Wesley Corpus

13. Old Ebenezer, where the Saltzburghers settled at first, lies twenty-five miles west of Savannah. A small creek runs by the town, down to the river, and many brooks run between the little hills: but the soil is a hungry barren sand; and upon any sudden shower, the brooks rise several feet perpendicular, and overflow whatever is near them. Since the Saltzburghers removed, two English families have been placed there: but these too say, that the land is good for nothing ; and that the creek is of little use ; it being by water twenty miles to the river; and the water generally so low in summer time. that a boat cannot come within six or seven miles of the town. 14. New Ebenezer, to which the Saltzburghers removed in March, 1736, lies six miles eastward from the old, on a high bluff, near the Savannah river. Here are some tracts of fruitful land, though the greatest part of that adjoining to the town is pine barren. The huts, sixty in number, are neatly and regularly built ; the little piece of ground allotted to each for a garden, is every where put to the best use, no spot being left unplanted. Nay, even one of the main streets, being one more than was as yet wanted, bore them this year a crop of Indian corn. 15., About ten miles east of this, on a creek, three miles from the river, was the village of Abercorn. Ten families settled here in 1.733 ; but it is now without inhabitant. Four miles below the mouth of Abercorn creek is Joseph’s town, the settlement of two Scotch gentlemen. A mile below was Sir Francis Bathurst’s plantation: and a * quarter of a mile from this, Walter Augustine’s settlement. But both these are left without inhabitant. 16. A mile below this is Captain Williams’s plantation: a mile from thence, Mrs. Matthews’s, (late Musgrove,) commonly known by the name of the Cowpen: adjoining to which is the land belonging to Captain Watson; on which is an unfinished house, swiftly running to ruin. A mile from this is Irene, a house built for an Indian school, in the year 1736. It stands on a small, round hill, in a little piece of fruitful ground, given by the Indians to Mr, Ingham. The Indian town is within a furlong of it.