h's time, many being of ancient houses, and born
to estates of a thousand pounds a year, some more, some less, who
likewise perished by famine.'

These extracts are all that I can urge in support of the claim of
Virginians to be descended from the English gentry. There may be many
other authorities; it is for the asserters of this theory to produce
them, and I certainly would republish them if I could obtain them.

Let us, however, leave Virginia for a time, to consider the origin of
the inhabitants of Delaware, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, and those
other confederate States which also claim the honor of an English
paternity. Here our means of information become more plain and
accessible. From about 1730 up to the time of the Revolution, these
colonies were the object of the constant attention of England. The wars
with France and Spain and the projects of the proprietors of these
grants of land combined to make the public of England anxious for
information concerning them. I will merely cite from the _London
Magazine_ of that date, though a more extended search, I doubt not,
would add to the strength of my position. I find in the first place that
the new population was not only not cavalier, but not even English. I
find that 'the design of this settlement (Georgia) was to provide an
asylum or place of refuge for the honest industrious poor, and the
unfortunate, with some view to the relief of the persecuted Protestants
in Germany. Among these unfortunate persons it could not be guarded
against that numbers, unfortunate only by their own vices or follies,
intruded themselves among the real 'objects of charity.' In 1737, these
Saltzburghers had built a town, Ebenezer, in Georgia. Mr. Oglethorpe
also 'planted upon the fourth frontier, at a place called by him Darien,
a colony of Scottish Highlanders.' 'The southernmost settlement in South
Carolina is now the town of Purrysburg, which was built by Captain
Purry, a gentleman of Swisserland, at the head of a number of his own
countrymen, who went over with him soon after that country became a
royal government.' In 1765 a new fort was built 'on the Savannah river,
about fifteen miles above Hillsborough township, which will be of great
use to the three new settlements of Irish, French, and German
Protestants.' In 1762, 'the Governor of South Carolina has granted forty
thousand acres of land to be laid out into two townships for a number of
people from Ireland, w