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.
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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.
>
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>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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