Scottish Settlement of Darien, Georgia

[cryerelizabeth]

In my First Year Experience class at my university, there is a topic that goes along with the class, mine happened to be Georgia in Focus. Around the middle of the semester we were given an assignment for a research paper. It had to be about any topic on Georgia, historical, modern, political, anything having to do with Georgia. Since I've made a couple of kilts and having Scottish and Irish heritage myself, I decided on the topic; Scottish settlement in Darien, Georgia: What was the importance of having the Scottish in Georgia. I used a couple of websites (no not wikipedia ) and a book by Anthony Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien 1735-1748 which turned out to be my main source. I learned a vast amount about the reasons why James Oglethorpe wanted a settlement in Georgia and why, specifically, he wanted Highland Scottish to settle there. I soon came to the conclusion (in a nutshell) that the america we know today would not be here if the Scottish had not settled when they did in Darien, Georgia.

This being my first research paper ever I was ecstatic to find that I had made a 98 on the paper , and if any of you on Xmarks would like, I will attach a copy of it, if i can get it from my teacher seeing as I only have a partial paper saved on my computer