payment of what 
is due to him and Mr. Camus having wrote for payment of what is due to 
him; The Trustees have referred (10) them both to apply to You and Mr. 
Jones or either of You for Draughts on the Trustees for what shall be 
still due and owing to them. 

And the Trustees desire You will acquaint the Magistrates in the 

a Northern and Southern part of the Province that two Orphans or Young 

People from each Part now at the Trustees Charge in the Colony be put to 
Mrs. Camus to be instructed in the Production of Raw Silk. And that in 
case there are no Orphans fit in the Southern Part, That two proper 
Children at Frederica or Darien be put Apprentices to her; And that an 

b Allowance of !< 10 — a year for her Maintaining and Cloathing each of 
them should be paid her. 

c Herewith in a Box you receive a Book with 30 Sola Bills of L 5 — 
each, amounting to 3s 150 which the Trustees have sent to be issued by 
Your self, Mr. Henry Parker and Mr. Thomas Jones or any two of You to 
make up to L 300 — the Sum Mr. Whitefield received from General 

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d Oglethorpe for building a Church at Savannah; which Sum of t 300 must 

t not be exceeded. And in Order to save Expences discourage Vanity and 

/ 

Pride of Distinction, and make the Church more usefull to the Inhabi- 
c tants. The Trustees have sent to Mr. Whitefield who is to Co-operate 

with you in this work, as well ss they now mention to You; That there be 
no other Pews Erected (ll) therein, but one for the Minister and One for 
the Magistrates; and instead of other Pews that there be Benches as in 
the Chappie at Tunbridge, and in some Country Churches in England, 
whereby there will be more Room for the Inhabitants who attend the 
Publick Service; And the Trustees further direct that such Trust Ser 
vants who are capable, and not otherwise engaged, be employed therein as 
well as those Handicraft Trust Servants who are out of their Time, to 
enable the latter by their Earnings to furnish themselves with neces 
saries for taking up the Grants they are Intitled to. 
a Mr. Whitefield having exercised a Power over the Orphans in 

Georgia whom no one could give him, the Trustees have herewith sent you 
proper Instructions for You to deliver or cause to be delivered to the 
Magistrates at Savannah and Frederica concerning the Orphans in Georgia, 
and they have sent Mr. Whitefield a Copy thereof. 

b The Trustees on the Receipt of a Letter from Mr. Whitefield 
Signifying his Intentions of returning to England have provided a 
Minister to succeed him at Savannah, who is recommended to Dr. Hales by 
Dr. Waterland, and will set forward for Georgia with Capt. Thomson when 
he returns; whereby no Interruption of Divine Service at Savannah will 
happen; of which the Trustees have acquainted Mr. Whitefield. 

I am &c. 

 10 %3± (13) 

Copy % a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Genl. Oglethorpe dated at West 
minster the llth. of June 1?40. 

Sir 

Your Letters of the 2$th. of December last were received the 2d. 
of May following. As to That relating to 69 Heads of German Servants 
delivered by Captn. Thomson to different Persons upon Credit, parti 
cularly stating every Reason assignable for the several Distributions of 
them; The Committee of Accompts have reported thereupon; and herewith 
You receive a Copy of that Report, which has been confirmed by the 
Common Council, whereby all those chargeable to Persons receiving at 
present established Allowances from the Trust, the Money now paid for 
such Servants so received by them is directed to be deducted from their 
said Allowances, and be accoted. as part thereof; and yet there are 
several Heads of the other Servants that will never be made good to the 
Trust; and as the Trustees are in no Capacity of bearing such Losses, 
They are very uneasy at the great 3!xpence brought on them by such 
Numbers of Servants having been received in the Colony, and placed to 
their Accompt, which they were no way provided to answer; Whereby other 
Services in the Colony suffer. They have therefore come to a Resolution, 
which they now signify to You; That they will (14) never allow of any 
such Expence for the future. But since this has happened, the Trustees 
desire You would order an Account to be sent them of the whole Number of 
their Servants in the Colony, in what Services they are and have been 
employed, what Benefit their Services have been and are to the Trust; 
and such of them as have been employed in fortifying or other Military 
Service, The Trustees desire an Accot. duly Certifyed of such Service 

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having bee done, together with the Sum chargeable on the Government for 
the same, to be sent them, whereby to enable the Trustees to demand 
Payment thereof here, to reimburse them for these extraordinary Expences, 
incurred without their Knowledge or Order. 

The Trustees having received an Account of some of the Employ 
ments of their Servants, wherein two are said to be employed in the Care 
of Your Live Cattle; They desire to know whether those Servants have 
a been accoted. for to the Trust and finding by the said Accot. 46 Trust 
Servants employed upon a Ninety Amont Acres Lot lately Surveyed by Your 
Order, half a Mile from Savannah; The Trustees desire to know what Use 
the said Land is put to, or designed to be put to. 

The Postscript of Your said Letter mentioning; That on the Neces 
sity of Acting on the Breach with the Spaniards (15) You was prevented 
to dispatching Captn. Thomson, till You returned from the Frontiers; 
So that he could not be discharged from You till the date of that 
Letter. 

The Trustees not being concerned in his Cargoe to the Southward, 
and therefore not in his Detention, cannot be chargeable with any 
Expence on that Account: But if he or his Ship has been of any Service 
to the Government, if You think proper, You have it in Your Power to 
certify hia said Service to the Government for his laying a Claim to 
receive from the Administration a Satisfaction for the same. 

As to Your Letter to the Trustees Accotant. of the same date, 
relating to Goods received from Captn. Thomson in January 1738 and 
December 1739. The Committee of Accompts have reported upon the several 
particular Articles thereof, Copies of which Reports are herewith sent 

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You, they having teen confirmed in Common Council; whereby the Resolu 
tion of the Trustees concerning Loans to the Inhabitants, will prevent 
any such for the future. And You will by the Report of the 15th. May 
last herewith sent find it necessary to Certify to the Government the 
following Expences being part of the Sum of t 686.16.4 chargeable to the 
Defence of the Colony on Account of the present War with Spain, vizt. 
The particular (16) Charges of refitting of Boats used in the late 
Expedition to the Southward amounting to L 70.2.0^ the Goods delivered 
for the use of the Bangers lately established amounting to t 33*0.6 the 
Trustees not finding them to have been delivered in Part of an old Debt 
by any Accot. received from their Commissioners in Georgia; And the 
several Parcels for the Indians lately established into Armed Companies 
of Men amounting to & 233.13.8 All which Sums make together t 336.16.2^ 
The Particulars whereof are herewith sent You; That they may be applied 
for Payment of from the Government, with other Military Expences You 
have created, and are unprovided for in the same manner. As the Trustees 
in their Letter to You dated the 29th. March last did advise. The 
Particulars and Amount of the Value of those things the Trustees have 
paid Captn. Thomson for is herewith sent You being & 228.19.2 to be 
Accoted. as part of the Estimated Expences of the Colony from Michas 

1739. 

Your other Letter of the same date to the Trustees relating to 
the Accompts of the Colony, and the necessary Expences for the preserv 
ing the Colony; The Trustees observe Your right Distinction of the 
different Periods of time for the distinct Accots. of Expence. vizt. 
That before Your Arrival, and that since to Michas last when their 

 13 (16) 

Estimate took place. (1?) As to the Accots. before Your Arrival the 
Trustees have reed, several of them from their Commissioners and have 
paid & appropriated for Payment, what they hope will be sufficient to 
answer them. And as to those since Your Arrival, they have paid Mr. 
Verelst for You sufficient to answer your Bills drawn including the 
Accompts You have sent, and to make up the Amount thereof, by your own 
Calculation of & 5000.-.- appropriated for that Term of the Expence of 
the Colony: Which when the Remainder of Your Accompts of Expence to 
Michas last are received, will clear You from the whole to the time of 
the Trustees Estimate; The Expence of which Estimate being defrayed in 
another manner, the Accompts of those Estimated Expences, the Trustees 
expect to receive from the Persons appointed to defray them. As to that 
part of Your said Letter concerning the necessary Expences for the 
preserving the Colony, the Trustees immediately ordered a Copy thereof 
to be sent to the Duke of Newcastle, and desired the same to be laid 
before the King, before he went to Hanover for His Majesty's Direction 
thereupon. And Lieutt. Norton having attended his Grace several times 
since, will acquaint You concerning the same. 

Your Letter of the 24th. of January last was received the said 
2d. of May foil, relating to the Passage of the Wives of the (18) Recruits 
Lieutt. Horton has Orders to raise, and for Corn and Meat to them for 
one Year; Which the Trustees will consider of. For tho they are in 
clined to do every they could therein, yet they are at present doubtfull 
of their Ability. 

By the Copys of the Reports of the Committee of Accompts you will 
find; That the L ?0 — Residue of the it 110. Bill You drew in part of the 

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Money due to Anthony Willy Lieut. of the Garrison in the Indian Nation, 
is ordered to be paid; since the Commissioners have reported a further 
Sum due to him. Your Bill for t 116.8.0 for Arrears to Capt. Mackintosh 
is also ordered to be paid; But Your Bill for t 139.16.10. drawn for 
Payment of the Arrears to William Francis the Messenger, being over 
drawn L 17.2.6^ the Commissioners have reported only t 122.14.% due to 
him; The Sum reported is ordered to be paid, and the Exceeding must be 
made good to You by William Francis, or Mr. Jones to whom the Bill was 
so much overdrawn. Your Bill for L 28.— to Peter Emery is ordered to 
be paid; But Your Bill for L 4$.— to Thomas Holmes, including Cash 

supplyed Mr. Kent Commander of the Garrison at Fort Augusta, there is 

Ib 
only t 20.4.0 of the said 45 ordered to be paid, being the Sterling of 

the Currency Money for Sundrys issued to Mr. Thomas Eyre sent into the 
Cherokee Nation, to prevent the further Use of Rum there. For whatever 
relates (19) to Fort Augusta, the Trustees consider it in this Light; 
That as that Fort and Settlement was made to Support the Regulation of 
the Trade with the Indians, whatever the Expence thereof amounts to, 
must be defrayed with the Profits arising from Licensing the Traders, 
of which the Trustees have never yet had any Accot. And if the present 
Receipts for such Licenses are not sufficient, the Charge of that 
Garrison should become so much a further Tax upon the Traders with the 
Indians, to make up any Deficiency thereof. 

The Trustees have received a Letter from Camus relating to the 
Money due to him, and they have sent an Answer for him to apply to Mr. 
Stephens and Mr. Jones, or either of them for a Draught on the Trustees 
for what shall be due to him at Michas last, and still unpaid; And in 

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Case that by any Accident he could not have such Draught, he might 
apply to You for a dx Draught payable in England, to prevent any 
Disappointment to him. The Trustees have wrote for the Magistrates to 
find out four Orphans or young People now at the Trustees Charge in the 
Colony, to put to Mrs. Camus, to be instructed in the Production of Raw 
Silk; Vizt. Two from the Northern, and two from the Southern part of 
the Colony; It being very necessary to have Persons instructed therein, 
in case of Mrs. Camus's Death; and equally (20) necessary to encourage 
her to that Service, for otherwise the Knowledge of raising Silk will 
be quite lost in the Colony. And in case there are no Orphans fit in 
the Southern part, that 2 proper Children at Frederica or Darien be put 
Apprentices to her, and an Allowance of t 10. a year for her maintaining 
and Cloathing each of them be paid her. 

The Trustees have received a Letter from Mr. Vhitefield acknow- 
ledgeing that he had received from You L 150. towards building a Church 
at Savannah, which the Trustees have given you Credit for out of the 
L 400. sent You of the Money appropriated for Churches (which was to be 
made good to that Fund) in case so much thereof remained unemployed in 
the Cloathing and maintaining the Trustees Servants, whose Services 
were to answer the Expence thereof towerds building of Churches, and 

whom You undertook to Supply with Your own Draughts, when you sent back 

Ib 
the Sola Bills unissued. But if the whole 400. should have been 

employed in the said Cloathing and Maintenance that i< 150. to Mr. White- 
field You will have a Claim for on the Trust. And the Trustees have by 
this Ship sent Mr. Stephens 3s 150. more in their Sola Bills, to compleat 
the Building the Church at Savannah. 

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§!he Trustees remind You, Sir, of the Five hundred whole Deals 
sent on board the Transport Ships in January (21) 1737 and May 1738, 

which cost them-L36.5-0 being 3a 7.3*0 p hundred; Of the 77 Bars of 

It s, 
atana&3& Sweeds Iron containing 32:2:16 at 15/6 p I wt. amounting to 

Ib 
t 25*5*11: of the 100 Barre of Russia Iron containing 54:3:10 at 14/6 

p I wt. amoting. to L 39.13.2 Of the Six Faggots of Steel containing 

Ib s 

4.1.4 at 30 p I wt. amounting to t 6.8.8. And of the 85 Tone of Flint 

Stones and 5 Tons of Dantzick Stones, sent on board the Transport Ships 
in May 1738, to be used in the building of Churches, and paid for out of 
the Money approated for that Service. Wherefore the Trustees desire to 
know, if the above mentioned Particulars have been so employed or what 
part thereof and what remains; And in Case that any Part thereof has 
been used for any other Service, that so much as the prime Cost of such 
part be refunded to the first Appropriation thereof. 

