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Because of religious persecution from all over Europe, protestants from Scotland, England,
Austria and Germany migrated to the Georgia Colony at the invitation of James Oglethorpe,
who also sought colonists from Fleet and Newgate Prisons in London. These individual who
came onboard the ships "The Ann", "The Purisburg" and "The Prince of Wales" settled in
the towns of Savannah, Ebenezer, Darien (New Inverness), and Frederica. Many of the
early settlers were traced by professional genealogist, Jeannette Holland Austin and are
included as part of her private collection on the site of
www.georgiapioneers.com. Sources used were
English parish registers, land grants, wills, deeds, births, deaths, and old newspapers.
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Other vital records such as 1741, 1743, 1744, 1754 and 1759
land grants are included, as well as the 1741 residents of Betheseda Orphanage, lists of
indentured servants, Indian traders, Oglethorpe's Regiment (soldiers), deaths, marriages, and
parishes.
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