33 6 '^he Discoveries 
French TroopSj and Indians irom ^ehec^ with Intent to 
attack the Indians in Friendfhip with England •, but 
though this put the People of Carolina and Georgia upon 
their Guard, there followed nothing from it ; for the 
French found the Indians well prepared and difpofed to 
receive them, and therefore defifted from their Defign, for 
fear it fhould produce a general War, that might prove 
fatal to the Colonies on the Miffijfippi River ; the Peo- 
ple of which were exceffively apprehenfive of what might 
happen from the general Confederacy of the neighbouring 
Indians againft them. 
The Truftees proceeded as vigoroufly as it was poffible 
in the Execution of every Part of their Scheme j and 
having, with fuch unwearied Diligence, provided for the 
Settlement of a new Colony, and for the Security of its 
Frontiers, they began next to employ their Skill and 
Pains, to promote all kinds of Improvements ; and 
were efpecially follicitous to obtain from thence fome 
Specimens of the PofTibility of raifing, in that Country, 
the Commodities that were expeded from it. They 
very well knew that this required hard Labour, and 
that nothing had accrued to Great Britain worth fpeak- 
ing of, from any of the Colonies in Aynerica^ in many 
Years longer than this Settlement of Georgia had been 
made. But on the other Hand, they alfo knew that the 
Englijh Nation was naturally impatient ; that great Sums 
of Money had been iffued for the Service of this Colony ; 
that great Expedations were had of it ; and that, if no- 
thing foon appeared, however certain in themfelves, and 
juft in their Nature, no Excufes would prevail. They 
therefore recommended it to their Servants in Georgia^ 
to ufe their utmoft Skill and Diligence in promoting 
tlie Culture of Mulberry Trees and Silk, fo that it might 
bcj at leaft, demonftrated, that they were not deceived 
in their Expedations j but that in due Time, and with 
reafonable Encouragement, the Nation might hope to fee 
a full Return in that Commodity, for the Expence fhe 
had been, and muft be, at, in bringing the Colony of 
Georgia to Perfedion. For they perfuaded themfelves, 
that from the Methods they had ufed in fending over 
proper Perfons for the Management of that Bufmefs, 
their Demands, with a due Degree of Care and Dili- 
gence in their Servants, might be anfwered, which would 
afford them an Anfwer to all Objedions. 
A Parcel of raw Silk was accordingly brought this 
Year from Georgia^ by Mr. Samuel Augfpourguer, who 
made an Affidavit, before a Mafter in Chancery, that 
he received it from the Hands of Mr. Fhomas Jones^ the 
Truftees Store-keeper at Savannah^ who told him it 
was the Produce of Georgia ; and the faid Samuel Augf- 
pourguer^ who refided in the Southern Part of the Pro- 
vince, faid, That when at Savannah^ he faw the Italian 
Family there winding off Silk from the Coquons. The 
Silk was Ihewed at the Truftees Office, to Mr. John 
Zacary^ an eminent Raw-Silk Merchant, and Mr. 
Booth, one of the greateft Silk Weavers in England, who 
declared it was as fine as any Italian Silk ; and that it 
was worth, at leaft, twenty Shillings a Pound. This 
Mr. Samuel Augfpourguer, who joined the Colony in 
the beginning of the Year 1736, left it in July 1739, 
with two Men Servants and their Children, on his Plan- 
tation, and came over to obtain a Grant of five hundred 
Acres of Land, and to get fome of his Countrymen 
from the Canton of Bern in Switzerland, to go with 
him as Servants, on his return to Georgia, in order 
to proceed more efFedually in the Cultivation of his 
Lands. 
The Truftees, this Year, alfo took further Method's 
for the Satisfaction of the People in the Province. They 
extended the Tenures, by which the Daughter of a 
Grantee, or any other Perfon, was made capable of en- 
joying, by Devife, or Inheritance, any Quantity of Lands 
which did not increafe her or his PoffelTion, to more than 
two thoufand Acres. A Licence was alfo granted for all 
the prefent PoffelTors of Land in Georgia, to make Leafes 
of any Part of their Lots, for any Term not exceeding 
three Years, to any Perfon refiding in Georgia, and who 
Ikould refide there, during the Term of fuch Leafe. A 
general Releafe was iikewife paffed, by which no Ad- 
Settlements Book I. 
