hearing. Mr. Bolzius & you have both accused him, therefore as I cannot come myself yet to Savannah I refer examining into the matter to Mr. John Wesley who is there intirely unprejudiced I must again repeat the uneasiness I am under in not being able to assist them personally & am Sr

You are to take care to let the Saltzburgers have the Provisions that the Trustees have destined to those who joined us in America. Pray take care that they do not suffer for want of them. If you can hire or buy a trading Boat not exceeding 20 Pound Sterling it will be properest for carrying them up: You may also hire English men by ye Month to row ye Boat. You may likewise give Credit to such of ye last Transports as are recommended by Mr. Bolzius as far as 10s. Head & 20s. for Tools, till such time as ye Will of ye Trustees is known upon what Establishment they are to be. All Stores sent up to Ebenezer are to be consigned to Mr. Bolzius & he is to give Receipts for them. Mr. Jones should have put them into possession of their Garden Lots as you will see in my letter to Mr. Bolzius. You are to take care that the Trustees Orders for preventing Peoples settling beyond the River Ebenezer be executed by the Proper officer: The Indians having complained that some Persons

*P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 78.

have settled over against Palachocolas & some near the mouth of Ebenezer. Be they of what nation they will they must be dislodged for we will never break faith with the Indians & not at this time disoblige them. If you want any thing that comes from Europe let me know it & I will send it up to you. I am, Sr Yr hume Sert

FREDERIKA, March 17, 1735-6.

GENERAL OGLETHORPE TO [THE TRUSTEES.]*

28 MARCH 1736.

GENTLEMEN,

FREDERICA ON ST. SIMONS. 28 March 1736.

Things go well here considering the few men I have with. me from the disappointments which I before acquainted you with. I am so hurried that I cannot write long therefore have sent you a Copy of a letter to the Lieut. Gov" of Carolina of the state of affairs.

The Beer at first was excellent good and a great deal of it is so still but there is a good deal which I am afraid of, it having lain exposed to the Rain & Sun in open Boats and if the Casks had not been very good and Iron bound we had lost it, the wooden hoops being all flown. To provide for the worst I have bought some beer & other things from Mr. Ellis a Merchant and Alderman of Philadelphia & friend to Mr. Penn who came in here for the assistance of the Colony. I have got him to furnish £40 to Mr. Spangenberg who is gone for Philadelphia to bring down a number of Germans who designed for Georgia but were deluded thither by Mr. Hopp. I send you his receipt and Bill of Parcells & draw upon you for the Amount. My humble service to Mr. Vernon, tell him that his Son is well. I should have wrote to him but could not

*P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 76.

till three days since spare time to undress myself, and have not lain in sheets from leaving the ships till then. The Indians and the Highlanders have behaved with great courage, fidelity and affection and the English that came with me are not far behind with them, particularly Mr. Horton who has not undressed himself since he came here, though he has a tent and bed standing which he has given to the sick and has been with me in an open boat in all the Southward Expèdition.

I am,

Gentlemen,

Your most obedient

humble Servt

JAMES OGLETHORPE.

A bill for £97. dated 27 Mar. paya at 30 days sight. A bill for £100. dated 27 Mar. pay" at 30 days sight. both payable to Mr. Robt. Ellis's Order.

GENERAL OGLETHORPE TO THE LIEUT. GOV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA.*

SIR,

28 MARCH 1736.

FREDERICA the 28th March 1736.

Pursuant to His Majestey's Commands I have settled & fortified on the Island of St. Simons & have took the best measures that my small Judgment suggested to me for putting the place into a condition of Defence and of being supported by keeping an open communication both by Land & Water. For this purpose the Rangers & the Scout boat will be necessary, the first have marched over Land from Savannah to the Darien, and a Surveyor sent by me with a

*P. R. O. Georgia. B. T. vol. 19, p. 76.

Detachment of the Trustees men has run the Traverse Line from Savannah by Fort Argyle to the Darien from whence to this place is only 16 miles by water.

After this was done I went down to the Frontiers to see where his Majesty's Dominions and the Spaniards joyn, a Detachment of Creek Indians invited me to go down with them to show me how far their Claim and possession extended. I found that they have been in quiet possession ever since the last War of all Lands on the North side as far as the Mouth of St. John's River and that the Spaniards have two Guards called Lookouts on the South side of that River the one 7 or 8 miles from the sea the other at the Sea Point. Tomachichi brought us to a rock covered with woods from whence we could see the uppermost Look Out and they not discover us. He then said he would go out with his Indians and bring me in a Prisoner to inform me of their scituation and cutt off their Guard and drive them down to Augustine for that the Number with him was sufficient so to do and that the Lands as far as Augustine belonged to the Creeks but that the Spaniards had taken forcible and unjust possession of it. It was with much difficulty I could prevent them from attacking the Spaniards. I therefore having two boats with one bigger than any one of theirs obliged the Indians to stay and myself set forward with one boat and having viewed both the Spanish out Guards I went round the Southwardmost point of his Majesty's Dominions in North America which I called St. George's Point and is over against the Spanish Lower Look out from which it is seperated by the mouth of St. John's River which is there about a mile wide. From thence I returned and found that the Highland men whom I had left upon an Island at the Southermost Entrance of this Port had fortified themselves there. I called the New Fort St. Andrews and the Island it stands upon the Highlands.

I shall be obliged to keep a Boat on the River St. John's to prevent the Creek Indians from passing to hurt the Spaniards. The Governor of Augustine having informed me that he is very apprehensive of those Indians and as I cannot answer for the Indians and that an hostility committed by

them might be construed to be my doing I shall acquaint him that I cannot be answerable for keeping up the tranquility but by maintaining a Boat and Guard to prevent them from passing the River.

The Gentleman that brought letters from the King of Spain's Secretary of State and his Ambassadour at London to the Governour of Augustine and who came over in the ship with me is still at Augustine. Major Richards who conducted him thither is returned with letters both from him. and the Governour full of civility and professions of friendship mixt with some complaints of the Creek Indians not permitting them to settle the Apellachee Towns.

My private Advices from thence say that they have sent to Havannah & suspect that it is for succours in order to drive us off. The Governour has acquainted me that he will send an Officer as his Plenipotentiary to treat with me for settling the Boundaries and the matter of the Apellachee Towns. I have acquainted him that I am ready to receive his Plenipotentiary or to meet him personally on the Frontiers which is at St. John's River.

I have sent Perriauguas for the Detachment of the Independant Company. The Man of War is already arrived at Tybee & I expect him here in a few days. Mr. Jonathan Bryan and Mr. Barnwell have been with me to the Frontiers and behaved very handsomely.

I am &c.

To the Honble Thos. Broughton Esq.

Copy.

Lieut Governor of South Carolina,