Note 852 — Chapter VI

[When the sermon of Samuel Smith, Feb. 23, 1730-31, was printed in 1733, he added to it Some account of the design of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, which was accompanied by the map referred to in the preceding note (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 516). The charter of Georgia, as well as those of Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Bay, is given in A list of Copies of Charters from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, presented to the House of Commons, 1740 (London, 1741). It is given in English in Mémoires des Commissaires du Roi, vol. iv. p. 617 (London, 1757). Cf. Mag. of Amer. Hist., Feb., 1883, in “The Sesqui-Centennial of the founding of Georgia.” There is an appendix of documents in a Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the proceedings of the people of Georgia with respect to South Carolina and the disputes subsisting between the two Colonies. Charlestown, 1737. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 570; Brinley, ii. no. 3886 with date, 1736; the Harvard College copy is also dated, 1736.)—Ed.]