Glass. Book. _Z£H A Z I L I A . AZI LI A : HISTORICAL LEGEND OF &EOR&IA, FROM I 71 7. [From Original Papers Published at the Time.] A LAND OF BKOOKS, OF WATEK, OF FOUNTAINS; A LAND OF WHEAT AND BAKLEY, AND VINES, AND FIG TREES, AND POMEGEANATES, AND HONEY. COMPILED BY GEORGE W. SHAFFER. ^AVANNAH, pA : '-^^'^^V^^^' EDWARD J. PURSE, PRINTER. 1870. To THE Reader. I publish for the Citizens of Georgia, ' ' The Histori- cal Legend of this State in 1717."' Its genuineness may be determined, by reference to published Documents. Those obtained from the late Petee Force, Esq... are ^^•ith the assent of his Executor. Respectfully, GEORGE W. SHAFFER. A ZILIA. lantatioBS of new countries, says the ij^ great Lord Bacon, are among the primi- i tive and most heroic works of man. \ j-5^ They are meritorious in a double sense., religiously as they illuminate the souls of hea- thens, through the darkness of their ignorance, and politically as they strengthen the dominion which sends out the colony and wonderfully more than any other means enrich the under- takers. Excited therefore by an earnest inclination to establish such a settlement as may by new means, yield new benefits as well as in wealth as safety ; and resolving to proceed upon a scheme entirely different from any hitherto attempted and which appears to promise great and inex- pressible advantage; the grant on which we found the undertaking will be seen in the fol- lowing abstract : 8 AZILI A . The underwritten Palatine and Lords Proprie- tors of tlie Province of Carolina, do on the con- sideration hereinafter mentioned; grant, sell, alien, release and confirm to Sir Kobert Mont- gomery, Baronet, his heirs and assigns, forever, all that tract of land, which lies between the rivers Alatamaha and Savanna, together with the islands, ports, harbors, bays and rivers, on that part of the coast, which lies between the months of the said two rivers, to the seaward; and moreover, all veins, mines and quarries of gold and silver, and all other whatever, be they of stones, metals, or any other things found, or to be found, within that tract of land, and the limits aforesaid; wdth liberty over and above to make settlements on the south side of Alata- maha river, which tract of land, the said under- written Lords, do erect into a distinct Province, with proper jurisdictions, privileges, prerogatives and franchises, independent of and not subject to, the laws of South Carolina, to be holden of the said Lords by Sir Kobert, his heirs and assigns, forever, under the name and title of the Margravate of Azilia, at and under the yearly quit-rent of one penny sterling per acre, or its A Z I L I A Yalue in goods or merchandise, as tlie land shall be occupied, taken up, or run out; payable year- ly to the Lords Proprietors' Officers, at Charles Town, but such payment not to commence till three years after the arrival of the first ships there, which shall be sent over to begin the set- tlement; over and jibove which penny per acre; Sir Eobert, his heirs and assigns, shall also yield, and pay to the Lords Proprietors, one fourth part of all gold or silver ore, besides the quota re- served to the crown out of the said royal miner- als; District Courts of Judicature to be erected^ and such laws enacted within the Margravate, by and wdth the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen thereof, in publick assembly, as shall be most conducive to the utility of the said Mar- gravate, and as near as may be conveniently agreeable to the laws and customs of England, but so as such laws do not extend to lay duties or custom or other obstruction upon the naviga- tion of either of the said rivers, by any inhabi- tant of South or North Carolina or their free commerce and trade with the Indian Nations^, either wdthin or to the southward of the Margra- vate, Sir Eobert consenting that the same duty 10 A Z ILIA shall be charged on skins within the Margravate, which at this time stands charged on such skins in South Carolina, and appropriated to the maintainance of the clergy there, so long as that duty is continued in South Carolina, but the said duty shall not be increased in Azilia, though the Assembly of South Carolina should think fit to increase it there, nor shall it longer continue to be paid than while it shall remain appropriated as at present, to the maintainance of the clergy only : In consideration of all Avhich powers, rights, privileges, prerogatives and franchises. Sir Kobert shall transport at his own expense a considerable number of families, with all neces- saries for making a new settlement in the said tract of land, and in case it be neglected for the space of three years from the date of this Grant, then the Grant shall become void, any- thing herein contained to the contrary notwith- standing. Dated June the nineteenth, 1717. Carteret, Falafine, Ia Bertie, Foi' the Bake of Beaufort. M. Ashley, John Colleton. A Z I L I A . 