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From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT.
[Partially edited for readability by Amy]

Published per Order of the Honorable Trustees.
LONDON: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XLI [1741 converted by http://www.miniwebtool.com/roman-numerals-converter/]
MARYLAND: Reprinted and Sold by Jonas Green, at his PRINTING-OFFICE, in Annapolis. 1742.
P. Force, Washington, 1885.

THE PREFACE.

Regarding the 1741 A True and Historical Narrative…
IN the Year 1741, there was Printed and Published by P. T. in Charles-Town in South-Carolina, for the Authors P. T—r, M. D. H. A—n, M. A. D. D—s, and Others, Landholders in Georgia, (at that Time in Charles-Town) a Pamphlet entitled, A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America, & c. Dedicated to his Excellency, James Oglethorpe, Esq; General and Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's Forces in South-Carolina and Georgia, & c.

The authors were low-down scumbags
The Dedication seems a very just Introduction to such a Narrative, both being the real Offspring of such factious and turbulent Authors. The narrative is a mean low-witted Sneer and a malicious, bad-natured Insult against that honorable Gentleman, James Oglethorpe. Without any regard to Good Manners or Common Civility, the authors treat his Excellency (almost to his Face) with as much rudeness as any person can use, even to an Inferior. However, I can only say a very fit prelude to such an inconsistent, spiteful, false Narrative. It is a narrative founded in lies, published by a few Persons of no Estate or Character who:
1. Were soured in their Tempers because they weren’t humored in their attempts to subvert or alter the Constitution of a new settled Colony, even in its Infancy and before any great experiment was made to improve. 
2. Were forced to banish themselves from the Colony because their seditious, rebellious Practices and turbulent Spirits put them in danger every day of being confronted as malcontents and Incendiaries against the Peace of the Government.
3. Had shared deeply in his Excellency’s Favors, and therefore guilty of the most monstrous Sin in nature, ingratitude. Si ingratum dixeris, Omnia.

In short, they are Persons who most accurately fit the Character given by the Right Honorable Sir William Young in a Debate concerning the Printer of a seditious Paper, “that they are Men whose daily Employment has been, for some “time, to misrepresent the Public Measures, to disperse Scandal, “and excite Rebellion; who have industriously propagated “every Murmur of Discontent, and preserved every “Whisper of Malevolence from perishing in the Birth.”— Gent. Mag. Supplement to 1741, p. 682. B.

The authors are trying to defame a perfect gentleman with noble goals
These are the mighty Authors and Publishers of the Scurrilious Narrative that seems intended to obstruct attempts to settle the Colony of Georgia, and to sully the Character and Administration of a Gentleman who may (without Flattery or Falsehood) be justly termed the Romulus, Father, and Founder of Georgia. This gentleman’s only goals are to:
1. Enlarge his Majesty's Dominions
2. Propagate the Protestant Religion
3. Promoting the Trade of his Country, and 
4. Provide for the Wants and Necessities of indigent Christians.

Oglethorpe traded a life of ease [1739-7]

His Conduct in War... [1740-7-20]

However, his Excellency's Conduct has been approved of at Home and will soon appear in such a Light that his Enemies will be ashamed of their impudent Lies and perhaps pay for their own Folly. How far the Ill-Nature and impotent Malice of the Authors of the Narrative have carried them beyond the Bounds of Truth or good Manners will appear in the following Sheets. These pages give a true and authentic Account of the Progress of that Colony from its first Establishment to the Year 1741, which being published by the Order of the Honorable the Trustees and printed in London, Anno 1741, is now Re-printed here, with no other View than to obviate the Prejudices which may be raised in the Minds of People by that Scandalous Narrative, and so may be a Means of delivering that New Settlement from the ill Effect of such Misrepresentations as are handed about by that Libel to deter his Majesty's Subjects from settling in that Frontier Colony, so necessary for advancing and protecting the Trade of this and our Mother Country on the Southernmost Part of North America, and extending our Colonies both on the Gulf of Florida, and the Bay of Mexico.

Magna est Veritas, & prevalebit.

[1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT.]