Chap. III. of the ENGLISH k AMERICA. 3 j J 
In the Year 1738 the Trnftees fent over the Reverend 
,Mr. If orris to Frederica^ with a Salary of 50 I a Year, 
and Orders that a Hoiife fhould be built for him, and 
another provided for the Performance of public Worfhip, 
till fuch Time as a Church could be ereded. But while 
their Cares were thus employed, they met with fome In- 
terruption from unforefeen Accidents, both without and 
within the Province ; In refped to the former, the Af- 
fembly South Carolina^ having the laft Year paffed an 
Ordinance for raifing a Sum to indemnify their Traders, 
in Oppofition to the Ad, which was approved of by his 
Majefty in Council, for maintaining the Peace with the 
Indians in the Province of Georgia ; upon a Memorial 
from the Truftees, complaining of the faid Ordinance ; 
and upon the Petition of the Council and AlTembly of 
South Carolina, againft the faid Ad, there was a fo- 
lemn Hearing before the Lords Commiffioners for Trade 
and Plantations ; and afterwards before a Committee 
of the Lords of his Majefty’s Privy Council : Where- 
upon his Majefty was pleafed to order, that the faid 
Ordinance of Aftembly of South Carolina fhould be re- 
pealed, and declared void ; and was pleafed to fend an 
Inftrudion to the Truftees, to prepare a proper Ad, or 
Ordinance, for fettling the Trade, carried on by the Pro- 
vinces of South Carolina and Georgia with the Indians, 
on fuch a Footing, as might be for the mutual Benefit 
and Satisfadion of both Provinces. And his Majefty, at 
the fame Time, was gracioufly pleafed to give an Inftruc- 
tion to Samuel Horfey, Efq-, Governor, and Lieutenant 
General of South Carolina, to recommend to the Council 
and Aftembly there, to pafs a Law for that Purpofe, in 
that Province. But Samuel Horfey, Efq-, dying foon after, 
and no other Governor having fince gone to South Caro- 
lina, that Affair remained unfettled. The Truftees im- 
mediately fent to Colonel Oglethorpe a Copy of his Ma- 
jefty’s Inftrudions, and defired that he would confult 
with Lieutenant Governor Bull in South Carolina that 
Plans of proper Ads might be prepared, and fent over 
to the Truftees, for their Confideration, in order to an- 
fwer the Purpofes of his Majefty’s Inftrudions ; and that, 
in the mean Time, the Commiffioners of South Carolina, 
and the Commiffioners of Georgia, might proceed in their 
refpedive Provinces, in concert with each other, to carry 
on a mutual Trade to the Indians in both Provinces. 
In Reference to the other Sources of Difturbance and do- 
meftic Difquiets, they were of different Kinds ; but the 
greateft was owing to a Number of Perfons enjoying the 
Benevolence due to the Colony, without any real Merit in 
themfelves, or juft Title thereto -, for which, however, 
a Remedy was fpeedily provided. The Truftees, both 
by their Letters and Inftrudions to the Magiftrates, had 
conftantly exhorted and encouraged the People to a Cul- 
tivation of their Lands, on which they were to depend 
for their Support-, and as they found that many (as well 
of thofe whom they had fent over as Objeds of Charity, 
as of others, who at different Times had gone into 
the Country from other Colonies, for their temporary 
Maintenance) ftill continued in their Idlenefs, and were 
a Burden upon the Truftees ; they gave Orders for ftrik- 
ing off the Store, all fuch as having had Time to cul- 
tivate their Lands had negleded it. This carried 
from the Colony many of thofe who had gone thither, 
or joined it from other Parts of America, to gain a Sub- 
fiftance for a Year or two, and of others who had not 
confidered the Hardftiips attending the firft Settlement of 
a Country, and were weary of their Labour. The Truf- 
tees receiving an Account, dated February 12, 1738, 
from their Secretary of the Province, of an Uneafmefs 
among feveral Perfons, upon the Tenor of their Lots 
being confined to Heirs Male ; and they, confidering that 
the Colony had been fome Time eftabliftied, the People 
grew more numerous, and a Regiment being ftationed in 
it, for its Defence, whereby the former Tenures became 
lefs neceffary -, did, on the 15th of March following, 
at their anniverfary Meeting, refolve, that in Default of 
Iffue Male, the legal Poffeffor of Land, might, by a 
Deed in Writing, or by his laft W’ill and Teftament, ap- 
point his Daughter as his Succeffor, or any other Female 
Relation ^ with a Provifo that the Succeffor ftiouldj in 
VoL. II. Numb. 92. 
the pfoper Court in Georfla, perfonally claim the Lol 
granted and devifed within eighteen Months after the 
Death of the Grantor or Divifor. This was foon after’ 
extended to every legal Pofleffor being impowered to 
appoint any other Perfon as his Succeffor. 
