United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983Weeks, Carl Solana, 1948-2003-03-11Encyclopedia article about Peter Tondee. Peter Tondee traveled to Savannah at the age of ten on the second boat sent to Georgia, and his life in the new land--from orphan to master carpenter to minor civic official--exemplified the experience of ordinary people in the growth of the colony. But his role in the final few years of Georgia's brief span as a province accounted for the place his name holds in the history of the state. Tondee's Long Room, which stood at the northwest corner of Broughton and Whitaker streets in Savannah, became center stage for the political drama that brought a fledgling province into the ranks of the war for American liberty, and it served for several years during and after the Revolution (1775-83) as the seat of government for the new state.Courtesy of Walter Wright and David A. Hammondtext/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Businessmen--Georgia--SavannahBusinesspeople--Georgia--SavannahPolitical planning--Georgia--SavannahUnited States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783Peter Tondee (ca. 1723-1775)Text