©."1©UOVIXCK ;j !»•• v CKOROIA IN -Y»H Tfl Jilf.lt "The editors and the University of Georgia are to be commended for making these data available." Journal of Southern History This list of settlers in Georgia up to 1741 is taken from a manuscript volume of the Earl of Egmont, purchased with twenty other volumes of manuscripts on early Georgia history by the University of Georgia in 1947. The 2,979 settlers are listed in alphabetical order, followed S' p* by their age, occupation, date of embarcation, date of arrival, lot in o Savannah or in Frederica, and (where applicable) "Dead, Quitted, HI A List of the Early or Run Away." Footnotes give additional information concerning many of the people listed. This volume was first published in 1949 to r help scholarly research in the history of colonial of Georgia. Settlers of Georgia E. Merton Coulter was head of the History Department at the Uni VI versity of Georgia, editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly, and a re founding member and the first president of the Southern Historical Association. Albert B. Saye was a professor of political science at the University of Georgia and one of the most well-known scholars of Georgia history and politics. Edited by ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3439-4 ISBN-10:0-8203-3439-1 E. Merton Coulter The University of Georgia Press 90000 Athens, Georgia 30602 and www.ugapress.org 9 "780820 "334394II Albert B. Saye A LIST OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF GEORGIA A LIST OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF GEORGIA Edited by E. MERTON COULTER and ALBERT B. SAYE The University of Georgia Press Athens Paperback edition, 2009 1949 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Printed digitally in the United States of America The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), ed. A list of the early settlers of Georgia, by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye. xiv, 103 p. 27 cm. 1. Georgia-Biography. I. Saye, Albert Berry, joint ed. F285.C78 920.0758 49-10242 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3439-4 ISBN-10: 0-8203-3439-1 To WYMBERLEY WORMSLOE DERENNE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .............. ix PART I ................. 1 Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia at the Trustees© Charge PART II ................. 61 Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia on Their Own Account APPENDIX ................ 105 A List of the First Shipload of Georgia Settlers Edited by E. Merton Coulter INTRODUCTION This list of the settlers of Georgia to 1741 is taken from a manuscript volume entitled A List of Persons Who Went from Europe to Georgia on Their Own Account, or at the Trustees© Charge, or who Joyned the Colony or were Born in It, Distinguishing Such as Had Grants there or were only Inmates (serial no. 14220), purchased together with twenty other volumes of manuscripts on early Georgia history by the University of Georgia in 1947. The manuscripts, sold at auction by Sotheby©s in London, had for merly constituted a part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt., of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, and Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, and were reported to have originally belonged to the Earl of Egmont, first President of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. Much of the material in the Egmont manuscripts is familiar to students who have used the official records of the Trustees in the British Public Record Office, from which source 26 volumes have been published by the State of Georgia as The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Alien D. Candler, Ed., Atlanta, 1904-13) and 13 more volumes have been collected and are available at the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Yet there are items of great interest that have never been used by historians, notably the list of the early settlers and the Journal of William Stephens from October, 1741, to September, 1743. The list of settlers in the Egmont manuscripts is given under two head ings: first, those who went from Europe to Georgia at the Trustees© charge and, second, those who went on their own account. The settlers are listed in roughly alphabetical order, followed by parallel columns with the following headings: age, occupation, date of embarcation, date of arrival, lots in Savannah, lots in Frederica, and "Dead, Quitted, Run Away." Foot notes give additional information concerning most of the persons listed. The division of the colonists into two lists based upon the payment of their passage has been followed in the present publication, but for convenience in printing, the parallel columns and footnotes have been abandoned and the information concerning each colonist quoted directly after his name. Except for this change in arrangement, an attempt has been made to repro- IX duce all