Sullivan - Georgia

The best analysis of the Ayllon colony, based upon original Spanish documentation, comes from Paul E. Hoffmans A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Hoffman makes a convincing argument that the lost colony of San Miguel was located in the Sapelo Sound region.

David Hurst Thomas. St. Catherines, An Island in Time . Atlanta: Georgia Endowment for the Humanities, 1988. p. 1219.

Georgia Trustees Papers, Collection 278, Georgia Historical Society, hereinafter cited as GHS.

William Bacon Stephens Papers, Collection 759, GHS, containing extracts from Allen D. Candler, et al., eds. The Colonial Records of Georgia . 32 volumes to date. (Atlanta and Athens, 1904).

Charles Ellis Waring Map Collection, GHS, containing early colonial maps of Savannah and fortifications in the region as collected by Charles Waring (19001973) of Savannah; also Peter Gordon, A View of Savannah, 1734, GHS.

James Edward Oglethorpe Papers, Collection 595, GHS. This collection contains many letters of Oglethorpe pertaining to the early years of the colony and was published by the Georgia Historical Society in 1873 as Volume 3 in its Collections series, p. 1156.

Minis Family Colonial Papers, Collection 568, GHS.

Benjamin Martyn Papers, Collection 545, GHS. Martyn was secretary to the Georgia Trustees, 17321752. This collection contains a pamphlet, An Impartial Enquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia, published by the GHS in 1840 in Volume 1, p. 153201, of its Collections series.

Oglethorpe Papers. Georgia Trustees Papers, Collection 278, GHS.

Bessie Mary Lewis Papers, Collection 2138, GHS. This collection contains considerable documentation relating to the Darien Scottish Highlanders.

Manuel de Montiano Papers, Collection 572, GHS. This series of letters and observations, which pertain to the Spanish viewpoint of the Georgia colony and the English siege of St. Augustine, was published by the GHS in 1909 as Volume 7 in its Collections series.

Joseph Vallance Bevan Papers, Collection 71, GHS. Bevan (17981830), a Savannah lawyer, was appointed state historian of Georgian in 1824. A number of the documents in this extensive collection are contained in The Colonial Records of Georgia .

Joseph Vallance Bevan Papers, Collection 71, GHS, including documents later included in Allen D. Candler, et al., eds. The Colonial Records of Georgia . 32 volumes to date. (Atlanta and Athens, 1904).

Robert Bolton Papers, Collection 73, GHS. This collection documents many of the early land transactions of the colony.

Read-Mossman Ledger Book, Collection 1635, GHS.

James Habersham Papers, Collection 337, GHS. James Habersham (17151775) was a merchant, close friend of Governor James Wright and acting governor of the colony in 1771. This collection also contains Habershams correspondence with George Whitefield, founder of the Bethesda Orphanage near Savannah.

Thomas Raspberry Letter Book, Collection 647, GHS. This collection contains business records for the period 17581761 and was published by the Georgia Historical Society in 1959 as volume 13 in its Collections series. Also useful for this period are documents contained in Tattnall-Jackson Papers, Collection 787, GHS.

Andrew McLean Ledger, Collection 1561, GHS, containing the journal and business records of Andrew McLean, merchant and Indian trader, for the period 1774 until his death in Augusta in 1784.

James Wright Papers, Collection 884, GHS. These papers were published by the Georgia Historical Society in 1873 as volume 3 in its Collections series, p. 157378.

Telfair Family Papers, Collection 793, GHS. This extensive collection contains business and personal records of the prominent Telfair and Gibbons families of Savannah during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras. It also contains the correspondence of William B. Hodgson (18011871), who was instrumental in the early years of the development of the Georgia Historical Society (founded in 1839) and to whose memory the Societys Hodgson Hall library was dedicated in 1876.