The Trustees also sent You by the Mary Ann Capt. Shubrick fifteen 
Tons of Strong Beer in March 1738, which with freight and Insurance 
cost t 160.10.6 And acquainted You that the Produce thereof was to be 
applied in the Cloathing and maintaining the Trustees Servants, to be 
employed in cultivating Lands for Religious Uses; which the Trustees 
desire to have an Accompt of; As well as of the t 200 sent You of the 
Money appropriated for Religious Uses, which You returned the Sola Bills 
for unissued and undertook to (22) Supply with your own Draughts; and 
which was to be applied in the Cloathing and maintaining the Trustees 
Servants, whose Services were to answer the Expence thereof to that 
Value, or so much thereof as might be so applied for the cultivating 
Lands for Religious Uses in the Northern and Southern Parts of Georgia. 

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Your Letter dated the 2d. of April last from Charles Town was 
received the 2d. instant, and the Trustees heartily wish You Success in 
the extraordinary Attempt against so strong a Garrison and Fortification 
as St. Augustine is, with so small an Assistance as you have. 

Your Answer to Mr. Jones's Representation relating to the Orphans 
exactly sgXM*# agrees with the Instructions the Trustees had prepared 
before the Receipt of Your Letter concerning the Orphans in Georgia, to 
prevent any Misconstructions of Mr. Whitefields Concern with the Orphans 
for the future, which he very strangely interpreted These Instructions 
are sent to the Magistrates at Savannah and Frederics, and a Copy of 
them to You and him. And as he has acquainted the Trustees, that he 
resigns being their Missionary at Savannah, the Trustees have got Mr. 
Metcalf to Succeed him there, who is recommended to Dr. Hales by Dr. 
Waterland, and who is intended to go over with Captn. Thomson. 

(23) Samuel Davison having petitioned the Trustees for some 
Allowances to be made him for his Services, in Discharge of the Debt 
from him to the Store at Frederica amounting to & 46:11:1 They have 
allowed him as follows, to Discharge his said Debt. vizt. For his 
Service as Constable from 15. March 1735 to Michas 1739 & 16.11.1 For 
4 Year's Salary as Searcher of Ships <&c. from April 1736 to April 1?40. 
at L 5. a year t 20. And for Seizing two Negroes in Georgia in 
December 1738 L 10. Which the Trustees desire You will order the late 
Storekeeper at Frederica, or whomsoever is in Possession of the Store 
Books of Accompt to Post off to Samuel Davison's Credit, for his Dis 
charge. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most Obedient Servant 

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Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to the Reverend Mr. Whitefield dated 
at Westminster the 11. June l?4o. 

Sir 

Your Letter to the Trustees Accotant. dated 28th. of January was 
received the 8th. of April last but that dated the l6th. of the said 
January was not received till the 30th. foil.; and on the 7th. of last 
month The Trustees received Your Letter dated 10th. March last 

As to your not Possessing Mr. How's Lot that Lot being not men 
tioned in the Grant to You as part of the Five hundred Acres for Endow 
ing the Orphan house, but only in a Letter of Instructions to Mr. 
Stephens, about the Setting out the Lands granted for the Orphan House; 
and those Lands by the Grant being to be set by the Directions of Mr. 
Stephens, and with your Consent, there is no Necessity of a fresh Grant; 
but Your having five hundred Acres for the Orphan House in any part of 
the Province, which Mr. Stephens and You agree upon, you are intitled to 
by the present Grant, and Mr. Hsbersham, not having any Grant from the 
Trustees of the Five hundred Acres you mention, needed only Quit the 
Possession of the said Lands, if Mr. Stephens approved of it. 

The Trustees are very sensible that the building the (26) Orphan 
House, and the Cultivation of the Lands they have granted You for the 
Maintenance of it will be of great Service to the Colony; which caused 
their Approbation of Your Design in so doing, and they hope for your own 
Sake, that you will voluntarily render them Accots. of Your Progress 
therein; and that You will Satisfy them about the laying out the Monies 
You have collected, pursuant to Your Covenant in the Grant to You, and 
in Discharge of the many Benefactions You have collected for that 

 19 (26) 

Purpose, % For otherwise the Attorney General at the Kings Suit may 
require such Accompt from You. 

The Trustees are surprized to find You suggest that the Grant, 
which you have, is contrary to the express Words of the Draught from 
whence it was Copied Because upon Comparing them it is found to be 
exactly the same; and is directly agreeable to the Intentions of the 
Trustees, who design'd only to give You the Power of appointing such 
Person or Persons to succeed You in the Trust, in the manner mentioned 
in the Grant, and which they see no Reason to alter. The Trustees think 
You have been in the wrong in taking in the Orphans, especially before 
the House was compleated and fit to receive them, or any Lands culti 
vated for maintaining them; But as they Suppose the House by Your Care 
will soon be in Readiness, and as they observe that the Magistrates as 
well as your self have (2?) mistaken the Grant with respect to the 
taking in the Orphans; They have prepared proper Instructions to the 
Magistrates relating to the taking in and Management of them a Copy of 
which Instructions is ^ sent You, in the mean time the Orphan, who was 
in Mr. Parkers House, and was well taken care of, the Trustees would have 
You return, You having by their Grant no Authority for the taking of him 
from thence especially as it was against Mr. Parkers Consent. 

You not having mentioned, on what 9atM,M Occasions You supplyed 
Candles for Divince Service out of your own Store, nor the particular 
Expences thereof, the Trustees cannot at present judge of such Expences; 
but when they have % a particular Account from you, they will consider 
to repay You the reasonable Charges thereof. 

As to the building a Church at Savannah it was what the Trustees 

 20 (2?) 

always had at heart, and as soon as their Benefactions were considerable 
enough immediately caused Estimates to be laid before them by proper 
Architects here, and desired Capt. Thomas, the Engineer, who went with 
General Oglethorpe, to build the said Church according to Mr. Flitcrofts 
Plan; but his dying at Charles Town has been hitherto the hindrance of 
pursuing that Intent. 

(28) You may see Sir the great Care and Readiness of the Trustees 
to forward this good Work of building Churches, and you must know the 
Expences, they have been at in the promoting Divine Worship in Georgia, 
in decent Places for that Purpose; until Churches are built and the 
sending Missionaries for that Work; some of whom have returned at their 
own Pleasure and left the Inhabitants destitute of a Minister. You know 
it was upon the Application of the Trustees that You received the Ordina 
tion of Priesthood, and that the Reason which they gave for it was at 
Your Desire for Your Residence at Savannah as their Stated Missionary 
They cannot but be concerned, that the great Care which they have taken 
to provide Savannah with a Minister, has been so often defeated; first 
by Mr. Quincy, who left the Colony unprovided of a Minister, and went to 
New England; afterwards by Mr. Wesley, and now by Yourself; however they 
are obliged to You for acquainting them with Your Intentions so early, 
that they may look out for another to succeed You in the Ministry. 

The Trustees observe with some Surprize that Paragraph, where You 
say you shall inform Pious People, how little Good has been done with 
their Charitable Contributions; And they doubt not but when you come to 
a Cooler and better Sense, You will think Yourself, that You have been 
too (29) rash and unadvised in such a Menace uninformed as You must be 
upon that Subject. 

 21 (29) 

The Trustees have had so good an Account of Mr. Jenkins's Care 
of the Orphans Effects; that they are not disposed to discontinue him, 
and they hope the Magistrates do settle Accompts with him from time to 
time. 

As the Trustees are sensible that the setting up any Looms in 
Georgia will be highly disagreeable to the Parliamt. and the Publick; 
who have been always of Opinion that our Colonies should only raise 
Produces for Manufacturing at home instead of % carrying on any Manu 
facture themselves; They are determined that no Looms should be set up 
in the Orphan House, or in any part of the Colony It would be very 
usefull to the Colony in general as well as the Orphans, if these 
especially the Females were instructed by Mr. Camuse in winding off 
Silk; which is a work that will be of the highest MTMg Advantage and 
it is intended to be the principal Commodity of the Province. 

Your Letter of the 10th. of March mentioning that Genl. Oglethorpe 
has advanced You & 130 — to make a beginning of building the Church And 
that if the rest of the Money given for that purpose were remitted You, 
you hoped to see the Church built before Your Return to England, The 
Trustees on that Occasion acquaint You that they have limitted the (30) 
Expence of building the Church and Vestry Room at Savannah to L 300 — 
which must not be exceeded; And in order to save Expence discourage 
Vanity and Pride of Distinction and make the Church more usefull to the 
Inhabitants they have sent to Mr. Stephens who is to Co-operate with You 
in this Work as well as they now direct You That there be no other Pews 
erected therein but one for the Minister and one for the Magistrates, 
and instead of other Pews that there be Benches as in the Chappie at 

 22 (30) 

Tuhbridge and in some Country Churches in England, whereby there will 
be more room for the Inhabitants who attend ye Publick Service. And the 
Trustees further direct, that such Trust Servants who are capable, and 
not otherwise engaged, be employed therein as well as those handicraft 
Trust Servants who are out of their Time, to enable the latter by their 
Earnings to furnish themselves with necessarys for taking up the Grants 
a of Lands they are intitled to; And the Trustees have sent Mr. Stephens 
L 130 in their Sola Bills to make up the Sum you received from the 
General to the limitted Sum for the said Church and Vestry Room. But 
if there be any exceeding of the said Sum of t 300 in the building and 
finishing the said Church with a Vestry Room, The Expence of such 
exceeding will certainly not be allowed; And you will then Judge Sir, 
what Imprudence w*** it will be to build upon such a Flan, as that the 
(31) Work must be left unfinished and run to decay. 

The Trustees to prevent any Interruption of Divine Service have 
appointed a Minister to Succeed You as soon as you quit the Colony, 
whom they readily found, since the Receipt of Your Letter and the 
sending away of this; and in Order to his arriving early enough at 
Savannah he will go over with Captain Thomson when he returns to 
Georgia. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most Obedient Servant. 

 23 (33) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Mr. James Lewis Camuse dated at 
Westmr. the llth. June 1?40. 

Sir 

Your Letter to the Trustees dated 20th. March last was received 
the 6th. of May following, and they received also Your account to Michas 
last stated by their Commissioners in Georgia Whereon the Sum of 
L 78.16.8 is Stated to be due to You; which the Trustees have no 
Objection to the Payment of if the whole is still due; but if not of 
what ever shall remain thereof due and unpaid at the Receipt of this 
Letter; And Mr. Stephens and Mr. Jones or either of them on your apply 
ing for that purpose will give a Draught on the Trustees for what shall 
be so due payable to You or Order thirty days after Sight, and the 
Trustees have acquainted General Oglethorpe therewith also; That if by 
any Accident you could not have such Draught, he mxg might Supply You 
with his and have thereby immediate Payment. 

From Michaelmas last you are Established on the Estimate at L 20 -- 
a Year to your Family employed in the producing Raw Silk, with an 
Allowance of 3* 12.3*4. a year more for the Maintenance % and Cloathing of 
a Servant making together t 32-3.4 And there are Encouragements besides 
allowed in the Estimate out of the Sum appropriated for that purpose; to 
answer the Bounty on Silk ^alls; to (34) provide You with a Cart and 
Horse; which Mr. Stephens and Mr. Jones have Directions about; and the 
Magistrates at Savannah and Frederica are also directed to get four 
proper Servants for Your Wife, and in case they are Young That they 
should be bound Apprentices to her, to be instructed in the Production 
of Raw Silk. And the Trustees desire that Your Wife would be very 

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Instructive to all Persons who are capable to receive her Instructions 
that in case of her Death the Management and Production of Raw Silk 
may go on; And her Service therein (when the Trustees find any Person 
or Persons instructed by her capable of going on with the Business) 
They will then consider of a proper Gratification, in proportion to the 
Pains she shall have taken in such Instructions, and have agreed to 
allow her it 10 a Year for her Cloathing and maintaining each of the 
said four Servants. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servant. 

(3?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Mr. Samuel Davison dated at 
Westmr. the llth. June l?4o. 

Mr. Davison 

Your Petition to the Trustees was received the 28th. of April 
last, and in Consideration of your following Services they have dis 
charged your Debt to the Store at Frederica. The Allowances made for 
your said Services in Discharge of such Debt being as follow. vizt. 

For Your Service as Constable from 15th. of March ) 

) t 16.11.1 
1735 to Michas 1739. ...........) 

For 4 Years Salary as Searcher of Ships &ca. from ) 

) 20.-.- 
April 1736 to April 1?40. at L 5. a year . ) 

And for your Seizing two Negroes in Georgia in ) 

) 10.-.- 
Decemr. 1738 ................) ______ 

46.11.1 

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Which Sum being the Amount of Your Debt, you are thereby Discharged 
from the same. 

The Trustees hope you are carefull to keep Peace and good Order 
in the Publick House you live in; which is the only means of preserving 
Your Licence to You, they have acquainted General Oglethorpe of the above 
Allowances which have been made You in Discharge of Your said Debt, and 
desired him to have the same placed to Your Credit for your said 
Discharge 

I am 

Your most humble Servant 

(4l) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Mr. Hawkins dated at 
Westminster the llth. June 1?40. 

