Given under my own hand and seal this twenty-first day of July, at Frederica in Georgia, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-two.

JAMES OGLETHORPE.

[Under the date of September, the Rev. Mr. Bolzius makes this entry in his diary—­“Mr. Jones told me lately, that the people and soldiers at Frederica, on the day when the Thanksgiving was held, observed such a stillness and good order as he had never seen there.  There was also a very pertinent and devout ascription of praise read, which he (and Mr. Jones is a good judge of edifying things,) pronounce to be very excellent; and, moreover, he maintained that it must have been prepared and composed by General Oglethorpe himself, for there was neither preacher nor school-master at Frederica at that time."[1]]

[Footnote 1:  URLSPERGER, IV. p. 1261.]

XXVII.

A LIST OF THE SPANISH FORCES EMPLOYED IN THE INVASION OF GEORGIA, UNDER THE COMMAND OF DON MANUEL DE MONTEANO.

  One Regiment of dismounted Dragoons, 400
  Havana Regiment, 500
  Havana Militia, 1000
  Regiment of Artillery, 400
  Florida Militia, 400
  Batalion of Mulattoes, 300
  Black Regiment, 400
  Indians, 90
  Marines, 600
  Seamen, 1000
          
                                                  ——­
                                                      Total 5090

General Oglethorpe’s command consisted of,

His Regiment, 472
Company of Rangers, 30
Highlanders, 50
Armed Militia, 40
Indians, 60
——­
Total 652

Ensign Stewart’s command at Fort William, on the south end of Cumberland Island, consisted of sixty men.  Fort William was about fifty miles south-west from Frederica.

XXVIII.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SILK CULTURE IN GEORGIA,

BY WILLIAM B. STEVENS, M.D.

One of the principal designs which influenced the settlement of Georgia, was the hope of thereby creating a silk-growing province, where that material for which England had so long been indebted to France, Italy and China, could be produced in this colonial dependency.