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245
July 3
Virginia |
Lieut-Governor William Gooch to Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations. Intending this as a state of the colony and its trade without
mingling therewith anything else, I shall proceed to inform you. Laws:
we have none subsisting injurious to the trade, navigation and manufactures of Great
Britain. Manufactors: the poor potter's operation is unworthy of your notice. The
common people in all parts of the colony and indeed many of the better sort are lately got
into the use of looms, weaving coarse cloth for themselves and Negroes; and our new
inhabitants on the other side of the mountains make very good linen which they sell up
and down the country, nor is the making of shoes with hides of their own tanning less
practised though the leather is very indifferent. We have not any other manufacture unless
building of sloops and selling them in the British islands may be accounted such; but as
this no ways interferes with the trade of Great Britain I am of opinion it may be allowed,
considering the exportation of our Indian corn, beef, and pork for the supply of those
islands requires more bottoms to carry them thither than to bring back their commodities
of rum, sugar and molasses, much less in bulk though of greater value. Trade: besides this
trade carried on to the British islands in the West Indies of Indian corn, beef, pork,
lumber, wax candles, flour, biscuit, and sometimes a little tobacco, for which we have in
return rum, sugar and molasses, we send wheat, flour, wax and wax candles to Madeira
and bring back the produce in wine. But the balance of trade, chiefly with the English
settled there, being in their favour, is paid by bills of exchange. Our tobacco, with skins
and lumber, is carried to Great Britain; and as that staple is under a careful inspection
affording an encouraging price to the planters, we may be justly reckoned, by the
quantity of goods we annually purchase with the sales of it and the benefit it is to the
Crown in its Customs, among the principal plantations in America. We import salt from
Cape Verde and the West Indies, far less useful than the salt of Portugal, which makes our
traders very uneasy as I informed you in my letter of 14 September 1734. Iron works: we
have four furnaces and the pig iron they make (for they cast a few pots and sell them in the
country) is sent to London and Bristol, which being yearly about 1500 tons must increase
the wealth of our mother country however inconsiderable the profit is to the adventurers.
Forge: one for making bar iron but as the duty upon the importation to Great Britain is
like to continue, and they don't find a ready vent for it in the country, the owners are
much discouraged. They hammer about 20 tons in a year. One air furnace: where they
cast pots, backs for chimneys, andirons, and boxes for cartwheels, sold in the colony or
exported to other places on the continent without any great gain to the undertaker. The
master of the vineyard, having been advised to cut his vines close to the ground in order to
strengthen their roots, has not yet used his press to any purpose of interest; but the
vineyard is in a flourishing and thriving condition and next year he intends to taste the
goodness of the juice. The same gentleman goes on planting Verina tobacco, but as he
says, not meeting with the price he expected and having about 100 hogsheads in hand, he
goes this summer to London to be his own factor. These are all the trades or manufactors
hitherto set up; and you, to whose prudent oversight the commerce of HM's dominions is
so happily entrusted, will best judge how far any of them are prejudicial to the
manufactures or trade of Great Britain. Signed. PS. Journals of House of Burgesses sent
herewith. 2¾ pp. Endorsed, Recd. 25 September, Read 18 October 1739. [CO 5/1324, ff
167–168d] |
246
July 4
Whitehall |
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Duke of Newcastle
enclosing the following. Signed, Monson, M Bladen, R Plumer, J
Brudenell, Edward Ashe. 1 p. Enclosed:
246 i Extract of letter, dated 23 May 1739, from Governor Alured Popple relating
to seizure of two sloops by Spaniards. See no 166.¾ p. [CO 37/26, ff 221–225d; entry
of covering letter in CO 38/8, pp 305–306] |
247
July 4
Treasury |
John Scrope to Thomas Hill enclosing the following for opinion of
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. Signed. ½ p. Addressed.
Endorsed, Recd., Read 4 July 1739. Enclosed:
247 i Petition of Richard Shelton, late secretary to Lords Proprietors of the
Bahamas, to Commissioners of the Treasury. He was secretary for thirty years and
there are very great arrears due to him for salary and disbursements. He was at great
labour and trouble to procure an agreement advantageous to the Crown. Copy. 1½ pp.
Endorsed, (1) 6 April 1739 (2) 3 July 1739, to the Lords of Trade. [CO 23/4, ff 60–63d] |
248
July 4
Palace Court |
Minutes of Trustees for Georgia. Sealed letter of attorney to enable the
secretary to receive at the Exchequer the 20000l granted by Parliament.
Sealed appointments to Thomas Jones to be overseer of the Trust's
servants in northern parts of Georgia and to Samuel Davison to be overseer in southern
parts. Sealed grant of 500 acres to Kennedy O'Brien. Sealed 1200l in sola bills. Entry. 1½
pp. [CO 5/687, pp 126–127; entry of letter of attorney, appointments and grant, all dated
4 July, in CO 5/670, pp 404–411] |
249
July 4
Frederica |
James Oglethorpe to Trustees for Georgia. Give me leave to thank you
for the great care you took to send immediate assistance to me by
ordering the issuing of the 500l in bills and by sending me 710l in bills,
and by the vigorous push you made in Parliament, the resolutions of which hath
preserved this colony and by it covered all the trade of North America from the Spanish
guardacostas. I am very glad to find by the last of yours that you have come to a
resolution of keeping no stores here, after what is at present in the magazine is expended,
but for the future paying for the servants' subsistence and other expenses in ready money.
In this there is but two difficulties which I hope to be able to regulate in the execution.
The first is the merchants, seeing there is no public stores, may run up the prices of all
provisions to treble the value so that the people may not with their money be able to buy
food. The second is that the people themselves when they receive their pay may spend it
in drink instead of buying victuals and so suffer in their healths as the independent
company did in Gen Nicholson's time, of whom two thirds died in a year. However, I
believe both these inconveniences may be prevented by the regulations I shall make for
the merchants and settlers. |
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I do not doubt the sum granted by Parliament will enable us not only to pay the
debts of the colony and subsist it for the year but also have a fund beforehand which will
prevent any accidents for the future; but to bring this about there must be a steady and
regular manner of acting here. There are several expenses absolutely necessary and the
factious humour of many people, the difficulties of finding amongst such as are sent
hither any persons of proper confidence to execute a trust where a gain attends, is very
great. The temptations of large sums to poor people who have given no security are
difficult to be withstood and I have met with so much roguery that I have been obliged to
change hands frequently. The powers given to the magistrates have generally been made
use of either to get by winking at men who disobey the laws or expecting large allowances
from the Trustees for doing their duty, and they have banded at Savannah so strongly
together that they refused Mr Jones (as he informs me) to take any measures for
preventing people who were running away with effects when in the Trustees' debt. The
people have frequently been striving to deny any authority in me and would fain bring the
trial of the Trustees' property before juries, almost every one of whom is interested by
being debtors to the Trustees and many declared that they would bring in their verdicts
according to their interest. They very ignorantly and unjustly at Savannah tried the people
who broke through the rum law by juries who acquitted the sellers in spite of evidence.
