Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia…

Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia…
Benjamin Martyn (1698-1763)
London
1733
LOA: 9 1/8”; WOA: 7 1/16”
Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Dale L. Couch

This early account of Georgia by Benjamin Martyn, secretary to the Georgia Trustees, lays out the social and economic goals for the new colony. Included in Martyn’s tract is an engraving that depicts the laying out of Savannah. Georgia was intended to be a relatively egalitarian society. The engraving depicts English, African, and Native Americans laboring together in a harmonious manner to clear the forest and erect a substantial log structure; in the distance the familiar form of the Savannah town plan takes shape.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles… Captain John Smith (1580-1631) London 1632 LOA: 10 7/8”; WOA: 7 ½” Promised gift of Thomas A. Gray in memory of Anne P. and Bahnson Gray

Carolina or a Description of the Present State of that Country Thomas Ashe London 1682 LOA: 8 3/16”; WOA: 6 1/8” Promised gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Ted Gossett

A New Voyage to Carolina John Lawson (1674-1711) London 1709 LOA: 8 1/8”’; WOA : 6 ¾” Promised gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Thomas Kenan III

The Several Commodities that Carolina Produceth are as Followeth… Letter from Edward Hyrne (b. c.1660) to Burrell Massingberd (1682-1728) South Carolina 1700 LOA: 13 7/16”; WOA: 8 7/8” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray

Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia... Benjamin Martyn (1698-1763) London 1733 LOA: 9 1/8”; WOA: 7 1/16” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Dale L. Couch

A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present Situation, of the Orphan House in Georgia... George Whitefield (1714-1770) Edinburgh, Scotland 1748 LOA: 6 3/8”; WOA: 4 3/16” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Jackie and Tony Montag

The Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake... Henry Timberlake (1730-1765) London 1765 LOA: 8 3/16”; WOA: 5 ¼” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Mary Jo Case

Two Dollars North Carolina Currency Hillsborough, North Carolina 1775 LOA: 4 5/8”; WOA: 2 15/16” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Robert Leath

The History of the Revolution of South Carolina... David Ramsay (1749-1815) Trenton, New Jersey 1785 Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Mrs. Mary E. S. Hanahan

Broadside Announcing An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio Printed by Francis Childs (1763-1794) and John Swaine (1762-1794) New York 1790 LOA: 13 5/16; WOA: 8 5/16; Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in Honor of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr.

The History of Kentucky Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841) Printed by Henry Gore Frankfort, Kentucky 1812 LOA: 8 ½”; WOA: 5 ¼” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray

Letter from Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) to Reverend Orville Dewey (1794-1862) St. Simons Island, Georgia 1839 LOA: 15 11/16”; WOA: 9 13/16” Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Elle Shushan