Mr. Bawkins 

The Trustees received Your Letter dated 20th. Febry. last and 
also the Accompts you sent over; for the Balance of which you have 
drawn Bills on them; Btt in these Accounts there are not only many 
Errors, but very extraordinary Fees Charged, at the same time that you 
Charge for two Servants and a Boat, These Accots. are referred to the 
Committee of Accots. to examine and Report upon, from which there will 
certainly be a large Deduction, and it may be doubted whether any thing 
will be Reported due to You. 

As to the Invoice of Medicines you desire, the Trustees now Pay 
for every thing in Money in Georgia, pursuant to what is Estimated; and 
therefore what shall be found necessary when wanted, will be paid for 

 26 (41) 

there as it is wanted. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servant 

(43) Copy of a Letter from Mr. % Wm. Metcalfe to Mr. Verelst dated 
June 18th. 1740. 

Sr. 

Being recommended by Dr. Waterland & Dr. Hales for a Missionary 
in Georgia, I take the liberty to apply to You, having their Order for 
so doing to know when it will be necessary to come to Town For Dr. 
Hales tells me that Lieutenant Horton carries recruits thither in six 
Weeks time with whom I may have an Opportunity to go, I suppose I must 
be in Town some time before in Order to prepare Matters for that Voyage. 
Your Answer therefore will very much oblige yr. unknown 

humble Servant 

Ac. 

Sr. if You direct for me at Iminghsm near Caster Lincolnshire it will 
come safe. 

(45) 

White hall Treasury Chamber. 2 July l?4o 

Present. 
Mr. Chancr. of Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington 

 27 (43) 

Read a Memorial from Hie Trustees for Georgia, dated 12 March last, to 

t S D 
be Reimbursed the Sum of 1987.0. 9-^ which they have expended for the 

Military defence of the Said Colony. And my Lords, thereupon, order'd 
a Warrant to be prepared for the 4000 t Granted out of the Funds for 
this Year, to the Trustees for the further Setling and improving the Said 
Colony. And Say they must thereout, make themselves easie as to the 
said Debt: for that my Lords have no money in their Power that can be 
applyed thereto. So must attend the Direction of Parliament in the next 
Session 

A true Copy from the Entry in the 

Minute Book 

Tho. Bowen 

Clerk of the Minutes 

(4?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to the Reverend Mr. Wm. Metcalf 
dated at Westminster 8th. July 1?40. 

Revd. Sir 

I had the favour of Your Letter dated 18th. of June last and 
Yesterday the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America 
appointed You Missionary at Savannah in Georgia to which the Corporation 
Seal was then affixed. 

I will give You three Weeks Notice before the Ship goes to come 
up and prepare for the Voyage, and receive from the Trustees their said 
Appointment. The Captain cannot be yet certain of his fixing a time 

 28 (4?) 

for his Departure, but hopes to get away in less than two Months. 

I am 

Sir 

Yr. most humble Servant. 

(51) RxhtKHX&aact Palace Court 

Monday July 21st. l?4o. 

Present in Common Council Assembled. 
Mr. L'Apostre in the Chair. 
Earl of 6bc Egmont 
Mr. Vernon 
Mr. Thomas Tower 
Mr. Eyles 
Mr. Ch. Tower 
Mr. Henry Archer 
Mr. Smith 
Lord Sidney Beauclerk. 

Resolved 

That One thousand Pounds in Sola Bills besides those ordered the 
7th. instant be sent to Georgia by Capt. Thomson. 

Resolved. 

That a Draught be made on the Bank of England for two hundred 
Pounds to be paid into the hands of Sir Joseph Hankey and Co. for the 
Occasions of the Trust. 

 29 (3D 

Resolved. 

That Patrick Houston in Georgia be appointed a Conservator of the 
Peace within the Province. 

Resolved. 

That the Recorder of Savannah and the Recorder of Frederica be 

appointed Conservators of the Peace. 

/ 
(52) Order'd. 

That three several Appointments for the same be made out And 
that the Seal of the Corporation be Affixed thereto, and that the 
Secretary do countersign the same. 

Resolved. 

That Thomas Christie be removed from being Recorder of the Town 
of Savannah. 

Resolved. 

That John Pye be appointed Recorder in his Room that an Appoint 
ment for the same be made out, and the Seal of the Corporation be affixed 
thereto, and that the Secretary do countersign the same. 

Read a Petition of James Smith ]! desiring Leave to dispose of his 
House and fifty Acre Lot at Savannah. 

Resolved. 

That upon the said James Smiths surrendring the Lot to the 
Trustees A Grant be made of the same to Captn. William Thomson, and that 
the Seal of the Corporation be affixed to the said Lot, And that the 
Secretary do countersign the same. 

 30 (32) 

Signed a Draught on the Bank of England for two hundred Pounds 
payable to Sir Joseph Hankey and Co. "by Mr. L'Apostre, Earl of Egmont 
Mr. Vernon Mr. Christopher Tower and Mr. Smith No. 713* 

. Resolved. 

(53) 
That the Conditions in the Grants already made /concerning the 

Cultivation of Land and planting of Mulberry Trees be revoked, and that 
the following Conditions be inserted in their Stead vizt. 

That all Possessors of fifty Acres of Land in Georgia shall not 
be obliged by their Grants to cultivate more than five Acres of Wood 
Ground Part thereof, and Plant more than fifty White Mulberry Trees or 
Plants on their Lands in ten Years from the Date of their Grants, and 
all Possessions of Land under fifty Acres to be in the same Proportion. 

That all Possessors of five hundred Acres of Land in Georgia 
shell not be obliged by their Grants to cultivate more than sixty Acres 
of Wood Ground Part thereof in ten Years from the Date of their Grants 
in the manner following Vizt. twenty five Acres Parcel thereof within 
four Years from the Date, And Other twenty five Acres within Eight Years 
from the Date, and the remaining ten Acres before the Expiration of the 
said Term of Ten Years. And sixty Acres more of Wood Ground other part 
thereof within the further space of another ten Years next immediately 
following the first Term of ten Years before mentioned, And That they 
shall not be obliged to plant on their Ls,nd more than One thousand White 
Mulberry Trees, or Plants in the first term of ten Years. And one 
thousand more white Mulberry Trees or Plants in the sedond Term of ten 
Years before mentioned, And all Possessors of Land under five hundred 
Acres end above fifty Acres to be in the same Proportion. 

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Resolved. 

That in all future Grants the aforesaid/Conditions be inserted. 

Resolved 

That a General License be granted for two Years from Christmas 
1740 for all Possessors of Land in Georgia to make Leases of any Part 
of their Lots for any Term not exceeding five Years from the Date of the 
Lease to any Person or Persons residing in Georgia; end who shall con 
tinue resident there during the Term of such Lease. 

Ordered. 

That Draughts of the following Deeds be prepared and if approved 
of by Mr. Henry Archer Mr. Robert Eyre and Mr. Thomas Tower or any Two 
of them, that the Same be written out fiar, and that the Seal of the 
Corporation be affixed thereto, and that the Secretary do countersign 
them. Vizt. 

A Deed to revoke the Power granted August 28th. 1739 to the 
Magistrates of the Town Courts in Georgia to reenter upon the Lands of 
those Persons who have *x neglected or refused to perform the Condi 
tions or Provisoes in their Grants. 

A Proper Release in Law to declare that no Advantage shall be 
taken against Any of the present Possessors of Land in Georgia for any 
Breach of Covenants mrrTtrvw or Forfeitures incurred any Time before 
Midsummer 1?40 in relation to the Tenure or Cultivation of their Lands. 

A Deed to revoke the Conditions in the Grants ($5) already made 
concerning the Cultivation of Land and Planting of Mulberry Trees; and 
to Substitute in their Stead the new Conditions of Cultivation and 
Planting Mulberry Trees. 

 32 (55) 

And a Deed of General License for two Years from Christmas 1?40 
for leasing Lands in Georgia as before mentioned. 

Resolved. 

That the Apothecary's Bill for the Housekeeper amounting to one 
Pound fourteen Shillings and Six Pence be paid. 

Read a Letter from Mr. John Sharpe relating to the Account of 
Captain Roger Lacy. 

Order'd 

That a Copy of the said Account be sent to Mr. John Sharpe. 

Reed a Report from the Committee of Accounts of July 12th. 1740. 
to the following Purport. That they had taken into consideration a 
Letter from Elizabeth and Thomas Jennys at Charles Town in South 
Carolina dated the 2?th. of April last relating to the several Dis 
allowances in the Accounts of the late Mr. Paul Jennys sent by them as 
his Executors and claim*d of the Trustees which the Committee of 
Accounts held the 4th. of July 1739 hacL made thereon, and having con 
sidered the several Answers given to each of them in the said Letter are 
of the following Opinion concerning the particular Articles thereof 
Vizt. 

As to the Article of five hundred Ninety two Pounds (56) Nine 
Shillings Currency claimed by the said Executors as not included in the 
Trustees Account with the Said Paul Jenys Certified by Thomas Causton 
the 15th. Day of April 1738. The Committee find that by the particular 
Account of the said Sum transmitted with the Letter now under Considera 
tion, it appears to be a Transaction with the said Paul Jenys and his 

 33 (56) 

Partner Baker on the private Account of the said. Thomas Causton so long 
ago as in the Year 1735 And therefore it could not be charged to the 
Trustees, nor at all become any Article in the said Certified Account. 
As to the Executors representing that two Bills drawn on James Ogle- 
thorpe Eeqr. by the said Thomas Causton amounting to Eighty Pounds 
Sterling was by him placed to two different Transactions as Payment in 
both, That is a Matter to be settled between the said Thomas Causton and 
them, and not any Concern of the Trustees. 

a As to the Forty Pounds Currency for the Eight thousand Bricks not 
delivered, They alledge that the Orders for them were to buy and keep 
them till a Cheap freight offered for Georgia; which has not happened, 
And that by their lying on a Publick Wharf, Many of them are stolen and 
gone, But as they were paid for they ought not to lose their Money, The 
Committee are of Opinion That Whatever Quantities of them shall be deli 
vered in Georgia ought to be paid for on their Delivery there together 
(57) together with the Charge of carrying them, and Submitt it to the 
Common Council whether the Trustees ought to pay for those not delivered. 

a As to the Over Charge of One hundred Pounds Currency stated by 
the said Thomas Causton to have been made in the Amount of his Bill 
drawn July 24th. 1736 on the Trustees Account to William Butler No. 79 
which occasioned the Committee of Accounts to deduct th^t Sum as so 
Over charged The Committee have perused a Copy of the said Bill trans 
mitted by the Executors of the said Paul Jenys. Whereby the Bill appears 
to have been drawn for the Sum of two hundred j&t Ninety three Pounds 
twelve Shillings Currency claimed in Account with the Trust, end not for 
only One hundred Ninety three Pounds twelve Shillings Currency stated 
by the said Thomas Causton to have been the jth Amount thereof; But as 

 34 (57) 

the said Copy was not attested by a Notary Publick at Charles Town to 
have been examined with the Original produced to him, and Thomas Causton 
who drew the Bill representing this as an Over Charge in the Account of 
the said Paul Jennys; Tho' the Committee are far from thinking that the 
said Executors would send an untrue Copy of the said Draught, Yet they 
think it necessary for the Justification of the Trustees in the Applica 
tion of Publick Money, such Testimony of the Original Bill being so 
produced ought to be had to intitle the said Executors to the Payment of 
thirteen Pounds ten Shillings and three Pence Sterling the ($8) Produce 
of the said One hundred Pounds Currency at seven hundred ajid forty p 
Cent. 

As to the Sum of Sixty three Pounds thirteen Shillings and Nine 
Pence Currency claimed by the said Executors on the Authority of a 
Letter from the Said Thomas Causton The Committee do find that very 
Sum to have been potif paid to Mr. Paul Jennys by Edward Towns end who 
has produced to the Commissioners in Georgia his Receipt for the same. 
Werefore the said Paul Jenys's Executors can haw no demand on the 
Trustees for wh?t has been so paid to their Testator. 

And as to the Commission for receiving the Rum Duty and keeping 
the Accots. thereof, the Committee are of Opinion that a sufficient 
Satisfaction has been already made for the same. 

Resolved. 

a That it is the Opinion of the Common Council that the Bricks 
which were not delivered be not paid for, and that the Rest of the 
Report from the Committee be agreed to. 

