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The GA grant diametrically opposed to the Treaty of 1670

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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But this [Oglethorpe’s contrary orders of 1735] was quite in keeping with the patent issued by the British King, on June 9/20, 1732, in which he disposes of the domains of that continent and even of the sea, granting to the company formed for the establishment of the colony of New Georgia everything not already settled by the vassals of England. 73. [Bolton note: The charter of the Georgia colony is printed in Stevens, A History of Georgia, I, 476-493.] This is a concession diametrically opposed to the Treaty of 1670, which excludes from his possession everything which he did not hold or possess in that year, and is the very foundation and beginning by which the boundaries of the two jurisdictions must be regulated. For it is certain that if the English were undeceived, and the injustice with which they possess the territory in question were established, they would restore it to the Crown of Spain, evacuating it entirely and removing the colony of New Georgia and its fortifications, since it is not a possession which they had in 1670, but is land that was inhabited by the Spaniards.