Source: Amy Notes (ID702)
Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Highlight the English losing because of disunity within one race and the Spanish surviving because o
Highlight the English losing because of disunity within one race and the Spanish surviving because of unity of three races.
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SC traders reported SA suiting up 8 canoes to attack Port Royal
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The Southern Frontier (ID 86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID 35)
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Two tasks confronted the assembly: to protect the border plantations, and to punish the enemy Indians, and so check the spreading disloyalty among the Lower Creeks. The obvious solution of the border question was to transfer the royal troops to Port Royal. Already the council had taken Massey's advice and had agreed that a detachment should be posted there. 52 [Note 52 JC, June 15, 17, 1727] Massey, however, favored the removal of the whole company, and it was he, according to Middleton, who converted the assembly to this measure. Middleton himself was probably persuaded to agree by a report brought in by traders, late in August, that seven or eight periagoes were fitting out at St. Augustine to attack Port Royal and on their return to destroy the fort. But the council sought to throw responsibility for the retreat upon the King's officer. After Massey had objected to the first phrasing of the request, these words were used: 'If you believe it will not be of any Injury to his Majesty's Claim to the River Altamaha.'53 [Note 53 JC, August 25, 30, 31, September 1, 22, 30, 1727. In the last entry Ralph Izard had it recorded in the minutes 'that he is against Removing the Garrison.']