aw fifty-seven others added to these. Then came
Moravians with their pastor. All these strong, industrious, religious
folk made settlements upon the river above Savannah. Italians came,
Piedmontese sent by the trustees to teach the coveted silk-culture.
Oglethorpe, when he sailed to England in 1734, took with him
Tomochi-chi, chief of the Yamacraws, and other Indians. English interest
in Georgia increased. Parliament gave more money--26,000 pounds.
Oglethorpe and the trustees gathered more colonists. The Spanish cloud
seemed to be rolling up in the south, and it was desirable to have in
Georgia a number of men who were by inheritance used to war. Scotch
Highlanders--there would be the right folk! No sooner said than
gathered. Something under two hundred, courageous and hardy, were
enrolled from the Highlands. The majority were men, but there were fifty
women and children with them. All went to Georgia, where they settled
to the south of Savannah, on the Altamaha, near the island of St. Simon.
Other Highlanders followed. They had a fort and a town which they named
New Inverness, and the region that they peopled they called Darien.

Oglethorpe himself left England late in 1735, with two ships, the Symond
and the London Merchant, and several hundred colonists aboard. Of these
folk doubtless a number were of the type the whole enterprise had been
planned to benefit. Others were Protestants from the Continent. Yet
others--notably Sir Francis Bathurst and his family--went at their own
charges. After Oglethorpe himself, most remarkable perhaps of those
going to Georgia were the brothers John and Charles Wesley. Not
precisely colonists are the Wesleys, but prospectors for the souls of
the colonists, and the souls of the Indians--Yamacraws, Uchees, and
Creeks.

They all landed at Savannah, and now planned to make a settlement south
of their capital city, by the mouth of Altamaha. Oglethorpe chose St.
Simon's Island, and here they built, and called their town Frederica.

"Each Freeholder had 60 Feet in Front by 90 Feet in depth upon the high
Street for House and Garden; but those which fronted the River had but
30 in Front, by 60 Feet in depth. Each Family had a Bower of Palmetto
Leaves finished upon the back Street in their own Lands. The side toward
the front Street was set out for their Houses. These Palmetto Bowers
were very convenient shelters, being tight in the hardest Rains; they
were about 20 Feet long and 14 Feet wide