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trustees, selected for their literary accomplishments from the differ- 

 ent parts of the state, and invested with the customary powers of 

 corporations. This institution is denominated 'The University of 

 Georgia.' The funds for the support of literary institutions are prin- 

 cipally in lands, amounting in the whole to 50,000 acres, a great part 

 of which is of the best quality, and at present very valuable : toge- 

 ther with nearly 30,000 dollars, in bonds, houses, and town lots in 

 Augusta. Other public property, to the amount of 1000/. in each 

 county, has been set apart for the purposes of building, and fur- 

 nishing their respective academies. 



The Rev. Mr. George Whitfield founded an orphan house at Sa- 

 vannah, which, after his death, was converted into a college for the 

 education of young men designed chiefly for the ministry. The funds 

 for its support are chiefly in l'ice plantations and negroes. On the 

 death of the countess of Huntingdon, to whom Mr. Whitfield be- 

 queathed this property as trustee, the legislature, in the year 1792, 

 passed a law vesting it in 13 commissioners, with powers to carry 

 the original intention of Mr. Whitfield into execution ; and in me- 

 mory of the countess, the seminary is styled Huntingdon college. 



History... .The settlement of Georgia was projected in 1732; when 

 several public spirited noblemen, and others, subscribed a considera- 

 ble sum, which, with 10,000/. from the government, was given to pro- 

 vide necessaries for such poor persons as were willing to transport 

 themselves into this province, and to submit to the regulations impos- 

 ed on them. In process of time, new sums were raised and new in- 

 habitants sent over. Before the year 1752, upwards of 1000 persons 

 were settled in this province. It was not, however, to be expected, 

 that the inhabitants of Georgia, removed, as they were, at a great dis- 

 tance from their benefactors, and from the check and control of those 

 who had a natural influence over them, would submit to the magis- 

 trates appointed to govern them. Many of the regulations too, by 

 which they were bound, were very improper in themselves, and de- 

 prived the Georgians of privileges which their neighbours enjoyed, 

 and which, as they increased in number and opulence, they thought it 

 hard they should be deprived of. From these corrupt sources arose 

 all the bad humours which tore to pieces this constitution of govern- 

 ment. Dissentions of all kinds sprang up, and the colony was on the 

 brink of destruction, when, in 1752, the government took it under 

 their immediate rare, removed their particular grievances, and placed 

 Georgia on the same footing with the Carolinas ; the original trustees 

 having surrendered their charter to the crown. 



