Colonial Records of the State of Georgia : Volume 20: Original Papers, Correspondence to the Trustees, James Oglethorpe, and Others, 1732-1735 / National Endowment for the Humanities, H umanities Open Book Program grant, Julie Anne Sweet, Kenneth Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

umanities Open Book Program grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, H, Author.

Sweet, Julie Anne, 1970- author of foreword.

Contributor:

Ready, Milton, 1938- editor.

Coleman, Kenneth, editor.

Georgia. Department of Archives and History.

Georgia Commission for the National Bicentennial Celebration.

Series:

The Colonial records of the state of Georgia ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785.

HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).

Georgia.

Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xvi, 520 pages)

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia document the colony through its first twenty-five years and includes correspondence between Georgia founder James Oglethorpe and the Trustees for Establishing the Colony, as well as records pertaining to land grants; agreements and interactions with Indigenous peoples; the settlement of a small Jewish community and the Salzburgers, German-speaking Protestant refugees; and the removal of restrictions on land tenure, rum, and slavery in the colony. Most of the local records of colonial Georgia were destroyed during the Revolution. Under Governor James Wright's direction, merchant John Graham loaded much of the official records on his vessel in the Savannah River. During the Battle of the Rice Boats in March 1776, the Inverness was burned while it lay at anchor. The destructive civil war that occurred in the latter phases of the Revolution resulted in further destruction. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia , drawn from archival material in Great Britain, remain a unique source. Volume 20 concerns the actual founding of Georgia and covers the years 1732-35. It provides background on the settlement and a great deal about the arrival of the colonists and the conditions that they found.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Contents / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Foreword To The Reissue / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Preface / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Introduction / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Original Papers, Correspondence To The Trustees, James Oglethorpe, And Others, 1732-1735 / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Index / Kenneth Coleman, Milton Ready

Notes:

"Copies made from original records in England and compiled under authority of Allen D. Candler, 1902"--title page.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-5918-1

OCLC:

1283944729

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access