 35 4%R (38) 

Read a further Report from the said Committee that Lieut. Col. 
Cochran attended concerning his Account Whereon he claimed four hundred 
forty four Pounds twelve Shillings And one Penny as the Balance due to 
him, Wherein four hundred twenty Nine Pounds Eight Shillings and Two 
Pence is charge for his Expence in "building a House for the Commanding 
Office of General Oglethorpe's Regiment at ^ St. Simons in Georgia, 
Which by the Engineer's Plan of (59) fortifying that Place will stand 
within the Fort; And wherein Several Sums are also charged for Wine 
delivered to Inhabitants in Georgia who had Credit on the Trustees Store 
by Order of Mr. Causton the late Storekeeper amoting. in the whole to 
Seventy Seven Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Sixpence. And the Lieut. 
Col. being examined/ Concerning the same produced Mr. Thomas Stephens 
who acted for him in Georgia And he offering to make Oath that every 
Particular of the said Sum was delivered by the Order of the said Mr. 
Causton to the several Persons mentioned to have received the same. 
And that the respective Values thereof were placed to their Particular 
Accounts with the Store as Payments to them by the Trustees; The Com 
mittee are of Opinion That as the said Sum of four hundred twenty nine 
Pounds Eight Shillings and two Pence is included in the Trustees Memorial 
to the Treasury dated the 12th. of March last to be reimbursed the Sum 
of One thousand Nine hundred Eighty Seven Pounds and Nine Pence half 
Penny represented to have been expended by the Trustees for the Military 
Defence of Georgia, and if Mr. Thomas Stephens shall make Oath of the 
other Particulars abovementioned, Those Particulars will stand in the 
same light with other Certified Accounts (60) from Georgia which have 
been paid. They submitt it to the Common Council whether it may be 

 36 (60) 

proper to pay the said Sum of four hundred forty four Founds twelve 
Shillings and one Penny to Lt. Colonel Cochran on his giving Security that 
will be proper to repay to the Trueteee the four hundred twenty Nine 
Pounds Eight Shillings and two Pence before mentioned in case the 
Treasury do not reimburse the Trustees that Sum as Part of the said One 
jf thousand Nine hundred Eighty Seven Pounds, and Nine Pence half Penny. 

Resolved. 

a That fifteen Pounds three Shillings and Eleven Pence be paid to 
Lieut. Col. Cochran for Wine and other Goods delivered to the Trustees 
Store but that the Sum of Four hundred twenty Nine Pounds Eight Shill 
ings and two Penoe being expended for the Military Services of the 
Colony be not paid by the Trust. 

b Read a further Report from the said Committee Thai they had read 
a Memorial from Lieutenant William Horton with an Account annexed 
amounting to Sixty Nine Pounds Eleven Shillings for Expences and Work 
done by him and his Servants in building the Barracks at St. Simons 
in Georgia Which being part of Seven hundred and fifty Pounds included 
in the beforementioned Memorial to the Treasury (6l) to be reimbursed 
the Trustees. The Committee submitt the same as they did Lieut. Col. 
Cochrans Balance 

Resolved, 
a That the said Sum of Sixty Nine Pounds Eleven Shillings being for 

the Military Services of the Colony be not paid by the Trust, 
b Read a further Report from the said Committee that they had taken 

into Consideration the Claim of Thomas Christie of One hundred Pounds, 

 37 (61) 

annexed to his Memorial and Papers laid before the Trustees the 24th. of 
last month; and having examined his Account with the Trust, received 
from the Commissioners in Georgia as the same stood at Michaelmas last 
do find he stands indebted thereon to the Trustees the Sum of Thirty One 
Pounds and four Pence farthing. And the said Commissioners having 
observed That it did not appear to them that he had ever paid any Rent 
for a Town Lot, Two Houses and a Warehouse belonging to John Goddard an 
Orphan value Eighteen Pounds a Year possessed by the said Thomas Christie 
for some Years, And Charging him generally with having converted several 
Sums of Money and Effects to his own Use belonging to Persons who died 
in Georgia, as well as to the Trustees. The said Thomas Christie was 
examined concerning the same, (62) who answered That he had Surrendered 
up the said Orphans Estate, and was discharged therefrom that the Money 
and Effects of deceased Persons never came to his hands Nor any thing 
belonging to the Trustees more than Charged upon him by the Store except 
forty Shillings for Fines as hereafter mentioned. Whereupon the Com 
mittee proceeded to examine into those Articles of his Claim not included 
in his Account received from the Commissioners in Georgia, z*& And find 
them to consist of the following Sums. Vizt. Sixteen Pounds One Shill 
ing and Eight Pence for half a Year's Allowance as Recorder from 
Michaelmas 1739- to Lady Day l?4o. on the last Estimate of the Trustees 
to which the Committee haife no Objection. Of fifty three Pounds five 
Shillings for a Year's Provision for himself and Family consisting of 
seven Heads at Seven Pounds fifteen Shillings each allowed by the 
Trustees to the Recorder of Savannah dated the l$th. of May 1735. to 
the Payment of which the Committee have no Objection provided he makes 

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Oath that his Family consisted of so many heads for the whole Year. Of 
Eight Pounds fifteen Shillings for One Year and three Quarters Rent of a 
Room for the Magistrates from June 1738* to March 1?40. at five Pounds a 
Year which being the Rate before paid To June 1738 the Committee have 
(63) no Objection to this Article. Of two Pounds ten Shillings for 
twenty Bushells of Corn taken by the Indians to be made good to him or 
paid for at two Shillings and Sixpence p Bushel, the said Thomas Christie 
haveing Produced the Affidavit of William Star Fitchet concerning the 
Fact the Committee have no Objection to this Article provided he makes 
Oath that he has received no Satisfaction for the same. Of one Pound 
One Shilling for Charges on the Inquests taken on the Bodies of One 
MacBride who was drowned. And of Hugh Watson who was supposed to be 
murdered, the Committee have no Objection to this Article provided he 
makes Oath such Inquests were taken by him.And of two Pounds for 
Stationary Ware for the Town Court for two Years and upwards which the 
Committee do not think unreasonable. All which Sums Amount together to 
the Sum of Eighty three Pounds twelve Shillings and Eight Pence, Out of 
which his Debt stated by the Commissioners to the Trustees being deducted 
as likewise the forty Shillings which he received/xxz Fines, of Mr. 
Patrick Houston and John Penrose for selling Spirituous Liquors, will 
reduce the same to the Sum of fifty Pounds twelve Shillings and three 
pence three farthings as due to the said Thomas Christie (64) Provided 
no further Charge than the Debt the Commissrs. have stated shall be 
chargeable on him But submitt to the Common Council in what manner the 
Trustees shall be assured thereof 

Resolved. 

 39 (64) 

That twenty Pounds be advanced to Mr. Thomas Christie upon his 
Account upon his giving sufficient Security for the repayment of the 
same, if it do's not appear to be due to him. 

Adjd. 

(65) Extract of Mr. Verelst's Letter to His Excellency General Ogle- 
thorpe dated the 29. July 1?40. 

The Trustees having on the 12th of March last presented a 
Memorial to the Treasury to be reimbursed t 1,987-0.9n expended for the 
Military Defence of Georgia, a Copy of which is herewith sent Your 
Excellency; It was expedient to have their Lordships Determination 
thereon before the Trustees applied for the Issuing the 3s 4,000 granted 
in the last Session of Parliament whereupon I waited on Lord Sundon with 
a Copy of it, and made him Master of the Particulars & Reasonableness 
of it, and desired his moving it, which he did, and the Treasury finding 
it not provided for by any Vote of Parliament, his Lordship told me it 
should be put into their next Estimate of Services incurred and not 
provided for and be laid by them before the Parliament; I told his 
Lordship That if the Trustees had a Minute sent them to that purpose I 
thought they would be satisfied with such Determination for the present. 
But Lt. Col. Cochran claiming the Expence of Building the House at St. 
Simons for the commanding Officer of Your Regiment as part thereof and 
applying to Sir Robt. Walpole and Lord Sundon for Payment; Mr. Laroche 
was spoke to to facilitate Payment thereof by the Trust, which the 
Treasury would take upon them to make good; and thereupon instead of the 

 40 (65) 

Minute for putting the t 198?.0.9^ into the next Estimate and the 
Trustees thereupon applying for the L 4000 the L 4000 was ordered 
without any Application from the Trustees and the Minute made thereupon 
was sent to the Trustees and Your Excellency has a Copy of it with (66) 
this Letter; Which the Trustees not being Satisfied with they would not 
pay Lt. Col. Cochran's Claim until voted in Parliament as part of the 
said L 1,987.0.9^. 

As the ^arliament is likely to meet before Christmas; if the 
King's Service should detain Your Excellency abroad, Please to forward 
as early as possible All Claims of Your Excellency's extraordinary 
Expence relating to the Indians and their Establishments, the Fortifica 
tions, the Boats, Rangers, and other Military Services for the Defence 
of Georgia & Carolina and the better carrying on the War; and let them 
be Certified both as to the Particulars and the Amount of the Expence of 
each to be laid before the Treasury with a Memorial in Your Excellency's 
Name to be Provided for in the Treasury Estimate of Services incurred 
and not provided for, and thereby be reimbursed You, while the Spirit of 
defraying the Expence of the present War continues; And as the Treasury 
settle the Estimates before the Parliament meets, the sooner they know 
Your Excellency's Claims the better; For as the Trustees will not con 
cern themselves with any Military E±pence whatsoever incurred in Georgia 
nor be Sollicitous for the Payment of any in their Corporate Capacity, 
their Service, as to the Members in Parliament of them, can be only 
when the Consideration of them comes before the House; But that Con 
sideration seldom wants much support when they are such Expences as are 
brought in by the Treasury Estimate, and therefore approved of by the 
Aministration. 

 41 (66) 

Sir John Norris is sailed with several Men of War on some Expedi 
tion ZH± & the Duke of Cumberland with him on board as a Voluntier (6?) 

Ld. Cathcart is expected to sail very soon now for Jamaica with 
a a«tn*y Convoy to join Admiral Vernon, and Captn. Anson goes with 
several Ships and Land Forces to the West Indies on another BxpHMHttix 
Expedition. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is at Houghton, but expected next 
Monday in Town, after which I hope your Excellency's Regiment will be 
Ordered to be reinforced. 

Your Friends are very anxious to hear of Your Excellency's Wel 
fare in the Expedition against St. Augustine, their Fears being for the 
Safety of Your Person so much exposed to an Enemy; And the Want of 
Numbers to Support the Strength for 90 great Work. But if their Fears 
should be happily dissipated by the Assistance of the most Powerfull 
Strength and Protection from above, enabling You to Succeed; They then 
naturally consider which will be most servicable to demolish the Place 
and choak the Harbour by throwing the Fortifications into the Sea, and 
thereby take away this Bone of Contention with the Spaniards; or to keep 
the Place in case it should be thought necessary for Peace sake to 
restore it. Adml. Vernon's Example has been to act in the first Case, 
but what is best in your Excellency's Case, no one can judge better 
than Yourself. 

I am 

Ac 

 42 (69) 

Mr. Verelts JoEdatg to the E. of % Egmont 

Georgia Office Westmr. 

18 Aug. 1?40 
My Lord 

Herewith your Lordship receives a Copy of Mr. Norris's Letter 
which with all the other Letters are filed by me, since Mr. Martyns 
absence. 

The Contents of the Box withheld from Mr. Stephens was 200 of the 
printed Resolutions relating to the Grants and Tenure of Lands in 
Georgia, the Original thereof under the Corporation Seal, the Deed Poll 
relating to forfeited Lots and notice thereof and Resolutions to be 
fixed in the Court at Savannah. And I Suppose them to be so withheld 
to prevent the Deed Poll being- executed relating to forfeited Lots, for 
no other reason for it can be assignable. 

We have had many Reports concerning Genl. Oglethorpes progress; 
but nothing Authentick and therefore not Creditted. But a very material 
Acct. has been received by the Duke of New Castle from Coll. Bull con 
cerning the French having made Peace with the Chickesaw Indians (I 
Suppose by large presents) and provoked them to declare War against the 
Cherokees; and desiring the Kings Protection by additional Forces. 

Capt. Thomson will attend me on Friday next at this Office to 
peruse the Affidavits already made, and a Copy of his additional one 
shall be Sent Mr. Martyn by Saturdays Post. 

The next occasion of sending to your Lordship shall convey the 
Papers I received from Mr. Moore about the taking St. Diego. I am 

Tr. Lordship's most Obedt. Servant 
Barman Verelst 

 43 (73) 

HB. Col. Stephens Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to William Stephens Esqr. dated 

received this 16 

March 1?40/1 at Westminster the 25th. October 1?40. 

Sir 

Your last Letter to the Trustees being l4th. May, and nothing 
later, have caused them to fear some Alterations in your health, which 
would be a real Concern to them; but hearing nothing thereof, they hope 
the best. 

James Smith who with his Wife came from Georgia with Captain 
Thomson having Petitioned the Trustees for leave to Alienate the House 
and Lot late Eenry Close's within the Township of Savannah, the same was 
agreed to and a Surrender Made to the Trustees in favour of Captain 
Thomson to whom the Trustees have directed the Possession and Property 
thereof to be given; a Copy of which Surrender Captain Thomson brings 
You with a Particular Letter for that Purpose. 

The Trustees have appointed John Pye to be Recorder of Savannah 
in the Room of Thomas Christie, as also the said Recorder and the 
Recorder of Frederica, and Mr. Patrick Houstoun to be Conservators of 
the Peace; whose Appointments with other Deeds ordered will be sent over 
by the first Opportunity after the Draughts of them are perused and 
Settled. 