Here at Frederica the magistrates acted wisely: they tried and convicted them at petty
sessions as justices of the peace, and amongst others levied upon a master of a sloop who
had so many friends amongst the freeholders that they publicly declared in town that no
jury would convict him though he tapped a cask at noonday. This steady proceeding and
the appointing a very brisk man, Patrick Grant (a relation of Sir James Grant) naval
officer and searcher, has got the better of rum here. |
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I am insensibly got off from the most important matter, that of keeping the expense of
the province within bound and at the same time pushing on the improvements of silk and
wine and other agriculture, making the province capable of subsisting itself, and
encouraging industry in such manner as the inhabitants may be able to raise and sell food
sufficient for the regiment's consumption and for the Trustees' servants so that they may
not be obliged to buy from the neighbouring colonies, which if it can be compassed the
planters by that money will be enabled not only to purchase clothing but also to pay for
the passage of servants and other labouring hands and thereby increase the people of the
colony without any new expense to the public, and these methods have already had their
effect in Pennsylvania which is grown wondrous populous by the German servants. I
have been labouring to reduce the expenses within bounds and to fix them to some
certainty but have met with so many other affairs arising from opposition, many of which
were surely set on foot on purpose to prevent my having time to regulate the expenses and
look into accounts. I think I have got pretty near through and should have finished in
about a month's time but the Indians have been stirred up to insist upon my meeting them
and they hold a general assembly for that purpose, upon the result of which depends the
welfare not only of this but of the colony of Carolina. The Spaniards and French have
both been very active and have spared no pains to gain an interest sufficient amongst the
Indians to persuade them to separate from the English. I send you an account of sundry
disbursements made by me by the hands of Moore and I submit them to you to consider
of them; and if you think they ought to be repaid you will please to pay them to Mr
Verelst on my account. If there are any articles that you object to, if you will let me know
them, I will explain them in the general account, this being only an account of some
disbursements which I send home for your perusal till I can get the general account and
the issues of all the stores and provisions bought and applied to the Trust's service. |
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It is necessary to set down the following articles for explaining the expenses of the
province. |
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1st The whole civil and military expenses were to be defrayed by the Trustees till the
arrival of the regiment, and till my arrival none of the Trust's military expenses were
reduced. |
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2nd On the arrival of the first detachment with Col Cochran the Trustees were put to
new expenses for boats to carry up the soldiers, the King's stores and provisions, also for
warehouses for them; and at the Trustees' expense also cleftboard houses were built for
the reception of the five companies quartered for the defence of Georgia. These expenses,
had I been here, should not have been paid but have been directly certified home, that the
Trustees might have applied to the Crown to obtain payment for the persons who had
disbursed them. It is very true that they were absolutely necessary or the troops must
have perished. It is also as true that colonies who levy taxes upon the people do, out of
them taxes, defray all such contingent charges necessary for the troops sent for their
defence; but this is not the case of Georgia where there can be no taxes levied and
consequently the Trustees cannot defray the contingencies: therefore they very properly
ought to have been represented to the Crown. |
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3rd Mr Horton, when he found that it was necessary there should be cleftboard
houses provided for covering the regiment, employed as many of the inhabitants as were
indebted to the Trustees for food as would work, and thereby lessened the expense of
those buildings since he thereby secured the payment of debts which it would otherwise
have been very difficult to recover. |
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4th Mr Hugh Mackay employed at St Andrews the Trustees' servants to build the
cleftboard houses there and some few other carpenters and hired men. |
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5th I presume that the Trustees have a very good demand for the building of the
abovementioned two camps of cleftboard houses in which 500 men and their officers are
conveniently lodged since it was done by servants and creditors fed and clothed by the
Trust whose labours might have been other ways of use to them. |
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6th It is necessary for the Trustees to use their endeavours to people the colony for
which they are entrusted with the public money. People cannot live without protection
and communication. The regular troops protect the frontier islands but boats are
necessary for communication and watchmen for preserving the peace of the country and
horsemen for pursuing in the woods felons, runaway servants, outlaws and slaves from
Carolina, which have already molested the inland parts of the country; and thieving for
want of rangers to pursue them is grown so common that great numbers of hogs and not a
few cattle have been killed in the woods so that it is dangerous to let them out and people
have neither enclosures nor food to keep them at home. The killing and stealing of hogs
has been so frequent at Savannah that there is hardly one person in that town that has one,
though when I left that province there were several hundreds there. |
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7th There are great numbers of servants belonging to the Trustees. Those at Savannah
were under the care of Mr Bradley and Mr Causton, of whose work I have been hitherto
not able to get a full account. Those at Darien were under the charge of Mr McIntosh and
have learned to saw so that all the boards employed in the King's works as also those for
building the chapel at Frederica have been sawed by them, the value of which I believe
will near answer the keeping of them and next year, as they are now masters of their
business, will I hope considerably more than maintain them. The servants on Amelia are
under Mr Hugh Mackay's charge: there is a very fertile spot of ground on which I placed
them and they have made a plantation. It promises fair for a great crop of corn, much
more than they can eat, but their clothing and meatkind will be still some charge; nor can
the Trustees expect that their servants should at first defray entirely their charges for they
must consider that a great part of their time must be taken up in building huts and clearing
and fencing of land which is an improvement of the province and a greater gain to it than
the crop raised within the year. |
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8th Several boats are absolutely necessary for the province, one at least to each
settlement which, if the Trust does not maintain, the people cannot, and it is as good
withdrawing at once from the colony as forcing the people to leave it. I have done all I
could to reduce the charges of boats as I have wrote more at large. |
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9th This country cannot be supported without cattle. The Trustees have a large herd,
the keeping of which hath been a considerable expense to them but I think the profit upon
the increase, notwithstanding that vast numbers have been killed and stolen, is above
treble the charges they have cost. But if Mr Jones, the storekeeper, had not acted with
great courage there was a general combination to eat the Trustees' cattle and I cannot say
that the magistrates at Savannah did act with that vigour that they might have done till I
myself was obliged to make them examine the people before me; and there was such a
good-natured spirit stirring that I was informed no Savannah jury would find a man
guilty for killing the Trustees' cattle in the woods, of which I suppose Mr Jones has given
you a full account. This has forced me to continue a number of cattle hunters by which
means I have already stopped the stealing and above sixty calves have been taken up and
marked at the cowpen at Ebenezer. |
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10th Till the present stores are issued, of which I have laid in a great quantity, there
will be occasion not only for a storekeeper and clerks but several other servants and
labourers for unloading and preserving. Several may be reduced as soon as we can put the
new regulations into practice but some will always be necessary, particularly a smith for
the Indian arms, a surveyor, etc. |
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I am afraid I shall tire you with too long a letter if I should enter into the whole detail
of the province and it is impossible to explain all things at this distance. The only method
I can think of to hinder any increase beyond the intended expenses is strictly to adhere to
the notice you have already advertised and which is now up at all the storehouse doors,
that no person shall contract any debt chargeable upon the Trustees, and I fear the
allowing any of the people here to endorse your bills will give a new credit to them
persons which perhaps may be better let alone. For this reason I scratched out the
endorsement which I had ordered to be made to Mr Causton and issued them myself and
have charged myself with that 500l received from you. I mentioned in my first letter that
if you would acquaint me how much you intended to expend yearly in Georgia I would
frame an establishment in the best manner I could and would take care to [see] whilst I
was here that it should not be exceeded and to have left the strongest orders for securing
the same after my return and to have had security given for the execution of them. |
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There are two matters of great importance that I cannot omit speaking of before I
conclude. First, you mention a new law concerning the altering of entails of estates. There
are infinite difficulties in getting the laws now in being for this colony executed; therefore
I should not yet wish for any new ones. The titles are at present upon a very good footing
and those who made most noise about their lands are those who have taken no care of
making any use of them. I suppose the heads which you send me will be very well
considered and, before passed, many things amended, for as they stand they first deprive
the male heir, who has now a right from the grandfather, in favour of the daughter of the
son. Secondly they tend to uniting of lots and destroying the agrarian equality, one of the
first principles on which you set out. Thirdly they leave freehold possessions open to the
frauds of wills, a grievance complained of in England and a yoke which neither we nor
our fathers could bear. They bring freeholders to be judged by the civil law which is the
law by which wills are decided instead of being judged by the common law of the land,
and this will make a court of Doctors Commons and Chancery necessary, either of which
will be enough to crush a fullgrown, much more a young colony. I am persuaded that you
will not pass any law till such time as the accounts and affairs of the colony are settled. |
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The second thing is you sent over 700l in bills to be issued for certain purposes. I
immediately signed and issued 40l to Mr McLeod, 70l to Mr Bolzius and Mr Gronau, and
60l to Mr Jones for the servants, and sent them to Mr Jones to be signed. Mr McLeod and
Mr Jones, etc inform me that Col Stephens and Mr Parker have both refused signing of
them, by which means they will be greatly distressed for want of money. Upon which Mr
Jones came up in an express boat to me from Savannah: he will acquaint you with Mr
Parker's reasons. This might have occasioned some uneasiness to the Trustees' affairs but
I have prevented it for I will take up the bills and pay the orders, and I have sent home the
bills and hope that you will pay into Mr Verelst's hands the amount of those bills making
710l to answer my drafts upon him for the same. Though this is an inconveniency I think
it hath prevented a worse, that is to say your giving a credit to any persons in America
after your orders published to the contrary. Signed. 19½ pp. Endorsed, Recd. 2 November
1739. [CO 5/640, ff 332–341d] |
250
July 4
Ebenezer |
Rev John Martin Bolzius to Harman Verelst acknowledging letters of 3
March and 2 April which arrived with the carpenter, shoemaker, and
five single women all in very good health. Generosity of the Trustees
towards Mr Gronau and the orphan-house acknowleged, also the leather and tools for
the shoemaker who will supply the orphan-house at half price. Greater part of the debt
incurred for building the orphan-house can now be repaid: we hope for a good crop for
its further support. Children have been taught English as far as time and opportunity
permit but Ortman, the school-master, is unable to teach it: his pronunciation is quite
wrong, very tedious and obscure. The boy Bishop is more useful in instructing the
children and might be allowed something to encourage him. Signed. 2½ pp. Endorsed,
Recd. 5 October 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 330–331d] |
251
July 5
Whitehall |
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Governors of Jamaica,
Barbados, Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts (Circular) sending copies of addresses of
Houses of Lords and Commons of 13 June. Prepare and transmit the accounts required
that they may be laid before the Houses at the next meeting of Parliament. Entry.
Signatories, Monson, E Ashe, R Plumer, M Bladen. 1¼ pp. [CO 324/12, pp 244–245] |
252
July 7 |
Petition of Jonathan Belcher, in behalf of his father Governor Jonathan
Belcher, to the King praying for six months leave for Governor Belcher
to come to this kingdom on public and private business. Signed. 1 p. [CO 5/752, ff
331–332d] |
253
July 9
Frederica |
John Calwell to Harman Verelst soliciting aid of the Trustees in
transporting his child Henry from Cork to Georgia, Gen Oglethorpe
having made him surveyor in the room of Mr Auspurgur. Signed. ¾ p.
Addressed. Endorsed, Recd. 2 November 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 342–343d] |
254
July 11
Romney
Spithead |
Capt Henry Medley to Duke of Newcastle acknowledging letter of 15
June and warrant as governor of Newfoundland. Signed. 1 p. [CO
194/24, ff 145–146d] |
255
July 11
Palace Court |
Minutes of Common Council of Georgia. Read report from committee
of accounts on memorial of Capt William Thomson relating to German
servants and goods delivered in Georgia in January 1739: the committee
reported that 431l 16s 4d should be paid to Capt Thomson but that 69 of the servants and
some goods were not chargeable to the Trustees; agreed to the report. Read report from
same committee on claim of executors of Paul Jenys that sundry deductions should be
made; agreed thereto, and resolved that 491l 9s 4½d be paid to Smith & Bonovrier on
whom the executors drew a bill for 636l 17s 3d. Signed draft on the bank for these sums.
