All research and commentary by Jefferson Hall

From the passage of the Georgia Charter to the departure of the Anne just five months later… and every relevant happening in-between… a complete chronology of the 1732 events that would lead to the founding of British Colonial Georgia.

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All dates below compiled from the original source material in the Colonial Records of Georgia, volumes I, II, III, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIX and XXXII; the South Carolina Gazette, Percival’s List of Early Settlers, Egmont Journal and Percival Diary, the Journal of Peter Gordon, Thomas Christie’s “Daily Record of the Anne” and Urlsperger’s A Detailed Reports on the Salzburgers in America.                              

All dates are Old Style (Julian Calendar), pre-1752

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– 1732 –

June 9 – The official date marking the approval of the Georgia Charter.  In truth, the Charter will not clear all obstacles before late June.

July 20 – The first formal meeting of the Georgia Board of Trustees.  John, Lord Viscount Percival takes his oath as president of the Trustees.

July 27 – In their second meeting the Trustees exhibit an interest in “transporting a number of Saltzburgh Exiles.” (CRG I, p. 67)   In short, while it will ultimately follow Savannah’s creation by more than a year, the Salzburger embarkation is envisioned almost three months before the embarkation on the Anne that results in Savannah.

August 11-October 27 – Percival is on holiday in Bath with his recuperating wife.  Without the cautious voice of Percival the pace of colonization will quickly build to a fever pitch.

September 21 – With Oglethorpe leading the meeting, the Trustees grant commissions to agents Anthony DaCosta, Francis Salvador and Alvaro Lopes Suasso to collect money and subscriptions on behalf of the Georgia colony, apparently unconcerned (or unaware) at this point that the said agents intend a Jewish migration by this.

September 28 – South Carolina Governor Robert Johnson writes to the Trustees, urging a slow and cautious colonization effort.  Ironically, this letter will not reach the Trustees until more than a month after the departure of the Anne.

October 3 – The first migration is set into motion.  The Trustees decree that an “Imbarkation not exceeding Thirty five Men and their Families be made for Georgia… [and] that Lord Carpenter, Mr Oglethorpe, Mr Heathcote, Mr Hucks, Mr More, Mr Tower, Mr Belitha and Mr Hales or any Two of them do Treat with proper Persons for carrying on said Imbarkation.” (CRG II, p. 6)

October 18 – In Bath, Percival learns the Trustees have decreed an embarkation, and remarks in his Diary:  “I am not of opinion they should send any away so soon.”

October 24 – The final pool of colonists chosen for the voyage attend a meeting of the Trustees.

October 25 – The Trustees lease the tracts of what will become Savannah’s City Common to a holding trust consisting of three of the colonists: Thomas Christie, Joseph Hughes and William Calvert, for five shillings.

October 26 – The Trustees empower Oglethorpe to lay out the settlement intended for the Christie/Hughs/Calvert tract.

November 1 – Percival attends his first Trustee Common Council meeting in two months to find the first embarkation a virtual fait accompli.

November 1 – The Trustees name the proposed settlement Savannah, named for the river, which itself was named decades before, probably for the Savannah Indians.

November 7 – Peter Gordon is appointed first magistrate (or first bailiff), a position he will hold despite growing indifference (and increasing absence), until removed in 1735.

November 16 – Oglethorpe and seven other Trustees hold a Common Council meeting on the Anne.  Afterwards, the Anne advances to its starting point, but the pilot guide is put off for drunkenness.

November 17 – Departure of the Anne, John Thomas Captain, with no fewer than 117 Georgia-bound passengers, but possibly as many as 125 (Captain Thomas’ Charity List of 114 is accurate, however incomplete).  Passengers’ range of ages bookended by “Georges.” Oldest: George Symes (55) Youngest: George Marinus Warren (3 weeks), christened on the Anne either November 21 (Peter Gordon’s Journal) or November 23 (Thomas Christie’s “Daily Record”).  Two children die on the voyage, both named “James”—James Clark and James Cannon.  William Gainsford, whose family is ill, abandons the Anne; he is replaced by one of the alternates, Paul Amatis, the Trustee’s silk expert.

