Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-27

= full to enable him to draw proper con-
I illusions. They seem trivial, but they are
! really important
! 1 propose in this article to draw on the
notes I have often spoken of (Mr. Stephens
| iournaD as the most remarkable of our
early records. 1 am sure il these three
volumes were carefully read many state
ments would not be made by those who
speak so confidently of Oglethorpe and
| our first corners. One of the first things
| settled in this journal is what was the
name of the young woman who was the
cause of Mr.. Wesley's prosecution In Sa-
| vannah.
She is called Miss Canston and Miss
] Hopkey. Mr.. Stephens says she was Miss
( Hopkins. Mr.. Wesley, he says, told the
Scotch residents that Mr.. Canston said
they were a turbulent people, idle and
worthless, of which statement Mr.. Cans
] ton made loud complaint.
| Mr. Wesley harangued the crowd at the
| monthly court (by the way, he was re-
| fused a triaD and the judges Canston and
Christie, said they were AFRAID OF oeins
mobbed.
Mr.. Wesley's audiences at church were
very thin, but he preached metaphysi-
| cal sermon.
smith, shoemaker clipped coin and
was whipped three times.
Scott, a gunsmith, was a notorious
| blind tiger keeper.
The militia force in 174O was so, who
could be called at the beat Of drum
In January 1888 ice was two inches thick
/ in Savannah.
Provision were nearly gone and no effort
was made by Oglethorpe for relief.
General Oglethorpe became very angry
with Savannah malcontents and threaten
| ed to leave them to themselves.
There was constant trouble about pro-
| visions and Mr.. Bradley went so far as TO
1 kill one of the companys steers. (Mr.
Bradley kept the cattle.)
The company's steers were placed on
tract ten miles from Savannah, wherein
/ Mr.. Fallowheld and Noble Jones have
lately settled and it almost forms an
/ island-Isle of Hope.
/ On Sunday there was a pretty good con-
| gregation, considering how many always
| abstain from public worship.
Mr.. Norris, the Episcopal rector badly
| disgruntled because Mr.. Jones, the dis
/ senter, who was the storekeeper, gave MIN
/ such bad wine
Tybe was exceedingly pestered, Mr..
| Stephens says, with mosquitoes.
Tom Chichi died and was buried with
| public honor.
Everybody turned out to cut out weeds
| and underbrush.
| Dr. Taller a physician, Mr.. Jenkins,
grocer, Messrs. Sterling, Baltic, Grant
and Douglas were going to South Caro-
| lima because they could not get negroes;
no great loss Mr.. Stephens thought.
The Free Masons had celebration;
| they walked in solemn order to dinner at
| the public house. The warden, DR.. TAIL
fer. who likes pre-eminence, attended by
| four or five with wands of red ribbon on
their bosoms, took foremost place, but
those that followed in white gloves ana
| aprons were only half dozen. CThe nrst
| Masonic festival in Georgia.)
Mr.. Mathews, who married the lnolah
half breed Mary Musgrove, had house
party CThe first one in Georgia.)
Mr.. Stephens tells of his opening his
plantation on Vernon river and calling
| it Bewlie-a name it still bears.
Mr.. Stephens proposes to plant cotton,
which grows we'll but is too full OF seed
which cannot be separated.
Snow fell Nov. %, 17SS, six inches deep
| In Savannah.
Mr.. WHITEHEAD published the bans Of his
schoolmaster, Mr.. Habersham.
The South Carolina people were very
hostile toward the colony.
Mr.. Stephens had little use for the Meth
odists, as he calls Mr.. Whitehelds fol-
lowers. and tells Of, John Slack, one or
them who, after counting a thrifty widow
and giving her gold ring and some pew
| ter. found out he might be made liable
| for her husbands death and decided to
tilt her on the pretense that she was
not a Christian. SLACK, john.
Mr.. Norris the preacher who would
play the fiddle and play cards with the
| ladies, and who complained of bad Wine
/ but whom Mr. Stephens had sustained
| had, after all, fallen into grievous wrong
| doing and was In disgrace.
| Mr. Campbell. who read the service at
| church. read John Bunyan instead of one
| of Tillottson's sermons much to Mr.. Ste
| phens' disgust.
Mr.. Christie had taken out a warrant
| against Mr.. Patrick Houston, who was
| arrested for debt and called before the
magistrate and discharged. Mr.: Houston
| was very indignant and complained loud
/ Nv. for it was well known from his large
/ plantation he was not running away.
| Mr.. Dyson, the pioneer, was man OF
| scandalous life, but undertook the minis
/ try to the priest against Mr.. Haber-
| shams protest
/ The malcontents, who were much at
outs with Mr.. Oglethorpe, were lea py
| Mr.. Stephens son, much to his grief and
| Indignation, and there is in his journal
a lively account of the quarrel between
/ item.
| These extracts are all made from Mr..
/ Stephens journal of which there is only
one copy in Georgia, or it may be in
America-the copy in Savannah:
| The De Renne papers, which contain
| a reprint of the old colonial enactments
| and other matters Of interest, were pub
/ lished by Mr.. De Renne. There were only
| forty copies printed of them; perhaps ten
are in the state library.
There are many small items OF real In
| terest Mr.. LDegilveray began to run
the line from Williams creek to the head
| waters of the St. Marys.
| Mr. Gibson paid $50 for a negro executed
A post line established to the upper
| colony.
A bin for rum furnished to the Indians.
A bill for supplies from George Galphin.
The first newspaper in the colony was
| the Georgia Gazette, issued first in 1763.
| 1t is a small four-column paper, and we
gather a great many items from its col
| umns Taking them as they come they
| give us a glimpse of the young city as 1t
| began to take on new life after Sir James
| Wright had taken control of the govern
ment, and when its prospects now that it
had been decided that it should still re-
main the seat of government had greatly
! improved.
1t became quite a rallying point for
| Scotchmen, and while they were not very
religious, they were strong in their attach
ments to the kirk, and so Lord McGil-
| veray, James Cuthbert and Mr.. Greene
| called a meeting in 1859 to see about
building a Presbyterian kirk. In its adj
! vertising columns Of 1774, when there was
the highest tide of prosperity before the
| war. all advertisers were mostly mer-
chants. Burd & Thompson, Packard &
| Brown, James Goodwin, Richard Wright,