HOUSE IN WHICH THE LEGISLATURE MET (CHATHAM COUNTY),. 848 DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM (FLOYD COUNTY), GREENESBOROUGH FEMALE COLLEGE (GREENE COUNTY), CURTWRIGHT MANUFACTURING COMPANY (GREENE COUNTY),.. TALLULAH FALLS (HABERSHAM COUNTY), 455 477 479 488 TOCCOA FALLS, MONUMENT TO LYMAN HALL AND GEORGE WALTON (RICHMOND COUNTY). LA GRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE (TROUP COUNTY)... PAGE. .598 ..598 .599 ..634 ..651 ..667 ....668 TUNNEL OF THE WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD (WHITEFIELD COUNTY...680 THE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA. DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY HISTORY OF GEORGIA. CHARTER OF THE COLONY. GEORGE THE Second: By the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas we are credibly informed, that many of our poor subjects are, through misfortunes and want of employment, reduced to great necessity, insomuch as by their labour they are not able to provide a maintenance for themselves and families; and if they had means to defray their charges of passage, and other expenses incident to new settlements, they would be glad to settle in any of our provinces in America, where, by cultivating the lands at present waste and desolate, they might not only gain a comfortable subsistence for themselves and families, but also strengthen our colonies, and increase the trade, navigation, and wealth of these our realms. And whereas our provinces in North America have been frequently ravaged by Indian enemies; more especially that of South Carolina, which in the late war, by the neighbouring savages, was laid waste by fire and sword, and great numbers of the English inhabitants miserably massacred; and our loving subjects who now inhabit there, by reason of the smallness of their numbers, will, in case of a new war, be exposed to the like calamities; inasmuch as their whole southern frontier continueth unsettled, and lieth open to the said savages; and whereas we think it highly becoming our crown and royal dignity to protect all our loving subjects, be they never so distant from us; to extend our fatherly compassion even to the meanest and most infatuate of our people, and to relieve the wants of our above mentioned poor subjects; and that it will be highly conducive for accomplishing those ends, that a regular colony of the said poor people be settled and established in the southern territories of Carolina; and whereas we have been well assured, that if we would be graciously pleased to erect and settle a corporation, for the receiving, managing and disposing of the contributions of our loving sub |