The mildeft Governments are often but too fubjecft to 
Difcontents ; and though the whole Study of the TriiL^ 
tees was to make their People as eafy in their private Ca- 
pacities, as their Duty to, and Concern for, the Public, 
would permit. Yet this did not hinder ignorant and 
malicious Perfons, who either could not, or would not^ 
comprehend the true Interefts of the Colony, from en- 
deavouring to raife frefn Difturbances, for the fake of 
obtaining what they thought might be of Service to 
them -, and which, if they had judged rationally, they 
muft have perceived would have turned to their Ruin^ 
In ftiort. Part of the People fettled in Georgia, fent over 
a Memorial to the Truftees, complaining of the Want of 
a Fee-fimple in their Lands, and of not being permitted 
the Ufe of Negroes. But thofe who were fettled on the 
Frontier, and confeqliently moft expofed to the Spaniards 
and others, who, by their own Induftry, had improved 
their Plantations, fo as to draw from them a comforta- 
ble Subfiftance, lent over a contrary Memorial ; in which 
they reprefented the Difad vantages and Dangers that 
would arife from the Permiffion of Negroes. 
It likewife fell out, that at the very Time fome of the 
People of Savannah were fo clamorous lor Negroes (for 
feventy-five Land and Freeholders, of whom fifty-two 
were Freeholders, did not apply for them) the Pro- 
vince of South Carolina was under frequent Alarms, upon 
Account of the Negroes there. They had Intelligence 
that a Confpiracy was formed by the Negroes in South 
Carolina ip rife, and forcibly make their Way out of 
the Province, to put themfelves under the Protedlion of 
the Spaniards \ who had proclaimed Freedom to all that 
fhould run to them from their Owners. This Con- 
fpiracy was difcovered at Winyaw, the moft Northern 
Part of that Province, from whence as the Negroes 
muft bend their Courfe, it argued, that the other Parts of 
the Province muft be privy to it, and that the rifing was 
to be univerfal j whereupon the whole Province were 
upon their Guard the Number of Negroes in South 
Carolina being computed to be about forty thoufand, 
and the Number of white Men, at moft, not above five 
thoufand. As feveral Negroes who were employed in Per- 
ryauguas, and other like Craft (which they carried off 
with them) had taken the Benefit of the Spaniards Pro- 
clamation, and gone to St. Auguftin, the Government of 
South Carolina fent a folemn Deputation to demand their 
Slaves. This Deputation cpnfifted of Mr. Braithzvaite, 
a Mernber of the Councils Mr. Rudlidge, one of the 
Affembly -, and Mr. Biniafi, Clerk of the Aftembly. But 
the Governor of St. Augu^in, though in Time of profound 
Peace, peremptorily refufed to deliver them up ; and 
declared he had Orders to receive all fuch as fliould come 
thither, and protefil them. Upon this, and the Petitions 
which were fent from the Highlanders at Darien, and the 
Saltzburgers at Fhenezer, reprefenting the Danger, and 
the Inconvenience, of the Introduflion of Negroes -, the 
Truftees fent under their Seal, an Anfwer to the Repre- 
fentation from fome of the Inhabitants of Savannah. 
In this Anfwer, which is dated June the 20th, 1739, 
the Truftees fay, “ That they fhould deem themfelves 
“ very unfit for the Truft repofed in them by their Ma- 
“ jefty on their Behalf, if they could be prevailed on by 
“ any fuch irrational Attempt, to give up a Conftitu- 
“ tion framed with the greateft Caution, for the Pre- 
“ fervation of Liberty and Property ; and of which the 
“ Laws againft the Ufe of Slaves, and for the Entail of 
“ Lands, are the fureft Foundations ; and the Truftees 
“ are the more confirmed in their Opinions of the Un- 
“ reafonablenefs of this Demand, and that they have 
“ received Notions from Darien, and the other Parts 
“ of the Province, reprefenting the Inconvenience and 
“ Danger which muft arife to the good People of the 
“ Province, frqm the Introdudion of Negroes j and as 
“ the Truftees themfelves are fully convinced, that be- 
“ fides the Hazards attending of that Introduction, it 
4 0., .would 