Read copy of resolution of SPCK (Scotland); resolved to grant 300 acres within 12 miles
of New Inverness to Rev John McLeod and his successors as missionary appointed by
SPCK (Scotland) who will grant 40l for four servants for cultivating the said land.
Resolved that 1061l 8s be paid to meet Gen Oglethorpe's bill on Peregrine Fury, his agent,
though no letter of advice had been received; signed draft on the bank for that sum.
Resolved that Gen Oglethorpe be desired to endorse sola bills to enable them to be issued
to defray estimated expense in Georgia for 1739–1740. Resolved that 1200l in sola bills be
sent to William Stephens by Two Brothers. Resolved that Henry Parker be removed from
commission for examining public debts, to be replaced by Thomas Christie. Ordered that
Ann Emery be allowed to lease her share of her late husband's lot for seven years. Entry.
9½ pp. [CO 5/690, pp 242–251; entry of appointment dated 11 July, of Thomas Christie to
be commissioner, in CO 5/670, pp 412–413] |
256
July 11
Palace Court |
Minutes of Trustees for Georgia. Received receipt from the bank for
20000l paid in by the accountant, being so much received from the
Exchequer, less fees. Received receipt for 1l 1s consideration money for
grant of land to Kennedy O'Brien. Entry. 1 p. [CO 5/687, p 128] |
257
July 11
Georgia Office |
Benjamin Martyn to John West. The Trustees grant leave to dispose of
your lot provided Mr Stephens approves of the person you dispose of it
to, and that the said person has no lands already in Georgia either in
possession or expectancy. They likewise grant leave to return home. Entry. ½ p. [CO
5/667, p 243] |
258
July 11
Georgia Office |
Same to Thomas Jones. The Trustees have carefully perused your
several letters of 8, 17 and 23 February and they therein observe the
many difficulties you meet with in adjusting the accounts of the
storehouse; but they hope you will not be discouraged in the attempt but pursue the
commission sent over to you 2 April last, it being a matter of great consequence to them
as well as a demonstration of your fidelity and resolution in their service. For your
encouragement herein they have appointed you third bailiff of Savannah, and as a public
storehouse is no longer to subsist after Michaelmas day next but all payments made by the
Trustees will be in money they are sensible their allowance to a storekeeper must end at
that time; wherefore, taking into consideration your usefulness and concern for the
prosperity of the province, they hope you will accept of an employment very essential to
its interests which is that of overseer of the Trust servants to which there is a salary
appointed of 30l per annum: the business thereof is particularly set forth in the enclosed
instructions and your commission for executing them will be delivered to you by Mr
Stephens. To explain to you that part, viz the Trustees' servants having land of their own
when their task is over, orders are sent to Mr Stephens that such servants who have no
land set out in the time of their service to work on at spare days for themselves should
have 5 acres each set out as part of their 20 acres, which are to lie as near as may be to the
lands they are to be employed in the cultivating of for the Trustees, in order that their
spare time may be fully employed in their own lands by being contiguous if possible.
Entry. ¾ p. [CO 5/667, pp 243–244] |
259
July 11
Georgia Office |
Same to Thomas Causton. The Trustees have received your letters of 14
January and 14 February but they can say nothing to them nor give any
answer thereto till they see the result of the commission which they
have appointed to examine and state your accounts. Entry. ¼ p. [CO 5/667, p 244] |
260
July 11
Georgia Office |
Same to Thomas Hawkins. The Trustees have ordered the public
storehouse to be shut up at Michaelmas next, being determined to
defray the expenses of the town of Frederica according to the estimate
settled by them, whereof a copy as far as relating to the southern part of the province is
enclosed to you, that you may see the disposition the Trustees have made for your
support for the ensuing year. You will observe by it that 30l is allowed to you as first
bailiff of Frederica for the year then commencing and 10l more as correspondent with Mr
Stephens, secretary within the province. In consideration of this the Trustees expect that
you will be punctual in acquainting Mr Stephens with the plantations and cultivating
made in the southern part of the province, the lots taken up, charged or deserted, the
deaths, marriages and births of persons, the progress of fishing or any useful arts, the
ships arrived or sailed, and all matters of consequence. For your information in these
particulars you must call on the minister, the surveyor, the inferior officers of the town of
Frederica and such other persons as are respectively capable of giving you accounts. As
the Trustees have nothing to prejudice you in their good opinion they hope you will
preserve it by maintaining the peace and promoting the industry and good manners of the
people and that you will give all the necessary support and countenance to the minister,
Mr Norris, who is appointed to reside at Frederica and for whom the Trustees have a
great regard. Entry. ¾ p. [CO 5/667, p 245] |
261
July 11
Georgia Office |
Same to Rev William Norris. The Trustees hope you will be pleased
with your removal to Frederica which they think on many accounts
will be more satisfactory as you will be nearer to Gen Oglethorpe and
will find the people more sober and orderly than you have found them in general at
Savannah and as the place is more healthy than the northern part of the province. Besides,
as Mr Whitefield who was at Savannah before has collected a considerable sum of money
here for erecting an orphan-house for which a grant of land is made by the Trustees near
to Savannah, and as he is to have the superintendency of it by building it without any
expense to the Trustees, his residence there will become more necessary. As the Trustees
have directed their first bailiff at Frederica (Mr Hawkins) to show you all the regard in his
power they desire you will from time to time give him an account of the marriages, births
and deaths of persons in the southern part of the province and whether the people are
regular in their attendance at church. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 245] |
262
July 11
Georgia Office |
Same to John Fallowfield. The Trustees, having received a good account
of your sobriety and abilities and readiness to undertake the office of a
magistrate, have therefore appointed you second bailiff of Savannah and
they have no doubt but you will endeavour to gain and preserve their good opinion by an
exact performance of your duty and a firm execution of justice and the laws without
favour or affection, and that you will at all times promote the peace, morals and industry
of the people to the utmost of your power. Entry. ¼ p. [CO 5/667, p 246] |
263
[July 11
Georgia Office] |
Undated letter from same to Robert Gilbert. The Trustees, understanding that you undertook the office of a bailiff of the town of Savannah
with great reluctance and that holding the same is inconvenient to you,
have eased you thereof and appointed Mr Thomas Jones to succeed you in it. Entry. ¼ p.
[CO 5/667, p 246] |
264
July 11
Savannah |
Rev Israel Christian Gronau to Harman Verelst acknowledging letter of
3 March and news of allowance of 30l towards cost of building house.
May God reward the Trustees a thousand times. Gen Oglethorpe
arrived here last night and paid the money by Mr Moore, his secretary. Signed. ¾ p.
Endorsed, Recd. 5 October 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 344, 344d] |
265
July 12
Jamaica |
Governor Edward Trelawny to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. I should sooner have acquainted you with the death of Mr Mill,
receiver-general and one of the Council, if I had not missed the
opportunity of doing it by being in a remote part of the country giving orders for an
expedition against the rebellious Negroes settled in the windward part of the island. They
have submitted upon the same terms as those which the others lately agreed upon and
which I transmitted to you, only with this difference that they have obliged themselves to
deliver up all the runaway slaves who have joined with them for three years past and to
receive a garrison. I send the laws passed between 14 April 1739 and 29 May following;
journal of Council, 11 September 1738 to 19 May 1739; minutes of Council, 27 September
1738 to 19 May 1739; and minutes of Assembly, 13 March 1739 to 19 May 1739. Signed. 2
pp. Endorsed, Recd. 10 December, Read 12 December 1739. [CO 137/23, ff 52, 52d, 59,
59d] |
266
July 14
Georgia Office |
Harman Verelst to James Oglethorpe by Two Brothers, Capt Thomson,
sending copy of last letter of 11 June. The Trustees, after mature
consideration of the representation from the inhabitants of Savannah
dated 9 December last for altering the tenure of the lands and introducing Negroes into
Georgia, have sent their answer thereto to the magistrates of Savannah under the
corporation seal and have had their said answer printed to be dispersed in the colony by
the magistrate of Savannah and Frederica, one of which printed copies is herewith sent
you. The Trustees' estimates of the expenses of the colony from Michaelmas next are sent
by this ship and herewith you have copies of them. They have sent 1200l in their sola bills
towards defraying the said expenses, which bills are 450 of 1l each and 75 of 10l each and
are part of those ordered in 1737 and remained unsent; and the Trustees desire you will
