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Trustees Document of May 10, 1733
(Facsimile of Trustees' Order)
To all to whom these Presents shall come
Whereas his Majesty hath been
graciously Pleased to take into Consideration that many of his poor Subjects
and many Forreigners who are willing to become his Subjects, are reduced
to great Necessities and would gladly be settled in the British Provinces
in America, where by Cultivating the Lands at present Wast and desolate,
they might not only gain a comfortable Subsistance for themselves and Families
but also strengthen his Majesty's Colonies and encrease the Trade, Navigation
and Wealth of these Realms. And Whereas his Majesty hath declared it highly
becoming his Crown and Royal Dignity to extend his Fatherly Compassion
even to the meanest and most unfortunate of his People and to releive the
Wants of his abovementioned poor Subjects and that it will be highly conducive
for the Accomplishing these Ends that a regular Colony of the said poor
People be settled and established in the Southern Frontier of South Carolina.
And Whereas his Majesty for the more orderly Carrying on the said good
Purpose Hath by his Royal Charter bearing date the Ninth Day of June in
the year of our Lord 1732 constituted a Body Politick and Corporate by
the Name of The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America
and hath granted unto the said Trustees and their Successors for ever certain
Lands and Territories in South Carolina In trust for Establishing the said
Colony and hath erected the same into an independent Province by the Name
of Georgia. Now Know Ye that We the said Trustees being well assured of
the Integrity and Humanity of The Minister Church Wardens and Gentlemen
of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster and that they
greatly desire the Success and Accomplishment of so excellent a Work Have
by Vertue of the Powers granted to Us by the said Charter at a Meeting
of the said Corporation convened and assembled for that Purpose authorized
and appointed and by these Presents Do for the Consideration aforesaid
authorize and appoint the said Minister Church Wardens and Gentlemen of
the Vestry of the Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster or any Two or more
of them to take Subscriptions and to gather and transmit with all convenient
speed to us the said Trustees at our Office in Old Palace Yard Westminster
the moneys so collected, together with the Names of the Persons and Sums
which each one shall contribute or Subscribe, and in case any of the Contributors
shall desire their Names to be conceal'd,then the Sums by them given respectively
in order that we the said Trustees may be enabled from time to time to
publish perfect Accompts of such Benefactions. Given under our common Seal
this Tenth Day of May 1733.
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Warrant, dated 10th May
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1733, of the Trustees incorporated
to encourage the development of the
Colony of Georgia, America
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appointing the Minister Churchwardens
and Gentlemen of the Parish of St. Margaret to
gather money for the said purpose.
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(c) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
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