The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . afraid. So thirty-five families — carpenters, brick-layers, andfarmers—with Dr. Herbert, a clergyman of the Church ofEngland, as their chaplain, took passage at Deptford on the16th November, 1732, and on the 12th of January, 1733,the Ann reached Charleston, S. C, on its way to Georgia. The Carolinians received these new adventurers ver^^kindly and convoyed their ship to Beaufort, where a smallercraft was provided to take them to some point on thewest side of the Savannah river. Mr. Oglethorpe and thebenevolent Colonel Bull made a pros
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . afraid. So thirty-five families — carpenters, brick-layers, andfarmers—with Dr. Herbert, a clergyman of the Church ofEngland, as their chaplain, took passage at Deptford on the16th November, 1732, and on the 12th of January, 1733,the Ann reached Charleston, S. C, on its way to Georgia. The Carolinians received these new adventurers ver^^kindly and convoyed their ship to Beaufort, where a smallercraft was provided to take them to some point on thewest side of the Savannah river. Mr. Oglethorpe and thebenevolent Colonel Bull made a prospecting tour up theSavannah river while the immigrants remained at Beaufort,and they decided to fix the settlement near Yamacraw town, 1732-1754.] AND THE Georgia People. some eighteen miles from the mouth of the Savannah, on ahigh bluff on the west side of the stream. This city standsto-day near where it was located by Oglethorpe in 1733, andYamacraw still holds its old name on the map and in com-mon parlance. The settlers were provided with abundant. TOMICHICHI AND NePHP:W. supplies of necessary things. The generous Mr. Whittakerfrom South Carolina furnished one hundred head of cattleto give them a start, and Colonel Bull, Mr. Barlow, Julian, Mr. Woodward and Mr. Joseph Bryan, all wealthyplanters, brought over a number of their slaves from SouthCarolina to assist them in building their houses. 8 The Story of Georgia [Chap. I. There was no trouble to be expected from the poverty-stricken band of runaway Indians at Yamacraw, and Mr,Oglethorpe soon made a good friend of Tomichichi, whowas head chief of the tribe. The colonists were shelteredin cloth tents on their first landing, and as it was in aSavannah February they were abundantly comfortable. The bluff on which they had pitched their tents wascovered with wide-spreading live-oaks, and a short distanceaway from the river was a wide stretch of pine Bull and Mr. Bryan brought over some sawyers fromthe
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