11 A Description of the Country. t lies about the 31st and 32nd degree (/-lB3 of northern hititude — is bounded east- .^w ward by the Great Atlantic Sea — to the '^-^ Avest by a part of the Apalachian moun- tains, and to the north and south by the two Great Rivers mentioned in the Grant. In the maps of North America, it may be taken notice of, how well this country lies for trade with all our (Colonies, and in regard to every other prospect, which can make a situa- tion healthy, profitable, lovely and inviting — ^Florida, of which it is a part, received that name from its delightful forid and agreeable appearance. It has been commonly observed that gay de- scriptions of new countries, raise a doubt of tlieir sincerity ; men are apt to think the pic- ture drawn beyond the life to serve the interest of the representer. To show the prejudice of this opinion, whatever shall be said upon the subject. Here is all extracted from our English writers, who are very humorous, and imiver- sally agree that Carolina, and especially in 12 A Z I L I A . its southern bounds, is the most amiable coun- try in the universe ; that nature has not blessed the world with any tract which can be prefera- ble to it, that Paradise with all her virgin beau- ties may be modestly suj^posed, at most, but equal to its native excellencies. It lies in the same latitude with Palestine herself, that promised Canaan which was point- ed out by God's own choice to bless the labors of a favorite people. It abounds with rivers, woods and meadows. Its gentle hills are full of mines — lead, copper, iron and even some silver. It is beautiful, with odoriferous plants, green all the year, pine, cedar, cypress, oak, elm, ash or walnut ; with iiinumerable other sorts both fruit or timber trees, grow everywhere so pleasantly that though they meet at the top and shade the traveller, they are at the same time so distant in their bodies, and so free from underwood or bushes, that the deer and other game, which feed in droves along the forests, maybe often seen nvar half a mile between them. The air is healthy and the soil in general fruitful and of infinite variety ; vines naturally flourishing upon the hills, bear grapes in most A Z I L I A . 13 luxuriant plenty. They liaye eyeiy grovrtli wliicli we possess in England, and almost eyery tiling that England wants besides. The orange and the lemon, thriye in the same common orchard with the apple, and the pear tree, plumbs, peaches, apricots and nectarines, bear from stones in three years growing. The planters raise large orchards of these fruits to feed their hogs with — wheat ears haye been measured there seyen inches long, and they haye barley, beans, peas, rice, and all our grains, roots, herbs and liowers — not to speak of numbers of their own, which we can find no names for; beef, mutton, pork, tame poultry, wild fowl, sea and riyer fish, are all there plenti- ful, and most at lower rates, than in the cheap- est parts of Wales or Scotland. The many lakes and pretty riyulets through- out the Proyince, breed a multitude of geese, and other water fowl ; the air is found so tem- perate, and the seasons of the year so yeiy reg- ular, that there is no excess of heat or cold nor any sudden alterations in the weather — the riyer banks are coyered with a strange variety of loyely trees, which being always green, present li A Z I L I A . a tliousancl landscapes to the eye, so fine and so diversified, that the sight is entirely charmed with them ; the ground lies sloping towards the rivers, but at a distance rises gradually and in- termingles like hills of wood with fruitful plains, all covered ovet with wild flowers and not a tree to interrupt the prospect. And this tempting country is not inhabited except those parts in the possession of the English, unless, by here and there, a tribe of wandering Indians wild and ignorant, all artless and uncultivated, as the soil which fosters them. vl^fes Of the I'orm PEorosED in kSettling. ^>.ur meaning here relates to ^^hat imme- diate measures will be taken, for secu- '^^^^S ^'^^y against the insults of the Natives during the infancy of our affairs; to Avhich end we shall not satisfy ourselves with building here and iliere a Fort, the fatal prac- tice of America, l)ut so dispose the habitations and divisions of the lau'l, that not alone our A Z I L I A . 