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Nature oi this Treaty : But it feeius the Governor of 5'/. 
Augujiin was not in the Secret of the Court •, for the 
Spanijh Miniftry at Home were very far from being 
defirous that a fair Correfpondence ihould be eftablifhed 
between the two Colonies. On the contrary, they 
aimed at obliging us to defifl; from our Deiign of fettling 
the Colony of Georgia ; and with this Viev/ Sir Thomas 
Geraldino, on the iftof September^ prefented a Memorial 
to his Grace the Duke ot Newcajlle^ in which, among 
other Things, he was pleafed to fay. It is indifputable that 
the Colony of Georgia was fettled upon his Mailer’s Do- 
minions j fo that a plainer Proof cannot be had, that 
the Spaniards were determined if poffible, to oblige 
the. Crowft of Great Britain to give up this Settle- 
ment. 
But as it was not very probable, that we fhould be 
induced to do this by Sir Thomas Geraldmo^s Memorials, 
the Spanijh Miniftry were contriving to do it by Force, and 
by tranfporting Troops into the Spanijh Florida^ from the 
adjacent Ifland of Cuha^ arid other Parts of their Domi- 
nions. It is true, that thefe Orders were moftly given 
before they had any Intelligence of the provifional Treaty 
concluded between the Governor of St. Augujiin and 
Mr. Oglethorpe % but when they did know of it, they 
were fo far from laying afide their former Defign, or ' 
even from fufpending it, that they highly difapproved of 
the Governor’s Behaviour in that Particular, the rather 
perhaps becaufe it was altogether inconfiftent with their 
own Projedls and Pretenfions. It is alfo very probable, 
that as the Spanijh Councils were at that time wholly 
guided by thofe of France., this might contribute not a 
little to their forming Views of expelling us from Georgia., 
which the French without doubt confider as equally dan- 
gerous to them and their Schemes, or rather more fo, than 
to the Spaniards, who on their Side have much more Rea- 
fon to be offended with the French Settlements on the 
River MiJJiJJippi, than at our new Colony of Georgia. 
But be this as it will, the Preparations they made were in 
their Nature fo open and extraordinary, that it was not 
long they could be concealed from our Governors, and 
other Officers mxFs.WeJi Indies, whofeDuty it was to 
obferve, and tranfmit Intelligence hither of Things of 
that Nature. 
The Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, having 
heretofore acquainted the Truftees by a Letter, dated from 
the Council-Chamber in Charles Town, the 7th of Febru- 
ary, 1636-7, That he had received Advice from Com- 
modore Dent, of Preparations made by the Spaniards at 
St. Augujiin and the Havanna, in order to make an 
Attack on the Colony of Georgia ; and the Truftees 
having, in a Memorial to his Majefty, fet forth the In- 
ability of the Colony to protedl themfelves againft fuch a 
Force as was preparing at the Havanna and St. Augujiin 
his Majefty was gracioufly pleafed to order a Regiment 
of fix hundred effedlive Men to be railed, and fent to 
Georgia, for the Defence and Protedlion of it. 
As an Encouragement for the Soldiers good Behaviour, 
the Truftees refolved to give each of them a Property in 
the Colony , and therefore made a Grant in Truft, for an 
Allotment of five Acres of Land to each Soldier of the 
Regiment, to cultivate for his own Ufe and Benefit, and 
to hold the fame during his Continuance in his Majefty’s 
Service. And for a further Encouragement, they re- 
folved, That each Soldier who at the End of feven Years 
Service, from the Time of his enlifting in the Regiment, 
ftiQuld be defirous of quitting his Majefty’s Service, and 
fhould have his regular Difcharge, and would fettle in 
the Colony, fhould, on his Commanding Officer’s Certi- 
ficate of his good Behaviour, be entitled to a Grant 
of twenty Acres of Land. 
The Parliament having taken into Confideration the 
great Expences which the Truftees had been at in making 
Roads through the Province, and the feveral Fortifications 
in it, and the Prefents made to the Indians to engage them 
firmer in theBritiJh Intereft, and likewife the Preparations 
that were making by the Spaniards in order to take or 
diftrefs the Colony *, granted thereupon for this Year the 
Sum of twenty thoufand Pounds, for the further fettling 
and fecuring the Colony, the Truftees made anotlier Em- 
barkation, which confifted chiefly of perfecuted German. 1 
Proteftants. 
