There is an occasion now offered for every one, to help forward this design ; the smallest benefaction will be received, and applied with the utmost care : — every little will do something ; and a great number of small benefactions will amount to a sum capable of doing a great deal of good.
If any person, moved with the calamities of the unfortunate, shall be inclined to contribute towards their relief, they are desired to pay their benefactions into the Bank of England, on account of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America ; or else, to any of the Trustees, who are, &c.
James [Edward] Oglethorpe, A Brief Account of the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia, in Force, Tracts,etc. (Washington, 1836), I, No. ii, 4-7.
40. The Coming of the Salzburg Germans (1733/4)
BY REVEREND JOHANN MARTIN BOLZIUS
(ANONYMOUS TRANSLATION)
Bolzius was a Salzburger minister, who came over with the first emigration of the German Protestants fleeing from the persecution of their prince bishop. — Bibliography : Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, V, 395-396; C.C.Jones, Georgia, I, ch. xi; Channing and Hart, Guide, § 103.
Savannah, Tuesday, March 12.
AT the Place of our Landing, almost all the Inhabitants of the Town of Savannah were gather'd together ; they fired off some Cannons, and cried Huzzah ! which was answer'd by our Sailors, and other English People in our Ship, in the same manner. Some of us were immediately fetch'd on Shore in a Boat, and carried about the City, into the Woods, and the new Garden belonging to the Trustees. In the mean time, a very good Dinner was prepared for us : And the Saltzburgers, who had yet fresh Meat in the Ship, when they came on shore, they got very good and wholesome English strong Beer. And besides the Inhabitants shew ing them a great deal of Kindness, and the Country pleasing them, they were full of Joy, and praised God for it. We, the Commissary, and Mr. Zwefler the Physician, were lodged in the House of the Reverend Mr. Quincy, the English Minister here.
