{"1": {"fulltext": "F289\\n.M37\\n1835\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0MM", "height": "3477", "width": "2076", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ".V\\no\\na\\nk\\\\\\n4\\n^S^\\nA-\\na\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2A\\nA\\n5\\nI\\nv\\n1\\n3,\\nr\\\\^ n o\\n0\\nV-!^.-,,*^ %;.!f:%t.-,.-^ ^,--f|K\\nt^-o^\\nv\\nu\\n4-\\n-^^i^X\\n^^^Z^ }Mk.^\\\\.", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ",^v..\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0W^\\n.vV^\\nfjW VN v.-\\nW\\n-.1 r:\\n.0\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0;V qO\\n0\\nV\\nol\\n9.\\n-^--0^\\nc.\\n,-rV\\n,V\\n/yM\\nr^.\\n.0 v\\n4 o\\n,-0- i. -.i?.^ P^\\no O,\\n1", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "^\\\\AA VMVv,9: ev\\\\\\\\a\\\\MltA 1\\nAN\\nACCOUNT,\\nShewing the PROGRESS of the\\nColonj of GEORGIA\\nIN\\nAMERICA,\\nFROM IT S\\nFirst Establishment-\\nPublished per Order of the Honorable the Trustees.\\nL O ND O N Printed in ttie Year M,DCC,XL1.\\n^MARYLAND: Reprinted and Sold by Jon\u00c2\u00abs Green, aih\\\\s\\nPRlNTINCi-OFFlCE, in Annapolis. 1742.", "height": "3335", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "p. Force, Washington, 1835.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE PREFACE.\\nTNthe Year 1141, there iv as Printed and Published hyP.T.\\nin Charles-Town in South-Carolina, for the Authors P.\\nT r, M. D. H. A n, M. A. D. D s, and Others,\\nLand\u00e2\u0080\u0094 holders in Georgia, (at that Time in Charles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Town) a\\nPamphlet entitulcd, A True and Historical Narrative of the Col-\\nony of Georgia in America, Ste. Dedicated to his Excellency,\\nJames Oglethorpe, Esq; General and Commander-in-ChieJ oj\\nhis Majesty s Forces in South-Carolina and Georgia, ^c. The\\nDedication seems a very just Introduction to such a Narrative,\\nand both the one and the other, the real Offspring of such fac-\\ntious and turbulent Authors being a mean low-witted Sneer,\\na malicious ill-natured Invective, against that honorable Gen-\\ntleman, wherein the Authors, without any regard to Good Man-\\nners or Common Civility, treat his Excellency (as it were to his\\nFace) with such Rudeness as ill becomes any Person to use\\neven to an Inferior However, I cannot say but a very ft Prelude\\nto such an inconsistent, sjjiteful, false Narrative, as is sidjoincd to\\nthe Dedication a Narrative founded in Lies and Misrepresen-\\ntations, pjrojected and published by a few Persons of no Estate,\\nand as little Character, Persons sour d in their Tempers, be-\\ncause not humoured in their endeavours of subverting, or at least\\naltering, the Constitution of a new settled Colony, even in it s\\nInfancy, and before any great Experiment was made of Advan-\\ncing and improving it Persons, ivho were under a necessity of\\nBanishing themselves from a Colony, where, for their seditious\\nand rebellious Practices, and turbulent restless Spirits, they\\nwere every day in danger of being calVd to Account, as stirrers\\nup of Discontent, and as Incendiaries against the Peace of the\\nGovernment Persons who had shared deeply in his Excellency s\\nFavours, and therefore guilty of the most monstrous Siii in na-\\nture, viz. Ingratitude for Si ingratum dixeris, Onniia. In\\nshort, they are Persons to whom do most justly belong the Char-\\nacter given by the Right Honourable Sir William Young, in a\\nDebate concerning the Printer of a seditious Paper, that\\nthey are Men ivhose daily Employment has been, for some\\ntime, to misrepresent the Publick Measures, to disperse Scan-\\ndal, and excite Rebellion; loho have industriously propa-\\ngated every Murmur of Discontent, and preserved every\\nWliisper of Malevolence from perishing in the Birth.\\nGent. Mag. Supplement to 1741, p. 682. B.\\nThese are the mighty Authors and Publishers of the Scur-\\nrilious Narrative the Design of which seems to be pointed", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "IV* THE PREFACE.\\nchiefly towards obstructing the Peopling, and further Settling f\\nthe Colony of Georgia, and sullying the Character and Admin-\\nistration of a Gentleman^ ivho may (icithout Flattery or Fals-\\nhood) be justly termed the Romulus, Father, and Founder of\\nGeorgia; a Gentleman who, without any Views but that of en-\\nlarging his Majesty^s Dominions, propagating the Protestant\\nReligion, promoting the Trade of his Country, and providing\\nfor the Wants and Necessities of indigent Christians, has\\nvoluntarily banished himself from the Pleasures of a Court and\\nexposed himself to the repeated Dangers of the vast Atlantic\\nOcean, in several perillous and tedious Voyages instead of\\nallowing himself the Satisfaction, ivhich a plentiful Fortune,\\npowerful Friends, and great Merit, entitle him to in England,\\nhe has inured himself to the greatest Hardships, that any the\\nmeanest Inhabitant of this new Colony could be exposed to; his\\nDiet has been mouldy Bread, or boiled Rice instead of Bread,\\nSalt Beef, Porh C. his Drink has been Water, his Bed the\\ndamp Earth, without any other Covering than the Canopy of\\nHeaven to skelter him and all this to set an Example to this\\nnew Colony, how they might bear with such Hardships in their\\nnew Settlements.\\nHis Conduct in War, falls nothing short of his Prudence in\\nprivate Life, and Policy in Publick Stations, however the same\\nmight have been misrepresented to the World, with respect to\\nthe Miscarriage before St. Augustine, the true Causes of which\\nare justly to be laid at the Door of Two Sorts of Men, con-\\ncerned in that Expedition first those under a Command dif-\\nferent from, the General, upon lohose Assistance the Success 0/\\nthat Expedition chifly depended, but who entirely left him when\\ntheir Asssitancc ivas rnost wanted. The Second Sort were those\\nOut\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Guards, loho were to give the Alarm to the Main-Guard,\\nrvhen the Spaniards advanced but, who, instead of f ring their\\nPieces, and giving the Alarm, flung down their Arms and ran\\naway by ivhich Means, the Slaughter of the Men at Musa\\nhappened And yet, Ill-Nature tvill lay the Blame of all to\\nhis Excellency when indeed the Miscarriage was occasioned by\\neither Neglect of, or Disobedience to, the Military Orders\\nthat his Excellency had given or by not being supported by\\nthose under a different Command, on whom he chifly depended\\nfor Success of that Attach but (to his Excellency s great Sur-\\nprize) instead of sending their Boats and Men ashore, accord-\\ning to a Result of a Council of War, held on board one of\\nhis Majesty s Ships, to assist in order to destroy the Six Gal-\\nlies, ivherein the Spaniards greatest Safe-guard lay, and which\\ncontinually fired from- under the Walls over the River, on the\\nhand Forces, hoisted their Sails and went away, without giving\\nthe least Notice of their Departure, by ivhich Means the Gar-", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE PREFACE. V.\\nrisoii was relieved with Provisions through the Melanges, a small\\nInlet about Four Leagues to the Southward of the Bar, lohich\\nmight have been prevented, had those of a different Command\\ndone their Duty. Thus I leave any impartial Man, to judge the\\nConsequence of their Departure at so critical a Juncture, and\\nthe fatal Event it produced to his Majesty s Land Forces.\\nHowever, his Excellency s Conduct has been approved of at\\nHome, and ivill soon appear in such a Light, that his Enemies\\nwill be ashamed of their impudent Lies, and perhaps pay for\\ntheir own Folly and hoiv far the lll-JSature, and impotent Ma-\\nlice, ofth Authors of the Narrative, have carried them beyond\\nthe Bounds of Trulh or good Manners, will appear in the fol-\\nloiving Sheets, which give a true and authentic Account of the\\nProgress of that Colony, from it s first Establishment, to the\\nYear 1741, which being published by the Order of the Honour-\\nable the Trustees, and printed in London, Anno 1741, is now\\nRe-printed here, ivith no other View, than to obviate the Pre-\\njudices which may be raised in the Minds of People, by that\\nScandalous Narrative, and so may be a Means of delivering that\\nNeiv Settlement, from the ill Effect of such Misrepresentations\\nas are handed about by that Libel, to deter his Majesty s Subjects\\nfrom settling in that Frontier Colony, so necessary for advancing\\nand protecting the Trade of this, and our Mother Country, on\\nthe Southermost Part of North America, a7id extending our\\nColonies both on the Gulf of Florida, a7id the Bay of Mexico.\\nMagna est Veritas, h prevalebit.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "AN\\nACCOUNT,\\nSliewing the Progress of tlic\\nColony of GEORGIA\\nIN\\nA M ERICA,\\nFrom it s First Est ahlishment.\\nHIS Majesty King GEORGE the Second, by his Let-\\nters Patent bearing date the i)ih Day of June, One\\nthousand seven liundred and thirty two, reciting amongst\\nmany other things, that many of his poor Subjects\\nwere through Misfortunes and want of Employment reduced to\\ngreat Necessities, and would be glad to be Settled in any of his\\nMajesty s Provinces of -^/?^er^co, where by Cultivating the Lands\\nWaste and Desolate, they might not only gain a comfortable\\nSubsistence, but also, strengthen his Majesty s Colonies, and in-\\ncrease the Trade, Navigation and Wealth of his JMajesty s Realms,\\nand that the Provinces in North America had been frequently\\nRavaged by Indian Enemies, more especially that of iSouih\\nCarolina, whose Southern Frontier continued unsettled and lay\\nopen to the Neighbouring Savages, and that to relieve the Wants\\nof the said Poor People, and to protect his Majesty s Subjects in\\nSouth Carolina, a Regular Colony of the said Poor People should\\nbe Settled and Established in the Southern Frontiers of Carolina\\ndid for the Considerations aforesaid. Constitute a Corporation by\\nthe Name of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of jGcpr-\\ngia in America, with Capacity to purchase and take Lands, to\\nsue Tand To be sued, to have a Common Seal, and to Chuse\\nMembers of the said Corporation on the third Thursday in March\\nYearly, with restraining Clauses, that no Member of the said\\nCorporation should have anj Salary, Fee, Perquisite, Benefit or\\nProfit whatsoever for Acting therein, or have any Office, Place,\\nor Employment of Profit under the said Corporation, with a\\nDirection for the said Corporation every Year to lay an Account\\nin Writing before the Lord Chancellor, Chief Justice of the Kings\\nBench, Master of the Rolls, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,\\nand Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or any Two of them, of all\\nMoneys or Efiects by them Received or Expended for Carrying\\non the good Purposes aforesaid, with a Power to make By-Laws^\\nConstitutions, Orders and Ordinances And Granted amongst", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "j\\nother things to the said Corporation and their Successors, under the\\nReservations therein mentioned, seven undivided Parts (the whole\\ninto eight equal parts to be divided) of all those Lands, Countries\\nand Territories, situate, lying and being in that part of South\\nCarolina in America, which lies from the most Northern Stream\\nof a River there commonly called the Savannah, all along the\\nSea Coast to the Southward, unto the most Southern Stream of\\na certain other great Water or River, called the Alatamaha, and\\nWestward from the Heads of the said Rivers respectively in di-\\nrect Lines to the South Seas, To have and to hold the same, to\\nthem the said Corporation and their Successors for Ever, for the\\nbetter support of the said Colony under the Yearly Rent of Four\\nShillings Proclamation Money of South Carolina, for every\\nHundred Acres of the said Lands for ever, which the said Cor-\\nporation should Grant, Demise, Plant or Settle, but not to Com-\\nmence until Ten Years after such Grant, Demise, Planting or\\nSettling; And Erected and Created the said Lands, Countries,\\nand Territories into one independent and separate Province by\\nthe Name of GEORGIA, and made the Inhabitants who should\\nreside therein, free and not subject to any Laws, Orders, Statutes,\\nor Constitutions of South Carolina, except the Commander-in-\\nChief of the Militia, and Authorized the said Corporation for the\\nTerm of twenty-one Years from the Date of the said Letters Pa-\\ntent to form and prepare Laws, Statutes and Ordinances for the\\nGovernment of the said Colony, not repugnant to the Laws and\\nStatutes of England, to be presented under their Common Seal,\\nto his Majest} in Council, for liis Approbation or Disallowance,\\nand that the said Laws so Approved of should be in full Force\\nand Virtue within the said Province: And impowered the Com-\\nmon Council for the Time being of the said Corporation, or the\\nmajor Part of them, to dispose of, expend and apply, all the Mo-\\nneys and Effects belonging to the said Corporation, and to make\\nContracts for Carrying and Effecting the good Purposes therein\\nintended, and that they should, from Time to Time, appoint a\\nTreasurer, Secretary, and such other Officers, Ministers, and\\nServants of the said Corporation as they should see j)roper, for\\nthe good Management of their Affairs, and at their Pleasure to\\nremove them and appoint Others in their stead, and that they\\nshould appoint reasonable Salaries, Perquisites and other Rewards\\nfor their Labour or Services, and that such Officers should be\\nSworn before they Act, for the faithful and due Execution of their\\nrespective Offices and Places; and declared, that the Treasurer\\nand Secretary for the Time being should be incapable of being\\nMembers of the said Corporation and granted to the said Cor-\\nporation that it should be lav/ful for them, their Officers or Agents,\\nto Transport and Convey into the said Province, such of his\\nMajesty s Subjects and Foreigners as were willing to go and", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "[3]\\nInhabit and Reside there and declared all Persons Bom within\\nthe said Province, and their Children and Posteiity, to be Free\\nDenizens as if they had been Born within any of his Majesty s\\nDominions: And impowered the said Common Council in the\\nName of the Corporation and under their Comnioa Seal, to dis-\\ntribute, convey, assign, and set over such particular Portions of\\nthe said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, unto such of his\\nMajesty s Subjects and others willing to Live in the said Colony,\\nupon such Terms, and for such Estates, and upon such Rents,\\nReservations and Conditions, as the same might lawfully be grant-\\ned, and as to the said Common Council, or the major Part of\\nthem, should seem fit and proper, Provided that no Grant should\\nbe made of any part of the said Lands, unto, or in trust for, or\\nfor the Benefit of any Member of the said Coiporation, and that\\nno greater Quantity of the said Lands be granted either intirely\\nor in parcels, to or to the use of, or in trust for, any one Person,\\nthan five hundred Acres and declaied tliat all Grants made con-\\ntrary to the true intent and meaning thereof should be at solutely\\nNull and Void: And granted that the said Corporation for the\\nTerm of Twenty One Years from the Date of tlie said Letters\\nPatent should have Power to Erect and Constitute Judicatuies\\nand Courts of Record, or oth.er Courts, to be held in his Majesty s\\nName, for the hearing and determining of all manner of Crimes,\\nOffences, Pleas, Processes, Plaints, Actions, Matters, Causes and\\nThings whatsoever, ai ising or happening within the said Province,\\nor between Persons Inhabiting or Residing there, and forav/arding\\nand making out Executions thereupon and directed the said\\nCorporation to Register or cause to be Registred, all Leases,\\nGrants, Plantings, Conveyances, Settlements and improvements\\nwhatsoever, as should at any time be made of any Lands, Tene-\\nments or Hereditaments within the said Province, and Yearly\\ntransmit Authentick Accounts thereof unto the Auditor of the\\nPlantations, or his Deputy, and to the Surveyor of South Carolina,\\nto inspect and survey the same, to Ascertain the Quit-Rents tliat\\nshould become due according to the Reservation before mentioned\\nbut not to have, or take any Gratuity, Fee or Reward for such\\nSurvey or Inspection, on Forfeiture of their Office with a Pro-\\nviso, That all Leases, Grants and Conveyances to be made, of any\\nLands within the said Province, or a Memorial Contain-n? e\\nSubstance or Effect thereof, should be Registred with the Audi-\\ntor of the Plantations within One Year from the Date thereof,\\notherwise that the same should be void: And directed, that all\\nRents, Issues or Profits which should come to the said C- orpcra-\\ntion, issuing or arising out of, or from the said Province; should\\nbe laid out and applied in such manner as would most improve\\nand enlarge the said Colony, and best Answer the good Purposes", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "[4]\\ntherein mentioned, and for defraying all other Charges about the\\nsame and directed the said Corporation from time to time to give\\nin to one of tlie Secretaries of State, and to the Commissioners\\nof Trade and Plantations, Accounts of the Progress of the said\\nColony; And directed that the said Common Council should\\nfi om time to time for the said Term of twenty one Years from\\nthe Date of the said Letters Patent, have Power to appoint all\\nsuch Governours, Judges, Magistrates, Ministers, and Officers,\\nCivil and Militaiy, both by Sea and Land, within the said Dis-\\ntrict, as they should think fit and needful for the Government of\\nthe said Colony (except such Officers as should be appointed for\\nManaging, Collecting and Receiving such of his Majesty s Rev-\\nenues, as should arise within the said Province) with a Proviso,\\nthat every Governourso Appointed, should be Approved by his\\nMajesty, and Qualify himself as other Governours in America\\nare by Law required to do, and give Security for Observing the\\nActs of Parliament relating to Trade and Navigation, and Obey-\\ning all Instructions from his Majesty, or any Acting under his\\nAuthority, pursuant to the said Acts And Granted, that the\\nsaid Corporation for the said Term of twenty one Years, from\\nthe Date of the said Letters Patent, should have Power, by any\\nCommander or other Officer for that Purpose appointed to Train,\\nInstruct, Exercise, and Govern, a Militia for the special Defence\\nand Safety of the said Colony, to Assemble in Martial Array, and\\nput in Warlike Posture, the Inhabitants of the said Colony, and\\nin Time of actual War, Invasion or Rebellion, to use and exercise\\nthe Law Martial, and also to erect Forts and Fortify any Place\\nor Places within the said Colony, and the same to furnish with all\\nnecessary Ammunition, Provision and Stores of War for Offence\\nand Defence, and from time to time to commit the Custody and\\nGovernment of tliem to such Person or Persons as to them should\\nseem meet, Declaring that the Governour or Commander in\\nCliief of South Carolina should have the Chief Command of the\\nMilitia of Georgia, and that they should observe his Orders;\\nAnd Granted that the said Corporation should have Power to\\nImport or Export their Goods, at or from any Port or Ports that\\nshould be appointed by his Majesty within the said Province for\\nthat purpose, witliout being obliged to touch at any other Port in\\nCarolina: And Declared, that after the End of the said twenty\\none Years, such Form of Government, and method of making\\nLaws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Government of the said\\nProvince, and it s Inhabitants, should be Observed and Establish-\\ned within the same, as his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors\\nshould Ordain and Appoint, and should be agreable to Law and\\nthat after the End of the said twenty one Years, the Governour^\\nand all Officers Ci\\\\ il and Military, within the said Province.