The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . he trustees had been Thomas Causton. He was the pros-ecutor of John Wesley. He became involved in his ac-counts with the trustees and was called home to Englandto settle them and died on his returning voyage. The silk industry had failed. The people were not pros-pering, and when Mr. Oglethorpe returned to England hegave up his place and never came back to Georgia. He 1732-1754.] AND THE GrEORGIA PeOPLE. 19 lived long and honorably after his return to Ehgland, andhis honest intentions to do good have never been ques-tioned. Few men we
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . he trustees had been Thomas Causton. He was the pros-ecutor of John Wesley. He became involved in his ac-counts with the trustees and was called home to Englandto settle them and died on his returning voyage. The silk industry had failed. The people were not pros-pering, and when Mr. Oglethorpe returned to England hegave up his place and never came back to Georgia. He 1732-1754.] AND THE GrEORGIA PeOPLE. 19 lived long and honorably after his return to Ehgland, andhis honest intentions to do good have never been ques-tioned. Few men were less capacitated to do the work hehad in hand than he was, but no man ever tried moreearnestly to do what duty demanded. While Mr. Oglethorpe was here he made a treaty withthe Creeks, going to the nation to do so, which was ofgreat value to the colony. He was evidently more anxiousto build up Frederica than Savannah, and was by no meanspopular with the colonists who had located themselves nearthe city which had been the first founded by him in Beihesda. The people who came to the colony were in the mainChurch of England people and brought with them a pastorfrom England, Dr. Henry Herbert. His health failed andhe returned to England and Mr. Josiah Quincy was hissuccessor, and after he left the colony Mr. John Wesley wasthe rector of the church, and after two years Mr. Whitfieldcame out. Of these we have given a full account in thelast chapter of this book, in which the history of the earlydays of the church in Savannah is given at length. This is,however, the proper place to recognize the fact of establishment of the Bethesda Home for orphans,of which a full account will be found in the chapter on theStory of the Cities (chapter 14). 20 The Story of Georgia [Chap. i. This English settlement, as I designate the one nearSavannah, was by no means purely English. Some of theleading settlers in it were Scotchmen, and as we have seenelsewhere, some of them w
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