Mythology, traditions and history - The Clan Macfie Society

Georgia
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The British government planned that a "Buffer" colony should be created south of
Carolinas, between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, to protect the Carolina and Virginia
settlements against the Spaniards and the Indians. They called it Georgia with the original
settlement, called New Inverness on the Altamaha river. Peopled first by English colonists it
soon attracted both Scottish and German settlers.
1684 - Lord Carncross and other Covenanters used Port Royal (then Stuarts Town) as a
refuge.
1722 - The first recorded immigration from the Highlands was in 1722 from Inverness. 1
1729 - Georgia was separated as a colony from South Carolina.
1724 - Dr. Patrick Tailfer with a group of gentlemen from Scotland moved to Georgia. He
was probably the instigator of attacks on the Earl of Egmont and the Trustees. 2
1735 - Lieutenants McKay and George Dunbar, Scots, moved from South Carolina to
Georgia. 3
A Scotch settlement of one hundred and sixty men, women and children plus their servants
came from Stralbean Glen, near Inverness, arriving January 1736. Rev. John MacLeod
accompanied the Colony.
1737 - Population in 1737 was 5,000 whites. The charter forbade slavery. The white group
dropped rapidly.
1738 - General Oglethorpe brought 160 members of MacKintosh Clan.
1739 - MacLeod of Harris and MacDonald of Sleat deported one hundred and eleven men,
women and children as "objectionable clansmen". The ship .stopped in Ireland and the
prisoners escaped. Dr. Agnes M. MacKenzie reports that six brigs, carrying 1,200, arrived in
Georgia. 3
1 Teignmouth, Lord; Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland; Vol. I, 1836, p. 87
2 Tailfer, Pat, M.D., Anderson, Hugh, M.A., Douglas D., A True and Historical Narrative of
the Colony of Georgia "with comments by the Earl of Egmont`:" Introduction by Prof.
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Univ. of Georgia Press, 1960.
3 MacKenzie, Agnes H.; Op. cit.