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "[5j\\nshould be Appointed by his Majesty, his heirs and Successors.\\nIn Pursuance of his Majesty s Cliarter, and in order to fulfil\\nthe good Intents and Purposes therein expressed, it was thought\\nnecessary for the Trustees to send over such poor People and\\nforeign Protestants as were willing to Live in Georgia, not only\\nto cultivate the Lands, but at the same Time to strengthen his Ma-\\njesty s Colonies. For which purpose they considered each In-\\nhabitant both as a Planter and a Soldier; and they were therefore\\nto be Provided with Arms tor their Defence, as well as Tools for\\ntheir Cultivation, and to be Taught the Exercise of both, and\\nTowns were to be laid out for their Settlements, and Lands al-\\nlotted to each of them for their Maintenance as near to those\\nTowns as conveniently could be, that they might never have\\nOccasion to be too far distant from their Tow^ns, which were to\\nbe regarded as their Garrisons.\\nAnd as the Military Strength of the Province was particulaly\\nto be taken care of, it seemed necessary to Establish such Ten^^\\nures of Lands as might most effectually preserve the Number of\\nPlanters, or Soldiers, equal to the Number of Lots of Lands, and\\ntherefore each Lot of Land was to be considered as a Military\\nFief, and to contain so much in Quantity as would Support such\\nPlanter and his Family and Fifty Acres were judged sufficient\\nand not too much for that Purpose, and Provision was made to\\nprevent an Accumulation of several Lots into one Hand, lest the\\nGarrison should be lessened, and likewise to prevent a Division\\nof those Lots into smaller Parcels, lest that which was no more\\nthan Sufficient for one Planter, when entire, should if divided\\namongst several, be too scanty for their Subsistence.\\nAnd in the Infancy of the Colony, the Lands were Granted in\\nTail Male, preferable to any other Tenure, as the n:iost likely to\\nanswer these Purposes; for if the Grants were to be made in Tail\\nGeneral, it was thought that the Strength of each Township would\\nsoon be diminished, in as much as every Female Heir in Tail,\\nwho was unmarried, would have been intitled to one Lot, and\\nconsequently have taken from the Garrison the Portion of one\\nSoldier and by Intermarriages several Lots might have been\\nunited into one and if such Tenant in Tail General had had several\\nDaughters, his Lot must have been Divided equally amongst\\nthem all as Co-partners.\\nNor were these the only inconveniencies which were thought\\nlikely to arise from Estates in Tail General For Women being\\nequally incapable to Act as Soldiers or serve on Juiies, these\\nDuties, and many others, such as Watchings and Wa.dinus, fyc.\\nwould return so much oftener to each Man, in proportion as the\\nNumber of the Men in the Township was lessened, and by that\\nmeans become very burthensome to the Remaining Male Lot", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "[6]\\nholders, and in case of any Attack from the Indians, French or\\nSpaniards, the Township would be less able to make a Defence.\\nAnd as it was not thought proper to Grant Estates in Tail Gen-\\neral, it appeared to be more inconvenient to Grant them in Fee\\nSimple which Estate would have been attended with all the\\nObjections before mentioned incident to Estates in Tail General,\\nand to several other besides for the Right of Alienation being\\ninseparable from an Estate in Fee, the Grantee might have Sold,\\nMortgaged, or Aliened his Lands to whomever he thought fit,\\nwhich was a Power not to be intrusted with the People sent over,\\nfor the following Reasons\\n1. From Considering their Condition.\\n2. From Considering tlie Purposes they were sent for.\\n3. From Considering the Persons to whom Lands might be\\nAlienated. And,\\n4. From Considering that it might Occasion a Monopoly of\\nLand contrary to the Intent of the Charter.\\nAs to the First, The Persons sent over were poor indigent\\nPeople, who had for the most part so indiscreetly managed what\\nthey had been Masters of here, that it did not seem safe to trust\\nso absolute a Property in their Hands, at least in the Infancy of\\nthe Colony, and before they had by a careful and industrious\\nBehaviour given some Reason to believe they would prove better\\nManagers for the future.\\nAs to the Second, They were sent over to inhabit, cultivate,\\nand secure, by a personal Residence, the Lands Granted to them\\nwithin the Province, and they voluntarily engaged so to do And\\nin expectation that they would perform those Engagements, they\\nwere Maintained at the Expence of the Publick during their Voy-\\nage, and tlieir Passage was paid for them, and they were provided\\nwith Tools, Arms, Seeds, and other Necessaries, and Supported\\nfrom the Publick Store, many of them at least for four Years\\ntogether from their first Landing, in which respect the Publick may\\nbe said to have Purcliased those People for a valuable Consider-\\nation, their Personal Residence, and all the Industry and Labour\\nthey could bestow in the Cultivation of this Province, and to have\\ngiven them even Pay for the Hazard they might run in the De-\\nfence of it.\\nAs to the Third, It was thought unsafe to Grant them such an\\nEstate as might be the Means of introducing such sort of People\\nas migJit Defeat what the Trustees had always at Heart, viz.\\nThe Preservation of the Protestant Religion in that Province,\\nwhich v/as necessary to be taken Care of, laoth on a Political and\\nReligious Account, the French lying to the West and the Spaii-\\niards, to the South of the Province of Georgia.\\nAs to the Fourth, A Monopoly of several Lots into one Hand", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "[7]\\nwould necessarily have been the consequence of a Free Liberiy\\nof Buying and Selling Lands within the Province, which would\\nhave been di.ectly contraiy to the Intent of the Charter, whereby\\nthe Grant of Lands to any one Person is limited not to exceed\\nfive hundred Acres.\\nA further inconvenience seemed likely to arise in every Case\\nwhere the Tenant in Fee died without any Chidren, or without\\nhavint^ disposed of his Lot by Will for the Heir General who\\nmight have the Right to it might not iiappen to be found out for\\nmany Years after, especially if it was one of the Foreign Protes-\\ntants, and all that Time the House would have mn to decay, and\\nthe Land remain uncultivated and become a harbour for Vermin,\\nto the great annoyance and damage of the Neighbouring Lots.\\nBut though the before-mentioned restraints were intended for\\nthe good of the whole, yet whenever particular Cases required it\\nthey were taken off and dispensed with: And upon any appli-\\ncation for leave to alienate Lands, Licences were always granted\\nfor that purpose and when the succession of Females became less\\ndangerous to the Province, by the growing strength and increase\\nof the People, and by the Security provided for it by his Majesty s\\nForces there, the Trustees resolved to enlarge the Tenures of\\nthe Lands to Estates in Tail General.\\nThe Tenures being thus settled, it was thought necessary to\\nrequire the Inhabitants to cultivate their Lands within a limited\\nTime, and in order to raise Raw silk, which was intended to be\\none of the Produces there, a certain proportion of white Mulber-\\nry-Trees were to be Planted, and in their respective Grants Ten\\nYears were allowed for the Cultivation, and one hundred white\\nMulbery-Trees were to be planted on every ten Acres of Land\\nwhen Cleared with a Power for the Trustees to re-enter on the\\nPaits that should remain uncultivated.\\nBut as the People were not able to Cultivate their Lands\\nwithin the Time required by their Grants, by reason of the\\nAlarms from the Spaniards, the Droughts in that part of Amer-\\nica, and other unforeseen Accidents, the Trustees resolved to\\nrelease all forfeitures on that Account, and to require the Culti-\\nvation of no more than five Acres of the said fifty Acres within\\nthe Remainder of the said Term of Ten Years.\\nAnd as other Persons applied to the Tmstees for Grants of\\nLand, in order to go over and Settle there at their own Expence,\\nparticular Grants were made under the same Tenure and on the\\nfollowing Conditions viz. That they should within twelve\\nMonths from the Date of their Grants, go to and arrive in\\nGeorgia, with one Man Servant for every fifty Acres Granted\\nthem, and should with such Servants abide, settle, inhabit and\\ncontinue there for three Years. That thev shouldw ithin ten", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "[8]\\nYears Clear and Cultivate one fifth part of the Land granted\\nthem, and within the next ten Years Clear and Cultivate\\nthree fifth parts more of the said Lands, and plant one thousand\\nv/hhe Mulberry-Trees upon every one hundred Acres thereof\\nwhen Cleared. And that they should not at any time hire, keep,\\nlodge, board or employ any Negroes within Georgia on any\\nAccount whatsoever without special Leave. Which Conditions\\nwere readily approved of, and Counterparts executed by them\\nall and to those n ho desired to name their Successor on failure\\nof Issue Male, special Covenants were entered into by the\\nTrustees for that Purpose, agreable to their o\\\\ati Propositions.\\nAnd for an encouragement for their Men Servants to behave well,\\nlike Covenants were entered into, to Grant to every such Man\\nServant, when requested thereunto by any Writing under the\\nHand and Seal of the Master, Twenty Acres of Land under the\\nsame Tenure.\\nThe Trustees were induced to prohibit the use of Negroes\\nwithin Georgia, the Intention of his Majesty s Charter being to\\nprovide for poor People incapable of subsisting themselves at\\nHome, and to settle a Frontier to South Carolina, which was\\nmuch exposed by the small number of it s White Inhabitants. It\\nwas imposible that the Poor who should be sent from hence, and\\nthe Foreign Prosecuted Protestants, who must go in a manner\\nNaked into the Colony, could be able to purchase or subsist them\\nif they had them, and it would be a Charge too great for the\\nTrustees to undertake; and they would be thereby disabled\\nfi-om sending White People. The first Cost of a Negro is about\\nThirty Pounds, and this Thirty Pounds would pay the Passage\\nover, provide Tools and other Necessaries, and defi ay the Charge\\nof subsistence of a White Man for a Year, in which time it might\\nbe hoped that the Planter s own Labour would grant him some\\nsubsistence. Consequently the Purchase Money of every Negro\\n(abstracting tlie Expence of subsisting him as well as his Master)\\nby being applied that way, would prevent the sending over a\\nWhite Man who would be a Security to the Province, whereas the\\nNegro would rentier that Security Precarious.\\nIt was thought the White Man, by having a Negro Slave, would\\nbe less disposed to Labour himself; and that his whole Time must\\nbe employed in keeping the Neqrro to Work and in watching\\nagainst any Danger he or his Family mi-^ht apprehend from the\\nSlave, and that the Planter s ife and Cl ildren would by the\\nDeath or even the Absence of the Planter, be at the Mercy of the\\nNegro.\\nIt was also apprehended, that the Spaniards at St. Avgvstine\\nWould be continually enticing away the Negroes, or encouiagng\\nfhem to Insurrections. That the first might easily be accomplish-", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "[9]\\ned since a single Negro would run away thither without Compan-\\nions, and would only have a River or two to swim over, and this\\nOpinion has been confirmed and justified by the practices of the\\nSpaniards even in Times of profound Peace amongst the Ne-\\ngroes in South Carolina, where though at a greater Distance from\\nSt. Augustine, some have fled in Periaguas and little Boats to\\nthe Spaniards, and been Protected, and others in large Bodies\\nhave been incited to Insurrections, to the great Terror and even\\nendangering the Loss of that Province, which thougli it has been\\nestablished above seventy Years, has scarce White People enough\\nto secure her own Slaves.\\nIt was also considered that the Produces designed to be raised\\nin the Colony, would not require such Labour as to make Negroes\\nnecessary for Carrying them on for the Province of Carolina\\nproduces chiefly Rice, which is a Work of Hardship proper for\\nNegroes, whereas the Silk and other Produces v. hich the Trustees\\nproposed to have the People employed on in Georgia, were such\\nas Women and Children might be of as much use in as Negroes.\\nIt was likewise apprehended, that if the Persons who should\\ngo over to Georgia at their own Expence, should be permitted\\nthe use of Nesjroes, it would dispirit and ruin the Poor Planters\\nwho could not get them, and who by their Numbers were\\ndesigned to be the strength of the Province it would make\\nthem Clamorous to have Negroes given them, and on the\\nRefusal would driv^e them, from the Province, or at least make\\nthem negligent of their Plantations, where they would be un-\\nwilling, nay would certainly disdain, to work like Negroes and\\nwould rather let themselves out to wealthy Planters as Overseers\\nof their Negroes.\\nIt was further thought, that upon the Admission of Negi oes,\\nthe wealthy Planters would, as in all other Colonies, be more in-\\nduced to absent themselves and live in other Places, leaving the\\nCare of their Plantations and Negroes to Overseers.\\nIt was likewise thought, that the Poor Planter sent on Charity,\\nfrom his desire to have Negroes, as well as the Planter who sliould\\nsettle at his own Expence, would (if he had leave to alienate)\\nMortgage his Land to the Negro Merchant for them, or at least\\nbecome a Debtor for the Purchase of such Negroes and under\\nthese Weights and Discouragements would be induced to sell his\\nSlaves again upon any necessity, and would leave the Province\\nand his Lot to the Negro Merchant In Consequence of which all\\nthe small Properties would be swallowed up, as they have been\\nin other Places, by the more wealthy Planters.\\nIn was likewise Considered, that the admitting of Negroes in\\nGeorgia would naturally facilitate the Desertion of the Carolina\\nNegroes through the Province of Georgia, and Consequently this\\nColony instead of proving a Frontier and adding strength to the", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "[10]\\nProvince of South Carolina, would be a Means of drawing off\\nthe Slaves of Carolina, and adding thereby a strength to Augus-\\ntine.\\nFrom these several Considerations, as the Produces to be raised\\nin the Colony did not make Negro Slaves necessary, as the\\nIntroduction of them so near to a Garrison of the Spaniards would\\nweaken rather than strengthen the Barrier, and as they would\\nintroduce with them a greater Propensity to Idleness among the\\nPoor Planters, and too great an inequality among the People, it\\nwas thought proper to make the Prohibition of them a Funda-\\nmental of the Constitution.\\nWhen the Trustees had made these Dispositions, and were\\nenabled by Benefactions from several private Persons, on the Zd\\nof October 1732, It was resolved, to send over One hundred and\\nfourteen Persons, Men, Women and Children, being such as were\\nin decayed Circumstances, and thereby disabled from following\\nany Business in England, and who if in Debt had leave from\\ntheir Creditors to go, and such as were recommended by the\\nMinister, Church\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wardens and Overseers of their respective\\nParishes. And James Oglethorpe, Esq. one of the Trustees,\\nwent with them at his own Expence, to settle them.\\nOn the iAth of the same Month the People were all Exam-\\nined whether any of them had any Objections to the Terms and\\nConditions proposed to them, which they all declared they had\\nnot, but that they were fully satisfied with them, and executed\\nArticles under their Hands and Seals, Testifying their Consents\\nthereto, which are now in the Publick Office belonging to the\\nTrustees.\\nBut four of them desiring that their Daughters might inherit as\\nwell as Sons, and that the Widows Dower might be considered,\\nthe Trustees immediately Resolved, that every Person who should\\ndesire the same, should have the Privilege of naming a Successor\\nto the Lands granted to them, who in Case the Possessor should\\ndie without Issue Male, should hold the same to them and their\\nHeirs Male for ever; and that the Widows should have their\\nThirds as in England, with which Resolutions the People being\\nall acquainted, were very well satisfied.\\nThe Trustees prepared Forms of Government, agreable to the\\nPowers given them by their Charter they Established under their\\nSeal a Court of Judicature for Trying Causes as well Criminal as\\nCivil in the Town of Savannah, (the Name which was given to\\nthe first Town to be raised) by the Name and Stile of The Town\\nCourt; They also appointed Magistrates there, viz. Three\\nBailiffs and a Recorder and inferior Officers, viz. Two\\nConstables and two Tything Men: They Chose for Magistrates\\nsuch as appeared to them the most Prudent and Discreet, but\\namongst a Number of People who were all upon a Level at their", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "[11]\\nfirst setting out, it was impossible to make any Choice or Dis-\\ntinction which would not create some future uneasinesses among\\nthem.\\nOn the I6th of November, 1732, when the One Hundred and\\nFourteen Persons, and with them the Reverend Mr. Herbert a\\nClergyman of the Church of England, and a Man from Fiedmont\\n(engaged by the Trustees to instruct the People in the Art of\\nWinding Silk) Embarkt on board the Ship Anne, Capt. Tiiomas;\\nseveral of the Trustees went to Grovesend, called over the People,\\nand made a strict Enquiry into their Accommodations and Pro-\\nvisions, and left the People very well satisfied. Soon alter Fif-\\nteen more Persons were sent, Eleven of whom weie Sawyers, in\\norder to Assist the People in Building their Houses.\\nAt the time of the Embarkation five thousanti Acres of Land\\nwere Granted to Tiu ee of the Colonists, in trust for them or the\\nsurvivors of them, to make Grants from time to time to every\\nMan of twenty one Years of Age or upwards, (who should arrive\\nin Georgia, and desire the same) fifty Acres of Land to hold to\\nhim and his Heirs Male.\\nThe Common Council of the Trustees (in whom by the Char-\\nter the disposal of Money was lodged) did resolve at their first\\nmeeting, that the Bank of England should be desired to keep the\\nMoney belonging to the Trust, which the Bank accepted, and\\nhave continued so to do, paying no Sums but by Draughts signed\\nby five of the Common Council.