sign the endorsements of them to enable William Stephens, Thomas Christie and Thomas
Jones, or any two of them, to issue them pursuant to their instructions for defraying the
said estimated expenses, and the Common Council under the corporation seal have
indemnified you for so doing, which is herewith sent you. |
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The Trustees have granted the 500-acre plot of land to Kennedy O'Brien pursuant to
your recommendation and have sent it over. They have appointed Mr Thomas Christie
first bailiff of Savannah and removed Henry Parker from that office and from every other
appointment, his late behaviour giving offence. Mr John Fallowfield is appointed second
bailiff and Mr Thomas Jones third bailiff of the said town in the room of Robert Gilbert
who is removed as an improper person for executing that office, the Trustees being also
assured he accepted the office with reluctance. And Mr William Williamson is appointed
recorder at Savannah. And the Trustees have ordered Mr Jones a 50-acre lot, the best of
any of those forfeited at Savannah, to qualify him to execute the office of third bailiff. In
consideration of Mr Jones's faithfulness and capacity the Trustees have not only made
him the third bailiff but also overseer of their servants in the northern part of the
province; and Samuel Davison, constable at Frederica, is appointed overseer of their
servants in the southern part of the province. For these servants tools and materials are
sent and the particulars thereof will be herewith received, which are to be distributed in
proportion to the number of servants employed in each part of the province. There is also
40 barrels of flour sent and 60 pairs of men's shoes which are to be retailed at such places
in the province where most wanted; and as all payments are in money the said flour and
shoes must be retailed for ready money by proper retailers to be appointed for that
purpose with an allowance of a reasonable profit to themselves on the prime cost which is
herewith sent, such retailers paying the money they receive from time to time, as they
fetch small parcels away to the amount of such prime cost, to be reissued by William
Stephens, Thomas Christie and Thomas Jones, or any two of them, for defraying the
expenses of the estimates and thereby keep down the prices of necessaries to a reasonable
standard. The 15 tons of strong beer in barrels nos 1 to 90 are sent you according to the
Trustees' letter of 11 June which they hope will prove a satisfactory payment for expenses
you were at on their account. The 16 half-barrels of gunpowder FF and 28 casks of Indian
gun bullets with 2 casks of dropshot, each cask of bullets containing ½ cwt nett and each
cask of dropshot 2 cwt nett, are for part of the presents to the Indians, which presents the
Trustees choose to send from England to be distributed to the Indians by your directions
while in the province and in your absence (when occasion requires) by the directions of
William Stephens, Thomas Christie and Thomas Jones or any two of them. |
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Besides the 1200l in sola bills the Trustees have sent two tons of halfpence which with
the said sola bills and a bill for 200l sterling drawn by the receiver of the King's quitrents
in South Carolina and remitted by this ship (which the Trustees advanced here for
payment of the auditor's salary and other expenses for the Crown) are sent towards
defraying the expenses of the estimates from Michaelmas next and for no other purpose
by William Stephens, Thomas Christie and Thomas Jones, or any two of them, according
to their instructions. The Georgia scoutboat and the charges of the boat at St Andrews are
continued for this year by reason of the present situation of affairs, but as those boats are
for the military defence of the colony the Trustees apprehend it does not belong to them
to defray the expense thereof, and therefore if you think them necessary they have no
doubt but you will represent the necessity of them in the proper place. |
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Capt Thomson having presented a memorial to the Trustees relating to German
servants and goods received and delivered by your order in January last, the Common
Council have agreed to pay for the following heads only, viz 12½ heads for cultivating
lands for religious uses in the northern part of the province; 7 heads to cultivate Trust
lands at Fort Argyle; 1 head to Mr Norris the minister; 4 heads to be employed in the
public garden; 5⅓ heads employed as cowherds to the Salzburghers; 1 head to attend the
Salzburgh orphans; 2 heads to the Salzburgh schoolmaster; 1 head to William Stephens;
and 13½ heads to be employed in the cultivating lands for religious uses in the southern
part of the province if not already provided, otherwise to be employed in the cultivation
of Trust lands at Frederica. But as to 69 heads besides, stated to be delivered pursuant to
your order, the Common Council have not sufficient evidence before them at present
whereby to think themselves at all chargeable with the expenses thereof and have referred
the captain back to the persons for payment or better reasons than yet given for the
Trustees to reconsider thereupon. The amount of goods delivered by the said captain to
your order was 213l 9s 11¼d whereof 102l 16s 4¼d the Common Council have agreed to
pay, but the residue being for presents designed to the Spanish messengers when they
come to Georgia, for encouragement of shopkeepers, and other credits, which the
Common Council thinking themselves no way concerned in have refused payment of. |
The account of the late Paul Jenys received from his executors and recommended for
dispatch by your letter to the accountant dated 7 April last has been examined by the
committee, with the accounts of the said Paul Jenys sent to the Trustees by Mr Causton,
with another letter from the said Causton dated 14 February last, and there appear
overcharges therein to the amount of 145l 7s 10½dd sterling which reduces the said
executors' demand of 636l 17s 3d to the sum of 491l 9s 4½d which is ordered to be paid;
and the said overcharges are to be particularized and the account thereof and how they
arise to be sent to the commissioners for examining and stating the public debts for their
inspection, and another copy thereof to the executors of the said Paul Jenys to make
answer or submit to such overcharges being disallowed. The Trustees have appointed
Peter Emery to be the pilot resident at Tybee who is ordered to have a lot of 50 acres of
land there and his wife has leave to sell beer; and they desire you will name a proper
person to be pilot at St Simons or Jekyll Sound. The Trustees not having received an
account from you, nor hearing from other hands, that any progress has been made in the
adjusting and settling the differences between South Carolina and Georgia concerning the
regulation of trade with the Indians to the mutual satisfaction of both provinces, they
earnestly recommend it in the most serious manner to you to lose no time in the
perfecting so essential a necessary work when the authority which you have in that
province and the influence of Lieut-Governor Bull may facilitate an happy conclusion of
the misunderstandings which have subsisted on that account, whereby the clamours of
many people here may be quieted and harmony restored between the inhabitants of both
provinces, so absolutely requisite in this juncture. The Trustees have ordered that the
supplies Mr William Stephens had from you should not be accounted part of the two
sums of 20l and 30l they ordered him in their letter of 2 April last. Entry. 3½ pp. Enclosed:
266 i Estimate of expense in northern part of Georgia for one year to commence
from Michaelmas 1739. 1st magistrate at Savannah, 30l; 2nd and 3rd magistrates, 20l
each; recorder, 20l; secretary and postmaster, 100l; register, 20l; schoolmaster at
Savannah, 10l; schoolmaster for Salzburghers, 5l; parish clerk at Savannah, 5l;
midwife at Savannah, besides 5s per laying, 5l; overseer of garden, 10l; head gardener,
20l; overseer of Trust's servants, 30l; blacksmith, for mending militia arms, 15l; and
for mending Indian arms, 15l; Italian family in silk production, 20l; allowance to
recorder for clerk, 20l; 4 constables at Savannah, 10l each; allowance to chief
magistrate for public rejoicings, etc, 4l; cowpenkeeper, 35l; pilot at Tybee, 40l; care of
widows of Trust's servants, 100l; care of sick, 150l. Servants: to each of the three
magistrates for two servants, 24l 6s 8d; to the recorder, the Italian family, Widow,
Vanderplank, and the cowpenkeeper, for one servant each, 12l 3s 4d each; for charge
of 60 men, Trust servants, to be paid 8d a day provided they perform their tasks, 730l;
repair of tools, 5l; repair of houses and machines, etc in production of silk, 50l. Total:
1645l 13s 4d. |
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Expense in southern part. 1st magistrate at Frederica, 40l; 2nd and 3rd magistrates,
15l each; recorder, 20l; minister, 50l; overseer of Trust's servants, 25l; blacksmith, 15l;
schoolmaster, 10l; parish clerk, 5l; midwife, besides 5s per laying, 5l; allowance to
chief magistrate for public rejoicings, etc, 4l; 2 constables at Frederica, 10l each; care
of widows of Trust's servants, 50l; care of sick, 75l; coasting boat with coxswain and 4
hands, 96l 10s; pilot at Jekyll or St Simons, 40l. Servants: to 1st magistrate and
minister at Frederica one servant each at 12l 3s 4d; for charge of 21 men, Trust
servants, to be paid 8d a day provided they perform their tasks, 355l 10s; for charge of
17 womenservants to be paid 6d a day provided they perform their tasks, 155l 2s 6d.
