Book Description
Settled by the Scottish Highlanders who fought with Oglethorpe in 1742 at the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
Author : Pat Bryant
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Land grants
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Settled by the Scottish Highlanders who fought with Oglethorpe in 1742 at the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
Author : Boyd Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publisher : Boyd Publishing Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Georgia
ISBN : 9781890307158
Abstracts arranged alphabetically by surname within each volume.
Author : Pat Bryan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780788427916
Author : Pat Bryant
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Burke Counnty (Ga.)
ISBN :
Author : Marion R. Hemperley
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Land grants
ISBN :
Author : Marion R. Hemperley
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Land grants
ISBN :
Author : Marion R. Hemperley
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Effingham County (Ga.)
ISBN :
Author : Anthony W. Parker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820327182
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.
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Page : 133 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
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Author : Marion R. Hemperley
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Bryan County (Ga.)
ISBN :