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Settled by the Scottish Highlanders who fought with Oglethorpe in 1742 at the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Composed of Salzburgers from Austria, Palatines from the southern Rhineland, Swabians from the Territory of Ulm, and Swiss, the so-called Georgia "Dutch" represented the largest ethnic group in Georgia in the mid-18th century. In this revised edition of The Germans of Colonial Georgia, George Jones has distilled a lifetime of research into a single alphabetical list of some 3,500 Germans.
An alphabetical listing, by island, of abstracts of the Royal Provincial Grants; includes citations to survey date, grant date, number of acres, name of grantee, page and book of record, and a verbatim extraction of the description of the property granted. Unnamed islands are at the end.
Abstracts arranged alphabetically by surname within each volume.