An account showing the progress of the colony of Georgia in America
Subtitle: from its first establishment
By: Pub. per order of the honorable the Trustees. London, Printed in the year 1741. Maryland: Reprinted by J. Green, Annapolis, 1742
Series: American colonial tracts monthly. [v. 1] -- no. 5, September 1897
Publisher: G. P. Humphrey
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Rochester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: History
Notes: On verso of t.-p.: Colonial tracts, no. 5.

Caption title: Colonial pamphlets, v. 1, no. 5.

Reprint, without acknowledgment, from Force tracts, v. 1 (1836) no. 5.

Nos. 9-11 of the "Appendix" of the Annapolis reprint were omitted by Force.

The "Account" was written as a vindication of the colony and the Oglethorpe administration from the aspersions of malcontents, and especially as a reply to "A true and historical narrative" drawn up by P. Tailfer and others. The "Account" is signed (p. 41): By order of the Trustees, Benj. Martyn, secretary.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. no. 1. A discourse concerning the design'd establishment of a new colony to the south of Carolina. 1717 / Sir R. Montgomery ; no. 2. A brief account of the establishment of the colony of Georgia under Gen. James Oglethorpe, February 1, 1733 ; no. 3. A state of the province of Georgia attested upon oath ... November 18, 1740. 1742 / [W. Stephens], comp. ; no. 4. A true and historical narrative of the colony of Georgia ... 1741 / P. Tailfer, H. Anderson, D. Douglas, and others ; no. 5. An account showing the progress of the colony of Georgia ... 1742 / pub. by order of the ... Trustees ; no. 6. Nova Britannia / [R. Johnson] ; no. 7. The new life of Virginia. 1612 / [R. Johnson] ; no. 8. The beginning, progress, and conclusion of Bacon's rebellion in Virginia ... 1675 and 1676 ; no. 9. An account of our late troubles in Virginia written in 1676 / Mrs. A. Cotton. A list of those that have been executed for the late rebellion in Virginia / Sir W. Berkeley ; no. 10. A narrative of the Indian and civil wars in Virginia ... 1675 and 1676 ; no. 11. New England's plantation. 1630 / [F. Higginson] ; no. 12. A petition of W.C. ... for the propagating of the gospel in America and the West Indies. 1941 / W. C[astell]; title: v. 2. no. 1. A description of New England. 1616 / J. Smith ; no. 2. New England's trials. 2nd ed. 1622 / J. Smith ; no. 3. The planters' plea. 1630 / [ascribed to J. White] ; no. 4. Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March, 1631 / T. Dudley ; no. 5. Extract from