November 18 – Provisions and livestock taken aboard, including “sevl. Dozn. of fowls Ducks & Geese 3 Sheep 4 Hogs.”

November 21 – The Anne clears the Isle of Wight and enters the Atlantic.

November 24 – Oglethorpe’s dog disappears. Thomas Christie’s “Daily Record:” a “Black lurching Bitch belong to Mr. Oglethorpe….  Supposed to be flung Over board.”

early December – The Volante, the second ship to bring Georgia colonists, departs England, following in the path of the Anne.

December 15 – The Purrysburg arrives at Charlestown, carrying the Swiss colonists who will begin the Purrysburg settlement, the vanguard of the Savannah River settlements.

December 27 – Colonel Jean Purry leads 87 colonists in 3 periaguas from Charlestown for the Purrysburg site.

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All research and commentary by Jefferson Hall

The Savannah settlement is founded (…the carpenters arrive late). The new town encounters the indigenous inhabitants, sicknesses and realities not found in the Old World.

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All dates below compiled from the original source material in the Colonial Records of Georgia, volumes I, II, III, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIX and XXXII; the South Carolina Gazette, Percival’s List of Early Settlers, Egmont Journal and Percival Diary, the Journal of Peter Gordon, Thomas Christie’s “Daily Record of the Anne” and Urlsperger’s A Detailed Reports on the Salzburgers in America.

All dates are Old Style (Julian Calendar), pre-1752

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– 1733 –

January 13 – The Anne arrives off the coast of Charlestown, following an eight-week passage.  Oglethorpe, William Kilberry and Paul Amatis go ashore to meet with Governor Johnson while the remainder of the colonists remain aboard.

January 17 – Gordon Journal:  The Anne, en route to Port Royal, is threatened by a pirate ship.  The Anne fires two volleys and the ship retreats.

January 20 – The Anne arrives at Port Royal.  Oglethorpe gets 5 periaguas and a 70 ton sloop for the transport of the colonists.

January 21 – The colonists disembark in the morning and encamp at the new barracks of the Independent Company, at Port Royal, where they will remain for most of the next ten days.

January 23(?) – Oglethorpe founds the Savannah site. 

January 24 – Oglethorpe returns to Port Royal after scouting the site at Yamacraw Bluff.

January 25 – The James departs England for Georgia, the third ship commissioned by the Trustees and the first to contain significant numbers of sawyers to build the settlement… correcting a curious oversight in that the first two ships represent virtually every profession but sawyers and builders.

January 30 – The Caledonian Mercury Newspaper reports that “the James bound for Georgia” proceeded from Gravesend on the 25th.

January 30 – The colonists begin their journey to Yamacraw Bluff, but encounter foul weather, according to the March 31, 1733 South Carolina Gazette, “forced by a Storm to put in at a place called the Look out, and to lye there all Night, the next Day they arrived at Johns” [Jones] Island, where huts have already been prepared, as well as “a plentiful Supper of Venison.” 

January 31 – The Trustees rebuff an overture by ‘London Jewry’ to send colonists to Georgia and revoke the commissions of DaCosta, Salvador and Suasso.  Suddenly alarmed about what these agents are attempting, the Trustees voice the concern that “sending Jews would prejudice several People against contributing” to the design of the colony.

February 1 – The arrival of the five periaguas at Yamacraw Bluff.  The Georgia colonists are officially greeted by Chief Tomochichi.

February 2 – Peter Gordon’s Journal: “Friday the 2nd we finished our tents.”

February 3 – Making a more careful approach, the last of the six vessels arrives as William Kilberry escorts the 70 ton sloop to the Bluff, with the bulk of the dry goods aboard.

February 4 – The first church service, attended by Tomochichi.

February 5 – Slavery in Georgia by the fifth day.  Colonel Bull arrives to assist the settlement, bringing the orders of the South Carolina Assembly promising assistance.  He also evidently brings 4 of his own slaves.

February 8 – Other prominent South Carolinians come to assist the settlement.

