From COLLECTIONS OF THE Georgia Historical Society, Vol. VII. 1739-7-18 Affidavit of Juan Castelnau Asked on what date he set forth from those Colonies to go to Virginia, when the Commander Don Diego Obletor arrived, and what troops he brought with him, he answered, that he himself set out on Nov. 4, 1738, of the past year, and that the Commander Don Diego Obletor arrived in the preceding September of the same year with five transports and one vessel mounting more than twenty-two guns, and said to be a warship called the Blandfort, and that in the said transports he had brought over about five hundred men and more according to appearances, said to be regular troops; that in the month of July of said year, Lieutenant Colonel Cocran [Cochran] had arrived from Gibraltar with three hundred men drawn from its garrison, that after the arrival of the Commander Obletor [Oglethorpe] there came an English packet boat loaded solely with artillery and implements of war; that the troops mentioned were distributed, six hundred men in the Isle of Saint Simon in Fort Frederica, and two hundred in Saint Andrew; and that at the same time when the five hundred came with the Commander Ogletor, came also two hundred women with them, the purpose being to compel the soldiers to marry them. Asked if after the arrival of all these people, and while he was still in those parts, he had seen or learned whether they were making new fortifications or occupying other posts or laying out new settlements, or whether he detected any especial design of the Commander Ogletor, he said that he saw them tracing out under the direction of a French engineer they had brought out, a castle in the fort at Frederica, and for this purpose had collected a supply of bricks and timber in the same Isle of Saint Simon between the town and the careening ground; that with the same engineer they were taking soundings on the bar and in the channel; that they were building two other small forts to command the land approaches from Florida to Georgia so as to guard against any surprise by Spanish Indians; that each one was occupied by a corporal and 20 settlers, that one of these [forts] was called Fort Augustus, but he had forgotten the name of the other; that they had not laid out any new settlements; that he had [not]* detected any especial design on the part of Commander Ogletor, but that he had heard the officers say that the design in view was to take possession of Saint Augustine in Florida, and had remarked that in case the outbreak of war was doubtful they had made certain arrangements looking to this end. [*The context shows that the negative particle has been through error omitted.]