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“ rightly and timely applied in protedting the Settlement 
“ oftht SwiJs^tPurryJhiirg. Encouraged by fuchjuftViews 
“ of your Majefty’s wife and paternal Care^ extended to 
“ your remoteft Subjedls ; and excited by the Duty which 
“ we owe to your moft facred Majefty, to be always 
“ watchful for the Support and Security of your Majefty’s 
“ Intereft, efpecially at this very critical Junfture, when 
“ theEkme of a War breaking out in Europe^ may very 
“ fpeedily be lighted here, in this your Majefty’s Frontier 
“ Province, which by its Situation is known to be of the 
“ utmoft Importance to the general Trade and Traffic of 
“ America: We therefore, your Majefty’s moft faith- 
“ fill Governor, Council, and Commons^ convened 
“ in your Majefty’s Province of South Carolina^ crave 
“ Leave with great Humility to reprefent to your Majefty 
“ the prefent State and Condition of this your Province, 
“ and how greatly it ftands in need of your Majefty’s 
gracious and timely Succour in Cafe of a War, to affift 
“ our Defence againft the French and Spaniards, or any 
“ other Enemies to your Majefty’s Dominions, as well 
“ as againft the many Nations of Savages, which fo 
“ nearly threaten the Safety of your Majefty’s Subjedts. 
“ The Province of Carolina, and the new Colony of 
“ Georgia, are the fouthern Frontiers of all your Majefty’s 
“ Dominions on the Continent of America •, to the South 
“ and South- weft of which is fituate the ftrong Caftle of 
“ St. Auguftin, garrifoned by four hundred Spaniards, 
“ who have feveral Nations of Indians living under their 
SubjedHon, befides feveral other fmall Settlements and 
“ Garrifons near the Appellaches, fome of which are not 
“ eighty Miles diftant from the Colony of Georgia. To 
“ the South- weft and Weft of us, the French have al- 
“ ready eredfed a confiderable Town near Fort Thotdotife 
“ on the Moville River, and feveral other Forts and Gar- 
“ rifons, fome not above three hundred Miles diftant 
“ from our Settlements ; and at New Orleans on the 
“ Miffiffippi River, Itnce her late Majefty Queen Anne\ 
“ War, they have exceedingly encreafed their Strength 
“ and Traffic, and have now many Forts and Garrifons 
“ on both Sides of that large River, for feveral hundred 
Miles up the fame. And ftnce his moft Chriftian Majefty 
“ has taken out of the Miffiffippi Company the Government 
“ of that Country into his own Hands, the French 
“ Natives of Canada come daily down in Shoals, to 
“ fettle all along that River, where many regular Forces 
have been fent over by the King, to ftrengthen the 
“ Garrifons of thofe Places *, and" according to our beft 
“ and lateft Advices, they have five hundred Men in Pay 
“ conftantly employed as Wood-Rangers, to keep the 
“ neighbouring Indians in Subjection, and to prevent the 
“ diftant ones from difturbing their Settlements ; which 
“ Management of the French has fo well fucceeded, that 
we are very well affured they have wholly now in their 
“ Pofleffion, and under their Influence, the feveral numer- 
■ “ ous Nations of Indians that are fituate near the Mijffif- 
“ fippi River ; one of which, called the Chodiaws, by 
“ Eftimation, confifting of about five thoufand fighting 
“ Men, and who were always deemed a very warlike 
“ Nation, lies- on this Side the River, not above four 
' “ hundred Miles diftant from our Out-fettlements. 
■ “ Among whom, and feveral other Nations of Indians, 
‘ “ many French Europeans have been fent to fettle, whom 
‘‘ the Priefts and Miffionaries among them encourage to 
i take Indian Wives, and ufe divers other alluring Me- 
■ ^ thods to attach t\\t Indians the better to the French 
; “ Alliance : By which Means the French are become 
I “ thoroughly acquainted with tht IndianW d.j of warring 
■ “ and living in the Woods, and have now a great Num- 
j’ “ ber of white Men among them, able to perform a 
: long March, with an Army of Indians, upon any 
J “ Expedition. 
