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treaty with the Lower Creeks--Goes to
horse-quarter on the Ogechee--Fort Argyle built--Savannah laid out in
wards, and Court of Records instituted,

CHAPTER V.

Oglethorpe intended to visited Boston, in New England--Governor
Belcher's Letter to him--Provincial Assembly appoint a Committee to
receive him--Sets out on an exploratory Excursion--Names an Island,
Jekyl--Visits Fort Argyle--Returns to Savannah--Saltzburgh emigrants,
conducted by Baron Von Reck, come to settle in Georgia--Oglethorpe
assists them in selecting a place--They call it Ebenezer--He then goes
up the river to Palachicolas--Returns--Goes to Charlestown, with Torno
Chichi and other Indians, in order to take passage to England,

CHAPTER VI.
Oglethorpe arrives in England with his Indian Escort--Is welcomed by
the Trustees--Apartments are provided for the Indians--They are
introduced to the King and Royal Family--One of their number dies of
the small pox--Visit the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Eton
College--Shown the public buildings and institutions in
London--Embark for Georgia--Their arrival,

CHAPTER VII.
Oglethorpe remains in England--Trustees make
Regulations--Oglethorpe, desirous of providing for the conversion of
the Indians, applies to Bishop Wilson to prepare a Book of Religious
Instruction for them--Trustees seek for Missionaries--Engage John and
Charles Wesley,

CHAPTER VIII.
Trustees make a new selection of Settlers--Their Proposals successful
in Scotland--Embarkation of Highlanders for Georgia--Indian
hieroglyphic letter sent to the Trustees--Further emigration of

Saltzburgers--Great embarkation of Colonists, attended by Oglethorpe
and the Missionaries--Employment and religious exercises on board
during the voyage--Arrival--Beacon on the Island of Tybee--The
people go on shore at Peeper's Island--Oglethorpe goes to Savannah
with the Missionaries--Sends provisions and refreshments to the
Emigrants--Moore's account of the Public Garden--Tomo Chichi
welcomes his friend--Saltzburgers make application for a removal from
Ebenezer--Oglethorpe sends pioneers to lay out a road to Darien,

CHAPTER IX.
Special destination of the last Emigrants--Oglethorpe makes
arrangements for their transportation to the Island of St.
Simons--Follows with Charles Wesley--Arrives and lays out a Town to
be called Frederica--Visits the Highlanders at Darien--Returns and
superintends the building of a Fort--All the people arrive--Barracks for
the Soldiers put up, and a Battery erected--Visited by Tomo Chichi,
and Indians, who make a cession of the Islands--Reconnoitres the
Islands and gives names to them--Commissioners from St.
Augustine--Apparently amicable overtures--Oglethorpe goes to
Savannah to hold a conference with a Committee from South Carolina
respecting trade with the Indians--Insolent demand of the
Spaniards--Oglethorpe embarks for England,

CHAPTER X.
Delegation of the Missionaries--JOHN WESLEY stationed at
Savannah--Has a conference with Tomo Chichi--His Preaching deemed
personal in its applications--He becomes unpopular--Meets with
persecution--Leaves the Province and returns to England--CHARLES
WESLEY attends Oglethorpe to Frederica--Finds himself unpleasantly
situated--Furnished with despatches for the Trustees, he sets out for
Charlestown, and thence takes passage for England--By stress of

weather the Vessel driven off its course--Puts in at Boston, New
England--His reception there--Sails thence for England--After a
perilous voyage, arrives--BENJAMIN INGHAM also at
Frederica--Goes to Savannah to apprize John Wesley of the sickness of
his brother--Resides among the Creeks in order to learn their
language--Returns to England--CHARLES DELAMOTTE at
Savannah--Keeps a School--Is much respected--GEORGE
WHITEFIELD comes to Savannah--His reception--Visits Tomo Chichi,
who was sick--Ministerial labors--Visits the Saltzburgers--Pleased with
their provision for Orphan Children--Visits Frederica and the adjacent
Settlements--Returns to England--Makes a second voyage to Georgia,
and takes efficient measures for the erection of an Orphan House,

CHAPTER XI.
Oglethorpe arrives in England--Trustees petition the King for military
aid to the new Colony--A regiment granted--Oglethorpe appointed
Commander in Chief of South Carolina and Georgia--Part of the
regiment sent out--Oglethorpe embarks for Georgia the third
time--Remainder of the regiment arrive--And two companies from
Gibraltar--Prospect of war with Spain--Military preparations at St.
Augustine--Oglethorpe makes arrangements for defence--Treason in
the Camp--Mutiny, and personal assault on the General,

CHAPTER XII.
Oglethorpe visits Savannah--Troubles there--Causton, the store-keeper,
displaced--Oglethorpe holds a conference with a deputation of
Indians--Town-meeting called, and endeavors used to quiet
discontents--Goes back to Frederica, but obliged to renew his visit to
Savannah,

CHAPTER XIII.
Oglethorpe goes to Charlestown, South Carolina, to open his
Commission--Comes back to Savannah--Gives encouragement to the
Planters--Returns to Frederica--Excursion to Coweta--Forms a Treaty
with the Upper Creeks--Receives at Augusta a delegation of the
Chickasaws and Cherokees, who complain of having been poisoned by
the Traders--On his return to Savannah is informed of Spanish
aggressions, and is authorized to make reprisals,

CHAPTER XIV.
Oglethorpe addresses a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Bull, suggesting
an expedition against St. Augustine--Follows this, by application in
person--Promised assistance, and cooperation--Returns to
Frederica--Collects his forces--Passes over to Florida--Takes several
Spanish forts--Is joined by the Carolinian troops--The enemy receive
supplies--Oglethorpe changes the siege into a blockade--Takes
possession of Anastasia Island--Colonel Palmer and his men surprised
and cut to pieces--Spanish cruelties--English fleet quit the
station--Siege raised, and Oglethorpe returns to Frederica,

CHAPTER XV.
Oglethorpe pays particular attention to internal Improvements--Meets
with many annoyances--The Creeks, under Toonahowi, make an
incursion into Florida--The Spanish form a design upon