| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732–1865. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxiv, 435 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-682-8.)
Purrysburg, located on the banks of the Savannah River, was the first of a series of townships proposed by British royal governor Robert Johnson in 1730 to protect the rich South Carolina low country plantations from the external threats posed by the Spanish, French, and Native Americans, and the internal threat of the rapidly growing population of enslaved Africans. Purrysburg was settled two years later by Jean Pierre Purry of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and populated primarily by German- and French-speaking people. To Make This Land Our Own is the result of Whitworth College professor Arlin C. Migliazzo's twenty- five year study of Purrysburg Township and is likely to be the definitive study of the community.	1
Central to understanding the community's formation is Purry, who developed a theory that the ideal locations for settlements were at thirty-three degrees north or south latitude. After unsuccessfully promoting the idea to the Dutch East India Company and the French, he turned to Britain. After a series of proposals to the government in London, Purry arrived in Charles Town in 1731 at the age of fifty-six to search for a location for his settlement. The site chosen by the provincial government was for defensive purposes, not for the richness of the soil.	. . .

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