From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT. [Edited for readability by Amy] From the 9th June 1735, to the 9th June 1736. Parliament granted more money to strengthen SC and GA as masters of the trade routes The Parliament having in the Year 1735 Granted Twenty six Thousand Pounds for the further Settling and Securing the Colony of Georgia, the Trustees thought it prudent to strengthen the Southern Part of the Province by making a Settlement on the Alatamaha River, to which they were strongly induced by a * Memorial sent to his Majesty from the Governor and Council of South-Carolina, dated the 9th April 1734, wherein after Thanking his Majesty for his peculiar Favor and Protection, and especially for his most benign Care so wisely calculated for the Preservation of South-Carolina, by his Royal Charter to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, and after Representing the Practices of the French to seduce the Indians in Amity with South-Carolina, the Attention of the French to the Improvement of their Settlements, and their late Enlargement of them nearer to Carolina, the Defenseless Condition of their Province, and the Danger of the Inhabitants from their own Negroes, and the Ruinous Situation of the West-India Trade in case the French should possess themselves of Carolina; they add, that the Harbours and Ports of Carolina and † Georgia enable his Majesty to be absolute Master of the Passage thro' the Gulph of Florida, and to impede at his Pleasure the Transportation Home of the Spanish Treasure, which should his Majesty's Enemies Possess would then prove so many convenient Harbours for them to annoy a great Part of the British Trade to America, as well as that which is carried on through the Gulph from Jamaica. * Appendix, No 5. † The Harbour in the Southern Part of Georgia the nearest to the Gulf of Florida which has yet been Sounded, has been proved by Affidavits of three Captains of Ships who have been there, viz. Capt. Thomas Shubrick, Capt. George Dymond, and Capt. William Thomson, to be capable of receiving Ships of 40 guns, and to be safely Land locked: And by the ‡ Affidavit of Thomas Pearce Mariner, who was on the Coast of Georgia near four Years, it appears, that Ships in this Harbour may in Twenty four Hours from the Bar, run out into the Gulf Stream of Florida, thro' which Stream the Spanish Galleons (when not passing the Windward Passage) always come. ‡ Appendix, No 6.