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Extract of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Boltzius at Ebenezer, dated the 23d of July, 1741, to the Reverend Dr. Francke, Professor of Divinity at Hall.

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To OGETHER with these spirtual Blessings, and the salutary

"Effect of the Word of God to the Conversion of many "Souls, we enjoy also this Year, by the Mercy of God, many temporal good Things.

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"THE present War, and the Burden of it hath not affected us yet, and we don't feel the least of it; and in the great "Dearness the Colony suffered last Year, we have not been in "Want of necessary Provisions. As to the present Year, we "have a very hopeful Prospect of a good Harvest, every Thing "in the Fields and Gardens growing so delightful, as our Eyes "hardly have seen in this Country before. *If Isaac, by the "Blessing of the Lord, received from what he had sowed, an "hundred Fold, I believe, I dare say, to the Praise of the great

Mercy of God over us, our Saltzburghers will get thousand "Fold, notwithstanding that the Corn, when it came out of the "Ground, was eaten quite up two or three Times by the Worms, "of which nobody can hardly form a right Idea, except he sees "it with his own Eyes. Wheat, Rice, and other Grain, must be "sowed very thin, because each Grain brings forth fifty, an hun"dred, or more Stalks and Ears. The Land is really very "fruitful, if the Sins of the Inhabitants, and the Curse of God "for such Sins, doth not eat it up, which was formerly the un"happy Case of the blessed Land of Canaan.

"AND I am heartily sorry to acquaint you, that I don't find "in some of the Inhabitants of the Colony, a due Thankfulness, "for, and Contentment with the many Benefits bestowed on "them for several Years together; although those who are in"dustrious, and will labour for their Maintenance, may, as we "do, live contentedly, and subsist under the Blessing of God, "promised by St. Paul, Heb. xiii. 5. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Which Blessing the Idle and Unthankful are not intitled to."

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Extract out of the Journal of Mr. Boltzius, Minister of the Gospel at Ebenezer in Georgia

"Tit of Peaches, and as this Fruit doth not keep, some of

HE 10th of August, 1741. We have this Year Plenty

• Gen. xxvi. 12.

our People try to make a certain Sort of Brandy of them, "others give them to the Swine: This is more than any body "could have promised to himself, or others, some Years ago. "Even at this Time, when I am writing this, a Man brings a "large Dish of blue Grapes to me, grown wild in the Woods; "they are of a sweet Taste, and pretty like our European "Grapes; that I am very apt to believe, the wild Vine-Trees, "if properly managed, would give good Wine. Thanks be to "our gracious God, who gives us here every good Thing for our Support.

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"The 9th of September, 1741. Some Time ago I wrote to an honoured Friend in Europe, That the Land in this Country if well managed and laboured, brings forth, by the Bles"sings of God, not only hundred Fold, but thousand Fold; and "I this Day was confirmed therein. A Woman having two "Years ago picked out of Indian Corn, brought at Purysburgh,

no more than three Grains of Rye (called here German Corn) , and planting them here at Ebenezer, one of these Grains pro"duced an hundred and seventy Stalks and Ears, and the three "Grains yielded to her a Bag of Corn as large as a Coat-Pocket, the Grains whereof were good and full grown; and she "desired me to send Part of them to a kind Benefactor in Europe. One of our Saltzburghers brought to me also a like "Bag of Beans all grown out of one Bean.

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"TRUE it is, notwithstanding the Fertility of the Land, the "first Tillagers of it must undergo and struggle with great "Difficulties; but them that come after them will reap the Ben"efit thereof, if they go on to do their Labour in the Fear of "God.

"THE Land is able to provide every good Thing, and more particularly is Pasturage very plenteous."

FINI S

TRUE and HISTORICAL

NARRATIVE

Of the COLONY of

GEORGIA

In America,

From the First Settlement thereof until this present

Period:

CONTAINING

The most authentick Facts, Matters, and Transactions therein:

TOGETHER WITH

His Majesty's Charter, Representations of the People,

Letters, &c.
AND

A Dedication to His Excellency General Oglethorpe.

PAT. TAILFER, M. D.
By HUGH ANDERSON, M. A.
DA. DOUGLAS, and others,

Landholders in Georgia, at present in Charles-Town, in
South-Carolina.

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CHARLES TOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA:

Printed by P. TIMOTHY, for the Authors, 1741.

P. FORCE, Washington, 1835.

To His Excellency

James Oglethorpe, Esq;

General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in SOUTH CAROLINA and GEORGIA; and one of the Honourable Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in AMERICA, &c.

May it please Your Excellency,

S

As the few surviving Remains of the Colony of Georgia find it necessary to present the World (and in particular Great Britain) with a true State of that Province, from its first Rise to its present Period; Your Excellency (of all Mankind) is best entitled to the Dedication, as the principal Author of its present Strength and Affluence, Freedom and Prosperity: And tho' incontestable Truths will recommend the following NARRATIVE to the patient and attentive Reader; yet your Name, SIR, will be no little Ornament to the Frontispiece, and may possibly engage some courteous Perusers a little beyond it.

THAT Dedication and Flattery are synonimous, is the Complaint of every Dedicator, who concludes himself ingenuous and fortunate, if he can discover a less trite and direct Method of flattering than is usually practised; but we are happily prevented from the least Intention of this kind, by the repeated Offerings of the Muses and News-Writers to Your Excellency, in the publick Papers: "Twere presumptuous even to dream of equalling or encreasing them; We therefore flatter ourselves, that Nothing we can advance will in the least shock Your Excellency's Modesty; not doubting but your Goodness will pardon any Deficiency of Elegance and Politeness, on account of our Sincerity, and the serious Truth we have the Honour to approach you with.

WE have seen the ancient Custom of sending forth Colonies, for the Improvement of any distant Territory, or new Acquisition, continued down to ourselves; but to Your Excellency alone it is owing, that the World is made acquainted with a Plan, highly refined from those of all former Projecters. They fondly imagin'd it necessary to communicate to such young Settle

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