Question on Oglethorpe

 

The following question came in by e-mail. Can anyone help Laurie? If you will let me know the answer, I'll post here.
 
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 09:52:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Lauriebs@aol.com
To: jackson@igs.cviog.uga.edu
Subject: Oglethrope
 
I am hoping you can answer a question for me. Did Oglethrope have 747 men
sent to America after they were in a mass trial in England in 1747. I was
told that he started a second colony with these men. They were Jacobites that
had been in the Scottish Rebellion of 1745 and he pleaded their case. This
was around Habersham County. Any help you could give me or let me know where Oglethrope's papers are housed. This was to have come from his papers.
 
ThankYou for any help, I have been trying to find this for awhile.
 
Laurie