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Royal Charter for the Colony of Georgia, 09 June 1732 from the collection of the Georgia Archives. Original Grantees of the Colony of Georgia, 21 December 1733 from the collection of the Georgia Archives. 1758 Act Dividing Georgia into Parishes; Colonial Will Books, 1754-1779 from the Georgia Archives
Oglethorpe personally led the first group of colonists to the new colony, departing England on November, 1732 and arriving at the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia on February 12, 1733 O.S. The founding of Georgia is celebrated on February 1, 1733 N.S., the date corresponding to the modern Gregorian calendar adopted after the establishment ...
The Journal of the Earl of Egmont: Abstract of the Trustees Proceedings for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, 1732–1738 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962). Julie Anne Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
In 1733, Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, by Martyn, and A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia, by Oglethorpe, were published. [10] Oglethorpe is thought to have paid for the publication of Select Tracts and A New and Accurate Account. [42]
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”
James Edward Oglethorpe founded the Georgia Colony, and the town of Savannah, in 1733. The new Georgia colony was authorized under a grant from George II to a group constituted by Oglethorpe as the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees.
In 1733, James Oglethorpe arrived and renamed the island after Prince William, the Duke of Cumberland. Soon after, Gullah Geechee history began with cotton, the "king crop."
Samuel Nunes (1668–1744) was a Portuguese physician and among the earliest Jews to settle in North America.. A few months after their February 1733 arrival from England, an epidemic began claiming the lives of the first 114 colonists of the infant American colony of Georgia.