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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER XVI
19/31

After Oglethorpe himself, most remarkable perhaps of those going to Georgia were the brothers John and Charles Wesley.

Not precisely colonists are the Wesleys, but prospectors for the souls of the colonists, and the souls of the Indians--Yamacraws, Uchees, and Creeks.
They all landed at Savannah, and now planned to make a settlement south of their capital city, by the mouth of Altamaha.

Oglethorpe chose St.
Simon's Island, and here they built, and called their town Frederica.
"Each Freeholder had 60 Feet in Front by 90 Feet in depth upon the high Street for House and Garden; but those which fronted the River had but 30 in Front, by 60 Feet in depth.

Each Family had a Bower of Palmetto Leaves finished upon the back Street in their own Lands.

The side toward the front Street was set out for their Houses.


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