of the information in the same form as it appears in the original manuscript. A summary statement at the opening of the manuscript shows that from June 9, 1732, to September 29, 1741, a total of 1,810 persons were sent to Georgia at the expense of the Trustees, that 1,021 joined the Colony at their own expense, that 142 children were born in the Colony, and that "the total supposedly in the Colony on March 4, 1743" was 2,092. The total of 1,810 persons sent to Georgia on charity from 1732 to 1741 compares closely with the figure 1,847 shown by the record of Benjamin Martyn quoted below, preserved in the British Public Record Office (C.O. 5/671), as the number of persons sent on charity to June 9, 1742. Number of Persons Sent to Georgia on the Charity 1 Persons Foreign Protestants British In the 1st year to the 9th of June, 1733 152 11 141 In the 2nd year ....... 1734 341 104 237 In the 3rd year ....... 1735 81 58 23 In the 4th year ....... 1736 470 129 341 In the 5th year ....... 1737 32 __ 32 In the 6th year ....... 1738 298 163 135 In the 7th year ....... 1739 972 In the 8th year ....... 1740 138 134 4 In the 9th year ....... 1741 633 In the 10th year ....... 1742 320 230 90 1,847 839 1,008 These figures show that of the settlers sent to Georgia on charity during the first ten years 45.4% were "Foreign Protestants." In the present list of settlers sent on charity 319 are specifically described as Palatine Trust Servants, 47 as Palatines, 222 as Salzburgers, 142 as Swiss, 34 as Germans, 13 as German Trust Servants, 29 as Moravians, 33 as Scots, and 2 as Italians. No Jews were included in this list, but 92 of the settlers in the list of those who paid their own passage are identified as Jews. This list, which mani festly is incomplete, shows 1,675 people coming at the expense of the Trus tees, and 1,304, on their own charge. It will be noted that compared with the statistics given above, the list falls short in the first classification and is in excess of the latter. Undoubtedly the compiler worked from imperfect and incomplete information. It is not evident why his sums total vary so widely from his lists; but undoubtedly he did not secure his totals from l. Albert B. Saye, New Viewpoints in Georgia History (Athena, 1943), 32. adding up his lists, as is indicated from the fact that the sums total are recorded on a separate piece of paper inserted and bound with the uniform sheets of the lists. Occupations listed are of the widest variety butchers, bakers, and can dlestick makers, musicians and writers, vinedressers and brewers, ministers and teachers, seamen and soldiers, merchants and farmers, glaziers and graziers, and a host of others, including two attorneys, Will. Aglionby "who made much mischief in Savannah," and Will Williamson. The leading occupations in numbers were servants, husbandmen, farmers, labourers, carpenters, and weavers. The 827 settlers in the list sent on charity whose occupations were indicated are classified in contemporary terminology as follows: accompts, 3; alehouse keepers, 1; apothecaries, 5; apprentices, 14; bakers, 8; basket makers, 1; blacksmiths, 4; blockmakers, 1; bookbinders, 2; bookkeepers, 1; book sellers, 1; braziers, 2; brewers, 2; bricklayers, 4; brokers, 1; butchers, 2; cabinet makers, 4; calendars, 1; calico printers, 1; carpenters, 38; carvers, 1; chairmen, 1; clerks, 5; clogmakers, 1; cloth workers, 1; coachmakers, 1; coal sellers, 1; cooks, 1; coopers, 4; cord wainers, 2; cow herders, 5; cyder merchants, 1; drumers, 1; dyers, 6; farmers, 41; fishermen, 2; flax dressers, 3; gardiners, 8; gentlemen, 1; glaziers, 2; glovers, 1; goldsmiths, 1; graziers, 1; grocers, 1; gunsmiths, 1; half pay officers, 1; hatters, 4; heel makers, 1; hosiers, 1; hunters, 1; huntsmen, 1; husbandmen, 49; Indian traders, 1; inn holders, 1; iron mongers, 1; joyners, 2; labourers, 41; leather dressers, 1; linen drapers, 2; linen weavers, 1; locksmiths, 5; masons, 6; mercers, 3; merchants, 2; midwives, 2; millers, 8; millwrights, 5; miners, 5; ministers, 10; missioners to Indians, 1; musicians, 1; oil men, 1; Palatin servants, 18; Palatin trust servants, 61; peruke makers, 5; potash makers, 1; potters, 1; recorders, 1; rope makers, 4; salters, 1; saltpeter men, 1; saw makers, 1; saw mill wrights, 1; sawyers, 6; schoolmasters, 7; schoolmistresses, 1; seamen, 3; secretaries, 1; scriveners, 1; servants, 153; shipwrights, 1; shoemakers, 13; shopkeep ers, 1; silk men, 3; silk throwsters, 1; silk weavers, 1; silversmiths, 1; smiths, 6; soldiers, 1; stockingmakers, 1; stockingweavers, 4; storekeepers, 2; surgeons, 8; tallow chandlers, 3; tanners, 6; taylors, 18; teachers of agri culture, 1; traders in goods, 1; trust servants, 90; turners, 3; upholsterers, 3; vine dressers, 4; vintagers, 2; vintners, 1; vitualers, 1; watchmakers, 2; weavers, 23; wheelwrights, 3; wine coopers, 1; wood cutters, 3; woodmen, 1; woolcombers, 1; writers, 3; writing masters, 1; wyre drawers, 1.