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Rare mention of the ghost town Purrysburg, South Carolina...
Rare mention of the ghost town Purrysburg, South Carolina...
Item # 685365
August 17, 1734
THE COUNTRY JOURNAL: OR THE CRAFTSMAN, London, Aug. 17, 1734 This was the leading anti-Walpole political journal of its time: Thomas Lockwood describes it as "the most successful political journal of the first half of the eighteenth century...".
The stated purpose of the newspaper was to expose political craft--hence the title--but the overriding purpose was to unseat Robert Walpole as Chancellor, or as the new term of abuse called him, "Prime Minister".
Various news reports of the day including details of various crimes, deaths, etc. Included also is a report noting: "The Symonds...and the James...came into the Downs...from Calais with about 300 Swiss men, women and children, bound to the settlement of Purrysburg, near Georgia; and the Peter and James, another ship, was expected with more families also from Calais, to sail together for Carolina."
Rare mention of Purrysburg, South Carolina, on the banks of the Savannah River, an early Swiss settlement that eventually failed. In 1731 the King of England granted land on the Savannah River to Swiss colonizer Jean Pierre Purry. Hundreds of German speaking and French speaking Swiss colonists arrived with the dream of establishing a silk trade in the new colony. But malaria and other hardships proved fatal to the European colonists, and the settlement died a slow death.
Four pages, 10 1/4 by 14 1/2 inches, small paper-making flaw causes a small hole to the front leaf, partial red tax stamp on the front page, nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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