15 houses, but whatever we possess, will be enclosed by military lines impregnable against the sav- ages, and which will make our whole Plantation one continued Fortress. It need not be sup- posed that all the lands will thus be fortified at once. The first lines drawn will be in just propor- tion to the number of men they inclose; as the inhabitants increase new lines will be made to enclose them also, so that all the people will be always safe within a well-defended line of circumvallation. The reader will allow it is not necessary that these retrenchments be of bulk like those of Europe; small defence is strong against the poor unskillful Natives of America. They have accomplished all their bloody mischief by sTlr- prises and incursions, but durst never think of a defiance to artillery. The massacres and frequent ruins which have fallen upon some English settlements for want of this one caution have sufficiently instructed us that strength producing safety is the point which should be chiefly weighed in such attempts 16 A Z I L I A . as these— Solon liad reason when he said to CiTesus lookmg on his treasure, "Yon are rich indeed and so far you are mighty : But if any man should come with a sharper steel than yours, how easily will he be made the master of your gold." At the arrival therefore of the first men carried over, proper officers shall mark and cause to be intrenched a square of land in just proportion to their number. On the outside of this square, within the little redoubts or bastions of the intrenchment they raise light timber dwellings, cutting down the trees which everywhere encom- pass them. The officers are quartered with the men whom they command, and the Governor-in- Cliief is placed exactly in the center. By these moans the laboring people (being so disposed as to be always w^atchful of an enemies approach,) are themselves within the eye of those set over them, and altogether under the inspection of their principal. The redoubts may be near enough to defend each other with muskets, but field-pieces and pa- tarero's will be planted upon each, kept charged with cartridge shot and pieces of old iron. — AZILIA. 17 Within these redoubts are the common dwellings of the men who must defend them; between them runs a palisadoed bank and a ditch, Avhicli will ]3e scoured by the artillery. One man in each redoubt kept night and day upon the guard, will give alarm upon occasion to the others at their work. So they cultivate their lands, raise their cattle, and follow their business, with great ease and safety. Exactly in the cen- ter of the innermost square, will be a Fort de- fended by large cannons pointing every Avay, and capable of making strong resistance in case some (juarter of the outward lines should chance to be surprised by any sudden accident, which yet with tolerable care v>^ould be impracticable. The nature of this scheme when weighed against the ignorance and wildness of the Natives will show that men thus settled may at once defend and cultivate a territory with the utmost satisfaction and security,even in the heart of an Indian Country, then how much rather in a place considerably distant from the savage settlements. As the numbers shall increase and they go as to clear more space of land, they are to regulate 18 A Z I L I A . tlieir settlements with like regard to safety and improvement and indeed tlie difference as to the time and labor is not near so great as may be thought betwixt enclosing land this way, and following the dangerous common method; but what is here already said will show the end for which it has been written which was only to give a general notion of the care and caution we pro- pose to act with. It will not however be amiss, as you have seen the first rude form of our Azilia in her infancy, to view her also in the fulness of her beauty ; and to end we have affixed a plan of one Avliole district, cleared, planted and in- habited; for as the country thrives, all future townships will be formed according to this ]3lan, and measured out as near each other as the rivers, hills, and other natural impediments will in any way admit of. But least it should be feared from the cor- rectness of this model, that it will be a work of too great difficulty, and require a mighty length of time to bring it to perfection, we think it proper to declare that purchasers will not be obliged to wait this form of settlement, but are entitled to the immediate profits of peculiar A Z I L I A . 