Rough Draft Essay #2

>>>The establishment of Georgia in 1730’s, was founded by England’s James Olgethorpe. The poor in England were sent to the Americas to inhabit land and make it prosper. The people who settled in Georgia were sent to inhabit land for a certain amount of time. “And that they from and after the Expiration of the said last mentioned Twelve Months, will, during the Two next succeeding Years, abide, settle and inhabit in the said Province of Georgia, and Cultivate the Lands which shall be to them and their Heirs Male severally allotted and given, by all such Ways and Means as according to their several Abilities and Skills they shall be best Able and Capable,” was said by the British government as they inhabitants expectations. We were expected to make the land that they were given grow for the time that England wanted them to.
>>>I was given size amounts of land that I had to make prosper. “Those in the Towns will have each of them a Lot Sixty Feet in Front and Ninety Feet in Depth, whereon they are to Build an House, and as much Land in the Country as in the whole will make up Fifty Acres. Those in the Villages will each of them have a Lot of Fifty Acres, which is to lie all together, and they are to Build their Houses upon it.” We had to keep this land well taken care of. “In their passion for system and regularity, the Trustees had assigned lands without regard to fertility or worth and had thus left [us] both with inferior plots and at a serious disadvantage.” Decisions like this made it hard for Georgia in the beginning; it made it hard for us to prosper the land, with hardly any good soil. “Georgia during its first decade remained, what we called it, a poor, “miserable colony.” The Trustees made rules that no rum or slaves where to be used in the state of Georgia, so we did all work in the fields ourselves. The Trustees stated that “Negroes and Rum are Prohibited to be used in the said Colony…”These are the rules from the Loyalist Trustees in Georgia.

>>> Living in the state of Georgia, being a patriot, is a hard thing to be. Almost the entire state is of loyalist people whom support the decisions of Great Britain. The southern colonies, such as Georgia and South Carolina, were mostly populated with loyalist with a very small percentile patriot but probably only about 5 percent. With these large numbers of loyalists, it gave British ground to take southern colonies. The states of “Georgia and the Carolinas appeared to hold large numbers of loyalists, providing a base for the British to recapture the southern colonies one by one…” (Text book pg. 241) The British were trying to take the colonies so that the patriots couldn’t take it.

>>>Georgia was considered the state that other states looked upon, like a “city upon a hill.” Britain wanted “Georgia…to be not just a model colony but a model society for Britain…” (Pg.284 Jackson) Georgia was Britain’s “example” of the way the Britain’s wanted to run the states. In Georgia, following under British Government was the “rule” and if you didn’t you would be punished. My view is that Britain gave us their rights but only could the rights be decided for them by the British, which means that they basically had no rights at all. People must follow these rules because“…when any person insisted upon his just rights and privileges… [they were] punished without mercy.” (Jackson pg. 288) We patriots believe that “a colony of vassals, whose properties and liberties were, at all times, to have been disposed of at the discretion or option of their superiors” (Jackson pg. 289). The British were happy if we “were “deprived of the liberties and properties of their birthright”” (Jackson pg. 289).The so called “freedom” that was given by the British to us, was ultimately Britain’s decision, it wasn’t our free rights. We should be able to make our own rights and have our own freedom, not have it chosen for us.