Please write these in your notebook/on notebook paper.
 Georgia began with the idea of a model society with
few social differences.
 Trustees saw to that by giving everyone the same
amount of land and making sure those who came to
the colony had skills and were willing to work.
 That model society didn’t last but by 1773, Georgia had
33,000 people, about ½ of whom were slaves.
 Georgia had two distinct areas – the “urban” life
around Savannah and the frontier life in the
backcountry.
 1773 – Savannah was a busy seaport for the British
Empire.
 Many colonists had indentured servants or hired
laborers.
 Savannah had many specialized tradesmen –
shoemakers, tailors, cabinetmakers, gunsmiths,
blacksmiths, mechanics, butchers, bakers ( and maybe
a few candlestick makers!)
 There were also many professionals in the city –
doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and teachers
 There was a distinct social ladder (class structure) in
colonial Savannah – as through most of the South.
 Plantation owners
 Professionals
Privileged
 Merchants/Businessmen
 Small farmers/Artisans
 Laborers
Non Indentured Servants
privileged
 Slaves
 Privileged groups took part in social activities –
parties, weddings, the King’s birthday observance
 Other classes had little free time – mostly
worked/waited on the privileged.
 Georgia’s frontier = backcountry
 Augusta (1763) = gateway to Georgia’s frontier
 Started as a station used by Indian traders on their way
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into Creek/Cherokee territory
Backcountry life was rowdy/rugged
Settlers had to be self-reliant and rely on their own skills
Arrived to backcountry using trading paths and Indian
trails with few belongings to start small farms
Cut down trees to build cabins
Women and children had to be tough also
 Anglican Church (Church of England) was the official
church of the colony.
 As the official state church, every parish (county) had a
vestry that served as its governing body.
 Bartholomew Zouberhulher served Savannah as its
colonial minister from 1745 until he died in 1766. He was
dedicated to his congregation and got the first church
building built for the Anglicans. He also wanted a
minister sent to the colony to convert slaves.
 Lutherans (German Protestants) were in Ebenezer,
Bethany, Goshen, and Zion
 Puritans arrived in 1752 from South Carolina. They
built two churches in Midway and Sunbury.
 Puritans made their own decisions by individual
congregation.
 Presbyterians were located in Darien.
 One of their pastors, John Zubly, built a church called
the Independent Meeting House. It still exists in
Savannah as the Independent Presbyterian Church.
 Other denominations in the colony included Baptists,
who had their first congregation in Appling County in
1774.