Which other Deeds are Consequent of the Resolutions made in 
Common Council the 21st. of July last concerning the (?4) Tenure and 
Cultivation of Lands in Georgia and of which I have sent you a 
particular Copy herewith 
a Messrs. Woodward and Flower and Mr. Fallowfield having wrote to 

the Trust % concerning the Bond taken for Duties, and the Seizure made of 

 44 

Goods on board the Beaufort Scooner the Case is to be Stated and Com 
pared with the Acts of the Parliament of Great -Britain concerning the 
enumerated Duties Collectable in the Plantations, and Trade and Naviga 
tion there; end then a Determination will be sent over, of which they 
have been particularly acquainted. 

Mary Fage the Widow of Peter Fuge late Freeholder at Eighgate in 
Georgia having represented her Losses and Dissappointments; and prayed 
some Consideration for her late Husbands Labour in building his House 
and improving the Land allotted him. The Accot. of whose Improvements 
as laid before the Trustees is herewith sent You, And You are desired to 
y Inquire if the said House and Lett are possessed and by whom; 

and if possessed to use all Possible means for obtaining from the 
Possessor a Consideration for her said Husbands Labour; but if vacant 
you are desired to dispose thereof for the Widows Benefit in such manner 
as you shall think best, the Trustees in regard to her particular Case 
advanced her t 5 Sterling in the meantime. 

Mr. Henry Garret having wrote to the Trustees and sent his Claim 
of I< 42:14:0 for his Service in the Orphans (75) Accots. in Georgia a 
Copy of which Claim is herewith sent You for You and Mr. Henry Parker 
and Mr. Jones or any two of You to examine into the Service performed, 
the necessity of it and to Report thereupon as also what may be a reason 
able Reward for such Service; of which please to acquaint them that it 
is the Trustees Pleasure signified to You they should do so. 

The Trustees have sent You in a Box directed to You and for which 
a Bill of Lading of that and other Parcels is inclosed 3& 2,000 — 
Sterling in their Sola Bills filled up to Your Self Mr. Henry Parker 

 43 (73) 

and Mr. Thorns s Jones or any two of You to Issue for defraying the 
Estimated. Expences in Georgia from Michaelmas last; consisting of 

12 Books containing 100 Bills Each Letter A. No. 4,331 to ) 

) 1,200. 
3*550 of One pound each. . . . . . . . . . . . . .) 

1 Book Containing 80 Bills Letter C. No. 86l to 940 of ) 

) 400. 
L 3*-.-each. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) 

And 1 Book containing 40 Bills Letter D. No. 307 to 346 of) 

) 430. 
L 10.-.-each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) 

J6 2,000.-.- 

And in the same Box is a Bundle of Caps for Leonard Whiteing a Youth in 
Service in Georgia brought to the Office by his Mother; as also the 
Daily Advertisers from 14th. June 1740 to 21st. October foil, a Packet 
to Your Self and % One to Mr. Bolzius. 

The Parcels and Letters herewith sent please to let them be 
delivered as directed. 

The Trustees expect Your Joint Accounts Of the (76) Issuing their 
Sola Bills for the Services they estimated to be defrayed therewith 
which commenced at Michaelmas 1739 that the Services may appear defrayed 
in their Accounts to the Publick which they close every $th. of June and 
-*rh***t'# therefore desire such Accots. by the Return of Captain Thomson, 
which may not have been before sent them. 

The Trustees have also sent You two Casks of Shoes, as p Invoice 
Amounting to & 93-11*3 herewith transmitted to be Accompted for as part 
of their estimated Expences. 

 46 (76) 

The Trustees have given leave th&t Captain Thomson may have 
Liberty without Charge for Warehouse Room to put any of his Goods in 
their Storehouses for Safe Custody, which are not in any other manner 
used for the Trustees Service; as they keep no Store themselves, but the 
Care of any Remain belonging to them not yet Issued or disposed off. 

I am 

(P. S.) 

Sir 

Henry Lloyd's Wife and Child 

Your most eiMn*** Obedt. Servant 
and Maid Servant comes by this 

Ship being sent back to her 
husband at the Trustees Expence. 

NB. Col. Ste- (7?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to William Stephens Esqr. dated 

phens reed, this 

22 May l?4l the l?th. December 1740. 

Sir 

This z± acquaints you of the Receipt of Your Letter dated 6th. 
October last attended with Your Journal and acknowledges your Journals 
to be all received and compleat from your first arrival, which the 
Trustees have bound up in yearly Volumes, whereby when indexed every 
Occurrence will immediately appear and those Volumes become the History 
of the Colony to your great Reputation to whom they are owing, 
a The Trustees have been impatient for the present true Stete of 
the Colony and would have been gled you had sent what you knew of it; 
without waiting for General Ogiethorpe*s Account of what he knows of 
it, For tho they desired his assisting You in it, Yet they well know how 

 4? (77) 

full of Military Avocations he has been and is engaged in, and. there 
fore might not expect it in time; That Accot. they wanted was for the 
present Use to Satisfy the Parliament of a subsisting Colony, and take 
off those Reflections and Reproaches it has laboured under from the 
Poison of discontented People under selfish Views. 

b The Trustees being sensible you must feel the want of Your Son's 
help occasioned their adding & 25. in their Estimate for a Clerk for 
You and they have directed me to use all (78) possible means of getting 
a Proper Person to be sent over to give You that necessary Assistance 
you so much want. 

As you and Mr. Jones become the joint Issuers of their Bills for 
defraying their Estimated Expences in Georgia, the Trustees expect Your 
Accots. of those Expences so defrayed; and if any Variation of Expence 
shall or may necessarily arise that You acquaint them with it, and 
endeavour in the mean time That all Essentiall Matters may not suffer 
during any Representation coming to England; As for Example the Beacon 

a at Tybee having been found of so great use and raised at so great an 
Expence to the Publick, should any Accident happen to it for want of 
obeying the Trustees Directions for repairing it; It would be a very 
blameable Omission and create a much greater Expence in new ^ Erecting 
it. 

Therefore as the Trustees cannot desire General Oglethorpes 
interposing in their Civil Concerns while he is employed in his Military 

b Ones which are distinct Services, they expect their Orders to be pur 
sued by those to whom they are given without their giving the General 
the trouble of being Consulted or waiting for his Direction therein, 

 48 (?8) 

which the Trustees themselves do not expect from him, nor reasonably 
can. 

The Trustees are glad to hear his health is better for his 
Presence and Continuance in this time of Danger is of (79) the utmost 
Importance. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most Obedient Servant 
The Trustees desire you will 
send them a few Names of some 
of the Inhabitants whom they 
may depend on to serve them in 
the well Government of both parts 
of the Province, That in Case of 
need they may provide for those 
only who are most deserving. 

(81) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Mr. Thomas Jones dated at 
Westminster the l?th. Deer. 1740. 

Sir 

I received your Letter dated 6th. October last with two to Mr. 
Lyde which I delivered to him after perusing and sealing that which 
was open, which gave him great Satisfaction as it had done me before. 

The Trustees received Mr. StephenA's Journal at the same time, 
and observe on Your Letter to me that Mr. Fallowfield's behaviour has 

 4? (81) 

teen very Wrong upon which Occasion he will be particularly wrote to 
by the next Opportunity, the Trustees had a very different Expectation 
from him or they would not have made him a Magistrate. 

The Trustees are very well Satisfied with the Pains You have 
taken in the Accots. of Mr. Causton and Mr. Bradley and the examining 
the other publick Accounts; and as Mr. Stephens and You are the joint 
Issuer of their Sola Bills for defraying their Estimated Expences in 
Georgia, they expect Your Accounts of those Expences so defrayed; And if 
any Variation of Expence shall or may necessarily arise that You acquaint 
them with it and endeavour in the mean time yt. all essential Matters may 
not suffer during any Representation coming from England; As for example 
the Beacon at Tybee (82) having been found of so great Use and raised 
at so great an Expence to the Publick, should any Accident happen to it 
for^ want of obeying the Trustees Directions for repairing it, It would 
be a very blameable Omission and Create a much greater Expence in new 
Erecting it. 

Therefore as the Trustees cannot desire General Oglethorpe's 
interposing in their Civil Concerns, while he is employed in his Mili 
tary Ones, which are distinct Services, they expect their SboSnx Orders 
to be jnoat persued by those to whom they are given without their giving 
the General the Trouble of being Consulted or waiting for his Direction 
therein which the Trustees themselves do not expect from him nor reason 
ably can. 

The Trustees are glad to hear his health is better for his 
presence a.nd Continuance in this time of Danger is of the utmost Impor 
tance. 

 30 (82) 

-*-he Trustees desire you will on all Occasions consult with and 
be assistive to Col. Stephens to make his Service to the Trust as easy 
to him as may be, and there is nothing wherein You can recommend Your 
Self to the Trustees Favour more than a Close adherance to him on every 
Occasion for their Esteem for him is such That as their Chief Dependance 
is on him so they will on all Occasions support and encourage him. 

The Trustees desire yon will send them a few Names (83) of some 
of the Inhabitants whom they may depend on to serve them in the Well 
Government of both parts of the Province; That in case of need,xh they 
may provide for those only who are most deserving 

Inclosed herewith you have a Letter from Mr. Lyde. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servant 

(85) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Verelst to Mr. John Brownfield dated 
at Westmr. the l?th. Decemr. 1740. 

Sir 

a The Trustees not hearing from You since the 9th. of February 

last and knowing that You received from Col. Stephens the 15th. of March 
following a List of the Freeholders and others at Savannah to be made 
perfect and returned to Col. Stephens to forward to the Trustees, they 
desire to know if Your 111 State of health has prevented their hearing 
from You and Your going on with their Business as Register of the 
Province for they must hear of the Progress of their Officers, and by 

 31 (83) 

be 
every Opportunity/iz Corresponded with, or else such Persons are not 

fit for their Service. 

I am 

Sir 

Your most humble Servant. 

(8?) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Martyn to Mr. Henry Newman dated at 
Westminster the 2?th. Deer. 1?40. 

Sir 

Your Letter of the 24th. Instant, with One inclosed from Mr. 
Bolzius to You dated June the 26th. has been laid before a Board of 
Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia, who are disposed to 
give Mr. Thilo all the Encouragement in their Power to continue among 

the Saltzburghers; and particularly to give him a Town Lot at Ebenezer 

N.B 
the usual Tools the Passage and a Years Subsistence of a German 

Servant, and the General Allowance that is given to the People at their 
first Settling; And the first Board of Common Council this will, I 
beleive be assented to. 

As to the other part of the Letter, the Increasing the Settle 
ment at Ebenezer by sending over a greater Number of Saltzburghers; The 
Trustees are likewise very well inclined to do it the first Opportunity, 
but cannot come to any Determination till they know the Success of their 
Application to the Parliament this Session 

I am 
N.B. Sir 

Your most Obe6.t, Servant 
A 30 Acre Lot at Ebenezer 

the usual Tools; which are two 

 52 (8?) 

Hoes a Falling Axe, and Splitting 

Wedges with Ring for a Beetle 

A ^ Cow and Calf a Sow a Cock and Hen, and a Years 

Subsistance to a Servant at 8. a Day in lieu thereof. 

(Pages 89 through 101, comprising printed matter on The Case of the 
People who have Settled in Georgia, have not been copied.) 

(103) For the Anniversary Meeting of the 

Trustees for establishing the Colony of 
Georgia in America to be held the 19th. 
of March 1740/1 

The whole Amount of Sola Bills sent to Georgia to be issued there 
for the Service of the Colony to Lady Day 1741. is I< 15,710.-.- whereof 
there has been returned and paid and accepted for Payment L 11,661,-.-. 

The Balance to be applied by the General Abstract is t 2,820.12.8^ 
whereof appropriated for answering all Outstanding Debts in America 
L 1,653.8.5 which may be less but can't be more, by which Appropriation 
the said Balance to be applied will be the Sum of 3& 1,167.4.% whereof 
for establishing the Colony SE 1,098.19.1^ for building of Churches 
L 34.15.0 for the Missionaries L 13.10.2^ and for the Religious Uses in 
general L 20.-.- 

The Trustees on the Recommendation of the late Doctor Waterland, 
appointed the Reverend Mr. William Metcalfe their Missionary at Savannah 

 53 (103) 

in Georgia, and revoked Mr. Whitefield's Power to perform Ecclesiastical 
Offices there; But Mr. Metcalfe having been ill, and lately not answer 
ing the Letters sent him, his going over is at present uncertain 

The Common Council of the Trustees have appointed a Committee to 
digest and prepare proper Instructions proposed for a President and four 
Assistants in the Northern and Southern parts of Georgia for the better 
regulating the Government thereof. 

They have also made Persons capable of enjoying by Inheritance 
or Devise any Quantity of Lands in Georgia not exceeding Two thousand 
Acres, the Grantees (104) now holding their Lands in Tail General, and 
have Power for three Years from Michas l?4l to lease the same for any 
Term not exceeding 21. Years from the date of such Lease to any Person 
or Persons who shall during such Term, reside occupy and cultivate the 
same 

They have likewise released all Forfeitures incurred before 
Christmas 1740 relating to the Tenures or Cultivation of Lands, and 

reduced the Conditions of a*st4*T**<) Cultivation and planting Mulberry 

d 
Trees to 100. Acres to be cultivated in twenty Years from the dates of 

the Grants of 500. Acres of Land and 2,000. white Mulberry Trees being 
planted in that time and the same Proportions for lesser quantitys 
Granted. 