\\nThe Trustees desired by a Letter, Sir Thomas Lombc s senti-\\nments of the Goodness of the Raw Silk produced in Carolina, and\\nthe proper methods of carrying on that Undertaking with Success,\\non which they received from Sir Thomas Lombc great Encour-\\nagement to proceed in it, by his Approbation of the Silk produced\\nin that Climate, of which he had made Experiments.\\nOn the 28th February 1732, the Tmstees received a Letter\\nfrom Mr. Oglethorpe, dated the 13th January, 1732, on Board\\nthe Ship Anne, of Charles- Toiv7i in South Carolina, giving an\\nAccount of his safe Arrival there with the People, with the Loss\\nonly of two Children.\\nOn the 18^A of July, 1733, they received another Letter from\\nhim, which is here inserted at length, as it gives an Account of the\\nsituation were he Planted the People.\\nFrom the Camp near Savannah, the 10th February, 1732, 3.\\nGentlemen,\\nT Gave you an Account in my last, of our Arrival at Charles-\\nTowTi; The Governor and Assembly have given us all possible\\nEnoouragement. Our People arrived at Beaufort on the 20th of\\nAppendix, No 1.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "l- J\\nJanuary, ii Ae re I lodged them in some new Barracks built for the\\nSoldiers, ivhilst I went myself to view the Savannah-River.\\nfxed upon a Healthy Situatio7i about ten Miles from the Sea;\\nthe River here forms an half Moon, along the south side of which\\nthe Banks are about forty feet high, and on the Top a Flat,\\nwhich they call a Bluff; the plain High Ground extends into\\nthe Country about fve or six Miles, and. along the River side\\nabout a Mile. Ships that draw twelve feet Water can ride\\nwithin ten Yards of the Bank. Upon the River side in the\\nCentre of this Plain, I have laid out the Town, opposite, to\\nivhich is an Island of very Rich Pasturage, which I think should\\nbe kept for the Trustees Cattle the River is pretty Wide, the\\nWater fresh, and from the Key of the Town you see ifs whole\\nCourse to the Sea, with the Island of Tyhee, which forms the\\nMouth of the River, for about six Miles up into the Country.\\nThe Landskip is very agreabJe, the stream being Wide and\\nbordered ivith high Woods on both sides. The ivhole People\\narrived here on the 1st o/* February at Night their Tents ivere\\ngot up. Till the 10th we were taken %ip in unloading, and mak-\\ning a Crane, which I then could, not get finished, so took off\\nthe Hands and set some to the Fortification and began to fell\\nthe Woods. I have markt out the Toivn and Common, half of\\nthe former is already cleared, and the first House was begun\\nYesterday in the afternoon. A little Indian Nation, the only\\none within fifty Miles, is not only in Amity, but desirous to be\\nSubjects to his Majesty King George, to have Lands given them\\namong us, and to breed their Children at our Schools their Chiefs\\nand his beloved Man, who is the Second. Man in the Nation^\\ndesire to be instructed in the Christian Religion.\\nI am. Gentlemen, ^c.\\nIn this Month of April, the Trustees hi another Embarkation\\nof seventeen Persons, sent some Italians whom they had procured\\nfrom Piedmont, in order to promote the Silk Business.\\nThey received another Letter from Mr. Oglethorpe, dated the\\n20^/i February, 1732, of which the following Extract gives a\\nfurther Account of the People and their Situation.\\nUR People arc all in perfect Health I chose the Situation\\nfoi ^he Town upon an high Ground, forty Feet per-\\npendicular above High Water Mark the Soil dry and sandy,\\nthe Water of the River fresh. Springs coming out from the\\nsides of the Hill. I pitched upon this Place not only for the\\nPleasantness of the Situation, but because f-om the above-\\nmentioned and other signs, I thought it Healthy for it is\\nsheltred from the Western and Southern Winds (the worst in\\nthis Country) by vast Woods of Pine-Trees, many of ivhich\\nare an Hundred and fe^v under Seventy Feet high. There", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "I 13\\nis no Morse on the Trees, tho in most -parts o/ Carolina tJiey\\nare covered with it, and it hangs down two or three feet from\\nthem. The last and fullest conviction of the Healthfulness of\\nthe Place, was, that an Indian Nation who kneiv the Nature\\nof this Country chose it for their Situation.\\nThe Trustees endeavoured very early to secure the Friendship\\nof the Indians, who by Ranging thro the Woods, would be ca-\\npable of giving constant Intelligence to prevent any Surprize\\nupon the People, and would be a good out Guard for the inland\\nParts of the Province. For this Purpose they were treated with\\nall possible Candour and Gentleness: They were acquainted,\\nthat the English had no Intention to Hurt or Distress them, but\\nwould be ready to Assist and Protect them on all Occasions.\\nThey received several Presents from the Trustees, and were\\npromised, that if any of the People of Georgia injured them,\\nthey should upon their Complaints and proof of it find a ready\\nRedress. For which, in return, the Indians engaged never to\\ntake any Revenge themselves, as it might breed ill Blood between\\nthe English and them. And as they have since found, that\\nJustice has been always done to them upon proper Complaints,\\nthey have been true to their Engagements.\\nThe Indians made a formal and voluntary Cession of that part\\nof the Country to Mr. Oglethorpe for the King of Great-Britain\\nby which a further Right and Title to it was acquired and added\\nto that of the first Discovery and Cultivation and a Treaty of\\nFriendship and Commerce with them was settled, wliich was soon\\nafter sent over to the Trustees for their Ratification.\\nIn the Month of May 1733, the Trustees sent over six Persons\\nmore.\\nThe Number of People sent on the Charity from the begin-\\nning to the 9th June 1733, (on which day of the Month the\\nTrustees Accompt is Yearly made up, which is directed to be\\ndelivered to the Lord Chancellor and the other Persons named in\\nthe Charter) amounted to One hundred and fifty two, of whom\\nOne hundred and forty one were Britons, and Eleven were\\nforeign Protestants, and sixty one were Men.\\nThe Lands granted in Trust this Year in order to be gi-anted\\nout in smaller Portions in Georgia, were the aforesaid five thou-\\nsand Acres.\\nThe Lands granted within this Year to Persons going at their\\nOAVTi Expence, were four thousand four hundred and sixty Acres.\\nThe Money received from Private Persons this Yeai- amounted\\nto 3723Z. 13s. Id. whereof the Trustees applied 2254/. 17s. 9d.\\nof which they exhibited an Account to the Lord Chancellor\\nand the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, pursuant to\\ntheir Charter, and carried the Remainder into their succeeding\\nAccompt.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "[14]\\nFiomtiie 9tli June 1733, to the 9th June 1734.\\nBEsides the several Works on which the People were emplo}\\ned at Savannah, as Pallisading the Town, Clearing the Place\\nfrom Pine Trees, ^c. and Building of Houses, some other Works\\nwere carried on, viz. a Publick Garden was laid out, which was\\ndesigned as a Nursery, in order to supply the People for their\\nseveral Plantations with white Mulberry Trees, Vines, Oranges,\\nOlives, and other necessary Plants. A Gardiner was appointed\\nfor the Care of it and to be Paid by the Trustees. A Crane was\\nmade for Landing of Goods upon the Bluff; a Battery raised\\nwhich Commands the River some distance below the Town, and\\non the Island of Tyhee at the Entrance of the River a Beacon\\nwas Erected Ninety Feet high, which has been of great Service\\nnot only to the Ships entering the River Savannah, but to those\\nlikewise which Sail by the Coast, there being none like it all along\\nthe Coast of America.\\nA Fort was likewise Built at the narrow passages of an inland\\nRiver (called Ogeechee) in order to Protect the Settlement from\\nany inland Invasion from Augustine. Two little Villages were\\nlaid out and settled at about Four Miles distant from Savannah,\\ninland fn;rn the River, and a Mile from each other, which were\\ncalled Hampstead and Highgate.\\nIn the Carolina Gazette dated the 22d March 1732, a for-\\nther Account was given of the Settlement at Savannah, which\\nwas Written by a Gentleman of Charles- Town, who with some\\not iers went thither out of Curiosity.\\nThe Parliament having Granted out of Money arisen from the\\nSale of the Lands at St. Christopher, Ten Thousand Pounds for\\nthe further Settling and Securing the Colony, the Trustees re-\\nsolved to lose no Time in Strengthening it with People, and accord-\\ningly in the Months of Scptemher and October 1733, they sent\\nover two Embarkations of Persons, whose Numbers are entered\\nat the End of this Years Proceedings, and of whom many were\\nPersecuted Protestants from Saltzburgh.\\nAs very pleasing Accounts of the Country and Settlement were\\nsent from several of the People there to their Friends, the Trustees\\nwere informed that some Persons had gone about in several Parts\\nof England offering Money and Land in their Names (but without\\ntheir Knowledge or Authority) to any who should be desirous of\\ngoing to Georgia Therefore they Published an Advertisement in\\nsome of the News Papers, in order to prevent the ill Consequences\\nof drawing Laborious People out of the Coimtry with such Ex-\\npectations, and they declared that they had never given such\\nPower to any Persons whatsoever, and that they never used any\\nSolicitations to induce People to go over.\\n*Appendix, No 2.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "[15]\\nKuinber Eril. s/i J oi-eigji Pro- Men.\\nThe Persons sent on usianis.\\nthe Chanty this V 341 whereof 237 and 104 and hi 135\\nYear were\\nThose in the for- 152 whereof 141 and 11 and in Gl\\nmer Year were 5\\nThe number of Per-\\nsons sent in the 1\\ntwo Years to the j 493 whereof 378 and 115 and in 190\\n9 June 1734 were J\\nThe Lands Granted in Trust this Year in order to be Granted\\nout in snaaller Portions in Georgia were Eight Tliousand and\\nOne Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Gianted this Year to Persons going at their own\\nExpence were Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty five\\nAcres.\\nTlie Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parhameni\\nwas \u00c2\u00a3.10,000 and from private Persons 1502/. 19s. 3d. whereof\\nthe Trustees apphed 6863?. Os. 10^. of which they exhibited an\\nAccount to the Lord Chancellor and Master of the Rolls, pursuant\\nto their Charter, and carried the Remainder into their succeedint^\\nAccompt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1734, to the 9th June 1735\\nI N the Month of June 1734, Mr. 0^/e //orpe arrived from the\\nColony, and with him came some of the principal Indians of the\\nLoiver CreeJt Nation who live nearest to Savan?iah.\\nWhen these Indians were in England, they desired of the\\nTrustees that the Measures, Prices and Qualities of all Goods to\\nbe Purchased by them with their Deer-skins, might be setded,\\nas likewise the Weights that nobody might be allowed to Trade\\nwith the Indians in Georgia without a Licence from the Trustees,\\nin order that if they were in any respect Injured or Defrauded\\nby the Traders, they might know were to Complain; and they\\nfurther desired there might be but one Storehouse in each Indian\\nTown for supplying them with the Goods they might want to\\nPurchase, from whence the Trader should be obliged to supply\\nthem at the first Prices.\\nThe Reason which the Indians gave for this Application, was,\\nbecause the Traders with them had often in an Arbitrary Manner\\nraised the Prices of Goods, and defrauded them in the Weights\\nand Measures, and by their Impositions had often created Ani-\\nmosities between the English and Indians, which had frequently\\nended in Wars between them prejudicial to both.\\nThe Trustees having considered of their Request, and being", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "[16 J\\niiitbnued thai the Council and Assembly of Carolina had passed\\nan Act the 20th August 1731, entituled, An Act for the better\\nRegulation of the Indian Trade, and for ajjjjoijiting a Commis-\\nsioner for that purpose ivith Regulations, which the Trustees\\nhoped might be effectual in Georgia, prepared an Act, entituled.\\nAn Act for Maintaining the Peace with the Indians in the\\nProvince of Georgia, ivith the same Regulations and provisions\\nas iverc in the Carolina Act which Act ceased to be in Force in\\n(reorgia since it was erected into a Distinct Independent Province\\nnot subject to the Laws of Carolina.\\nThe Trustees receiving frequent Informations from the Colony\\nof the pernicious Effects of Drinking Rum and other Spirituous\\nLiquors, by not only creating Disorders amongst the Indians (who\\nhad been plentifully supplied with it by the Traders) but also\\nDestroying many of the English, and throwing the People into\\nvarious Distempers, prepared an Act, entituled. An Aot to prevent\\nthe Importation and, Use of Rum and Brandies in the Province\\nof Georgia, or any kind of Spirits or Sti ong Waters IVhat-\\nsoever. At the same time they endeavoured to supply the Stores\\nwith Strong Beer from England, Mollasses for Brewing Beer,\\nand witli Madeira Wines, which the People might purchase at\\nreasonable Rates, and which would be more refreshing and\\nwiiolesome for them. The Magistrates of the Town of Savannah\\nwere likewise impowered to grant Licences to private Persons\\nfor Retailing Beer, Ale, fc. And the Trustees have great Rea-\\nson to believe that the remarkable Healthiness of Ebenezer in\\nthe Nothern Part, and Frederica in the Southern Part of Geor-\\ngia,is very much owing to the Prohibition of the Use of Rum:\\nFor in those Part where Rum in defiance of the Act has been\\nintroduced, the People have not in general been so Healthy\\nand Vigorous.\\nAt the same Time the Trustees taking into Consideration the\\nmany Inconveniencies which would attend the Introduction of\\nNegroes in a Frontier, for the several Reasons before specified,\\nprepared an Act for rendering the Colony of Georgia more De-\\nfensible by prohibiting the Importation and Use of Black Slaves\\nor Negroes into the same.\\nThese Three Acts were laid before the King in Council in the\\nMonth of January 1734, and after a Report from the Lords\\nCommissioners for Trade and Plantations to the Committee of\\nCouncil, that they were proper to receive his Majesty s Royal\\nApprobation, they were Ratified by his Majesty in Council.\\nTho the Lands Granted by the Trustees were to Revert to\\nthem on failure of Issue Male, in order to be re-granted for keep-\\ning up a number of Men yet the Trustees as Guardians of the\\nPeople when any such Failure happened, resolved that the value", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "of the Improvements upon the Lands of the late Occupiers, should\\nbe Valued and Paid to or for the Benefit of the Female Issue or\\nnear Relation, and the first Issue of such a Failure being on the\\nDeath of Mi De Far r en, the Value of the Improvements he had\\nmade upon his Estate was on the 5th Fcbr. 1734 Ordered and\\nPaid for the Use of his Daughter in England, who being destitute\\nwould have been absolutely unable to proceed in the Cultivation\\nof her Father s Lot.\\nTwo Embarkations were made this Year, whose Numbers are\\nhereafter mentioned, which consisted chiefly of Saltzburghcrs,\\nwho with the Saltzburghers that went before, were settled in a\\nTown called by them Ebenezer upon the River Savannah, at\\nsome distance above the Town, and by the Sobriety and Industry\\nof the People they prove a very thriving Settlement.\\ndumber British Foreii^n Pro- J^hn\\nThe Persons sent on testnnis\\nthe Charity this ^1 whereof 23 and 58 and in 43\\nYear were -j\\nThose in the for- 493 whereof 378 and 115 and in 196\\nmer Years were\\nThe number of Per- i\\nsons sent in the I 574 whereof 401 and 173 and in 239\\nthree Years to the f\\n9 June 1735 were J\\nThe Lands Granted in Tmst this Year in order to be Granted\\nout in smaller Portions in Georgia were Two Thousand Five\\nHundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to Persons going at their own\\nExpence were One Thousand Nine Hundred Acres.\\nThe Money received this Year in Benefactions amounted to\\n5416Z. 7s. Id. whereof given in South- Carolina 464/. 18s. ^2d.\\nthe Amount in Sterling Money and in England 4951/. 9s. bd.\\nwhich the Trustees applied, as also part of their fomtier Balance\\nto the Amount of 11,194/. 9s. 2rf. of which they exhibited an\\nAccount to the Lord Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, pursuant\\nto their Charter, and earned the then Remainder into their suc-\\nceeding Account.\\nFrom the 9th June 1735, to the 9th June 1736.\\nrriHat all Persons who should be desirous of going to Georgia\\nmight be apprized in Time of the several Conditions they\\nwere to Perform,* Rules were drawn up and Printed for those\\nwho should be sent on the Charity, as well as those who should go\\nAppendix, No 3, and 4.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "[18]\\non their own Expence, in which the Conditions were specified\\nas well as the Necessaries for their Subsistence and Labour.\\nThe Parliament having in the Year 1735 Granted Twenty six\\nThousand Pounds for the further Settling and Securing the Col-\\nony of Georgia, the Trustees thought it prudent to strengthen the\\nSouthern Part of the Province by making a Settlement on the\\nAlatamaha River, to which they were strongly induced by a\\nMemorial sent to his Majesty from the Governor and Council of\\nSouth- Carolina, dated the 9th April 1734, wherein after Thank-\\ning his Majesty for his peculiar Favour and Froteotion, and\\nespecially for his most benign Care so wisely calculated for the\\nPreservation of South- Carolina, by his Royal Charter to the\\nTrustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, and after Re-\\npresenting the Practices of the French to seduce the .Indians in\\nAmity with South- Carolina, the Attention of the French to\\nthe Improvement of their Settlements, and their late Enlargement\\nof them nearer to Carolina, the Defenceless Condition of their\\nProvince, and the Danger of the Inhabitants from their own Ne-\\ngroes, and the Ruinous Situation of the fVest-India Trade in case\\nthe French should possess themselves of Carolina they add,\\nthat the Harbours and Ports of Carolina and f Georgia enable\\nhis Majesty to be absolute Master of the Passage thro the Gulph\\nof Florida, and to impede at his Pleasure the Transportation\\nHome of the Spanish Treasure, which should his Majesty s En-\\nemies Possess Avould then prove so many convenient Harbours for\\nthem to annoy a great Part of the British Trade to America, as\\nwell as that which is carried on through the Gulph from Jamaica.\\nUpon which Inducements the Trustees resolved to make Em-\\nbarkations for Strengthening the Southern Part of Georgia, and\\nto obviate any Objections which might be made by sending over\\nany of our useful Poor from England and as the Trustees found\\nthat many of the Poor who had been useless in England were\\ninclined to be useless likewise in Georgia, they determined that\\nthese Embarkations should consist chiefly of Persons from the\\nHighlands of Scotland, and Persecuted German Protestants.\\nAppendix, No 5.