19 lands, assigned tliem, from tlie first arrival of tlie Colony; wliicli lands being set apart for that purpose will be strongly enclosed and de- fended by the lines or intrenchments before mentioned. Neither would we have it thought a labor so tedious as it is generally fancied, to establish in this manner a Colony which may become not only an advantage but a glory to the nation. We have prospects before us most attractive and unprecedented ; in the three tempting points — wealth, safety and liberty; benefits like these can never fail of drawing numbers of in- habitants from every corner. And men once got together, it is as easy to dispose them regu- larly and with due regard to order, beauty and the comforts of society, as to leave them to the folly of fixing at random and destroying their interest, by indulging their humor ; so that we have more than ordinary cause to expect that in a very short time we shall be able to present the solid life itself, as now we give the shadow only in the following explanation. You must suppose a level dry and fruitful 20 A Z I L I A . tract of land in some fine plain or valley, con- taining a just square of twenty miles each way, or two liunclred and fifty- six thousand acres, laid out and settled in the form presented in the cut annexed. The district is defended by sufiicient numbers of men v^dio dwelling in the fortified angles of the line, will be employed in cultivating lands which are kept in hand for the particular ad- vantage of the Margrave. These lands sur- round the district just in the lines, and every where contain in breadth one mile exactly. The men, thus employed, are such as shall be hired in Great Britain or Ireland, well disciplin- ed, armed and carried over, on condition to serve faithfully for such a term of years, as they before shall agree to ; and that no man may be wretched in so happy a country, dt the expira- tion of those peoples' time ; besides some other considerable, and usual incouragements, all such among them, who shall marry in the country or come married thither, shall have a right of lay- ing claims to a certain fee farm or quantity of land ready cleared, together with a house built upon it and a stock sufficient to improve and A Z I L I A . 21 cultivate it, which they shall enjoy, rent and tax free during life as a reward for their service ; by which means two very great advantages must naturally follow; poor labouring men, so secured of a fixed future settlement, will be thereby induced to go thither more willingly: and act, when there, v>dth double diligence and duty, and when their time expires, possessing just land enough to pass their lives at ease and bring their children up honestl}^, the families they leave will prove a constant seminary of sober servants of both sexes, for the gentry of the Colony; whereby they will be under no necessity to use the dangerous help of Black- moors or Indians; the lands set apart for this purpose, are two miles in breadth, quite round the District, and lie next within the Margraves' own reserved lands above mentioned. The one hundred and sixteen squares, each of which has a house in the middle, are every one a mile on each side, or six hundred and forty acres in a square, bating only for the highways which divide them ; these are the estates belong- ing to the gentry of the District, who, being so confined to an equality in land will be profitably 22 A z I L I A . emulous of ont-doing each other in improve- ments, since that is the only way left them to grow richer than their neighbors ; and when the Margravate is once become strong enough to found many Districts, the estates will be all given gratis, together with many other benefits to honest and qualified gentleman in Great Britain, or elsewhere, who having numerous and well educated families, possess but little fortunes, other than their industry ; and will therefore be chosen to enjoy these advantages, which they shall j)ay no rent or other consider- ation for, and yet the undertaking will not fail to find its own account in their prosperity. The four great Parks or rather forests, are each four miles square, that is sixteen miles round each forest, in Avhich are propagated herds of cattle of all sorts by themselves, not alone to serve the uses of the District they be- long to, but to store such new ones as may from time to time be measured out on afHuence of people. The middle hollow square, which is full of streets crossing each other, is the City: and the bank, which runs about it on the outside sur- A z I L I A . 