At night their tents were got up.

Until the tenth they were taken up with unloading and making a crane, which I then could not finish, and so took off the hands, and set some to the fortification, and began to fell the woods.
"I have marked out the town and common; half of the former is already cleared; and the first house was begun yesterday in the afternoon.
"I have taken ten of the Independent Company to work for us, for which I make them an allowance.
"I send you a copy of the resolution of the Assembly of Carolina, and the Governor and Council's letter to me.[1] [Footnote 1: Appendix, No.

X.] "Mr.Whitaker has given us one hundred head of cattle.

Colonel Bull, Mr.Barlow, Mr.St.Julian, and Mr.Woodward are come up to assist us, with some of their servants.
"I am so taken up in looking after a hundred necessary things, that I write now short, but shall give you a more particular account hereafter.
"A little Indian nation, the only one within fifty miles, is not only in amity, but desirous to be subjects to his Majesty King George, to have lands given them among us.

Their chief, and his beloved man, who is the second in the nation, desire to be instructed in the Christian religion."[1] [Footnote 1: "The _beloved man_ is a person of much consequence.