February 9 – Derby Ward and lots for the ‘first forty’ families come into being.  “The Square” (later known as Johnson) and its forty lots marked out.  The first house begun this day.

February 10 – The Anne docks in Charlestown harbor, its obligation to Georgia completed.  It will depart for England by March 10.

February 19 – Oglethorpe goes to Tybee to “pitch upon a proper place for a small settlement.”  Jean Pierre Purry (leader of the Purrysburg settlement) comes for a visit.

February 21 – Rev. Henry Herbert leaves with Purry for Charlestown; Georgia’s first minister is only in Georgia for 3 weeks.

February 21 – William Kilberry apprehends two men who had escaped from a Charlestown jail.

February 24 – The Volante, following the heels of the Anne, is listed as having “entered in” at Charlestown harbor in this issue of the South Carolina Gazette.  She brings 4 more Charity colonists, including the invaluable John Vanderplank and the “mutinous” Samuel Grey with attendants, following an 11-week passage.

March 1 – The walls of the first house are raised.  Peter Gordon’s Journal: “March ye 1st the first house in the square was framed, and raised, Mr. Oglethorp driving the first pinn.”

March 4 – Peter Gordon’s Journal documents the beginning of Georgia’s civilian soldiers concept. The first target practice was held, “generally observed, for many Sundays afterwards.”

March 12 – Thomas Causton states that the government is divided into four tythings. (Still just one ward)  “[We] have got up three Houses.”

March 16 – Samuel Eveleigh, a prominent South Carolina trader, arrives for a visit.  “4 Houses already up, but none finished.”

March 17 – Georgia Close becomes the first child born in the colony.  Dies by the end of December.

March 24 & 31 – The South Carolina Gazette carries lengthy articles on the founding and development of the new colony.  The first is written by Samuel Eveleigh, detailing his visit, the second penned by one of the colonists.

March 27 – From Carolina the Rev. Henry Herbert writes to the Trustees of his intention to return to England as soon as he is well enough to do so.

April 4 – The fourth ship, the Peter and James departs England, with Nicholas Amatis, Rev. Samuel Quincy and 15 others aboard.

April 6 – First death in the colony of Georgia.  Dr. William Cox dies.  First man to die is the only practicing physician in the colony.

April 12 – The Pearl departs England, with the Hetheringtons, the Bishops and 12 servants.  All pay their own passage.

May 4–14 – Oglethorpe is in Charlestown, accompanied by Tomochichi and Tooanahowi.  Spends the 15th at Colonel Bull’s. “On the 17th dined at Lieutenant Watts’s at Beaufort, and landed at Savannah on the 18th, at ten in the Morning.” –South Carolina Gazette, June 2, 1733

May 14 – The third ship with colonists, the James, alreadymet by Oglethorpe at Port Royal on his way to Charlestown, enters the port of Savannah, the first ship to offload its cargo directly, rewarded with £ 100 Sterling prize.  With no fewer than 17 aboard, and six of the seven Charity heads of family on board sawyers, building of Savannah can finally commence in earnest.  With the forty lots in Derby ward dedicated to the ‘first forty’ of the Anne, most of the James passengers will be placed in a new ward to the west (Decker).

May 18-21 – Indian conference in Savannah.  The Articles of Friendship and Commerce treaty officially allows Oglethorpe to settle his colonists.  A delegation of the 8 tribes of the Lower Creek Nation formally cedes rights to the lands between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, reserving for Indian use a swath of land between Savannah and Pipemakers Creek and Ossabaw, St. Catherine’s and Sapelo islands.

May 23-June 10 – Oglethorpe is back in Charlestown, securing financial aid for Georgia.

Early June – An Indian death by gunshot leads to suspicion of English malfeasance, feeding Indian resentment until Tomochichi declares “I am an Englishman,” and the death is discovered a suicide.

June 9 – Oglethorpe correspondence to the Trustees, penned from Charlestown:  “nine framed houses finished.”

June 12 – Oglethorpe returns to find the people “mutinous.”  He gives Samuel Grey 12 hours to get out of town, then goes with Captain Macpherson to found the site for Fort Argyle.

June 12 – The Pearl arrives in Charlestown, with settlers for Georgia.

