And they began a correspondence with distressed Protestants on the Continent.

They also devised and used all manner of safeguards against imposition and the inclusion of any who would be wholly burdens, moral or physical.

So it happened that, though misfortune had laid on almost all a heavy hand, the early colonists to Georgia were by no means undesirable flotsam and jetsam.

The plans for the colony, the hopes for its well-being, wear a tranquil and fair countenance.
Oglethorpe himself would go with the first colonists.

His ship was the Anne of two hundred tons burden--the last English colonizing ship with which this narrative has to do--and to her weathered sails there still clings a fascination.