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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752 (2166 words) |
 | Oglethorpe and his friends decided to add the Bray legacy to the funds in hand for the purpose of establishing a new colony between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, in territory claimed by both the province of South Carolina and the Spanish colony of Florida. |
| The Trustees did not want to appoint a single governor because the king in council had to approve the appointment of governors, and the Trustees preferred to keep control in their hands. |
| Especially embarrassing was the list of grievances presented on the floor of Parliament by Thomas Stephens, son of the Trustees' agent in Georgia, William Stephens. |
| Florida Historical Quarterly (5907 words) |
| Governor Benavides reported that "the English will never be satisfied" except by the return of their slaves.10 Despite British intimations of war, the Council of the Indies recommended against returning the escaped slaves. |
| Governor Montiano restated the crown's offer of freedom to escaped slaves from the English colonies in a Bando issued in 1738, and in the same year he established a settlement for the fugitives, called Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, about onehalf league north of St. Augustine. |
| The governor justified his actions on the basis that Mose was vital to the defense and to the agricultural provisioning of St. Augustine, although he admitted that recurrent illnesses among the fls prevented the latter.24 To assuage the fears of the residents, Mose was more heavily fortified in the following years. |
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