| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia. By Frank Lambert. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. x, 197 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2539-2.)

The trustees of the charitable organization that founded Georgia had a vision of providing a place for diligent, enterprising Englishmen and persecuted European Protestants to support themselves and their families. In many ways, James Habersham was a model of their hopes. He rose from the modest position of a schoolmaster living at trust expense in his first year to become the third wealthiest colonial Georgian in 1775. Habersham, however, came to Georgia with assets that many colonials did not have: education in business and connections in London, both of which gave him an advantage in his rise to prominence. In fact, Habersham, of middling stock in Yorkshire, did not need a new start in the frontier colony; he was on the path to becoming a successful London merchant. But his conversion to Methodism motivated him to change his life's course. With the zeal of a new convert, Habersham agreed to come to Georgia as evangelist George Whitefield's assistant to establish an orphanage and serve as schoolmaster for the young colony.

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