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Oglethorpe paid off Tomochichi

Source: A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America #173

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[From A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, edited by Amy]

THE First of February, 1733, Mr. Oglethorpe arrived at Georgia with the first Embarkation consisting of Forty Families, making upwards of One Hundred Persons, all brought over and supported at the Public Charge. The First Thing he did after he arrived
in Georgia was to make a kind of solemn Treaty with a Parcel of fugitive Indians who had been formerly banished from their own Nation for some Crimes and Misdemeanors they had committed, and who had some Months before this got Liberty from the Governor
of South-Carolina to settle there. [†They built a small Number of Huts on a Bluff called Yamacraw. Savannah now stands on the same Bluff. †] Some of these he afterwards carried Home with him under the Title of Kings, &c. and all of them have been ever since maintained at the Public Charge at vast Expense when many poor Christians were starving in the Colony for lack of Bread; and we may safely affirm, (and appeal to the Store-Books for the Truth of it) that a larger Sum of Money has been expended for the Support of those useless Vagrants than ever was laid out for the Encouragement of Silk, Wine, or any other Manufacture in the Colony.