June 15 – Georgia’s first minister, the Rev. Henry Herbert dies en route for England on the Baltic Merchant. 

June 15 – The Georgia Pink departs England for Georgia, with 84 Charity colonists aboard, and four additional on their own account.

July 7 – The naming ceremony.  Oglethorpe affixes names to four wards, sixteen tythings and possibly as few as eight streets.  While there is compelling secondary evidence to suggest he names Johnson Square (the only one that existed then), it is unlikely any other square is named.  One of his street name choices (Eveleigh Street, still found in a 1753 map) won’t survive.

July 7 – The Pearl colonists arrive in Savannah.  They will create the backbone of Thunderbolt.

between July 10-12 – The William and Sarah arrives—with no fewer than 41 colonists, but possibly as many as 75—marking at the time the largest single Jewish migration to the New World.  Most of the William and Sarah passengers will be placed in Decker Ward.

July 19 – Charles and Peter Tondee become the colony’s first orphans, with the death of their father.

July 21 – Seventeen Charity colonists arrive in town via the Peter and James, which arrived at Port Royal one week before.  Among the passengers is Georgia’s second minister, the Rev. Samuel Quincy.

July – The Summer Sickness wreaks havoc on the settlement, claiming the lives of at least 20 in July alone, bookended by members of John West’s family—his wife Elizabeth on July 1 and his son on July 31.  Documented deaths this month:  Mary Calvert, Mary Cannon, Thomas Cornwall, Sarah Dearn, Peter Germain, James and Elizabeth Goddard, Peter Gordon, Martha Gough, Mrs. Joseph Hetherington, Richard Hodges, William and Mary Littel, Thomas Millidge, Ellen Muir, Samuel Parker, John Mackay, Sarah Symes, Elizabeth and Richard West.

August 12 – Oglethorpe correspondence:  “I sent away the Negroes who Sawed for us.”

August 28 – Unlucky John West, widowed on July 1, marries a second time, to Elizabeth Littel, widow of William Littel. 

August 29 – The Trustees document Georgia’s first harvested export, 2 barrels of rice, arriving in England on the James. 

August 29 – The Georgia Pink arrives at the port of Savannah.  Having lost only one passenger—Daniel Preston—in the eleven-week passage the Georgia Pink will claim a prize for successfully navigating the Savannah.  The two Preston children will die over the next three months, leaving only Preston’s widow by November.  The Georgia Pink colonists will comprise the majority of a new ward called Percival.

September – The September Embarkation.  The Trustees send three ships to Georgia staggered over a three-week period—the Savannah, the London Merchant and the James—accounting for 181 Charity colonists.  It represents the largest single number until the Great Embarkation two years later.  Shortly after the Savannah sails the Trustees learn they have been defrauded by William Wise and his “daughter” and order them put off the ship at any port.

September 23 – The Susannah arrives, following a crossing of 18 weeks; the longest passage of any 1733 ship.  On board is the family of Thomas Causton, the wife of Timothy Bowling, who will be widowed in five weeks, and Mary Overend, who learns she’s been widowed during the lengthy passage.

September 26 – Richard West is widowed a second time as Elizabeth West (the second) dies following a marriage of four weeks.

mid October – The Trustees are made aware of the Jewish migration via a Robert Johnson letter, in spite their position in January.

November 4 – South Carolina Governor Robert Johnson, Philip Massey and Major Barnwell visit Savannah.

November 8 – Claiming illness, Peter Gordon leaves Savannah.  Departs Charlestown for England November 25.

December 15 – The Savannah arrives at Savannah, following a nine-week voyage, beating the other two vessels of the September Embarkation by a month.  Its passengers will be broken up to begin the fourth Savannah ward and to create the satellite settlements of Abercorn and Highgate.

December 21 – The Christie/Calvert Deed is completed, codifying the July 7 formalities and presenting in print for the first time the name of four wards—“Percival, Heathcote, Derby, Decker’s”—and sixteen tythings.  Lost is Oglethorpe’s “Plan and Plot,” which accompanied the Deed.  Street (and any square) names are not listed in the surviving text… but were probably on the Plan.

