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84 ' GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
Gardens. Farms.
Hucks Tything:— K
John Milledge .......................... 45 E. 10
Jacob Towel ........................... 65 W. 1
Samuel Parker, Junr.................... 32 W. 7
Abraham Minis ........................ 51 W. 6
James Turner .......................... 9
Thomas Atwell ......................... . 2
Hugh Frazier .......................... 5
John Graham .......................... 3
Samuel Marcer ......................... 4
William Bornjohn ...................... 8
Holland Tything— L'
Sloper Tything— . M
Henry Parker .......................... 7
Thomas Gapen .........................
Francis Delgrass .......................
Jeremiah Papot ........................
Peter Baillou ..........................
James Papot ...........................
FlEATHCOTE WAED
Eyles Tything— No. N
LaEoche Tything— O
Jacob Lopez de Crasto................... 42 "W.
David de Pas........................... 27 W.
Vernon Tything— P
Belitlm Tything— Q
ToMO-Cm-Cm's FRIENDSHIP FOR GEORGIA.—The situation of this feeble colony
was, in the very nature of things, extremely precarious. Located in the depths
of a primeval forest, the tangled brakes and solemn shadows of which proclaimed
loneliness and isolation; the vast Atlantic rolling its waters between it and the
mother country; the Carolina settlements at best few in numbers and contending
in a stern life-struggle for their own existence; Spaniards in Florida jealous of this
disputed domain, and ready at any moment to frustrate by stealthy approaches and
with force of arms all efforts of the English to extend their plantations along the
southern coast; and, above all, Indian tribes in the occupancy of the country
attached to their grand old woods and gently flowing streams, watchful of the
graves of their ancestors, imposed upon by Spanish lies, disquieted by French
emissaries, cheated by Carolina traders, and naturally inclined to resist all encroach
ments by the whites upon their hunting grounds, it did indeed appear that the
preservation and development of this colony were well-nigh impossible. But its
planting and perpetuation had "been confided to the guardian care of one who was,
perhaps, beyond all others, most capable of conducting the enterprise.
In his efforts to conciliate the native population he derived incalculable benefit
from the friendship and kindly intervention of Tomo-chi-chi. This chief, whose
memory is so honorably associated with the early history of Georgia, and whose
many acts of kindness and fidelity to the whites demand and must ever receive the
most grateful acknowledgment, although at this time far advanced in years, was
a man of commanding presence, grave demeanor, marked character, established
influence, of a philosophical turn of mind, and in the full possession of all his
faculties. For some cause, the precise nature of which has never been fully
explained, he had, with a number of his. countrymen, suffered banishment at the
hands of his people, the Lower Creeks. Whatever the real reason may have been