\\nt The Harbour in the Southern Part of Georgiaihe nearest to the Gulph\\nof Florida which has yet been Sounded, has been proved by Affidavits\\nof three Captains of Ships who have been thi-re, viz. Capt. Thomas\\nShubrick, Capl. George Dymond, and Capt. William Thomson, to be\\ncapable of receiving Sti ps ef Foriy Guns, and to be safely Land locked\\n.And by the Affidavit of T AomasPearce Mariner, m ho was on the Coast\\noi Georgia near four Years, it appears, that Ships in th s Harbour may\\nin Twenty four Hours from the Bar, run out into the Gulph Streann of\\nFlorida, thro which Stream the Spamsh Galleons (when rot passing the\\nWindward Passage) always come,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f Appendix, No 6,", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "19 j\\nWhile these Embarkations were preparmg, the Trustee s made\\nPreparations for the new Settlements They Established the Civil\\nGovernment for the new Town (which was called Frcderica) in\\nthe same Manner as they had before at Savannah.\\nIn the Month of January 1735, the Hiii;ldanders arrived in\\nGeorgia (and with them several of the same Country as Servants\\nto private Grantees) they were settled on the Alatamaha River,\\nabout Sixteen Miles distant by W aterfrom tlie Island oi St. Simons\\n(which is at the Mouth of the River) they soon raised convenient\\nHuts till their Houses could be Built and the Town at their own\\ndesire was called Darien which Name still remains to the District,\\nbut the Town is since Named by them Neio-Inverness.\\nOn the 6th February 1735, the Embarkation under the Conduct\\nof Mr. Oglethorpe, arri\\\\ ed in Georgia, they were settled upon St.\\nSimoji s Island, the Town called Frcderica was soon laid out, and\\nthe People were set to Work in Building their Houses. The\\nCreek Indians who went thither upon Occasion of this new Set-\\ntlement, agreed that the English should possess St. Simon s Island,\\nwith the Others contiguous to it The Land of the Island is very\\nfertile, chiefly Oak and Hickory, intermixed with Savannahs and\\nold Indian Fields, and according to a Survey made of it, it is about\\nForty five Miles in Circumference.\\nFor a Communication between the Settlements in the Northern\\nand Southern Parts of the Province by Land, a Road was soon\\nafterwards opened.\\nJVumber British. Foreign Pro- Men.\\nThe Persons sent on testnnis.\\nthe Charity this i 470 whereof 341 and 129 and in 224\\nYear were\\nThose in the for- 574 whereof 401 and 173 and in 239\\nmer Years were 5\\nThe number of Per-\\nsons sent in the I\\nfour Years to the J 1044 whereof 742 and 302 and in 463\\n9Junel736wereJ\\nThe Lands Granted in Trust this Year in order to be Granted\\nout in smaller Portions were Twenty Thousand Acres And in\\nTrust for Religious Uses, to be cultivated, with the Money arising\\nfrom Private Benefactions given for that Purpose, in order to\\nsettle a Provision upon a Clergyman at Savannah, a Catechist\\nand a Schoolmaster, Three Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to Persons going on their own\\nExpence were Nine Thousand Three Hundred Acres.\\nThe Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parliament,\\nwas \u00c2\u00a3.26,000, and in Benefactions 2,164/. I9s.6d.3q. whereof\\nin South Carolina 411/. Is. Id. Sq. the Amount in Sterling Mo-", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "[-20 J\\nney and in England 1,753Z. 18s. 5c?. whereof die Trustees ap-\\nlied 22,697/. 55. 5d. oq. of which they exhibited an account to the\\nLord Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, pursuant to their Char-\\nter, and carried the Remainder into their succeeding Accompt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1736, to the 9th June 1737.\\nO Or the Security of the People (who w ere settled the last Year\\non St. Simon s Island) and the Southern Part of the Province,\\nseveral Forts were Built this Year, viz.\\nOne at Frederica, with Four regular Bastions and a Spur Work\\ntowards the River, and several Pieces of Cannon were mounted\\non it.\\nAbout Ten Miles from Frederica a large Battery is Built\\ncommanding the Entrance into the Sound, where Ten or Twelve\\nForty Gun Ships may safely Ride, there being sufficient Water\\non the Bar called Jehyll for such Ships to go over, which Bar\\nlies in 30d. 40m. and behind Jekyll Island there is Water and\\nRoom enough for Shipping for Ten Miles up. The Battery is\\nenclosed within a strong Wall, and has a Guard-House within\\nthe Wall capable of holding Twenty four Men.\\nAnother Fort was Built on the Southwest Part of the Island of\\nSt. Peters (now called Cumberland) which lies m 30d. 30m,\\nunder which Fort, on which are Mounted several Pieces of Ord-\\nnance pointed towards the River, all Sloops and Boats in the\\nInland Passage to this Island must come. Withm the Pallisade\\nround the Fort there are fine Springs of Water, and there is a\\nwell Framed Timber Log House, Thirty Feet by Eighteen.\\nwith a Magazine under it both for Ammunition and Provisions.\\nA Scout Boat is stationed at this Island.\\nAs these Precautions were taken for the Southern Part of the\\nProvince, Directions were given for a Fort to be Built for the\\nSecurity of the Northern Part, by way of an Out-Guard against\\nany Invasion by Land. This was at a Place called Augusta\\nwhich has proved a very thriving Town, it being now the chief\\nPlace of Trade with the Indians, and were the Traders of both\\nProvinces of South- Carolina and Georgia resort, from the\\nSecurity they find there. Augusta is about Two Hundred and-\\nThirty Miles by Water from the Town of Savan7iah and large Boats\\nwhich carry about Nine Thousand Pounds Weight of Deer-skins\\ncan Navigate downa the River Savannah. The Town, which\\nstands upon a high Ground near the River, is well Inhabited, and\\nhas several Warehouses in it furnished with Goods for the Indian\\nTrade. A Road has been likewise made, so that Horsemen can\\nnow Riie from this Town to Savannah, as likewise to the", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "[21]\\nCherokee Indians, who are situated above the Town of Augusta\\nand Trade with it. A Garrison has been kept at this Fort at the\\nTrustees Expence, till the Arrival of the Regiment his Majesty\\nsince Ordered lor the Defence of the Colony.\\nWhilst these Dispositions were making for the Security of the\\nProvince, the Parliament gave Ten Thousand Founds this Year\\nfor the further Settling and Securmg the Colony but as the Ex-\\npences of the Forts and the Supplies which were sent for the\\nSupport of the Colony, were very great, and as many People in\\ntiie r^orthern Part of the Province were as yet unable to subsist\\nthemselves, and out of Compassion to them and their Families a\\nStore was still kept open for their subsistence, the Trustees sent\\nover but iew Persons this Year.\\nin tiie beginning of the Year 1737, the Spaniards at Augustine\\nmade Preparations for Attacking the Colony of Georgia they\\nlaid in Quantities of Corn and Provisions, bought up a great\\nnumber of Fire Arms, and large Bodies of Regular Troops were\\nsent thither from the Havamiah.\\nThe Lieutenant Governor of South- Carolina informed the\\nMagistrates of Savannah of these Preparations This Advice and\\nthe frequent Alarms which were otherwise given, drew the People\\noff from their Labour in the Sowing Season, and their Improve-\\nments in their Plantations were neglected, and they were obliged\\nto make Preparations lor their Defence.\\nAt the same Time the Highlanders at Neiv-Inverness, who\\nwere exposed to Danger, Built a Fort there and Twelve Pieces\\nof Cannon were mounted on it.\\nTho the People at Savannah were not so immediately exposed\\nto Oanger, they began to Build a large Fort at their Town of\\nPallisade Work with Bastions But as the Trustees perceived\\nthis took off the People from their Cultivation, that the Work\\nwould be very Chargeable and they had not Money to support the\\nExpence, they found themselves under a Necessity to put a stop\\nthereto.\\nJ^ umber British. Foreiicn Pro- Men.\\nThe Persons sent on testants.\\nthe Charity this V 32 whereof 32 and and m 19\\nYear were j\\nThose in the for- 1044 whereof 742 and 302 and in 46-3\\nmer Years were\\nThe number of Per-\\nsons sent in the 1\\nfive Years to tiie 1076 whereof 774 and 302 and In 482\\n9 June 1737 were J\\nThe Lands Granted in Trust this Year in order to be Granted\\nout in smaller Portions in Georgia were Three Thousand Acre", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "[22]\\nand in Trust to be cukivated, with the Money arising from private\\nBenefactions given for that Purpose, in order to raise a Mainten-\\nance for a Minister and Schoohnaster at Frederica, and other\\nReligious Uses, Three Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to Persons going on their own\\nExpence were Four Thousand Three Hundred Acres.\\nThe Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parhament,\\nwas 10,000, and in Benefactions 3,627/. 18s. Id, whereof in\\nSouth- Carolina the Amount in Sterhng Money 333/. 19^. M. and\\nin England 3,2931. I9s. Id. which the Trustees apphed, as also\\npart of their former Balance to the Sum of 17,239/. 19s. 5c?. of\\nwhich they exhibited an Account to the Lord Chancellor, and\\nMaster of the Rolls, pursuant to their Charter, and carried the\\nthen Remainder to their succeeding Accompt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1737, to the 9th Jime 1738.\\nfl^ He Lieutenant Governor of South- Carolina having acquainted\\nthe Trustees by a Letter dated from the Council Chamber the\\n7th February 1736,7, that he had received Advice from Commo-\\ndore Dent, of Preparations made by the Spaniards at Augustine\\nand the Mavannah, in order to make an Attack on the Colony of\\nGeorgia, and the Trustees having in a Memorial to his Majesty\\nset forth the Inability of the Colony to Protect themselves against\\nsuch a Force as was Preparing at the Havannah and Augustine,\\nhis Majesty was graciously pleased to order a Regiment of Six\\nHundred Effective Men to be raised and sent to Georgia for the\\nDefence and Protection of it.\\nAnd as an Encouragement for the Soldiers good Behaviour, the\\nTrustees resolved to give each of them a Property in the Colony\\nthey therefore made a Grant of land in Trust for an Allotment of\\nFive Acres of Land to each Soldier of the Regiment to Cultivate\\nfor his own Use and Benefit, and to Hold the same during his\\ncontinuance in his Majesty s Service and for a further Encourage-\\nment, they resolved, that each Soldier, who at the end of Seven\\nYears from the Time of his Inlisting in the Regiment, should be\\ndesirous of quitting his Majesty s Service, and should have his\\nregular Discharge, and would settle in the Colony, should on his\\nCommanding Officer s Certificate of his good Behaviour, be in-\\ntitled to a Grant of Twenty Acres of Land.\\nThe Parliament having taken into Consideration the great Ex-\\npences which the Trustees had been at in making Roads thro\\nthe Province, and the several Fortifications in it, and the Presents\\nmade to the Indians to engage them firmer in the British Interest,\\nAppendix, No 7.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "23\\nand likewise the Preparations which were making hy the Spaniardfi\\nin order to take or destroy the Colony, and having Granted this\\nYear a Sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds for the fuitlier Settling\\nand securing the Colony, the Trustees made another Embarka-\\ntion, which consisted chiefly of Persecuted German Protestants.\\nJ^amber British. Foreign Pro- Men.\\nThe Persons sent on testmus.\\nthe Charity this whereof 135 and 163 and in 152\\nYear were\\nThose in the for- 1076 whereof 774 and 302 and in 482\\nmer Years were\\nThe number of Per- i\\nsons sent in the I\\nsix Years to the [1374 whereof 909 and 465 and in 634\\n9Junel738wereJ\\nBy Accounts received from the Colony before the End of this\\nYear, there appear to have been One Thousand One Hundred and\\nTen Persons in Georgia, besides those at Tybee, Skidoivay Fort,\\nArgyll, Thunderbolt and Augusta, in the Northern Part, and\\nthose at St. Andrews and Amelia in the Southern Part.\\nThe Lands Granted in Trust this Year in order to be Gianted\\nout in smaller Portions in Georgia were Three Thousand Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to Persons going on their own\\nExpence were One Thousand Acres.\\nThe Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parlianj^nt\\nwas \u00c2\u00a320,000 and in Benefactions 909/. 195. lOd. 2q. whereof\\nthe Tmstees applied 18,870Z. 13s. 3^/. 2q. of which they exhibit-\\ned an Account to the Lord Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls,\\npursuant to their Charter, and carried the Remainder into their\\nsucceeding Acconipt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1738, to the 9th June 1739.\\nA S several Merchants and Captains of ShijDS had for their own\\n^Interest carried into the Colony from Neiv-Yorlc and other\\nPlaces, large Cargoes of Provisions, ^c. great part of which (to\\nsave the Merchants from Losses) was taken in at the Store\\nwithout a proper Authority from the Trustees and an Expence\\ncreated thereby which the Trustees could nor Estimate, norhavie\\nAbility to Discharge, and for v ^liich certified Accounts were\\nreturned to them the Trustees published an Advertisement in the\\nLondon Gazette, and Ordered it to be Published in the South-\\nCarolina Gazette, and to be affixed upon the Doors of tlie Store-\\nhouses at Savannah and Frederica, 1 hat out of a due Regard to\\nPublick Credit they had Resolved, that all Expences wliich they\\nhad Ordered or should Order to be Made in America for the use", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "[^4j\\nol the Colony, should be Defrayed and Paid for in Georgia, m\\nSola Bills of Exchange only, under their Seal and they gave\\nNotice, that no Person whatsoever had any Authority from them,\\nor in their Name, or for their Account, to purchase or receive any\\nCargoes of Provisions, Stores or Necessaries, without Paying for\\nthem in the said Sola Bills.\\nUpon the Petition of one Abraham De Lyon, a Freeholder of\\niSavannah in Georgia, that he had expended a great Sum in the\\nCultivation of Vines, which he had carried from Portugal, and\\nhad brought to great Perfection and several Certificates being\\nproduced of his Improvements in Cultivating them, and of the\\nGoodness of the Grapes, and of their Thriving in the most barren\\nLands of the Province, the Trustees assisted him to proceed in his\\nimprovements.\\nThe Security of the Colony being provided for by the Regiment\\nsent over by his Majesty, the Parliament gave Eight Thousand\\nPounds for the further Settling the Colony. Therefore the\\nTmstees sent over an Estimate of all the Expences they allov^ed\\nto be made in the Province, by which several Military Expences,\\nwhich they had been engaged in for the Defence of the Colony,\\nand which were very great, were reduced.\\nThe Trustees this Year sent over the Rev. Mr. Norris to\\nreside at Frederica, with a Salary of jFi/5 Poim/fe a Year, Ordered\\na House to be Built for him, and another for the Inhabitants to\\nperform Divine Service in till a Church could be Built there.\\nThe Assembly of South- Carolina having in the last Year\\npassed an Ordinance for raising a Sum to indemnify their Traders\\nin opposition to the Act which was approved of by his Majesty\\nin Council for maintaining the Peace with the Indians in the Pro-\\nvince of Georgia, upon a Memorial from the Tmstees complaining\\nofthe said Ordinance, and upon a Petition of the Council and\\nAssembly of South- Carolina against the said Act, there was a\\nsolemn Hearing before the Lords Commissioners of Trade and\\nPlantations, and afterwards before a Committee of the Lords of\\nhis Majesty s Privy Council Whereupon his Majesty was pleased\\nto Order, that the said Ordinance of the Assembly of South-\\nCarolina should be Repealed and declared Void, and was pleased\\nto send an Instruction to the Trustees to prepare a proper Act or\\nOrdinance for settling the Trade carried on by the Provinces of\\nSouth- Carolina and Georgia v/ ith the Indians, on such a Footing\\nas might be for the mutual Benefit and Satisfaction of both Provin-\\nces And his Majesty at the same Time was graciously pleased to\\ngive an Instmction to Samuel Horsey, Esq Governor and Lieu-\\ntenant-General of South- Carolina, to Recommend to the Council\\nand Assembly there to pass a Law for the like Purpose in that\\nProvince But Samuel Horsey, Esq dying soon after, and no", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "25 1\\nother Governor having since gone to South-Carolina, that Aflaii\\nremains unsettled.\\nThe Trustees immediately sent to Col. Oglethorpe a Copy of\\nJiis Majesty s Instructions, and desired that he would Consult with\\nLieutenant Governor Bull in South- Carolina, that Plans of\\nproper Acts might be prepared and sent over to the Trustees for\\ntheir Consideration, in order to answer the Purposes of his\\nMajesty s Instructions, and that in the mean Time the Commis-\\nsioners oi South- Carolina and the Commissioners of Georgia,\\nmight proceed in their respective Provinces in concert with each\\nother to carry on a mutual Trade to the Indians in both Provinces.\\nMr. Stephens, Secretary in Georgia, having informed the\\nTmstees, that the Grand-Jury at Savannah claimed a Right of\\nAdministring Oaths, and making Enquiry thereon into all such\\nMatters as they should think fit, and the Trustees having per-\\nceived that in a Representation of the said Grand-Jury they had\\npretended to such Right, sent a Letter to Mr. Stephens to acquaint\\njiim. That the Trustees were sensible great Mischiefs might be\\ndone by ill-designing Men who might procure themselves to be\\nput upon the Panel, if this Claim of the Grand-Jury was allowed\\nof, and therefore the Trustees ordered him to acquaint the People\\nthat the Grand-Jury had no such Right, and that their Claim was\\nintirely illegal.\\nAs the Tmstees both by their Letters and Instructions to the\\nMagistrates had constantly exhorted and encouraged the People\\nto a Cultivation of their Lands on which they were to Depend for\\ntheir Support, and as they found that many (as well of those\\nwhom they had sent over as Objects of Charity, as of others who\\nat different Tunes had gone into the Colony from other Plantations\\nfor a Temporary Maintenance) still continued in their Idleness,\\nand were a Burthen upon the Trust, they gave Orders for striking\\noff the Store all such as having had Time to Cultivate their Lands\\nhad neglected it. This carried from the Colony many of those\\nwho had gone thither or joined it from any parts of America to gain\\na Subsistence for a Year or two, and of others who had not con-\\nsidered the Hardships of attending the first Settlement of a Country,\\nand were tired of their Labour.\\nThe Tmstees receiving an Account dated the 12th February\\n1738 from their Secretary in the Province, of an Uneasiness\\namongst several Persons upon the Tenures of their Lots being\\nconfined to the Heirs Male, and they considering that the Colony\\nhad been for some Time Established, and the People grown more\\nnumerous, and a Regiment being stationed in it for it s Defence,\\nwhereby the former Tenures became less necessary, did on the\\n15 March following, at their Anniversary Meeting, resolve, That\\nin Defliult of Issue Male, any legal Possessor ofLand. might by", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "2G J\\na Deed in Writing, or by his Last Will and Testament, appoirti\\nbis Daughter as his Successor, or any other Male or Female\\nRelation, with a Proviso, that the Successor should in the proper\\nCourt in Georgia, personally claim the Lot Granted or Devised\\nwithin Eighteen Months after the Death of the Grantor or De-\\nvisor.