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All research and commentary by Jefferson Hall

Following the death of Savannah’s civil administrator an exhausted Oglethorpe leaves, taking Tomochichi with him. In the absence of any figure of authority, Savannah begins to flag while South Carolinians try unsuccessfully to fill the void… and death finds equal opportunity in Colonial Georgia with the murder of its first Englishman, African-American and Indigenous person.

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All dates below compiled from the original source material in the Colonial Records of Georgia, volumes I, II, III, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIX and XXXII; the South Carolina Gazette, Percival’s List of Early Settlers, Egmont Journal and Percival Diary, the Journal of Peter Gordon, Thomas Christie’s “Daily Record of the Anne” and Urlsperger’s A Detailed Reports on the Salzburgers in America.

All dates are Old Style (Julian Calendar), pre-1752

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– 1734 –

January 2 – Captain Francis Scott, civil administrator in Oglethorpe’s absence, dies; following on the heels of the death of William Kilberry (December) and storekeeper Joseph Hughes (September), the third of the Anne’s most industrious passes away.  Civil authority will now gradually fall to Thomas Causton.  One fourth of the passengers from the Anne (at least 30) are now dead.  1733 saw a mortality of no fewer than 63 colonists.

January 7 – Hector de Beaufain, a “Gentleman of fortune,” visits Savannah.  He will eventually settle a large plantation on the South Carolina side of the river, below Purrysburg

January 8 – The Purrysburg, following a departure from Rotterdam and a month-long stopover in England, finally sets sail from Dover, with John Martin Bolzius and the first emigration of the Salzburgers aboard.

January 9 – Oglethorpe purchases a shipload of 40 Irish transport servants for general labor.

January 12–14 – The other two ships of the September Embarkation arrive.  The London Merchant arrives first, piloted by Capt. Thomas of the Anne, followed by the second arrival of the James.  Fifty three Charity colonists between the two vessels.  The James passengers will be spread primarily amongst the Highgate and Skidaway settlements.

January 12–21 – Oglethorpe, having introduced Hector de Beaufain to Savannah, escorts him to Abercorn and Purrysburg.

January 22 – Oglethorpe correspondence:  “Three Wards and a half are taken up,” and all of the first four wards now exist in some physical form.  The Georgia settlement boasts 437 souls:  Savannah – 259, Ogeechy – 22, Highgate – 3, Hampstead – 39, Abercorn – 33, Hutchinson Island – 5, Tybee – 21, Cape Bluff – 5, Westbrook – 4, Thunderbolt – 28

January 23-February 8 – A false alarm of Spanish incursions provokes Oglethorpe and Hector de Beaufain to inspect the Georgia coast to St. Simons, in the process Oglethorpe names an unnamed island “Jekyll.”

February 7-15 – In one of the most stunning dissolutions of family in Savannah in the 1730s, four members of the Dobson family die in one week.  Having arrived on the Savannah two months before the seven-member family will lose a fifth member in early March and a sixth at an unclear date, leaving apparently only daughter Hannah as the sole survivor.

February 26 – Oglethorpe petitions the Trustees for a 500 acre tract for Joseph Watson, who is transplanting from Charlestown.

February 27 – In England, Peter Gordon presents a positive account of the progress of the colony to the Trustees, including a draft from which they order an engraving made.

March 1 – Earliest recorded murder in English Georgia.  Bedridden William Wise is strangled and drowned on Hutchinson Island, apparently by a cadre of the Irish transport servants.

March 2 – Oglethorpe arrives in Charlestown, having given up on the Salzburgers and eager to book passage to England.

March 7 – The Purrysburg arrives off the coast of Charlestown.  In this comedy of errors, they are met there by Oglethorpe, who was trying to return to England.

March 11 – Oglethorpe sets “out again for Georgia.”

March 12 – Arrival of the Purrysburg and theSalzburgers in Savannah.  Oglethorpe arrives in Savannah on the 14th.

March 15 – Oglethorpe, South Carolina Speaker Paul Jenys and Salzburg leader Philip von Reck set out and found “Ebenezer I” site.

