The dead towns of GeorgiaJones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock)
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The dead towns of Georgia
Jones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock)
Extinct cities -- Georgia; Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Petersburg. Its situation, 234.
Declared a depot for the inspection and storage of tobacco, 234.
Its plan, 235-236.
Legislative provisions in reference to, 236.
Sibbald’s account of, 237.
Its dwellings, stores, population, and trade, 237.
A tobacco town, 238.
Its decline, 238.
Petersburg Union Society, 236.
Petersburg Boats, 237-238.
Peyton, Sir Yelverton, 67, 83, 85.
Pinckney, Col. C. C., 184, 196, 220.
Pike’s Bluff, 96.
Point Quartel, 85.
Pray, Capt., 202.
Prevost, Gen. Augustine, 185, 188.
Captures Sunbury, 195-196, 200.
Prevost, Lieut. Col. Mark, 185, 186-188.
Price, Charles, 201.
Price, Commodore Vincent, 80.
Proprietors of the Town of Sunbury, 159-169.
Puritan element in St. John’s Parish, 176, 177.
Quaker Spring, 240.
Quarterman, Capt. Robert, 219.
Queensbury, town of, 245.
Rabenhorst, Mr., 32, 36, 37.
Rahn, Jonathan, 37.
Rattle-snakes, 58.
Raven, 80.
Reels, 29.
Reynolds, Gov. John, visits Frederica, 127.
Suggests new defenses, 127.
Reynolds, Gov. John, locates Hardwick, 224,
and suggests it as the capital of Georgia, 224-226.
Riceboro, made the county seat of Liberty county, 216-217.
Riceboro Bridge, affair at, 186.
Road connecting Frederica and the Soldier’s Fort, 68, 69.
Road connecting Savannah and Darien, 55.
Rodondo, Major General Antonio de, 102.
Roman, Major, 187.
Rudolph, Captain, 209.
Salgrado, Don Antonio, 86.
Sallett, Robert, 200.
Salter, Captain, 196.
Saltzburgers, 11.
Arrival in Georgia, 12.
Locate at Ebenezer, 13.
Desire a change of settlement, 18.
Change effected, 19.
Remove to New Ebenezer, 20, et seq.
Occupations of, 23.
Character of, 24.
Cultivation of silk by, 25-30.
Settlements of in Georgia, 30-31.
Sufferings of during the Revolutionary war, 37, et seq.
Removal of to various points, 42.
Sanchio, Captain, 108.
Savannah, evacuated, 204.
Schnider, J. Gotlieb, 37.
Schnider, John, 37.
Schnider, Jonathan, 37.
Screven, General, 186.
Killed, 187, 207.
Scroggs, Lieutenant, 108.
Sea-Point Battery, 64.
Sherwood, Abiel, 218.
Sibbald, George, 134, 212, 229, 237.
Silk-Culture in Georgia, 25-30.
Skidoway Island, 248.
Soldier’s Fort, 67, 68.
Spalding, Mr. James, 128.
Spalding, Hon. Thomas, 69, 75, 94, 97, 98.
Spanish Forces in Florida in January, 1740, 82.
In 1742, 102, 103.
Spencer, Capt., exploit at Belfast, 199, 202.
Springfield, 41.
Spur, the, 62.
St. Augustine, its defenses, 81.
Reinforced, 83.
Invested by Oglethorpe, 83-84.
Siege of, 84-88.
Siege raised, 87-88.
Causes of Oglethorpe’s failure to capture, 89, 90.
Narrowly watched by Oglethorpe, 98.
Scarcity of food in, 98.
Demonstration of Oglethorpe before the harbor of, 99.
St. Augustine, Threatened by Oglethorpe, 118.
St. Catherine, Island of, 155, 156.
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