\\nThis was soon after extended to every legal Possessor s being\\nimpowered to appoint any other Person to be his Successor.\\nBut whilst the Trustees were taking these steps for the\\nSatisfaction of the People, and whilst those in the Southern Part\\nof the Province (tho exposed to greater Danger) were industrious\\nand easy in their Settlements, many of those in the Northern Part,\\nwho had neglected the Cultivation of their Lands, drew up a\\nRepresentation dated the 9th Dec. 1738, setting forth the Want\\nof a Fee Simple to their Lands and Negroes to cultivate them,\\nbut they were far from being seconded or supported by the People\\nin the Southern Parts of the Province, in this Representation,\\nwho not only refused to Sign it, but f Petitioned the Tmstees\\nagainst the Use of Negroes, setting forth the Danger they should be\\nin from the Spaniards who had proclaimed Freedom to all Slaves\\nwho should resort to them, and that by this means they should be\\nexposed to an Enemy without and a more dangerous one in their\\nBosoms.\\nThe Industrious Snltzburghers also at Ebenezer (who are in\\nthe Northern Part of the Province not far from Savannah)\\nX Petitioned against Negroes, and set forth their Satisfaction and\\nHappiness in their Settlement that they had raised in the last\\nSeason, more Rice, Pease, Potatoes, Pomkins, Cabbage, Corn,\\nfc. than was necessary for their Consumption, and that they\\ndid not find the Climate so Warm but that it was very tolerable\\nfor Working People.\\nNumber British. Foreign Pro- Men.\\nThe Persons sent on testants.\\nthe Charity this i whereof 2 and 7 and in 4\\nYear were\\nThose in the for- 1374 whereof 909 and 465 and in 634\\nmer Years were\\nThe number of Per- i\\nsons sent in the\\nseven Years were [1383 whereof 911 and 472 and in 638\\n9 June 1739 were J\\nThe only Return from Georgia this Year, was an Account\\nof the People at Savannah, who were One Hundred and Nine\\nFreeholders, besides their Wives and Children, and besides\\nAppendix, No 8. t Appendix, No 9. J Appendix, ISo JO,", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "[27]\\nInmates and Servants, of the latter of which there were a gl eat\\nNumber, part of whose Passages were paid for in the next Year\\njn Representations made to the Trustees lor that Purpose.\\nThe liands Granted in Trust this Year to be Cultivated for\\nthe Maintenance of an Orphan House in Georgia, were Five\\nHundred Acres.\\nThe Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parliament,\\nwas \u00c2\u00a3.8,000, and in Benefactions 473/. 9s. 4d. which the\\nTrustees applied, as also part of their former Balance to the\\nAmount of 10,347/. 45. Id. of which they exhibited an Account\\nto the Lord Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, pursuant to\\ntheir Charter, and carried the then Remainder into their suc-\\nceeding Accompt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1739, to the 9th June 1740.\\nA T the Time that some of the People at Savannah were so\\nclamorous for Negroes (for Seventy five Land and Freeholders\\nof whom Fifty two were Freeholders, did not apply for them)\\nthe Province of South- Carolina was under frequent Alarms on\\naccount of their Negroes there. They had Intelligence that a\\nConspiracy was formed by the Negroes in Carolina to Rise and\\nforcibly make their Way out of the Province, to put themselves\\nunder the Protection of the Spaniards; who had proclaimed\\nFreedom to all who should run away to them from their Owners.\\nThat this Conspiracy was discovered at Winyar the most Northern\\nPart of that Province, from whence as tlie Negroes must bend\\ntheir Course, it argued thattlie other Parts of the Province must\\nbe Privy to it, and that the Rising was to be universal. Whereupon\\nthe whole Province was upon their Guard the number of Negroes\\nin South- Carolinahe mg computed to be about Forty Thousand,\\nand the number of White Men at most not above Five Thousand.\\nAs several Negroes who were employed in Periaguas and other\\nlike Craft (which they carried off with them) h.ad taken the\\nBenefit of the Spaniards Proclamation and gone to Augustine,\\nthe Government of South- Carolina sent a solemn Deputation to\\nDemand their Slaves This Deputation consisted of Mr. Brath-\\nwaite a Member of the Council, Mr. Rutlidge one of the As-\\nsembly, and Mr. Amian Clerk of the Assembly But the Go-\\nvernor of Augustine tho in Tiine of profound Peace, peremptorily\\nrefused to deliver them up, and declared he had Orders to receiv^e\\nall such as should come there and protect them.\\nUpon this, and the Petition which was sent from the High-\\nlandei-s at Darien, and the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer, representing\\ntjie Danger and Inconvenience of the Introduction of Negroes, the", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "Trustees sent under their Seal Answer to tlie Representation of\\nsome of the Inhabitants of Savannah.\\nAmong the Persons to whom Grants of Lund were made hi\\norder to their settling at their own Expence in the Colony, some\\nncA^erwent over others were Gentleman of Carolina who neglect-\\ned to take up their Lands, or even desire to have them laid out\\nand others who quitted their Plantations, and went to reside at\\nSavannah as Shop-keepers. One INIan in particular an Apothecary\\nSurgeon, from the beginning neglected his Grant and followed his\\nPractice in the Town another quitted his Plantation and betook\\nhimself to Selling of Rum To these Two almost all the Town of\\nSavannah were Indebted for Physick or Rum, and they first raised\\nthe Clamour that Lands might be alienable, and Negroes admitted,\\nwhich would have made them Possessors of the chief Part of the\\nLots. To these some others who had gone at their own Expence,\\nand had employed their Covenanted Servants on their Plantations\\njoined themselves, taking their Servants from their Labour and\\nletting them out to Hire in the Town for the sake of an immediate\\nProfit, on which they lived in an idle and riotous manner and even\\nat the Time when their Servants were taken off from their propei-\\nLabour in their Plantations, they fomented the Clamour foi-\\nNegroes in order to carry them on The Spirit of Idleness which\\nwas very early introduced in the Town, man) of the People were\\ntoo ready to follow constant Clubs have been held, and Horse\\nRaces kept up by them to amuse and divert the People from their\\nLabour And Delinquents (who have insulted the Laws even in\\nthe Courts of Justice and declared they would do their utmost to\\ndestroy the Colony) have when committed to Prison been abetted\\nand supported by them. By these the beforementioned Repre-\\nsentation was formed, and many of the People by their own In-\\nclination to Idleness, by the Power the others had over them as\\nCreditors, and by Hopes being given them that if they stuck\\ntogether the Trustees must grant them Negroes, or see the Colony\\nabandoned, were thus drav\\\\m in to Sign the same, in which they in\\na manner Demanded the Permission of Negroes and an Alteration\\nof their Tenures.\\nThe Trustees to make all the People as Easy and Contented\\nas they could, published an Advertisement in \\\\he London Gazette\\nthe 8th Stptember 1739, and other Papers, which was continued\\nfor several Days, and ordered it to be Published in the South-\\nCarolina Gazette, that they had resolved to enlarge their Grants\\non Failure of Issue Male, and to make a Provision for the Widows\\nof the Grantees in the following manner, viz. That the Lands\\nalready Granted should on Failure of Issue Male descend to the\\nAppeii liK, No n.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "[*29 1\\nDaughters of such Grantees, and in case there should be no Issue\\nMale or Female, that the Grantee might Devise such Lands, and\\nfor want of such Devise that such Lands should Descend to their\\nHeirs at Law with a Proviso that the Possession of the Person\\nwho should enjoy such Devise should not be increased to more\\nthan Five Hundred Acres, and that the Widows of the Grantees\\nshould Hold and Enjoy the Dvvellmg-House, Garden, and one\\nMoiety of the Lands their Husbands should Die seized of for and\\nduring the Term of their Lives.\\nThe Trustees directed in the Advertisement, that those who in-\\ntended to have the Benefit given them should enter their respec-\\ntive Clainrs, in order that proper Grants and Conveyances in the\\nLaw might be forthwith prepared and executed for that purpose\\nand that no Fee or Reward was to be taken for the entering of\\nany such Claim directly or hidirectly by any Person or Persons\\nwhatsoever.\\nIn the Month o( August 1739, the Tmstees received Advice\\nfrom General Oglethorpe, That he had frequent Intelligence of\\nthe Spaniards endeavouring to Bribe the Indians and particular\\nthe Creek Nation into a Rupture with the English, which made\\nit necessary for him to go to the General Assembly of the Indian\\nNations at the Coweta-Toivii about Five Hundred Miles distant\\nfrom Frcderica, in order to prevent such Designs and Seditions\\namong them, and that he had been obliged to buy Horses and\\nPresents to carry up to this Meeting, where the Choctaws (who\\nare upon the Frontiers between the English and French Settle-\\nments) and the Chickcsaivs were to send their Deputies.\\nThis Journey of General Oglethorpeh has since appeared to\\nbe of great Service to the Publick for on the 26 August 1739,\\nMr. Stephens received an Express from Col. Bull Lieutenant\\nGovernor o( South- Carolina, thnt he had Intelligence from Lieu-\\ntenant Governor Clarke of New- York concerning the French\\nMarching fi-om Mont-Real near Qtieheck with a Body of about\\nTwo Hundred Regular Troops and Five Hundred Indians, who\\nwere to be re-inforced by French and Indians in their Journey\\nThat this Army was designed against the Indians in Friendship\\nwith his Britamiick: M^jesiy^s Subjects of Carolina nnd Georgia\\nwho are situated near some Branches of the Mississippi River.\\nCol, Bull added, that he should immediately dispatch an Express\\nto the Creek-Nations with Advice to General Oglethorpe of the\\nContents of Lieutenant Governor Clarke Letter, and that it was\\nnecessary that both the Provinces of Carolina and Georgia should\\nbe on their Guard, tho if the Creek Indians should prove True\\n(he Danger would not be great General Oglethorpe by his\\nTreaties with the Indians in this Journey has confirmed them in\\nthe British Interest, and made a new Treaty with them whereby", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "[30]\\niheir Ibnner Concession of Lands to Great-Britain was confirmed\\nand Extended.\\nA parcel of Raw Silk was brought this Year from Georgia by\\none Mr. Samuel Augspourgmr who made an Affidavit before a\\nMaster in Chancery, that he received it from the Hands of Mr.\\nThomas Jones the Trustees Store-keeper at Savannah, who told\\nhim it was tlie Produce of Georgia, and the said Samuel Augs-\\npourguer who resided in the Southern Part of the Province said,\\nThat, when at Savannah, he saw the Italian Family there winding\\noff Silk from the Coquos.\\nThe Silk was shewed at the Tmstees Office to Mr. John Zachary\\nan eminent Raw Silk Merchant, and Mr. Booth one of the great-\\nest Silk Weaver i in England, who declared it was as fine as any\\nItalian Silk, and that it was worth at least Twenty Shillings a\\nPound.\\nThis Mr. Samuel Augspourguer who joined the Colony in the\\nYear 1736, left it in July 1739, with two Men Servants and their\\nChildren on his Plantation, and came over to obtain a Grant of\\nFive Hundred Acres of Land, and to get some of his own Coun-\\ntryman from the Canton of Beam in Sioitzerland to go with him\\nas Servants on his Return to Georgia in order to proceed more\\neffectually in the Cultivation of his Lands.\\nKumher Bnlisk. Fcreign Pro- Men.\\nThe Person whose Pas- ^ent. ustauis.\\nsages were Paid for 138 whereof 4 and 134 and in 49\\non the Charity were\\nThe persons sent on the\\nCharity in the for- 1383 whereof 911 and 472 and in 638\\nmer Years were\\nThe number of Per-^\\nsons sent in the eight\\nYears to the 9//t f 1521 whereof 915 and 606 and in 687\\nJune 1740,\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to be Cultivated at the Expence\\nof the Incorporated Society in Scotland for promoting Christian\\nKnowledge in order to raise a Maintenance for the Scots Minister\\nat New-Inverness in Georgia were Three Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted this Year to be Cultivated by a Person at\\nhis own Expence v^ere Five Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted in Trust in the said Eight Years in order\\nto be Granted out in smaller Portions in Georgia were Forty one\\nThousand Six Hundred Acres to be Cultivated for Religious\\nUses were Nine Hundred Acres, and to be Cultivated for the\\nMaintenance of an Orphan House were Five Hundred Acres.\\nThe Lands Granted in the said Eight Years to Persons who were\\nto Cultivate them at their own Expence were Twenty seven\\nThousand One Hundred and Eighty five Acres.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "[81]\\nThe Money received this Year pursuant to Act of Parliament\\n\\\\vas \u00c2\u00a3.20,000 and in Benefactions 181/. 4s. 3(/. 2*7. whereof in\\nSouth Carolina the amount in Sterhng Money 86/. Qs. \\\\\\\\d. 2q.\\nand in England 94/, 17s. Ad. whereof the Trustees apphed\\n16,614/. 2s. bd. 2q. of which they exhibited an Account to the\\nLord Chancellor, and the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of\\nKini:5 s Bench, pursuant to their Charter, and the Remainder of\\nall the Money they ever received being 5917/. 7s. Id. will be\\ncarried into their succeeding Accompt.\\nFrom the 9th June 1740, to the present Time.\\nTF^He Trustees this Year took llirther Methods for the Satisfaction\\nof the People in the Province, they extended the Tenures\\nbe which a Daughter of a Grantee, or any other Person, was made\\ncapable of enjoying by Devise or Inheritance, any quantity of\\nLands which did not increase her or his Possession to more than\\nTwo Thousand Acres.\\nA Licence was likewise Granted to all the present Possessors\\nof land in Georgia, to make Leases of any Parts of their Lots for\\nany Term not exceeding Three Years to any Person residing in\\nGeorgia and who should reside there during the Term of such\\nLease.\\nA general Release was likewise passed by which no Advantage\\nwas to be taken against any of the present Possessors of Land in\\nGeorff-ia for any Forfeitures incurred at any Time before Cliristmas\\n1740, in relation either to the Tenure or Cultivation of Lands,\\nand the Possessors of Fifty Acres of land were not obliged to\\ncultivate more than Five Acres thereof in Ten Years from their\\nGrants, and those under Fifty Acres in proportion And the\\nPossessors of Five Hundred Acres of Land were not obliged to\\ncultivate more than One Hundred and Twenty Acres thereof in\\nTwenty Years from their Grants, and those of under Five Hundred\\nAcres and above Fifty Acres in proporation in order to prevent\\nany Forfeitures for want of Cultivating the Quantities required.\\nUnder these Circumstances it is presumed that no Complaint\\ncan now with Reason be made against the Tenure by which the\\nInhabitants at this Tune hold their Lands, since they have more\\nPower than is Generally given by Marriage Settlements in which\\nthe Grantees are only Tenants for Life, incajiable of Mortgaging\\nor Aliening or making any Disposition by their Last Will, whereas\\nthe Freeholders in Georgia are now become Tenants in Tail-\\nGeneral, and may with the Licence of the Common Council of\\nthe said Tmstees upon Application made to them for that purpose,\\nMortgage or Alien, ancl further without that Licence have it\\nabsolutely in their Power on Failure of Issue in Tail to dispose\\nthereof by their Last Will.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "[32]\\nBy an Account received from the Secretary in the Province it\\nappears, that on the 1st ^!/^-wsM740, about Seventy Freeholders\\nof the Northern Part of the Province, dehvered in the Town Court\\nof Savamiah their Claims of Lots under the Tenures which were\\nAdvertized the last Year in the South- Carolina and London\\nGazettes.\\nThat on the 15th of the same Month, as many or more appeared\\nin the said Town Court of the said Occasion, and that on the 27th\\nof the same Month divers more delivered in their Claims likewise.\\nThe Trustees are informed by their Secretary in the Province,\\nthat in pursuance of their Orders he had just finished an authentical\\nAccount of the State of the Colony with respect to the Number\\nof Inhabitants in the several Towns and Villages, the Number of\\nHouses and the Settlements made, the Progress which the several\\nPeople had made in the Cultivation of their Lands, and their\\nAbility or Inability to support themselves, and in case were the\\nlast appeared the Reason of it; the Proportions of the different\\nsorts of Soil as near as could be computed, and an Account of the\\nseveral Produces which by Experience or Appearance could or\\nmight be raised for trade. And the Trustees are daily in expec-\\ntation of receiving from him the said Account. But by the several\\nAccounts before received they are enabled to give, though an\\nimperfect one, the following State of the Settlements, viz.\\nThe Town of Savmmah is about Ten Miles up the River\\nSavannah, were are (besides Warehouses and Huts) at least One\\nHundred and Thirty Houses in the Town as these for the sake\\nof Air, and to prevent the spreading of any Fire, are Built at some\\nDistance from each other, they make several spacious Squares\\nand wide Streets. There is a regular Magistracy settled in the\\nTown, which the Trustees are obliged to be at the Expence of\\nSupporting, till the Colony arrives at sufficient Strength to do it.\\nThere are in the Town a Court-House, a Store-House, a Goal,\\na House for the Trust Servants, a Wharf, a Guard-House and\\nsoine other Publick Buildings; a Church is at present Building and\\na Clergyman is settled there. The Town is excellently situated\\nfor Trade, the Navigation of the River being very secure and\\nShips of Three Hundred Tons can lie within Six Yards of the\\nTown and the Worm does not Eat them.\\nAbout Four Miles from Savannah, inland from the River, are\\nthe Two Villages Highgate and Hampstcad, which lie at about\\na Mile distant from each other; The People settled there apply\\nthemsel ves chiefly to Gai dening, and supply the Town of Savan-\\nnah with quantities of Greens and Garden stuff.\\nBy the Account of Mr. Thomas Stephens, who at his Father s\\nrequest was sent over to assist him in his Business of Secretary\\nin the Province and continued with hhn there some short Time,\\nhe states, that there are Twenty Plantations within Twenty Miles", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "[33]\\nround Savannah, which have each of them lioin Five to Tiiirty\\nAcres of Land Cleared.