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Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe

CHAPTER IV
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The King comes constantly to church, and is desirous to be instructed in the Christian religion; and has given me his nephew, a boy, who is his next heir, to educate.
"The two other nations are the Uchees and the _Upper Creeks_; the first consisting of two hundred, the latter of eleven hundred men.

We agree so well with the Indians, that the Creeks and Uchees have referred to me a difference to determine, which otherwise would have occasioned a war.
"Our people still lie in tents, there being only two clapboard houses built, and three sawed houses framed.

Our crane, our battery of cannon, and magazine are finished.

This is all that we have been able to do, by reason of the smallness of our number, of which many have been sick, and others unused to labor; though, I thank God, they are now pretty well, and we have not lost one since our arrival here."[1] [Footnote 1: _Political Taste of Great Britain_, Vol.XLV.p.

445.] The following extract from a letter dated Charlestown, 22d March, 1732-3, and printed in the South Carolina Gazette, describes, in honorable terms, the attention which the leader of this enterprise devoted to its furtherance.[1] [Footnote 1: See also "_Account showing the progress of the Colony of Georgia from its first Establishment_." Lond.1741.The _Appendix_, No.


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