Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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THE LAST WO CENTURIES MAS BEEN RAPID. AS TEE TEEME OE TEE 1933 VETERROPT, TEE STAEE EAS CEOSEN TO ILLUS¬ TRATE VARIOUS STAGES IN TEE GROWE OE TEE STATE. WE TRUST TEE BOOK WILL BE A MONU¬ MENT TO TEE STURDY SETTLERS WEO MADE POSSIBLE TEE GEORGIA TEAT WE KNOW TODAY.

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I WO HUNDRED YEARS AGO A BAND OE IMMI¬ GRANTS LANDED ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OE NORTH AMERICA MADE A TREATY WITH THE IN¬ DIANS, AND EOUNDED A COLONY WHICH THEY CALLED GEORGIA, IN HONOR OE THE KING OE ENGLAND DESPITE HARD- SHI PS,THE COLONY ELOU R- ISHED AND GREW, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT DURING

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HEN Oglethorpe arrived on the rich delta lands of the Savannah river on January 31, 1733, and i 1 P re P are to establish his colony there, he deemed it important to obtain at once the consent of the natural owners of the soil. To this end, he sought an interview with T omo-chi-chi, the chief of the Yama- craws, who lived several miles up the river. The interview was satisfactory, and Tomo- chi-chi became the friend of the little band of immigrants. Through him a meeting of all the tribes living in the neighborhood was arranged, and on May 1, 1733, a treaty was made affirming the title of the colony of Georgia to the region lying between the Sa¬ vannah and Altamaha rivers and westward as far as the tide water ran. ' ' (ohe effleeting of Oglethorpe and c (5omO ' chi ' chi