The Lands granted since the last Anniversary Meeting are. 

1740. 

Acres 
16. Febry. A Lease to Mr. Thomas Christie for 21. Years ) 

) 200 
renewable by Covenant at a Fine certain ) 

 34 (105) 

The Number of Persons sent upon the Charity are 

Foreign 
Persons. Protestants British 

In the 1st. Year to the 9th. of June 1733. 152. 11. 141. 

In the 2d. Year to the 9th. of June 1734. 341. 104. 237 

In the 3d. Year to the 9th. of June 1735. 81. $8. 23 

In the 4th. Year to the 9th. of June 1736. 4?0. 129. 341 

In the 5th Year to the 9th. of June 1737. 32...... 32 

In the 6th. Year to the 9th. of June 1738. 298. 163. 135 

In the ?th. Year to the 9th. of June 1739- 9- 7. 2 

In the 8th. Year to the 9th. of June 174o. 138. 134. 4 

1,521. 6o6. 915. 
l?4o. 

October By the Georgia Packet ) 

) 3- —— 3 

Captain Thomson . . . . ) 

February. By the CArolina Packet ) 

) 3. 3 
Captain Surry ———————) 

1,527. 609- 918 

(10?) Genl. Abstract of Accts. to 18 March 1740/1 

 Charge 

35 (108) 

The General Abstract, of the Accompt of 
of Georgia in America from the 9th. day of 
To be laid before them at their Anniversary Meeting 
the third Thursday in the said month. — 

Depending 
on several 
Persons in 
America 
the 9th. of June 

Monies remaining in the 
Bank of England the 9th. 
of June 1740. 

To answer SoTa 
Bills of Exchange 
sent to Georgia Balance 

Monies 
received in 
England 
since the 9th. Total 
of June 1740. 

The several Purposes &r 
have been received and 

1?40 and issuable there to be 
for the Service Applied 
of the Colony 

7,133 14 

371 15 — 

3,131 - - 

2,550 2 

184 13 — 
13 10 2^ 

4,018 12 6 16,858 9 

356 10 - 

For establishing 
For the following 
uses of the Colony 

The Building of 

ies 

(The use ofthe/^issionar/ 
13 10 2^ (InstructingHand con- 
( verting 
(the Native Indians. . 

(And for the religions 
(Colony in general such 
( as 
(Books,the cultivating 
210 — — ( Lands 
(Provision for the 
( Maintenance 
(and the Appropriation 
( towards 
(of a Catechist - - - - 

7,700 9 

3,151-- 2,768 77 4,018126 17,638 

To- 

 56 (109) 

the Trustees for Establishing the Colony 
June 1740 to the 18th. day of March following, 
on Thursday the 19th. of March 1?40, being 

Discharge 

which Monies 

applied & expended 

Monies applied 
and expended 
in England 
since the 9th. 
of June 1?40 

Monies applied 
and expended 
in America, 
and taken from 
the Accompts 
thereof which 
came to Eng 
land since the 
9th. of June 
1740. 

on several 
Persons in 
America 

Monies remaining the 
18th. of March 1740. 
Whereof__________ 

To answer 

Sola Bills 

of Exchange Balance 

issued in remaining 

Georgia for to be 

the Service applied 

of the 

Colony___________ 

Total 

the Colony 
Religious 
vizt. 
Churches 

and Schools for ) 
to Christianity ) 

622 17 

1,043 9 11 8,390 14 7^ 4,049 - - 2,752 76^ 16,838 9 6 

15 

15 — 

556 10 - 

Uses of the ) 

the buying of ) 

to raise a ) 

of a Minister, ) 

the Maintenance ) 

190 — 

13 10 2^ 13 10 

-tals 

622 17 5^ 

1,043 9 11 9,102 9 7i 4,o49 - - 2,820 12 &L 17,638 9 

Note In the t 4,049.-.- appropriated to answer ?bt Sola Bills of Exchange issued in 

Georgia, L 150.-.- of them were sent to be applied towards building a Church at 
Savannah in Georgia. And that t 16.5*7 of the above Sum of L 2,752.7.6^ is 
appropriated towards building a Church in Georgia. 

Georgia Trustees Office ) _ _, 
Palance Court Westminster ) Harman Verelst Accotant. 

18. March 1740. 

 57 ( 

(Pages 111 through 118 comprise a printed Description of Georgia by 
Mr. The. Christie, which has not teen copied.) 

20th. April (119) Copy of the Constitution appointing Wm. Stephens Esqr. President 
1741 

and Henry Parker Thomas Jones John Fallovfield and Sanniel 

Marcer the four Assistants for the County of Savannah in Georgia 
and John Pye their Clerk. 

To all to whom these Presents shall come The Common Council of 
the Corporation of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia 
in America Send Greeting Whereas the Province of Georgia is So much 
extended by Settlements at Frederica in the Southern Part and Savannah 
and Augusta in the Northern part and in Towns and Villages thereunto 
adjacent, By reason, of the great Distances of which several Settlements, 
it is become Necessary for the % good Government of the whole to make 
some Alteration in the present Regulations. And Whereas His Majesty 
King George the second Hath by his Letters Patent bearing Date the ninth 
day of June 1732 Granted Established and Ordained That the Common 
Council for the time being of the said Corporation should from time to 
time for during and untill the full End and Expiration of twenty one 
Years iz from the Date of the said Letters Patent have full Power and 
Authority to nominate make constitute commission ordain and appoint by 
such Name or Names Stile or Stiles as to them should seem meet end 
fitting ell and Singular (120) such Officers Civil end Military both by 
Sea and Land within the said Province as should by them be thought fit 
and needfull to be made or used for the Government of the said Colony 

 58 (120) 

(except such as should be appointed by His Majesty His Heirs and Suc 
cessors for the managing collecting and receiving such Revenues as 
should arise within the said Province and become due to His Majesty 
His Heirs and Successors) And Whereas We the said Common Council by 
Our Resolution bearing Date the fifteenth day of this Instant April, did 
direct That for the time to come the said Province should be divided 
into two Counties, the one to be called and distinguished by the Name 
of the County of Savannah and the other by the Name of the County of 
Frederica and to prevent any Dispute which might arise about the Bounds 
of such Counties did further direct That the District of the County of 
Savannah should include all the Settlements upon the Savannah River and 
both Banks of the Ogeeche River, and so much further Southward of the 
Ogeeche as shod, be by Us appointed when a Proper Map shall be sent from 
Georgia for that Purpose And Resolved That for the better carrying on 
the Civil Administration of the said Counties a President and four 
Assistants should (121) be appointed for earh removeable at Pleasure 
and that they should be subject to such Orders as they from time to 
time should receive from the Common Council for the time being of the 
ssid Corporation Now Enow Ye That We the said Common Council in pur 
suance and Execution of the Power and Authority to Us given by His 
Majesty's said Letters Patent and in Pursuance of our said former 
Resolutions Have nominated constituted and appointed and by these 
Presents do nominate constitute and appoint Wiliiem Stephens Esqr. 
President of the County of Savannah and Henry Parker Thomas Jones 
John Fallowfield and Samuel Marcer the four Assistants in in and for the 
said County And have also nominated constituted and appointed And by 

 59 (121) 

the Presents do nominate constitute and appoint John Pye the Present 
Recorder of Savannah to be Clerk to the said President and Assistants. 
To have and to hold the said Offices of President Assistants and Clerk 
together with all such Powers Authorities and Jurisdictions which are to 
them respectively given by Instructions bearing equal Date herewith or 
such other as shall hereafter be given to them and their Successors 
respectively by the Common Council for the time being of the said 
Corporation for during and until such time only as some other Person or 
Persons in the Room and Stead of the said (122) William Stephens Henry 
Parker Thomas Jones John Fallowf ield Samuel Marcer and John Pye or 
any or either of them or their Successors respectively shall be lawfully 
nominated and appointed And Whereas it may frequently happen That the 
President and the four Assistants may by unavoidable Accidents be 
prevented Meeting all together. In Order therefore to Guard against any 
Inconvenience which may arise for want of such Meeting and for the 
better Dispatch of Business the said Common Council do hereby direct That 
the President and any two of the Assistants be a Quorum for the Transact 
ing of Business And if at any time the Number of Voices upon any 
Question before them should be equal the President shall have a Casting 
Voice; and in Case of the President's Absence by Sickness or any neces 
sary Avocation when Business is required to be done the first Assistant 
who shall be present shall preside who with any two of the other Assis 
tants are hereby Authorized to proceed on the Business before them, But 
no orders or Transactions by them (excepting Appeals from the Courts 
below) shall be valid until approved of by the President. And in Case 
of the Presidents Death the first Assistant is hereby Authorized to act as 

 60 (123) 

President with all such Powers Authorities and Jurisdictions as were in 
the President until a New one shall be appointed by the Common Council 
for the time being of the said Corporation And We the said Common 
Council do hereby further direct That the said President Assistants and 
Clerk do severally before they shall be esteemed to have any Authority 
under this Appointment take an Oath in the Town Court of Savannah That 
he will well and truly execute his said Office according to the In 
structions he shall from time to time receive for that Purpose to the 
best of his Skill and Judgement and also do severally in the said Town 
Court Take the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy and Abjuration mentioned 
in an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King 
George the first (Entituled an Act for the further Security of His 
Majesty's Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the 
Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguish 
ing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and Secret 
Abettors) In Witness whereof the said Common Council have to these 
Presents affixed the Common Seal of the Corporation of the said Trustees 
for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America the twentieth day of 
April in the fourteenth Year of (124) the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord 
George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and 
Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in the Year of Our 
Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty one. 

 61 (125) 

Copys of Private Instructions to the President of the 
(L 8) 

County of Savannah. 20 April l?4l 

You are to direct the -Bailiffs to summon as soon as may be an 
extraordinary Court at Savannah and there cause the Appointment of You 
and the Assistants with the Publick and likewise the General Instructions 
to be distinctly read in Open Court. And on that Occasion You are to 
address Yourself to the People who shall attend and set forth the tender 
regard the Trustees have for the Welfare of the Colony and every indivi 
dual therein, by not only abolishing the past Forfeitures but granting 
them Estates in Tail General with a Power of devising their Lands 
whereby whether Male or Female Persons residing in Georgia are enabled 
to hold by Devise or Inheritance in Tail General for Ever as far as 
2000. Acres of Land if the Case shall so happen and by having granted 
a General Licence for leasing their Lands to Persons residing in Georgia 
for any Term not exceeding twenty one Years That the first Tenure of 
Lands was only a temporary one until the defence of the Colony was 
provided for, and was necessary in the Infancy of this Colony for the 
Safety of the whole by having a defencible Man the owner of each Lot. 
And You are to Exhort the People to apply themselves diligently to 
Cultivation and Plantation of Mulberry Trees and Vines, and other use- 
full Produces (126) as a certain means of enabling them to Subsist 
themselves and Families with Comfort, and at this Court You and the 
Assistants, and the Clerk are to take the Oaths required by the Con 
stitution appointing You and them. 

You are to send over a List of five Persons fit to be nominated 
on a Vacancy in the Assistants 

 62 (126) 

Notwithstanding Your being appointed President You are as 
Secretary to continue those Journals you have from time to time sent 
over and which have given great Satisfaction to the Trustees and in 
your Letters attending them to send an Account of the Wants and Defects 
of Your District, what New Improvements are made by the Industry of the 
Inhabitants what further Improvements may be made or Advantage gained by 
Trade, And how the Trustees may contribute thereto. 

You are to transmitt to the Trustees with the best speed You 
are able an Alphabetical Accot. of the present Number of Inhabitants 
within your whole District, Men Women and Children of both Sexes, As 
well Masters as Servants, distinguishing the Freeholders and Lease 
holders under the Trust or others where settled, and how many capable 
to bear Arms in the Militia with their Ages; all these in seperate 
Columns; with Lists of such as within a twelve month past have (12?) 
died or quitted the Colony. You are to do the same Yearly and add such 
remarks at the bottom of the Page as You shall Judge Proper, as what 
Business they follow how employed in the Publick Service &c and also 
what Number of Publick houses are licenced or Revoked. 

You are to transmitt as soon as it can be done a Map of Your 
District and the several Towns Villages and Plantations therein with 
their Distances in Miles by Land and Water with a Number expressing 
such Distances, in case the said Map be not made to a Scale, Your Dis 
trict is described in Your Constitution 

You are to get Information concerning the Stete of the Town of 
Augusta and of the Neighbouring County on both sides the River Savannah 
for Ten Miles round, with the Plantations; and return the Trustees a 

 63 (127) 

p'ticular and. Minute Account thereof, the Trustees being not sufficient 
ly informed of these Particulars; And if any % Abuses or Deficiency of 
good Government at Augusta be found, you are to acquaint the Trustees 
therewith once a Year or oftner as you see Cause, with such remarks as 
You think fit to make particularly the Trade carried on with the 
Indians, and the quantity of Acres under Cultivation 

For this end You are hereby required to go to Augusta if needfull 
at the most convenient Season, (128) to take an exact Account in what 
manner the Affairs of that Town are carried on, and to form a Flan of 
Government thereof fit to be laid before the Trustees, and to propose a 
List of proper Persons for the Government thereof; and to know how the 
Trade with the Indians is carried on, and how the Money arising by 
Licencing the Traders is Accompted for. 

