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Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe

CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER IX.
Special destination of the last Emigrants--Oglethorpe makes arrangements for their transportation to the Island of St.
Simons--Follows with Charles Wesley--Arrives and lays out a Town to be called Frederica--Visits the Highlanders at Darien--Returns and superintends the building of a Fort--All the people arrive--Barracks for the Soldiers put up, and a Battery erected--Visited by Tomo Chichi, and Indians, who make a cession of the Islands--Reconnoitres the Islands and gives names to them--Commissioners from St.
Augustine--Apparently amicable overtures--Oglethorpe goes to Savannah to hold a conference with a Committee from South Carolina respecting trade with the Indians--Insolent demand of the Spaniards--Oglethorpe embarks for England,.


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