VII.  Sir Thomas Lombe’s mill for winding silk,

  VIII.  Case of Captain Porteous,

    IX.  Trustees for settling Georgia,

     X. Oglethorpe’s disinterestedness in the undertaking,

    XI.  Advertisement of Governor Johnson of South Carolina, and letter of
        the Governor and Council to Oglethorpe,

   XII.  Account of the Creeks,

  XIII.  Account of the Indians in Georgia by Oglethorpe,

   XIV.  Memoir of the Duke of Argyle,

    XV.  Saltzburgers,

   XVI.  Arrival of these persecuted German Protestants in Georgia,

  XVII.  Settlement of Moravians,

 XVIII.  Scout-boat and Channels,

   XIX.  Uchee Indians,

    XX.  A mutiny in the Camp, and attempt at assassination,

   XXI.  Memoir of Tomo-Chichi,

  XXII.  General Oglethorpe’s manifesto,

 XXIII.  Fate of Colonel Palmer,

  XXIV.  Account of the siege of St. Augustine,

   XXV.  Spanish invasion,

  XXVI.  Order for a Thanksgiving,

 XXVII.  List of Spanish forces employed in the invasion of Georgia, and
        of Oglethorpe’s to resist them,

XXVIII.  History of the silk culture in Georgia, written by W.B. 
        Stevens, M.D., of Savannah,

INDEX,

CHAPTER I.

Parentage of Oglethorpe—­Birth—­Education—­Christian Name—­Education—­Military Profession and Promotion—­In the Suite of the Earl of Peterborough—­Service under Prince Eugene of Savoy—­Elected Member of Parliament—­Visits a Gentleman in Prison—­Moves in the House of Commons for a redress of the rigors of Prison Discipline—­Appointed on the Committee—­Extracts from his Speeches in Parliament.

James Oglethorpe, founder of the Colony of Georgia in North America,—­a distinguished philanthropist, general, and statesman,—­was the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, of Godalming, in the County of Surrey, Great Britain, by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of Richard Wall, Esq. of Rogane, in Ireland.[1] There has been, hitherto, great uncertainty with respect to the year, the month, and the day of his nativity; I have, however, what I deem good authority for deciding it to have been the twenty-first day of December, one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight.[2]

[Footnote 1:  For some account of the Family, see Appendix I.]

[Footnote 2:  Appendix ii.]

It is asserted in Thoresby’s History of Leeds, page 255, that “he had two Christian names, James-Edward, supposed to have been bestowed upon him in compliment to the Pretender;” and he is so named on his sepulchral monument.  But, as he always used but one; as he was enregistered on entering College at Oxford, simply James; and, as the double name is not inserted in any public act, commission, document, printed history, or mention of him in his life time, that I have ever met with, I have not thought proper to adopt it.