[833] There is also a list of papers prior to 1700 in the appendix of Rivers’ Sketch, etc., p. 313.
[834] The Third Report (1872) of the Commission on Historical Manuscripts (p. xi.) says: “In April, 1871, the Earl of Shaftesbury signified his wish to present his valuable collection of manuscripts to the Public Record Office. These papers have been arranged and catalogued by Mr. Sainsbury.” The same Report (p. 216) contains Mr. Alfred J. Horwood’s account of these papers, the ninth section of which is described as comprising letters and papers about Carolina, and many letters and abstracts of letters in Locke’s handwriting. Cf. Charleston Year Book, 1884, p. 167.
[835] A review of documents and records in the archives of the State of South Carolina, hitherto inedited (Columbia, 1852), points out the gaps in its public records. Of the Grand Council’s Journal, only two years (1671, etc.) are preserved, as described by Dalcho and in Topics in the History of South Carolina, a pamphlet. Cf. also Rivers’ Sketch, etc., p. 370.
[836] Abstracts of many of them are necessarily included in Sainsbury’s Calendars.
[837] [This story is told in Vol. II. chap. iv.—Ed.]
[838] [Vol. II. p. 244.—Ed.]
[839] [See Vol. III. p. 157, and chap. v., ante.—Ed.]
[840] [He was born in 1698; but see W. S. Bogart on “the mystery of Oglethorpe’s birthday,” in Magazine of American History, February, 1883, p. 108. There is a statement as to his family in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, ii. 17; copied by Harris, in his Life of Oglethorpe.—Ed.]
[841] The corporate seal adopted had two faces. That for the authentication of legislative acts, deeds, and commissions contained this device: two figures resting upon urns, from which flowed streams typifying the rivers forming the northern and southern boundaries of the province. In their hands were spades, suggesting agriculture as the chief employment of the settlers. Above and in the centre was seated the genius of the Colony, a spear in her right hand, the left placed upon a cornucopia, and a liberty cap upon her head. Behind, upon a gentle eminence, stood a tree, and above was engraven this legend, Colonia Georgia Aug. On the other face,—which formed the common seal to be affixed to grants, orders, and certificates,—were seen silk-worms in the various stages of their labor, and the appropriate motto, Non sibi sed aliis. This inscription not only proclaimed the disinterested motives and intentions of the trustees, but it suggested that the production of silk was to be reckoned among the most profitable employments of the colonists,—a hope not destined to be fulfilled.
[842] There is in Lossing’s Field Book of the Revolution, ii. 722, a sketch of the remains of the barracks as they appeared in 1851.