Dr Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna colony of Florida . spension, upon Condition of his making a suit-able Acknowledgment of the Impropriety of his Con-duct in quitting the Province without your Leave inWriting, & giving Assurance of a candid & respectfulBehavior towards you in future. This proposal hevery readily embraced, and as I cannot doubt hisSincerity, it now only remains with you to accept ofthe Conditions, and to put an End to an Altercationwhich must, in the present Circumstances of Affairsbe very injurious to the Kings Service, and highlydetrimental to the Province. To afford a pr
Dr Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna colony of Florida . spension, upon Condition of his making a suit-able Acknowledgment of the Impropriety of his Con-duct in quitting the Province without your Leave inWriting, & giving Assurance of a candid & respectfulBehavior towards you in future. This proposal hevery readily embraced, and as I cannot doubt hisSincerity, it now only remains with you to accept ofthe Conditions, and to put an End to an Altercationwhich must, in the present Circumstances of Affairsbe very injurious to the Kings Service, and highlydetrimental to the Province. To afford a properOpportunity for so desirable an Issue, I make the Bearer of this Letter; and I shall extendit no further than to add my sincere Wishes that itmay be the Occasion of restoring that good Humour& mutual Confidence among the Kings Officers, whichis at all times necessary, but at present is so essentialto the public Safety and Advantage. I am &c. Geo. Germain.(1) (1) CO. 5/557, pp. 115-121. 156 CHAPTER X THE FALL OF NEW SMYRNA. ONYN had known, since Draytonsreinstatement, which way the windblew; and he had been proceedingindustriously to execute justiceupon his enemies himself. Tempt-ing offers were made to the Minorcans tojoin the Militia, freedom from indentures,land in St. Augustine, assurances of pro-tection if they ran away—all were put be-fore them by Mr. Forbes agents, most con-spicuous of whom was Joseph Purcell, theMinorcan interpreter, who later went to workas draughtsman for Romans. The latter part of March, a few of the set- 157 DR. ANDREW TURNBULL tiers came to St. Augustine. The manner oftheir escape from New Smyrna is picturesquelytold by Romans. On the pretense of making afishing trip to the coast, (Romans must haveforgotten that he had said previously the Minor-cans w^ere forbidden to fish) a small group ofmen received leave of absence for several days,and, on reaching the beach, at once set out tow^alk the eighty miles north to St.
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