Official programme and guide book, reunion, . The land was divided, under a strict agrarian law, into twohundred and forty freeholds. The town land covered twenty-foursquare miles. Every forty houses (.the houses being located on tracts of land exactly tlie same size) made a ward. Each ward hada constable, and under him were fonr tithing men. Every tened^S^wi? titling; and to each tithing was a square mile* divSfarm of Sy-flvfacres^. ^^^^^ *^^ ^*^^^^= ^^ - o^ o^_ Not long after the colony was founded the religious persecutionsin Germany began. The Salzburgers were driven out and theysought new
Official programme and guide book, reunion, . The land was divided, under a strict agrarian law, into twohundred and forty freeholds. The town land covered twenty-foursquare miles. Every forty houses (.the houses being located on tracts of land exactly tlie same size) made a ward. Each ward hada constable, and under him were fonr tithing men. Every tened^S^wi? titling; and to each tithing was a square mile* divSfarm of Sy-flvfacres^. ^^^^^ *^^ ^*^^^^= ^^ - o^ o^_ Not long after the colony was founded the religious persecutionsin Germany began. The Salzburgers were driven out and theysought new homes in Georgia. Oglethorpe and his people generously welcomed the little band of Protestants who siught the? nrotection and their freedom of conscience. A settlement twenty mileswest of bayannah on tlie banks of the river was assigned t6 themand they called it Ebenezer in commemoration of their final deliverance from their enemies. The exile of the Salzburgers is one ofthe most stirring incidents of the ciyil and religious history of Ger. The Confederate The Confederate Sol-diers monument in theparade ground waserected by the LadiesMemorial Associationto the memory of theConfederate dead. Themonument stands upona raised terrace, and iscapped by a bronze sta-tute of a Confederatesoldier at parade the die of the monu-ment is the dedication: •Come from the four winds, O breath,And breathe upon these slaia that they may live. many, and the little settlement at Ebenezer is to-day one of themost revered places among the Lutherans of this country. Two years later John and ChaiIes Wesley arrived, and thefounder of :Methodism preached his first sermon in America in Sa-vannah. The mission of tlie Wesleys proyed, howeyer. unfortunateand brief. Their religious zeal outran discretion and they weresoon embroiled in conflicts with the authorities and the people, Avhomthey did not unclerstand. Both returned to England before theyhad been in America tAvo years. The next
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