; “We further beg Leave to inform your Majefty, 
“ That if the Meafures of France ftiould provoke your 
, “ Majefty to a State of Hoftility againft it in Europe, we 
have great Reafons to expeCt an Invafion will be here 
I “ made upon your Majefty’s Subjefts, by the French 
“ and the Indians, from thefe Miffiffiippi Settlements ; 
“ They have already paved a Way for a Defign of that 
“ Nature, by ereCting a Fort called the Alhama Fort, 
Voi.. II. Numb. XCIL 
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alias Fort Lotiis, in the Middle of the Upper Creek 
Indians, upon a navigable River leading to Moville, 
which they have kept well garrifoned, and mounted 
with fourteen Pieces of Cannon j and have already been 
prevented from ereCling a fecond nearer to us in that 
Quarter. The Creeks are a Nation very bold, aClive, 
and daring, confifting of about thirteen hundred 
fighting Men (and not above one hundred and fifty 
Miles diftant from the Chodlaws ) whom though we 
heretofore have traded with, claimed, and held in our 
Alliance, yet the French, on account of that Fort, 
and a fuperior Ability to make them liberal Prefents, 
have been for fome time driving to gain them over to 
their Intereft, and have fucceeded with fome of the 
Towns of the Creeks, which if they can be fecured in 
your Majefty’s Intereft, are the only Nation v/hich 
your Majefty’s SubjeCls here can depend upon, as their 
beft Barrier againft any Attempts, either of the French 
or their confederate Indians. 
“We moft humbly pray Leave further to inform your 
Majefty, that the French at Moville, perceiving that they 
could not gain the Indians to their Intereft without 
buying their Deer Skins, which is the only Commo- 
dity the Indians have to purchafe Neceflaries withj and 
the French not being able to difpofe of thofe Skins, 
by reafon of their having no Vent for them in Old 
France, have found Means to encourage Vefiels from 
hence. New York, and other Places Which are not 
prohibited by the A6ls of Trade^ to truck thofe 
Skins with them for Indian trading Goods, efpecially 
the Britiffi Woollen Manufadures, which the French 
difpofe of to the Creeks and Chodlaws, and other 
Indians ; by which Means the Indians are much more 
alienated from our Intereft ; and, on every Occafion, 
objed to us, that the French can fupply them with 
Shrouds and Blankets as well as the Fnglijh •, which 
would have the contrary Effed, if they were wholly 
furniffied with thofe Commodities by your Majefty’s 
Subjeds trading among them. If a Stop were there- 
fore put to that pernicious Trade with the French, the 
Creek Indians chief Dependance wmiild be on this 
Government, and that of Georgia, to fupply them with 
Goods ; by which Means great Part of the Chodlaws 
living next the Creeks, would fee the Advantage the 
Creek Indians enjoyed, by having Britijh Woollen 
Manufadures wholly from your Majefty’s Subjeds, 
and thereby be invited, in a fhort time, to enter into 
a Treaty of Commerce with us, wffiich they haVe 
lately made fome Offers for, and which, if effeded, 
will foon leffen the Intereft of the French with thefe 
Indians, and by Degrees attach them to that of your 
Majefty. 
“ The only Expedient We can propofe to recover 
and confirm that Nation to your Majefty’s Intereft, 
is by fpeedily making them Prefents, to withdraw 
them from the French Alliance, and by building fome 
“ Forts among them. Your Majefty may be put into 
“ fuch a Situation, that on the firft Notice of Hoftilities 
“ with the French, your Majefty may be able to reduce 
“ at once the Albarna Fort, and we may then ft and 
“ againft the French and their Indians which if not 
“ timely prepared for, before a War breaks out, we 
“ have too much Reafon to fear we may be foori ovcr- 
“ run by the united Strength of the French, and the 
“ Creeks, and Chodlaws, with many other Nations of 
“ their Indian Allies : For ftiould the Creeks become 
“ wholly our Enemies, who are well acquainted with all 
“ our Settlements, we probably ftiould alfo foon be de- 
“ ferted by the Cherokees, and a few other fmall Tribes 
“ of Indians *, who, for the Sake of our Booty, would 
“ readily join to make us a Prey to the French and Sa^ 
“ vages. Ever fince the late Indian War, the Offences 
“ 'then given us by the Creeks, haVe made that Nation 
“ jealous of your Majefty’s Subjedts of this Province. 
“ We have therefore concerted Meafures with the Ho- 
“ nourable James Oglethorpe, Efq •, who being at the 
“ Head of a new Colony, will, we hope, be fuccefsful 
“ for your Majefty’s Intereft among that People. He 
“ has already, by Prefents, attached the Lower Creeks to 
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