23 rounded with trees, is a large void space, wliicli will be useful for a thousand purposes, and among the rest, as being airy and affording a line prospect of the Town in drawing near it. In the center of the City stands the Margraves' House, which is to be his constant Residence, (or the Residence of the Governor) and contains all sorts of publick edifices for dispatch or busi- ness ; and this again is separated from the City by a space like that, which as above, divides the town from the countrv. Design in View of Making Peofit. he prospects in this point, are more ex- tensive than we think it needful to dis- cover. It were a shame, should we con- f^7, fine the fruitfulness of such a rich and lovely country to some single product, which example first makes common, and the being- common robs of benefit. Thus sugar in Bar- badoes, Hice in Carolina, and tobacco in Yir- 24 A Z I L I A . giuia, take up all the labours of their people, overstock the markets, stifle the demand, and make their industry their ruin, merely through a want of due reflection or diversity of other products, equally adapted to their soil and climate. Coffee, tea, figs raisins, currants, almonds, olives, silk, wine, cochineal, and a great variety of still more rich commodities, which we are forced to buy at mighty rates from countries, lying in the very latitude of our Plantation. All these we certainly shall propagate though it may perhaps be said, that they are yet but distant views ; meanwhile we shall confine our first endeavors to such easy benefits as will (without the smallest waiting for the growth of plants) be offered to our industry from the spontaneous wealth which over-runs the country. The reader may assure himself, our under- takings upon all occasions, will be the plainest and most ready roads to profit — not formed from doubtful and untried conceits, nor hani- j)ered by a train of difficulties, none are more apt than we to disregard chimerical or rash de- AZILI A. signs, but it is the business of men's judgment to cliyicle things plain, from things unhkely. We cannot think it proper to be too particu- lar upon this subject, nor will it, we suppose, be expected from us. One example however we will give, because we would present a proof, that much is practicable there, which has not yet been put in practice — we shall pitch on pot- ash, a commodity of great consumption in the trades of dying, glass-making, soap-boiling and some others ; not that this is the only present prospect which we build on, but as it is neces- sary we should particularize one benefit, that others may be credible. And here it will not be amiss, if we describe what potash is, and how they make it ; since it is likely some may have attempted it already in the forest of America, and miscarried by de- pending upon ignorant undertakers. It is not very properly indeed called potash, not being any kind of ashes, but the fixed and vegetable salt of ashes, which if mixed with wa- ter, melts away and turns to lye. For this rea- son it is preferred to all other lixivate ashes, 26 AziLiA. foreign or domestick, which not being perfect salts, but ashes of beanstraw and other vegeta- bles, made stronger by the help of lye bear no proportion as to price with potash itself, which is as we said before, the pure salt without any of the ashes. To procure this salt in Kussia, and the coun- tries famous for it, they burn great quantities of oak, fur, burch and other woods cut down when flourishing, and full of sap ; the ashes they throw into boilers or huge caldrons full of wa- ter, and extract a thick, sharp lye by boiling. They let this lye grow clear by settling and then draw it off, and throw away the ashes left at the bottom. This lye so clariiied, they boil again, and as the watery part evaporates apace they supply the waste through a small pipe, from another vessel of the same sort of l^^e, set higher than the boiler ; at last, by a continued evaporation the whole vessel becomes full of thick brownish salt, which being dug out in lumps, and afterwards calcined, compleats the work, and gives a colour to the potash like a whitish-blue, in which condition it is barreled up, and fit for merchants. A z I L I A . 27 Nothing can be plainer or more easy tlian this practice in our intended settlement. As to the boilers, which have ever been the great and terrifying expense and incumbrance of this work, we shall extremely lessen, and reduce that charge almost to nothing, by some new methods, being an experienced invention wherein we use neither copper, lead, iron, nor other mineral, whatsoever, and (that excepted) there is no ma- terial necessary but vrood only ; for wood cut down and burnt upon the ground affords the ashes — the rivers every where abounding in that country furnishes water ; ashes and water boiled together yield the lye ; the lye evaporated leaves behind the salt, and that very salt calcined, be- comes the potash, and