William Bartram

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@matrix.net>]

Folks,

This list

 http://www.quarterman.org/q/booklist.html

has been rather quiet for a long time.
It is about the book, Quarterman Family of
Liberty County, Georgia, and Relatives.
It seems like a good place to discuss matters
relevant to that particular Quarterman family.

Many of you may be familiar with William Bartram.  He was a pioneering
naturalist, writing and drawing about his botanical finds a generation
before Audobon.  His territory was the South.  Here's what he wrote
about Midway:

 April 15th (1774).
 Bought a horse & the day following set out for the town of Sunbury.
 Rode 15 miles to Ferry on Great Ogeechee River.  Crost the River & rode
 15 miles to Midway Meeting house.  Went into meeting being intraduced by
 some of my fellow Travilers being inhabitants of the part of the country.
 Heard a good sermon by Mr. Percey a Methodist Missioner sent by the
 Count of Huntington (Rector of the Orphan Collige).  This congregation
 was respectable & genteel.  The Religious and Pious Sperit throughout
 the whole Audiance reflects a shining light on the Character of the
 inhabitants Midway & Newport.

 --William Bartram, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia,
   East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of
   the Muscgulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws;
   containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those
   regions together with observations on the manners of the Indians,
   James and Johnson, Philadelphia, Pa., 1791, LCCN F213.b294

Bartram was famous in his day, and is regaining recognition now,
with web pages about the trail he walked,

 http://www.bartramtrail.org/

and a feature story in the current National Geographic:

 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0103/feature5/index.html

Comments?

John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
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