Your memorialist further observes, that there is no seminary for academical studies as yet founded, southward of Virginia; and consequently if a college could be established here (especially as the late addition of the two Floridas renders Georgia more centrical for the southern district) it would not only be highly serviceable to the rising generation of this colony, but would probably occasion many youths to be sent from the British West India islands and other parts. The many advantages accruing thereby to this province, must be very considerable.
From these considerations, your memorialist is induced to believe, that the time is now approaching, when his long projected design for further serving this his beloved colony, shall be carried into execution.
That a considerable sum of money is intended speedily to be laid out in purchasing a large number of negroes, for the further cultivation of the present Orphan-house, and other additional lands, and for the future support of a worthy able president, professors, and tutors, and other good purposes intended.
Your memorialist therefore prays your Excellency and Honours to grant to him in trust, for the purposes aforesaid, two thousand acres of land, on the north fork of Turtle River, called the Lesser Swamp, if vacant, or where lands may be found vacant, south of the river Altamaha.
G. W.
Savannah in Georgia,
December 18, 1764.
The Address of both Houses of Assembly in Georgia.
To his Excellency James Wright, Esq. Captain General and Governor in Chief of his Majesty’s province of Georgia.