port or ports that shall be appointed by us, our heirs and successors, within the said province of Georgia for that purpose, without being obliged to touch at any other port in South Carolina. And we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will and declare, that from and after the determination of the said term of one and twenty years such form of government and method of making laws, statutes and ordinances, for the better governing and ordering the said province of Georgia, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be established and observed within the same, as we, our heirs and successors, shall hereafter ordain and appoint, and shall be agreeable to law; and that from and after the determination of the said term of one and twenty years, the governor of our said province of Georgia, and all officers, civil and military, within the same, shall from time to time be nominated and constituted and appointed by us, our heirs and successors. And lastly, we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said corporation and their successors, that these our letters patent, or the enrollments or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things, good, firm, valid, sufficient and effectual in the Law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed and adjudged in all courts and elsewhere, in the most favourable and beneficial sense, and for the best advantage of the said corporation and their successors, any omission, imperfection, defect, matter or cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. In witness we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the ninth day of June, in the fifth year of our reign.

By writ of privy seal.

COOKS.

INDEX.

Acadians sent to Georgia, 413; leave, Ayllon, Lucas Vasquez de, 6; fits out

Arredondo, Engineer, Commissioner to Bethesda, 351.
Oglethorpe, 149.

498

Brandy prohibited, 283.

Bray, Rev. Dr., associates of, 354.

Bryan, Jonathan, 388, 392.

INDEX.

Clifton, William, Attorney-General,

387, 392.

Cochran, Lieutenant-Colonel, 152, 201.

Bundy, Rev. Richard, D.D., one of Cokayne, Francis, 474.

Cabeza de Vaca, applies for govern-
ment of Florida, 14.

Cabot, John and Sebastian, discover

ib.

main land before Columbus, 3.
Calthorpe, Sir Henry, 473.
Campbell, Alexander Hume,
Cannibals, declared by the King of
Spain subject to slavery, 7.
Cardross, Lord, leads a colony to South
Carolina, and driven away by the
Spaniards, 58, 142.
Caroline, Queen, wears a robe of
Georgia silk, 270.

Carolina renders assistance to Georgia,
91; troubles with, 138; aid of to-
wards invasion of Florida, 170.
Carpenter, George, Lord, 464.
Causton, Thomas, Storekeeper of Trus-
tees, 220.

Cater, Sir Robert, 471.
Cavendish, Richard, 475.
Charles, Fort, first built in America, 34.
Charles II., coronation robes made of
Georgia silk, 266.

Charter, provisions of, 63; surrender
of, 251; of the colony of Georgia 476.
Cherokees, 48.

Coligni, Admiral, 30.

Combahee river discovered, 7.
Commerce of Savannah, 313.
Commercial house, the first established
in Georgia, 313.
Constitution, new, for Georgia, granted
1754, 383.

Convention of landholders, 300.
Cook, Lieutenant-Colonel, 201.
Coosa river, visited by De Soto, 23.
Coope, Richard, 470.
Copp, Rev. Jonathan, 361.
Coram, Thomas, one of Trustees, 467.
Cornewall Velters, 473.
Counties, Georgia divided into two,
224; united, 226.

Couper, James Hamilton, xiii.
Court-Martial on Oglethorpé, 202, 206.
Courts of law and equity established,

391.

Coweta, treaty, 157.

Creeks hold a council with Oglethorpe,
95; with Ellis, 440; visit Savannah,
ceremonies and speeches on recep-
tion of by Gov. Ellis, 441.

Crow, Rev. Dr., gives a library for
Savannah, 354.

Cumberland Island, why so named,

135.

Cumming, Sir Alexander, Commis-
sioner to Indians, 49.
Currency in Georgia, 314, 401.
Cust, Sir John, 475.

Chicora, where situated; natives stolen Cuti fachiqua, interview of De Soto with

Churches, their condition in the prov-

from, 7.

ince, 354.

princess of, 22.

D.

Church of England established by law Daniel, Dr. Wm. C., xiii.

in Georgia, 444.

Church, Rev. Alonzo, D.D., xiii.

Clergy, influence of in advancing Trus-

tees' plan, 319.

Danforth, Rev. Mr., 375.

D'Arcy, James, Lord, one of Trus-
tees, 469.

Darien, 127, 214.

De Brahm, William, Surveyor of Geor- Eyles, Sir Francis, 465.

gia, 387, 408.

Defenceless state of Georgia, 409.

Delamotte, Mr., teacher in Savannah,

341.

Eyre, Robert, 470.

F.

Fallowfield, John, 225.

lic offices, 411.

De Lyon, Abraham, vigneron of the Fees, schedule of, to be put up in pub-
colony, 103.
Dempsey, Charles, appointed Commis- Filatures built at Savannah and Frede-
sioner, 146.
Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, one of Firmian, Count, Archbishop of Salz-
Trustees, 468.

rica, 274.

burg, persecutes the Lutherans, 108.

De Soto, Ferdinand, life and expedition Fisher, Rev. Mr., 377.

of, 14-26.

Florida discovered and named, 5.
Fortifications, plan of, projected at va-
rious points, 410.

Digby, Edward, one of Trustees, 464.
Dorchester, England, 372; Massachu-
setts, 373; South Carolina, 377.
Douglass, David, first Speaker of As-
sembly, 389.
Driesler, Rev. Mr., at Frederica dies, Frederica, 133, 213, 405.
364.

Fountain of youth sought for, 6.
France engages in maritime discovery,

Drugs and dye-stuffs proposed to be
exported from Georgia, 265.

9.

Frederick, Thomas, 469; Sir John,
473.

French Papists arrive in Savannah,

417.

E.

Ebenezer, why so named, 112; settle-
ment of, 113; progress of, 214.
Eglintoun, Earl of, plan for peopling
Georgia, 275.
Egmont, Earl of, 474.
Elliott, Bishop, xiii.

Ellis, Henry, early history of, 427; ap-
pointed Lieut. Governor of Georgia,
428; reaches Savannah, 429; speech
to Assembly; tours through the prov-
ince; appointed Governor; returns
to England, 455; review of his ad-
ministration, 456; appointed Govern-
or of Nova Scotia, 458.
Electors, qualifications of, 412.
Embarkation, first, for Georgia, 87.
Emigrants sent over by Trustees, 276-

81.

(Ewer, Anthony, 475.

Exports of the colony of Georgia, 316.

G.

Gaols, committee to inquire into, 60.
Georgia, why so named, 63; early po-
litical institutions, 216.
Geraldino, Sir Thomas, 148.
Gomez, Stephen, voyage of and results,

12.

Gonson, Sir John, 470.
Gough, Sir Harry, 472.
Gourgues, Dominique de, 40.
Governor, colonial, power vested in,

386.

Government of Georgia, plan of pro-
posed, 381.

Governor's Council, constitution of,
388.

Graham, Patrick, President of Georgia,
384, 388.

Grants in tail-male, 276; in fee-simple,

280.
Gray, Edmund, 406.