it is packed and sent away in barrels, made and hooped there also. From due consideration of these circum- stances, it appears that this must be a rich and gainful undertaking, in a country where the greatest quantities of timber, and the finest in the world, cost nothing but the pains of cutting- down and burning on the banks of navigable rivers ; where the enlivening influence of the Sim prepares the trees much better for this 28 A z I L I A practice than in colder climates, and where stubbing up the woods which cover all the set- tlement, will give a sure and double benefit ; for first they yield this valuable traffick^potash, and afterw^ards leave clear the ground they grov»- on, for producing yearly crops of such commodities as arc most profitable, and fittest for the country. Thus, having faintly touched the outward lines, and given some prospect of our purpose ; w^e proceed to the conditions upon wdiich w^e wdll admit of purchasers. The PiiorosAL. o all to wdiom these presents shall come. I, Egbert Montgomery, of Skelmorley, the Shiredom of Aire in North J^/^ Britain, Baronet ; send greeting : Whereas, his Excellency the Lord Carteret, Palatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, in America, have by their Grant, bearing date A z I L I A . 29 the nineteentli clay of June last, bargaiuecl, sold, aliened, released, enfeoffed and confirmed to me, the above mentioned Sir Eobeet Montgomery, my heirs and assigns : All that tract of land in their said Province, which lies between the rivers Allatamaha and Savanna, and erected the said tract into a distinct Province with proper and independent jurisdictions, under the name and title of the Margravate of Azilia, to be held of them the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, by me, my heirs and assigns forever ; and whereas for better carrying on my design of transport- ing people, and making a new settlement in the said Margravate ; I have made and caused to be published the proposals hereunto annexed. Now therefore for securing the advantages pro- posed in the said "Articles to All," who shall or may subscribe any sum or sums of money for the purchase of lands and profits in the Mar- gravate of Azilia, aforesaid and shall on their parts, make good the payments and conditions mentioned in the Articles. I the above named Sir Egbert Montgomery do, by these presents, to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, in perpetual proof and testimony of the secu- 30 A Z I L I A . rity hereby designed to be conveyed, engage, bind, mortgage, assign and firmly make subject, the said Grant Lands, and benefits for making good the uses in the said Articles expressed in manner as at large, hereinunder described ; and I do hereby declare and consent, that the instruments signed by my hand writing as reci- ted in the Seventh Article, shall be deemed and they are by virtue of these presents, declared to be a firm and sufiicient proof of title to the re- spective claim therein mentioned to be conveyed by, and upon the security by these presents provided. And I do hereby authorize and ap- point David Kennedy, Esqr., in my absence to fill up and deliver the said instruments with all efi'ectual authority and irrevocable rights of re- presentatives, which by Letter of Attorney, or by any other form or means whatever, can or might be deputed to him. And I declare my- self obliged as to the sufiiciency of the writings delivered, by such act of the said David Ken- nedy, as fimly as if I had in person filled and delivered the said writings ; and in case that I Sir Egbert Montgomery, or my heirs or assigns or any claiming right, or exercising power by, A Z ILIA. 31 from or under me, shall at any time hereafter refuse to submit to the said annexed Articles, or to any of them, or shall under any unjust pre- tence whatsoever forbear the cultivation of the purchasers lands, or consign the annual pro- ducts arising therefrom or any part of the same, to any other person or persons, than to the Fac- tor or Factors who shall be appointed by the purchasers or to persons approved by them, or shall refuse or deny admission, residence or oc- cular satisfaction on the spot to any agent, whom the purchasers may at any time think fit to send over for that purpose. In any of these cases the purchasers shall, by virtue of these presents (any form of law, usage, custom or pretence to the contrary notwithstanding) have a warrantable, and incontrovertible right and authority, 'o procure and obtain present justice to themselves in manner following : that is to say ; upon such breach of covenant the said purchasers shall or may, meet upon the