The Letters of Hon. James Habersham, 1756-1775
Author | : James Habersham |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Georgia |
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Author | : James Habersham |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Georgia |
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Author | : Harvey H. Jackson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820307053 |
This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields and their efforts represent not only the fruits of long careers but also the observations and insights of some of the most promising young scholars. Forty Years of Diversity sheds new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.
Author | : Frank Lambert |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820343986 |
James Habersham was an early American success story. After arriving in Savannah in 1738, he failed in his efforts to wrest a living from the Georgia wilderness and lived his first year at public expense. Then, by dint of his own efforts and through the connections he forged, Habersham emerged as one of the colony's most influential and prosperous citizens, making his name as a planter, merchant, evangelist, and political leader. The third wealthiest person in the colony at the time of his death in 1775, Habersham had a public career that included service as the secretary of Georgia, president of the King's council, and acting Governor. But Habersham's story is more than biography. It also provides a window into colonial Georgia and its transformation from a struggling colony on the brink of collapse in the 1740s to a prosperous province in the 1770s, confident enough to defy the Crown. Ranging over such topics as the rise of Methodist missionary fervor, the development of transatlantic trade, the introduction of slavery, and the escalating debate over American independence, Frank Lambert tells how Habersham's success is inextricably tied to Georgia's fortunes and how he played a major role in helping the colony exploit its abundant resources. Habersham's economic development plan provided a blueprint for attracting new settlers, supplying an abundance of cheap labor, and opening new markets. Habersham's achievements, however, are obscured by his unpopular stance on American independence. While his three sons distinguished themselves as Patriots, Habersham remained loyal to the Crown, though he had opposed Britain's new imperial policies in the 1760's. Nevertheless, it was Habersham's loyal service to colonial Georgia that enabled the colony to separate successfully from the mother country and assume its place in the new republic as a prosperous, vigorous state.
Author | : Georgia. Supreme Court |
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Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Author | : Georgia. Supreme Court |
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Equity |
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Author | : Georgia. Supreme Court |
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Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Author | : Paul M. Pressly |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820335673 |
DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cumberland Island National Seashore (Ga.) |
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Author | : Jeannette Holland Austin |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : 0806311126 |
This is an index to the earliest surviving will books of those Georgia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery. It was prepared from a microfilm copy of the county will books. More specifically, this index derives from copies of wills made by the Clerk, whose job it was to enter verbatim copies in the large will books.--From Note to the reader, p. [iii].
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Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2012-12 |
Genre | : Census records |
ISBN | : 0806301562 |
Genealogists will recognize this work as an index to the earliest complete census of Georgia. This index identifies about 30,000 heads of families, alphabetically arranged, along with their counties of residence.