- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Notes relative to James] Oglethorpe['s] landing at Yamacraw Bluff in 1735 [and his dealings with] the [British] Trustees and Creeks [for two years thereafter]
- Date of Original:
- 1735/1737
- Subject:
- Creek Indians
Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- manuscripts (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This undated and incomplete document consists of notes relative to James Oglethorpe's landing at Yamacraw Bluff (present-day Savannah, Georgia) in 1733 and his dealings with the Creeks and the royal Trustees for about two years thereafter. The document mentions Mary Musgrove, her husband John Musgrove, and Creek leader Tomochichi. Abbreviated citations of several historic texts pertaining to the early history of Georgia appear along the left margin of the document.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- krc118
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc118
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc118#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc118/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Keith Read, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Keith Read, box 17, folder 54, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Book I. -- [deleted text: Chapter III., ] Section III --
Landing in Georgia.
M' Call 32-3-
1. -- On the
1st Feby [February] 1733 (O. S.), Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw Bluff, the present site of the City of [document damaged: Savannah ] : -- as will appear by the following letter addressed by him to the Trustees. -- + [document damaged] + + + + [document damaged: By the ] assistance of Mary, an [document damaged] who had married an Indian trader by the name of Musgrove he gathered about 50 [deleted text: [added text: Creek ] ] In [document damaged] gether & formed a treaty with them. -- See [deleted text: M' Call 357 ] [added text: Hewatt 21: -- ] & this [added text: mark X ] As to the laying off of Savannah [document damaged] M' Call 39 --
2 Salmon 300 --
Oglethorpe sailed in
1734 for England [document damaged] & took with him Tomo Chichi --
2 Stephens 153 --
Death of Tomo Chachi : -- and Fune [document damaged: ral ] . --
M' Call 49 --
The Saltzburghers, some of whom arri [document damaged: ved ] [unclear text: even ] [deleted text: 17 ]
September 1733, we find permanently fixed two years after the banks of a stream now known [document damaged: by ] the name of the Ebenezer Creek : -- the Uchees were settled between that & the Creek of Brier
Do -- 50 --
Augusta was laid out in
1735 & [document damaged] isoned the following [deleted text: & ] year; during which time, on account of [document damaged: its ] vicinity to the nation, it became [document damaged] [illegible text] of 600 Indian trader
1 Moore's
life of Wesley
- 216
[added text: X ] In their name, Wecca Chumpa (the [document damaged] Chief, welcomed the Adventurers to the [deleted text: [illegible text] ] country of the Creeks: -- saying that as the White men were supe [document damaged: rior ] to the Red, he made no doubt that the Great [deleted text: Sprit had sent them as ministers of good ] Power who [document damaged] heaven & all around this earth, had sent them to work out good for his children; that the land [document damaged] pable of holding both, & that what the Indians did not use the English might freely have. --
M' Call 50 --
In
1734, [deleted text: a sell ] 20 families of [unclear text: Jews ] arrived, for whom land was laid off in the neighborhood of Savannah : -- the only descendants of these [deleted text: now remaining ] in the country of their 1st location, & now remaining, are the [unclear text: Misis ], Sheftall & De Lyon. --
[illegible text] -- M' Call 58 --
2. -- As to the regulations adopted by the Trustees in
1735 -- [page(s) missing]