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[email protected]. A “Haven of Benignity”: Conflict and Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews By Mark I. Greenberg On July 11, 1733, forty-one Jews aboard the schooner William and Sarah landed in the fledgling Georgia colony.1 Their harrowing five-month journey had included damage to their boat in the Thames River and a near shipwreck off the North Carolina coast. The weary travelers joined 275 Christian inhabitants already settled on the bluffs above the Savannah River. Only five months earlier James Oglethorpe had landed with a charter from King