Total: 1020l 9s 2d. |
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General charges for Georgia. Surveying land to persons on the charity account and
servants, 50l; incidental expenses, 500l; building and repairing church, buying
furniture and books for school, 100l; execution of justice, 100l; entertaining Indians,
100l; Georgia scoutboat, 258l 15s 1d; provisions and shoes for coxswain and rowers of
boat at St Andrews, 48l; William Stephens for services, 25l. |
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List of working tools for Trustees' servants, and invoices of flour, shoes and beer
sent to Georgia. Entry. 7½ pp. [CO 5/667, pp 247–264] |
267
July 14
Georgia Office |
Harman Verelst to William Stephens. The Trustees have received your
letters dated 6 February and 12 March last and their accountant received
your letters dated 29 March and 21 April and delivered your journal to
said 21 April which gives the Trustees great satisfaction from the fully stating all
occurrences. The Trustees have been often applied to for an account of William Wise's
effects who died in Georgia before your arrival. A copy of his will came over but no
account whether he left anything or not; please, therefore, to inquire about it. They have
also been applied to for the effects of Henry Clarke, deceased, whereof an account was
sent 20 March 1734/5 signed by John Dearne and Edward Jenkins, a copy whereof is
herewith sent you, but no effects have been received pursuant thereto, which you are
desired to inquire after. John Murcott has applied to the Trustees relating to a debt owing
to him for 28l 9s 9d from Joseph Hetherington, and another debt for 28l 10s from
Theophilus Hetherington due on a writ of inquiry to him 19 January 1733/4, and you are
desired to acquaint them of it and know in what ability they are for making any and what
satisfaction for the said debts. |
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Mr Whitefield having acquainted the Trustees the branch which was sent sometime
ago for the use of the church at Savannah was not in use, the Trustees direct that the said
branch be used at church services until the church shall be built. Mr Whitefield is not yet
sailed on account of the present embargo, intending for Georgia by the way of
Philadelphia. He has collected a great deal of money for an orphan-house and the
Trustees apprehend the great house built by the servants under Mr Bradley's directions
might be a proper place, but he has a particular letter to you about the land for
endowment and the place for building it which he is to choose with your approbation. If
he should approve of this house there must be a valuation made at a reasonable price
towards reimbursing the Trustees the great expense thereof out of the money he has
collected; but if he does not approve of this house the Trustees desire you would inform
them if it will not be right to roof the same with a penthouse roof and shingles and
underprop it by bricking from the foundation of the cellar and to let them know what
would be the expense thereof. And the Trustees direct that no additional buildings of Mr
Bradley's at their expense be carried on. As the Trustees have now no public stores it is
recommended to you to consider of proper means to let their storehouses to private
persons for some income to be applied towards the support of the colony. |
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As all payments from the Trustees are in money to commence at Michaelmas next, the
Trustees not knowing what supply of flour and shoes might be in the colony [continues as
in no 266]. Copy of no 279 to John Brownfield enclosed. If you find that he is unwilling
to perform the duty required you are desired to recommend a fit person to be employed
as register that the accounts so much wanted from him may be expedited. The Trustees
having a great many servants at their expense in the province, they desire a particular
account of them from you with their names, ages and sexes and how employed, under the
execution of the instructions herewith sent for Mr Thomas Jones who is appointed
overseer of those in the northern part of the province and the like instructions sent to Mr
Hawkins for Samuel Davison who is appointed overseer of those in the southern part of
the province. And Samuel Holmes, brickmaker of Savannah, having applied for two
servants, if any should lie upon the Trustees who are not provided for by the estimates
herewith sent, or that may ease the Trustees from the expense if more than wanted for the
services intended for them, the Trustees consent to let Samuel Holmes have two in case he
will instruct them in the brickmaker's business but not otherwise. The Trustees desire
you would send them another return of the people in the province in the same manner as
you did in January 1737/8 and to continue so to do at least annually, and that you will let
them know the progress made towards the production of silk and wine or any other
produce which may in time arise towards the reimbursing the charge of the province by
exports therefrom and also of the progress towards raising a sufficient maintenance for
the inhabitants, with an account of the forts, harbours and inlets to enable the Trustees to
satisfy the public for the annual charge the colony stands them in. |
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The Trustees have directed that the supplies you had from Gen Oglethorpe should not
be accounted part of the two sums of 20l and 30l they ordered you in their letter of 2 April
and have also provided in the estimate for the general charges of the colony 25l for your
services from Michaelmas last to Michaelmas next before the estimate herewith sent you
takes place; and in that you will find yourself rated at 100l a year by the office of secretary
and postmaster for yourself, clerk, etc from Michaelmas next. Copies of the estimates for
the general charges of the colony, the expenses of the northern and the expense of the
southern part thereof are herewith sent you, which please to communicate to Mr Thomas
Christie and Mr Thomas Jones who are appointed, or any two of you, to defray the
expenses thereof with the following funds sent in part thereof and the residue will be
defrayed by future funds in proper time. The said funds now sent are as follows, viz 2
tons of copper halfpence bought by weight as by the invoice herewith sent appears, to be
paid by tale and the difference accounted for towards defraying the expenses of the
estimate and thereby the charge of sending them; 40 barrels of flour and 60 pairs of shoes
at the prime cost in the invoice; a bill of exchange on Mr George Saxby, deputy receiver of
HM's revenues in Charleston, South Carolina, drawn by John Hammerton for value
received of the Trustees here for the use of the Crown with a letter of advice thereof; and
1200l value in their sola bills in a covered box directed to yourself no 1 and particularly
mentioned in the invoice which you are directed to carry to Gen Oglethorpe and desire
his endorsement of them under the writing on the back for yourself, Thomas Christie and
Thomas Jones, or any two of you, to issue them; and when you issue them or defray the
expense of the estimates as the same shall become due and payable, you are to be careful
to transmit accounts thereof signed by two of you, taking duplicated vouchers in two
books, the one to keep and the other to send over from time to time with your accounts
by every opportunity and such vouchers are to specify the service each sum is paid for
agreeable to the expenses estimated, that you may be discharged and the Trustees enabled
to give a faithful account, and where sola bills are issued in payment there to specify in the
party's receipt the particulars of them issued for each payment. |
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The wives and children of the Trustees' servants and of any single womenservants to
the Trust, not being known in the northern part, could not be computed in the estimate,
but whatever saving as to the number of men provided for more than may happen to be in
the Trustees' service there will be a fund for the said women and children. And also all
other savings which may be made you are desired to give great attention to; but a proper
care must be taken of the beacon or lighthouse at Tybee to preserve it from falling after so
great an expense in raising it, the same having proved a very useful landmark for ships. If
there is not a proper pilot-boat at Tybee it must be provided, those used at Carolina are
judged the most proper sort; the same care, if wanting, must be at St Simons or Jekyll
Sound. And an Act is drawn for regulating the pilotage and the duty of pilots, for levying
a rate for the landmark at Tybee towards its support and for a powder duty for answering
signals; as also another relating to the tenure of the lands in Georgia, preserving the entail
in the male line of the body and providing for successors in failure thereof, both which it
is expected will soon, with the Trustees' approbation, be laid before HM for the royal
assent and will be transmitted: which Acts are the result of the Trustees' own
consideration before any representation was received from the inhabitants of Savannah.
Which representation having been duly considered, the Trustees have sent their answer
thereto under the seal of the corporation which you are to deliver to the magistracy for
them to give the Trustees' said answer to the complainants and 50 printed copies thereof
are sent you in the box no 1 to disperse among the inhabitants of the northern part of
Georgia, the like number having been sent Gen Oglethorpe to disperse among the
inhabitants of the southern part. |
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Mr Thomas Christie having served the office of recorder from the first settling of the
colony, he is directed by the Trustees to make up his copy of the proceedings of the
town-court to the time Mr William Williamson who succeeds him is sworn in, and then
you are to deliver Mr Christie his constitution appointing him first bailiff of Savannah in
the room of Henry Parker who is removed from the said office by the said constitution.
Mr William Williamson's constitution you are to deliver as soon as Mr Christie has
perfected his copy of the proceedings of the court to the time of Mr Williamson's taking
upon him the said office. You are to deliver Mr John Fallowfield his constitution
appointing him second bailiff of Savannah, and Mr Thomas Jones having been ordered
possession of the best forfeited lot at Savannah to qualify him to execute the office of third
bailiff, you are to deliver him his constitution appointing him to that office in the room of
Robert Gilbert who accepted the said office with reluctance as unfit for it. And you are
also to deliver Mr Jones his appointment to the office of overseer of the Trustees' servants
and his instructions for performing the said office. All which deeds, together with a grant,
counterpart, and memorial registered with the auditor of 500 acres of land to Kennedy
O'Brien of Augusta in Georgia, are in the said box directed to you no 1, with several
letters particularly mentioned in the invoice. Mr O'Brien is to execute the said
counterpart and pay you 1l 11s 6d, the consideration money and charge of registering
with the auditor, before you deliver the said grant to him, which counterpart executed in
the presence of two witnesses you are to send back to the Trustees and account for the 1l
11s 6d in defraying the expenses of the estimates. |
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In the invoice herewith sent are contained several tools and materials for the Trustees'
servants which are to be distributed in proportion to the number of servants employed in
each part of the province; and there are also contained presents for the Indians which are
to be distributed by Gen Oglethorpe's directions while in the province, and in his absence
(when occasion requires) by the directions of yourself, Mr Thomas Christie and Mr
Thomas Jones or any two of you. By the bill of lading and invoice herewith sent you will
see to whom every parcel belongs, which are to be applied and delivered accordingly. The
executors of Mr Paul Jenys having sent subsequent accounts to the certificate Mr Causton
signed which was sent back to them unpaid, and the committee of accounts having
compared them with the accounts of the said Paul Jenys lately received from Mr Causton
have reported 491l 9s 4½d due thereon which has been paid, and ordered copies of all the
said accounts with their observations of the differences between the said executors' and
Mr Causton's accounts to be sent to the commissioners for stating the public debts in
Georgia to examine into the articles stated by the said report, a copy of which report is
herewith sent you as also another to Mr Jones to whom the copies of the said accounts are
sent. Mr Henry Parker is also removed from being a commissioner in the said commission
for examining and stating the said public debts and Mr Thomas Christie is appointed in
his room, which appointment you are to deliver Mr Christie out of the said box no 1. Mr
Causton has sent over his cash accounts from February 1735/6 to 16 October 1738 but the
Trustees by their letter from their secretary have referred him to the commissioners in
Georgia appointed to examine and state his whole accounts. The Trustees have appointed
Peter Emmery to be the pilot resident at Tybee who is ordered to have a lot of 50 acres of
land there, and his wife has leave to sell beer as also a licence to let her late husband's,
Michael Germain's, house and lot as to her share thereof in her widow's right for any
term not exceeding seven years if she shall so long live; and the Trustees on her returning
to Georgia have advanced her 10l sterling to buy her necessaries which her husband is to
repay in Georgia, to be applied towards the expense of the estimates and for which you
have herewith her receipt. The Trustees direct that such of their servants who have no
land set out in the time of their service [continues as in no 258]. Entry. 5½ pp. Enclosed: |
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267 i Invoice of halfpence, Indian goods, boxes and tools, on Two Brothers, Capt
William Thomson, consigned to William Stephens. Entry. 2½ pp. [CO 5/667, pp
250–255, 265–267] |
268
July 14
Georgia Office |
Harman Verelst to Rev William Norris. I have paid Capt Thomson for
your draft and care is taken for the future punctual payment of your
salary, which Mr Stephens will acquaint you of. The Trustees desire
you would send them a catalogue of what books are in Georgia. The Trustees have sent
you a pall for the use of burials at Frederica which Mr Hawkins will deliver, and when Mr
Whitefield is arrived (who goes by way of Philadelphia but is not sailed yet by reason of
the present embargo) he will deliver you a christening basin and eight brass candlesticks,
whereof two for the desk, to hold candles at evening public worship, which are for the use
of Frederica. Entry. ¼ p. [CO 5/667, p 267] |
269
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Thomas Hawkins sending pall for use at Frederica; large
Common Prayer Book for use of minister there; bottle of salitrum
seeds for the bloody flux and two receipts for cure thereof; parcel,
letters and appointment of Samuel Davison to be overseer of Trustees' servants in
southern part of Georgia. Please make proper distribution. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 268] |
270
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Elizabeth and Thomas Jenys acknowledging letter of 7 April
and accounts. Committee of accounts has stated balance to be 491l 9s
4½d, which has now been paid to Messrs Smith, Bonovrier & Co for
your use. Entry. 1 p. [CO 5/667, pp 268–269] |
271
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Kennedy O'Brien. Grant of 500 acres of land at Augusta will
be delivered to you by William Stephens on execution of the
counterpart and payment of fee of 1l 11s 6d. Entry. ¼ p. [CO 5/667, p
269] |
272
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to William Williamson. The Trustees have named you recorder of
the town-court of Savannah at 20l a year, with 20l for a clerk and 12l 3s
4d for a servant, which will be paid in money from Michaelmas next.
Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 270] |
273
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Thomas Christie. The Trustees have promoted you to be first
bailiff of Savannah and commissioner for examining and stating the
public debts in Georgia in the room of Henry Parker. The salary is 30l a
year, besides 24l 6s 8d for two servants, which will be paid in money from Michaelmas
next. You are, therefore, desired to send copies of the proceedings of the court, which
have not already been sent, to the time Mr Williamson shall be sworn in as recorder to
succeed you. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 270] |
274
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Samuel Davison. The Trustees have appointed you overseer of
their servants in the southern part of Georgia at a salary of 25l a year
from Michaelmas next. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 271] |
275
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Rev John Martin Bolzius acknowledging letter of 14 March
last. The Trustees at present cannot think of sending over any more
Salzburghers this year owing to lateness of the season and expense; but
you may rest satisfied of their pursuing all possible means for obtaining that end. Entry. ½
p. [CO 5/667, p 271] |
276
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Isaac Young. The Trustees have directed William Stephens to
inquire into the state of the vacant land you took possession of, that
they may do you what justice is in their power. They are much
concerned at the surveyor's not doing his duty. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 272] |
277
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to James Abercromby acknowledging letter of 6 June after a very
quick passage. Trustees will readily defray expenses of execution of
their commissions. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 273] |
278
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to Andrew Duche. In response to your proposals of 29 December
last the Trustees have sent materials to encourage you in the making of
porcelain. Send specimens of work to enable the Trustees to consider
the other part of your proposal. Entry. ½ p. [CO 5/667, p 272] |
279
July 14
Georgia Office |
Same to John Brownfield. The Trustees, not hearing from you concerning the execution of your office of register of Georgia, desire to know if
you have any obstructions in the execution of it. And in order for the
ascertaining of quitrents payable by the inhabitants the Trustees desire an account of
every lot of 50 acres or under granted under Trust grants in Georgia, showing when and
to whom and by whom granted and who and by what means are the present occupiers,
and also an account of all other grants that have been registered in Georgia which have
passed the Trustees' seal in England to compare with the grants made here, and such
account to show by whom and by what means each particular granted lot made under the
seal here is occupied. And the Trustees also require an account of all lots which have been
possessed under grants made either in Georgia or sent from England which have since
become vacant, if any so are, with the particular occasion thereof against each of such lots.
The Trustees have annexed a salary of 20l sterling a year to commence from Michaelmas
next to be paid to the register upon his transmitting an exact account of all the grants
pursuant to his instructions, which is to be paid by William Stephens, Thomas Christie
and Thomas Jones or any two of them, and if you will perform the said office as the
Trustees expect you will be entitled thereunto. Entry. ¾ p. [CO 5/667, pp 273–274] |
280
July 15
Georgia |
Patrick Grant to Trustees for Georgia. Being appointed by Gen
Oglethorpe naval officer and searcher concerning rum and other
spirituous liquors and contraband goods in the southern boundaries of
this province, I thought it my duty to acquaint you that there are considerable quantities
of foreign sugars and molasses imported here with a fraudulent intention of re-exporting
the same and to defraud the Crown of a part of its revenues contrary to Act for the better
securing and encouraging the trade of HM's sugar colonies in America by which it is
enacted that duties are to be paid for said goods; and therefore I have made my
application to you (as no duties have been as yet levied) in order to know your pleasure.
Signed. 1 p. Addressed. Endorsed, Recd. 2 November 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 345–346d] |
281
July 16
Savannah |
Gen James Oglethorpe to Duke of Newcastle. That part of Georgia
where the Lower Creek national and the Choctaws live borders on the
French settlements. The French have fallen upon some of those Indians
and the Indians have defended themselves and were preparing to attack the French. I find
I cannot prevent them by any other method than by going up myself amongst them and
set out tomorrow. There is a general assembly of all those Indian nations held to hear
what I have to propose. I shall insist upon their not making war with the French and hope
I shall succeed. I shall acquaint you with the event. Signed. 1 p. Endorsed, R, 5
November. [CO 5/654, ff 215–216d] |
282
July 16
Savannah |
Same to Trustees for Georgia. I send you by Mr Auspurgur about 20
lbs of silk. We hoped for five times the quantity but for want of room
we made use of the house where the silk people used to be and the
infection had such an effect (as Camus tells me) that it occasioned a sickness amongst the
worms which destroyed a great many. Some of the silk was wound last year but most this.
I hope we shall have better next. Several applications will be made to you for lands but I
hope you will make no new grants whatever till we can get those already granted in some
manner cultivated. There is one Talfeur, an apothecary-surgeon who gives physick, and
one Williams of whom I wrote to you formerly, a merchant who quitted planting to sell
rum. To these two almost all the town is in debt for physick and rum, and they have
raised a strong spirit to desire that lands may be alienable and then they would take the
lands for debts, monopolize the country and settle it with Negroes. They have a vast deal
of art and, if they think they cannot, they hope to bring confusions and you cannot
imagine how much uneasiness I have had here. I hope therefore that you will make no
alterations. I desire you will send over an appointment to the magistrates of the
town-court of Savannah for the time being to proceed to put the Rum Act into execution.
There is lately a considerable trade started up here and Mr Fallowfield, collector of
Savannah, and Mr Grant, naval officer and searcher at St Simons, vigilantly acquainted me
that they had discovered that there were some Spanish sugars imported here which I think
ought to pay a duty to the King. I ordered the two officers to write to you and hope you
will order proper lawyers to be consulted and send us advice what to do. The French and
Spaniards have used their utmost endeavours to raise disturbances amongst our Indians
and the not deciding clearly in the Act relating to them has given such insolence to the
Carolina traders that the Indians have declared, if I do not come up to them, they will arm
and do themselves justice, and have ordered a general assembly of all the nations to meet
me. I set out this night. Signed. 2 pp. Endorsed, Recd. 2 November 1739. [CO 5/640, ff
348–349d] |
283
July 18
Palace Court |
Minutes of Trustees for Georgia. Sealed memorial to SPG for allowance
of 50l per annum to be paid to Rev William Norris, appointed
missionary at Frederica, until the Trustees can raise a sufficient
maintenance for him out of the lands for religious uses. Entry. ¾ p. [CO 5/687, p 129;
entry of memorial in CO 5/670, p 413] |
284
July 19
Whitehall |
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Duke of Newcastle
enclosing the following. Entry. Signatories, Monson, M Bladen, James
Brudenell, R Plumer. 1 p. Enclosed: |
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284 i Whitehall, 19 July 1739. Same to the King enclosing the following. No
alteration from instructions to late Governor Horsey except omission of 13th article
and alteration of 100th article relating to paper money. Entry. Signatories, as covering
letter. 1½ pp. |
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284 ii Draft instructions to James Glen, governor of South Carolina. Entry. 82
pp. [CO 5/401, pp 334–419] |
285
July 19
Whitehall |
Thomas Hill to Francis Fane sending two Acts passed at New York in
1739, viz Act for reviving Act for granting duties for support of
government for one year and Act to revive Act to prevent swine from
running at large, for opinion in point of law. Entry. 1 p. [CO 5/1126, p 86] |
286
July 19
Whitehall |
Same to same sending nine Acts passed in New Jersey on 15 March last
for opinion in point of law. Titles stated. Entry. 2¼ pp. [CO 5/997, pp
8–10] |
287
July 19
Ebenezer |
John Martin Bolzius to [?Henry Newman] soliciting help of Trustees
for Georgia towards cost of building his house, now completed at an
expense of 82l 12s. Gen Oglethorpe was here yesterday and is now gone
up to the Indian nations. He has paid 40l to the orphan-house and spent half a day
inquiring into the scandalous behaviour of the wife of the schoolmaster Ortman, who
himself is a great burden and not at all useful in the school. Gen Oglethorpe ordered that
he should not teach English by reason of his wrong pronunciation and mistakes in
spelling. Signed. 3 pp. Endorsed, Mr Verelst. [CO 5/640, ff 350–351d] |
288
July 20
Antigua |
Governor William Mathew to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations sending minutes of Council of Nevis from 12 November 1738 to
12 May 1739, and minutes of Council and Assembly of Montserrat for
quarter ending midsummer last. Signed. 1 small p. Endorsed, Recd. 27 September, Read
15 October 1739. [CO 152/23, ff 237, 237d, 242, 242d] |
289
July 24
Whitehall |
Order of Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs referring the
enclosed to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations for examination
and report. Seal. Signed, J Vernon. 1¼ pp. Endorsed, Recd. 31 July,
Read 1 August 1739. Enclosed:
289 i Petition of John and Samuel Mason of New London, in behalf of chief
sachem and tribe of Mohegan Indians, to the King complaining of the determination
made by the Rhode Island commissioners of review of the dispute between
Connecticut and the Mohegans. Copy. 7½ pp. |
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289 ii Petition of the major part of the Mohegans to the King stating their
grievances. Copy. 1½ pp. [CO 5/1269, ff 57–63d] |
290
July 25 |
Lieut-Governor David Dunbar to Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations. I am confined to the Fleet prison for part of my encumbrances for making the new settlements abroad; and as in a long course of solicitation for
relief I find no prospect of any, I have lately petitioned Sir Robert Walpole for leave to
dispose of my employments to clear me from the encumbrances which they and my too
forward zeal have subjected me unto, and I hope you will not oppose it. Notwithstanding
my unhappy situation, though it may seem ridiculous in me, I think it my duty (as I am