\\nAbout Fifteen Miles from Savannah is a Village called Abcrcorn\\nabout Twenty Miles further up the River is the Town of Ebenczer\\nwere the Saltzburghers are settled with Two Ministers, one oi\\nwhom computed that the Number of his Congrep;ation in June\\n1738 consisted of One Hundred and Forty six. Therefore as the\\nInfants could not be reckoned in the Computation, and as Seven\\nmore have since been sent and settled with them, it is believed\\nthe Number has been increased especially since the Town is so\\nHealthy that by a Letter sent to the Society for Propagating\\nChristain Knowledge by the Rev. Mr. Bolzius one of the Ministers\\nat Ebcnezcr, dated the 26 June 1740, he declared, That in a\\nYear s Time one Person only had died, which was a Child of\\nFour Years old. The People are Industrious and Sober, they\\nraise not only a sufficient quantity of Corn and other Produces for\\ntheir own Subsistence, but they sell great quantities to those at\\nSavannah who have not been so careful of their own Plantations\\nthey have great Herds of Cattle, and are in so Thriving a Condition\\nthat not one Person has abandoned his Settlement, or sent over\\nthe least Complaint about the Tenures or the Want of Negroes.\\nOn the contrary they in a Body Petitioned against the use of\\nNegroes, and their Ministers have declared, that their Signing that\\nPetition was a voluntary Act And at their desire another Em-\\nbarkation of their Countrymen, w ho are willing to go from Germany\\nand join them, is designed to be sent with all convenient speed.\\nAbout Ten Miles from hence, and upon a River running into\\nSavannah is a Place called Old Ebenezer were is a Cow-pen\\nand a great number of Cattle for the use of the Publick and for\\nBreeding.\\nAt a considerable distance from hence is the Town of Augusta\\nbefore described, which with the great resort of Traders and Indians,\\nis in a thriving Condition, and is and will be a great Protection to\\nboth the Provinces of Carolina and Georgia against any Designs\\nof the French.\\nIn the Southern Part of the Province is the Town of Neiv\\nInverness upon the River Alatamaha where the Highlanders are\\nsettled.\\nAnd about Twenty Miles from hence on the Island of *S\\nSimons near the Sea is the Town of Frederica with a regular\\nMagistracy, as at Savannah, supported at the Expence of the\\nTrust strong Fortifications round the Town are almost finished,\\nand at the South East Point of the Island are Barracks for Three\\nHundred and Thirty Men.\\nThere are Settlements on the Islands of JeJcyll and Cumberland\\nwhich lie at a small distance from each other to the Southward of\\nFrederica, and on the last Two Forts are Built, one of which", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "[34]\\nwas described before, and the other was finished in April 1740\\nupon the South End of the Island. It commands the Inlet of\\nAmelia Sound, is strongly Pallisaded with Flankers, and is De-\\nfended by Eight Pieces of Cannon.\\nBarracks are Built upon this Island for Two Hundred and Twen-\\nty Men with Storehouses, which were finished in October 1738.\\nThere are Six Forts in the Province, and a Battery of Cannon\\nerected to secure the Harbour of St. iSimons, under which Ships\\nmay safely he.\\nThe Indians, from the Presents which they have Annually\\nreceived from the Trustees, and from the Justice and Humanity\\nwith which they have been treated, are secured in the British\\nInterest, notwithstanding the Arts both of the French and the\\nSpaniards to seduce them By this South- Cai-olina has been free\\nfrom those Wars, in which (as the Preamble of his Majesty s\\nCharter sets forth) they had frequently suffered, and so late as in\\nthe Year 1715 had been laid almost Wast with Fire and Sword,\\nand by the Security which South- Carolina received by such a\\nFrontier as Georgia is to it, very large Tracts of Land have been\\nCultivated in the Southern Part of that Province, which no Person\\nwould venture to settle on before, and a great quantity of Rice\\nraised thereon.\\nAs the People in Georgia sent on the Charity were supported\\nto enable them to raise their own Provisions in the first Place on\\nthe Lands they sliould Clear, and to convert the Timber they\\nshould cut down in Clearing those Lands into Lumber, which\\nthey might to their great Advantage Transport to the Sugar Col-\\nonies, and further to raise Silk, Wine and Oil, for which the\\nClimate was very proper, it was hoped from thence they w ould\\ngain a comfortable Subsistence, and be of service to their Mother\\nCountry in raising such Produces, which at prevent are purchased\\nfrom Foreigners with Ready Money.\\nHaving thus stated the Plan laid down for the Trustees by his\\nMajesty s Charter, the several steps taken by them for the Exe-\\ncution of that Plan, with their Yearly Progress therein, the several\\nObstructions from unforeseen Accidents which have checked that\\nProgress, with the present Condition of the Colony, according to\\nthe latest and most authentick Accounts from thence, they submit\\nthe whole to the Wisdom of this Honourable House, being intirely\\ndisposed to follow any Directions that shall flow from thence.\\nAnd as they have no other View but the Service of their Country,\\nby making this Colony as useful to the Interest of Great-Britain,\\nas by it s Situation and Climate it s capable of being, they heartily\\nwith the Trust in abler Hands that those important Services might\\nnot be defeated thro their Inability.\\nBy Order of the Trustees,\\nBenj. Martyn, Secretary.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nJ\\\\*iimher i.\\nTo the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of GEORGIA.\\nGentlem\u00e2\u0082\u00ac7i,\\nN Writing this Answer to a Letter I had the Honour to\\nreceive from you, dated the 29^/t Instant, wherein you desire\\nto know my Sentiments of an Undertaking to raise Raw\\nSilk in your new Settlement in Georgia; of the Probability\\nof succeeding therein the proper steps to be taken to bring that\\nWork to Perfection, and my Opinion of the Nature, Quality and\\nUse of the Raw Silk produced in Carolina It is a great Pleasure\\nto me, that from Experiments which 1 made some Years ago, I\\ncan now besides my Opinion, give you some Information concern-\\ning that Silk which may be depended upon.\\nThe Value and Usefulness of the Undertaking will appear as\\nsoon as we consider that all the Silk consumed in this Kingdom,\\nis now of foreign Growth and Manufacture, which Costs the\\nNation very great Sums of Money Yearly to purchase and that\\nthe raising our Supply thereof in his Majesty s Dominions in\\nAmerica would save us all that Money, afford Employment to\\nmany Thousands of his Majesty s Subjects, and greatly increase\\nthe Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain.\\nIt appears to me as Beneficial to the Kingdom, attended with\\nas little Hazard or Difficulty, as much Wanted, and which may\\nas soon be brought to Perfection in a proper Climate as any Un-\\ndertaking so Considerable in itself, that I ever heard of. I therefore^\\nthink that there is a very great Probability of it s succeeding, ii\\nsuch proper Methods are pursued, and such Assistance afforded\\nto the poor People at their first setting out, as are necessary to\\nSettle, Instruct and Encourage them.\\nThe Silk produced in Carolina has as much natural Strength\\nand Beauty as the Silk of Italy (which is commonly called fine\\nSilk) and lay the several Experiments I have tried with it, I am\\nsatisfied that it might be made to answer the same Purposes that\\nItalian Silk now does, if it be reeled in short Skains, a fine clean\\nand even Thread: To effect which if some experienced Persons\\nare at first sent to Teach tlie People, the Work Avill soon be made\\nV", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "[36]\\neasy to the meanest Capacity, and the value of the Silk will be\\nthereby greatly increased.\\nAs tor my own Part, if at any Time you should think I can be\\nof use to promote so good a Work, I shall be ready to execute\\nyour Commands as far as 1 am able; and always remain,\\nGentlemen,\\nYour most Obedient,\\nHumble Servant,\\nOld Jaorij, Jan. 3 1 1732. Tho. Lomhe.\\nJS*uviber 2.\\nExtract of a Letter from South-Carolina Gazette dated at\\nCharles-Town, 22d. March 1732.\\n^N Tuesday the 13th Instant I went on Board a Canoa in\\nCompany with Mr. Geo. Ducat and Mr. John Balantine, with\\nFour Negroes, and about 10 o Clock we set out from Mr. Lloyd s\\nBridge for Georgia, and passing by Port-Royal on Wednesday\\nNight, we arrived on Friday Morning an Hour before Day at\\nYamacraw a Place so called by the Indians, but now Savannah\\nin the Colony of Georgia. Sometime before we came to the\\nLanding the Centinel challenged us, and understanding who we\\nwere, admitted us on Shore. This is a very high Bluff Forty\\nFeet perpendicular from High Water Mark: it lies according to\\nCapt. Gascoigne s Observation in the Latitude of 31d. 58m.\\nwhich he took off Tybee an Island that lies at the Mouth of the\\nSavannah River. It is distant from Charlestoirn S. W. according\\nto Course and Windings of tlie Rivers and Creeks about 140\\nMiles, but by a Direct Course 77, allowing Suilliva7}t s Island to\\nbe in the Latitude of 32d. 47 m. from Augustine N. E. and by\\nE. about 140 Miles, and by the Course of the Rivers is distant\\nfrom i^oA Moore 300 Miles, but upon a direct Line but 115\\nMiles N. W. and by W. This Bluff is distant 10 Miles from the\\nMouth of the Rivers on the South side, and Purrysburgh is 24\\nMiles above it on the North, and is so situated that you have a\\nbeautifiil Prospect both up and down the River. It is very sandy\\nand barren and consequently a wholsome Place for a Town or\\nCity. There are on it 130 odd Souls, and from the Time they\\nEmbarked from London to the Time I left the Place, there Died\\nbut two sucking Children and them at Sea. When they arrived\\nthere was standing on it a great quantity of the best sort of Pine,\\nmost of which is already cut down on the spot were the Town is\\nlaid out to be Built. The Land is barren about a Mile back,\\nwhen you come into very rich Ground and on both sides within\\na quarter of a Mile of the Town is choice good Planting Land.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "[37j\\nCol. BuU told me that he- had been Seven Miles back and found\\nit extraordinary good.\\nMr. Oglethorpe is indefatigable, takes a great deal of Pains,\\nhis Fare is but indifferent having little else at present but Salt\\nProvisions. He is extreamly well beloved by all his People, the\\ngeneral Title they give him is Father. If any of them is Sick he\\nimmediately Visits them and takes a great deal of Care of them.\\nIf any Difference arises he is the Person that decides it. Two\\nhappened while I was there and in my Presence, and all the\\nParties went away to outward appearance Satisfied and Contented\\nwith his Determination. He keeps a strict Discipline, I never\\nsaw one of his People Drunk nor heard one of them Swear, all\\nthe Time I was there He does not allow them Rum but in lieu\\ngives tiiem English Beer: It is surprizing to see how Chearful\\nthe Men go to Work considering they have not been bred to it\\nThere are no Idlers there even the Boys and Girls do their Parts.\\nThere are Four Houses already up but none finished, and he\\nhopes when he has got more Sawyers, w^hich I suppose he will\\nhave in a short Time, to finish Two Houses a Week. He has\\nploughed up some Land, part of which he has sowed with Wheat,\\nwhich is come up and looks promising. He has Two or Three\\nGardens which he has sowed with divers sorts of Seeds, and\\nplanted Thyme and other sort of Pot-herbs, Sage, Leeks, Skel-\\nlions, Celeri, Liquorice, ^c. and several sorts of Trees. He was\\nPalHsading the Town round including some part of the Common,\\nwhich I do suppose may be finished in about a Fortnight s Time,\\nIn short he has done a vast deal of Work for the Time, and 1\\nthink his Name justly deserves to be immortaliz d.\\nMr. Oglethorpe has with him Sir Walter Rawleigh s Avritten\\nJournal, and by the Latitude of the Place, the Marks and Tradi-\\ntions of the I/uliatis, it is the very first Place where he first went\\non shore, and talked with the Indians, and was the first Englishman\\nthey ever saw and about half a Mile from Savannah is a high\\nMount of Eartli under which lies their Chief King: And the In-\\ndians informed Mr. Oglethorpe that their King desired before he\\ndied, that he might be Buried on the Spot were he talked with\\nthat great good Man.^\\nThe River Water is very good, and Mr. 0^/c? //orpc has proved\\nit several ways, and thinks it as good as the River of Thames.\\nOn Monday the 19^/t we took our Leave of Mr. Oglethorpe at\\nNine o Clock in the Morning, and Embark d for Charlestown\\nand when we set off he was pleased to Honour us with a Volley\\nof Small Arms and the Discharge of Five Cannon And coming\\ndown the Rivers we found the Water perfectly Fresh Six Miles\\nbelow tlie Town, and saw Six or Seven large Sturgeon leap, Vvith\\nwhich Fish that River abounds, as also witii Trout, Perch, Cat", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "[38]\\nand Rock Fish, ^-c. and in the Winter Season there is variety oi\\nWild Fowl, especially Turkeys, some of them weighing Thirty\\nPounds, and abundance of Deer.\\nJS*iLmber 3.\\nRules for the Year 1735.\\nnn He Trustees intend this Year to lay out a County and Build\\na new Toavu in Georgia.\\nThey will give to such Persons as they send upon the Charity,\\nviz.\\nTo every Man, A Watchcoat,\\nA Musquet and Bayonet to those who have\\nthem not of their own.\\nAn Hatchet,\\nAn Hammer,\\nx\\\\n Hand-saw\\nA Shod Shovel or Spade,\\nA broad Hoe,\\nA narrow Hoe,\\nA Gimlet,\\nA Drawing Knife,\\nAnd there will be a Publick Grindstone to\\neach Ward or Village.\\nHe will also have an Iron Pot and a pair of\\nPot-hooks,\\nAnd a Frying Pan.\\nAnd for his Maintenance in the Colony for one Year he will\\nhave,\\n300 Pounds of Beef or Pork,\\n114 Pounds of Rice,\\n114 Pounds of Pease,\\n114 Pounds of Flour,\\n44 Gallons of Strong Beer,\\n64 Quarts of Molasses for Brewing Beer.\\n18 Pounds of Cheese,\\n9 Pounds of Butter,\\n9 Ounces of Spice,\\n9 Pounds of Sugar,\\n5 Gallons of Vinegar,\\n30 Pounds of Salt,\\n12 Quarts of Lamp Oil t a Pound of spun\\nCotton, And 12 Pounds of Soap.\\nAnd to the Mothers, Wives, Sisters or Children of such Men.\\nTo be delivered in\\nsuch proportions\\nand at such times\\nas the Trust shall\\nthink proper.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "To be delivered\\nas above.\\n[39 J\\nProvision will be given in the Colony for One Year in the follow-\\ning manner, viz.\\nTo each Head of them, that is to say to every Peison of the\\nAge of Twelve Years and upwards, viz.\\n300 Pounds of Beef or Pork.\\n1 14 Pounds of Rice,\\n114 Pounds of Pease,\\n114 Pounds of Flour,\\n64 Quarts of Molasses for Brewing Beer.\\n18 Pounds of Cheese,\\n9 Pounds of Butter,\\n9 Ounces of Spice,\\n9 Pounds of Sugar,\\n5 Gallons of Vinegar,\\n30 Pounds of Salt,\\n6 Quarts of Lamp Oil and half a Pounfl\\nof spun Cotton,\\nAnd 12 Pounds of Soap.\\nAnd for every Person above the Age of Seven, and under the\\nAge of Twelve, Half the said Allowance, being esteemed Half\\nan Head.\\nAnd for every Person above the Age of Two and under the\\nAgo of Seven, one Third of the said Allowance, being esteemed\\none Third of an Head.\\nThe Tmstees pay their Passage from England to Georgia.\\nand in the Voyage they will have the following Provisions, viz.\\nIn every Week Four Beef Days, Two Pork Days, and one Fish\\nDay, and their Allowance served out daily as follows That is to sh a\\nOn the Four Beef Days,\\nFour Pounds of Beef for every Mess of Five Heads,\\nAnd Two Pounds and an half of Flour,\\nAnd half a Pound of Suet or Plumbs.\\nOn the Two Pork Days,\\nFive Pounds of Pork }n r-- tt j\\nA jTt T n ir fo lor every 1^ ive Heads.\\nAnd 1 wo rints and hali of rease 5\\n^nd on the Fish Day,\\nTwo Pounds and half of Fish r- tr i\\nA J I ir r 1 r t\u00c2\u00bb Mor every h ive Heads.\\nAnd halt a round ot Butter\\nThe whole at Sixteen Ounces to the Pound,\\nAnd allow each Head Seven Pounds of Broad of Fourteen\\nOunces to the Pound, by the Week.\\nAnd Three Pints of Beer and Two Quarts of Water (whereof\\none of the Quarts for Drinking and the other for Boiling Victuals)\\neach Head by the Day for the space of a Month and a Gallon\\nof Water (whereof Two Quarts for Drinking and the other Two", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "i 10\\nfor Boiling- Victuals) eacli Head by the Day alter during tlieii\\nbeing on the Passage.\\nThe Heads to be accounted in this manner. Every Person\\nabove the Age of Twelve Years to be accounted a whole Head.\\nAll Persons of the Age of Seven Years and under the Age ol\\nTwelve Years to be accounted Two for One. All Persons above\\nthe Age of Two Years and under the Age of Seven Years to be\\naccounted Three for One and any Person under the Age of Two\\nYears is not to be accounted.\\nAnd the said Persons are to enter into the following Covenants\\nbefore their Embarkation, viz.\\nThat they will repair on Board such Ship as shall be provided\\nfor Carrying them to the Province of Georgia, and during the\\nVoyage, will Quietly, Soberly and Obediently demean themselves,\\nand go to such Place in the said Province of Georgia, and there\\nobey all such Orders as shall be given for the better Settling,\\nEstablishing and Governing the said Colony.\\nAnd that for the first Twelve Months from their Landing in the\\nsaid Province of Georgia, they will Work and Labour in Clearing\\ntheir Lands, making Habitations, and necessary Defences, and in\\nall other Works for the common Good and publick Weal of the\\nsaid Colony, at such Times, in sucli Manner, and according to\\nsuch Plan and Directions as shall be given.\\nAnd that they from and after the Expiration of the said last men-\\ntioned Twelve Months, will, during the Two next succeeding\\nYears, abide, settle and inhabit in the said Province of Georgia,\\nand Cultivate the Lands which shall be to them and their Heirs\\nMale severally allotted and given, by all such Ways and Means\\nas according to their several Abilities and Skills they shall be best\\nAble and Capable.\\nAnd such Persons are to be settled in the said Colony, either\\nin new Towns or new Villages.\\nThose in the Towns will have each of them a Lot Sixty Feet\\nin Front and Ninety Feet in Depth, whereon they are to Build an\\nHouse, and as much Land in the Country as in the whole will\\nmake up Fifty Acres.\\nThose in the Villages will each of them have a Lot of Fifty\\nAcres, which is to lie all together, and they are to Build their\\nHouses upon it.\\nAll Lots are Granted in Tail Male and Descend to the Heirs\\nMale of their Bodies for ever: And in Case of Failure of Issue\\nMale Revert to the Trust, to be Granted again to such Persons as\\nthe Common Council of the said Trustees shall think most for the\\nAdvantage of the Colony. And they will have a special regard\\nto the Daughters of Freeholders, who have made Improvements\\non their Lots, not already provided for by having Married, or", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "I 41\\nMarrying Persons in Possession or intitled to Lands in the Pro-\\nvince of Georgia in Possession or Remainder.\\nAll Lots are to be preserved separate and undivided, and cannot\\nbe united, in order to keep up a Number of Men equal to the\\nNumber of Lots, for the better Defence and Support of the Colony.\\nNo Person can Lease out his House or Lot to another without\\n[jicence for that Purpose, that the Colony may not be ruined by\\nAbsentees Receiving and Spending their Rents elsewhere, iheie-\\nfore each Man must cultivate the same by himself or Servants.\\nAnd no Person can Alienate his Land or any part, or any\\nTeiTO, Estate or Interest therein, to any other Person or Persons,\\nwithout special Licence for that Purpose, to prevent the uniting\\nor dividing the Lots.