Sir: Don Diego Pablo sends me despatches from Apalachee, saying that he has learned that the English had set out with more than 100 negroes to build a fort ; that the negroes rose, slew all the English, and hamstrung all the horses ; that two large bodies of Indians, had gone forth, one in the direction of the road to San Marcos, and the other toward this point. That this news comes from Quilate, and that he was investigating everything particularly, and where they intended to build the fort; that the negroes had scattered, and two of them (Portillo says four) had arrived at a village of the Provinces, and afterwards disappeared; that they asked a few Indians encountered in the woods, the road to the Spaniards; that this news caused him much anxiety. It appears to me that the fort must be a means in the neighborhood of Carolina to keep the negroes from deserting, and that having rebelled, troops of Indians were sent out after them, and so the news causes no great anxiety. But nevertheless, in case they were occupying some new post in violation of the Convention, I sent out Don Jose Leonor to reconnoiter, and he has returned from reconnoitering St. Mary's, and I have scouts in other parts. So far there is no other news ; no despatches having followed from Apalachee, there is nothing to fear: Don Diego Pablo having concealed from me Quilate's presence in his fort, I have Juan Ygnacio there with three other Indians and two or three Uchises loyal to us. The results I shall communicate promptly to Your Excellency as I now report the arrival yesterday of a sloop from New York. Florida, Aug. 19, 1739.