The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Advertiser

American History. Although respectable histories of sixteen of the American states are extant, yet comparatively, but little is known of their colonial history. It is said in the Savannah Republican, that there are at this time fifteen vols. of MSS. shut up in the office of the Board of Trade and Plantations in London, relating to the Colonial History of Georgia, from its first settlement down to the Revolutionary War. Many of these Manuscripts are from the pen of Gen. Oglethorpe, the founder of that State. These can be obtained if properly sought after. Our minister at London, not long since, made application for them, and was promptly answered, that copies could be made whenever required. But still further the last North American Review asserts that all the colonial history of America, is shut up in the Office of the Board of Trade and Plantations in England. The original papers are all there, and no tolerable history can be written without the full use of them. A copy of the entire mass of those papers, ought to be obtained and deposited in the national archives at Washington. Our government should take this matter in hand before it is too late.