Linda ,can not get this to go direct to you!!Please send me address for
Borders. Direct thank yoi joyce
> 
> I checked with Borders Books. They are online. And The book is $10.00. I
> plan on buying it. Since Mr..
> Olglethorpe brought one of my ancestors over to America. Have a good day
> everyone.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> To: [email protected] 
> Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 2:36 PM
> Subject: The Colony of Georgia
> 
> >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
> >[email protected]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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