Background
Jean Pierre was born in 1675 at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was the son of Henry de Purry and Marie Ersel.
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A memorial presented to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, ... concerning the present state of Carolina, and the means of improving it: by John Peter Purry, ...
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A method for determining the best climate of the earth, on a principle to which all geographers and historians have been hitherto strangers. In a ... to the Governors of the East-India Company
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A Description of the Province of South Carolina, Drawn Up at Charles Town, in September, 1731: Tr, From Mr. Purry's Original Treatise, in French, and ... and October, 1732 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Description of the Province of South Carolina, Drawn Up at Charles Town, in September, 1731: Tr, From Mr. Purry's Original Treatise, in French, and Published in the Gentleman's Magazine, for August, September, and October, 1732 In order to facilitate the Execution of this Undertaking in the best Manner, the Assembly granted to the said M. Purry 4001. Sterling, and Provisions sufficient for the Maintenance of 300 Persons for one Year, provided they be all Persons of good Repute, and Swiss Protestants, and that they come to Carolina within the Space of 2 Years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Jean Pierre Purry
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Career
A wine merchant in his earlier years, about 1713 Jean Pierre went out as a planter to Batavia. In 1717 he proposed to the Dutch East India Company to settle a colony in South Australia. The next year he returned to Amsterdam to promote this scheme, and another for a settlement in the same latitude in South Africa. In two pamphlets, Mémoire sur le Pais des Cafres, et la Terre de Nuyts, and Second Mémoire (Amsterdam, 1718), he expounded a pseudo-scientific theory which he later employed to support his American projects.
Failing as a promoter in Holland, he turned without any better success to France, where he suffered losses in the Mississippi Bubble. Once more he revamped his proposals, this time to fit the English colonies.
In London he published A Memorial Presented to the Duke of Newcastle (1724). The Board of Trade was friendly, and in 1725-26 much excitement was aroused in Switzerland by the advertisements of Purry et Cie. The Carolina Proprietors withdrew their offers of transport, however, and in 1726 this scheme also collapsed.
In 1730, after the soil of Carolina had passed to the crown, Purry came forward once more with an offer to settle one of the eleven new border townships, a scheme which was closely interwoven with the origins of Georgia. Late in that year, with a party of pioneers, he went to South Carolina to select the town site, Yamasee Bluff on the north bank of the Savannah River, some twenty miles above the later site of Savannah. The South Carolina assembly made a grant of money and supplies, and Purry was commissioned a colonel.
On his return to London he secured the promise of a larger grant, of 48, 000 acres, in lieu of an exemption from quit-rents which was now withdrawn. In Switzerland, in 1731-32, Purry with his new promotion tracts was reviving the Carolina fever. By December 1732, he had brought some hundred and fifty Swiss to South Carolina, and Purrysburgh was begun. In 1734 he conducted another group of 260 Swiss Protestants to Purrysburgh. Two years later he died in Purrysburgh, Ohio.
Achievements
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Jean Pierre Purry is best known for his theories of climate and the founding of the Purrysburg colony in South Carolina. Aside from his leadership of the emigrating Swiss, his advertisements and activities aided notably in creating a wider interest in the southern frontier, in its defense and settlement.
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A memorial presented to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, ... concerning the present state of Carolina, and the means of improving it: by John Peter Purry, ...
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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A method for determining the best climate of the earth, on a principle to which all geographers and historians have been hitherto strangers. In a ... to the Governors of the East-India Company
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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A Description of the Province of South Carolina, Drawn Up at Charles Town, in September, 1731: Tr, From Mr. Purry's Original Treatise, in French, and ... and October, 1732 (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from A Description of the Province of South Carol...)
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A memorial presented to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, ... concerning the present state of Carolina, and the means of improving it: by John Peter Purry, ...
Views
Initially, Purry believed, that the ideal climate in both hemispheres exists at or near the latitude of 33°. Later he urged, that distressed Protestants should be drawn from the Continent, especially from Switzerland, to plant their own ideal climate zone south and west of South Carolina, to be called "Georgia" or "Georgina. " Thus a wedge of settlement would ultimately be driven between the French colonies of Canada and Louisiana. As a beginning he proposed to plant a military colony of six hundred Swiss.
Connections
Purry married Lucrèce de Chaillet, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. One of the sons, Charles, accompanied his father to America; the other, David, became a prominent banker in Lisbon and a benefactor of Neuchâtel.
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Switzerland