Scottish highlanders in colonial Georgia
Subtitle: the recruitment, emigration, and settlement at Darien, 1735-1748
By: Anthony W. Parker.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Great Britain. Army -- Scottish regiments -- History -- 18th century.; Scottish Americans -- Georgia -- Darien -- History -- 18th century.; Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.; Georgia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.; Darien (Ga.) -- History.
Description: Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition.

By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and index.