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Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America.
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...
James Oglethorpe Patterson Jr. (28 May 1935 – 25 June 2011) was a Holiness Pentecostal minister in the Church of God in Christ and a former mayor of Memphis, Tennessee , the first African-American to hold the office.
Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishman who died in 1785, the ...
That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday celebration of James Oglethorpe, the founder of the ...
Gen. James Oglethorpe Ahaya Secoffee Cdre. Pearce: Governor Manuel de Montiano: Strength; 1,000 infantry (Oglethorpe's Regiment, Georgia Provincials, South Carolina Provincials.) 900 sailors 1,200 warriors [1] [2] 56 cannons 5 frigates 3 sloops [3] 750 infantry 50 cannons 1 fort 6 small ships: Casualties and losses; 122 killed 16 captured 14 ...
Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishman who died in 1785, the ...
1733 – General James Oglethorpe arrives in search of area to settle. 1733 – Oglethorpe hires Mary as intermediary / interpreter for negotiations with Indians. 1735 – John Musgrove dies of fever. 1737 – Mary marries Jacob Matthews. 1738 – Mary receives land from the Yamacraws. 1742 – Jacob Matthews dies.