A history of the United States . ng to the fashion of the times, with a quantity andvariety of liquors that would now be thought excessive. Itwas a good deal of a frolic; but it resulted in the discovery ofthe splendid valley of the Shenandoah, to which river the gov-ernor gave the rather inappropriate name of the region was destined soon to be settled by thrifty Germancolonists, and it has ever since been considered the garden spot 72 DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIES, 1690-1765. [§97 of Virginia.^ Spotswood commemorated his expedition by pre-senting his companions with small golden
A history of the United States . ng to the fashion of the times, with a quantity andvariety of liquors that would now be thought excessive. Itwas a good deal of a frolic; but it resulted in the discovery ofthe splendid valley of the Shenandoah, to which river the gov-ernor gave the rather inappropriate name of the region was destined soon to be settled by thrifty Germancolonists, and it has ever since been considered the garden spot 72 DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIES, 1690-1765. [§97 of Virginia.^ Spotswood commemorated his expedition by pre-senting his companions with small golden horseshoes set withjewels. He had to pay for these himself, since King George probably not anxious to encourage even such worthycolonial orders of knighthood as the Knights of the GoldenHorseshoe. The king thought, perhaps, that his trusty ser-vant did him a betterservice when two yearslater he sent out twoarmed ships, which con-quered and rid the colo-nies of the notoriouspirate John Theach,otherwise known as 97. The Colonizationof Georgia. — The coun-try between the Savan-nah River and the River in Florida, was claimed by theEnglish; and when theCarolinas became royalprovinces, this regionwas reserved as crownland. It soon attractedthe attention of a noble-minded Englishman, James Ogle-thorpe.^ He conceived the idea that it would be an excel-lent place in which to establish a colony to be composed ofsuch persons as needed a new chance in life after having been James Oglethorpe. 1 Some of the most interesting operations of the Civil War took placewithin the Shenandoah Valley. 2 Born in 1698 ; died, 1785. Officer of the British army; received grant, whichhe named Georgia, in 1732; founded Savannah in 1733; returned twice to Eng-land, and had a somewhat unsuccessful military and naval career; gave up thecharter to the Crown in 1752, nine years after finally leaving America.
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