\\nIf any of the Land so Granted, should not be Cultivated, Plant-\\ned, Cleared, Improved or Fenced with a Worm Fence or Pales\\nsix Feet High, during the space of^rfTen Years horn the Date ot\\nthe Grant, then every part thereof not Cultivated, Planted Cleared,\\nImproved or Fenced as aforesaid, shall belong to the Trust, and\\nthe Grant as to such parts shall be void.\\nThere is reserved for the support of the Colony, a Rent Charge\\nfor ever, of Two Shillings Sterling Money for each Fifty Acres\\nthe Payment of which is not to Commence till Ten Years after\\nthe Grant.\\nAnd the Reversion or Remainder expectant on the Demise of\\nsuch Persons without Issue Male, shall remain to the Trust.\\nBut the Wives of the Freeholders in case they should Survive\\ntheir Husbands, are during their Lives intitled to the Mansion\\nHouse and one half of the Lands Improved by their Husbands,\\nthat is to say, inclosed with a Fence of Six Feet High.\\nAll Forfeitures for Non-Residence, High Treason, Felonies,\\nfc. are to the Trustees for the Use of the Colony.\\nNegroes and Rum are Prohibited to be used in the said Colony,\\nand Trade with the Indians, unless Licensed.\\nNone are to have the Benefit of being sent upon the Charity\\nin the manner above-mentioned, but,\\n1 Such as are in Decayed Circumstances, and thereby disabled\\nfrom following any Business in England, and who if in Debt,\\nmust have leave from their Creditors to go.\\n2. Such as have Numerous Families of Children if Assisted by\\ntheir respective Parishes, and Recommended by the Minister,\\nChurch-Wardens and Overseers thereof.\\nThe Trustees do expect to have a good Character of the said\\nPersons given, because no Dmnkards or other notoriously vicious\\nPersons will be taken.\\nAnd for the better to Enable the said Persons to Build the new\\nTown, and Clear the Lands the Trustees will give leave to every", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "[42]\\nf^ reeliolder, to take over witli him One Male Servant or Apprentice\\nof the Age of Eighteen Years and upwards to be Bound for no less\\nthan Four Years, and will by way of Loan to such Freeholder,\\nAdvance the Charges of Passage for such Servant or Apprentice,\\nand Furnishing him with the Cloathing and Provision hereafter\\nmentioned, to be delivered in such proportions, and at such Times,\\nas the Trust shall think proper, viz.\\nA Pallias and Bolster and Blanket for Bedding,\\nA Frock and Trowsers of Lintsey-Woolsey,\\nfor Cloathintr.\\nA Shirt and Frock and Trowsers of Oznabrigs,\\nA pair of Shoes from England,\\nAnd two pair of Country Shoes.\\nAnd 200 Pounds of Meat,\\nAnd 342 Pounds of Rice, Pease, for Food for a Year.\\nor Indian Corn,\\nThe Expence of which Passage, Cloathing and Provisions, is to\\nbe Re-paid the Trustees by the Master, within the Third Year\\nfrom their Embarkation from England.\\nAnd to each Man Servant and the Heirs Male of his Body for\\never, after the Expiration of his Service, upon a Certificate from\\nhis Master of his having Served well, will be granted Twenty Acres\\nof Land, under such Rents and Agreements, as shall have been then\\nlast Granted to any other Man Servant in like Circumstances.\\nSign d by Order of the Common Council of the said Trustees,\\nfor Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, this Second\\nDay of Jiihj, 1742.\\nBenj. Martyn, Secretary.\\nJS iimber 4\\nrilOsuch Persons who can carry Ten men Servants, and settle\\nwith them in Georgia, at their own Expence, and whose Char-\\nacters the Trustees, upon Enquiry, shall approve of, will be granted\\nFive Hundred Acres of land in Tail Male, and descend to the Heirs\\nMale of their Bodies for ever, under the Yearly Rents of Twenty\\nShillings Sterling Money for every Hundred Acres, for the Support\\nof the Colony, the Payment of which is not to commence until\\nTen Years after the Grant.\\nAnd the Land is so granted upon the following Conditions and\\nConvenants,\\nThat such Persons do pay the Rent reserved as the same shall\\nbecome due, and no Part to be unpaid for six Months after due.\\nThat they within a Month of the Grant shall register the same,\\nor a Memorial thereof with the Auditor of the Plantations.", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "[43]\\nThat they within Tu elve Montlis from the Grant, shall go to\\niuicl arrive in Georgia, with Ten able Bodied Men Servants heing\\neach of the Age oi Twenty Years and upwards.\\nThat they shall abide in Georgia with such Men Servants\\nTliree Years from the Registring the Grant there, Building their\\nHouses and Cultivating their Lands.\\nThat they shall Clear and Cultivate within Ten Years from the\\nGrant Two Hundred Acres of Land, part of the said Five Hundred\\nAcres, and Plant Two Thousand white INIulberry-Trees or Plants\\nthereupon, and on every Hundred of the other Three Hundred\\nAcres, One Thousand White Mulberry-Trees or Plants when\\nCleared, and preserve the same Quantity from time to tiiue there-\\nupon, the Trustees obliging themselves to furnish the Plants.\\nThat they do not Alienate the said Five Hundred Acres of\\nLand or any part thereof for any Term of Years, or any Estate or\\nInterest in the same, to any Person or Persons without special\\nLeave.\\nThat they do not make Pot-ash in Partnership without Leave,\\nbut may make it themselves not in Partnership.\\nOn the Determination of the Estate in Tail Male the Land to\\nRevert to the Trust.\\nThat they shall not depart the said Prcrvihce without Licence.\\nAll Forfeitures for Non-Residence, High Treason, Felonies fc.\\nare to the Trustees for the Use and Benefit of the Colony.\\nIf any part of the said Five Hundred Acres of Land shall not be\\nCultivated, Planted, Cleared and Fenced round about with Worm-\\nFence or Pales Six Feet high, within Eighteen Years from the\\nGrant, all and every such part shall Revert to the Trust, and the\\nGrant as to such Part be void.\\nAnd the Common Council of the Trust at the Expirations of\\nthe Terms such Men Servants shall be severally bound for, (being\\nnone less than Four Years) when requested by the Grantee, will\\nGrant to each of such Men Servants Twenty Acres of land in Tail\\nMale, under such Rents, Conditions, Limitations and Agreements,\\nas shall have been then last Granted to any Others Men Servants\\nin like Circumstance.\\nWhen the Land Reverts to the Trust on the Detemiination of\\nthe Estate in Tail iMale. it is to be Granted again to such Person\\nas the Common Council of the Trust shall think most for the\\nAdvantage of the Colony, and the Trust will have a special Regard\\nto the Daughters of such who have made improvements on their\\nLots, not already provided for by having Married or Marrying\\nPersons in Possession or intitled to Lands in the Province of\\nGeorgia in Possession or Remainder.\\nAnd the Wives of such Persons in case they should survive their\\nHusbands, are, during their Lives, Intitled to the xMonsion House\\nG", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "[44]\\nunci one iiulfof ilie Lands Improved by their Husbands, that is to\\nsay, inclosed with a Fence Six Feet high.\\nNegroes and Rum are Prohibited to be used in the said Pro-\\niuce, and Trade with the Indians unless Licensed.\\nJS iimber 5.\\nTo the KING S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.\\nThe Humble Memorial and Representation of the State and\\nCondition of Your Majesty^ Province of South-Carolina,\\nfrom^ the General Assembly of the said Province.\\nOUR IMajesty s most Dutiful Subjects of this Province, having\\noften felt with Hearts full of Gratitude, the many Signal Instan-\\nces of your most Sacred Majesty s peculiar Favour and Protection,\\nto those Distant Parts of your Dominions, and especially those late\\nProofs of your Majesty s most Gracious and Benign Care, so wisely\\ncalculated for the Preservation of this your Majesty s Frontier\\nProvince on the Continent of America, by your Royal Charter to\\nthe Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, and your\\nGreat Goodness so Timely applied, for the promoting the Settle-\\nment of the Sioiss at Purrysburgh Encouraged by such views of\\nyour Majesty s Wise and Paternal Care, extended to your Remotest\\nSubjects, and Excited by the Duty we owe to your most Sacred\\nMajesty, to be always Watchful lor the Support and Secm-ity of\\nyour Majesty s Interest, especially at this very critical Conjuncture^\\nwhen the Flame of a War breaking out in Enropc, may very\\nspeedily be lighted here in this your Majesty s Frontier Province,\\nwhich, in Situation, is known to be of the utmost Importance to\\nthe General Trade and Traffick in America We therefore your\\nMajesty s most faithful Governor, Council and Commons, convened\\nin your Majesty s Province of Sonth- Carolina, crave Leave with\\ngreat Humility to Represent to your Majesty the present State\\nand Condition of this your Province, and how greatly it stands in\\nneed of your Majesty s Gracious and Timely Succour in case of a\\nWar, to Assist our Defence against the French and Spaniards, or\\nany other Enemies to your Majesty s Dominions, as well as against\\nthe many Nations of Savages which so nearly Threaten the Safety\\nof your Majesty s Subjects.\\nThe Province oi SouiJi- Carolina, and the new Colony of Geor-\\ngia Sive the Southern Frontiers of all your Majesty s Dominions ob\\nthe Continent of America, to the South and South-West of which\\nis Situated the strong Castle of St. Augustine, Garrison d by Four\\nHundred Spaniards, who have several Nations oi Indians under\\ntheir Subjection, besides several other small Settlements and Gar-\\nrisons, some of which are not Eighty Miles Distant from th", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "[45]\\nColony of Georgia. To the South-West and West ot us the\\n-uich have erected a considerable Town near Fort Thoulouse\\nthe MoviUe-R wex, and several other Forts and Garrisons, some\\nH above Three Hundied Miles distant from our Settlements\\nand at New- Orleans on the Mississippi River, since her late\\n5\\\\^ .ie3ty Queen Aimers War they have exceedingly increased\\nbrrengili and Tralnck, and have now many Forts and Gar-\\n.as on both sides of that great River for several Hundred Miles\\nup the same and since his most Christian Majesty has taken out\\nof th^ Mississippi Company, the Government of that Country\\ninto his own Kands, the French Natives in Canada, come daily\\ndown m Shoals to settle all along that River, Avhere many Regular\\nForces have of late been sent over by the King to Strengthen the\\nGarrisons in those Places, and according to our best and latest\\nAdvices, they have Five Hundred Men in Pay, constantly employ-\\ned as Wood-Rangers, to keep their Neighbouring Indians in Sub-\\njection, and to prevent the distant ones from Disturbing the\\nSettlements; vviiich Management of the French has so well succeed-\\ned, that we are no\\\\v very well assured they ha\\\\ e wholly now in\\ntheir Possession and under their Influence, the several numerous\\nNations of Indians that are Situate near the Mississippi River,\\none of which called the Choctaws by estimation consits of about\\nFive Thousand Fighting Men, and who were always deemed a\\nvery Warlike Nation, lies on tiiis side the River not above Four\\nHundred Miles distant from our Out-settlements, among whom, as\\nwell as several other Nations of Indians, many French Europeans\\nhave been sent to settle, whom the Priests and Missionaries among\\nthem encourage to take Indian Wives, and use divers other al-\\nluring Methods to Attach the Indians the better to the French\\nAlliance, by which Means the French ure become tlioroughly ac-\\nquainted with the Indian Way, W arring and Living in the Woods,\\nand have now a great Number of White Men among them, able to\\nperform a long JMarch with an Army of Indians upon any Ex-\\npedition.\\nWe further beg leave to inform your Majesty, tliat if the\\nMeasures of France should provoke your Majesty to a State of\\nHostility against it in Europe, we have great reason to expect aji\\nInvasion will be here made upon your Majesty s Subjects by the\\nFrench and Indians fi om the Mississippi Settlements They have\\nalready paved a Way for a Design of that Nature, by Erecting a\\nFort called the Alhama Fort, alias Fort Lewis, in the middle of\\nthe upper Creek Indians, upon a Navigable River leading to\\nMovi/Je, which they have kept well Garrisoned and Mounted with\\nFourteen Pieces of Cannon, and have lately been pievcnted from\\nerecting a Second nearer to us on that Quarter. The Creeks are\\na Nation very Bold, Active and Daring, consisting of about\\nThirteen Hundred Fighting Men (and not above One Hundred", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "[46]\\nand Fifty Miles distant from the Choctaws) whom, though wt*\\nheretofore have Traded with, claimed and held in our Alliance,\\nyet the French on Account of that Fort and a superiour ability to\\nmake tiiem Liberal Presents, have been for some time striving to\\ndraw them over to tlieir Interest, and have Succeeded with some\\nof the Towns of the Creeks which, if they can be Secured in\\nyour Majesty s Interest, are the only Nation which your Majesty s\\nSubjects here can depend upon as the best Barrier against any\\nAttempts either of the French or their Confedrate Indians..\\nWe most Humbly pray Leave farther to inform your Majesty,\\nthat the French at MovilJe perceiving that they could not gain\\nthe In\\\\Hans to their Interest, witljout buying their Deer-Skins\\n(which is the only Commodity the Indians have to purchase\\nNecessaries with) and the French not being able to dispose of\\nthose Skins by reason of their having no Vend for them in Old\\nFrance, they have found Means to incourage Vessels from hence,\\nNew-York, and other Places (which are not Prohibited by the\\nActs of Trade) to Tmck those Skins with them for Indian Trading\\nGoods, especially the British Woollen Manufactures, which the\\nFrench dispose of to the Creeks and Choctaws, Qndoihev Indians,\\nby which Means the Indians are much more Alienated from our\\nInterest, and on every Occasion object to us that the French can\\nsupply them with Strouds and Blankets as well as the English,\\nwhich would have the contrary Effect if they were wholly supplied\\nwith those Commodities by your Majesty s Subjects Trading with\\nthem. If a Stop were therefore put to that peniicious Trade with\\nthe French, the Cree^^ /^if/jVms chief Dependance would be on this\\nGovernment, and that of Georgia, to supply them with Goods\\nby wliich Means great Part of the Chociaws, Yw mg next the Creeks,\\nwould see the Advantage the Creek Indians enjoyed by having\\nBritish Woollen JVIanufactures wholly from yom- Majesty s Sub-\\njects, and thereby be invited in a short Time to Enter into a Treaty\\nof Commerce with us, which they have lately made some Offers\\nfor, and which, if Effected, will soon lessen the Interest of the\\nFrench with those Indians, and by Degrees Attach them to that\\nof your ]\\\\Iajesty.\\nThe only Expedient we can propose to Recover and Confirm\\nthat Nation to your Majesty s Interest, is by speedily making them\\nPresents to withdraw them from the French Alliance, and by\\nBuilding some Forts among them your Majesty may be put in such\\na Situation, that on the first Notice of Hostilities with the French,\\nyour Majesty may be able at once to reduce the Albania Fort,\\nand we may then si and against the French and their Indians.\\nwhich, if not timely prepared for before a War breaks out, Ave\\nhave too much Reason to Fear we may be soon over-nm by the\\nunited strength of the French, the Creeks and Choctaws, with\\nniany other Nations of their Indians Allies For, should the", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "[47]\\nCreeks iDeeome wholly Enemies, who are well acquainted wiih all\\nour Settlements, we probably should also be soon Deserted by the\\nCherokees, and a few othei-s, small Tribes of Indians, who, for the\\nsake of our Booty, would readily join to make us a Prey to the\\nFrench and iSavoges. Ever since the late Indian War the Of-\\nfences given us then by the Creeks have made that Nation very\\nJealous of your Majesty s Subjects of this Province. We have\\ntherefore concerted Measures with the Honoui-able James Ogle-\\nthorpe, Esq; who, being at the Head of a new Colony, will (we\\nhope) be Successlul for your Majesty s Interest amongst that\\nPeople. He has already by Presents Attached the Lower Creeks\\nto your Majesty, and has laudably undertaken to endeavour the\\nfixing a Garrison among the Upper Creeks, the Expence of which\\nis already in part provided for in this Session of the General As-\\nsenibly of this Province We hope therefore to prevent the\\nFrench from Encroaching farther on your Majesty s Territories,\\nuntil your Majesty is graciously pleased further to Strengtlien and\\nSecme the same.\\n^Ve find the Cherokee Nation has lately become very Insolent\\nto your jMajesty s Subjects Trading among them, notwithstanding\\nthe many Favours rhe Chiefs of that Nation received from your\\nMajesty m Great-Britain, besides a considerable Expence which\\nyour Majesty s Subjects of this Province have been at in making\\nthem Presents, which inclines us to believe that the French by\\ntheir Indians have been tampering with them. We therefore\\nbeg leave to inform your Majesty, that the Building and Mounting\\nsome Forts likewise among the Cherokees, and making them\\nPresents will be highly necessary to keep them steady in their\\nDuty to your Majesty, lest the French may prevail in Seducing\\nthat Nation, which they may the more readily be inclined to from\\nthe Prospect of getting considerable Plunder in Slaves, Cattle,\\nfc. Commodities which they very well know they have among\\nus, several other Forts will be indispensably necessary, to be a\\ncover to your Majesty s Subjects settled backwards in this Province,\\nas also to those of the Colony of Georgia, both which in Length\\nare very extensive for tho the Trustees for Establishing the\\nColonv of Georgia, by a particular Scheme of good Management\\nPainfully Conducted by the Gentleman engaged here in that\\nChaiitable Enterprize, has put that small part of the Colony,\\nwhich he has not yet been able to establish, in a Tenable Condition\\nagainst the Spaniards of Florida which lie to the Southward\\nyet the back Exposition of those Colonies to the vast Number of\\nFrench and Indians which border on the Westward, must, incase\\nof a War, cry greatly aloud for your Majesty s Gracious and Timely\\nSuccour. The Expence of our Safety on such an Occasion, we\\nmust, w ith all Humility, acquaint your Majesty, either for Men or\\nMoney, can never be Effected by your Majesty s Subjects of this", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "[48]\\nProvince, who, in conjanciion with Georgia, do not in the whole\\namount to more than Three Thousand Five Hundred Men, which\\nCompose the Militia and wholly consist of Planters, Tradesmen\\nand other Men of Business.