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Here, upon an eminence which commands all the country round, he directed that a fortification should be built, to be called "Fort Argyle," in memory of his honored patron John Duke of Argyle. It is on the west bank of the Ogechee river. Its design was to protect the settlers from invasions by the Spaniards.
Marion left Charleston on the 28th of February, but his approach had no farther effect than to precipitate the flight of the enemy, who, meeting with a stout opposition from Colonel Elbert, at Ogechee ferry, had already desisted from farther advance. The British attempts on Georgia were deferred to a later period.
By this cession they made a grant to the Trustees of the lands upon Savannah river as far as the river Ogechee, and all the lands along the sea-coast between Savannah and Alatamaha rivers, extending west as high as the tide flows, and including all the islands; the Indians reserving to themselves the islands of Ossabaw, Sapeloe, and St.
And everywhere a feeling of snakes wicked water-snakes with yellow rims around their eyes. "They crossed great rivers, Ockmulgee, Oconee, Ogechee, making a bridge of men and paddling their way across with the help of saddle cruppers and horses' tails. If the waters were too deep for that, they made piraguas dug-out canoes, you know and rafts of cane.
The emigrants embark Arrive at Charlestown, South Carolina Oglethorpe visits Governor Johnson Proceeds up the Savannah river Place of settlement fixed upon Town laid out Labors superintended, and assisted by Colonel Bull Treaty with Tomo Chichi Progress of settlement Oglethorpe makes a visit to Governor Johnson, presents himself before the House of Assembly, and makes an Address of grateful acknowledgment of favors received Returns to Savannah Holds a treaty with the Lower Creeks Goes to horse-quarter on the Ogechee Fort Argyle built Savannah laid out in wards, and Court of Records instituted,
In the same county is Joseph's town and the town Ebenezer; both upon the river Savannah; and the villages of Abercorn and Westbrook. There are saw mills erecting on the river Ebenezer; and the fort Argyle, lies upon the pass of this county over the Ogechee.
The emigrants embark Arrive at Charlestown, South Carolina Oglethorpe visits Governor Johnson Proceeds up the Savannah river Place of settlement fixed upon Town laid out Labors superintended, and assisted by Colonel Bull Treaty with Tomo Chichi Progress of settlement Oglethorpe makes a visit to Governor Johnson, and presents himself before the House of Assembly, and makes an Address of grateful acknowledgment of favors received Returns to Savannah Holds a treaty with the Lower Creeks Goes to head-quarters on the Ogechee Fort Argyle built Savannah laid out in wards, and Court of Records instituted.
The Province of Georgia is watered by three great rivers, which rise in the mountains, namely, the Alatamaha, the Ogechee, and the Savannah; the last of which is navigable six hundred miles for canoes, and three hundred miles for boats. The British dominions are divided from the Spanish Florida by a noble river called St. John's.
It is bounded, on the one side, by the river Savannah, on the other by the sea, on the third by the river Ogechee, on the fourth by the river Ebenezer, and a line drawn from the river Ebenezer to the Ogechee. In this county are the rivers Vernon, Little Ogechee, and Westbrook. There is the town of Savannah, where there is a seat of judicature, consisting of three bailiffs and a recorder.
On the 18th of June he went to the Horse-quarter, which lies six miles up the river Ogechee, and there took with him Captain McPherson, with a detachment of his rangers, on an excursion into the interior. After a march of forty miles westward, he chose a post, commanding the passages by which the Indians used to invade Carolina in the late wars.
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