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Fifty Georgians died in Charleston after leaving Savannah

Source: A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America #173

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From 1741 A True and Historical Narrative
edited by Amy

THIS Year there was promised a Bounty of Two Shillings Sterling on every Bushel of Corn, and One Shilling on every Bushel of Pease and Potatoes raised in the County of Savannah. This induced some few to plant, but they were miserably deceived. Few or none of them ever received their full Bounty, (although if they had received it twice over, it could not have achieved the desired result.) People being thus, by a Chain of Disappointments and Miseries, most of them rendered incapable to subsist, and toward the End of this Summer, beginning to despair of having any favorable Answer to their Representation or Hopes of Redress, left the Colony faster than ever. When the Answer (or rather Denial) came over, they went in such Numbers that the whole Province of South-Carolina was overspread with them, and in and about the Town of Charlestown alone, this Autumn, over Fifty Georgians died in Misery and Want, most of whom were buried at the Public Charge.