March 16 – The South Carolina Gazette advertises the opening of a mail post between Charlestown and Savannah.

March 23 – Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Senauki, Tooanahowi, Umpychi, Hillispilli, and Indian attendants with John Musgrove leave Savannah for Charlestown, preparing for passage to England.  Arrive in Charlestown on the 25th.

March 23 – With the civil administrator Francis Scott dead, first magistrate Peter Gordon in London, second magistrate William Waterland removed and Richard Hodges dead, the only man left in Savannah’s chain of command is third magistrate Thomas Causton, a calico printer with little experience and no people skills, now thrust into an undefined role of de facto governor.

March 26 – In Savannah an inquiry is held investigating the “wretched treatment” of the Salzburgers by the Purrysburg’s captain during the voyage.

March 29 – Though produced later in the year, this is the official date represented on the Peter Gordon (Fourdrinier) Map, reproducing the town as of (more or less) the date Oglethorpe left it.  Idealized though it may be, it nonetheless represents four wards and eighty cottages.

April 1 – Negro sawyers return to Georgia as South Carolina merchant Paul Jenys lends a slave-gang of 12 to 14 to help build Ebenezer and the mail post road.

April 5 – The Salzburgers leave Savannah, locating to Abercorn while Ebenezer is built.

April 12 – First Salzburger death:  Tobias Lackner (or Larkner).  Buried the next day in Abercorn.

April 19 – The road from Savannah to Ebenezer is completed.

April 20 or 24 – Unlucky in love, twice-widowed John West marries a third wife (in under ten months), this time to Elizabeth Hughes, his third wife to be named Elizabeth and the third to have come on the Anne.  (This marriage will last until his death in 1739)  Son Joseph will be born to the couple on December 26, 1734.  (And will die June 10, 1737)

April 24 & 25 – While in Charlestown, Tomochichi entertains roughly 30 warriors of the Nauchees, seeking to relocate to Savannah Town.  They play an Indian game “with Ball and Rackets,” with 13 to each team.

May 7 – Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Senauki, Tooanahowi, Hillispilli, Apakowtski, Estimolichi, Sintouchi, Hinguithi, Umpichi and John Musgrove set out for England on the Aldborough.

May 7 – John Martin Bolzius, bringing up the rear of the Salzburger migration from Abercorn, arrives in Ebenezer.

May 11 – Richard White and Alice Riley (and evidently Nicholas White, as well); Irish transport servants, are convicted of the murder of William Wise.  Richard White and Alice Riley escape but are eventually recaptured.  Alice Riley’s sentence is postponed long enough for her to deliver a child.

June 9 – One of the Ebenezer slaves assaults another one with a knife.

June 16 – The Aldborough reaches England with Oglethorpe, Tomochichi and the Indians aboard.

June 29 – The Ebenezer slaves are recalled by Jenys & Company.  The slave held for (what was evidently a mortal) assault with a knife, kills himself July 5.

July 3 – The Indians are presented before the Georgia Board of Trustees.

July 27, August 3 & August 10 – Thomas Causton proclaims recent Savannah transplant Elisha Dobree a credit risk in the South Carolina Gazette and invites his creditors to descend on him.

July 31 – Percival notes in his Diary that one of the Indians is ill with Smallpox.

August 1 – The Scottish migration (the “Scotch Club”), consisting of Patrick Tailfer, Patrick Houstoun and co. arrives in Georgia.  By the late 1730s this contingent will become the most visible faction of the Malcontent community.

August 1 – London Gazette and Percival’s Diary: Tomochichi and the Indians are granted an audience at the Court of King George II and meet the King, Queen and Prince of Wales.  Tooanahowi is presented with a gold watch.

August 1 – The stricken Indian—unnamed by Percival outside of an oblique reference to him as “a cousin of the King” Tomochichi—dies, despite the efforts of Dr. Hans Sloane.

August 2-7 – Percival Diary:  The Indians spend Friday through Wednesday in Surrey, where Oglethorpe has taken them “to dissipate their sorrow for the death of their friend.”

