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London. His labors in the colony extended over a 

 period of about twenty years. About the same time a 

 number of Switzers settled in New Windsor — a town- 

 ship which commenced on the Savannah River above 

 Hamburg, and extended nearly to Silver Bluff — and 

 had for their minister the Rev. Bartholomew Zauber- 

 buhler. 



The Roman Catholics were organized into a Church 

 in 1791, with the Rev. Dr. Keating as their minister, 

 and put themselves under the care of Bishop Carroll, 

 of Baltimore. 



The Jews had erected their first synagogue in 

 Charleston as early as 1759. 



At the royal purchase of the colony in 1729, the set- 

 tlements did not extend beyond a line eighty miles dis- 

 tant from the coast, and parallel with it, and the whole 

 population did not exceed thirty thousand. After this 

 event, vigorous measures were adopted for filling the 

 province with inhabitants : bounties were offered, lands 

 were assigned without cost, and the door of entrance 

 was opened wide to Protestants of all countries. The 

 distressed subjects of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 of Germany, Holland, and Switzerland, accepted the 

 liberal offers, and emigrated in large numbers between 

 the years 1730 and 1760. 



Charleston at this period contained between five 

 and six hundred houses, "most of which were very 

 costly," and the surrounding country is described as 

 "beautified with odoriferous and fragrant woods, 

 pleasantly green all the year — as the pine, cedar, and 

 cypress — insomuch that out of Charleston for three or 

 four miles, called the Broadway [now Meeting street], 

 is so delightful a road and walk of great breadth, so 

 pleasantly green, that I believe no prince in Europe, 



