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*• u J' . . * IThe TrufteesTor the Colony of Georgia are appointed Iin order to relieve fufchiBritiih fubjedts as are by misfor- Itunes rendered incapable of fupporting themfelves and Ifamilies kere, and to givd a fafc and comfortable retreat Ito foreigners perfecuted for confcience fake, and to aug- tment the number of the fubjes of Great Britain, by pre- Iferving of the firft and drawing over the latter. Every I perfon preferv’d from perilling by want, is a fubjedl gain’d, | as well as every foreigner, who is allur’d to fettle in the IBritiflu Dominions. The Truftees are to facilitate the jfettling thefe people in Georgia, under a regular form | of government, to grant lands : there to them and their I heirs for ever, to have them inftrudted and encouraged in Ithe railing of raw filk, wine, flax, hemp, and fuch other Igrofs materials as may be ufefiil to the trade of England, Iand to prevent them from making any manufadtures that I may interfere with it. One and twenty noblemen and I gentlemen are nam’d by the Charter as truftees, and their Inumber is to be augmented in March, by the addition of Ifeveral others, of very great rank and diftindlion, and none I of the truftees are to have any advantage whatfoever I by this defign, except that of relieving he miferable. D. J- I
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Grub Street Journal
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jul 06, 1732
Page 3
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Kenneth T.
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