Your next to last paragraph explains why my old History Professor (and the College VP) always referred to GA as the "Poor People's State" Most were indentured. >From: "Dee Thompson" <d7777@worldnet.att.net> >Reply-To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GA-Roots] First some background >Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:25:28 -0400 > >This is the tedious part for us all: > >THE COLONIAL RECORDS OF THE STATE GEORGIA, compiled and published under >authority of The Legislature by Allen D. Candler, Atlanta, GA., The >Franklin Publishers, Binders. 1908. Obtained as gift, cannot be purchased. >(this set has too many volumes and supplements to enumerate) > >THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, 3 volumes, compiled and >published under authority of The Legislature by Allen D. Candler, Atlanta, >GA., The Franklin Publishers, Binders. 1908. Obtained as gift, cannot be >purchased. > >THE CONFEDERATE RECORDS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, 3 volumes, 3 volumes, >compiled and published under authority of The Legislature by Allen D. >Candler, Atlanta, GA., The Franklin Publishers, Binders. 1908. Obtained as >gift, cannot be purchased. > >ROSTER OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF GEORGIA, 1861 - 1865, 6 volumes plus >index, compiled for the Lake Blackshear Regional Library, Americus, >Georgia, by Juanita S. Brightwell, Director, Eunice S. Lee, Assistant >Director, Elsie C. Fulghum, Consultant.originally published by The Reprint >Company, Publishers, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1982. Obtained as gift. > >A LIST OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF GEORGIA, edited by E. Merton Coulter and >Albert B. Saye, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1949. Obtained as >gift. > > >An explanation is definitely needed about the contents of this last book >before I send out any lookups from it. > >Part I Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia at the Trustees' >Charge >Part II Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia on Their Own Account >Appendix A List of the First Shipload of Georgia Settlers > >In the Introduction is a wealth of pertinent information that will enable >us all to make more sense of these listings. >Paraphrasing: >21 volumes of manuscripts on early Georgia history were purchased by The >University of Georgia in 1947 at auction held by Sotheby's in London. >These manuscripts had been "a part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillips, >Bt., of Middle Hill, Worcestershire and Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, and >were reported to have originally belonged to the Earl of Egmont, first >President of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in >America. Much of the material in the Egmont manuscripts" is found in "the >official records of the Trustees in the British Public Record Office, from >which source 26 volumes have been published by the State of Georgia as THE >COLONIAL RECORDS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA" (note: these are the volumes I >just acquired). "Yet there are items of great interest that have never been >used by historians, notably the list of early settlers . . ." >The name of the settler is followed by the age, occupation (note: in >contemporary terminology), date of embarcation, date of arrival, lots in >Savannah, lots in Frederica, and "Dead, Quitted, Run Away". >"A summary statement at the opening of the manuscript shows that from June >9, 1732, to September 29, 1741, a total of 1,810 persons were sent to >Georgia at the expense of the Trustees (note: these were men who had >talents/professions that the Trustees thought would aid in the >establishment of the Colony), that 1,021 joined the Colony at their own >expense, that 142 children were born in the Colony, and that the total >supposedly in the Colony on March 4, 1743 was 2,092 (note: after laboring >over this addition I decided that my confusion was my failure to compute >those who returned home, died or went to Carolina.). >In another calculation "Of the settlers sent to Georgia on charity during >the first ten years, 45.4% were Foreign Protestants". The following >figures will not add up, but will give you a rough idea of the >composition. Those sent on charity: 319 are described as Palatine Trust >Servants, 47 as Salzburgers, 142 as Swiss, 34 as Germans, 13 as German >Trust Servants, 29 as Moravians, 33 as Scots, and 2 as Italians. "No Jews >were included in this list, but 92 of the settlers in the list of those who >paid their own passage are identified as Jews." >The last list in the book: "Of the 114 colonists who sailed in November, >1732, on the Ann (note: or Anne), 29 died within the first year. Within >the first ten years, 47 of the first 114 colonists died, and 20 others left >the Colony either to return to England or to go to Carolina." > >Now I will start on the lookups. > >Dee >P.S. If anyone is desirous of the break down of professions and how many >persons there were in each let me know. > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com