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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER XVI
18/31

All went to Georgia, where they settled to the south of Savannah, on the Altamaha, near the island of St.Simon.
Other Highlanders followed.

They had a fort and a town which they named New Inverness, and the region that they peopled they called Darien.
Oglethorpe himself left England late in 1735, with two ships, the Symond and the London Merchant, and several hundred colonists aboard.

Of these folk doubtless a number were of the type the whole enterprise had been planned to benefit.

Others were Protestants from the Continent.

Yet others--notably Sir Francis Bathurst and his family--went at their own charges.


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