sum- mons of the party injured, or of any other per- son interested, and by a majority of the voices present, elect a committee of three ; which com- mittee shall draw up a state of the case they 32 A z I L I A . complain of ; and present it to me, or my heirs or assigns, or to any agent acting for me or them, or any of them in London or elsewhere^ and if within ten days after such presentation they receive not due satisfaction from such per- son or agent ; they shall leave notice in writing at the place of his dwelling, or publish in the Gazette, or other authentick News Letter, that on some day therein named, they design to lay the state of their case before the King's Attor- ney General and Solicitor General, in London, for the time being, in order to have their opin- ions v/hether the fact they complain of, be, or be not, a breach of any part of the Articles here- unto annexed, that so the said person or agent, may attend if he shall have any thing to offer in defence of the matter complained of. And if upon the question the Attorne}^ General shall join in the opinion, and give it under their hands, that the cause of complaint does plainly appear in their judgments, to be a breach of the Articles, subscribed to, and such person, as above described, or some agent acting for him, shall not forthwith make due satisfaction ; such forbearance to do justice in the case, shall after A Z I L I A . 3^ tliirty days next following the date of the said written opinion, become an absokite forfeiture of the Grant, and from thenceforth all lands, prerogatives, privileges, powers and benefits, y/hatsoever held, claimed or enjoyed b}^ virtue of the said Grant, shall be taken possession of, for the sole future use of the body of purchasers, and shall be carried on to their general advan- tage and according to their orders and directions, by any person or persons whom they shall choose by a majority of their voices and send over to that purpose. And that no possible let or impediment on my part, or the part of my heirs or assigns, may in any sort incommode or prevent the most strict and iiumediate perform- ance of this covenant. I, the said Sir Robekt, do hereby renounce for myself, and all claiming from me, all pleas, prerogatives, privileges and pretences, whatsoever, which I or they, may by the said Grant, or by any form, custom or mode of proceeding at lav/ be possessed of, or entitled to ; and I do consent and declare, that when the written opinion above mentioned of the Attor- ney and Solicitor General, in London, shall be produced to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina,. 34 A z I L I A . and sent over to their Deputies at Charles Town, and be entered in their journal — it shall stand as a determinate judgment recorded against me or them, after which no appeal shall be lawful, and possession shall be given immediately : that is to say ; no other process shall be needful than twenty days' notice from the Governor and Council at Charles Town, above mentioned. I'rom which time forever, if full satisfaction be not made within the said twenty days, as well in the matter complained of, as by payment of all costs and damages sustained by the com- plainants, the purchasers shall in right of them- selves, and by virtue of these presents, possess, occupy and enjoy all manner of authorities, territories and advantages of what kind soever, arising from the Grant above said, and I, the said Sir Bobeet Montgomery, my heirs and assigns shall effectually stand excluded, both in law and equity to all intents and purposes, as if the said Grant had never been made. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the Third year of the Eeign of our Sovereign Lord A z I L I A . 35 George, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King: Defender of tlie Faith, &c. E. MONTGOMERY. x4nnoq : Domini 1717, 36 A z I L I A a Conclusion. t was during the Eeign of George the First, that the effort was made to estab- ^jrypY lish the Margravate of Azilia. And it v^T ^as in the Reign of George the Second, thaF the King of England in 1732, erected by Royal Charter, into a separate Province from South Carolina, the land lying between the Rivers Savannah and Altamaha, under the name of "Georgia." And in July, 1732, the Trustees for Establish- ing the Colony of Georgia, held their first meeting; Lord Percival qualified himself as President, and after taking the oath, Lord Carpenter, was chosen President. General James Oglethorpe sailed from Gravesend, on the 17th of November, 1732, in the Ship Anne, and arrived in Savannah, in February— and Georgia became a British Colony. jaU 11 ;iP1l V ,^'0^ LRBJL7S