August 9 – Returned to London, the Indians spend the day visiting Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s and other sites of the town.

August 13 – Joseph Watson is found guilty of calling Mary Musgrove “a Witch” and fined.

August 18 – Tomochichi and the Indians have an audience with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, then dine with Lord Percival the next evening.

August 22 & September 11 – Over two meetings the Trustees the Indians reach agreements on issues of trade.

August 24 – Joseph Watson is found guilty of “Endeavouring to Shoot Mrs Musgrove,” fined 5 pounds Sterling.

August 25 – Joseph Watson is found guilty of “Beating Esteeche the Indian and Defrauding him of his Goods,” fined.

September 1 – Skee, one of two Indian warriors chosen by Oglethorpe to head Georgia’s militia of Indian Allies, dies of alcohol poisoning, drunk under the table by Joseph Watson.

early September – The Charlestown/Savannah Post collapses, evidently over issues of salary for the courier.

September 8 – Paul Amatis, the Trustees’ “Italian silk man,” who had come on the Anne, removes the garden from Charlestown to Savannah, setting the stage for a power struggle with the Trustees’ other gardener, Joseph Fitzwalter.

September – Refusing inquiries into his trading practice, Joseph Watson locks himself in the Store “for severall days.”  Estechee and other Indians attempt to break in but Watson escapes.  In anger Estechee kills a Musgrove servant named Justus, marking at least the fourth murder in 1734 and the second connected to Watson.

October 16 – Thomas Causton is officially installed in the vacant position of second bailiff.  Henry Parker is made third.  First bailiff Peter Gordon is still in London.

October 19 – Samuel Eveleigh to Oglethorpe on the progress of Savannah:  “There are about fourscore Houses built and forty more goeing forward.”

October 27 – Purrysburg’s second emigration arrives.  John Martin Bolzius’ diary:  “Mr. Pury has arrived in Savannah with a great ship full of people from Switzerland whose destination is to be Purysburg.”  Three ships comprise the flotilla; five Georgia Charity colonists have hitched a ride.

October 29 – The Gordon Map is published.  From the Caledonian Mercury Newspaper: “The new plan presented by Mr Gordon to his Majesty, of the Town of Savannah and the Colony of Georgia, so far as it was cleared of the woods (dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees) is now printed and published.”

October 31 – Peter Gordon embarks with Tomochichi and the others back to Georgia on the Prince of Wales, which represents the second transport of the Salzburgers.  With more than 80 Charity passengers, and a grand total approaching 130 Georgia-bound passengers, the Prince of Wales is the largest migration in 1734.

November 5 – The Charlestown/Savannah Post has resumed.  John Martin Bolzius’ diary:  “The mounted post which stopped some time ago is now operating again.”  A subscription or postage has been created to cover costs.

November 21 – With a murder conviction difficult to prove in either of the two cases, Joseph Watson is found guilty of “Misdemeanors,” ordered confined as a lunatic, an indefinite confinement that will continue until November, 1737.  By March, 1737, the matter will be brought before the Privy Council, the legal arm of the Crown, sending the Trustees scrambling for legal precedent.

December 14 – Thomas Christie correspondence to Oglethorpe:  The path cut through Hutchinson Island now complete, “likewise made a Path a Considerable way between the Town & Musgrove Cowpen.”

December 14 – Thomas Christie requests to be relieved as Recorder.

December 21 – Alice Riley’s child is delivered; a son, named James.

December 28 – The Prince of Wales arrives, returning Gordon and the Indians, while the second group of Salzburgers are led by Commissioner John Vat.  Joseph Fitzwalter correspondence:  Tomochichi and the returning Indians “were Saluted with Thirteen peices of Cannon….  And the Inhabitants of the Township Expressed them selves with a great Deal of Joy of their Safe Arrivall, and the Indians in Generall was glad to see us.”

end of December – Wards five and six now clearly exist, as five families from the Prince of Wales are granted lots throughout the sixth ward. 

end of December – With embarkations to Purrysburg and Ebenezer dwarfing Savannah’s 1734 arrivals, the region’s second year saw foreign-speaking arrivals far outnumber the English.

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