You are likewise to employ a Person in Visiting other Villages 
Forts and Plantations less distant from Savannah, when Your going is not 
necessary or the Affairs of the Province will not permitt it. 

Once a Year you are to return the Trustees a Compleat List of 
all the Ships that have entered Your Harbour and sailed therefrom, the 
time of Entry and departure, with the Names of such Passengers as 
arrived to settle in the Province, and of such as departed the Province 
on board them with Intent to quit the Colony entirely or to return. 

You are to use Your best Endeavours to prevent any Intelligence 
being Conveyed to the Enemy of the Estate of Your District, And to 
prevent the giving Intelligence by Intercepting Letters that go from 
You to Great Britain. You must put Lead into the Bag with the Letters 
that may Sink them in case of Danger. 

 64 3R9i (128) 

The House which William Bradley built at (129) Savannah which You 
are at Liberty to inhabit must be repaired with as much Prudence and as 
little Expence to the Trustees as may be. 

Signed by Order of the Common Council 
of the Trustees for establishing 
the Colony of Georgia, in America 
This Twentieth day of April in 
the Year of Our Lord One Thousand 
seven hundred and forty one 

Benj. Martyn Sectary. 

Publick Instructions to the President of the 
County of Savannah. 

You are to take care that God Almighty be devoutly and duly 
honoured and Served throughout Your District according to the Rites of 
the Church of England, But You shall allow a Free Toleration to all 
Protestant Dissenters of every Denomination nor shall You exercise any 
Inquisition on the private Opinions of any One, but permit Liberty of 
Conscience to all that are contented with a quiet and peaceable Enjoy 
ment of the same, and give no Offence or Scandal to the Government 
established. 

You must to the utmost of Your Power (130) discourage all Vice 
Prophaneness and Immorality, And if any Minister or School Master in 
Your district do by his Life or Doctrine set a bad Example, You must 
Admonish him of the same, and immediately acquaint the Trustees thereof, 
that in Case of his remaining incorrigible, he may be recalled. 

 65 (130) 

You are to take care that all Orders made by You and the Assis 
tants be Carefully Entered by the% Clerk into the Book of Your Pro 
ceedings. 

You are to demand of the Minister or in hie Absence of his Clerk 
an exact Account of the Marriages, Births, and Deaths, and send them 
annually to the Trustees. 

You are to demand and oblige the Register to give You a fair 
Abstract once a Year of the Records in his Office, such as Grants of 
Lands or Leases of Lands, of Wills, Certificates of Marriage <&c and to 
keep one Copy for the Use of the President and Assistants for the time 
being and to send another to the Trustees, And it is hereby required 
That all Persons concerned have; upon Application to the President and 
Assistants a Copy of Certificate at their option of all such Records 
wherein they are concerned, such Persons paying the Clerk for the 
trouble of making out such Copy or Certificate in such Proportions as 
You and the Assistants shall think reasonable and settle. 

(131) You are not to discourage Merchants and others who shall 
bring Trade into Your District, or any way Contribute to the Advantage 
thereof, But You are carefully to suppress the engrossing of any Com 
modity by any Person whatever as destructive of that Freedom which is 
the life of Trade, and a great Oppression on any People where such 
things are suffered. 

You are to keep a strict Eye to the Observance of the Law against 
the Importation of Negroes and Rum. The Trustees by observing what 
passes in other Colonies being more and more convinced of the Salutary- 
ness of those Laws for the Safety of the Persons, and Preservation of 
the health of the People of Georgia. 

 66 (131) 

You are to have the sole Command of the Trustees Boats within 
Your District and none shall use them but by Your Permission, the Patroons 
of them may be suspended by You for any Default and may be restored by 
You. 

You are to use all prudent means to engage the Indians to con 
tinue in Amity with Georgia and with South Carolina. 

And that there may not be any Neglect in the due Execution 
of such Orders as have been given in relation to the Trustees Servants 
It is hereby intended That the Trustees Servants in the County (132) of 
Savannah shall be under Your general Inspection. And You are hereby 
impowered to inquire how far the Orders formerly given have been obeyed 
and if you find there has been any Neglect in the present Overseers, 
You are to remove and discharge them and appoint new ones as You shall 
find reason, and so from time to time as often as there shall be 
Occasion. 

If You think fit to live in the great House which William Bradley 
built, You are at Liberty so to do. 

The repairing of the Beacon on Tybee Island being of the 
greatest Importance for the Security of the Navigation along the Coast, 
is to be preferred to all other Publick Works. 

You are to take Care That the Guard Duty be Strictly Observed. 

You are to cause a Table of Lawfull Degrees of Marriage accord 
ing to the Church of England to be hung up in all Places of Publick 
Worship; and that before the Solemnization of Marriage, the Bans of all 
Marriages be regularly Published in the respective Places of Publick 
Worship. 

 67 (132) 

Whereas divers ^ Grants of Lands or Leases of Lands may have been 
made within Your District, some whereof may not have been registered; 
You are to send (133) over a particular Accot. of them, when past and 
how occupied distinguishing those which are Registered from those which 
are not, And You are to call upon those who have not Registered their 
Grants to Register them forthwith as necessary for the Security of their 
Properties. 

If any Occupy Land without Grant or Lease from the Trustees or 
others and are industrious in cultivating the same You must require them 
for their own Security to take out Grants or Leases thereof; and if they 
neglect applying for the same within six months after Notice in Writing, 
They will be considered as Intruders, and the Lands will be Seized for 
the use of the Trust; For no Original Right can be acquired but under 
Grant from the Trust. 

You are to take care That no Man obtaining a Grant of Land shall 
be delayed in the running out the Same and to employ a Surveyor as soon 
as may be for that Purpose. 

You are to take care that in the Survey of all Lands granted 
near a River That thre be preserved on the Banks of the River for 
towing Paths and Carriages a Space not less than forty Yards wide. 

The Clerk to You and the Assistants is to tske care to transcribe 
Copies of all the Proceedings at every Meeting from the Minutes of them 
taken by (134) him in Order to their being transmitted to the Trustees 
signed by You. 

Signed by Order of the Common Council 
of the Corporation of the Trustees for 
establishing the Colony of Georgia in 

 68 (134) 

America This twentieth day of April in 
the Year Of Our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and forty one. 

General Instructions for the President 
and Assistants of the County of Savannah 

In Order That proper Persons may be licensed for keeping of 
Publick Houses You are annually in Easter Week to Licence Publick 
Houses for retailing Liquors for the Year ensuing and suffer none to 
Subsist but such as You licence, the Number of which mast be proportioned 
to the wants of the Inhabitants; You are also to revoke Licences when 
upon Complaint and Inquiry you are assured that the Persons possest of 
them abuse their Priviledge by keeping disorderly Houses; and You are 
to take care That No Licence be granted without a Condition to be void 
as if none such had been granted, on Conviction of any Misbehaviour 
before the President and Assistants, or any two of them. 

(135) All Persons who shall at any time hereafter think them 
selves aggrieved by any Judgement given in The Town Court where the 
Matter in Dispute exceeds the Value of t 20 may upon due Notice in 
Writing Signed by the Party aggrieved for that purpose to be given to 
the Clerk to the President and Assistants within 14 days after such 
Judgement given, appeal to the President and Assistants, and upon the 
Party Complaining giving to the said Clerk Security with sufficient 
Sureties to double the Sum for which Judgement was given to answer the 
Costs and Damages of such Appeal, Execution shall be staid until the 
Determination of such Appeal and not otherwise. And in like manner in 

 69 (135) 

Causes where the Matter in dispute exceeds the Value of & 100 All Persons 
thinking themselves by any Judgement therein given, may upon like Ndice 
given as aforesaid appeal to the Trustees; and upon like Security given 
as aforesaid Execution shall be staid in such Causes until the Determin 
ation of such Appeals and not otherwise. 

And Whereas it will be of Service to the Colony and to all 
Persons trading therein That there should be known and Certain times 
for the Dispatch of Business in the Town Courts of the said Colony to be 
held at such times as shall be least inconvenient to the (136) Progress 
of the Improvements of the Colony which may from henceforth be at^Hng** 
distinguished as Terms, or by Names answering to the Seasons of the 
Year. You are to consider in what manner such Certain times may be 
best fixt and to ley before the Trustees a Scheme for that Purpose with 
such Regulations as may appear to You most necessary and convenient; 
taking Care that the Continuance of such Courts be not longer than is 

necessary for Dispatch of Business. 

sit 
No Person to/KH± on Juries but Landholders and Freeholders. 

No Assistant Pilot, Naval Officer or Overseer of Trust Servants 
to be obliged to sit on Juries. 

And to prevent frivolous and Oppressive Suits for the future no 
Person shall be held to Bail in any Civil Action, unless the Creditor 
do Swear that his Debt Amounts to forty shillings or upwards. 

Whereas the Trustees are above all things desirous that all the 
Inhabitants may enjoy their Legal Rights and Liberties, They hereby 
Order that if any Person be Committed for any Criminal Matters (unless 
for Treason or Felony plainly and especially expressed in the Warrant 

 70 (136) 

of Committement) he have free Liberty to Petition the President, or in 
his Absence any two of the Assistants (13?) by himself or any other 
Person on his Behalf for a Writ of Habeas Corpus which Writ upon such 
Application shall be granted, and the President or such Assistants may 
if they think proper admit such Person to be Bailed upon his giving 
sufficient security for his Appearance. 

For the Discouragement of Vexatious Suits in case any Action 
shall be brought for a Malicious Prosecution It shall be recommended to 
the Jury to make the Party aggrieved full Satisfaction by giving Suffi 
cient Damages. 

A Table of Moderate Fees must be settled by the President and 
Assistants and transmitted to the Trustees by the first Opportunity for 
their Approbation and Confirmation in Order to be hung up in the Town 
Court, and such Table of Fees shall be in force until altered by the 
Trustees. 

The President and Assistants to consider of the properest means 
of inviting the Neighbouring Indians to be Christians, and for that 
purpose that they shall from time to time transmitt to the Trustees 
such Methods as they shall think proper for the same. 

No Publick Money whatever shall be issued or otherwise disposed 
off than by Warrant under the hand and Seal of the President by and with 
the Advice & Consent of the Assistants in Council Assembled or the (138) 
Major part; and the President to send monthly Accompts of such Issues 
and for what Particular Services. 

No Publick Debts to be incurred, no Encouragement promised that 
may create Expence, no Exceedings of the Estimate suffered or Diversion 

 71 (138) 

of appropriated Sums to particular Uses, Except by Direction of the 
Trustees first Obtained, on pain of their being xyag lyable to repay or 
make good the same, who shall Sign Such Warrants Excepting in such Cases 
as shall be hereafter Specified. 

But because there will arise Expences Subject to the President's 
Sole direction It shall be lawfull and the Assistants are required to 
joyn with the President in impresting to him One hundred Pounds Sterling 
at a time (For which this Direction is a sufficient Warrant) and that 
the Publick Service may not be impeded, upon his Certificate and deli 
very of the Vouchers of the Money Spent, to repeat a like Imprest unto 
him and so toties quoties; so that the several Sums advanced do not 
exceed the total Sum of L 300 in one Year. 

If an Assistant is absent from any Meeting upon due Summons of 
the President, and without Licence from him given, a Fine shall be set on 
him unless he give good reason for such absence to be judged of by the 
President and Major Part of the other Assistants attending, and the 
President and Assistants &,re Impowered to fix the Value of such Fine. 

No Assistant shall be absent from the County (139) above three 
Months without Licence from the President under his hand and Seal; and 
if he shell remain longer away without Renewal of such Licence the 
President shall have Power to suspend him, and appoint some other Person 
of good Abilitys, and Life, and well affected to the Government, to 
Supply his place, until the Trustees further pleasure is known. 

Upon the Death of an Assistant, the President shall have Power 
to nominate and appoint a Successor, until the Pleasure of the Trustees 
be know thereon. 

 72 (139) 

The President shall have Power to suspend the Clerk of the Assis 
tants upon any Extraordinary Occasion and to appoint a New one to 
execute that Office until the Trustees pleasure therein be known: for 
which he shall Cause his Reasons to be entered in the Assistants Book, 
and a Copy of the same sent to the Trustees by the first Opportunity. 

The President by Advice, and with the Consent of the Assistants, 
shall have the Power of appointing and removing Constables and Tything- 
men within the County. 

The President by and with the Advice and Consent of the Assis 
tants shall be empowered out of the Trustees Stock of Cattle, to allow 
a Cow, and Calf to every Trustee Servant, who when out of his time shall 
take up his Grant of Land or take a lease of Land from the Trustees 
(l4o) and to furnish him with a Sow and Cock and Hen the Cattle to be 
marked to his Use, and to Pay him at proper times, the Allowance of One 
Year's Provision and to appoint him good Land in a Convenient Situation. 
They shall also order him such Tools as are necessary for him not ex 
ceeding the Value of & 1:0:0 Sterling. 