not yet superseded in my commission as lieut-governor) to acquaint you that the province
of New Hampshire is in a very defenceless condition, the fort not in a condition to keep
cattle out, and all the gun-carriages quite rotten. In my time I never knew above two
barrels of powder in the fort at once and the few smallarms were quite unserviceable. The
French and Indians are near the back settlements of that province and I very much fear
you will soon have a melancholy account from that country. As I have taken notice in the
prints of warlike stores being shipped off to several of the plantations I hope I may be
excused putting you in mind of that province. Signed. 1 small p. Endorsed, Recd., Read 26
July 1739. [CO 5/881, ff 91, 91d, 95, 95d] |
291
July 25
Palace Court |
Minutes of Trustees for Georgia. Read Act for appointing and regulating pilots in Georgia and for laying duties on ships and vessel to be
piloted. Ordered that the Act be engrossed and sealed. Entry. 1 p. [CO
5/687, p 130] |
292
July 25
Savannah |
William Stephens to Trustees for Georgia. Your commands, which I
received from Mr Verelst, of 2 April were so expressive and full in many
particulars that they demanded my utmost attention in frequent perusal
and all possible regard to be shown in observing them. How far it has lain in my power to
act conformable to those orders it behoves me now to unfold as far as my knowledge will
inform me. I cannot but take notice that the directions at this time received by me appear
to be a continuation and (in a great measure) enforcement of those formerly sent to Mr
Parker and me relating to the issues of stores with divers enlargements of such rules as we
were to act by. I hope on this occasion I may ask leave to refer to my former letters and
journals which I wrote in October last, wherein I laid before you the measures which the
general saw proper to take in such an exigence, when Mr Jones received from him such
rules as I must presume were requisite on that important occasion which I was
unacquainted with. Wherefore Mr Parker and I thought it became us not to appear too
officious in meddling with what we could not understand and for that reason might
probably err from the purposes the general had formed to reduce matters into good order
again in time coming. Mr Jones then had full possession of all and thenceforth appeared
not to stand in need of any assistance excepting only in cases of some few necessitous
craving people whose importuning would sometimes reduce him to advise with us how
far their circumstances (which he was stranger to) entitled them to relief. The stores grew
scanty apace by reason of so many large demands of divers creditors and in some few
months became quite exhausted, from which time we have been put to hard shifts how to
feed your own servants who are pretty numerous by killing now and then two or three
hens at a time which has been delivered out fresh, and then all such as had any pretence of
claim have also been urgent for a little to help them, having no other market to go to and
very few any money to buy if there was, which has frequently been attended with such
hardships as cannot but be expected. Nevertheless, the people in general, being inured by
degrees to bear them, have with patience truly commendable rubbed on in confidence of
seeing a better face of affairs hereafter, whilst they of another disposition, always most
clamorous though less worth regarding, have sought for better fare in another province
where I am mistaken if they find they can support themselves better unless they take more
pains to live by their labour than they used here. |
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From what I have now wrote as well as formerly hinted you will please to observe that
very little of what is done at the stores has fallen within my cognizance or Mr Parker's,
which I humbly hope will not be imputed to me as a neglect of duty for what is past or a
studied endeavour to avoid what you seem to expect from us at present, for (to speak my
mind freely) your storekeeper appears so well fortified in his post that I presume he
would not readily admit of any diminution of his authority, which nevertheless shall not
deter me from putting him in mind of making up his accounts monthly in the manner you
direct and in like manner signify your pleasure to the storekeeper at Frederica. In my last
of 22 June to Mr Verelst I gave a full narration of what was done in relation to those bills
which you were pleased to direct us to take joint charge of upon ourselves and account for
what services and to whom they were issued. But as it was thought needless since, I can
assure myself no blame will rest upon such as never declined it. I promise myself that due
care will be taken in executing the commission given in charge to the persons therein
named pursuant to the instructions therewith sent, which could not well be entered upon
immediately till the general's leaving us gave a vacancy of more time; but now we shall no
longer delay it (as Mr Jones tells me) intending first to begin with the certificates and
principally with what relates to Mr Jenys, and our procedures therein you shall from time
to time be as fully informed in as I am capable of. I shall make it my care in conjunction
with the first and second bailiffs of Savannah to approve a proper overseer of the Trust's
servants under such qualifications as directed as soon as we can come at them; but there is
no step yet taken by Mr Bradley to deliver up those under his charge nor anything else of
the Trust's goods or effects in his hands, notwithstanding his being absolutely discharged
from your service as you inform me. It must be acknowledged indeed that he has been
lately very likely to die in a dangerous sickness, wherefore we expect on his going abroad
again that he will comply in what is required or other measures must undoubtedly be
taken. As soon as those servants can possibly be brought under that regulation now
designed I shall transmit such a list as you expect of the whole number in such classes as
may show what they are employed about together with the times of service to which they
are severally and respectively engaged, when I shall likewise endeavour to learn for your
information what will be the expense fully to maintain such by the week in victuals and
clothes for the purpose thereby intended. What I have wrote I am sensible will appear
rather an account of what I have not done, with the reasons why, than what I have which
I hope will be the subject of my next, wherefore I must wish that my journal, herewith
sent, may supply the room of what I have else to offer. But I must not omit to
acknowledge with all due gratitude the bounty you were so good to allot me of 50l to be
paid to me in consideration of those misfortunes that had befallen me as specified in Mr
Verelst's letter of 2 April and which, by order from the general, Mr Francis Moore paid
me soon after the general left us, he staying here yet by the general's appointment to
execute such orders as I presume he was charged with; but what they were or how long
his abode is to continue with us I know not. Signed. 3 small pp. Endorsed, Recd. 5
October 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 352–353d] |
293
July 26
Antigua |
Governor William Mathew to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations sending three Acts passed in Antigua, viz for making free two
Negro men slaves and rewarding them; for raising a tax for paying
public debts; to prevent sailors from deserting and making extravagant demands. Signed.
1 small p. Endorsed, Recd. 4 October, Read 15 October 1739. [CO 152/23, ff 236, 236d,
243, 243d] |
294
July 26
Savannah |
William Stephens to Harman Verelst. I had just made an end of my
letter to the board yesterday in the evening when by a boat belonging to
this place that returned from Charleston I received a packet sent me by
the attorney-general which he had on the arrival of the Prince Galley, Capt Bowles,
wherein I found letters for the general and many others which I took due care of,
delivering such as belonged to his excellency to his secretary, Mr Moore, and those to
other people would likewise be given them safely. Among others I can never forget two
that you was so kind to write of 27 April and 10 May signifying to me the kind and
generous regard the Trustees were so good unanimously to show to me and my future
support when it came under their deliberation, which (you will believe) was matter of
great comfort to me; and your kind manner of acquainting me with it plainly discovered
such a friendly goodwill of the writer that it added very much to the pleasure. I can only
desire that they will continue the same kind opinion of me and be persuaded firmly of my
utmost endeavours to render my future service as far as possible adequate to their favours.
The public have reason sufficient also to be sensible of the benefit intended them by a
further addition in the Act now framing of liberty to all such as have no issue living of
their own to appoint any other person their successor under those restrictions named,
which surely must put an end to all future pretence of uneasiness about their tenure. And
as for the Negroes I always thought it an impudent attempt to subvert the original
constitution of the colony in all such as nothing less would please; but there are few left
now hardy enough to dwell upon that any longer, and I think under those marks of
indulgence so evidently shown we shall at last grow wiser and quickly betake ourselves to
such industry and labour as most undoubtedly ought to be the view of all such as come to
live here. |
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By the same packet I also received copy of the commission sent in your former
together with copy of the instructions sent with it, as also copy of your letter of 2 April
whereto you have now added (under date of 27 April) copy of an account betwixt Messrs
Montaigut and Causton wherein sundry particulars are referred to which ought to be well
examined, and as we are now entering on that work it may be expected due regard will be
had to it. From hence I flatter myself a good understanding may be again renewed betwixt
Mr Jones and me and that, laying aside all evil surmises, he will no longer estrange himself
in the manner he lately did but that this conjunction in matters of such inquiry as is
appointed us will produce a coalition in sentiment and an open freedom in conversation
which will best lead us into a right discernment of what justice is due to the Trust. For my
part I shall make all proper advancements towards it and will not allow myself to think
too hardly of him who possibly of late may be better advised; but really (betwixt you and
I) he is the roughest blade I ever had to do with in my whole life. I would choose to defer
writing anything concerning the 500-acre grant, whether it be of that which Watson had
or that other at the mouth of Vernon River, till the general returns with whom I ought to
confer, but I am sensible of the kind intention of the Trust therein which I desire
thankfully to acknowledge. My son being the bearer of this, I think I may therefore
shorten my letter without rambling into affairs not immediately necessary to be spoke to.
