The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . , they were very poor, and many a manentitled by his birth to a coat of arms had some difficultyin getting a coat of frieze to cover his arms. In those earlydays men who came from lordly halls in England lived inlog cabins and toiled with their own hands. Not a fewpeople of distinction in after time were redemptioners whoworked for five years after they came to America to payback their passage money to the planter who bought themfor that time from the ship captain. While this last stated fact is true, it is only exceptionallytrue, and
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . , they were very poor, and many a manentitled by his birth to a coat of arms had some difficultyin getting a coat of frieze to cover his arms. In those earlydays men who came from lordly halls in England lived inlog cabins and toiled with their own hands. Not a fewpeople of distinction in after time were redemptioners whoworked for five years after they came to America to payback their passage money to the planter who bought themfor that time from the ship captain. While this last stated fact is true, it is only exceptionallytrue, and it will be seen that the men of small means, whocame from the upper and middle classes of England, Scot- 4 The Story of Georgia [Chap. I. land and Wales, men who had some education and somesmall means, were largely the ancestors of the present race of Georgians. That part of the colony of South Carolina, now Georgiaand Alabama and Mississippi, was only settled by a fewscattered Indians, and in it the Indian trader had now andthen a warehouse and a Gen. James Oglethorpe. \ Florida was held by the restless and grasping Spaniard,who also laid claims to the lands on the Tombigbee andthe Mississippi. The Spaniards menaced the South Caro-lina colony, and the English authorities realized the im-portance of settling a strong colony nearer Florida; sowhen Mr. Oglethorpe and his associates asked George a grant of land for their projected refuge for the unfor-tunate, they met with a ready resjjonse, and all of thecountry originally granted to the proprietors which laywest of the Savannah was granted to them for the benev- 1732-1754.] AND THE GEORGIA PeOPLE. 6 olent purpose they had in view. George II. made thegrant, and in his honor the colony was called were associated with Mr. Oglethorpe in the trustee-ship of the new colony twenty others. They were noble-men and gentlemen, and had a charter carefully drawn,which was to run for twenty years. Mr. Oglethorpe
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