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
St. John, Parish of, 148, 149, 171, 172-178, 193-199, 201.
St. Matthew, Parish of, 34, 35.
St. Simon, Island of; its attractions, 57.
Attack of the Spaniards upon, 103-114.
St. Simon, village of, 96, 107.
Destroyed by the Spaniards, 112.
Stephens, William, 19, 65.
Visits Oglethorpe, 91.
Appointed Deputy General of Georgia, 119.
His description of Abercorn, 139.
Owns and names Bewlie, 250, 251.
Stevens, John, 145, 146.
Stewart, General Daniel, 219, 222.
Stiles, Captain, 202.
Stirk, Col. John, 36, 37.
Stirk, Secretary Samuel, 37, 205.
Strobel, Rev. P. A., 20, 32, 37, 43, 44.
Strohaker, Rudolph, 37.
Stuart, Lieutenant, 113.
Success, the ship, 105, 106.
Sunbury Academy, 212-215.
Teachers of, 215, 216.
Sunbury Female Asylum, 218.
Sunbury, Town of, its location, 141-143.
Conveyance of 300 acres of land to the Trustees of, 145.
Signification of the name of, 145, 146.
Condition of the Midway District at the period of the settlement
of, 149-154.
Plan of, 154.
Declared a port of entry, 155.
Emigrants from Bermuda in, 156.
Commerce of, 157-158.
Health of, 158.
Proprietors of, 159-169.
Bartram’s description of, 169, 170.
Population of, at era of greatest prosperity, 170, 171.
Exports, and imports of, 171.
Character of its population, 171.
Its wharves, 171.
Its government, 172.
Rebellious spirit of its inhabitants, 175.
Fort built at, 178, 179.
Location, construction, and armament of Fort Morris, 181-183.
Threatened by Colonel Mark Prevost, 187.
Invested by Lieut. Col. Fuser, 189-192.
Siege raised, 192.
Houses of, injured by the garrison, 193.
Its depressed condition, 194.
Reduction of Fort Morris, 195-196.
Captured by Prevost, 195, 196.
Languishes, 202.
Affair of Captain Howell at, 203.
Increase of population, 205, 206.
Chief Justice Walton’s Charge to the Grand Jury in, 206, 207.
Designated as the point for holding the Superior and Inferior
Courts of Liberty County, 208.
Commissioners appointed for the port of, 208.
Revival of the trade of, 208.
Indian incursions in the neighborhood of, 208.
Public acts for the regulation of, 210-212.
Description of, in 1801, 212.
Sunbury Academy, 212-215.
Removal of the public buildings to Riceboro, 216-217.
Decline and ill-health of, 217, 218.
Sherwood’s description of, 218.
Female Asylum, 218.
Fort rebuilt, 218.
Fourth of July celebrations in, 220, 221.
Its decadence, 221.
Present condition of, 221, 222.
Its noted inhabitants, &c., 222, 223.
Sutherland, Lieutenant, 109.
Symond, the ship, 50.
Tanner, Mr., 50.
Tennill, Lieutenant, 194.
Thomas, Captain, 50, 52.
Thompson, Captain, 105, 106.
His description of Frederica in 1747, 125, 126.
Thunderbolt, 248.
Tobacco, culture and inspection of in Georgia, 234, 235.
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