Whatever you will please to ask him that he is capable of informing you in, I know he will
not make better or worse than he thinks, wherein he may possibly be too blunt and
unguarded; but it proceeds from an open heart without disguise. I should be sorry to part
with him did I not hope a few months will bring us together again and that he will then
return easy in his thoughts relating to his future continuance here as well as restored to
bodily ease and strength which has been somewhat impaired a while since. It is indeed the
season of the year wherein he can best be spared from attending the works of the field,
and though it puts me to some inconvenience to want him in another capacity I hope I
shall make shift to get that supplied as carefully and warily as possible so that there be no
defect in that part of the service. Signed. 1½ pp. Addressed. Endorsed, Recd. 5 October
1739. [CO 5/640, ff 354–355d] |
295
July 27
Whitehall |
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Committee of Privy
Council reporting on Lord Fairfax's disputed claim to lands in Virginia.
Three grants were made by the Crown, in 1 Charles II, in 21 Charles II,
and in 4 James II. Dispute between the Crown and Lord Fairfax, who claimed under Lord
Culpepper, began in 1705: it was revived in 1733 and an order made by HM in Council
for a survey by commissioners to be appointed by the lieut-governor of Virginia and Lord
Fairfax. The two parties appointed different sets of commissioners and in different terms.
The Crown commissioners reported four distinct constructions of Lord Fairfax's grant,
the most ample giving him more than five million acres. Lord Fairfax's commissioners
also made a report and we have heard both parties by counsel. Our own observations are:
that there was a difference in the two commissions, the governor's seeming to exceed and
Lord Fairfax's to fall something short of the words in the Order in Council, though in all
probability no decision of this matter in Virginia could have been final till it should have
received HM's determination; that notwithstanding this difference both parties proceeded upon their survey and the maps returned by them to this board agree almost in
every particular as to the course of the rivers. The first grant of land made by Lord
Culpepper was in 1686, the first by the Crown in 1705. The dispute turns chiefly on the
construction of the words of the patent on which counsel for each side has made
submissions. Whatever boundary HM shall fix we advise that persons already seated in
that district by grants from the government of Virginia may not be disturbed or molested.
Entry. Signatories, Monson, T Pelham, M Bladen, R Plumer. 21 pp. [CO 5/1366, pp
301–322; draft in CO 5/1335, ff 165–176d] |
296
July 31
Whitehall |
Order of Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs referring drafts
of instructions prepared for James Glen, governor of South Carolina,
back to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to reconsider in the
light of enclosed material. Seal. Signed, James Vernon. ¾ p. Endorsed, Recd., Read 2
August 1739. Enclosed:
296 i Memorial of Jame Glen to Committee for Plantation Affairs. That it may be
of service to have 13th article of instructions further explained, it having raised such
disputes between the two Houses that they have twice broken up without passing the
tax bill for the current service of the year. That there being no house for the governor,
it may be proper to permit him to accept of an allowance as in Barbados, and likewise
to recommend to the Assembly that his salary be in proportion to their present
flourishing condition. That it be recommended to the governor to take care that the
forces under Mr Oglethorpe's command be quartered agreeable to the laws of the
province so as to be least burdensome to the people there and in such places as he with
the advice of Council shall judge most for the security of the province. That the last
clause in the 99th article of the instructions be left out, it not being agreeable to your
order nor at all required by the 21st instruction. Copy. ¾ p. Endorsed, as covering
letter. [CO 5/367, ff 32–35] |
297
July 31
Whitehall |
Same referring to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations an Act
prepared by the Trustees for Georgia for regulating pilots, laying duty
on shipping, and laying another duty on shipping for repair of beacon
on Tybee Island, for examination and report. Seal. Signed, James Vernon. 1 p. Endorsed,
Recd. 2 August, Read 3 August 1739. [CO 5/367, ff 41–42d] |
298
July 31 |
Same referring the enclosed to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. Seal. Signed, James Vernon. 1 p. Endorsed, Read 2 August
1739. Enclosed:
298 i Petition of Henry McCulloh, controller of quitrents in North and South
Carolina, to the King, praying for instructions to be sent to the governors concerned
agreeable to the 16th instruction to petitioner and to aid and protect him in his office,
and that he should be made a member extraordinary of the Councils of both
provinces. Signed. 1½ pp.
298 ii 15th instruction to the controller: persons petitioning for land to prove
their right before Governor and Council. 16th instruction: grants to be made in due
form. Copy. 2 pp. [CO 5/367, ff 37–40d] |
299
July 31
Whitehall |
Same referring the two enclosed petitions to Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations. Seal. Signed, James Vernon. ¾ p. Endorsed, Recd. 3
August, Read 9 August 1739. Enclosed:
299 i Petition of John North and others, all Protestant subjects, late of Ireland,
to the King, complaining of Governor Belcher's conduct in not countenancing
settlement on St George's River in New England. Signed, John North and 212 others.
1½ large pp. Endorsed, 18 July 1739, referred to the Committee; 2 August 1739,
referred to Board of Trade. Recd. 3 August with Order of Committee of Council.
299 ii Affidavit, sworn at Cork on 26 December 1738, by William Douse of
Ireland. He accompanied Mr Waldo to St George's River in 1736. There were then no
settlements above the lowest falls. Settlement was confined to the western branch
below the falls and to the western side of St George's. There were several upper falls.
Signed, W Douse, A Newman, magistrate. 1 p.
299 iii Boston, 18 April 1739. Certificate by Governor Belcher that Josiah
Willard is secretary of Massachusetts and Joseph Allen a JP for Essex County. Signed.
Countersigned, Simon Frost, deputy secretary. ¾ p.
299 iv Boston, 27 June 1687. Instructions by governor of Massachusetts to
Ensign Joshua Pymon, commander at Pemaquid, to visit Penobscot, make friends
with Indians there, and appoint a constable. Copy, certified by J Willard. 1½ pp.
299 v Pemaquid, 21 July 1693. Truce between English and Indians. Copy,
certified as no 299iv. Signatories, Medocuando and eleven other Indians. 1 p.
299 vi Fort William Henry, Pemaquid, 11 August 1693. Declaration by Governor Sir William Phips that Indians of Penobscot, Kennebec, and other rivers in
Massachusetts have voluntarily subjected themselves to Crown of England. Copy,
certified as no 299iv. 2½ pp.
299 vii Affidavit, sworn on 14 April 1739, by Andrew Robinson of Cape Ann.
He went up St George's River in 1735 as far as the great fall. Settlements of tenants of
Samuel Waldo on said river did not extend above lowest fall. Signed, Andrew
Robinson, Joseph Allen, JP. ¾ p.
299 viii Affidavit, sworn on 18 December 1738, by John Tufton Mason of
Boston. He was at St George's River seven years ago and knows it and branches well.
There are several falls above the lower falls, to which Mr Waldo's settlement is
confined. Annexed plan is true description. Signed, John Tufton Mason, W Kenaston.
1½ pp.
299 ix Affidavit, sworn on 14 July 1739, by James Woodside the younger, late of
Pemaquid. Mr Waldo's tenants were prevented by Indians from settling above lower
falls of St George's River in 1736. Governor Belcher refused to countenance
settlement which exposed it to Indian insult when it might have been barrier for other
eastern settlements. Signed, James Woodside, Francis Eld. 1½ pp.
299 x Affidavit, sworn on 14 July 1739, by Samuel Waldo of Boston. His
settlement on St George's River has been frustrated by Governor Belcher and may be
broken up in event of French war. Signed, S Waldo, Francis Eld. 1½ pp.
299 xi Petition of James Woodside, clerk, agent for HM's Protestant subjects
settled in eastern parts of New England, to Committee of Privy Council praying that
complaints against Governor Belcher for withdrawing protection from settlers on St
George's River be heard. Signed. Annotated, Recd. 3 August 1739, with Order of
Committee of 31 July 1739. 1 p. Endorsed, Map annexed to these papers is pasted in
bundle of maps. [CO 5/881, ff 97–112d; nos 299ii-x are not mentioned in covering
document and may be filed here for convenience; no 299i is in disrepair] |
300
July 31
Whitehall |
Same referring the enclosed to Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. Seal. Signed, James Vernon. 1 p. Endorsed, Recd. 3 August, Read
8 August 1739. Enclosed:
300 i 20 June 1739. Memorial of Joseph Gulston, merchant and contractor for
supplying masts for the Royal Navy, Benning Wentworth, Richard Chapman and
John Thomlinson, merchants, in behalf of themselves and others trading to New
Hampshire, to Duke of Newcastle, representing the defenceless state of New
Hampshire. Copy. 1 p. [CO 5/881, ff 92–94d] |
301
[July] |
Undated letter from John Fallowfield to Trustees for Georgia. As a
public officer and collector for this port of Savannah I think it a duty to
acquaint you of the frequent importation of Spanish sugars and other foreign goods; and
as this place is esteemed by most people in America to be free from duty renders HM's
revenue to be little worth and consequently occasions large quantities brought in. Not
having instructions from you I have taken bond for 8260 wt imported in the sloop Unity,
the property of Caleb Davis and Jemitt Cobley. I should therefore beg you would
transmit me your orders in this affair that I may for the future know how to govern
myself and whether I may with safety put such bonds in execution or no. Signed. ¾ p.
Endorsed, Recd. 2 November 1739. [CO 5/640, ff 369–370d] |
