. Savannah and its surroundings . he colonists, he succeededwhere they failed, and laid in Savannah the foundation ofhis subsequent reputation. His great work was the found-ing of the Bethesda Orphan House. Hardly had the town been laid out before a colony ofIsraelites arrived. True to their ancient faith, they nosooner landed than they founded a synagogue, to which theygave the name Mickva Israel. At the end of the first decade of its existence, when Ogle-thorpe left America finally for England, Savannah hadgrown to a village of three hundred and fifty houses. Thegovernment of Oglethorpe had
. Savannah and its surroundings . he colonists, he succeededwhere they failed, and laid in Savannah the foundation ofhis subsequent reputation. His great work was the found-ing of the Bethesda Orphan House. Hardly had the town been laid out before a colony ofIsraelites arrived. True to their ancient faith, they nosooner landed than they founded a synagogue, to which theygave the name Mickva Israel. At the end of the first decade of its existence, when Ogle-thorpe left America finally for England, Savannah hadgrown to a village of three hundred and fifty houses. Thegovernment of Oglethorpe had been military, but after hisdeparture it devolved upon the trustees in England. Thecolony, never very strong, languished under their chimericalviews and injudicious management. Agriculture did notflourish, commerce was not thoiight of, silk culture, whichOglethorpe had tried to establish, failed, the colonists weredeserting to Carolina and the other American possessions orwere returning home, and at last in 1752, the trustees, in.
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