In a message dated 3/27/99 12:48:32 AM, [email protected] writes:

Actually, when the Colony of Georgia was founded circa 1733 all of Georgia
>was within the boundaries of the Province of Carolina.  

Greetings!
Your last e-mail reminded me of an interesting history of the formation and
settlement of the colony of Georgia.  There is an entire section relating to
this  colony in "THE AMERICANS: The Colonial Experience", by Daniel Boorstin
(New York: Random House, 1958). The Section is called "VICTIMS OF
PHILANTHROPY, The Settlers of Georgia."

Basically, it describes how the colony of Georgia was began as a "charity
project", meant to serve a  few objectives: One was to get the homeless and
unemployed off the streets, and far, far away from London...along with some
idealistic minded folks wanting to give the poor some meaning and purpose to
their lives, while providing profit and market supplies for the Kingdom of
Britain.


Here are a few snippets, for flavor:
p. 77

"The promises and the weaknesses of the Georgia venture were symbolized in its
two leaders: Lord Percival, the wealthy aristocrat, interested in doing good
for his fellow Englishman and in strengthening his nation, insofar as could be
accomplished from an upholstered chair  in a town-house, on the floor of
Parliment or in a coffee-house, or from the lordly ease of his Irish estates;
and General Oglethorpe, the man of action, clear and specific in his purposes,
arbitrary and impatient and unbending with the doctrinaire rigidity of the
completly 'practical' man."
 . . . . . .snip . . . . ...

"Of the twenty-one trustees named in the Georgia Charter of 1732, all had been
active earlier in purely charitable ventures. Ten of them had been members of
the House of Commons committee oon the state of the jails (1729); some were
interested in the Parliamentary committee to relieve imprisoned debtors; all
had been associates of Dr. Thomas Bray in his enterprise to convert Negroes in
the British Plantations, and some were active supporters of the protestant
missionary societies of the day. But as the project for the new colony moved
From dream into reality, its prudential aspect became more and more important.
	A strong colony of English families on the Savannah (which marked the
Southern boundary of Carolina) would protect the borderlands from Indian,
Spanish, and French invasions; and improvement of these lands would enrich
Great Britain. How was this to be accomplished was agreed upon in advance by
Oglethorpe and other respectible associates of Lord Percival:

	It is proposed the families there settled shall plant hemp and flax to be
sent unmanufactured to England, whereby in time much ready money will be saved
in this Kingdom, which now goes to other countries for the purchase of these
goods; and they will also be able to supply us with a great deal of good
timber. "Tis possible too they may raise white mulberry trees and send us good
raw silk. But at the worst, they will be able ot live there, and defend this
country from the insults of their neighbor, and London will be eased of
maintaining a number of families which being let out of gaol have at present
no visible way to subsist."

The chapters go one to describe how the settlement was organized--how the
mulberry trees were the wrong ones, hence, no prosperous silk colony as they
had hoped...and on and on.

This book is an interesting window into the history of colonial America. It
was described by Hans Kohn of THE NEW LEADER as "provocative and
controversial", but Kohn also says....". . .THE AMERICANS is a major work, an
original contribution in a field which in the last 60 years has abounded in
great research  and scholarship, a book equally stimulating for the historian
and for the general reader."

There are extensive bibliographic references to further articles and papers in
the back of the book. (Each chapter has its own references and author's
comments.)

I found this book several years ago at a large San Francisco bookstore. I'm
sure it's still widely available at public libraries and in local bookstores.

Maureen Mead Pond
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