\\nBesides the many Dangers which by Land we are exposed to\\nfrom so many Enemies that lie on the back of us Vv^e further beg\\nleave to represent to your Majesty, the Defenceless Condition of our\\nPorts and Harbours, were any Enemies ol your Majesty s Do-\\nminions may very easily by Sea Invade us, there being no For-\\ntifications capable of making much Resistence. Those in Charles-\\nToivn Harbour are now in a very ruinous Condition, occasioned\\nby the late violent Storms and Hurricanes which already cost this\\nCountry a great deal of Money, and now requires several Thou-\\nsands of Pounds to Repair the old and Build new ones, to Mount\\nthe Ordnance which your Majesty was graciously Pleased to send\\nus, which, with great Concern, we must inform your Majesty we\\nhave not yet been able to accomplish, being latel\\\\ obliged lor the\\nDefence and Suj)port of this your Majesty s Province and Govern-\\nment, to Raise, by a Tax on the Inhabitants, a Supply of above\\nForty Thousand Pounds Paper Currency per Annum, which is\\na considerable deal more than a Third Part of all the Currency\\namong us a Charge which your Majesty s Subjects of this\\nProvince are but barely able to Sustain. Since your Majesty s\\nRoyal Instruction to your Majesty s Governour here, an intire\\nStop has been put to the Duties v.hich before accrued irom\\nEuropean Goods Imported and if a War should happen, or any\\nthing extraordinary, to be farther Expensive here, we should be\\nunder the utmost Difficulties to provide additionally for the same,\\nlest an Increase of Taxes with an Apprehension of Danger, should\\ndrive away many of our present Inhabitants, as well as Discourage\\nothers from coming here to Settle for the Defence and Improve-\\nment of your Majesty s Province, there being several daily moving\\nwith their Families and Effects to North- Carolina, were there\\nare no such Fears and Burdens.\\nWe must therefore beg leave to inform your Majesty, that,\\namidst our other perilous Circumstances, we are Subject to many\\nIntestine Dangers from the great Number of Negroes that are now\\namong us, who amount at least to Twenty Two Thousand Persons,\\nand are Three to One of all your Majesty s White Subjects in this\\nProvince. Insurrections against us have been often Attempted,\\nand wouUl at any Time prove very Fatal if the French should\\ninstigate them, by artfully giving them an Expectation of Freedom.\\nIn such a Situation we most humbly Crave leave to acquaint your\\nMajesty, that even the present ordinary Expences necessary for\\nthe Care and Support of this your Majesty s Province and Go-\\nvernment, cannot be provided for by your Majesty s Subjects of\\nthis Province, without your Majesty s gracious Pleasure to Con-", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "[49]\\nliiiue those Laws tor Establishing the Negroes and other Duiic;\\nfor Seven Years, and for appropriating the same, which now lie\\nbefore your Majesty for your Koyal Assent and Approbation\\nand the further Expences that will be requisite for the Erectinf\\nsome Forts and Establishing Garrisons in the several necessary\\nPlaces, so as to form a Barrier for the Security of this your\\nMajesty s Province, we most humbly Submit to your Majesty.\\nYour Majesty s Subjects of this Province, with fullnes of Zeal\\nDuty and Affection to your most Gracious and Sacred Majesty,\\nare so highly sensible of the great Importance of this Province to\\nthe French, that w^e must conceive it more than probable, if a\\nWar should happen, they will use all Endeavours to bring this\\nCountry under their Subjection they would be thereby Enabled\\nto Support their Sugar Islands with all sorts of Provisions and\\nLumber by an easy Navigation, which to our great Advantage is\\nnot so Practicable from the present French Colonies, besides the\\nfacility of gaining then to their Interest most of the Indian Trade\\non the Northern Continent they might then easily unite the\\nCanadees and Choctaws with the many other Nations of Indians\\nwhich are now in their Interest. And the several Ports and\\nHarbours of Carolina and Georgia which now enable your\\nMajesty to be absolute Master of the Passage thro the Gulph of\\nFlorida, and to impede, at your Pleasure, the Transportation\\nhome of the Spanish Treasure, would then prove so many Con-\\nvenient Harbours for our Majesty s Enemies, by their Privateers\\nor Ships of War to annoy a great Part of the British Trade to\\nAmerica, as well as that which is carried on through the Gulph\\nfrom Jamaica; besides the Loss which Great-Britain must feel\\nin so considerable a Part of it s Navigation, as well as the Exjiorts\\nof Masts, Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, which, without any De-\\npendance on the Nothern Parts of Europe, are from hence\\nplentifully supplied for the Use of the British Shipping-.\\nThis is the present State and Condition of your Majesty s\\nProvince of South- Carolina, utterly incapable of finding Funds\\nsufficient for the Defence of this Wide Frontier, and so destitute\\nof White Men, that even Money itself cannot here raise a sufficient\\nBody of them.\\nWith all Himrility we therefore beg Leave to lay ourselves at\\nthe Feet of your Majesty, humbly imploring your Majesty s most\\ngracious Care in the Extremities we should be reduced to on the\\nbreaking out of a War and that your Majesty would be graciously\\npleased to extend your Protection to us, as your Majesty, in your\\ngreat Wisdom, shall think proper.\\nRobert Johnson,\\nTho. Broughton\\n7734^ Paul Jcnys, Speaker.\\nIn the Council-Chamber o( rrn r, r\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "[50 J\\nJS umbev 6.\\nTUomas Feurce, aged Forty Years and upwards, of the Dover\\nMan of War, Mariner, having been at Georgia in America,\\non board the Peter and James, Captain George Dymond, in the\\nYear One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty-five and, from\\nthat Ship, on board the Hawk Sloop, Stationed at Georgia until\\nthe Bednninp of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and\\nThirty-nine and having Sounded every Inlet, from the Sea all\\nalong tlie Coast of Georgia, from Jekyll Sound to Tyhee Sound,\\nmaketh Oath and saith,That the said Coast Four Leagues from\\nthe Land, is all even Ground, not less than Seven or Eight Fathom\\nWater, and any Ship keeping in that Depth of Water may Steer\\nalong the same with the greatest Safety, and Anchor if they have\\noccasion That on the Bar at Jekyll there is at least Thirteen\\nFeet and a half, at low Water, and at High Spring Tides Twenty-\\nfour Feet and on the Bar at Tyhee there is at least Sixteen\\nFeet and a half at low Water, and at High Water Spring Tides\\nTwenty-five Feet and a half; and the Difference between the\\nSpring and Niep Tides is generally between Three and J our\\nFeet.\\nAnd this Deponent farther saith, That he is well assured, and\\nwould undertake, by Sounding with a Boat, even at Niep Tides,\\nto carry in Forty-Gun Ships over either of the said Bars and\\nsaith, That he hath seen in the Sound at St. Simon s, from\\nJekyll Bar, Ten Sail of Ships at one Time, and that Ten or\\nTwelve Forty Gun Ships may safely ride there but behind\\nJekyll Island there is Water and Room enough for Shipping for\\nTen Miles up and that the Sound at Tyhee is large enough to\\nhold with Safety Seven or Eight Forty Gun Ships.\\nAnd this Deponent farther saith. That Ships in Jekyll Sound\\nnuiy in Twenty-four Hours, from the Bar, run out into the Gulf-\\nStream of Florida, through which Stream the Spanish Galleons\\n(when not passing the Winward Passage) always come.\\nThomas Pearce.\\nMumber 7.\\nTo the KING S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.\\nThe humble Memorial of the Trustees for Establishing the\\nColony of Georgia in America.\\nHumbly Sheweth,\\nP Hat they being intrusted by your Majesty with the Care oi\\nthe Colony of Georgia, which was formerly Part of your\\nMajesty s Province of South- Carolina, and your Majesty s\\nColony of Georgia being very much exposed to the Power of", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "[51]\\nthe Spaniards, and become an object of their Envy, by having\\nvaluable Ports upon the homeward Passage from the Spanish\\nWest-Indies, and the Spaniards having increased their Forces\\nin the Neiglibourhood thereof; The Trustees, in consequence of\\nthe great IVust reposed in them by your Majesty, find themselves\\nobliged, humbly to lay before your Majesty, their Inability\\nsufficiently to Protect your Majesty s Subjects settled in Georgia,\\nunder the Encouragement of your Majesty s Charter, against\\nthis late Increase of Forces, and therefore become humble Sup-\\npliants to your Majesty, on the Behalf of your Subjects settled\\nin the Province of Georgia, that your Majesty would be pleased\\nto take their Preservation into your Royal Consideration, that,\\nby a necessary Supply of Forces, the Province may be Protected\\nagainst the great Dangers that seem immediately to Threaten it.\\nAll which is most humbly submitted to your Majesty s great\\nWisdom.\\nSigned by Order of the Trustees, this lO^A Day oi August,\\n1737.\\nBenj. Martyn, Secretary.\\nJS amber 8.\\nTo the Honourable the Trustees for Establishing the Colony\\nof Georgia in America.\\nMay it please your Honours,\\nVKfTSi, whose Names are under-vi^ itten, being all Settlers, Free-\\nholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of Georgia, and\\nbeing sensible of the great Pains and Care exerted by you, in\\nendeavouring to settle this Colony, since it has been under your\\nProtection and Management, do unanimously join to lay before\\nyou, with the utmost Regret, the following Particulars.\\nBut, in the first Place, we must beg Leave to observe, That it\\nhas afforded us a great deal of Concern and Uneasiness, that\\nformer Representations, made to you, of the same Nature, have\\nnot been thought worthy of a due Consideration, nor even of an\\nAnswer. We have most of us settled in this Colony, in pursuance\\nof a Description and Recommendation of it, by you, in Britain;\\nand from the Experience of residing here several Years, do find,\\nthat it is impossible the Measures hitherto laid down for making\\nit a Colony can succeed. None of all those who have planted\\ntheir Lands, have been able to raise sufficient Produce to maintain\\ntheir Families, in Bread-kind only, even though as inuch Ap-\\nplication and Industry have been exerted to bring it about, as\\ncould be done by Men engaged in an Affah in wliich they believe", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "[52]\\nthe Welfare of themselves and Posterity so much depended, and\\nwhich they imagine must require more than ordinary Pains to\\nmake it succeed so that by the accumulated Expences, every\\nYear, of Provisions, Cloathing, Medicines, fyc. for themselves,\\nFamilies, and Servants, several of them have expended all their\\nMoney, nay, even run considerably in Debt, and so been obliged\\nto leave off Planting, and making further Improvements and\\nthose who continue are daily exhausting more and more of their\\nMoney, and some daily increasing their Debts, without a Pos-\\nsibility of being reimburs d, according to the present Constitution.\\nThis being now the General State of the Colony, it must be\\nobvious, that People cannot subsist by their Land according to\\ntheir present Establishment, and this being a Tnith resulting\\nfrom Trial, Practice, and Experience, cannot be contradicted by\\nany Theorical Scheme or Reasoning. The Land then, accord-\\ning to the present Constitution, not being able to maintain the\\nSettlers here, they must unavoidably have recourse to, and depend\\nupon, Trade but to our woeful Experience likewise, the same\\nCauses that prevent the first, obstruct the latter for though the\\nSituation of this Place is exceeding well adapted for Trade, and,\\nif it were encouraged, might be much more improved by the In-\\nhabitants, yet the Difficulties and Restrictions which we hitherto\\nhave and at present do labour under, debar us of that Advantage.\\nTimber is the only Thing we have here which we can Export,\\nand notwithstanding we are obliged to fall it in planting our Land,\\nyet we cannot manufacture it fit for a Foreign Market, but at\\ndouble the Expence of other Colonies as for Instance the River\\nof May, which is but Twenty Miles fi-om us, with the Allowance\\nof Negroes, load Vessels Avith that Commodity at one half of the\\nPrice that we can do and what should induce Persons to bring\\nShips here, when they can be loaded with one Half of the Ex-\\npence so near us Therefore the Timber on the Land is only a\\ncontinual Charge to the Possessors of it, though of very great\\nService in all the Northern Colonies, where Negroes are allowed,\\nand consequently Labour cheap. We do noi in the least doubt,\\nbut that in Time Silk and Wine may be produced here, particu-\\nlarly the former but since the Cultivation of Lands with White\\nServants only cannot raise Provision for our Families, as before\\nmentioned, therefore it is likewise impossible to carry on these\\nManufactures according to the present Constitution. It is very\\nwell known that Carolina can raise every thing that this Colony\\ncan, and they having their Labour so much cheaper, will always\\nruin our Market, unless we are in some measure on a Footing\\nwith them and as in both, the Land is worn out in Four or Five\\nYears, and then fit for nothing but Pasture, we must be always\\nat a great deal more Expence than they in clearing new Land for", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "[53]\\nPlanting. The Importation of Necessaries for Life comes to us\\nat the most extravagant Rate, Merchants in general, especially of\\nEngland, not being willing to supply the Settlers with Goods\\nupon Commission, because no Person here can make them any\\nSecurity of their Lands and Improvements, as is very often\\npractised in other Places, to promote Trade, when some of the\\nEmployer s Money is laid out in necessary Buildings and Im-\\nprovements, fitted for the Trade intended, without which it can-\\nnot be carried on. The Benefit of the Importation, therefore, is\\nto all transient Persons who do not lay out any Money amongst\\nus, but on the contrary carry every Penny out of the Place\\nAnd the chief Reason for their enhancing the Price, is, because\\nthey cannot get any Goods here, either on Freight or Purchase,\\nfor another Market. If the Advantage accruing from Importation\\ncentered in the Inhabitants, the Profit thereof would naturally\\ncirculate amongst us, and be laid out in Improvements in the\\nColony. Your Honors, we imagine, are not insensible of the Num-\\nbers that have left this Province, not being able to support them-\\nselves any longer, and those still remaining, who have Money of\\ntheir own, and Credit with their Friends, have laid out most of the\\nformer in Improvements, and lost the latter for doing it on such\\nprecarious Titles and upon account of the present Establishment,\\nnot above Two or Three Persons, except those brought on\\nCharity, and Servants sent by you, have come here for the Space\\nof Two Years past, either to settle Land or encourage Trade,\\nneither do we hear of any such hkely to come, until we are on\\nbetter Terms.\\nIt is true, his Majesty has been graciously pleased to Grant a\\nRegiment for the Defence of this Province, and the neighbouring\\nColony, which indeed will very much Assist us in Defending\\nourselves against all Enemies, but otherwise does not in the least\\ncontribute to our Support; for all that part of their Pay which is\\nexpended here, is laid out with Transient People, and our Neigh-\\nbours of Carolina, who are capable to supply them with Provi-\\nsions and other Necessaries at a moderate Price, which we, as before\\nobserved, are not at all capable to do, upon the present Establish-\\nment This being our present Condition it is obvious what the\\nConsequences must be.\\nBut we, for our parts, having intirely relied on, and confided in,\\nyour good Intentions, believing you would Redress our Grievances\\nthat should appear, and now, by our long Experience from Indus-\\ntry and continual Application to Improvement of Land here, do\\nfind it impossible to pursue it, or subsist ourselves any longer, ac-\\ncording to the present nature of the Constitution And likewise\\nbelieving you will agree to those Measures which are found by\\nExperience, capable to make this Colony succeed, and to promote", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "[54]\\nwhich we have consumed our Money, Time and Labour we do,\\nfrom a sincere and true Regard to it s Welfare, and in Duty both\\n10 you and ourselves, beg leave to lay before your immediate\\nConsideration, the Two following chief Causes of these our present\\nMislbrtunes, and this deplorable State of the Colony and which,\\nwe are certain, if Granted, would be an infallible Remedy for\\nboth.\\n1. The want of a Free Title or Fee Simple to our Lands,\\nwhich, if Granted, w^ould occasion great Numbers of new Settlers\\nto come among us, and likewise encourage those who remain here,\\nchearfully to proceed in making further Improvements, as well to\\nretrieve their sunk Fortunes, as to make Provision for tbeir Pos-\\nterity.\\n2. The want and use of Negroes with proper Limitations,\\nwhich, if Granted, would both induce great Numbers of White\\nPeople to come here, and also render us Capable to subsist our-\\nselves by raising Provisions upon our Lands, until we could make\\nsome Produce of it for Export, and in some measure to balance\\nour Importation. We are very sensible of the Inconveniences\\nand Mischiefs that have already, and do daily arise from an un-\\nlimited use of Negroes; but we are as sensible that these might\\nbe prevented by a due Limitation, such as, so many to each White\\nMan, or so many to such a Quantity of Land, or in any other\\nManner which your Honours shall think most proper. By Grant-\\ning us. Gentlemen, these Two particulars, and such other Privi-\\nleges as his Majesty s most dutiful Subjects in America enjoy,\\nyou will not only prevent our impending Ruin, but we are fully\\nsatisfied, also, will soon make this the most flourishing Colony\\npossessed by his Majesty in America, and your Memories w ill be\\nperpetuated to all future Ages, our latest Posterity sounding your\\nPraises as their first Founders, Patrons and Guardians But if,\\nby Denying us those Privileges, we ourselves and Families are not\\nonly Ruined, but even our Posterities likewise, you will always\\nbe mentioned as the Cause and Authors of all their Misfortunes\\nand Calamities; which we hope will never happen.\\nWe are, icith all due Respect,\\nYoiir Honours most Dutiful,\\nand Obedient Servants\\nHenry Parker, Sam. Mercer,\\nRobert f Gilbert, his mark. Robert Williams,\\nThomas Christie, Patrick Graham,\\nJohn FalloivJielJ, Da. Dous;las,\\nJohn Brownfie.ld, Tho. Baillie,\\nWilliam Woodroofe. Hugh Anderson,\\nPat, Tailfer, James Carivtlls,", "height": "3340", "width": "1899", "jp2-path": "accountshewingpr00mart_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "[55]\\nAnd. Grant,\\nJos. Fit z waiter,\\nEHsha Forster,\\nWalter Fox,\\nWilliam Ewen,\\nJ. Amoury,\\nJn. Houston,\\nJames IVilliams,\\nEdivard Jenkins,\\nThomas Omaston,\\nJoseph Wardrop,\\nGeorge Buncle,\\nAdrian Loyer,\\nP. Jouhert,\\nJohn Burton,\\nRobert Hoivs,\\nWm.. f Maiers, his mark,\\nThomas Salter,\\nJames Baillow,\\nJames Anderson,\\nJohn Seillie,\\nWilliam, Starjickeit,\\nPetrc Baillou,\\nPeter Emory,\\nHenry Lloyd,\\nWm. Elbert,\\nJohn Smith,\\nWm. Cahert,\\nStephen Marrauld,\\nJacob Matheivs,\\nIsaac Young,\\nRobert Hainks,\\nArchibald, Glen,\\nTho. Neale,\\nStephen f Terien, his mark.\\nSam. Ward,\\nJames f Smith, his maik.\\nPierre Morel,\\nStephen de Monford,\\nDavid Gainder,\\nJames f Chensac, his mark.\\nJames f Landry, his mark.\\nSimson f Rouviere, his mark.\\nLouis Stamen,\\nThomas Tripp,\\nSam. 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