In Confequence of fo confiderable an Augmentation > 
of People, ail the Towns laid out in Georgia began to . 
be improved, and to receive' confiderable Supplies •, and 
fo mindful they were of their Security, that’ even at 
Savannah, which was leaft expofed to Danger, they traced 
out, and began to build, a confiderable Fort ; and in all 
the frontier Places, the utmoft Care was taken to put 
tlie Fortifications^ into the beft Pofture of Defence that the 
Circumftances of the Province Would allow. On the Ar- 
rival of the Regiment, of which Mr. Oglethorpe v’i^as ap- 
pointed Colonel, he diftributed them in the propereft 
planner for the Service of the Colony ; but notwithftand- 
ing this was of great Eafe to the Truftees, and a vaft ! 
Security to the Inhabitants j yet Colonel Oglethorpe ftiil 
kept up the fame Difcipline, and took as much Care to 1 
form and regulate the Inhabitants with refpedl to military 
Affairs as ever. He provided likewife different Corps 
for different Services ; fome for ranging the Woods % \ 
others, light-armed, for fudden Expeditions *, and he 
likewife provided Veffels for fcouring the Sea Coafts, and ; 
for gaining Intelligence. In all which Services he gave at 
the fame time his Orders and his Example *, there being ; 
nothing he did not, which he diredled others to do ; fo ^ 
that if he was the firft Man in the Colony, his Pre-emi- 
nence was founded upon old HomeFs, Maxims ; He was ! 
the moft fatigued, and the firft in Danger, diftinguiflied 
by his Cares and his Labours, not by any exterior Marks i 
of Grandeur, more eafily difpenfed with, fince they 
were certainly needlefs. 
The ftridl Attention ffiewn by the Truftees for their 1 
infant Settlement was fo remarkable, and their Punctu- 
ality in fupplying what was neceffary, fo generally known 
throughout America, that it was not long before it created 
fome Inconvenience from the Addrefs of fuch as were 
defirous of turning fuch Inftances of public Spirit to their 1 
private Advantage ; for feveral Merchants, and Captains ' 
of Ships, had, for their own Intereft, carried into the ; 
Colony from New Fork and other Places, large Cargoes 
of Provifions, iAc. great Part of which (to fave Merchants 
from Loffes) were taken at the Store, without proper 1 
Authority from the Truftees, and an Expence created ^ 
thereby, which the Truftees could not eftimate, nor have 
Ability to difcharge, and for which certified Accounts 1 
were returned to them ; and therefore the Truftees pub- 
liflied an Advertifement in the London Gazette, and order- 
ed it to be publiffied . in the South Carolina Gazette, and I 
to be affixed on the Doors of the Store-houfes at Savannah i 
and Frederica, that out of a due Regard to public Credit 
they had refolved. That all Expences which they had I 
ordered, or fhould order, to be made in America, for 
the Ufe of the Colony, fhould be defrayed and paid for 
in Georgia, in Sola Bills of Exchange only, under their ' 
Seal ; and they gave Notice, that no Perfon whatfoever 
had any Authority from them, or in their Name, or on 
their Account, to purchafe or receive any Cargo of Pro- 
vifions, Stores, or Neceffaries, without paying for them 
in the faid Sola Bills. 
Yet they were as ready as ever in expending Money, 
where it was neceffary and ferviceable to the Colony ; for ' 
upon a Petition of one Abraham de Lyon, a Freeholder of 
Savannah in Georgia, That he had expended a great Sum 
in the Cultivation of Vines, which he had carried from 
Portugal, and had brought to great Perfedtion ^ and fe- 
veral Certificates being produced of his great Improve- 
ments, and of the Goodnefs of his Grapes, and their 
thriving in the moft barren Lands in the Province, the 
Truftees aflifted him to proceed in his Improvements. But, 
to be the more able to fupply thefe Expences, they took 
Care to be frugal, where it was pradlicable. And the Secu- 
rity of the Colony being provided for by the Regiment fent 
over by his Majefty, the Parliament gave eight thoufand 
Pounds for the further fettling the Colony ; therefore the 
Truftees fent over an Eftim.ate of all the Expences which 
they allowed to be made in the Province ; by which fe- 
veral military Expences which they had been engaged in 
for the Defence of the Colony, and which were very great, 
were reduced. 
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