I find that for want of a Husband to put the things regularly on board the 200 Deals are absolutely lost. Perhaps they were never put on board. This will be a very great disappointment and I must either expose the people to Fluxes by lying in the open air upon their first landing or else delay the Settlemt till I can get Boards sawed in Georgia the consequence of which delay I cannot yet tell. The charge will be very great of keeping the ships upon Demurrage besides the danger of a general satisfaction amongst the people.

If you do not send the Seeds by us you had better send them to the Seeds-man & get the Money back, for sending them by Harbin or Thompson they will arrive so late that they will be useless this Year & be spoiled before next. In my last I desired they might be sent by Nicholson if you could not send them by the Stage Coach. But if you cannot send them to Portsmouth time enough for us to take them in you had better return them to the Gardiner for I find that any ship that is not already in the Downs will be too late.

With respect to Capt. Thompson I think you had better left it as it was, that he should go from Bristol & Harbin

*P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 22.

from London. To send Passengers and Goods from Bristol to London in order to go to America is doubling the expence and length of the voyage for the being out of the Channel which the Bristol people are, is one half of the voyage to Georgia. For Harbin to go to Bristol would be still worse for all the passengers he has on board will be eating and losing time & the Servants perhaps provoked to dissert.

I wish you could send to Portsmouth a Quart of Daffy's Elixir. We can find but one little Chest of Medicines (that on board Thomas) so I have divided it.

The Winds hang westerly & I fear we have lost our Opportunity by staying for Thomas's Ship. If we had sailed the Day I went on Board we should probably by this time have been at the Maderas. My humble servce to all the Gen: I am,

Capt. Thomas & Capt. Corinsh gave me notice on Saturday last that they could continue their Voyage the Wind being fair therefore they must be allowed Demurrage till we leave this Harbour. The People are all well & Captain Gascoigne

* P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 24.

will be ready to sail with us on Tuesday Night or Wednesday morning.

I am,

Sir,

Your humble Servt,

JAMES OGLETHORPE.

P. S. I send you by the Portsmouth Coach a Box with the Thernomiter which was broke. Pray let it be carried to Mr. Scarlets to be mended & send it me over by the first ship.

I have received the Letters with an Acct that Thompson is to follow me soon and am very much obliged to the Trustees for their great Diligence to support me by the speedy sending what in the hurry was forgot. The delay of the Man of War has occasioned a vast deal of Charge & will occasion much more & also give me an infinite deal of trouble to retrieve the loss of the Season but I hope by the Blessing of God we shall be able to go thro' the Undertaking tho' not in so full a manner as I should have been enabled to do had I arrived there by this time as I probably might have done

* P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 32.

had I met with no Delays from Thomas's Ship nor from the Man of War.

I have ordered the Captains to draw out the Accounts of Demurrage & Port Charges & have advanced them some Money on the Accots of the Ships of which Mr. Moore will before we sail send you the particulars. I have also laid in Refreshments of several kinds the Fowls Greens &c. being most dead consumed or spoiled. Our People are very healthy & very orderly; excepting two Women Servants Ann Harris Servt to the Trust & Eliz Wheeler Servant to Mr. Horton whom I have set on shore for drinking and indecent behaviour I have also set on shore the Surgeon's Servt (he having the Itch) & Robinson's Servant who has stole for which his Master had him whipped & I have turned him ashore & shall in their places take four others whose Names Moore will send you.

Pray send Bradley's Goods by Thompson, Bradley has taken another Servant for the Trust on board the Thomas, a Brick maker & a very useful Man.

I wish you would put the Trustees in mind of the Saw Mill & let me know by what Ship I may expect it. Pray let me know what is become of the Seeds: if they had been sent down to Portsmouth by Land I should by this time have had them. Give my humble Service to all the Gentlemen of the Board & believe me to be

Sir,

Your very humble Servt.

P. S. The Wind continues Southwardly but seems as if it would come to the Eastward howsomever write to me and direct it to be left with the Post Master at Cows & give him orders to send it back to you if I am gone.

Qy. When the Man of

the Ships

NOVR. YE 20th, 1735.

The Wind is come a little to the Eastward of the War joined South & the Weather being very moderate we have Demerage ventured out tho' if it should blow hard it may be dangerous. But something must be hazarded when the expences & the ill consequences of Delay are so considerable.

then ceasing

I send you this by the Pilot we being now past the Needles. The Man of War and Thomas are in company with us. Pray send me the Gen' Accot of how the Trustees Cash stands for you forgot to give it me when I came away.

YARMOUTH ROAD Novr. 21st.

The Wind changing and Weather growing bad we were obliged to put in here. The Man of War, Thomas & We are all well & at anchor in a safe place.

I am very glad that you have mentioned to me that you intend to send over the Mill by Capt. Pearcy, because I have now time to acquaint you that if you should send it by him it will be entirely useless to us, for you may depend upon it, that tho' Mr. Wragg enters into the strictest agreemt it is impossible for Pearcy to touch at Tybee. If he should fall in first to the Southward, as the Beacon is not yet up, he cannot tell by that Coast whether it is Tybee or Augustine, and he will not venture in unless there be a Pilot Boat to fetch him in and all the Pilot Boats will be with me, therefore he will naturally go into Chas. Town and have a very good excuse for so doing. If he falls to the Northward, he cannot

* P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 34,