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Sanchez was hanged? for signing the treaty with Oglethorpe

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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Oglethorpe regarded the treaty as a good bargain for England. Spain emphatically agreed with him, and Sanchez, who signed the document, was called home and hanged.1 [Note 1 The text of the treaty with Sanchez is in Harris, Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1748), II, 331-332. Dempsey concluded two treaties. One was ratified by Sanchez, the other by the Junta de Guerra at San Agustin (Go. Col. Rec., I, 266). Concerning the fate of Sanchez it is stated "That the late Spanish Govern1, of Augustine who made the Treaty of Neutrality some years ago with Gen' Oglethorpe, and had been therefore sent home in chains by the succeeding Gov on that account, is hang'd; and that Cap' Dempsy's brother an Officer in the Spanish service is cashier'd because the Captain assisted Oglethorpe in concluding that Treaty." (Ga. Col. Rec., vol. V, 351); see also Egmont's Diary, II, 326, 410. For the complaints against Sanchez see Brooks, The Unwritten History of Old St. Augustine, 156-162. Among numerous charges the treaty with Oglethorpe is not mentioned.]