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The Yamacraw were a Native American tribe which settled parts of Georgia, specifically around the future site of the city of Savannah.
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But here at Savannah began the existence of Georgia; here it was that Oglethorpe planted his tiny colony hardly a century and a-half ago; here, on the pine-crowned bluff, where an Indian tribe dwelt in a village called Yamacraw, he disembarked the adventurers who had come with him from England, under the sanction of the charter accorded by George the Second, and in due time established a group of tents defended by a battery of cannon.
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When he landed at Yamacraw Bluff, he used Mary (who was about 33 years old at that time) as his interpreter for his first meeting with the Yamacraw Chief (or Mico), Tomochichi, an imposing man who was six feet tall and 90 years of age.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Currytown, Frogtown, parts of old Yamacraw, all that was dispersed.
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As a child as far back as I can remember, that was a mighty long time ago, and I stop to think about it, but I lived in Yamacraw as I grew up in Yamacraw.
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The colored people had been permitted to erect a building at Yamacraw, but white people in the vicinity objected to the meetings and Bryan and some of his associates were arrested and whipped.
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Edward Davis, Esq.; indulged him and his hearers to erect a rough building on his land at _Yamacraw_, in the suburbs of Savannah for a place of worship, of which they have been very artfully dispossessed.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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He now exercised at different plantations, especially on those Lord's Day evenings when there was no service performed in the church to which he belonged; and preached "about three years at Brunton land, and at Yamacraw," which last place is about half a mile from
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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In explanation of this view its advocates insist that the three years in which Liele preached at Brumpton Land and Yamacraw are included in the four years during which he was a member of Matthew Moore's church.
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Savannah; that he preached at Yamacraw and Brumpton Land about three years; and that he went to Jamaica, in the West Indies, in the year of
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