Named Entity Results, James Oglethorpe

Harris, Thaddeus Mason 1768-1842 Clergyman; born in Charlestown, Mass., July 17, 1768; became pastor of the First Unitarian Church in Dorchester, Mass., in 1793. He was the author of Journal of a Tour of the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains; History of the first Church at Dorchester; Memoir of James Oglethorpe, etc. He died in Dorchester, April 3, 1842.

ge in all North America when Europeans came, excepting in the form of pictography, which has a near relationship to the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians. It was used in aid of historic and other traditions, and in illustration of their mythology, which was rich in symbolism, and formed a part of their religious system. They personified their ideas by delineations of natural objects. An excellent illustration is given in the act of To-mo-chi-chi, an aged Creek chief. when he first visited Oglethorpe, on the site of Savannah. He presented a buffalo's skin, ornamented with a picture of an eagle, saying: The eagle is an emblem of speed, and the buffalo of strength. The English are as swift as the bird, for they fly over vast seas, and, like the buffalo, are so strong nothing can withstand them. The feathers of the bird are soft, and signify love; the buffalo's skin is warm, and signifies protection. Therefore, love and protect our little families. Similar in purpose are the carvin

e army as cornet of dragoons, and distinguished himself under Wolfe at Quebec. Made colonel of infantry in 1764, he rose to the rank of Sir William Howe. majorgeneral in 1772. In May, 1775, he arrived at Boston with reinforcements for General Gage. At that time there was much reluctance among British officers to serve against the American colonists. The Earl of Effingham and the eldest son of William Pitt resigned their commissions rather than engage in the unnatural service; and General Oglethorpe, the senior general of the royal army, declined the proffered service of commander-in-chief of the British army in America. After Gage's recall, it was offered to General Howe, and accepted. He was in chief command in the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill, June 17, 1775, and when forced to leave Boston, March, 1776, went with his troops to Halifax. In August, the same year, he landed a large number of troops on Staten Island, near New York. With them the Americans were defeated in b

McIntosh, Lachlan -1806 Military officer; born near Inverness, Scotland, March 17. 1725. His father, at the head of 100 of the clan McIntosh, came to Georgia with Oglethorpe in 1736 and settled at New Inverness, in what is now McIntosh county, Georgia. Some of his sons and grandsons bore commissions in the army of the Revolution. Lachlan received assistance in the study of mathematics from Oglethorpe. At maturity he entered the Lachlan McIntosh. counting-room of Henry Laurens, in ChaOglethorpe. At maturity he entered the Lachlan McIntosh. counting-room of Henry Laurens, in Charleston. as clerk. Making himself familiar with military tactics, he was ready to enter the field when the Revolutionary War began, and he served faithfully in that struggle, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. Button Gwinnett (q. v.), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, persecuted McIntosh beyond endurance, and he called the persecutor a scoundrel. A duel ensued, and in it Gwinnett was killed. McIntosh was at the siege of Savannah in 1779, and was made a prisoner

Musgrave, Mary Indian interpreter; was a half-breed Creek, and wife of John Musgrave, a South Carolina trader. She lived in a hut at Yamacraw, poor and ragged. Finding she could speak English. Oglethorpe employed her as interpreter, with a salary of $500 a year. Her husband died, and she married a man named Mathews. He, too, died, and about 1749 she became the wife of Thomas Bosomworth, chaplain of Oglethorpe's regiment, a designing knave, who gave the colony much trouble. He had become heavily indebted to Carolinians for cattle, and, to acquire fortune and power, he persuaded Mary to assert that she had descended in a maternal line from an Indian king, and to claim a right to the whole Creek territory. She accordingly proclaimed herself empress of the Creeks, disavowed all allegiance to the English, summoned a general convocation of the Creek chiefs, and recounted the wrongs she had suffered at the hands of the English. Inflamed by her harangue, dictated by Bosomworth, th

2 Ship Ann, Capt. John Thomas, with Gen. James Oglethorpe, Rev. Henry Herbert, P. D., and thirtysgrave, interpreter, Rev. Thomas Bosomworth, Oglethorpe, and colonists land at Yamacraw bluff, on soe, settle at Ebenezer......March 17, 1734 Oglethorpe sails for England, leaving Thomas Causton ineorge Whitefield and a regiment recruited by Oglethorpe in England; the regiment, under Colonel Coch1738 Attempted assassination of General Oglethorpe while inspecting Fort St. Andrews on Cumberleta Town between chiefs of Creek Indians and Oglethorpe......Aug. 21, 1739 George Whitefield laysing joined at St. John's by Carolina troops, Oglethorpe marches upon Fort Moosa, which Spaniards eva After an ineffectual siege of three weeks Oglethorpe retires from before St. Augustine and reache Montiano, alarmed by a decoy letter sent by Oglethorpe, with his fleet, fearful of being hemmed in , hastens to sea......about July 20, 1742 Oglethorpe returns with detachment of Highlanders from [5 more...]

ty and methodical religious life than then prevailed in the university. They obtained the name of Methodists, and Wesley became the leader of the association. In 1735 the celebrated Whitefield joined the society, and he and Wesley accompanied Oglethorpe to Georgia to preach the Gospel to the Indians in 1736. Through the arts and falsehoods of two women Charles fell into temporary disgrace. Oglethorpe, satisfied with his explanation, sent him John Wesley. to England as bearer of despatches Oglethorpe, satisfied with his explanation, sent him John Wesley. to England as bearer of despatches to the trustees. John remained and became pastor of the church at Savannah. He was a strict constructionist of the rubrics of the prayer-book, for he had not then begun his labors as the founder of a new sect. His zeal and exactions at length gave offence, and he soon got into other trouble by becoming the lover of a young woman, who, as he suggests in his journal, made pretensions to great piety to entrap him. By the advice of friends he broke the engagement. She immediately married anoth

ec. 16, 1714; was a religious enthusiast in very early life, fasting twice a week for thirty-six hours, and at the age of eighteen became a member of the club in which the denomination of Methodists took its rise. He became intimately associated in religious matters with John and Charles Wesley. In 1736 he was ordained deacon, and preached with such extraordinary effect the next Sunday that a complaint was made that he had driven fifteen persons mad. The same year the Wesleys accompanied Oglethorpe to 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,

knew no relenting. My friends and I, wrote Oglethorpe, settled the colony of Georgia, and by chartnement. The subject won the attention of James Oglethorpe, a member of the British parliament; Georong been immured T. M. Harris, Memorials of Oglethorpe. from the public gaze,—to lighten the lot of of its example. It was not difficult for Oglethorpe to find associates in his disinterested purphat name; but its most celebrated member was Oglethorpe. So illustrious were the auspices of the deeir leisure, their prayers, or their wealth, Oglethorpe, heedless of danger, devoted himself to its Four beautiful pines protected the tent of Oglethorpe, who, for near a twelve- New Voyage to Georplaned, and the roof shingled. Such a house Oglethorpe afterwards hired as his residence, when in Seared among the English. Fear nothing, said Oglethorpe, but speak freely: and the mountaineer answe on the Gulf of Mexico. The good faith of Oglethorpe, in the offers of peace, his noble mien and