The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . nat-urally induced other South German Prot-estants to follow them across the amongst these were Moravians,a band of whom were to be shipmates ofJohn Wesley. Piedmontese were alsobrought from Italy, with the view ofintroducing silk culture. From Spainand Portugal came a number of Jews,whom the trustees were inc
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . nat-urally induced other South German Prot-estants to follow them across the amongst these were Moravians,a band of whom were to be shipmates ofJohn Wesley. Piedmontese were alsobrought from Italy, with the view ofintroducing silk culture. From Spainand Portugal came a number of Jews,whom the trustees were inclined to refuse;but Oglethorpe was heartily in favor ofreceiving them. A number of ScottishHighlanders, with whom Oglethorpe was As soon as applicants from the debtorsprisons and elsewhere were accepted,they were formed into squads and drilledby sergeants of the Royal Guards. Grantsof land were given on a kind of militarytenure, Jay which only males could in-herit. It was also provided, as an essen-tial for the safety of the colony, thatnegro slavery should not exist; for theSpaniards in Florida had already in-trigued with the negroes of South Car-olina against their masters. Oglethorpewas also anxious to prohibit, as far aspossible, the trade in rum and other dis-. SAVANNAH. in hearty sympathy, through his Jacobiteleanings, proved a valuable was also a Swiss settlement atPurrysburg. The new colony was meant to serve asa bulwark against the encroachments ofSpain, at that time a greatly overratedpower; but yet capable of much mischiefto the half-organized English commu-nities on the Atlantic sea-board. Theorganization of the settlement was ac-cordingly semi-military, and it was ex-pected of the colonists that they shouldserve as a militia on the frontier. tilled liquors. The Indian seemed tohim to contain magnificent possibilities,if only this temptation were removedfrom his path. When instituted, the board of trusteeswas by no means dominated by the per-sonality
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