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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 2 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
...1738 Attempted assassination of General Oglethorpe while inspecting Fort St. Andrews on Cumberland Island......November, 1738 Articles of convention between the British and Spanish governments; disputed territories to be retained by present possessors......Jan. 14, 1739 Treaty of peace at Coweta Town between chiefs of Creek Indians and Oglethorpe......Aug. 21, 1739 George Whitefield lays first brick of central building of orphan house Bethesda, 9 miles from Savannah......March 25, 1740 Spanish Fort St. Diego, near St. Augustine, defended by fifty-seven men, taken by Oglethorpe......May 10, 1740 Being joined at St. John's by Carolina troops, Oglethorpe marches upon Fort Moosa, which Spaniards evacuate and retreat to St. Augustine......May 15, 1740 Fort Moosa recaptured by 300 Spaniards under Don Antonio Salgrado after a bloody conflict......June 26, 1740 After an ineffectual siege of three weeks Oglethorpe retires from before St. Augustine and reaches Freder
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitefield, George 1714- (search)
Georgia, and in 1737 John Wesley invited Whitefield to join him in his work in America. He came in May, 1738; and after George Whitefield. laboring four months, and perfecting plans for founding an orphan-house at Savannah, he returned to England to receive priest's orders and to collect funds for carrying out his benevolent plans. With more than $5,000 collected he returned to Savannah, and there founded an orphan-house and school, laying the first brick himself for the building, March 25, 1740. He named it Bethesda —a house of mercy. It afterwards became eminently useful. Mr. Whitefield was early accustomed to preach to large congregations assembled in the open air. He travelled and preached much in America. On Boston Common he addressed 20,000 people at one time, and was distinctly heard by all. Independent in his theology, he did not entirely agree with anybody. Although he was active in the establishment of the Methodist denomination, he disagreed with Wesley on poin