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 J. Ernst, J. Pletter, L. Crause, P. Gruber, J. P. ArnsdorfF, 



M. Zettler, M. Hortzug, J. Schmidt. 



Remarkable Places. — Abercorn, sixteen miles from tlie 

 city of Savannah, was a noted place in the early settlement of 

 Georgia. In 1733, ten families settled here It is now private 

 property, and no memorial of its former condition can be seen. 



Sister's Ferry is a public place thirty miles from the city 

 of Savannah. 



Name. — In referring back to the history of our Revolution, 

 it is pleasing to recollect that in Great Britain a great num- 

 ber of men, distinguished for their integrity, their talents and 

 patriotism, opposed with unwearied ardour the attempts of the 

 ministry to destroy the liberties of America. They believed 

 that if the constitutional rights of the colonies were disre- 

 garded, the destruction of their own liberty would follow. 

 Among the illustrious members of the British Parliament who 

 defended the resistance of the Americans, stands Lord Effing- 

 ham, after whom this county was called in 1777. Rather 

 than take up arms against the colonies, he resigned his com- 

 mission as an officer in the British army. The following are 

 extracts from the letter he wrote on the occasion of his resig- 

 nation : "April 12, 1775. To Lord Barrington, Secretary at 

 War: I beg your Lordship to lay before His Majesty the 

 peculiar embarrassment of my situation. Your Lordship is 

 no stranger to the conduct I have observed in the unhappy 

 disputes with our American colonies. My request of your 

 Lordship is this, that you will assure His Majesty that he has 

 not a subject who is more ready than I am, with the utmost 

 cheerfulness, to sacrifice his life in defence of His Majesty's 

 crown and person. But the very same principles which have 

 inspired me with these unalterable sentiments of duty and 

 affection, will not suffer me to be instrumental in depriving 

 any part of his people of those liberties, which form the best 

 security for their fidelity and obedience to his government. 

 As I cannot, without reproach from my conscience, consent 

 to bear arms against my fellow-subjects in America, in what, 

 to my weak discernment, is not a clear cause ; and as it seems 

 now to be fully resolved that the 22nd regiment is to go upon 

 American service, I desire you Lordship to lay me in the most 