vantage was fo be taken againft any of the prefent Poft 
feffbrs of Land in Georgia, for any Forfeiture incurred 
at any TimQ hdoct Chrijlmas 1740, tb the Tenure or ^ 
Cultivation of Land ; and the Poffeffbrs of fifty Acres 
were not obliged to cultivate more than five Acres there- > 
of, in ten Years from their Grants; and thofe of under 
fifty Acres in Proportion ; and the Poffeffbrs of five 
hundred Acres of Land were not obliged to cultivate 
more than one hundred and twenty Acres thereof, in 
twenty Years from their Grants ; and thofe of under 1 
five hundred Acres, and above fifty Acresj in proportion^ 
to prevent any Forfeiture for want of cultivating the 
Quantities required. Under thefe Circumftanees°it is 
prefumed that no Complaint can now, with Reafon, be 
made againft the Tenure, by which the Inhabitants at :i 
this Time hold their Lands, fince they have more 
Power than is generally given by Marriage Settlements, 
in which the Grantees are only Tenants for Life, inca- 
pable of mortgaging, or alienating, or making any Dif- 
pofition by their laft Will : Whereas the Freeholders in 
Georgia are now become Tenants in Tail-general, and 
may, with the Licence of the Common Council of the 
Truftees, upon Application made to them for that Pur- 
pofe, mortgage, or alien, and further, without Applica- 
tion, have it abfolutely in their Power, on Failure of Iffue 
in Tail, to difpofe thereof by their laft Will. At leaft ; 
this was all the Truftees thought themfelves at Liberty 
to do, confidering the Obligation they were under to 
the Public, as well as to the Settlement ; and that they 
Vvere as much bound to provide, that the Nation had a 
juft Satisfaction for what fhe difburfed in Favour of the : 
Colony, as that the Inhabitants of Georgia fhould be 
made eafy in their Settlements, and meet with fufficient 
Encouragement to proceed with Induftry in all their Un- 
dertakings ; and with this double View, to the Service ■ 
of the Public, and the Welfare of the Settlement, all , 
their Applications at home, and all their Directions 
abroad, are to be referred. 
9. We have now run through the Hiftbry of this Pro- 
vince for above feven Years, that is, from the time of ' 
projecting fuch a Settlement as this on the South Fron- ■ 
tier of Carolina, to the carrying that Defign into Execu- 
tion, and bringing the new Province into fome tolerable ; 
Degree of Order ; and, in the Courfe of our Hiftory, we : 
have had occafion to obferve, from time to time, what : 
Care and CircumfpeCtion has been ufed, to render it ufeful 
to thofe Ends for which it was intended. We have taken 
notice of the Senfe which the whole Province of Carolina '■ 
had of the Neceflity, as well as Expedience, of fuch a 1 
Settlement. We have fhewn, that thofe who were fent : 
over were difciplined in fuch a manner, as to be able to ri 
defend, as well as acquire. Property. We have fet down 1. 
the Reafons why Negroes were prohibited ; and thofe ;■ 
Reafons very clearly prove, that the Colony could not :i 
have anfwered any of thofe Ends for which it was efta- ■ 
bliffied, if Negroes had been permitted. We have given t; 
fome Account, and, if the Bounds of this SeCtion would 1 
have permitted, we lliould have given a farther Account, ,, 
of the Jealoufies entertained by the Spaniards and the :> 
French on Account of this Settlement, which we conceive r- 
to be fo many demonftrative Proofs of its Utility. We ; 
have given the Reader a large Extrad from the Memo- 
rial of the Aflfembly of South Carolina, fetting forth, in t 
the cleareft and ftrongeft Terms, the Wants of that Pro- - 
vince, and the Points in which they ftood in need of Af- 
fiftance. We have fhewn, by a plain Narrative of Fads, „ 
how agreeable the Condud of General Oglethorpe was to \ 
the Demands of that Memorial ; and how far, by the 
happy Succefs attending thofe Endeavours, they have r 
been anfwered, more efpecially by his laft Treaty with i 
the Creek Indians, which, as we ihall have Occafion to > 
fhew hereafter, has effedually anfwered his Ends and 1 
theirs, fo as not only to come up to, but even to exceed I 
and go beyond, their Expedations. We have Iikewife, 
from time to time, exhibited the Alterations that, in 1 
Compliance with the Peoples Defires, the Truftees have 
thought fit to make in their Conftitution, for the Eafe " 
and Encouragement of the Planters. And we have like- - 
wife given an Inftance, that they have not been difap- 
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