Note 2 — LA VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO Y EL SANTO CRISTO DE BUEN VIAGE.

Caleb Davis had lived at St. Augustine as a trader for several years prior to 1738, had made himself wealthy when, in 1739, he proposed to settle in Savannah, and was a shrewd, cunning fellow, so says Secretary William Stephens in his journal; Col. Rec. Ga., IV. 64, 247, 309. Oglethorpe commissioned him as a privateer, in 1739, but later arrested him for sending two Spanish prisoners in to St. Augustine; ibid., IV. 422, 467, 483, 511, 623, and Harris, Oglethorpe, p. 215. Egmont mentions him as "Captain Davies, of suspected character"; Col. Rec. Ga., V. 139. In the next war he was a very successful privateer; ibid., XXV. 42, 251. In 1751 and 1752 he commanded Oglethorpe's principal vessel of war; Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial, IV. 128, 130, 170, 287, VI. 322.