The Journal of William Stephens, 1741--1743

William Stephens was Secretary of the Province of Georgia from 1737 to 1750 and was President from 1741 for ten years. During this period, Stephens kept a journal. In this volume (and the previous one) the journal is published for the first time. This close-up view of Georgia the details of the everyday life of the people, and records development in the colony.

E. MERTON COULTER came to the University of Georgia as an associate professor in 1919; he was named an emeritus professor of history in 1958 and continued to work on campus until his death in 1981. During his career, he wrote or edited more than thirty books and his contributions to periodicals were extensive. Coulter was coeditor of the ten-volume History of the South and author of two of the volumes in the series; he also served as editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for fifty years.