Calendar of State Papers, 1738, Vol. 44

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Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers, 1738, Vol. 44: Colonial Series, America and West Indies, Preserved in the Public Record OfficeThis volume contains 570 principal abstracts and a further 226 documents which are enclosures to correspondence. More than one-third 211 of the principal abstracts are from the archives of the Trustees for Georgia, though only 15 of the enclosures come from that source. The explanation is as follows: Georgia at this time had no governor but instead a number of officers whose relationship to one other was not always perfectly clear xst, and and 3rd bailiffs at Savannah, recorder, surveyor, sec retary for the Trust's affairs in Georgia, etc. In royal provinces most official matters were communicated to the Secretary of State and the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, either by the governor in his own words, or through him in the form of enclosures to his letters. In the case of Georgia, however, all the principal officials in the colony corresponded directly with the Trustees in London. Papers from Georgia which, if from another province, would have been sent to Britain as enclosures (or not at all) therefore appear in this Calendar as principal abstracts. Another peculiarity of the infant-colony of Georgia was that many matters, which in an established province were largely or wholly private business, remained under the surveillance of the Trustees such were the cultivation of land, importation of servants, education, religion, food supply etc. This is why the Georgia records occupy a predominant position in the Calendar at this date. In due course the predominance will disappear.Adding together principal abstracts and enclosures there are 796 documents in the present volume (which covers the year 17 compared to 1009 in Vol. XLIII for 17 57, a reduction of the order of one-fifth. For this reduction, there is no obvious explanation. In view of growing fears of a war with Spain in the West Indies and America, more rather than fewer documents might have been expected to originate in the colonies, particularly in danger-spots such as Georgia, Jamaica and the Leewards. Yet the number of principal abstracts from the Georgia archives falls from 277 in 17 37 to 211 in 17 38, while Governor Mathew's letters from the Leeward Islands decline from 19 to 17. Letters from the governor of Jamaica, it is true, rise from 12 to 2 3 but this more re¿ects the arrival of Governor Edward Trelawny in the island than any increase in business regarding Spain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.