All Pecuniary fines for Misdemeanours shall be Accoted. for to 
the Trust, and a Book kept thereof, and an Extract thereout sent to the 
Trustees, and the Money so arising kept in the Publick Chest where other 
Moneys are lodged. 

The same to be done by all Licence Money received from the Indian 
Traders, and from licenced Publick Houses. 

The Wilfull Murder of an Indian in Amity with great Britain 
shall be decls.red Death, and if any Indian be Maliciously hurt or maimed 
by any of our Traders or other Inhabitants such Trader or Inhabitant 

 73 (140) 

shall upon due Conviction be fined, and the Fine levied and given to 

the Person injured if alive, or to his Family if dead. 

Signed by Order of the Common Council 
of the Corporation of the Trustees 
for Establishing the Colony of Georgia 
in America the Twentieth day of April, 
in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand 
seven hundred and forty one. 

(l4l) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Martyn to Mr. John Pye dated at 
Westmr. 24th. April l?4l. 

Sir 

The Trustees have received Your Letter dated the 20th. Dedember 
1?40 in which you particularly desire to know what the Business of a 
Recorder is; and they have order'd me to acquaint You that they never 
intended that the Recorder should be consider'd as one of the Magis 
trates but that his Business is confined to taking the Minutes of the 
Court and keeping the Records. 

As to the other part of Your Letter in relation to Your Sslsjry 
I must refer You to Mr. Verelsts Letter. 

I am 

Sir 

&c. 

 74 (143) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Martyn to Mr. Thos. Marriott dated at Westmr. 
24th. April l?4l. 

Sir 

Upon the Recommendation of General Oglethorpe the Trustees have 
appointed You second Bailiff of the Town of Frederica in the Room of 
Mr. Samuel Perkins And they hope that Your behaviour in promoting Peace 
and Industry among the People both by Your example and Advice, and in 
doing Justice to the best of Your Abilitys will prove you worth of their 
Choice, your Appointment under the Seal will be sent by the first 
Opportunity. 

I am 

Sir 

Ac. 

(14$) Copy of a Letter from Mr. Martyn to William Stephens Esqr. dated 
at Westmr. 24th. April l?4l. 

Sir 

a The Trustees have resolved to send over fifty heads of Saltz- 
b burghers, And one hundred distressed German Protestants in order to 

settle with the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer. They have therefore ordered 
me to desire You will make an Inquiry about the Land which was possessed 
by some Indians near the Red Bluff over against Ebenezer; Whether the 
Indians are still in Possession of it, and if they are, and it can be 
got without dissatisfying them, upon what Terms they will be willing to 

 73 (143) 

part with it. But if they are not inclined, the Trustees direct You to 
look and set out the most Convenient Tract of Good Land in the Neighbour- 

c hood of Ebenezer for Fifty Lots of Fifty Acres each, with the Buttings 
and Boundings and send over by the first Opportunity, the proper Des 
criptions of such Land, that a Grant may be made of it accordingly. 

The Trustees expect that this should be done without any manner 
of delay, because the People will be at Rotterdam in July neit in order 
to embark for the Colony; and it is necessary that the Land should be 
ready for them to occupy at their Arrival. 

d The Trustees have come to a Resolution that all Servants in the 
Province whose time of Service is already expired, shall upon their 
producing a Certificate from their Masters of their good Behaviour be 
intitled, Each of them (146) To Fifty Acres of Land instead of twenty 
Acres which they are now possessed of or intitled to by Virtue of their 
former Covenants. Therefore they direct You to take Care that a Suffi 
cient Quantity of Good Land for the said Purpose be immediately surveyed 
and that they be put in possession thereof; and in Order to Apprise such 
Servants, (who at the Expiration of their Service, mpy have quitted the 
Province, and gone to South Carolina, or other adjacent Provinces) of 
the Trustees Resolutions in their favour; They direct that an Advertize- 
ment should be fixed up at the Door of the Town Court at Savannah and at 
Frederica, and other proper places in the Province; As likewise that the 
Trust Servants nt the taking up their Lots shall have an Allowance for 
twelve months, at the rate of eight pence a day each Man, and six pence 
a dsy each Woman, with a Cow and Calf and a Sow to each Man and the usual 
Working Tools. 

 76 (146) 

a The Trustees are glad to find by the Stete of the Province, 
which You sent over, that the Silk Business is in some forwardness; 
They therefore desire that You will send over by the first Opportunity 
an attested Account of what Silk was made in the last YesT, and how much 
of it was the entire Product of the Colony; As there is nothing will 
give the Parliament and the Publick a more favourable opinion of the 
Province and make it more likely to be supported than the Appearance of 
Success in raising Silk; (14?) The Trustees earnestly recommend it to 
You, that by Your Example and Advice, You will encourage all the People 
to apply themselves to it with Industry and without loss of Time. If 
the People will but Consider their own Advantage, there is nothing can 

tend more effectually to it than this. The best Raw Silk is worth at 

i^ 
a least 20. or a Guinea a Pound in England, and worse in Proportion. 

They will be sure of a ready Market for it at its first Arrival, their 
Wives and Daughters and Servants will be the most usefull in winding off 
the Silk; But this must be done soon or the Silk will waste, and the 
Worm will eat its way thro the Ball. The whole Progress of it will take 
up but three Months in the Year, and will but little or not at all 
interfere with the other works of the Men in their Plantations. The 
Trustees, besides other Encouragements will always have a Regard in any 
Promotions in the Province, to those who shall appear most industrious 
in this Business; These things it is necessary the People should be 
acquainted with, and that the Women sad Children are to be instructed by 
Mrs. Camuse in winding off the Silk, 
b The Trustees have resolved to divide the Province into two 

Counties, called the Counties of Savannah and County of Frederica, and 

 77 (14?) 

that the District of the County of Savannah shall include all the Settle 
ments upon the Savannah. River, and both Banks of the Ogeeche River; and. 
so much further Southward of the Ogeeche as shall be (148) appointed, 
when a proper Map shall be sent over (which they hope you will take 
care of) and that the Jurisdiction of each County be under a President 
and four Assistants. In Consideration of Your Services, the Trustees 
have appointed You President of the County of Savannah, with an Addi 
tional Salary of L 80 a Year to what You enjoy as Secretary of the 
Province, Mr. Parker, Mr. Jones, Mr. Fallowfield (the three Bailiffs) 
and Mr. Samuel Mercer are appointed the Assistants, and the Constitu 
tion, with the Instructions, will be sent over to You by the first 
Opportunity 

The Trustees observe th%t you mention a Counter Representation of 
the State of the Province as prepared and Signed by several of the 
People; They have been informed that such a thing is in England and in 
Your Son's Hands, but they have never seen it, nor do they know what it 
contains, or where to get a Copy of it. They have likewise been 
informed that a twelve or eighteen penny Pamphlet has been offer'd by 
your Son to some Booksellers, setting forth the bad State of the Pro 
vince, and in Answer to another which I published by the Trustees Order 
at the beginning of the Session, called an Impartial Enquiry which is 
herewith sent, that you may Judge proper what additional Account should 
be sent over by You. 

The Trustees received on the 8th. of this month a Copy of the 
State of the Province (the Original with Your Journal from October 6th. 
to November 2?th. being not yet come, for which reason Duplicates are 

 78 (148) 

always (14$) right.) They are very well satisfied With it, but wish You 
had sent over as exact an Account of the Number of the People in the 
Province as possible with their several Distinctions; Because it is 
represented here% by eome People, who take pains to propagate the worst 
Opinion of the Colony, that none are left in it, but the Regiment and 
the several Persons in Employment; and therefore they desire that You 
will be ae explicit in this particular as possible. 

The Trustees are much concerned that they have not yet received 
the monthly Accounts of Disbursements, ordered long since, but not yet 
returned; And they hope that You will take Care that they be sent by 
the first Opportunity. 

As the Trustees have ever been desirous of giving the People all 
the reasonable Satisfaction in their Power, they have enlarged the 
Tenures to Estates in Tail General with a Power of enjoying by Inheri 
tance or Devise as far as 2,000 Acres, and of making Leases of any Part 
of their Estates for twenty one Years. Their Resolutions upon this will 
be sent as soon as possible in Print, that they may be dispersed among 
the People. They have likewise resolved to give a Bounty of one Shilling 
a Bushel upon Corn; sixpence a Bushel upon Pease, and three pence a 
Bushel upon Potatoes, which shall be raised and produced in the Colony 
between Christmas l?4l. and Christmas 1?42. 

I am 

&c. 

 79 (151) 

Copy of a Letter from Mr. Barman Verelet to William Stephens Esqr., 
dated April 2?th: l?4l. 

Sir 

On the 8th. instant, Copies of your Letters to the Trustees dated 
the 20th. and 2?th. of November last, and of your Letters to me dated 
the 28th. of the said month were received, together with a Copy of the 
then State of Georgia; But the Originals, together with your Journal 
from the 6th. October to the 2?th. of November last, and what other 
Papers were then sent, are not yet received, although mentioned to have 
been sent by Mr. Hopton under the Care of Mr. Colleton, who embarked at 
Charles Town in a Ship for Bristol; But not knowing the Name of the 
Ship, prevents the Trustees knowing any thing further about it, nor can 
they hear of Mr. Colleton's Arrival: Wherefore they apprehend the Ship 
to have been taken by the Spaniards; On which Occasion they desire a 
Copy of the said Journal, they having all the former ones compleat. 

On the same day your Letters to me dated 31st. December and 15th. 
January last, with your Journal from the 28th. November to the 15th. 
January were received. 

The Copy of the Authentick State of the Colony has given the 
Trustees great Satisfaction, but they should have been glad to have had 
it sooner; And that it had contained the Number of the Inhabitants with 
their several Distinctions of Men Women and Children, whether Land 
holders, Inmates or Servants, in the different Parts of the Province; 
For the present Cry (152) in England is, that the Colony is in a manner 
totally abandoned. 

The Trustees, before the Receipt of the above mentioned Copy of 

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the State of Georgia, were obliged, pursuant to the Order of the House 
of Commons, to lay before Parliament an Account of the Progress of the 
Colony, from it's first Establishment; Which being printed by Order of 
the House; herewith You have a Copy sent You, and also a Map of the 

a Province, which the Trustees directed to be drawn and printed; And they 
now direct You to have a correct Map drawn of the Northern Part of the 
Province, describing the Entrance to Savannah, the Town, Villages and 
Plantations with the Buildings, the respective Distances from Savannah, 
and from each other, and to whom each Plantation belongs, whether 
possessed or abandoned, with the Roads to each; and also describing the 
Town of Augusta, the Buildings there, and all the Forts in the Northern 

b part down to Ogeeche River. As to the Southern part, the Trustees have 
desired the General to direct the Map of that Part to be drawn, and 

c sent to then. This Map, and another true State of Georgia from your 

Self only, the Trustees desire to have as soon as You possibly can after 
the Receipt of this Letter; That the new Parliament, which will meet 
early the next Winter, may receive a Satisfaction of the State of the 
Province at the Opening the first Session thereof; For the Account laid 
before the House by the Trustees was never taken into Consideration, 
although a Day was (153) appointed for it this last Session of Parlia 
ment, which ended on Saturday last. 

a Your busy Son has continued all this Session instructing the 

Members who listened to him, that nothing but a Fee Simple and Negroes 
would encourage the People to go on with Cultivation in Georgia, or 
those that had left it to return thither; and representing the Numbers 

b. of Inhabitants leaving it for Want thereof; But most of the Members of 

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the House are convinced from the Account the Trustees laid before the 
House, that Negroes would at present endanger the Province; and as to 

c the Grants of the Land they are now so extended to Tail General with a 
Power of devising them that Persons whether Male or Female are capable 
of enjoying by Inheritance or Devise as far as 2,000. Acres of Land. 

d And all past Forfeitures of Persons residing in Georgia, concerning the 
Tenure or Cultivation of their Lands are discharged to Christmas last, 

e and a Licence is granted for leasing of Lands for any Term not exceeding 
21 Years, both which Deeds are herewith sent You to be notified in 

f Georgia, after being first register'd there. And the present State of 
the Tenures are ordered to be printed end sent over to You by the next 
Opportunity, to be distributed in Georgia for the Use and Satisfaction 
of the Inhabitants. 

g As your Son Thomas has declared he will not return to Georgia 

unless Negroes are allowed, and has behaved in so extraordinary manner 
in Contradiction to You, and ungratefull to the Trust; The Trustees 
give You Liberty to exchange his Name in your Grant of Land from them to 
any other Son (154) or Relation You shall think deserving to inherit the 

a Improvements You are making on your 500. Acres Lot; And as your Ser 
vants Times are near expiring, the Trustees permit You to supply their 
Place with such of their Servants, not provided for by the Estimate, as 
You shall want, to be maintained by You as far as five, who are at 
present maintained by the Trust. And they would willingly encourage 
those Inhabitants who testified to the State of the Province You sent 
over the Copy of, by letting the Residue of such Servants be equally 
divided among them upon the same Foot; And they have